Austin

@austins.computer

Gaming

I almost fell for a scam site today, pretending to be the homepage of an OSS project that I was looking for. It looked convincing until I scrolled to read more text. LLM slop is getting scary good at "looks good at a glance". I don't even know _how_ they managed this. Feeding LLM into LLM somehow?

A screenshot of a section of a website, where the text is describing what the text itself should say. For example, 'Clear Message: Show a short line like “DxWnd is safe, open-source, and malware-free.”' instead of the actual example text.

ANNOUNCING THE POINTCROW & PCHAL NUZLOCKE INVITATIONAL. These teams will complete a Nuzlocke and then take their winning Pokemon to face off against each other in a 1v1 in-person Tournament. Details and Progress Tracker can be found on the event website below! LOCK IN GAMERS

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"Age verification" laws are actually "upload your ID or get your face scanned to access every website, ending anonymity and associating your identity with everything you do online" laws and if more people understood that they would not be down for this authoritarian nonsense

📢 App Version 1.96 is rolling out now (1/6) In this release: a notifications Mentions tab, reserving your default username when you verify your account with a domain, and other improvements!

Bluesky 1.96. Improvements: New "Mentions" tab in notifications. Usernames on .bsky.social are now reserved when you switch to your own domain. New button to change reply ordering and visual style in threads. Visual improvements to the app. New translations: Nepali, Khmer, and Romanian.

⚠️ATTENTION WEBFISHING FANS⚠️ There is now an entire custom fishing based gamemode on a Minecraft server known as MCC Island, where you can fish, level up, get cosmetics, fish more, upgrade ur fishing powers, fish more, fish with friends, level up... GO TRY IT OUT

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