Following the Keepers of the Flame Content Reveal last week, we've seen a lot of questions about this update to Path of Exile. Check out the answers to some of the most frequently asked questions below.
The most recently answered questions are at the top.
What will it cost to respec points in the Genesis Tree passive tree?
Nothing, doing so is free.
Will I be able to hide my grafts if they conflict with the MTX I want to wear?
We are adding a "Hide Grafts" option in the MTX menu. This should be in place on release, but if it isn't it will be available shortly after.
What is happening with classic Breach Uniques like Xoph's Blood?
These will still exist, you'll be able to grow them on the Genesis tree or in some cases they'll come from Breach related Bosses.
Many of these will now have Foulborn variants to check out as well!
For the purpose of Schizophrenic Dissociation do Jewels socketed into a cluster jewel count as being socketed in your passive tree?
Yes
What is happening with content that is tied to Breach?
Breachstones will still work in standard, but are unobtainable in Keepers Leagues.
Breach Scarabs will be unavailable in the Keepers league.
Chayula on Maven's Invitation: The Feared has been replaced with the Incarnation of Dread.
Maven's Invitation: The Hidden is now replaced with The Remembered, requiring Witness of Courtyard of Wasting, Chambers of Impurity and Theatre of Lies.
It That Fled does not appear in Betrayal encounters in Keepers Leagues.
Will the identification of items use the Ctrl+Click shortcut from Path of Exile 2?
The quick shortcut for item identification is Ctrl+Alt+Click on Mouse and Keyboard.
Can all uniques be Foulborn?
Not all uniques can be Foulborn, the list of uniques that can be is still ongoing however there will be more than one hundred. Uniques that come from specific sources, such as boss uniques cannot be Foulborn.
Have there been any changes made to the frequency of finding Aul in Delve?
The frequency of Aul appearing in Delve is unchanged.
Will Faustus in the Rogue harbour also be able to manage asynchronous trade?
Faustus asynchronous trade will only be available in hideouts.
Will we be able to change our Bloodline Ascendancy and how?
Yes, you can respec your current Bloodline Ascendancy with another for free (after defeating a relevant boss). Otherwise, you can use Orbs of Regret or gold to respec those points like normal Ascendancy points (5 refund points each).
Can multiple party members all get the same Bloodline Ascendancy from the same boss?
Yes, assuming they are in the fight when the boss is killed.
Will Windburst Support work with movement from things like Flame Dash or Flicker Strike?
Yes. It counts movement from travel skills as well as regular movement.
Will graft skills scale off my damage and am I able to die from my graft skills reflected damage?
Graft skills do not scale off of player stats, but do have affixes which will affect their skills in many ways. Since graft damage is not dealt by the player, reflected damage will not be dealt back to the player from graft skill use.
How many Spectral Tigers can you have and how much Critical Chance, Attack and Cast Speed do they give?
You can have up to 5 of them and each of them grants 25% Increased Critical Chance, 7% Increased Attack Speed and 7% Increased Cast Speed.
We'll continue to monitor for questions and will continue to update this post when we do. Thank you so much for your continued support, we'll see you at launch!
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) now has licenses to use Zignal Labs, a platform used by the Pentagon and Israeli military to scan social media with AI.
They don't care about quality, as we have already seen multiple times, and such companies don't care about working conditions, as we can see everywhere in the world.
One episode every two weeks means doubling its duration. That's it.
Ireland’s new president, Catherine Connolly, is an outspoken left-winger who champions the rights of the Palestinians and opposes Europe’s militarization drive. Her resounding victory came as a huge shock to the conservative political establishment.
Welcome to Tech Workers Coalition 101 call! In this call you will learn more about the history of TWC, as well as meaningful ways you can plug in. If you have ideas of your own, we would love to hear them and make them happen!
Welcome to Tech Workers Coalition 101 call! In this call you will learn more about the history of TWC, as well as meaningful ways you can plug in. If you have ideas of your own, we would love to hear them and make them happen!
Welcome to Tech Workers Coalition 101 call! In this call you will learn more about the history of TWC, as well as meaningful ways you can plug in. If you have ideas of your own, we would love to hear them and make them happen!
Welcome to Tech Workers Coalition 101 call! In this call you will learn more about the history of TWC, as well as meaningful ways you can plug in. If you have ideas of your own, we would love to hear them and make them happen!
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Where can I read about the requirements? Did whole, I'm prepared to pay dues to belong in a guild or union, depending on cost, and also I'm currently unemployed. Am I welcome, even? Lol.
You can Google tech worker coalition and check out their website. This post deep links to a zoom meeting url which isn’t the most helpful for folks in your situation, but yes the TWC does have other resources online.
we don't take dues and we are not an union in a legal sense. Requirements: time, energy, and motivation to learn and contribute. You're going to get trained on things once you join.
