jrm4

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by jrm4 7mo ago
Other way around, right? Those types select that job. You're weak but you want to appear powerful, so...
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by jrm4 7mo ago
"Of course?" Where is that coming from? Do you seriously not believe (well, know) that sadly, many cops do this ALL THE TIME?
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Yes, but also I often argue that the Wii is better "VR" than VR, because you can play with your friends, which is probably the real "killer app" of gaming?
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by jrm4 7mo ago
It's almost hard to tell even if I'm right about this because Meta's marketing was side-splittingly hilariously awful. "Put on your headset and go into an office meeting!" It really boggles the mind.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
As I've heard and said elsewhere -- VR Games are absolutely like a day at the fair. But no one wants to go to the fair EVERY DAY.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I mean, the heading of the video says "he solved the problem, " which I think is wise to pay a lot of attention to.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I think quite the opposite for precisely the reason you're saying? Which is to say, he's doing a very good job of reminding you/us nerds that "there should be no excuse for this, technical or otherwise." The techn
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by jrm4 7mo ago
This may be the most wrongheaded and intellectually lazy post I've seen on this site, and I'm glad to see folks responding accordingly.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
To go up one level of abstraction; any thoughts on to whether or not we might actually be able "solve" the time old problem of "which data format" thanks to ubiquitous AI tooling? Just kind of spitballing here, but in a
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Came for this, I use it a lot as someone who has a ton of rando different logitech things. One deal that I haven't dived into -- what is up with the ones that appear to limit how many times you can change devices? Is that real and no
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I would be very comfortable with - re-run 100 times with different seeds. If the outcome is the same every time, you're reliably good to go.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
No clue what that refers to, it's not at all what I'm saying. What I'm saying is -- we can observe that "don't post what you don't want posted" is an insufficient response to our current internet in ter
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Fair, I'm aware and I am conflating what people do with Bluesky and what ATProto can do. I absolutely do see the value in ATProto doing things that aren't "social media"
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Y'all. Every year for attendance in one of my classes I just pass around a sheet of paper, first and last name on the left, school id code (which does incorporate initials of names) on the right, with space in between. I'm thinkin
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by jrm4 7mo ago
AGAIN, we are way past SIMPLE SOLUTIONS like this. We have enough data and information to be able to see the potential for harm that we can mitigate through smart policy without falling back on this simple argument.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Unfair characterization. You can make informed prediction about these 2nd order effects without thinking they are dumb. I don't think people who send nudes with Snapchat behaving as if they will be definitely deleted are dumb eith
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Are you serious? Y'all are so confused about what this is. The entire point of services like Bluesky and Twitter is broadcasting your activity out to the internet for anyone to see (which of, course, is technically little-or-no diffe
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Sure -- but it also makes it harder to verify . That's my issue with Bluesky, perhaps I'm thinking like a lawyer. ATProto's most touted feature is also its biggest danger. A post on 2 servers thats hashed/verified (and
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Well, the problem is, now the word "owns" isn't really helpful either? Because you have "possesses" (which can be anyone) vs. "controls?" Twitter - single point of big company external control Mastodon - O
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by jrm4 7mo ago
So ATProto is about to die, in other words. It was already wayyy too complex. And this? Yeah, they (you? sorry) really need to just give it up.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Actually, yes, it does. Or more precisely, it might. We now have a better idea of how people actually behave and it's not in accordance with "the internet is forever," and I have no interest in blaming them for 'human na
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I mostly don't like this take because it presumes a precise definition of privacy that we all agree on. And it's not even remotely close to that, which is why I think the Bluesky model is perhaps insidious.
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Exactly. And I'm willing to be that Bluesky folk might be somewhat similar because they haven't figured it out yet. Except that the design of Bluesky severely increases the possibility of your data getting out of your control. An
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by jrm4 7mo ago
"Don't use it if you don't like it" is not a sufficient response here, because the gathering and verifying of personal data is NOT PURELY AN INDIVIDUAL PROBLEM. You might post about me. Etc. Proverbial Big Brother ALSO l
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I 100% agree, I always thought that even Private Messages were a bad idea. But no, we're way past "if you don't want it public don't post it." and then wiping our hands and being done. We need to think in a policy k
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by jrm4 7mo ago
Doomed from the start. It took me a while to figure this out, but ATProto is generally a bad idea; maybe even worse than Twitter. Which is to say, it provides a more robust model for your (true) information and data to be exploited by o
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by jrm4 7mo ago
This is a very interesting take -- I wonder how it would deal with web browsers? I'm curious because I actually did try to add firefox to my Steam Deck as a "game" and it couldn't deal with multiple windows?
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by jrm4 7mo ago
I have no idea what you're getting at here; I already use firefox from the couch?
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by jrm4 7mo ago
So important across the board. Example: as someone who plays around with sovereign/local LLMS one really interesting thing I discovered is exactly why a lot of Chinese ones are kind of unusable for many "American" tasks, and
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by jrm4 7mo ago
At the risk of whatever, I feel like there might be a "market" for something like the "OpenBox" version of this - or perhaps what I'm saying is even using something like Openbox to get the minimalist version of this

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