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- Comment on The Nintendo Switch 2 looks like a Steam Deck but worse 4 days ago:
Buddy, if you can’t tell this is satire by the end…
- The Switch 2 runs Mario Kart and I hate Mario Kart because my friend Nathan always beats me at it Why should the best driver be determined by the contents of magic boxes, it’s a stupid game
- Comment on 'Take my data': US 'TikTok refugees' flock to alternative Chinese app 6 days ago:
I don’t know why people think the Chinese government wouldn’t want to foster a movement to overthrow/oppose trump.
It’s no different than America supporting Taiwan or Hong Kong.
We’re not doing it for the right reasons either, we’re doing it to hurt China.
- Comment on The Marvel Rivals Season 1 Update Has Disabled The Ability To Use Mods 1 week ago:
I think the only reason they took off in the first place was it’s free to play.
It’s common sense that PvP and mods don’t mix but because there was a zero investment people did it, which made them popular enough people who do t know better thought it was fine.
Glad to see they just disabled them instead of banning accounts for using them.
- Comment on Quantum computing stocks dropped over 40% after Nvidia CEO prediction 1 week ago:
No shit…
And once we have that, then it’ll take another 10-20 years to get actual AI, at bets.
The only surprising part is companies are admitting it, but they couldn’t keep the hype going forever and the house of cards coming down faster could be better long term.
- Comment on VLC player demos real-time AI subtitling for videos 1 week ago:
Leave it to VLC to implement one of the few good uses…
Reminder that not only can’t you donate money to keep it going, but also time if you’re good enough with computers.
www.videolan.org/contribute.html
When I grabbed that link tho I was surprised you can contribute “materials” as well…
If you own a rare piece of media VLC can’t play (even stuff like satellite cards) you can mail it to VLC so someone can try to get that format to work in VLC.
- Comment on Heroes of Might and Magic II open source game engine fheroes2 v1.1.5 released 1 week ago:
Man, I really really really hope the new one isn’t garbage
- Comment on If the United States has Cuba banned from things, how does Guantanamo Bay exist? 1 week ago:
The American government sends the Cuban government a check every year for the “rent”.
Unless something has changed, Cuba has never cashed a rent check, because they don’t want an American base.
It’s incredibly fucked up, but it’s the only A&W combination Taco Bell in Cuba
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 week ago:
it’s not just pure numerical IQ,
We talk about IQ like it’s a single number, but it’s like SAT/ACT, a bunch of different specific scores averaged into one number. So yeah it’s not as simple as a single number. I was thinking mostly processing speed and associative memory, but obviously you need the general knowledge as well.
The more variety of life you experience, the more you know of human history, different cultures, ways of thinking and seeing the world - the harder it is for you to get impressed by something as shallow as AI.
This is a very specific and easily fixable problem. It’s trained by a certain class of people, so it’s going to regurgitate stuff from that class and ignore everyone who hadn’t trained it.
Tech bros live in a bubble of their own creation and don’t understand the true richness of the human condition.
Nobody is gonna argue with that tho
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 1 week ago:
To be clear it will “require” a new cable to push at that max (8k/120fps?)
It’s not like you need a new cable just because a new TV supports it.
- Comment on Why do AI bros and other staunch AI defenders seem happy about the potential of killing off the creative industries? 1 week ago:
Everyone’s frame of reference is their own IQ…
So for some people AI seems as smart as their frame of reference, or even better.
They assume their frame of reference is everyone’s, so we’re in that weird period where dumb people are super excited about AI, and smart people still think it’s a gimmick.
Those people who find AI impressive, see it as a means to level the playing field, and it will eventually.
It just means the smarter you are, the longer it’s going to take to be impressive. Because your frame of reference is just a higher standard.
They’d never be as creative as a creative person, so to them it’s switching from relying on a person they have no control over or influence on, to a computer program that will do whatever is asked. To them it generates the same quality as a person, don’t forget the most popular media caters to the lowest common denominator, this is the same thing.
Like, it makes sense from their perspective. You just need to realize everyone has a different perspective.