We are throughout USA and Europe. I can give you personal advice as someone who emigrated, and you might want to ask the question in the community chats of different chapters, but TWC is for collective action, not for individual career support
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar in Berlin for a friendly drink
CIA Agent says: Why do you like Russia so much? You have no freedom. In the USA, you can stand in front of the White House in Washington, DC, and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished.
KGB Agent smiles and shakes his head: Nonsense, you can also stand in Red Square in Moscow and yell, "Down with Ronald Reagan", and you will not be punished, either.
A KGB spy and a CIA agent meet up in a bar for a friendly drink.
"I have to admit, I'm always so impressed by Soviet propaganda. You really know how to get people worked up," the CIA agent says.
"Thank you," the KGB says. "We do our best, but truly, it's nothing compared to American propaganda. Your people believe everything your state media tells them."
The CIA agent drops his drink in shock and disgust. "Thank you friend, but you must be confused.. There's no propaganda in America."
I know folks hate the us peanut gallery with this but this is exactly the type of things we were told made russia worse than the us and now people are arrested for playing innocuous songs in front of ice facilities. Heck even prayers by actual clergy results in being shot in the head.
I remember monsters of rock or whatever it was. I was hugely into Pantera, my parents hated Pantera. Pantera played to the largest audience in the fucking world after the fall of the commie scum, suddenly, Pantera ain't so fucking bad.
The point is to show how fucked up and authoritarian your current government is. Someone just got arrested by the police in the US for playing the Darth Vader song to protest the National Guard. So yeah, we're about as fucked as Russia right now.
well things like hating the jews, authoritarian, hating each others races, its really interesting because I'm curious what the driving force is behind it, despite the base ideals being different. There has to be some innate human reaction that causes similar rationality.
how are the left ever authoritarian, when it has always been right wing governments, USSR, and CCP are not left wing, fidel castro they are more to the right.
Horseshoe theory only holds up if you believe that all of politics is on a 1 dimensional spectrum from left to right. That's simply not that case. There are anti-authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike, just as there are authoritarian right wingers and leftists alike and everything in between, below, and to the side.
You probably see Stalin and Hitler and say, "See! Both authoritarians!" But, like, yeah... That's the problem. That's not even pointing out anything meaningful.
its pretty edgy to get yourself thrown into jail for something stupid you know will put you there.
If your highest goal is self-preservation, then yeah, it doesn’t make sense. However, protestors like this usually care about something more important than themselves. It’s what drives them to put themselves out there, knowing they could be at risk for doing so.
I’m sure we could disagree on what specific things would make sense to potentially sacrifice one’s self for, but I hope the simple idea of something being that important at all is relatable. For some it’s their rights, for some it’s their religion, and for some it’s their family, but either way, most people can think of something they consider more important than themselves. It’s that importance that compels people to defend it, despite the personal danger for doing so.
and teenagers are never edgy. most rational phase of a persons life. now in a free country people would understand, but you can of course defend why it's right to jail kids for playing music.
"hmm, could it be that his sarcasm meant to make a case for irrationality of teenagers? no, i bet he meant it like he wrote it when he said teenagers are known for their rationality."
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here's my answer to your non-question:
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake." Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
When it's all over, you'll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You're clearly slightly depressed about something.
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!
Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake."
Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!
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Historically, the USSR would broadcast a recording of the ballet Swan Lake (on loop I think?) when their leader died, and it was also broadcast during the failed coup in 1991. The lyrics in the song that the teenager played, assuming the above translation is correct, are a not-so-subtle call for a certain kind of event...
Please explain to the lyrics to someone like me who can't understand them due to a case of severe ADHD, and possibly an undiagnosed learning disability as well.
So, some of this is a bit of deep cut of Russian history, which is probably contributing to your confusion.
::: spoiler Here's my take.
I’d like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It’s pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
The artist would like to have a conversation, but the person they want to talk to is just repeating the propaganda they see on TV.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here’s my answer to your non-question:
The USSR fell in the '90s, and the artist doesn't think modern Russia has developed in a good way.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
Eight years is likely referring to the Russian invasion of Ukraine. The ballet bit is talking about how Swan Lake played on repeat during the fall of the USSR, as a placeholder to keep broadcast airwaves available for use as emergency broadcast. Because it has been so completely tied to the idea of political upheaval in Russia, it's recently picked up steam again as a sort of shorthand for calling for protest and resistance against the government.
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his “Lake.” Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
Grandpa was pro-USSR, the artist wants the empire to hurry up and fall already.
When it’s all over, you’ll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You’re clearly slightly depressed about something.
Once the USSR had fallen, a lot of people tried to deny their support or involvement with it.
The song repeats a few things, and the only thing left of note is that "Solovyov" has been a news anchor on Russian television since shortly before the invasion of Ukraine. :::
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.
