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Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wingless in Super Mario Kart Cover had to be changed because Bowser was too scary, apparently by Wahaha
All the characters use pretty much the same art, just flipped around at best. But Bowser was changed to not be as menacing and Yoshi's tongue got removed.
So I don't think that the aspect ratio of the box was the main concern for this change.
Wingless wrote
Reply to Super Mario Kart Cover had to be changed because Bowser was too scary, apparently by Wahaha
They look like two drawings by the same artist with different aspect ratios. Surely the change was dictated by the shape of the boxes?
Wingless wrote
Reply to HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
I don't see any evidence for expressions or for uploading to the cloud. However, this site suffers from a confusing interface and the top link points me here where I think sometimes on a post you think it's going to link some other article when you submit it, and instead it links to the article thread as here. So if there is another article, please link to it.
It seems like the company would be violating its fiduciary duty to its stockholders not to be making a stockpile of this stuff to sell to secret agents. Imagine Trump able to see, in real time, the aggregated and individual reactions of every person watching his speech while on a phone. Imagine knowing which women are secretly impatient or contemptuous while talking to their boyfriends, and being ready to make the first move. Or the same for company mergers with billions in stock value in play. Possibilities are endless and it would be immoral for the company not to make money off that.
burnerben wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
iphones are fine, just dont buy ones with the retarded face id software.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
I watched both the CringeTok and browsed the PDF, there's literally nothing mentioned about facial expressions. But hey, iPhones are still shit, so let's just not buy them, that's the only solution for now.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to HOLY SHIT!!! Apple secretly constantly taking photos of face when phone held and active every 5 seconds and uses INFRARED and got caught! Apple claims its for training the AI to unlock, but now admits its to study EMOTION of user to autoselect emojis and study pupil dilation & facial expressions! by smartypants
Where do they admit the emotion part?
DcscZx5idox OP wrote
Reply to New fleet of i2pd 0.9.46 routers by DcscZx5idox
We have improved our defenses for possible malicious and buggy routers in the network.
takeheart wrote (edited )
Reply to comment by Wahaha in The Transitory Nature of Content on the Internet by HMTg927
All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain.
Also here is my autist of the day https://sftn.github.io/ Reading stuff like this touches my soul almost as deep as Baudrillard or Crowley does, and those are supposed to be in every library. So it's not like stuff disappears, more like it becomes so strange that no one can read it and comprehend, the reader itself disappears. One should take care to preserve their sanity, no amount of terabytes of storage will help with that.
takeheart wrote
Scientific establishment had wasted their credibility, just like the boy who cried wolf. And now their puppeteers have to waste money on these nicely animated glittering videos full of shit and spread them through disinformation network that bans opposition. Talk about unrelated non-issues and introduce as the matter of course climate hoax and covaids, factless conclusions that require your trust but afraid to stand in the light of open discussion and investigation.
In the middle the shill was talking about 'established' facts of science that no one should touch exactly because they're established and parrots example with g, so here is another inconvenient video for you https://worldtruthvideos.org/watch/banned-ted-talk-the-science-delusion-rupert-sheldrake_M8cdRnJkMgm2VNB.html apparently scientific establishment was very unhappy with it.
Also it's not about money, it's about power and control. TL;DW agenda 21.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by abralelie in Fact vs. fake – why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary by abralelie
The difficult part is figuring things out. You'd be amazed how easy stuff is once someone else has figured it all out. Scientific papers mostly are written to be obtuse on purpose. But they don't matter. The data the paper is based on matters.
Scientific papers remind me of translators that want to be clever in their subs. I watch a lot of foreign language stuff and there have been occasions, when I was understanding the original language that I don't actually speak for a sentence, but couldn't make sense of the English subtitles under it.
Science really isn't that hard. There's just some gatekeeping involved, but once you see past the bullshit, it's fairly simple. And yes, I trust myself more than journalists to understand the underlying data.
As for climate stuff, I haven't found any data that paints the picture the media is selling. I keep asking for data when the topic comes up, but no one has been able to provide anything so far proving that humans influence the climate. Yeah, temperatures go up (global warming), but then not consistently, so the buzz word got changed, but that's just climate in general. Some glaciers have been melting for hundreds of years and I've also heard that we are at the end of an Ice Age. Earth had a couple of those before humans even were around. And yeah, when they end things tend to get warmer.
By the way, did you hear what happened to the ozone hole? This was all over the media some twenty odd years ago with the goal to ban something and then they did and everyone just stopped talking about it. I'm pretty sure it's still there, though. But I guess no one wants to use it's existence to ban something anymore.
kaaksikoon wrote
When a politician opens their mouth, they're lying. Biden, Trump, AOC, Bill Clinton, all politicians ergo all liars.
This headline means nothing.
abralelie OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Fact vs. fake – why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary by abralelie
In actuality science isn't so complicated that only some "scientists" can understand it and the public doesn't really need the media playing "translator" to what "scientists" said.
Yeah, I have to disagree there. Why do you think people require multiple years, sometimes even decades, to study stuff? The average person simply doesn't have the necessary knowledge and understanding of the subject matter to grasp what's happening in a scientific paper. Nobody's an expert in everything.
