And it’s already >9000 of it…

And it worked so well 😁 What kinda worked back then were the “copy protection” of games. Like the paper wheels to turn and whatnot.

Yeah me too. And boy have I lost things in my life 😁 But those I treasure dearly, I keep safe at home. Safe from me 🤷🏻

Probably just banned because vpn, especially proton. I can’t count the sited I can’t visit anymore because of VPN. Even steam asks me questions like WHY am I signing in “like that”…

I’d try another VPN and/or just another fresh browser. One you’d never use anyway. Just to see where’s the culprit.

YouTube became evil when google ditched their slogan “don’t be evil!”.

So, it was evil from the start. It just needed to lure enough uncritical consumers in before enshittification started. Piece by piece.

You probably just only removed all traces of your identity that you can think of 😁 Though, nothing much lost. .

Sounds fitting, but we’re talking of text with a purpose here. Wouldn’t we notice that raise in temp? If I “write” a novel like that I will surely still cross-check it a dozen times, no?

Also I might rephrase a lot, move a lot, and the confidence of the detection would fall.

But, yes, on a long text that I would not touch, that could work pretty reliable.

Probably yes. But maybe not those with ADHD 😁 I game like 6hrs a day for >30yrs now, but the times of “one game a month, if even” are long gone for me. I got tens of thousands of games, of which I haven’t played 70% yet.

Admittedly, many I just bought on a whim and will probably never ever touch at all. Some for support, some for curiosity, some for discount.

400 games in 3 decades? I’d call that a lazy quarter 😁

Maybe I’m out of the loop, but how would I watermark a text without sounding obvious? By using weird phrases? They get edited. By using e.g. an exact combination of starting letters over a large paragraph? One changed word and it’s broken. And even if not, I could happen to write the same myself, and then?

How am I hiding a signature in Plain text? Anyone got a better idea than my silly ones?

will not be used in future training of a model

Sounds like it already HAD trained on all your content before you maybe opted out. But hey, it’s an american platform, so one has to be grateful for the opt-out-option at all.

Oh yes, heard of that. And on top of it: has no blood on it like diamonds…

Looks really cool, i wouldn’t dare to wear that heirloom. Just at home maybe 😁

Ah okay, so then I retract my statement and better my reading-skills 😁

Ah okay, so then I retract my statement and better my reading-skills 😁

If I got it right, you could easily detect this drive by just creating password.txt. as the article says it creation is intercepted and skipped. Hence if there is no password.txt afterwards, you know what you’re dealing with. Still, you have to know this AND care.

Mindless worker-bees. People who can’t self-reflect. People who drown in money and their 23k is like your 0.01€. People with no intrinsic value whatsoever so they think a price-tag on a ring will impress their mate enough to say yes. Like a peacock, no pun intended. Or people so blinded by media and ads that they just do “what everyone does”. Or a combination of all those reasons and more…

Wifey and me drown in money but I still proposed with a ring out of aluminum foil because nothing else was there at the moment 😁 She still has it, many many many moons later. We don’t even have rings worth more than 10 moneyz.

Oh it’s just a browser add-on. The “steam inventory helper”. Still needs a bit manual labour though, but helps. One just needs to be enough of a cheapskate to that for some measly cent 😁

Sell the cards. I occasionally auto-sell them. Last time it was around 50€

That’s not what “dying” looks like. That’s “mutating”, in the horror movie sense.

Indeed. “The Thing” comes to mind :-(

I mean, YMMV. Lots of people don’t watch them. Lots of people just kinda flip through what’s on their feed and land on whatever catches their eyes. Lots of people get this stuff jammed down their throats through different flavors of marketing, engagement, and native-ized slop.

Yeah sure, people DO watch those turds. Yet there’s still a difference between watching them because they just came up and boredom makes me watch or actively subscribing, clinging to everything they do and…ugh.

Wikipedia isn’t where people naturally go for fashion tips and entertainment promos.

Fair point. If anyone ever needs “fashion tips” :-)

I really think a lot of this boils down to “I’ve completely forgotten what it’s like to be a teenager”.

Actually I didn’t watch stuff like that when i was teenager either. Despite then it wasn’t youtube/tiktok but MTV or boybands or whatever other kids fancied.

A lot of it boiling down to hormones, boredem, and Freemium ad-slop being the entertainment they can afford.

Also fair point. Though i usually say “boredom is for the boring mind, the world is teeming with curiosities and wonders”. “Not able to afford” is a solid point sadly, as nearly everything costs money nowadays :(

Well, but dragging the goat down there already does the job. Work smart, not hard!