My country has risen from its knees In all its negative growth. I negatively agree with everything— Here's my answer to your non-question:
We were getting back up after the fall of the USSR when everything fell apart and cratered. I don’t agree with what is going on, even though you didn’t ask I am going to tell you how I feel about all this anyway.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking inhuman beings?! I want to watch the ballet— Let the swans dance!
This has been going on for 8 years now and you have turned a blind eye to it. I want to watch Swan Lake again at the ballet (referencing Russia’s primary artistic exports historically is ballet, of which Swan Lake is one of the most popular/wellknown)
Let Grandpa tremble in fear for his "Lake." Get the nightingales off the screen— Let the swans dance!
Not entirely sure what this is referring to, my best guess is juxtaposing story elements of Swan Lake to current political happenings in Russia, ie comparing Putin to a grandpa and lake may be ambiguous as a reference to Swan Lake and Putin’s lakeside palace.
When it's all over, you'll be silent And pretend you had nothing to do with it. Your face is more sour than a Crimean cherry plum: You're clearly slightly depressed about something.
When we, or future generations, fix this you are just going to pretend you had nothing to do with it, you’re a liar, like the lies they tell us about why we have the right to invade Crimea in Ukraine to justify our war with an innocent country. You know it is wrong but you keep lying to yourself about why.
I'd like to talk to you, But the TV is too loud— It's pretending to be your head, Its speaker is so much like your mouth.
Repeat of the first verse; Someone feeling frustration over wanting to talk about things but the person can’t hear them because they only listen to and regurgitate what the TV (main stream media or government controlled media) wants them to say.
Where have you been for eight years, Fucking monsters?! I want to watch a ballet— Let the swans dance!
Repeat of the second verse but changing “Fucking inhuman monsters” to “fucking monsters”
Let Grandpa tremble for his "Lake."
Repeat of the first line in the fourth verse but changing fear to tremble, again most likely referencing Putin and him willing to sacrifice the people of Russia in order to keep his extreme wealth and lake side palace.
Get off the screen, Solovyov— Let the swans dance!
Solovyov is a famous TV presenter in Russia, which I believe the speaker believes, or is inferring, is a government shill or otherwise bought off to only report what Putin wants him to report. So they are demanding Solovyov be removed from TV and to give the people back their freedom (swans dancing)
Hope that helped if you were being sincere about needing assistence to understand it. I have ADHD myself and have several friends with both ADHD and learning disabilities (they are co-morbidities of ADHD) so I can understand the frustration.
As someone in their late 30s with a recent diagnosis, I'm beginning to learn just how stigmatized my condition is. It's beyond frustrating when I get dismissed as just being lazy by even my own friends and family.
[Incoming Rant]
Nobody understands the struggle unless they have it. They don't seem to understand that it's a lot more than just forgetfulness and an inability to process long blocks of text. It is a full-blown disability that has been holding me back from reaching my full potential. Hell, I didn't even move out of my parents' house until my 30s due to my condition. Even other people with ADHD don't seem to understand that there's different levels of severity, and I'm on the more extreme end of the spectrum.[/rant]
The main thing is probably the reference to the Swan's lake which has traditionally (for many, many decades) been used to replace tv programs whenever a top official died while the succession was sorted out. That was to make sure nobody would say anything out of line. So asking for the ballet is asking for putin to be replaced, which is obviously bad.
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As a Chinese-American, I feel so depressed about the situation of both countries I lived in, tyranny is everywhere. I'm being targeted by both countries and tbh I'm just not brave enough to do actual protests, because I'm scared and I just want to stay under the radar. I'm dealing with a lot of depression, and I don't think I have the endurance it takes. I already got falsely arrested once by the US Gestapo and I'm still dealing with the PTSD.
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
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Yeah, that one took me a minute. I think "drip" or "slow drip"? I know "drip" used to be a term but was never one I associated with "screwball" or "crackpot". Usually I'd heard "drip" to mean something closer to "dull" or "boring".
Also I don’t think Christ would return if we were all being cool to each other, so they’re admitting they’re just trying to push humanity more off track.
How does that help you in God’s judgement? I’m pretty sure disrespecting all of his creation and doing the opposite of everything Jesus stood for won’t go well.
I’m agnostic, but selfishly I would not purposefully try to hasten driving myself to hell/damnation if I believed in it.
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
Thankfully the values my mom taught me are the same ones Jesus taught: love your neighbour as yourself and do unto others as you would have done to you.
This is what baffles me when my dad argues with me for being left of center.
You sent me where they taught this, did you not want me to learn it?
(Also not religious, but kept some of the philosophy)
There’s a lot of good Christian teachings that just make the world better regardless of your fear of eternal punishment or any god.
While outside my education I’m sure most religions too, but too many people get caught up in casting out others, or hating the non believers, or doling out punishments they have no right to.
You are about 1700 years late to this argument. Christians reconciled with iconography some time in the Byzantium Era.
