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by bstsb 7mo ago
your own source quotes as following: > To use Communication features like Experience chat, Voice chat, and Party chat, all users must successfully complete an age check. your words were "They can just disable chat for non age verifi
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by bstsb 7mo ago
1. they have 2. they do (to the extent they can) 3. obviously they have a safety team. they have a dedicated page about it: https://about.roblox.com/safety
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by bstsb 7mo ago
playing Roblox got me into game development, and helped to teach me the basics of general programming. i did have previous experience from Python etc, but Roblox gave me a breeding ground for actually doing something with those skills.
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by bstsb 7mo ago
existing on a forum doesn’t mean they work for Roblox. i’m also on DevForum and last i checked i’m not working for them
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by bstsb 7mo ago
enough money to cash out via DevEx, Roblox's developer program, every month or so ($110). it's absolutely not a salary - there are barely five people playing at any given time - but given i've done nothing in a year, it'
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by bstsb 7mo ago
these days, Roblox BedWars averages 36K on weekends: https://romonitorstats.com/experience/6872265039/ however, Hypixel seems to have overtaken it! last Saturday, it peaked at 39,000 concurrent players. i prefer t
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by bstsb 7mo ago
even tiny roblox games make money. i developed for a small game (~10m plays) a few years back and i still earn a decent residual from player revenue, even as the game slowly loses traction
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by bstsb 7mo ago
i don't get a paywall when accessing (maybe ublock?) but either way: https://archive.ph/DbTn2
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by bstsb 7mo ago
fascinating article. while i certainly sympathise somewhat with Alex - it is clear his actions are at least in part a consequence of mental conditions - i can't help but feel like being caught wasn't his plan as the article seems
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by bstsb 7mo ago
from my (limited) experience of ChatGPT versus Claude, i get the same. ChatGPT will always add another "prompt" sentence at the end like "Do you want me to X?" while Claude just answers what i ask. looking at my history
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by bstsb 7mo ago
no you couldn't. that wouldn't be considered end-to-end encrypted in any modern sense
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by bstsb 7mo ago
they don't. it's an optional process, and many users don't change their git config to use the provided email
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by bstsb 7mo ago
you're not just formulaic, you're an entirely ai-generated comment
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by bstsb 8mo ago
while i’m definitely a newcomer in HN terms, i love seeing things like this on the front page. it’s certainly interesting
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by bstsb 8mo ago
this sounds wrong. billing is usage-based - what were you even paying for? it's very possible that you had some random metric somewhere which had crazy usage.
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by bstsb 8mo ago
a better summary from the site: > We examine the extent to which security against a fully malicious server holds true for three leading vendors who make the Zero Knowledge Encryption claim: Bitwarden, LastPass and Dashlane [...] The atta
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by bstsb 8mo ago
caveat not properly addressed in the blog post: all "attacks" are assuming full takeover of web servers, which is certainly a scenario that should be protected against, but isn't really a vulnerability unless chained with som
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by bstsb 8mo ago
doesn't look AI-generated. even if they have made a mistake, it's probably just from the rush of getting a postmortem out prior to root cause analysis
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by bstsb 8mo ago
iirc polymarket doesn't explicitly rule against this, and neither does the law. prediction trading like this operates as "commodities" trading, so they have no obligation to prevent this, and indeed they have an financial inc
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by bstsb 8mo ago
it's more "you agree, under penalty of perjury, you are this individual or legally represent them". all DMCA stuff
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by bstsb 8mo ago
if they were trying to hide an investigation, they just wouldn’t mention it
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by bstsb 8mo ago
interestingly, you can’t do the same thing with queries like “no em dashes”. it’ll agree, then proceed to use them regardless. could be related to how so-called negative prompts fail to work when asking, say, ChatGPT to generate an image wi
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by bstsb 8mo ago
i don’t understand the point in farming comments with an LLM on a site like Hacker News. what’s the benefit here? (source: just look at their comment history)
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by bstsb 8mo ago
it’s minification, not obfuscation. the whole point of the engine is its small footprint
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by bstsb 8mo ago
read it aloud. “since it’s an FAQ”, where FAQ is pronounced “eff-ay-queue”
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by bstsb 8mo ago
less sleep data, i imagine, and more the whole “send remote electrical impulses” thing
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by bstsb 8mo ago
i tried “apples” and got lots of nuts-and-bolts models? edit: looks like the data is trained from machinery parts. impressive regardless, but i’d add that to the lander
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by bstsb 8mo ago
i imagine it’s probably something to do with the massive scope creep recently, especially with AI and the Markdown features - they’ve tried to fit some of WordPad’s rich text features following its removal
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by bstsb 8mo ago
> Ordinary people are not thinking about Israel roughly 47 percent of a recent US survey think supporting Israel is in the national interest of the United States, while 41 percent disagree. only 12 percent didn't offer an opinion. t
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by bstsb 8mo ago
or to a nitter instance, where you can actually read responses without signing in: https://xcancel.com/rauchg/status/2020984434338693622 or https://nitter.net/rauchg/status/20209844343386

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