Voroxpete
@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on OpenAI drops plans to release an adult chatbot 1 week ago:
It’s cost cutting. They’re burning cash faster than they can raise it.
- Comment on Micron says driverless cars and robots will need 300GB of RAM 1 week ago:
Micron make RAM. I don’t think we should give any more credence to their claims than we do to Elon’s. Their goal here is to pump their share price, nothing more.
- Comment on Disney Exits OpenAI Deal After AI Giant Shutters Sora 1 week ago:
If I remember right, wasn’t shutting down Sora one of Ed’s signs of the apocalypse?
- Comment on MAGA has been swooning over an Army soldier and her pro-Trump message. She is AI 1 week ago:
These are the exact same people who cheer when Hegseth says that women shouldn’t be in the military.
This is how they see women in uniform; as sex objects. As a fetish. Not as people who put a lot of hard work into doing a really hard job.
Americans will worship the ground a soldier works on, to a degree that absolutely sickens me (and I’m in a military family), but only as long as that soldier is male. The moment a woman picks up a rifle, she’s a pin up, nothing more.
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 2 weeks ago:
I have to wonder if they, like me, were considering the potential rather than what was immediately in front of them.
In their first video they were openly gushing over the demos from Nvidia. That’s not “considering the potential.” They were straight up saying that it looked great.
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
“Abelard, rip that man’s balls off!”
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
The game does a really good job of backfilling information as you need it. Hover your mouse over any highlighted word and it’ll give you a short wiki entry. It’s a very approachable version of the setting.
The big stuff to grok right out of the gate is really just this:
- The Imperium of man is explicitly fascist. They’re not the good guys, but no one else is either. There are good people within this world, but there’s no “Hero” faction. Everything you see extolling the virtues of humanity in the setting is just imperial propaganda and hagiography, and you’ll pretty quickly start to see that play out within the game.
- You’ve pretty much nailed how Rogue Traders work. They basically act as the frontier of the Imperium, to the point of being allowed to colonise whole worlds, which they then own. Each Rogue Trader family is basically a noble house.
- The Adeptus Mechanicus understand the how, but not so much the why. So, they know how to repair a generator, but they believe that the process involves channeling the “motive force” through the wires. Most of what they do is carefully practiced methodology wrapped up in ritual. This isn’t true across the board however; at the higher levels of the mechanicus you do get people who actually know how to do real science. They’re just very rare. It’s mostly the guys who are like 10,000 years old.
- As mentioned by others, the big foundational thing is the Horus Heresy. Half of the space marine legions turned to the worship of the gods of Chaos, and tried to overthrow the emperor. It’s kind of both super important, and actually pretty irrelevant. Like, there are something like 40 fiction books detailing every moment of the heresy, but it’s impact on the setting now mostly just boils down to “This is why the emperor is a corpse on life support and why there are evil space marines.”
- Comment on I started playing WH40k Rogue Trader and I'm digging it, but I know virtually nothing of Warhammer. Any super basic world info I should know going in? 2 weeks ago:
Actually, the “powered by imagination” thing was 100% canon circa third edition. This is the problem with making any kind of absolute statement about 40K lore… Most things are usually correct at some point and the lore revises itself and overwrites itself so often that what is canon for any given interpretation of the 40K universe is really up to the writers of that interpretation.
- Comment on BlueLeaks 2.0(91.53 GB): Millions of Submissions and Tips About Alleged Crimes and Terrorist Acts Leaked by a Hacktivist Group(INTERNET YIFF MACHINE) 2 weeks ago:
Hey, I’m not saying that like it’s a bad thing.
- Comment on BlueLeaks 2.0(91.53 GB): Millions of Submissions and Tips About Alleged Crimes and Terrorist Acts Leaked by a Hacktivist Group(INTERNET YIFF MACHINE) 2 weeks ago:
INTERNET YIFF MACHINE
Because of course it would be furries.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
They use five different removers bundled together into one neat package, with the plugin automatically selecting the one most likely to work on that specific page. Personally, I’ve never yet found a paywall it couldn’t beat. I’m sure some exist, but it’s few enough that it’s basically a solved problem.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
For the record, you could install the removepaywalls.com browser extension on all your devices and never have this problem again.