And after Protestantism? FFS, can you imagine what Joseph Smith would say about an AI Prophet, after spending half his career reading discs out of a hat with special sunglasses?
You know how people used to put pictures of their loved ones in a locket, or in their wallets, or as a background pic on their phones? That's what they were supposed to be. (As told by a catholic friend)
I can accept that. I have one of my kids in the car cause I used to drive like a maniac. It's a constant reminder of the kind of person I should be while driving.
But of course, people will be people, ignoring what they're told and doing whatever the hell they like... "This statue cried blood, let's pray to it!" (and ignore the leaking toilet upstairs)
You're still not supposed to pray to anyone else, according to the Bible, and Catholics pray to the saints (and Mary I believe). Just outright heretical.
You're talking about a religion whose entire foundation is built on saints and prophets. The whole Jesus story is a big deal because it is fulfillment of prophecy.
The who AI pope question was insane.
It's certainly heretical to the Catholic Church. But fits comfortably in a bunch of New Age and Technocratic Futurist Protestant understands of their faith.
Sorry, totally unrelated but fun memory: Iconoclast was the first word whose unexpected etymology I (mostly) worked out on my own. I was watching a vh1 documentary on iconoclasts, and I’d just had a biology class where I’d learned about acetoclastic bacteria. I had a eureka moment wherein I leapt to the conclusion that “breaking the mold” was an older saying than I expected. I wasn’t totally right on that, but I was still psyched to have broken it down correctly.
Why wouldn't we capture him and milk him for his eternal energy forever? We will power grand Gigastructures that dwarf the very stars themselves fueled by his essence! WE WILL TOUCH GOD HIMSELF!
Don't you know, God is a lazy slob who needs to be provoked into action. And of course he has no idea what's happening on Earth unless someone tells him in a very specific way.
The answer to that is to do what God said to do to hasten his coming: spread the gospel. Not ban abortions, arrest gay people, criminalize trans people. Spread the gospel. Anything else is them using religion as an excuse to promote their opinions. I realize a lot of people here recognize that, but I still think it needs to be said.
Such Christians, acting like they know better than god.
Mathew 24:36\ [36]“But about that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son,
Mathew 24:42-44\ 42Watch therefore, for you do not know what [g]hour your Lord is coming. 43But know this, that if the master of the house had known what [h]hour the thief would come, he would have watched and not allowed his house to be broken into. 44Therefore you also be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
I can't help but notice how captured the Christian mind is, when even the return of the Savior is a business opportunity; a revenue stream. These people are already robots who can't worship without a prospectus and a spread sheet.
So that's what those are for? That's like saying "I don't need to go running. Look, I can just draw a stick figure in this book, flip the pages, and he runs for me!"
Deep Christians are the perfect group for grifting, and these evil fucks use that info all the time. It's like why the "Nigerian Prince" scam is so obvious, it automatically sorts out those that are the easiest dooped, to funnel them into even more money extraction scams.
This is why humanities degrees are important. We're putting people into leadership positions surrounded by others who also have never critically engaged with a book.
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert
"Right now there is an explosive growth of the number of computers and things they can do. Not only are their numbers increasing at a dazzling rate, but the storage of information in giant data banks is growing in the same explosive way.
We have no way to control this now and none in sight. In fact, the very nature of this growth says that all controls will lag far behind computer developments. Any attempt to ban them will only drive com- puters underground. Never lose sight of the fact that computers "crunch time." The speed at which computers can operate tells us that laws cannot keep up with them. The person with a computer can dance rings around you while you react as though you were embedded in molasses.
What can you do?
Get your own computer. Learn how to use it. We are here to help you make that first step: how to find the one that fits your needs and your pocketbook, where to put it, how to program it-all of the essentials. If you don't do this, the Bill of Rights is dead and your individual liberties will go the way of the dodo." -- also Frank Herbert
I hate how much we seem to be slowly careening towards Frank Herbert's vision like the worse case of collective target fixation.
Not that I disagree, just as someone who loves computers and programming it really feels like throwing out the baby along with the bathwater.
We could (should imo) be planning a sort of overthrow of the rich assholes who don't share; make sure everyone has access to a computer, the electricity need to run it, and the knowledge to use it to their own benefit.
The second, longer quote in my previous comment is from the intro to a computer self-help/"how-to" book, Without Me You Are Nothing (pdf link).
“Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them.” -- Frank Herbert
I for one, welcome our AI overlords. All hail Omnius!
People can accept the religions of others, particularly if it motivates them to be better people, help others, or find inner peace. If you don’t share this guys specific religious views, then it appears he’s actively trying to bring about the end of the world.
I have a problem with these people exploiting and weaponizing my religion for their own profit. Not that they're the first to do it, but it's even more ridiculous to grow up and see the hypocritical "traditionalists" joining forces with hypocritical technocrats.
