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- Comment on ugly little cutie 1 day ago:
MFW my mom tells me I’m handsome
- Comment on A.I. Video Generators Are Now So Good You Can No Longer Trust Your Eyes 2 days ago:
Absolutely.
- Comment on Bezos plan for solar powered datacenters is out of this world… literally 1 week ago:
I’d recommend diving into this for a more scientifically ‘thought out’ and optimistic extrapolation: www.orionsarm.com
Man… if the Technopocolpyse is what you consider optimistic, I’d hate to find out what you consider pessimism!
- Comment on United States of Autism 1 week ago:
The US should just switch to paracetamol. Problem solved!
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 1 week ago:
The September that lasted 32 years…
Alas, the damage is done and there’s no going back.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, neutrino detectors don’t work like conventional telescopes because neutrinos don’t behave like light. Technically, neutrinos are actually a type of dark matter since they don’t participate in the electromagnetic interaction, and that makes them very hard to detect.
When a beam of light shines on your body, some of that light is absorbed as heat and a lot of it is reflected off of you. Neutrinos don’t do that. Tens of billions of neutrinos from the sun hit your body every second and just… don’t do anything. They pass straight through you with zero interaction whatsoever. Very, very rarely they’ll interact with something, and neutrino detectors are designed to both maximize the chances of such an interaction happening, and to make those interactions more easy to spot.
I’m not up to speed on all the technical details of JUNO in particular, but most neutrino detectors are searching for events that look something like this:
A neutrino enters the detection medium and directly collides with an electron. Enough energy is transferred into the electron that it is stripped free from its parent molecule and moves through the medium at very high speed. If it moves fast enough, it can even exceed the speed that light travels through the medium, creating something sort of like a sonic boom — only with light. We call this Cherenkov radiation. The scintillating properties of the medium boost this signal and photomultipliers at the perimeter of the detector gather this radiation so that the event can be reconstructed by computers.
- Comment on JUNO completed liquid filling and begins data taking 2 weeks ago:
The liquid is the detection media.
[Linear alkylbenzene] was identified as a promising liquid scintillator by the SNO+ neutrino detector due to its good optical transparency (≈20 m), high light yield, low amount of radioactive impurities, and its high flash point (140 °C) which makes safe handling easier. It is also available in large volumes at a relatively low cost at the SNO+ site. It is now used in several other neutrino detectors, such as the RENO and Daya Bay Reactor Neutrino Experiments.The material performs well in deep underwater environments. One study suggested LAB as a suitable material to be employed in a Secret Neutrino Interactions Finder (SNIF), a type of antineutrino detector designed to detect the presence of nuclear reactors at distances of between 100 and 500 km.
Neutrino detectors are basically just huge scintillators (systems that absorb ionizing radiation and re-emit that energy as light). The liquid inside of JUNO (Linear alkylbenzene) has especially attractive scintillating properties.
- Comment on Thoughts on Cloudflare 2 weeks ago:
Footnote: The artwork was generated using AI
Ehhhhhhh…
- Comment on What's your favourite kind of restaurant? 3 weeks ago:
Fusion restaurant
Can I get an order of the yellow cake to go?
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 weeks ago:
If you say so… but some of the Funko collectors I know are definitely die-hard nerds. Having bad taste doesn’t exclude you from nerddom.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 weeks ago:
Working in tech, I’ve seen a lot of them in people’s cubicles.
- Comment on Marketing Doesn't Work on Nerds 3 weeks ago:
Right? I’ve seen the walls of Funko Pops… nerds definitely are not immune to marketing.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 3 weeks ago:
prevent the pihole from being able to spoof itself as a legitimate DNS
Not to be pedantic, but a pihole is legitimate DNS. Being able to do your own DNS has always been a fundamental part of the Internet Protocol, and is used a lot in enterprise to handle name resolution for internal subnets and stuff like that.
- Comment on 'My Advice to Users Is to Accept Reality and Tune, or to Not Play' — Randy Pitchford Is at the 'Get a Refund From Steam' Stage of the Borderlands 4 PC Performance Backlash 3 weeks ago:
Yet!
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 3 weeks ago:
That’s great if they actually work. But my experience with the big, corporate-funded models has been pretty freaking abysmal after more than a year of trying to adopt them into my daily workflow. I can’t imagine the performance of local models is much better when they’re running on much, much smaller datasets and with much, much less computing power.
I’m happy to be proven wrong, of course, but I just don’t see how it’s possible for local models to compete with the Big Boys in terms of quality… and the quality of the largest models is only middling at best.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 3 weeks ago:
Man… I don’t know if want is the right word here. I want AI to go away, but I’m not sure I want the bubble to burst. I’ve heard estimates that something like 20% of all VC money went to AI in 2024. That’s a shitload of cash, and if the bubble bursts (which I believe it eventually will) and all that invested money vanishes, the economy is going to crater. Maybe a few rich assholes will be ruined in the aftermath, but the ensuing recession is going to hurt the people at the bottom the most… just like it always does.
It’s hard to look forward to that, even when you hate AI with a searing passion.
- Comment on 5 Signs the AI Bubble is About to Burst 3 weeks ago:
people will stop using it for all the things they’re currently using it for
They will when AI companies can no longer afford to eat their own costs and start charging users a non-subsidized price. How many people would keep using AI if it cost $1 per query? $5? $20?