- Comment on What if glassmorphism and neumorphism had a baby? I redesigned my city-building game's menu window. 2 weeks ago:
So, I’m not any kind of font expert, but at the basic level you have serif and sans-serif, and mono-spaced or freely spaced fonts.
Mono spaced fonts have every character occupy an identical amount of space. Freely spaced fonts (I think there’s a more correct term for this) don’t; the space occupied on the line by each character can vary, meaning you don’t get awkward gaps. Mono spaced fonts are going to give a very “Old school typewriter / computer text” kind of feel that’s rather at odds with this clean, modern looking UI, though they are more readable.
Serif fonts have those little, kind of, cross pieces on the end of every line. Think “Times New Roman” and “Courier.” (Times New Roman is a freely spaced font, Courier is monospaced). Sans serif fonts don’t. Think “Arial”. Given that everything else in your design is extremely clean and minimal, serifs, in my opinion, add a kind of business to the look that detracts from it. They also tend to, again, look old-school, or even archaic. Courier is basically the classic old fashioned typewriter font, so if you’re evoking that (and a monospaced serif font is definitely going to evoke that) then you’re kind of mashing steampunk into the middle of your Apple store.
I’m not nearly well versed enough to offer any deep cut recommendations here, but the Ubuntu font is FOSS and has a nice rounded look that could probably work well here, at least as a placeholder. Noto and Roboto are also FOSS (if I recall correctly) and both have a nice clean look. For Noto obviously you’ll want the sans version specifically.
- Comment on Iranians are ‘wary’ of fresh talks with US after being tricked twice: Indonesian president 2 weeks ago:
Trump loves to espouse this “Wildman” philosophy of negotiation where you remain as unpredictable as possible in the belief that this will give you some kind of advantage, but in reality what it gets you is this; a total lack of trust. When you combine that with a stated belief that mutually beneficial arrangements cannot exist - that every deal has to have a winner and it has to be you - it becomes functionally impossible for anyone to take you at your word when you say that you’re entering into negotiations in good faith.
Obviously, Trump’s “philosophy” aligns with his utter lack of attention span and inability to hold complex thoughts in his head in such a way that it could be read as nothing more than a convenient retroactive explanation for what is in reality just the chaos of a mind ill-suited to complex thought, incapable of restraint and driven entirely by id. If you were so inclined.
- Comment on What if glassmorphism and neumorphism had a baby? I redesigned my city-building game's menu window. 2 weeks ago:
I like it, but I don’t think your serif font fits with the very clean aesthetic around it.
- Comment on Meet the AI rapper funded by a far-right party— Advance UK has hired the mystery ‘collective’ behind Danny Bones, a white-nationalist musician and activist – who isn’t real 2 weeks ago:
It’s genuinely shocking when you consider how useless white boys will try to be a rapper about literally anything. There are multiple guys out there rapping about crypto, NFTs, and $GME. But these fucking losers had to get a computer to spit one out because they can’t even manage to be as appealing as a conspiracy theory about a mythical short squeeze that will reset the entire global financial system.
- Comment on Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation 2 weeks ago:
Gee guys… Did you maybe build a whole bunch of compute capacity for a product no one actually wants, and now you have to find a way to use it for something?
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
As I’ve said elsewhere here, I really don’t have a problem with people holding a moral stance against the use of genAI. It’s fine to just say “However useful this might be, I don’t want to see it used because I think it has too many ethical costs/consequences.” But blanket accusing all work that involved genAI in any capacity of being “slop” isn’t holding a moral stance, it’s demanding that reality conform to your beliefs; “I hate this, therefore it must be terrible in every respect.”
If you truly hold a well founded ethical stance against the use of genAI, that stance shouldn’t be threatened by people doing good and effective work with genAI, because it’s effectiveness should have nothing to do with your objections.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Frankly, most AI generated code is often easier to review, thanks to a combination of standardized practices (LLMs regress to the mean by design) and a somewhat overly enthusiastic approach to commenting and segmented layouts.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
The thing is, you’re conflating ethical and practical concerns here. The commenter you’re responding to is clearly talking about the practical aspects of using AI tools.
