They’re not unblockable.

Every now and then Twitch wastes money on circumventing adblockers, but a few weeks later ublock filters will be updated to block that again. I’m currently watching without any ads or third party add-ons besides regular uBlock.

It is a paid VPN luckily though. The issue is with “free” VPN browser add-ons.

There’s also different adblocker rules and extensions for twitch ads.

For some games and websites I have to turn it off yeah. Or at least switch the server to one that isn’t blocked.

It’s a shame that websites are allowed to track and block VPNs.

Never use VPN add-ons for your browser. Unless you get them along with your paid VPN. You should run your entire network through the VPN, not just a browser.

Fun fact: they’ve also been founded with CIA money.

I’m not scared of AI ever becoming sentient and acting on it’s own. If it decides to end humanity then I don’t have a problem with going out that way. Saves me the trouble choosing how to do it myself.

What is scary is AI becoming more competent and being used by corporations and governments, not just to kill, but to surveil, oppress and torture more efficiently.

Hey at least Stasi only spied on people they suspected.

It’s crazy that this is legal.

Proton did not only hand over data to the Swiss courts, but the French courts via that. They didn’t just comply with national laws, but those of other countries.

That contradicts their virtue signalled interest in privacy, when they’re willing to surrender any data without even putting up a fight. They did not even try to argue in courts against handing over private data. And considering this lead to the arrest of the activist, it either obviously wasn’t encrypted or Proton had the means to decrypt it on their end.

You can’t just link Proton’s own PR speak as a source to counter that. Of course they would defend themselves.

It’s not about the law, but what’s right to me.

Proton according to this post is virtue signalling. Claiming one thing, then doing the other.

No so does France. Proton helped convict a French environmental activist by providing the courts full access to their private proton account.

A lawnmower has no capacity to make decisions or process any data.

As far as we are concerned, the data a LLM is given is treated as fact by it though.

It does not matter whether something is factual or not. What matters is that whoever you’re teaching, will accept it as fact and act in accordance with it. I don’t see how this is any different with computer code. It will do what it is programmed to. If you program it to “think” a day has 36 hours instead of 24, it will do so.

Lying does not require intent. All it requires is to know an objective truth and say something that contradicts or conceals it.

As far as any LLM is concerned, the data they’re trained on and other data they’re later fed is fact. Mimicking human behaviour such as lying still makes it lying.

The only good thing about Andromeda was the new setting / story.

The gameplay and class settings were lame.

That’s actually what annoys me most. They set up a new story, but then abandoned it before finishing it with sequels and leave everything unresolved.

I’m sorry to tell you but smoking is completely socially accepted.

Yeah I know of those app stores. Sadly they don’t automatically include anything also found on GitHub. So not everything is on there.

In theory it’s always easy, but in reality there will always be some major issue. I’ve tried switching to Ubuntu twice many years ago and there was always something that didn’t work. One time it even bricked my Windows install.

Currently before actually installing it, I’ve installed Pop OS in a virtual machine. I wish I had the screenshot, but entering 4 different commands to try and install VLC player and getting an error that the command is unknown each time is degrading. A lot of the first results for installing software on Linux has commands or repositories that don’t work and you have to keep looking. It was the command on the official VLC website that didn’t work for me…

That is exactly why I don’t understand why they have an issue with it.

They do not know if someone is using the store to buy porn games. So why care? Their concern should be profit, not national driven policies.

Not a fan of porn games (which aren’t available here anyway), but that is not a good sign.

Why would they even cater to payment providers? They should not be able to determine whether you bought a porn game or a regular game, just that it’s something on Steam.