Arthur Besse
cultural reviewer and dabbler in stylistic premonitions
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Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewersEnglish2·3 days ago(it’s either something like this, or OP elided the word “audience”)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Mildly Infuriating@lemmy.world•Twitch's largest political streamer, Asmongold, shovels racist and xenophobic messaging to his audience of 52K+ live viewersEnglish291·4 days agonot only a racist but also a misogynist, a present-day gamergater, who is literally in 2025 still complaining that “video games used to be made for guys and now they’re made for everyone” 🤦
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlOPMto Linux@lemmy.ml•postmarketOS v25.06: the one with systemdEnglish11·24 days agoyou can still use OpenRC instead if you want, and sxmo will continue to do so by default.
you can read here about why they added systemd.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Just wanted to show off the lowest end hardware I ever ran Linux onEnglish5·1 month agoI’m planning on revitalizing and bringing this old Itautec to the 21st century
I think it was born in the 21st century? From this it looks like the first Celeron M was in 2004, and the first at that clockspeed was 2005.
Also, 2GB of RAM is plenty for many purposes - that’s more than any Raspberry Pi before the Pi 4 had!
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Greentext@sh.itjust.works•game has multiple factions fighting each otherEnglish4·1 month ago
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Technology@beehaw.org•ChatGPT 'got absolutely wrecked' by Atari 2600 in beginner's chess match — OpenAI's newest model bamboozled by 1970s logicEnglish211·1 month agoThis article buries the lede so much that many readers probably miss it completely: the important takeaway here, which is clearer in The Register’s version of the story, is that ChatGPT cannot actually play chess:
“Despite being given a baseline board layout to identify pieces, ChatGPT confused rooks for bishops, missed pawn forks, and repeatedly lost track of where pieces were."
To actually use an LLM as a chess engine without the kind of manual intervention that this person did, you would need to combine it with some other software to automate continuing to ask it for a different next move every time it suggests an invalid one. And, if you did that, it would still mostly lose, even to much older chess engines than Atari’s Video Chess.
edit: i see now that numerous people have done this; you can find many websites where you can “play chess against chatgpt” (which actually means: with chatgpt and also some other mechanism to enforce the rules). and if you know how to play chess you should easily win :)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto You Should Know@lemmy.world•YSK about the GI Rights HotlineEnglish381·1 month agothis is a tweet from 2020: https://xcancel.com/CianMW/status/1267890378276876288
but, the organization which operates that hotline is still active: https://girightshotline.org/
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world•Happy anniversary of the day absolutely nothing happened at nowhere square!English1111·1 month agoit’s not a particularly long post; if you’re really confident in the veracity of the narrative you’re familiar with then you shouldn’t need to be afraid to read something that contradicts it.
(and btw, neither of the two posts i linked claims nothing happened there.)
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Cross-platform video player GrayJay now available as FlatpakEnglish103·2 months agoalso “you may not remove or obscure any functionality in the software related to payment to the Licensor in any copy you distribute to others.” 🤡
FUTO’s license meets neither the free software definition nor the open source definition.
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Bought a Bluray Disc. Sony still tracks you.English30·2 months agoThe industry will take whatever steps it needs to protect itself and protect its revenue streams ... It will not lose that revenue stream, no matter what ... Sony is going to take aggressive steps to stop this. We will develop technology that transcends the individual user. We will firewall Napster at source – we will block it at your cable company. We will block it at your phone company. We will block it at your ISP. We will firewall it at your PC ... These strategies are being aggressively pursued because there is simply too much at stake. - Steve Heckler, senior vice president of Sony Pictures Entertainment Inc, August 2000
quote from https://web.archive.org/web/20010201204600/http://www.nyfairuse.org/sony.xhtml
via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Fediverse@lemmy.world•The 17th Year Anniversary of the Fediverse network is upon us!English9·2 months agoThe network never went down.
You say that but, everything I ever posted on identica (and also on Evan’s later OStatus site
Status.Net
, which i was a paying customer of) went 404 just a few years later. 😢When StatusNet shut down I was offered a MySQL dump, which is better than nothing for personal archival but not actually useful for setting up a new instance due to OStatus having DNS-based identity and lacking any concept for migrating to a new domain.
https://identi.ca/evan/note/6EZ4Jzp5RQaUsx5QzJtL4A notes that Evan’s own first post is “still visible on Identi.ca today, although the URL format changed a few years ago, and the redirect plugin stopped working a few years after that.” … but for whatever reason he decided that most accounts (those inactive over a year, iiuc, which I was because I had moved to using StatusNet instead of identica) weren’t worthy of migrating to his new pump.io architecture at all.
Here is some reporting about it from 2013: https://lwn.net/Articles/544347/
As an added bonus, to the extent that I can find some of my posts on archive.org, links in them were all automatically replaced (it was the style at the time) with redirects via Evan’s URL shortening service
ur1.ca
which is also now long-dead.imo the deletion of most of the content in the proto-fediverse (PubSubHubbubiverse? 😂) was an enormous loss; I and many other people had years of great discussions on these sites which I wish we could revisit today.
🪦
The fact that ActivityPub now is still a thing where people must (be a sysadmin or) pick someone else’s domain to marry their online identity to is even more sad. ActivityPub desperately needs to become content addressable and decouple identity from other responsibilities. This experiment (which i learned of via this post) from six years ago seemed like a huge step in the right direction, but I don’t know if anyone is really working on solving these problems currently. 😢
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Which seedbox providers would you recommend?English132·3 months agoIs this a spam campaign?
Five of the eleven comments so far (including one from OP) are all recommending the same service; all five are from accounts less than 2 months old with a one or two digit number of comments 🤔
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto Piracy: ꜱᴀɪʟ ᴛʜᴇ ʜɪɢʜ ꜱᴇᴀꜱ@lemmy.dbzer0.com•Meet the woman who put 50 million stolen articles online so you can read them for freeEnglish141·3 months agoThese articles were stolen, by the paywall operators. Elbakyan rescued them from the thieves. 🎉
encryption would prevent the modem from seeing it when someone sends it, but such a short string will inevitably appear once in a while in ciphertext too. so, it would actually make it disconnect at random times instead :)
(edit: actually at seven bytes i guess it would only occur once in every 72PB on average…)
how far away does the water delivery come from?
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlto World News@lemmy.world•Trans Rights in Mexico: Progress and Challenges.English3·4 months agoRussian propaganda
ah yes it’s that notoriously pro-russia website
hrw.org
😂
Arthur Besse@lemmy.mlMto Linux@lemmy.ml•Tuxedo OS (Ubuntu-based) with KDE/Wayland - waking from Sleep freezes the computer. Help?English3·4 months agoyou could edit your post title
There are several ways to; afaik waypipe is the best one.