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  • Microsoft confirms an AI worm is propagating through Copilot and other MS apps | CSO Online

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  • copilot should just be prompting the user for permission if it ever edits a file other than the one that is open. Im surprised that isnt already the case…?

    That can't be done or they would be burying the "agentic AI" thing that has been the goal and marketing thing for the last years.

    Independent actions by copilot on behalf of the user without the users knowledge is the entire point.

  • You have been mislead about lightbulbs

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  • The lightbulb everyone always cites in the story is hanging in a California fire department. It's been running nearly continuously for over 120 years and racked up over a million hours of operation.

    Impressive right?

    Yes.

    Despite nominally being a 60 W lamp, it draws only 4 watts... and is a lot dimmer than you'd expect from a 4 W lamp due to its poor efficiency.

    You have been mislead about lightbulbs

    I have not been mislead, I want to buy the enteral 4W night light and the cartel has prevented me from getting this option.

    that doesn't make any sense.

    Too bad.

    (Good factual article though, the author just had the audacity to tell me what I want, which I hate.)

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

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  • Read my comment again. 😜

  • Unethical conduct in Wikimedia Foundation

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  • I mean... yeah. Duh. They say so openly on the website, that's the point.

    They observed wrongdoing, were fired for opposing it and now they are trying to highlight that and make it public.

    Whether the whole thing is TRUE is the question. I don't know that. I guess it's a reminder that ultimately everything online could be fake and false and manipulation. We would need more sources with similar stories. But if everyone didn't publish because they would be the first, we would never get multiple sources.

    So, just read it as a biased perspective and leave it unsolved whether it's true or false...

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

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  • This suggestion was made by the year-day-month dateformat gang.

  • Name before type: why 'age int' is better than 'int age'

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  • I only use python and I don't understand why someone might think that. The order in python's type hints is wrong too.

  • Pope's official prayer app commits cardinal sin, leaks 700K+ users' info

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  • See, humans are smart. Praying and blessing things yourself? By hand, so to speak? Boooo! Pedestrian! Ain't nobody got time fo dat!

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prayer_flag

    the Tibetans believe the prayers and mantras will be blown by the wind to spread the good will and compassion into all pervading space. Therefore, prayer flags are thought to bring benefit to all.

    By hanging flags in high places the Lung ta will carry the blessings depicted on the flags to all beings. As wind passes over the surface of the flags, which are sensitive to the slightest movement of the wind, the air is purified and sanctified by the mantras.

    I choose to believe that the prayer app is just a hip, new and with it innovation in prayer spreading.

  • House Democrats’ anxiety rises after wins by Mamdani-backed candidates: ‘Are we going to let them take over the party?’

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  • Democratic elections happening and selecting candidates that aren't from your carefully prepared inner circle? Unbelievable! It was the their turn?!!

    Guards!! GUARDS!!!

  • Mitch McConnell, 84, hospitalized for second time in just a few months

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  • I don't even really understand why people like that cling to power the way they do.

    They're literally dying on the job. Don't they want to retire? Spend their money a bit?

    They're not even a dictator where everyone and their mother will come after the scraps of the kingdom when they show weakness.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Imagine there’s a huge fuel station that’s so big they essentially set rules towards suppliers that they can’t offer their gas to other stations at a cheaper price otherwise they can’t sell it in their station with 95% market share.

    That is specifically not what is happening.

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    "Steam Key Rules and Guidelines"

    "You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam. It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers."

    Valve does not "dictate" prices in any way.

    Ubi and WB are free to sell their games for as cheap as they want. But if and ONLY IF they offer a steam key with the purchase, they can't undercut steam.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Edit: the original comment left it unclear if the price rule only applies to copies sold that include a steam key, or if copies that work completely without steam can be arbitrarily priced. If the latter is the case, it’s obviously fine. If it includes any game version, it isn’t OK.

    Ok. The rule is, actually let me link it...

    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    "Steam Key Rules and Guidelines"

    "You should use Steam Keys to sell your game on other stores in a similar way to how you sell your game on Steam.** It is important that you don’t give Steam customers a worse deal than Steam Key purchasers."**

    Just read that paragraph. It should be pretty clear what the whole thing is about.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • True, but this deal is that companies stick to the terms and in turn they get access to steams shop, implicitly the community.

