Sludgehammer
@Sludgehammer@lemmy.world
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 2 days ago:
Well… now that you mention it there were more then a few half finished ends to my post where I speculated that maybe Mush was just stupid or deluded by the sycophants he surrounds himself with, but after struggling with the ending I decide to just keep it simple and take him at his word.
- Comment on Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’ 3 days ago:
Elon Musk email to X staff: ‘we’re barely breaking even’
Honestly, I’m surprised that things are going that well.
- Comment on Accounting Firm's AI Caught Telling Customers About Each Others' Financial Records 6 days ago:
its spokesperson described the AI blunder as a “minor issue” that only involved a “small amount” of customers.
If this has happened once there’s probably dozens (possibly hundreds) of other ways you can “trick” the chatbot into revealing that information. As an example while Google’s Gemini refuses to directly tell you how to make napalm, you can simply ask it what napalm is, then what ratio of gasoline and polystyrene it contains.
- Comment on TikTok Users Gleefully Embrace Even More Chinese App To Spite US TikTok Ban 1 week ago:
Nooo… you’re supposed to be giving your salable data to US firms!
- Comment on Welcome to the Public Domain in 2025 | Internet Archive Blogs 3 weeks ago:
The Coconuts is pretty good though.
- Comment on McDonald's Australia and Netflix launch Squid Game Meal 4 weeks ago:
Something, something, Torment Nexus
- Comment on don't be a coward 1 month ago:
They must have limbs skilled enough to handle and construct this technology, a complex communication system, and a binocular vision system (for this reason the most used in all species) to perceive their environment. The humanoid shape is one that best fits these maxims and therefore it is quite possible that an advanced species would also have a more or less similar shape.
Elephants meet all of these criteria as well. A complex limb (their trunk), a complex communication, and binocular vision (although I don’t see why this is necessary).
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Close enough I suppose.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% for its 20th anniversary 2 months ago:
Holy crap, someone who actually didn’t have it yet!
- Comment on Google accidentally leaked a preview of its Jarvis AI that can take over computers 2 months ago:
Qh man, that’s gonna enable some interesting malware.
- Comment on Elon Musk Fans Are Losing So Much Money to Crypto Scams 2 months ago:
Okay, hypothetically let’s imagine someone who is a Bitcoin trading god. Every peak he’s there unloading his bags, every dip and he’s buying hundreds of Bitcoins. This guy turns thousand into millions and million into billions. Huge success story right?
But here’s the rub, where is all this money coming from? The money isn’t coming out of thin air, it’s not coming from the crypto exchanges, otherwise they’d go bankrupt, it’s not coming from the value of any goods or services produced. The answer is that all that money is coming from other people. Someone has to be buying at the peak thinking it’ll go “To the moon” and getting burned, or maybe the need to pay off some hackers cryptolocker. The same for the dip maybe someone needs real money right now and must sell despite the loss, or maybe someone is panic selling thinking the price will go lower. Our hypothetical trading god hasn’t really created any money or anything of value at all, they’ve just moved money from the losers in the Bitcoin to his own wallet.
This makes you the equivalent to one of the spokespeople from near the top of a pyramid scheme taking about how this is one of the legit pyramid schemes, because you’ve earned so much money! Ignoring of course that all of their money means that someone somewhere needed to lose that money first.
However, I suppose at the end of the day, you did take twenty four thousand dollars from crypto morons, so I suppose that’s kinda noble in a way.
- Comment on Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said 2 months ago:
Wow, that’s bad. I thought it would be more of a “confusing a sentence for a similar sounding one” type thing but from the above and the article it’s just generating gibberish and sticking them into the transcriptions.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 2 months ago:
There’s also a pack containing every ship they’ve sold which you can only see/purchase if you’ve spent one thousand dollars in their ship store. I’ll spoiler the price so you can try and guess how much it is first:
spoiler
$48,000, not counting the $1000 you have to spend to be able to see it.