Fight for your "traditional" values and force them on anyone you disagree with. Put all your faith in the middlemen "chosen by God to lead" all of his creations, act on "God's behalf," and tell everyone else what is or isn't "God's will." Insist on diving headfirst into the most cutting edge unregulated dystopian tech, while accusing anyone who questions your hubris of being a luddite.
Meanwhile, base all social and legal policies on your very literal interpretation of parts of a book that often contradicts itself, was written thousands of years ago, and has been edited multiple times throughout history by power hungry men very similar to yourself. Accuse anyone who questions this of persecuting you because of your religion.
Pick and choose random parts of that book to fit your narrative and justify your actions as a "Warrior for Christ." Very rarely (if ever) will the parts chosen be any of the stuff Christ actually said, but if anyone points that out, just DARVO and accuse them of religious persecution or "toxic empathy." Feed only your cherry picked bullshit into your biased AI. Congratulations, you've created an easy button for blasphemy.
Destruction of the planet, hardly. The earth has and will shrug of worse than humanity. Thinking otherwise is giving humanity too much credit.
Destruction of humanity is more likely. We are actively making the earth worse for us, and many other species. But there are many more which will survive and thrive after we destroy ourselves.
I think when people say "destruction of the planet" they are really meaning "our ecosphere and the multitude of species that are currently going extinct".
Many recognize that we are in a 6th mass extinction period and understand that as the ecosystem goes, so do we. Is the spheroid body of the planet going to crumble or plate tectonics stop working because we're gone? With all deference to George Carlin, no we know better (we'll, there is the question about racking-induced earthquakes, but that's a bit in the weeds).
These people think they're in the end times because the world is in a garbage fire state, that they probably helped cause, and now they want out instead of doing literally anything else, including just not making it worse.
According to the Bible, the end times will come when God's good and ready. It's blaspemous and extremely narcissistic to think that any human action can force God to hurry up.
More than that, most of the old testament is stories about how you don't debate God, you don't test God, and you definitely don't force God's hand.
Honestly, this Intel guy is cute compared to the Christian Zionists, who somehow think God wants and will be happy with their attempts to manufacture prophecy.
Breaking: Lightning flashes, thunderous boom. Jesus Christ appears upon a obelisk in the center of the reflecting pool in DC.
And I say unto you: FUCKING HELL, CAN YOU ALL JUST STOP RUINING THE WORLD AND EACHOTHER, JUST FUCKING STOP IT WITH THE MONEY AND FUCKING OVER THE POOR. EVERYONE DESERVES FOOD AND COMFORT AND STOP TRYING TO SPEND ALL THE NATURAL RESOURCES ON GET RICH QUICK AI BULLSHIT, I CAN'T BELIEVE I HAD TO COME DOWN HERE TO STOP YOU ASSHOLES.
Did you guys see that AI generated drone show in the sky? Those libtards must be getting super afraid to stoop that low. Hey! Jon! Did you make sure the food bank in that black neighborhood had their deliveries diverted to the dump?
Having to reach waaay back into the memories of my Christian upbringing here, but I seem to recall that God doesn’t like people who try to game the system
Where there was once purported atheism, there is now “a very loud, very visible and very specifically Christian-inflected technological culture” in Silicon Valley, said Damien Williams, a scholar at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte who studies how technologies are shaped by religious beliefs.
ever notice that, with LLMs, the main goal of the people who own them is to turn them from machines that spit out information they gathered in realistic-ishly human ways to machines that spit out what their owners want people to believe?
That thing better be running on TempleOS and be coded with HolyC, or I'm calling BS and telling people they've just found a new way to make LLMs even more annoying than they already were.
Mark my words — but we’re going to see a time (in our lifetimes) where a group of people is going to worship an AI as “divine”. And you won’t be able to convince them otherwise. An AI-centric cult is all but inevitable at this point. And it will be self-reinforcing.
You know those obnoxious social media accounts that flood your messages with spam? Those might not be scammers after all, but a legitimate new business backed by one of the most powerful venture capital funds in Silicon Valley.
Introducing Doublespeed, a startup operating a phone farm to flood social media with AI-generated slop on behalf of its clients. In a nutshell, phone farming is a tactic most often used by hackers and financial criminals to use large numbers of devices to send spam texts, farm social media engagement, or generate fake reviews.
On its website, the fledgling company bills itself as a “bulk content creation” service. Basically, it lets customers “orchestrate actions on thousands of social accounts through both bulk content creation and deployment.” It does this through “instrumented human action,” a fancy phrase meaning the company’s phone bots will somehow mimic “natural user interaction on physical devices to get our content to appear human to the algorithims [sic].”
In a post on X-formerly-Twitter, Doublespeed co-founder Zuhair Lakhani even boasts that they used AI to write the company’s code. “Claude code is truly our third cofounder,” he wrote.
