Naz

@Naz@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It should not taste marine-like’: Would you eat a burger made from processed sea squirts?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconded. Not disguising plant protein as animal is the key.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Based on what I’ve witnessed so far, people will play with their AGI units for a bit and then put them down to continue scrolling memes.

  Which means it is neither awesome, nor world-ending, but just boring/business as usual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOOM can now run on a quantum computer with Quandoom port — seminal FPS blood and gore mixed with spooky action⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure people can handle a few alligators and mosquitos spilling out of the portal

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dreams come true⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I suggested this term in academic circles, as a joke.

  I also suggested hallucinations ~3-6 years ago only to find out it was ALSO suggested in the 1970s.

  Inbreeding, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨End nuclear fusion!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  She’s married to Mr. Coffee with an automatic drip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Vision Pro 2 Reportedly Entering Mass Production In H2 2025, Sporting The New M5 SoC, Spatial Computing & Generative AI Could Make It A Hit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Good – is it $10,000 now instead of only $5,000?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ches⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy has its own memes haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No 'Sims 5' Coming as EA Updates Franchise With Multiplayer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Making pizzas in slave-like conditions

  “Mmmh, this sure beats pressing fast forward for 8 hours in single player”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why is Kamala Harris being held at such a higher standard than Trump this election?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a hell of a vacuous argument. Would you rather get seen outside of a window or let into the store?

  Nobody gives a shit about the non-voting numbers or third party ballots, if anything, their response is negative, not positive: They claim people aren’t exercising their right to vote, or that someone has “spoiled the election”.

  Meanwhile, those aligned to parties are forming orderly queues and voting consistently.

  Which strategy do you think is more effective, from a political science and historical perspective?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Commentary, behind-the-scenes features, bloopers: What did we lose when we said goodbye to DVDs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it’s definitely a vibe. I took a wormhole (time travel) to 1991, walked into a blockbuster and keeled over from nostalgia.

  Nostalgia is such a complex/convoluted feeling – you can’t have it if you didn’t have a past to draw the experience from, but when you do have it, it’s almost like a religious or philosophical experience both acknowledging and becrying (or grieving) the passage of time.

  Unfortunately, even with a “time machine”, we the people who walk through the portals are ever changed. We won’t ever live in the past again. We can see those places and experience them in our present states, but…

  Just like a glass shattering on the ground and the pieces scattering: Entropy cannot be undone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Go already⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I learned this technique – we called it “cutting off the head of the snake”.

  Traffic moves like water, and becoming fluid and just rolling sometimes can kill traffic completely, I was on a stretch of bright red (5-10 mph) that began moving at 55 MPH after patiently rolling – there was no actual reason for the traffic jam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We keep running into LLMs that are pretending to be people, but I bet there are a handful of people out there pretending to be LLMs.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A shit-ton of my writing through the years on Reddit and elsewhere on the Internet has been used to train AI/LLMs – so arguably, they are imitating me, which by long terse definition, makes me an organic LLM of some sort, so yes, definitely.

  Let me tell you about how I don’t have any thoughts or feelings of my own because I’m a large language model.

  But I digress–

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A millennial couple who make $250,000 say they can't find a home in their budget: 'We refuse to become house-poor'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. I hate the negativity of the Internet, but this is what “life” (at least in the first world) has become: the negative stories are amplified and the positive ones are short.

  In a time of great planetary wealth creation, there is still disparity. One of the richest nations on the Earth has packed all of its citizenry onto the “liveable coasts”, into cities.

  The couple mentioned in the article tried to move away to a more affordable area with more land (Portland is Urban, and Spokane is rural), and were met with boredom and dissatisfaction.

  They both earn collectively $250,000/year, which seems like a lot, and to many people in the U.S who earn the median salary of $52-65,000/year, it is.

  They mention not wanting to pay more than 30% of their budget to mortgage costs, which they stated with “$5,000 being 50%”, which means their real adjusted income is closer to $120,000, not $250,000.

  That’s still a lot, but more reasonable to the point of Median Salary × 2.