It’s human variation
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 1 week ago:
There’s a lot of details in there that are wrong, but I’ll touch on the part that’s UK relevant since this is a UK sub:
The pushback from the people in the 60s spawned the Civil Rights and threatened to derail the business first approach America had gotten used to from after the Depression. The war years gave too much money and power to too few peopl
The big driver of the civil rights movement in America was the treatment of Black soldiers in WW2, the English and especially the French didn’t give a fuck what color an American soldier was, they just cared they were killing Nazis.
For a Black man from Southern America in the 1940s, the tiniest but of basic human decency was unknown from a white person. But they quickly got used to the idea that all men were born equal, regardless of the color of their skin.
So when they came back, they refused to go back to being treated worse for the color of their skin.
- Comment on Elon Musk wants the U.S. to “Liberate the people Britain from their tyrannical government” 2 weeks ago:
I genuinely can’t believe what is happening
Then you should pay more attention to history…
And I don’t mean that as an insult, all this shit is reruns of shit we’ve already been thru. WW2 had a large push by wealthy American businessmen to not just abstain from the war, but they advocated for joining the Axis back then.
Capitalism and fascism go hand in hand, the ultra wealthy will always want fascism because fascist leaders love bomb them to get their wealth and power behind the movement.
We all need to understand this shit so we can understand what worked last time and why it didn’t work permanently
- Comment on Is it possible to design a social media app or service that rather than focuses on farming engagement, it tries to promote quality content? 2 weeks ago:
It can only tell quality by community engagement and mod pruning.
What a community finds high quality tho is always going to be the lowest common denominator.
So the general path is small communities that have members in sync with each other.
But their quality of content attracts more people, which lowers the bar of the community.
Like, the lowest common denominator is the natural state of a community. To raise it you need to hold higher standards for the members of the community, which is going to get everyone excluded talking about elitism.
And they’d have a valid point.
For profit companies will always choose the one that comes with the most eyeballs. So unless you’re charging people a membership fee, you’ll never see a publicly traded company choose that, and when they do it’s not about quality, it’s about who’s willing to pay the entrance fee to the walled garden.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
Nah, the danger is the AI decides humans can’t rule themselves and we essentially become “pets”.
Just like humans, the AI will do evil things for “the greater good” believing it’s what best.
That could be something like killing off 49.5% of humans to solve global warming.
- Comment on Why is it that clasped hands tends to be the norm for praying? 🙏 2 weeks ago:
Holding hands is hard wired in us, it makes us feel secure on an instinctual level.
When someone prays alone, they hold their own hands and our brains are dumb enough to not know the difference.
When done with a group and you hold each other, it promotes group bonding as well.
It’s like when they have you shake hands or hug your neighbor to begin with, it’s the same psychological reaction as smiling because smiling makes you happy.
You’re tricking your brain into thinking everything is fine and you’re safe by going thru the motions.
It’s much older than any religion that exists today, it’s older than hominds.
- Comment on Is there a way to search for specific words on a site? 2 weeks ago:
So go to the pages and do that
Which is why I said it would have to be done on multiple pages.
I’m unsure what the confusion is…
- Comment on Is there a way to search for specific words on a site? 2 weeks ago:
Not sure what you’re trying to say, it works in web browsers and pretty much everything
- Comment on Not federated Lemmy instances? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, waaaay back in the day there was a couple private message boards I was in for stuff like sports.
Nowadays there’s a lot better options for organization, but via one of the big companies which requires accounts and things to happen on their server.
A closed Lemmy server at a discreet address has a lot of advantages compared to a Discord group for example.
I’d never thought of it, but it could be a thing.
- Comment on Is there a way to search for specific words on a site? 2 weeks ago:
Hold CTRL and press “f” and it brings up a search box to find text on the page
So go to the pages and do that
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 2 weeks ago:
The wealthy and powerful are always attracted to fascism because fascist leaders always want their wealth and power behind the movement.
It’s like how cults go after Hollywood celebrities or senile old rich people.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 2 weeks ago:
This is America…
A corporation is a person, today’s Ford isn’t the descendant of 1938, it’s the same entity.