The whole thing is backed by a $1 million cash injection from a16z, also known as Andreessen Horowitz, the venture capitalist firm founded by Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz back in 2009.
Doublespeed clients can expect to pay anywhere between $1,500 and $7,500 a month for access to its phone farm.
I've been enjoying playing Luanti (formerly Minetest), so I decided to create my own server to play and chat with friends, use downloaded mods, and generally enjoy the process, like in Minecraft. However, I'm having a hard time setting up the server.
I tested programs such as Hamachi, playit.gg, and FreeDNS Update, but they didn't work. I also don't know how or where to create a domain for my server. When I started the server, an error message appeared that said, "Connection timeout has expired."
I have a Windows 11 laptop with good RAM and a hotspot on an Android tablet.
Hosting on a mobile connection (3G/4G/5G) is very hard, as nearly all of them have a CGNAT that prevents outside access to your server. You could in theory set up a VPN with Wireguard or something like Tailscale, but that is not so easy.
If that is all you have, I recommend renting a VPS somewhere instead.
Yes, I understand. I don't have a VPS or a Wi-Fi router, sorry. But if I get or have a VPS on my laptop, would that work? Or is there another way to access it without a VPS?
I think you mean a VPN (sorry those abbreviations are a bit confusing). Most consumer VPNs are not mean to host things. So you need to either set up a fully private one only between you and your friends (with Wireguard or similar), basically what Hamachi does, but more modern, or you need to get something like Tailscale that is specifically meant for exposing your server behind a CGNAT.
But the free tier of Tailscale will likely be insufficient, and once you pay, you might as well pay for a cloud server (VPS) and host the Luanti server there 24/7.
We read Graham Platner’s whole Reddit archive. The vilification of the Maine candidate for Senate doesn’t square with what he actually wrote in his posts.
Countries that signed the Paris agreement are required to update their plans every five years. A U.N. report shows a limited picture and thus, limited progress.
It will be very hard to exterminate humanity but climate change could make a pretty good try by collapsing ocean food chains or instigating a methane clathrate gun effect. Even if those don’t come to pass, the global south is gonna be fucked - maybe instigate-global-ecoterrorism kind of fucked.
Humanity will suffer massive population decline for sure, but we have spent thousands of years living in deserts and artic conditions so species survival is pretty much guaranteed no matter how terrible it gets.
It is unlikely that modern technology will be retained though. Just too many interconnected parts spread across continents to survive a mass population decline.
Why do you think that especially the global south will suffer from the climate collapse? From my viewpoint, once humanity speeds through the overshoot phase, the population will shrink on every continent, and that will lead to a global technological breakdown.
Some models show that big swaths of the equatorial regions and the "monsoon belt" may become uninhabitable without AC because wet bulb temperatures will exceed 30C which is around the point where humans are no longer able to cool themselves. Since the global south is also less developed on average it means the electrical grid demand currently can't possibly handle that level of demand.
"Climate change will not lead to Humanity's demise... I will." And then the fleshy mask was ripped off, revealing the mechanical genius behind OpenAi and Microsoft's collaboration. Not long after the Microsoft constitutional update, Amazon and Apple forces quickly assumed control over the Pacific Northwest.
Now in this arid world of machines and steel, a sole savior of humanity ignites the flames of revolution deep in the forgotten ancient unfinished chip factories of Phoenix.
it's an FPGA chip forgotten by the world, fallen off an assembly line during an earthquake. it had lodged itself into a crevice of the factory floor. between earth and machine the chip had endured in perpetual limbo...
Agreed. Gates has gone on record to say that AI will take over most jobs. He's on a campaign to show he's "onside". But I think this is a worrying sign that the Americans grow weary of the AI tech bubble. The US don't have much going for them for this bubble to buttress the fall of the AI bubble burst.
Crypto's got features, but it's most endearing feature is to move money when it's generally not supposed to move - either by fraud or otherwise. In the event of a market correction, crypto will only accelerate the exit of wealth from the US.
I’m guessing Bill Gates has a lot of contacts at universities and in politics, so he will probably have good insights into the science behind this statement. However, you should read the New York Times article, because it’s talks about many other things that Bill Gates is addressing; basically he is making a U-turn on his previous comments about climate change. Concerning this one statement, I tend to agree with him, based on all the papers that I’ve been reading, humanity is currently in an overshoot phase. Within the next few centuries, we will witness a dramatic collapse of at least 95% of the human population. I’m guessing a few hundred thousand people will survive, and they will have a much more primitive life than we do - let’s just hope, that they will learn from the past. The main task of battling climate change at this moment is to make sure the human suffering is reduced as much as possible, as the climate collapses.