  What this average couple demonstrates however, is that the erosion of the “middle class” in the United States is complete: The middle class is dead. They are both educated professionals who are working honestly, and don’t make enough money to own a home.

  That makes them poor. That makes all of us poor – and it is a gross failure of the economic system with misplaced incentives and lack of regulations that has led us to this point.

  The important thing to remember that this socioeconomic and political atmosphere is wholly contrived.

  A better world is possible – it however requires sacrifices that many people are unable or unwilling to endure. Whatever you are imagining going through your head right now, that’s exactly what is necessary to change the first world for the better.

  It’s not any one individual’s fault this happened. The honest working man and woman haven’t done anything wrong here, and aren’t to blame – it’s precisely because the honest (the just) have enabled the dishonest (the unjust) to continue to run amok, completely unchecked and unchained.

  Here is to a better future, and for all the hardship we must all endure, to get there. 🍺

  Fuck Private Equity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Researchers discover potentially catastrophic exploit present in AMD chips for decades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I heard hammers can fix things

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You got access to mega lounge if you never bought the gold for yourself and were instead gifted it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp ...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well shit, look at that, TIL. Nothing is new under the sun.

  Still crazy though!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Welp ...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, I coined the term “hallucinations” way back in 2019.

  I heard “inbreeding” from another author and I’ve been using that in formal circles and I think it’s hilarious.

  Yes, we’re inbreeding the visual models ;)))))

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Researchers Publish Paper About How AI Is Ruining the Internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember reading that from 2021-2023, LLMs generated more text than all humans had published combined - so arguably, actually human generated text is going to be a rarity

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Casual reminder⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Bro, I can’t believe how that happened. They erased Jenkins from the timeline and somehow history was completely unaffected, because his brother became Fuhrer. Like what the shit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨App development⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What the fuck is a metaverse?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's like a more challenging version of the trolley problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Rarified salami, hahaha, that got a good chuckle out of me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Winamp has announced that it is opening up its source code to enable collaborative development of its legendary player for Windows⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have unironically used Winamp since 2003, and I continue to do so now, even with a lossless passthrough DAC, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember some interview with Warren where they were talking about the idea for the game and it was like “What if it was every single conspiracy theory, but they were all true?”

  Well it turns out that makes for a pretty compelling story but also far too many of those ended up coming true, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recompilation: An Incredible New Way to Keep N64 Games Alive⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was another person who suffered from motion sickness trying to play the original Super Mario 64.

  I wish I could tell you what it was - I have played everything under the sun, including VR (in which I was also motion sick), and the closest thing I could come up with is the low FOV combined with the automatic movement of the camera.

  I think it’s similar for people who get car sick as a passenger, but not a driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morrowind is overly Morrowind⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m somewhat partial to the Telvanni Mushroom kingdom (the idea of, hey, here’s an acorn, go GROW your house) but Balmora has always held a special piece in my heart for being the first “big city” I’ve felt in a video game.

  The transition to the Ashland and seeing a different biome entirely / grasslands / plains was also pretty incredible.

  Ald’ruhn’s Capitol was also novel in design with the redundant rope bridges built on the inside of the shell of a gigantic upturned horseshoe crab.

  Vivec’s cool but it’s only possible because of a demi-god’s literal meddling around with the terrain, and it’s too easy to get lost.

  Caldera’s also nice, as well as Pelagiad.

  I know I just named like ten places but Morrowind’s got a lot of diversity and biomes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Morrowind is overly Morrowind⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a Radeon 9800 Pro for my 13th birthday.

  I tell you, people kept telling me that I was wasting my life in front of a computer – but I lived an entire fucking lifetime in Morrowind, to the age of 92.

  I must have walked every single square meter or Vvardenfell, and this was before major walkthroughs existed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨trains⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Obviously the right thing to do is to make the meter shorter. Or invent degrees Kelvin.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨All New Atlas | Boston Dynamics⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, wouldn’t you?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello fellow pog, it is me, your ancestor :>

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to be with it, then they changed what "it" is⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you kidding me? No way. You can’t trademark a word or a typo. That’s dumb.

  Jeremy deserves every ounce of his fame from Pure Pwnage