Have you tried reading the papers published in recognized journals? They are by no means trivial and sometimes even if the article is written in an understandable manner and seems plausible, the wrong statistical methods could've been chosen, the experiments may have been setup incorrectly, or a bunch of other stuff could've happened that wasn't accounted for - or explicitly accounted for but hidden to achieve a certain result.
Doesn't stop NPCs from gobbling up what the media peddles about science as fact. Like the stupid climate change thing, which is full of holes if you look at the actual data. It's just that the media has repeated this bullshit over decades again and again, that by now lots of people actually believe in man made climate change.
Have you actually looked at the data yourself? And where did you find that data? Additionally, are you a climatologist / do you think you are better equipped than a climatologist to interpret the data?
Wahaha wrote
Reply to comment by abralelie in Fact vs. fake – why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary by abralelie
How do you tell that what is spread is disinfo and not truth? Nothing in the video proves that their point of view is the truth.
The reason science lost trust is because it got peddled in the media to further someone's goal. When was the last time someone showed you the actual data and not the conclusion he wanted you to reach? When was the last time someone wanted you personally to reproduce his cool experiment to see whether you'd get the same result?
Science as the media peddles it is nothing but marketing to make you believe certain things. Science™ said it, so it must be true. Except that's not how science works.
In actuality science isn't so complicated that only some "scientists" can understand it and the public doesn't really need the media playing "translator" to what "scientists" said. Especially since everyone knows that the media is full of shit concerning topics he himself knows something about. There's no reason to believe that it isn't full of shit for the stuff we don't know much about, either. Can't blame them, either. Reporters can't know everything. That's why their job used to be to only report on what they saw. Or at least that's what would make more sense than them trying to translate to the public what so called scientists say, without understanding anything themselves.
But then, whenever you take a look at the data, there's nothing really conclusive and the whole thing about how nobody can replicate results from experiments anymore is so well known that it got it's own Wikipedia article: "The Replication Crisis".
Doesn't stop NPCs from gobbling up what the media peddles about science as fact. Like the stupid climate change thing, which is full of holes if you look at the actual data. It's just that the media has repeated this bullshit over decades again and again, that by now lots of people actually believe in man made climate change.
abralelie OP wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Fact vs. fake – why don’t we trust science any more? | DW Documentary by abralelie
What exactly do you think is disinformation? They're showing how disinformation is spread.
Wahaha wrote
Everything is transitory. Without someone making an effort to preserve it, everything will be lost to time eventually.
I'm an archivist by nature. I have an innate desire to preserve things. That's why I got ~30TB worth of data, growing.
Looking back at movies from the 1920s pains me, since most of them are lost. And that's only going back a mere hundred years. Since Old Earth is a thing that is plausible, humanity might have survived multiple extinction events which occur about every 10.000 years or so. Each time whatever we build up got destroyed so hard, that even the knowledge that it ever existed is now lost. All that remains are myths about an event cheerfully described as the apocalypse.
What's a mere blog compared to the accumulations of the entire human race? Multiple times over, no less.
Everything is transitory. Including our very universe.
Wahaha wrote
Somehow I do not believe what they are saying in this video. Seems like just another layer of disinfo campaign.
abralelie wrote
Reply to More than 40 attorneys general urge Facebook to stop plans for an Instagram for kids by Rambler
How is it even legal? Didn't Americans cede all kinds of liberties for the sake of "saving the children" ?
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to One line of bash let's me see the covers of all my media and lets me select from them making use of sxiv. Who needs Netflix or Steam when you can have this? by Wahaha
I should probably get rid of that if in there....
https://videos.lukesmith.xyz/videos/watch/2ae80129-417b-41c1-80d3-d04e3adb2f3b
RAMBLE1 wrote
Reply to Edward Snowden joined an online "elite real estate investment club" Saturday afternoon, spoke for several minutes about whistleblowing, called out one of the hosts for allegedly running a Ponzi scheme, then logged out in one of the more bizarre online conferences in recent memory by Rambler
Nice! Thanks for sharing
Rambler wrote
Good question. Feel free to report the issue here: https://gitlab.com/postmill/Postmill
If she implements a fix, I'll nab it.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Reply to comment by Wahaha in Why is it not possible to post links containing a percent sign? by Wahaha
And it is possible to implement it properly, since CyberChef has it.
Wahaha OP wrote
Reply to comment by BlackWinnerYoshi in Why is it not possible to post links containing a percent sign? by Wahaha
That works. Still weird that this isn't a feature under the hood that just works automagically.
BlackWinnerYoshi wrote
Maybe you need to encode the percent sign in percent-encoding (%25
). Let's see if https://archive.is/j7uWQ#10%25 will work.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to More than 40 attorneys general urge Facebook to stop plans for an Instagram for kids by Rambler
who are not equipped to navigate the challenges of having a social media account,
Adults ain't either. Especially women have a hard time, since they are addicted to attention. Social media fucks with their brains. Everytime their stupid phone makes a sound they have to check. It's really sad.
Wahaha wrote
Reply to I'm still here. Anyone want to help grow the site? by Rambler
No worries about downtime.
Not sure how to grow a site, but I'm trying to contribute. Even if its kind of like talking to a void sometimes. I'm also not having that much time in a day I can waste on the Internet, so there's that.
Did we even have spam and/or illegal stuff recently?
..does piracy count as illegal stuff?