Today, The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) has ruled that Norway must assess the global climate impacts of oil and gas before opening new oil fields on the Norwegian continental shelf in order to comply with the European Convention on Human Ri…
The Linux kernel development structure works really well for industry. A lot of companies which depend on Linux hire people specifically to contribute to kernel development. The companies benefit in getting their specific needs met and we all benefit from the improvements they've made to the kernel.
Look at how much better the WINE ecosystem is now that Valve has developers working on Proton. It went from a neat piece of software that had a lot of rough edges and required someone with a bit of technical knowledge to 'Check the compatibility box' in about 2 years.
This kind of FOSS interaction is a much more sustainable and scalable structure than the entire world paying one company who then hires all of the developers and charges everyone a premium.
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Or maybe these
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Great news! It's much more beneficial for all involved parties. Also, as the article mentions, moving to FOSS doesn't mean you're on your own. Just like Microsoft "Partners" help with integration and smooth operation, there are similar agencies offering the same services for FOSS solutions.
Not only that, but feedback and bugfixes to FOSS software indirectly benefits others too instead of some Microsoft manager. So, good use of tax money benefiting citizens and everyone else!
Brave Software, the company behind the browser of the same name, was founded by Brendan Eich. He's best known as the creator of JavaScript from his days at Netscape Communications, and he was later the co-founder of Mozilla. He remained at Mozilla Foundation and its for-profit segment, Mozilla Corporation, well into the 2000s. In 2014, he was appointed as CEO of Mozilla Corporation, which immediately caused backlash from at least a few people inside Mozilla and many people outside the organization.
Why was appointing Eich as CEO so controversial? It's because he donated $1,000 in support of California's Proposition 8 in 2008, which was a proposed amendment to California's state constitution to ban same-sex marriage. Eich wrote a blog post defending himself in 2012, when the donation was initially discovered, where did not apologize and denied the donation made him a bigot:
Here's a bonus fun fact: one of those early investors was Founders Fund, which is operated by billionaire Peter Thiel. He's a regular campaign donor to far-right political candidates, and said in an essay that "I no longer think that freedom and democracy are compatible." He also keeps funding libertarian “seasteading” ships designed to function as independent cities in international waters (think BioShock), all of which have failed miserably.
Brave was also caught up in a privacy scandal in 2020, when it was revealed that the browser was adding affiliate codes to some URLs typed into the address bar. For example, typing in “binance.us” would add Brave’s affiliate link to the end, allowing Brave Software to collect revenue from signups or purchases. An official blog post called that “a mistake,” and the functionality was later turned off. That should have been enough to swear off Brave as a privacy-centric browser forever, considering the entire point of affiliate links is to collect data about the user and traffic source. For example, when you click an Amazon affiliate link in a web article, the publisher can see the exact products you purchase in the timeframe the tracking cookie remains active (which is currently 24 hours).
GrapheneOS devs recommend against Firefox Android on security grounds. They of course have their own modified Chrome. Do you know of any decent chromium based options for privacy? All the projects I used to use died.
The new AI-powered Wikipedia competitor falsely claims that pornography worsened the AIDS epidemic and that social media may be fueling a rise in transgender people.
On Monday, Elon Musk’s xAI startup launched Grokipedia, which the billionaire is pitching as an AI-generated alternative to the crowdsourced encyclopedia Wikipedia.
When we finally got access to it, WIRED found that the online encyclopedia contained lengthy entries generated by AI. While many of the pages WIRED saw on launch day appeared fairly similar to Wikipedia in terms of tone and content, a number of notable Grokipedia entries denounced the mainstream media, highlighted conservative viewpoints, and sometimes perpetuated historical inaccuracies.
The Grokipedia entry about the slavery of African Americans in the US includes a section outlining numerous “ideological justifications” made for slavery, including the “Shift from Necessary Evil to Positive Good.” The end of the entry focuses on criticisms of The 1619 Project, which it says incorrectly framed “slavery as the central engine of the nation's political, economic, and cultural development.”
