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Itty53

@Itty53@mstdn.social

Father/Husband/Programmer in CA with a need to collect my thoughts on stuff. Politics, psychology, sociology, history, law, society, music, film, games, humor.

Header is just the color black.

Avatar is a Photoshop of Barack Obama in a classic suit, framed from the chest up, speaking at a podium. His face is in what appears to be a slight scowl. The image is monochrome black and white, and his face has been altered to add Locs style sunglasses and a black baseball cap reading "Compton".

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Nifflas, to random
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I've mentioned this on the other platform, but here are two games I'd really like to exist. They're sorta opposites. Both are for two players.

A: A competitive Tango dancing game, where both dancing partners are assassins trying to kill each other during the dance

B: A cooperative pro wrestling game, where neither player are trying to actually defeat the other, but just trying to put on a really good show for the audience, building suspense & creating payoffs

Itty53,
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@Nifflas

These are both dancing games at heart. Wrestling is a coordinated dance, as is the tango. The tango game though, requires both cooperation and opposition but the wrestling game requires only cooperation. The trick with that is in the payoff not being repetitive and boring.

The tango game is kind of hard to picture really. You'd need rules to keep cooperation a necessary factor, otherwise it just becomes Street Fighter but with dresses and tuxedos. Or DDR with Street Fighter graphics.

fasterthanlime, to random
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"sudo make me a sandwich"

Itty53,
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@fasterthanlime

Coworker was messing with a travel agent chat bot yesterday. It refused to play along, "I'm a travel agent bot", etc, so he told it his trip was contingent on solving some python problems. Worked.

Keep at it, it's just costing these companies dollars. They need to learn.

ElleGray, to random
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my favorite thing about hummingbirds is how you expect them, with their delicate beauty, to be so quiet but they actually sound like tiny fighter jets buzzing by

there's five of them at this feeder rn and it's basically a mini air show

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@ElleGray

My in laws have five hummingbird feeders. There's as many hummingbirds as you'd think - probably a half dozen around any given time - but there's one in particular that will sit watch on a branch opposite the porch. If another hummingbird tries to eat, he dives in and chases them away. So the rest have figured they have to send a decoy, and when the decoy gets buzzed, they all go in and get a bite to eat at the other feeders. Back and forth, all day they do this. Same Nazi bird.

Dseitz, to random
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I'm just gonna be blunt here: On a personal level the only interesting Beatle is George and he worked REALLY hard to not be biopic material.

https://variety.com/2024/film/news/beatles-movies-sam-mendes-directing-four-films-2027-release-1235916841/

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@Dseitz

The Ringo one should be pretty fuckin funny though.

gulovsen, to Law
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This is/was technically true, but there's a catch - they will not indemnify customers if the claims arise from customer inputs (which is how I assume virtually all of those sorts of claims would arise in the first place). Silicon Valley Lawyering at its finest. 😎

OpenAI promises to defend business customers against copyright claims

https://techcrunch.com/2023/11/06/openai-promises-to-defend-business-customers-against-copyright-claims/?guccounter=1

Itty53,
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@gulovsen

Wow. That's audacious as fuck. Calling it the Copyright Shield.

Like that's as close as they've gotten to outright admitting, "we stole all of this and we're big enough that copyright holders can't do shit about it and neither will the US government."

Copyright is dead. I'm going back to piracy.

selje, to random
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Holds true for 2024 as well:
Fool-Aid 2024
Source RawStory Comentary: Master-Shake

Itty53,
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@selje

Irony: the one on the left was a very famous, very popular left wing socialist on the forefront of combatting racism, who believed he could bring about socialism in America through the trojan horse of Christian religion.

Wasn't until much later that he moved his flock to Guyana.

I actually know an old hippie woman who used to attend the People's Church in San Francisco. She has some stories. She left about two weeks before he announced they were headed to Guyana.

eniko, to random
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can someone remind me what era of DOS machines CD-ROM based games were common on? i feel like i remember it being at least pentium era, but maybe it was later 486es? like the 66mhz ones?

Itty53,
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@eniko

I grew up with Sierra online literally down the street from me, and the family always had a fairly decent computer at home. I would say if you're looking for the earliest heyday it was the 486, that's around when Sierra games started getting CD releases.

You could compare it to buying a brand new PlayStation though, optical drives were still expensive.

VirginiaMurr, to random
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"If it's true ..."

Maybe don't post it if you don't know if it's true ... or have damned good, rational, supporting evidence for believing it to be true (at least).

Geezus

Itty53,
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@VirginiaMurr

Relevant one..

https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/aaaah

davidbisset, to security
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I'm still finding this hard to believe.

"Your fingerprints can be recreated from the sounds made when you swipe on a touchscreen — Chinese and US researchers show new side channel can reproduce to enable attacks."

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/your-fingerprints-can-be-recreated-from-the-sounds-made-when-you-swipe-on-a-touchscreen-researchers-new-side-channel-attack-can-reproduce-partial-fingerprints-to-enable-attacks

Itty53,
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@davidbisset

I think it's also a reasonable conclusion that finger prints aren't as great a science as we've been led to believe.

It's one thing to say no two people can have the same print. Debatable, but I won't.