So if you’re trying to simplify my thoughts process, it would be:
Once a nazi, always a nazi
There’s some shit you can’t make up for later in life. Not saying you can’t go on to do good things and help people, it’s just rare and will never make up for every past action.
Someone that is truly reformed, won’t let them stop them from trying. Because they truly understand and are sorry.
- Comment on Ford’s X account calls Israel a ‘terrorist state’ in apparent hack incident 2 weeks ago:
Henry Ford is one of the few Americans to be awarded a Nazi medal…
rarehistoricalphotos.com/henry-ford-grand-cross-1…
So the company does have a strong history of supporting fascists and genocide.
So yeah, it was probably a hack
- Comment on Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas 3 weeks ago:
To be fair there’s an insane amount of work put into making voters only show up on general election to vote for their team and then completely ignore politics.
That’s what both parties want, blind loyal voters with zero standards.
Unfortunately that’s easier to get on one side than the other.
- Comment on Trump sides with Musk in right-wing row over worker visas 3 weeks ago:
Called it, trump will side with billionaires, because he wants more money and doesn’t need votes anymore.
MAGA will revolt, and Bannon is going to try and steer them, he might try to run himself, but more likely he finds an empty suit.
They’ll lose big in the midterms, likely House and Senate, and lose even more in 2028.
This is the perfect time for progressives to seize political power, when the old guard neoliberals acted like it’s the end of the world if trump won, it’s just the likely end of their control. Kamala winning would have kept them in control of Dem primaries till 2032, and since when a Dem wins they seat the DNC chair (basically) we’d be deal with them running the only other option for way too long.
I’m more excited about the chair race than anything, it just sucks it’s basically not being covered.
- Comment on Saudi man arrested after deadly car attack on German Christmas market 4 weeks ago:
The leader of the far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), Alice Weidel, which has focused on jihadist attacks in its campaign against immigrants, wrote on X “when will this madness stop?”
What’s ironic is he was a supporter of afd
Taleb A is an ex-Muslim, a harsh critic of Islam and his social media profile indicates he supports Alternative for Germany (AfD), a far-right political party, according to the Daily Mail.
- Comment on Why can't someone create a public alternative to health insurance in the USA? 5 weeks ago:
Everything with “middle men” is like that.
Numbers get inflated then discounted.
It’s why it’s present at every step of capitalism, at every step someone takes a cut, so the price is inflated, then “discounted” to what consumers are willing to pay which is still an insane profit margin.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
And here we are. “tRaNsPhObE!”
You act like you get called a transphobe frequently…
Which would make sense if you were never asking in good faith and I’m far from the first person who has taken the time to attempt to explain and reached the same conclusion.
How often does this happen to you?
Did you ever stop and consider why other people aren’t constantly being told their views are transphobic?
You do realize that’s rare, right?
It’s notable if it keeps happening to someone by different unconnected people…
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
I’m just old enough to know pigeon chess when I see it.
You keep saying that, as you actively keep shitting on the chess board.
I explained this as patiently and simply as is possible…
If you’re gonna keep replying just admit your problem with puberty blockers is their existence allows adults to transition easier.
It’s a bigoted opinion, but at least it would be honest
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
You know you can just not reply…
You don’t need to reply and say you’re not replying again like it’s a warning.
I am fully ok with you spreading less misinformation about simple science on the Internet. It would be better if you actually understood anything we just talked about. But at this point just being silent is helping, so at least you kind of did the right thing in the end.
- Comment on Puberty blockers to be banned indefinitely for under-18s across UK 5 weeks ago:
What?
You said:
The forty years worth of proof you are referring to is in almost all cases where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.
And I replied:
Which is what would happen if they decided not to go thru with transitioning as an adult…
If someone goes on puberty blockers, decides not to transition…
Then that is:
where the use was to block early puberty and then allow it to take it’s course at a normal age.
You keep saying your issue is with puberty blockers, but the only complaints you have is minors transitioning.
Since that doesn’t happen, you seem to be mad at blockers