wizardbeard

That's a good point that I'm not sure many people are talking about. There's a shift happening where while I'm still seeing way too much "you're just not prompting it right", it has lessened. Now I'm seeing a lot more "well of course it can't do that" even from the believers.

They're still crying "the problem is that you're using it wrong", and blaming on the end user but it seems to be quietly shifting so they're now calling people dumb for ever believing the hype that they were the ones pushing to begin with.

First there's no actual wizards in my computer to install and setup software, and now this? If someone tells me that Roko doesn't even have an actual basilisk I don't know what I'm gonna do!

When Are people Going to Care About THE real Problem! HOW Am i SUPPOSED to Be confident In MY SEXUALITY if I Might Be attracted To A WOMAN with A penis! the WOKE Is Forcing ME to Think? ABOUT PENIS!

Reminder: Their database has been shown to keep the last version of a comment as well as the current version, and they have repeatedly used this to restore deleted and edited comments.

It would also be trivial for them to keep more previous revisions than that, and to just flag "deleted" comments to not show to users while still keeping them for use in AI training.

The best option is to stop using Reddit entirely.

This is a foundational restriction with how federation works and was discussed back during the exodus from reddit when they cut off their API. Votes can't be federated without identity attached, or you'd end up with a single vote multiplied by however many instances federated it to yours.

This is the price of the fediverse being uncensorable. Everything you do on it is oublic, and norhing can be reliably deleted from the entire fediverse.

There was some efforts to obsfucate voting by one of the m/kbin lemmy alternatives, to have each account have an associated hidden account with a randomly generated name that would technically be the account used for voting, so only the admin of your own instance could connect between your public account identity and your voting identity, but that could also just be defeated by basic pattern identification.

As far as instance admins are concerned, this has been known from the start, and is completely outside of their control. That said, it could definitely use some more signposting for awareness. It's shocking how often this entire discussion gets repeated by people who apparently never thought to look into how federation actually works.

I mean, it's been a while, but you don't ever directly control the spirit right?

It attacks things on its own, you never directly control it regardless of if it's summoned on top of the enemy. That's a specific part of the mechanics they patented, direct player control of the summon in that situation, and likely part of Nintendo's dumbass legal argument.

There's some technicalities to what they've filed, it's not just any summoning.

Basically when you summon and it ends up where an enemy is it launches a player controlled battle, and when it doesn't it will wander around with you and autobattle enemies. Pretty much how you can let Pokemon out in the Legends games. It's specifically that specific combination/configuration of functionality they patented, not just any summoning.

But it's still absolute bullshit that should have been denied by any employee of the patent offive with two brain cells to rub together. There's other existing work and generally, historically, the patent office hasn't allowed patenting of such generic game mechanics.

Dude what kind of content are people posting that is prompting any detectable number of people to run around downvoting all of it?

~~You must be pretty new here.~~ (Nevermind, didn't check who I was responding to)

There's around two posts a month in this very community where someone is complaining that they're expected to block a community with content they don't like instead of just downvoting everything they see from it.

AI communities are common ones, so are political comms, but there have been some postd where someone just doesn't like the memes of a certain meme community too. You're making a false assumption that people only downvote stuff for any sort of legitimate reason.

That whole 4 hours of sleep sure isn't gonna help with all that mess.

If you think rural Georgia is such a shithole, why in the hell would it make sense to build a datacenter there? Just keep your shit out of their shit if you hate them so damn much.

So... in more readable English, they patented how you can send a Pokemon out to run around with you, and if you throw it directly at an enemy it can start a standard battle where you control your Pokemon, otherwise it automatically paths to the enemy for an autobattle.

That's a little more specific than just summoning characters, but still absolutely bullshit to be able to patent. I'm sure there's prior work that should disqualify this, they just couched it in such overly technical terms they can act like it's novel.

I get the idea, but you gotta get one big enough to stretch out in. Back and muscle stiffness from having to curl up to fit aren't fun. Definitely isn't helpful for any sort of sexy time, pet play, or even just general day to day existence.

I've slept in small spaces before without much between me and the floor, and plenty of awkward "just grab the space you can and make the best of it". No cage, but a pile of pillows and blankets on the floor in a hotel room when I missed the last train back to my accomodations at a convention, another time at a con when the hotel let us book a room with a pull out couch but then didn't actually have one in our room (and was booked solid so there wasn't anywhere to put me), many nights crashing on friends' couches or the floor when the couch was already taken, one night in a beanbag chair when about 20 people crammed into a 2 bed apartment before a huge camping trip, air matresses, crappy 20 year old pull out couches, cots, cramped overfilled tents... you get the picture.

The biggest and most consistent thing for comfort I've found was getting enough space that I didn't have to crunch myself tight and keep myself in a specific position the whole night.

Space > temperature > surface for your head > whatever is under your body, at least imo.