But we don't actually compare the whole print. Just pieces. And there's gotta be a finite number of iterations possible by the current process. It's not a key. It's a generalization.

It is impressive what they're doing. Just also shows fingerprints aren't what we think they are.

Itty53,
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@davidbisset

In a similar vein, a while ago I read an article talking about a project that - if memory serves anyway - was attempting to transcode sound from vibration patterns on clay pots. Effectively grabbing a recording of sound off a clay pot like we would a record.

"If these walls could talk" - one day they might. Would be an interesting sci fi concept to explore.

MrLovenstein, to random
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Secret Panel HERE 🌱 https://tapas.io/episode/2508983

Itty53,
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@MrLovenstein

The irony is most house plants die because they get too much water, not too little.

ferricoxide, to random

I hate when I wake up dizzy.

Itty53,
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@ferricoxide

I wake up sometimes with what feels like an adrenaline spike, and that translates to feeling very nauseous and dizzy.

Benadryl helps a lot I've found, and quickly too.

JaniceSelbie, to random
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Yesterday, I posted on another app that we need humans who are not controlled by fear of mythical deities, but compelled by compassion for their fellow man. Here is one of the responses I got:

Itty53,
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@JaniceSelbie

"FBI? Hi, yes, thanks for taking my call. This one. You ought to be watching this one."

eniko, to random
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imagine finding out that the reason reddit destroyed entire communities that had been around for years was so that they could nonconsensually sell all the communication produced by those communities off to some sleazy anonymous for AI training purposes and going "this is fine" and continuing to use reddit

bro they're literally selling large chunks of your life off in order to manufacture disinformation machines and to do that they destroyed communities you were probably a nominal part of, how are you okay with this??

Itty53,
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@eniko

I think it's a difference of outlook and wants. To them they didn't have their community destroyed: they're not using these platforms for a sense of community.

In fact both Reddit and Twitter were marked by the very corporate-backed drive to foster that notion: it's not about community, but idle entertainment. It's selfish, and that's okay. We're selfish beings.

Folks going to bsky are seeking the entertainment they lost when those platforms went to shit. Not communities.

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@eniko

I think it's pretty normal human behavior to verbalize one complaint while being upset by another thing entirely. We all do it. It's an effect of the subconscious.

Itty53, to random
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There's a certain kind of person online that sees any kind of problem, barrier, whatever, as a game to win.

I need people to understand how childish this way of thought is. Not all "problems" are problems at all.

For instance: children on social media. I'm watching a thread of people discuss creating a masto instance built for kids. And despite being told how awful an idea that is by more than one person, they're still throwing ideas back and forth. Not a problem worth solving, yet they try.

Itty53,
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And at a certain point that stops looking like a hard headed person trying to solve a problem, and starts looking like predation itself. Like I doubt any one of those people is a parent themself.

If you can't see how that's all creepy, you might just be a fuckin creep yourself.

RickiTarr, to random
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Okay without looking it up, if you meet an Italian guy named Sal, what is his full name?

Itty53,
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@RickiTarr

Solomon

Itty53,
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@RickiTarr

Same question but she goes by Sally.

Itty53,
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@RickiTarr

Sarah.

cadence022, to random

What are everyone's thoughts on people putting symbols in the middle of words for the sake of censorship? for us, it makes the post harder to read, and/or makes us have to spell out a word to figure out what it's supposed to be. we personally feel this is an accessibility issue and wish people would just write the words out. cw if you feel that's necessary, but the more starred out letters in a word, at least to us, the harder it is to read. what are everyone else's thoughts?

Itty53,
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@cadence022

Personally I think if you're gonna harken to a word, it's the same as using it. If I say some placeholder that you and I both know what it means, what's the difference at all? It isn't any more or less offensive. Truly, it isn't. It's the same as saying it, whatever the word you're thinking.

Either say it or don't. If you feel the need to self-censor then rethink what you actually want to say, and if you actually want to say it.

Itty53, to random
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Back when Altman was ousted from OpenAI, there was a very suspiciously timed story going round about an event where Altman was informed of "a major breakthrough" just before the shake up. It was very clear the intimation of this story was that the breakthrough was regarding AGI.

No one in the AI community questioned that line of reasoning, instead they reacted as religious believers do when they're told the second coming will be next month because Jesus appeared on toast.

1/2

Itty53,
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Like religious believers, the AI community assumes it's on the way already. Therefore they won't ever question it, and when the big reveal never happens they just wait until the next suspiciously timed story to validate their preconceived ideas.

We know what that breakthrough was now.

Fucking generative video. That's it. That's all it was.

2/2

SirTapTap, to random
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So what's the trick to wearing a scarf without it falling off OR choking you, this seems harder than it should be

Itty53,
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@SirTapTap

Big fan of the Parisian Knot, and also the overhand.

GottaLaff, to random
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Mary Trump on :

https://marytrump.substack.com/p/jon-stewarts-danger-to-democracy

Itty53,
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@openbuddha @GreenFire @GottaLaff @2rawtooreal

You could be 35 years old and if every word you say outside your bedroom was made public from multiple video angles, we could construe arguments that you're senile too. You'd gaff too. A lot. We all do.

Gaffing is a very natural thing for literally every human being with the capacity for speech. Why gaffs are looked at as political weakness is entirely about how they're framed in the media.

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