OpenAI lost $5 billion last year. Billion, with a B. Even their premium customers lose them money on every query, and eventually the faucet of VC cash propping this whole thing up is gonna run dry when investors inevitably realize that there’s no profitable business model to justify this technology. At that point, AI firms will have no choice but to pass their costs on to the customer, and there’s no way the customer is going to stick around when they realize how expensive this technology actually is in practice.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
It is renewable, not free.
“Renewable” also doesn’t mean shit if the resource is being consumed faster than it’s being renewed. Ask the people who used to live on the shores of the Aral Sea how “renewable” their water was.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
Billions. Practically every Google search runs through Gemini now, and Google handles more search queries per day than there are humans on Earth.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
wouldn’t have seen the benefit in cars
Yeah, because the widespread adoption of cars turned out to be such a great idea with no negative consequences… But even if you ignore the glaringly obvious negatives, AI still doesn’t come anywhere close to having the practical utility as the modern car. At least a car can carry out its advertised function without issues.
I’ve been using AI almost daily for several years now, as a function of my job. It’s garbage tech. Most of the things it’s supposed to be good for it downright sucks at, and the stuff it is good at has already been possible using simpler, more reliable systems for years — sometimes even decades. The situation isn’t really improving, either. Models are using more energy, consuming more data, and doing more computation than ever before… but the results are still embarrassingly underwhelming. Anyone who’s bothered to educate themselves on the math and method behind the models knows by now that the current generation of AI is dead-end technology, and anyone who claims otherwise is either ignorant of the technical details, has a vested financial interest in AI, or both.
It also really fucking irritates me to be constantly called a Luddite by people who don’t even know how this technology fucking works… No, I don’t hate AI because I’m scared of technology, or “progress” or whatever the fuck. I’ve made a career working in technology. I love tech… or I used to, before everyone lost their god damn minds praying to Sam Altman and his horrifyingly expensive golden idol. No, I hate AI because it’s demonstrably bad technology.
- Comment on Whether you use AI, think it's a "fun stupid thing for memes", or even ignore it, you should know it's already polluting worse than global air travel. 3 weeks ago:
260,930 kilograms of CO₂ monthly from ChatGPT alone
ChatGPT has the most marketing, but it’s only part of the AI ecosystem… and honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised if other AI products are bigger now. Practically every time someone does a Google search, Gemini AI spits out a summary whether you wanted it or not — and Google processes more than 8 billion search queries per day. That’s a lot of slop.
There are also more bespoke tools that are being pushed aggressively in enterprise. Microsoft’s Copilot is used extensively in tech for code generation and code reviews. Ditto for Claude Code. And believe me, tech companies are pushing this shit hard. I write code for a living, and the company I work for is so bullish on AI that they’ve mandated that us devs have to use it every day if we want to stay employed. They’re even tracking our usage to make sure we comply… and I know I’m not alone in my experience.
All of that combined probably still doesn’t reach the same level of CO² emissions as global air travel, but there are a lot more fish in this proverbial pond than just OpenAI, and when you add them all up, the numbers get big. AI usage is also rising much, much faster than air travel, so it’s really only a matter of time before it does cross that threshold.
- Comment on I just beat Bloodborne for the first today, and it's probably one of the best playthroughs of a video game that i have ever had and stories of one as well. 4 weeks ago:
Paleblood Hunt intensifies
- Comment on Roku wants you to see a lot more AI-generated ads 4 weeks ago:
I’ll be honest… advertising is the one industry I wouldn’t be sad to see get completely cannibalized by AI.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, Activision was my first thought as well.
- Comment on Uh Oh: Nintendo Just Landed A ‘Summoning’ And ‘Battling’ Patent 4 weeks ago:
Shouldn’t it be trivially easy to demonstrate “prior art” in this case, making the patent invalid? I guess that requires someone to get into a legal battle with Nintendo… but it’s not like this is some niche mechanic. Surely there are other entertainment megacorps who are currently in violation of this “patent” and do have the resources to fight it in court.
- Comment on What If There’s No AGI? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t know man… the “intelligence” that silicon valley has been pushing on us these last few years feels very artificial to me
- Comment on Thank G*d I grew up in the 90s. Everything is woke now. Smh my head 5 weeks ago:
Probably sarcoidosis
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Don’t be pedantic. Anyone with half a brain knows that when someone brings up “climate change” they’re referring to “human-made climate change” — and it’s completely uncontroversial that the changes we’ve made since the industrial revolution have greatly outweighed the changes of the Earth’s natural climate cycles.
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
Are you really gonna use the “guns don’t kill people, people kill people” argument to defend LLMS?
Let’s not forget that the first ‘L’ stands for “large”. These things do not exist without massive, power and resource hungry data centers. You can’t just say “Blame government mismanagement! Blame corporate greed!” without acknowledging that LLMs cease to exist without those things.
And even with all of those resources behind it, the technology is still only marginally useful at best. LLMs still hallucinate, they still confidently distribute misinformation, they still contribute to mental health crises in vulnerable individuals, and no one really has any idea how to stop those things from happening.
What tangible benefit is there to LLMs that justifies their absurd cost? Honestly?
- Comment on AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare 1 month ago:
AI would be fine if we just changed everything about it
lol