    They don't have some unalienable right to access another company's customers.

    You don't have a "right" to go into a BurgerKing and advertise and sell your burgers there.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • That is true, definitely a "lesser evil" situation.

  • Valve antitrust lawsuit reportedly reveals lengths Steam owner is willing to go to prevent cheaper prices elsewhere

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  • Bloomberg cites two high-profile cases referenced in the ongoing lawsuit, one involving Ubisoft, and another Warner Bros.

    First of all, I trust Ubi and WB way less than valve.

    Valve allegedly threatened to delist all editions of Rainbow Six Siege after Ubisoft offered a cheaper option on its Uplay store.

    Yeah.

    Because it violates their policy. That's not a "threat", those are the terms of the contract Ubi and WB agreed to. Terms that everyone has to follow.

    Heck, Ubi and WB should be hit with a counter suit for trying to leverage their market position to exert control over valve and getting unusually favorable terms.

    Clown suit. Ubi and WB are mad they can't break their contract with valve in a one sided way.

    edit: I forgot some context:

    The deal between valve and a publisher or dev is: they can sell on steam and elsewhere if steam is at least tied in price, or cheaper, but when they sell somewhere else, that includes the steam key and access to steam and steam's distribution at no cost.

    What the devs and publishers wanted to do was leverage other features of steam and the steam ecosystem, while undercutting steam's price.

    They are always free to just not sell on steam for a cheaper price. That's not what this is about.

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    https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/features/keys

    "Steam Key Rules and Guidelines"

  • Microsoft Wants to 'Make People Addicted' to its New AI Assistant, Internal Documents Reveal

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  • Duh. I wouldn't have called it "addiction", but dependency was clearly the goal, otherwise they wouldn't take away classical search.

    I thought that was obvious from the start.

  • Stack Overflow's forum is dead thanks to AI

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  • It is also dead due to how repulsive the place was. Literally.

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  • Contrary to the memes and the "elite pvp" reputation of eve online, the people in the communities are very welcoming and you can make some long term friends there.

    You still need to sort of enjoy the game itself I suppose. That is relatively easy with friends though.

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    What are your thoughts on people who are against pacifism?

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  • Arguing against violence and war when that is possible is fine.

    Arguing fanatically to lay down weapons when one side is very clearly not going to do that, is very stupid.

    In the sense that there will always be people who are going to be tricked into a fascist, violent, superiority cult, because there are just that many people, and in the sense that sometimes and regularly moderate or intense violence will be necessary to stop them, because some people are closed off to arguments and peaceful discussion, opposing that violence is taking their side, yes.

    And it's fine if you disagree, I simply think you have really finished thinking about it. The reply is always going to be a "... but what if they just stopped being fanatic fascists" and I think that is not how that works.

    So ultimately I agree with Orwell.

  • Why do you prefer the Fediverse over other Social Media?

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  • Basically, the good parts of free speech arguments.

    I do think there are things that can just be banned from existence, and be made illegal, but it's significantly more tolerant than the current vibe.

    Reality doesn't give a shit about our systems of morals. There is a certain "mainstream, harmony and political correctness" creep that sometimes happens. And what's bad about that, is that bubbles brain wash themselves into believing that the way they think the world works is really how the world works. And what they hold isn't just a perspective and an opinion, but a fundamental truth about the world and deviation needs to be purged. And that eventually collides with reality. This is both true for racists and for people who think racism can be "cured" or "educated away" or "people can just consider the facts and change their mind".

    The fediverse allows a more gradual interaction than centralized social media sites. Because centralized social media must decide how to deal with... depiction of politics, religious subjects, NSFW topics, which btw, covers everything from violence over nudity to medical conditions.

    If there was a medical community sharing discussions about medical topics, I can block that and be unburdened by it, but there is no central fediverse authority that needs to decide if that medical picture is not allowed because there is a boob in it.

    In short, banning a social group on social media, like racists, doesn't convince anyone or remove that group of people from factually existing and factually organizing.

    Open Source Software works the same way, you can't be sure that math library isn't being used to control a remove controlled ballistic missile, but pretending that you can "ban math" depending on the purpose is stupid, so there is no point in worrying about it.