- Comment on World of Warcraft adds $90 mount to in game store 2 months ago:
At least it’s not Star Citizen prices:
- Comment on Horrors We've Unleashed 3 months ago:
I mean it’s cheap easy protein. I’m not gonna judge.
- Comment on Gender 3 months ago:
If you go far enough back, “Data corruption”
- Comment on Please Don’t Make Me Download Another App | Our phones are being overrun 3 months ago:
I was thinking about that a while back. There’s got to be some sort of upper limit to collecting data being useful. I mean at some point it becomes more economical to just buy the data from one other thousands of companies data mining phones rather then going to all the trouble of building and maintaining your own data mining app.
- Comment on UFO 50 is a retro gamer's dream - I highly recommend it 3 months ago:
I’m holding off on buying this until I clear some stuff in my backlog (and hopefully getting the game at a deeper discount).
However from the videos I’ve watched my only criticism is that some of the games look rather complex and would benefit from supplying more information than a small blurb and a controls page. I wish UFO 50 had taken a page from Retro Game Challenge and had some in-universe game manuals and magazines. Still, since I’m planning on buying it at some point obviously not a deal breaker.
- Comment on Israel says 'high probability' its own airstrike killed 3 hostages in Gaza last November 4 months ago:
Ah… well. You know the old saying, you can’t make a genocide without killing a few hostages.
- Comment on Canva says its AI features are worth the 300 percent price increase 4 months ago:
I’m guessing the hype train has slowed down, the initial investment money has been pocketed uppermost management and now the middle managers have been tasked with “Make the company profitable somehow or your fired.” So they’re hiking prices to try and fill a massive hole in the budget and they’re using AI slop production as a fig leaf to cover it up.
- Comment on I just wanted to take a moment to enjoy how clean the web can be 5 months ago:
Visiting the corpse of Twitter was your first mistake
- Comment on Would you like a receipt? 5 months ago:
My response is usually “Sure, I can always use an alibi!”
- Comment on What's the oldest game anyone here has played in 2024? 5 months ago:
Hmm… in my case the oldest game I’ve been playing recently is a fan translation of “Metal Max Returns” a 1995 SNES remake of a 1991 Famicom game.
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 months ago:
Taking lessons from Elon.
Wasn’t Huffman singing Elon’s praises after the Twitter purchase?
- Comment on Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO 5 months ago:
If scrapers have anything to do with the decision, I’d guess its not so much “stop” as it is “make them pay to scrape”. However I’d guess this is just Huffman trying to squeeze more money out of Reddit.
- Comment on Elon Musk's Boring Company Hasn't Produced Anything but Safety Violations 5 months ago:
I’d describe the Vegas loop as two, one lane tunnels rather than a two lane road. It’s a minor but important distinction, two lane roads have a lot of extra room to maneuver, while the Vegas loop will probably get very entertaining if one of those Teslas break down, especially if say… one catches fire.
Of course, what will be really fun if there’s a mid tunnel fire is that the ventilation system is just “blow air from one station to the next.” So one station has to get burning fumes and heat of a burning car… as well as everyone in the tunnel downwind of the fire.
- Comment on Capcom and GOG join forces to release the original Resident Evil™ trilogy! 6 months ago:
It’s so nice to see a developer doing this rather then going the “Here’s a updated version of the game! Also we’re removing access the originals so it’s the only version available now.” route.
- Comment on Neuralink to implant 2nd human with brain chip as 85% of threads retract in 1st 8 months ago:
Move fast and break people.
- Comment on Logitech Launches An “AI” Mouse That’s Just A 2022 Mouse With A Mappable Button 8 months ago:
“AI” is to the 2020’s what “Cyber” was to the early 2000’s; something marketing will slap onto any product in an attempt to make it seem more high tech
- Comment on Windows 10 reaches 70% market share as Windows 11 keeps declining 8 months ago:
Windows 10 is pretty crappy but tolerable, everything I’ve seen about 11 suggests it’s a utter shit show.
