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yreg commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help   hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
cheschire · a day ago
I always wondered why sites like g2a sell gift cards at a price higher than the gift card is actually worth.

A lot of things are clicking into place for me in this thread.

yreg · 21 hours ago
Youtube is full of scam baiting videos – of people who waste scammer's time for entertainment.

A very usual scenario is that the scammer pretends to be a technician doing some remote support and for example pretends to provide some refund. Then they pretend that they've mistakenly sent out e.g. 10x the amount and they ask for the difference back, claiming that their job is on the line.

Crypto would work, but since they target old and tech-illiterate people, the easiest way is usually to ask the victim to go to a store, buy gift cards and read out the codes.

Google kitboga (a known scam baiter) for the videos.

yreg commented on Apple has locked my Apple ID, and I have no recourse. A plea for help   hey.paris/posts/appleid/... · Posted by u/parisidau
amelius · a day ago
I am surprised that evangelists keep thinking they are safe from the evil of big corporations.
yreg · a day ago
There's no reason to presume that the author 'thinks' that.
yreg commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
notyourwork · 3 days ago
It only works until Mickey Mouse shows up on your Tiktok feed lynching an African American and doing a sieg heil salute. Are you sure Disney wants that or would not care about that??
yreg · 3 days ago
So what? Similar videos and pictures have existed since the dawn of web.

Yes, AI enables people to produce these in higher fidelity, but I don't see how it is any different to Dolan MS Paint comics.

No one is going to think that Mickey doing lynching is official art, nor will they think that Mickey is a real person who has done that.

yreg commented on The Walt Disney Company and OpenAI Partner on Sora   openai.com/index/disney-s... · Posted by u/inesranzo
giancarlostoro · 3 days ago
This will not end well for Disney, there were certain historical characters removed from Sora 2 because people kept making racist videos that are hard to censor, and it became increasingly unhinged. This feels like another circular investment where Disney is hoping to make money back I'm sure. On the other hand, assuming they do the freemium stuff, I look forward to making a few videos of my daughters favorite Disney princesses "talking" to her.
yreg · 3 days ago
I understand that Disney might care about this, but I don't see why they should.

What exactly does “fanart” (no matter how distasteful and controversial) change?

Let people generate whatever fictional character they want.

yreg commented on Self-hosting my photos with Immich   michael.stapelberg.ch/pos... · Posted by u/birdculture
petesergeant · 8 days ago
Other than redundant hosting, what will I get as an Apple user by setting this up? It would be very easy to set up, just not sure what I’m gaining from it
yreg · 8 days ago
I plan to set up Immich so that I can have a central photo storage.

Apple Photos play poorly when you want to put the library on an external drive (and even more poorly when you want to put it on a networked drive).

yreg commented on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well   kotaku.com/roblox-new-yor... · Posted by u/tobr
lll-o-lll · 22 days ago
Yeah, no. Nintendo, as the other poster said. Random stranger interaction == bad. Can’t verify age == bad.

Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine.

I feel like this same strategy is sane for adults also. Before the internet, we did fine making friends and playing games with people we actually know. So much of the awfulness of the modern online space comes from anonymous interactions with strangers. I don’t think human social connections are able to scale in the way the internet enables.

yreg · 22 days ago
> Can only add your friends for chat? Is fine.

I'm not saying it's not fine (depending on the age), but you won't convince me it's safer then playing Sim City 3000. It is inherently less safe.

yreg commented on I don’t need a Steam Machine   brainbaking.com/post/2025... · Posted by u/ingve
theshrike79 · a month ago
My main issue is that I don't want or have space for a massive PC tower. And building a small form factor PC is both very expensive and very difficult.

All the components come at a premium price and you also get to spend hours finding obscure forums with exact measurements of cases and components to see if the GPU fits lengthwise or whether a specific CPU + cooler is too tall for the case =)

And even if you make it, you're easily way over 1k€ before get to even picking the M.2 drive and RAM.

Thus: Steam Machine. I click "buy" on Steam, it appears on my doorstep, I plug it in and it'll start working.

yreg · 22 days ago
Nice, then it sounds like a good fit for you. Basically a Mac mini for gaming :)
yreg commented on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well   kotaku.com/roblox-new-yor... · Posted by u/tobr
throwaway290 · 22 days ago
nope, in many games there's no chat and any interaction between players is only within the rules of the game. it's very safe. you cannot stalk a kid or even know its a kid.

somebody mentioned nintendo platform, see that for example

yreg · 22 days ago
Fair enough, but I think creativity can usually escape the box and make it possible to communicate within the limitations imposed by the game.

And if not, then what even is the value of playing online as opposed to locally with AIs?

If children want to play together with their friends, isn't it much better to spin them a Minecraft server or such for friends they know from real life instead of playing games limiting them by "very narrowly specific interactions" anyway?

yreg commented on Roblox CEO interview about child safety didn't go well   kotaku.com/roblox-new-yor... · Posted by u/tobr
vintagedave · 22 days ago
I don't have children, but friends and family do, and I had always heard Roblox presented as kid-friendly and kid-safe. This meant I heard about someone's child playing Roblox and, thinking it was kindof an electronic construction set, ie a great learning and play tool,[0] I felt no concerns at all.

To describe this interview as a 'car crash' is almost underselling it. I feel terrified.

Most of all, what are my friends' and relatives' kids getting access to that they don't know about?

[0] Wikipedia says, 'allows users to program and play games created by themselves or other users.' That was the extent of my knowledge. It sounds great: very happy for kids to learn how to build things! Sure, I'd prefer they used Lego, but if they have to use mobiles then something where things are built and created is about as healthy as using mobile apps at a young age can be, right?

yreg · 22 days ago
Anything that's online and anything that has large multiplayer lobbies/worlds is inherently very low on the kid safety gauge, no?

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