Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on can we now "safely" auto upgrade immich? 22 hours ago:
Alright, you just sold me on borg backup. Well done.
- Comment on Taiwan says 'will not agree' to making 50% of its chips in US 4 days ago:
Soaring demand for AI-related technology has fuelled Taiwan’s trade surplus with the United States – and put it in Trump’s crosshairs.
This is a perfect example of how unhinged their war on trade deficits really is.
Of course the US has a huge trade deficit with Taiwan. Everyone has a huge trade deficit with Taiwan, because they’re basically the only source of one of the most vital components in all of modern manufacturing.
You can’t solve that with tariffs. Reducing US reliance on Taiwanese semi-conductors requires long term investment in manufacturing. That’s what Biden was trying to do with CHIPS, and he actually made some real headway there. Getting Taiwan to agree to TSMC building a plant in the US was a huge get.
But just slapping tariffs on things just makes the semiconductors you import more expensive. Choosing not to import them isn’t an option. Importing them from somewhere else isn’t an option.
And on the flip side, you can’t increase Taiwanese imports from the US, because what the fuck are they going to import? What, you think they’re all going to start driving F-150s? Taiwan doesn’t give a fuck about most things the US makes, or if they do, they’re already buying it (like SaaS, which is a massive US export sector, but doesn’t get counted in Trump’s numbers because its not manufacturing so to his addled octogenarian brain it doesn’t exist). Taiwan’s population is barely more than a twentieth that of the US. They simply don’t have enough consumers to meaningfully import on the same scale that they export.
The fact that we’re all so dependent on a tiny country under constant threat of invasion for a vital resource is a huge problem, but this is not how you solve it.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 5 days ago:
“I mean, they can’t get any worse, right?”
Spoiler alert: They can.
Don’t buy anything from EA, ever again.
- Comment on OpenAI's new Sora video generator to require copyright holders to opt out, WSJ reports 5 days ago:
This is, just to be clear, not remotely how copyright works.
By that logic, I could decide that movie studios have to opt out of me watching their movies for free, and if they don’t then it’s legal for me to pirate them. See how insane that sounds?
Copyright is automatic and presumptive, and takes effect without any action on the behalf of the holder (this is distinct from trademarks, which have to be actively defended). There is no such thing as “opt out” use of copyrighted works.
- Comment on Embracer is leveraging AI "in ethical and sustainable ways", says new CEO, insisting "human authorship is final" 1 week ago:
Embracer have never done anything ethical in their entire existence. I really don’t think they’re going to start now.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Yeah, they could just as easily pivot to “Well, sure, autism was around before that, but it didn’t happen nearly as often.” Kind of like cancer and modern carcinogens. It’s just a foolish line of argument that makes us look stupid.
And it’s completely unnecessary. The evidence that autism is genetic is overwhelming. Anyone who is going to listen to facts already has the facts right there, and anyone else isn’t worth trying to convince.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Also, milk just tastes different depending on the cows, and how they’re raised and fed. Most likely what you’re noticing there is the difference between grass-fed and corn-fed. Cows aren’t naturally adapted to eat corn; they grow better and healthier on grass, which is how they’re raised in the UK. Corn-feeding is a primarily North American practice because corn can be sold at below the cost of production in the US thanks to government subsidies in place since the Great Depression.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Tylenol is a brand name for paracetomol (AKA acetominophen). It was first created in either 1878 or 1852 depending on which claims you believe about its discovery.
The claim that autism was differentiated from schizophrenia in 1911 is unsourced, and seems suspect given that Leo Kanner first described autism in 1943, but even if we accept it as true, it still puts the discovery of autism after the discovery of paracetomol.
RFK Jr is full of crap, and it doesn’t matter when autism was discovered, because it’s genetic and has probably been around as long as humans have, but trying to pull a gotcha like this is just going to make you look stupid.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Copy and pasting from my other reply to this claim:
Please don’t continue to share this “fact.” I know it sounds like a really good gotcha, but it’s not. Tylenol is just a brand name producer of the drug acetominophen, known in most of the rest of the world as paracetomol. It’s been around since at least 1878, and possibly earlier (there are claims it was produced in 1852). Autism was first described by Leo Kanner in 1943. Obviously, anyone sane knows that it’s been around a lot longer than that, probably as long as humans have been humans, but the people you’re trying to reach with this claim are obviously going to assert that it first appeared around the same time that it was first identified, or, at the very least, that it’s appearance likely aligns with the invention of paracetomol.
- Comment on it's just science, i guess 1 week ago:
Please don’t continue to share this “fact.” I know it sounds like a really good gotcha, but it’s not. Tylenol is just a brand name producer of the drug acetominophen, known in most of the rest of the world as paracetomol. It’s been around since at least 1878, and possibly earlier (there are claims it was produced in 1852). Autism was first described by Leo Kanner in 1943. Obviously, anyone sane knows that it’s been around a lot longer than that, probably as long as humans have been humans, but the people you’re trying to reach with this claim are obviously going to assert that it first appeared around the same time that it was first identified, or, at the very least, that it’s appearance likely aligns with the invention of paracetomol.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Dread is legitimately one of the best horror RPGs ever created.
For those who don’t know, it’s a game of “Final girl” / “Cabin in the woods” style horror where terrible things happen to a group of people. The only mechanic the game has is a Jenga tower. Every time you want to do a risky action, you pull a brick. If the tower falls, something really bad happens. No other game has ever quite created such a perfect feeling of steadily mounting tension and… well… dread.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
But what constitutes “RPG elements?” Because most of the time that seems to mean “crunchy stats”, which has absolutely nothing to do with “Roleplaying.” I’ve seen Call of Duty described as having “RPG elements” because you unlock perks.