If you have a fundamental moral issue with AI that is entirely independent of how efficacious it is, that’s fine. That’s a completely reasonable position to hold. But don’t fall into the trap of wanting every use of genAI to be impractical because it aligns with your morality to feel that way.
If this is an ethical stance that you truly hold, you should be willing to believe that using these tools is bad even when they’re effective. But a lot of people instead have to insist that every use of AI is impractical, in the face of any evidence to the contrary, because they’ve talked themselves into believing that on some fundamental level. Like “If AI useful, that means I’m wrong about it being immoral.”
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
But that kind of proves their point, right?
Yes, a lot of projects have had issues with contributers who push unreviewed AI slop that they don’t understand, ultimately creating more work for the project. Or with avalanches of AI code review bug reports that do nothing to help. But that’s not what’s happening here.
In this case, the main developer of the project is choosing to use AI, on their own terms, because they find it helpful, and people are giving them shit for it. It’s their project and they feel this technology is beneficial. Isn’t that their call to make? Why are people treating the former and the latter as completely interchangeable scenarios when they’re clearly not? It kind of does suggest that people are coming at this from a more ideological rather than rational perspective.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Nothing is being hidden from review. The code is open source. They removed the specific attribution that indicates which parts of the code were created using Claude. That changes absolutely nothing about the ability to review the code, because a code review should not distinguish between human written code and machine written code; all of it should be checked thoroughly. In fact, I would argue that specifically designating code as machine written is detrimental to code review, because there will be a subconscious bias among many reviewers to only focus on reviewing the machine code.
- Comment on Hisense TVs force owners to watch intrusive ads when switching inputs, visiting the home screen, or even changing channels — practice infuriates consumers, brand denies wrongdoing 3 weeks ago:
Never buy Hisense, got it.
- Comment on Is *arr stack a real Netflix replacement? 3 weeks ago:
So, yes, you’re basically correct.
There are search layers that remove the need to access radarr / sonarr directly when searching for shows (someone mentioned jellyseer, for example), so that part of the process can be streamlined, and once you’re watching a show it’s generally very good at pulling new episodes as soon as they’re available, so you’re typically, at most, a day behind actual airing dates. But if you’re trying to just bounce around and try a bunch of different shows it wouldn’t be the best for that. The biggest constraint is generally the speed of your internet and the popularity of what you’re watching. With a high speed connection and a well seeded torrent it’s often only a a couple of minutes to download a pilot episode, and you could have the whole season done by the time you finish watching that.
The other question is one of storage. If you’ve got plenty of hard disk space then you can probably afford to just throw anything that sounds interesting on your pull queue and work your way through it when you actually have time to sit down and watch. Basically you sort of pre-emptively build your “Netflix at home” library and then do your bouncing around channel hopping stuff with the five or so vaguely interesting shows that you added while you were at work.
Is it a replacement for Netflix et al? Not strictly speaking, but if you don’t mind changing up your habits a little it’s probably close enough.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable 3 weeks ago:
If you run Fcast receiver on your android TV device, you can cast to it from Grayjay without ads.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Oh, excellent, I’ll be checking that out right away. I have an iPad that I’m stuck with from work and it’d be great to get ad free YouTube there.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Are you running Ublock on Chrome or Firefox? It works significantly better on Firefox. I’ve never seen an ad get through it.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Someone else in this thread mentioned TizenTube, that sounds like what you’re looking for.
But personally I just grabbed an Nvidia Shield. It works great and if you swap out the default launcher you’ll never see a single ad on it (with the right apps). Plus the pro is beefy enough to run some decent emulators too.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
That genuinely would not surprise me in the slightest.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
They keep trying. The adblockers keep winning. I’ve had my fair share of videos sometimes not loading, or regularly needing to update apps to keep up with Google’s latest bullshit, but the minor glitches and headaches are worth it for all the time I don’t spend staring at a greyed out skip button.