Boyishdude

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

Relativists have so much brainrot that they will outline how they think something works and not even be able to say consistent with it because their positions are logically indefensible, then get mad at you for seeing their beliefs all the way through logically-

[🌿 Neo the Underking 🌿🍥🏴 (Anime Archival Arc) @VirtualAxiom]

Markiplier being a proper capitalist is a little white-pill I needed today.

[DeepHumor @DeepHumor]

The UK went from “we need to stop kids from watching porn” to actual dystopian mass surveillance in the span of two years

Digital ID is the slipperiest slope of all time

[Johann @LookAtMyMeat1]

you can actually relive this right now by just emulating instead of begging for an inferior version

[Wondering Anime @wonderinganime]

Highschool of the Dead appreciation post.

[DespairCake @DespairCake1000]

Time travelers have no need for bras

[Glenn Meder @GlennMeder]

1/ Your daughter is 16.

She reads about a protest happening downtown. Police brutality. Government overreach. She does not know what to believe. The news says one thing. Social media says another.

She wants to investigate. She wants to find the truth herself.

So she opens her phone. Tries to access independent journalist accounts. Citizen reporters who were actually there. Raw footage. Unfiltered perspective.

Access denied.

Reason: Age verification required. Content flagged as potentially harmful to minors. Online child safety laws prohibit access without parental consent and identity verification.

Your daughter cannot search for truth. The system decides what she is allowed to know.

[Om Patel @om_patel5]

SOMEONE VIBE CODED A VIDEO STREAM THAT IS SECRETLY 100% TEXT SO IT CANT BE BLOCKED

it plays 360p video at 30fps, but theres no actual video on the page. every frame is just colored text characters being repainted on a canvas

to the browser its not media at all, its javascript updating some text

its called asciline, and here's the trick:

> the server decodes the real video and streams it as binary packed text over websockets
> the browser paints thousands of colored block characters fast enough to look like 360p
> ad blockers and autoplay blockers cant catch it because theres no video element to catch
> it streams in kilobytes since its just strings, so it runs on trash internet

since the video is literally text, you can apply css glows to it, let people copy paste a moving frame, or feed it straight to a local llm

however, an unblockable stream is also an unblockable ad as well

[Mr. Ovis🐑💼(Office Worker Sheeptuber) @MrOvis_]

Government censorship always begins with "We're only censoring things that are immoral, profain, grossly offensive!", and the people that support it assume the government will always agree with them on what those things mean.

The government will then begin to claim that anyone who disagrees with them IS immoral, profain, and grossly offensive.

[🌿 Neo the Underking 🌿🍥🏴 (Anime Archival Arc) @VirtualAxiom]

It's not propaganda, it's just basic computer science.

Literally how is a disc needing to remain inserted to validate the copy running from the SSD as a technical necessity for the required bitrates of modern games, when it's all still done locally, in any way practically different for the end user's experience than running it directly off the disc where the disc needs to be inserted the whole time anyway, and comparable to a game key card that contains no game at all and only lets you download a digital copy from a remote server? You're quibbling over semantics and making it seem like something it just isn't.

1) PS5 discs have the games on them locally. You have access to the base game in full, minus any patches or content not on the disc, obviously, for a fresh install any time if you delete the game from your SSD to make room. You'll never need to connect to the internet or depend on a download from a server to access the content of that disc.

2) Optical storage isn't fast enough to stream assets properly anymore. The disc needing to stay in the console is copy protection since you've duplicated the data and they want to make sure it can't run independent of the paid copy on the disc. That's it.

3) Key cards don't contain the game, they contain a voucher for a download that needs to be pulled from a server, otherwise they're useless.

4) Since one contains the full base game accessible locally regardless of technical limitations requiring the data to be moved to faster storage before use, while the other contains no game data and requires you to retrieve it from an external source you might not be able to access, they aren't comparable, and it's disingenuous at best to equate them on a superficial similarity of not playing the game directly from the physical storage medium you bought to access the game.

PS5 discs are objectively still true physical media. There's just an extra *fully local* step to access the data properly because it's literally just too much data for an optical drive to stream directly anymore. It just doesn't work as a matter of the technology.

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

@VirtualAxiom Reading the image in that tweet, honestly, do people just not know what data install is? The Xbox 360 literally had it as a core feature, I could even improve Sonic 06's performance slightly by installing its data. I actually did that back in high school, as I recall.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

13 years ago this month, the Guardian broke the Snowden story...the biggest mass surveillance exposé in history.

Today it calls your concern about ID-linked browsing, spyware in your photos and messages, and broken encryption, "fake outrage" while Starmer's government demands backdoors into your iCloud and calls for people to be arrested for tweets.

The watchdog became the lapdog.

[OffGuardian @OffGuardian0]

The social media ban is not about protecting kids, it’s about monitoring adults.

If you don’t counter it on those terms, if you accept the clear and obvious lie, you’re aiding the creation of a real life Big Brother.

[Jeff (Commissions open!) @Jeffmiga1]

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[Le Saint-Jérem 🇫🇷 @shirano_8]

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Big sister #Imu 💚 #忌夢

[Weekly Ashiya 🌸 @AshiyaTuesday]

It's #AshiyaTuesday ! ❤
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[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

Case in point; dishonest framing of what I said. No, there's no "step I can skip here", it's objectively faster and more energy-conserving to use an LLM to streamline the search results and, at worst, get me close *enough* to the correct answer/information.

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

I love how in every case, it is always the individuals who are stupid and/or holier-than-thou that hate AI, especially LLMs in particular. They don't even understand how the technology actually works in practice most of the time, and any that do are just being dishonest.

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

@enocori @Lextrot I do verify it, that's why I go over what the AI wrote for me and then either try it myself or double-check its sources to make sure it didn't miss anything or get something wrong.

Not to be rude, but you talk and articulate like a stupid person. Methinks you're the moron here.

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

@enocori @tha_watchman @Lextrot As for "misinformation", Grok is designed to be maximally truth-seeking, and you should be verifying the AI's results in some form to see if they're correct anyway. It sounds like *you're* the idiot that wanted AI to do everything for you and found out the hard way that it can't.

[Boyishdude @DisposedZero]

@enocori @tha_watchman @Lextrot Hating artificial intelligence is synonymous with the user lacking natural intelligence*, you mean. I'm not an idiot just because I don't want to waste four hours of my time troubleshooting a niche bug in a video game the old-fashioned way. An AI will get the same results faster.