Your average visual novel is more of a roleplay experience than half the CRPGs I’ve played. If reviewers mean “There’s very little player choice or input and you don’t really get to feel like you’re embodying a character” then yeah, that’s a valid criticism. If their complaint is that they didn’t get to put enough dots next to things, I’m not really sure how that’s a problem.
- Comment on Man, 53, marries AI-generated chatbot via matching app 2 weeks ago:
From what little I know of the way Japanese humour works, there’s a decent chance this is all just a bit. There was a guy in Japan who married a different kind of virtual girlfriend not that long before LLMs hit the mainstream, and I heard from a few different Japanese people that he was almost certainly doing it as a joke. Apparently Japanese humour is very, very deadpan and they love seeing people really commit to the bit.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Sure thing. The Helldivers games use sequences of arrow keys to activate special abilities called Call Ins. That particular sequence is really well known to anyone who plays the games, because it activates a very popular call in that drops a 500kg bomb on your target. It’s an ability you use when you want something really, really dead.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Investigators noted inscriptions that had been engraved on casings found with the rifle. Inscriptions on a fired casing read: “notices bulges” capital “O-W-O what’s this?” Inscriptions on the three unfired casings read: “hey fascist!” “catch!” Up arrow symbol, right arrow symbol, and three down arrow symbols. A second unfired casing read: “Oh Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Bella Ciao, Ciao, Ciao.” And a third unfired case read: “If you read this, you are gay LMAO.”
Honestly, I’m counting this one as a win for the Helldivers community.
- Comment on [HELP] How to fork a docker image? 4 weeks ago:
The answers about using Dockerfiles are absolutely correct, but if you’re looking for a quick and simple solution that will work locally, you can always just use the “commit” docker command. This basically saves the current state of a container as a new image. You can then run new containers from that image as needed.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
“A long time” would be “Since Trump got back in”, since Biden’s administration was actually doing a lot to tackle monopolies. They just did a shit job of advertising what they were doing.
- Comment on Google will block sideloading of unverified Android apps starting next year 5 weeks ago:
This is very obviously step one in a plan to kill apps like alternative YouTube clients that block ads, just like the Manifest V3 rollout was intended to kill ad blockers in Chrome. Once they have everyone using this verification system, then they can just arbitrarily deverify anything that contravenes whatever new acceptable usage policy they just made up.
- Comment on Writing with LLM is not a shame. 5 weeks ago:
By their nature, LLMs are truly excellent as thesauruses. It’s one of the few tasks they’re really designed to be good at.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
He was an outspoken civil rights advocate, even back in the 1940s. Seems like a pretty rad dude to me.
- Comment on New article says #StarCitizen will release in 2027-2028, we contacted the author to ask for clarification on the source and he quoted Chris Roberts himself as saying "1 or 2 Y probably after S42" 1 month ago:
I mean, vaporware would require it to fail to manifest. There is a game. You can play it right now. Has it delivered on everything they promised? Absolutely not. But that was never the definition of vaporware. And, paradoxically, what’s there, despite being far reduced from the theoretical scope, is also one the most technically impressive games ever made. Entire planets in a complete solar system that you can traverse without a single loading screen. Not even a disguised one. It’s also, y’know, a buggy janky mess that still lacks many core gameplay features.
Like, there’s so much that you could legitimately criticise about Star Citizen that resorting to the both meaningless and innacurate claim of vaporware just shows an extreme lack of imagination. If you want to be critical go for it, but surely you can come up with something more coherent than that?
- Comment on Everwind – Official Gameplay Trailer 1 month ago:
The airship is what sold me. I’ve wanted ships in Minecraft for as long as I’ve been playing Minecraft, both because it’s cool, and because I think survival games would really benefit from the idea of a mobile base. Being able to take your home with you is such a huge deal and really bridges the gap between the “cosy” and “adventure” aspects of these games.
- Comment on Let's hear it, little lemmings. 1 month ago:
Even putting aside the science, Einstein just seems like he was a really good dude. I feel like he’d be a chill person to hang with.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 month ago:
We’re talking about repurposing the GPUs, not the AI.
- Comment on Sam Altman admits OpenAI ‘totally screwed up’ its GPT-5 launch and says the company will spend trillions of dollars on data centers 1 month ago:
If anyone actually spent money on science anymore, I bet this would be great for, like, protein folding, that sort of thing.
Terrible for running websites though.
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 1 month ago:
This game looks awesome. People who’ve gotten their hands on it are saying great things.
But in absolutely no way should you pre-order it.
- Comment on For fellow Lemmy users who play Project Zomboid. 1 month ago:
BRB ADDING THIS TO MY ZOMBOID SERVER IMMEDIATELY
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 month ago:
I’ve been spending a little more time with Forever Winter.
Its very definitely early access; not the bullshit “We’re releasing the game, but calling it early access so you can’t complain about any bugs you find” stuff you get now but actual real old school Minecraft style early access where you’re basically getting alpha builds straight from the developer.
That said, it’s in much better shape than it was when I first looked into it (maybe a year ago?). Game is really fun to play, unbelievably tense, but without being too punishing. I think they’re really starting to zero in on that Dark Souls sweet spot where dying sucks, but not in a way that actually sets you back all that much. The stealth gameplay feels good, and getting out with a haul of loot is intensely satisfying.
Plus the art design is unbelievably good.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 1 month ago:
Instead you can screw it up by having too many commas or not enough. Hardly that much of an improvement.
- Comment on Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration. 1 month ago:
Yeah, this is my biggest annoyance with JSON. As a data structure it’s very elegant, but it only really makes sense to people who know how to code, and without the ability to add comments you have to rely heavily on external documentation to make it readable to most users.