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Why “foreign” bad actors? Reddit is a US company and has “former” CIA in high-up positions. The site is heavily astroturfed by US military and intelligence. The prevailing opinions seen on the site are extremely pro-NATO and pro-“Israel”. If foreign actors are trying to influence the site, they’re in the extreme minority.

The site is of course also heavily botted to fake engagement, similar to how twitter is, but i think a lot of the unpleasant people on there are real. The site caters to their hostile, antisocial behavior.

I used to think radio stations were run from inside of the broadcasting tower, like how the CN Tower and Space Needle have decks near the top.

Hate speech is an actual problem for online entities to deal with. “Cancel culture” is a slightly vague term that usually refers to applying social pressure to disassociate from someone. This can obviously be good or bad depending on what it’s about, but the term is typically only used by right-wingers when said pressure is applied to them.

I like to make oats in the microwave and mix in peanut butter and banana slices

fuck off. how many accounts have you made on tchncs.de to keep posting garbage like this?

The version you linked on github is FOSS but it is out of date— newer versions on the play store are proprietary. Organic Maps is a continuation of the FOSS version by the original developers.

dxvk is available through the distro, if you’re on an ubuntu or debian-based distro just run sudo apt install dxvk. vulkan should come pre-installed on any modern distro.

i’d highly recommend using some kind of manager, if you don’t want lutris than use playonlinux which is more minimal. this keeps things organized and lets you use different wine versions and tweaks for each game. for example, some newer games need proton-experimental or an otherwise very recent version to run, but you may not want to replace your system wine with this.

This paper looks like it’s essentially run by the US weapons industry. It’s a subsidiary of GovExec who helps military contractors sell to the government. This means they have an interest in drumming up armed conflict and you’d have to take everything they print with this in mind.

A group called Cofacts allows users to forward dubious messages to a chatbot. Human editors check the messages, enter them into a database, and get back to the user with a verdict.

“This year, because gen AI is just so mailable [sic], they just fine-tuned a language module together that can clarify such disinformation…adding back a context and things like that. So we’re no longer outnumbered,” she said.

I’d be highly skeptical of how well this would work. A language model is not a truth machine, it’s just a program that tries to write like a human. There are countless examples of ChatGPT and similar programs saying blatantly false things and making up citations out of thin air.

Spoof your MAC address, but it will appear as a new device on the wi-fi which could arouse suspicion. Ideally you could spoof a familiar device that’s not currently or often in use (i.e., parents’ or siblings’ old phone or laptop), but of course you would need to acquire the MAC and it wouldn’t work while the actual device is connected.

Neat! I have a J2ME-capable phone but I haven’t really tried playing games on it much. What are some of the best ones you’ve found?

I used to use AntennaPod a few years ago, not sure what it’s like now but it looks to still be updated. Nice app as it has built-in search, etc. rather than just taking RSS feeds.

I haven’t been on Android in a few years but it looks like Librera Reader is still being maintained. Works great but somewhat large file size due to being a full-featured e-book/document reader rather than just PDF.

i had plenty of physical space in my computer case and didn’t want to spend a huge amount on drives, so i have my OS and some games on a SSD and have added a bunch of old enterprise HDDs (6TB, 3TB, and 2TB) to store media and games on. having only an SSD seems overly expensive if you want to store large amounts

I really doubt that the problem is with your actual graphic drivers, but with the wine version of directx. first, make sure you have Vulkan and DXVK installed and working on your computer as it’s required for directx 11. you could also try older wine versions, or you can see if you can force hearthstone to run under directx9 if it’s still supported:

In the Game Settings (in the Battle.net app) you need to enable the command line argument and then type this into it: -force-d3d9

a few years ago when i didn’t have a Vulkan-capable GPU i would have to make a lot of windows games run in D3D9

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i feel bad for any writer there who’s just trying to do tech journalism

cnet’s record is terrible. first they do crapware bundling, then have factually incorrect articles written by machine learning algorithms, now this

there are definitely real concerns to be had about addictive and manipulative software, i use linux and a dumbphone as well. but “AI” is not some genius, it’s a dumb algorithm and i think ascribing these apocalyptic powers to it is ridiculous.

and using the word “consoomer” makes you look like a 4chan nazi whether that’s what you are or not.