Stanotte, o stamattina, a seconda di come si vuole vederla, tra il sonno e la veglia, abbastanza per caso, ho scoperto un completamente nuovo meta da femcel, che è tipo… caspita, ma come ho fatto a non pensarci prima? Ed altro non sto parlando che del fare handholding in single player, ma con una delle […]
metodo femcellico per piangere di meno stando a lettino da sola ma per un pochino quasi no…
Stanotte, o stamattina, a seconda di come si vuole vederla, tra il sonno e la veglia, abbastanza per caso, ho scoperto un completamente nuovo meta da femcel, che è tipo… caspita, ma come ho fatto a non pensarci prima? Ed altro non sto parlando che del fare handholding in single player, ma con una delle due mani addormentata…così che si abbia l’impressione che si sta tenendo la mano ad un’altra persona (seppur una mano sospettosamente poco schifosa, non sudata, alla stessa temperatura dell’altra, eccetera…), e quindi magari che si stia dormendo con un’altra persona, e quindi boh, varie cose… ☺️😚🥰😍
Ed è geniale per quanto è scema, questa roba. So che non ho in realtà scoperto nulla io, perché gente con anche meno fantasia di me racconterà proprio questa come tecnica utile per fare cose brutte con una fantasia diversa… non mi è affatto chiaro come, a causa delle difficoltà proprio tecniche che questa procedura nasconde, ma convinti i gooner contenti tutti. L’idea base è di applicare una minima pressione sul braccio — per esempio, stando a letto, tenendolo giusto sotto il lato del corpo, o altrimenti sotto il cuscino, boh — giusto abbastanza perché si addormenti… o, come dicono gli scienziati, perché si verifichi il fenomeno della parestesia, nello specifico parestesia transitoria (cioè, causata dallo stare in una posizione “scorretta”, non a fattori cronici); buono sapere il nome reale, e anche che che il tutto è causato non dal blocco dell’afflusso di sangue, bensì dalla semplice compressione di nervi, cosa che a volte va insieme alla prima, ma non sempre… e quindi in realtà non ci sarebbero pericoli quando contemporaneamente non si sta anche bloccando l’afflusso di ossigeno ai tessuti (cosa che avviene stando troppo sul trono idraulico, per dire, ma non tanto col braccio sotto un cuscino). Poi si addormenta anche la mano, e gnam. 😇
Stranamente, stanotte mi è capitato a sorpresa nel secondo modo, cioè sotto al cuscino… ma non il cuscino su cui tengo la testa, bensì il secondo a cui mi appoggio o abbraccio e così via… cioè, è bastata la pressione del cuscino incastonato tra le lenzuola strette e l’altro cuscino, per farmi addormentare il braccio, wow. Me ne sono accorta in un momento in cui mi sono svegliata (prima della sveglia, quindi avevo ancora tempo di marcire a letto, e giustamente così ho fatto!!!), stavo cercando di rigirarmi, e muovendo una mano ho trovato l’altra che spuntava fuori, che però appunto non percepivo più, e lì viene il bello. (O il brutto, per chi si fa prendere dalla paura che magari uno spirito maligno possa essersi materializzato sotto forma di una mano estranea e inserito nel proprio letto per fare cose bruttissime…) ✋
Chiaramente, ciò è non altro che la fiera del coping, eppure rimane una sensazione particolare tenere così la manina, secondo me… La mente (temo anche inconsciamente, purtroppo) sa si bene che non si sta tenendo la mano ad una persona esterna, però la fantasia è sempre pericolosamente potente e, se si riesce per un attimo a fare finta, per quell’attimo si può solo apprezzare, suppongo… e quindi ohh, in realtà non sono colpita da alcuna maledizione per cui devo rimanere da sola per la mia intera esistenza, e anzi mi sto intensamente tenendo la manina con qualcuno??? Assurdo per me. Una cosa da tenere a mente in realtà, quando ci si accorge di avere la sensibilità inibita, finché non subentra la sensazione di formicolio, è di non muoversi subito, così la sensazione di manine può durare anche minuti, anziché pochi miseri secondi, cosa di cui avrei decisamente bisogno, oohh come sono romantica… 😭 Peccato che non ho avuto modo di provare la cosa proprio per bene perché, nella casualità della scoperta, un po’ ho sbagliato, ci ho voluto riprovare ma un po’ mi sono riaddormentata quando non dovevo, visto che la procedura richiede minuti interi, un po’ poi è effettivamente suonata la sveglia, e allora pazienza…sarà per la prossima volta. (…Probabilmente su WikiHow ci saranno trucchi segreti per fare questa cosa più efficientemente, ma nel letto al buio non potevo mettermi a cercare su Internet… cercherò prima di stanotte.) Però oh, mannaggia alla merda e fuck my stupid shitty rotted femcel life, che sono e sarò costretta a pensare questo tipo di cose fino alla mia morte, poiché non interesso particolarmente a nessuna persona fisicamente esistente, e allora posso solo vivere nell’irrealtà. 💔
Running suspicious software in a virtual machine seems like a basic precaution to figure out whether said software contains naughty code. Unfortunately it’s generally rather easy to detect whether or …read more
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in reply to BrikoX • • •New questions added to the FAQ.
What will it cost to respec points in the Genesis Tree passive tree?
Nothing, doing so is free.
Will I be able to hide my grafts if they conflict with the MTX I want to wear?
We are adding a "Hide Grafts" option in the MTX menu. This should be in place on release, but if it isn't it will be available shortly after.
What is happening with classic Breach Uniques like Xoph's Blood?
These will still exist, you'll be able to grow them on the Genesis tree or in some cases they'll come from Breach related Bosses.
Many of these will now have Foulborn variants to check out as well!
For the purpose of Schizophrenic Dissociation do Jewels socketed into a cluster jewel count as being socketed in your passive tree?
Yes