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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like this is what people do with the multiplayer games where they are allowed to be mean to each other

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What happens to a car when the company behind its software goes under?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Its entire model relied on centralized servers, subscriptions, and proprietary software to authenticate vehicles and manage battery exchanges.

  I would otherwise be excited about the idea of getting an electric car but the way they are steeped in bullshit like this makes me end up planning to only drive old cars indefinitely.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Reddit banning posts with "join-lemmy.org"?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  Would if I could but they banned me recently

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We dont talk about what happened to Alex Pretti enough.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I wonder about it is, just how premeditated was it? It’s clear that there was no danger to the killers at any point, and that they had the sense that the situation nevertheless meant they were entitled to execute him, but did they workshop that in advance? Did it go as planned, or did they get confused about what they were doing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Having grown up on sci-fi I always knew there would be people who reject robots and AI on a visceral level, I just thought it wouldn't be me.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I personally like AI, but how it’s actually going is extremely different than most scifi depictions and lacks the typically depicted saving graces of having some degree of epathizable humanity and/or being reasonable. Instead AI tends to demonstrate more unlikeable human qualities, like hypocrisy, condescension and bullshitting. Ultimately it’s still a computer, and not a person, despite being able to do some amount of fuzzy, pattern focused information processing that is more like human thinking than other computer programs were. But computers are still really cool, and I like to see them doing things in different ways than they have before, and overcoming previous limitations. The biggest problem is how they get used to advance evil agendas that were already in progress regardless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trigger warning - This Epstein stuff is making me sick...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s crazy that we are living in a surveillance state and it isn’t even good for bringing the worst people to justice, they know it’s happening and let it happen while the criminals chat about it on fucking gmail while the rest of us think about being watched and worry about getting in trouble for every minor little thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Dungeon Meshi worth it if I'm not into anime?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Characters don’t talk or hint about sex at all

  This is sort of true and the relative lack of traditional fanservice type stuff is refreshing, but I don’t think it would be fair to say Dungeon Meshi isn’t horny, because a lot of its thematic focus is indirect, allegorical commentary on sexuality, even if it is generally very tasteful about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soaring coffee prices rewrite some Americans' daily routines⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if coffee consumption will eventually get replaced by mixed drinks that use synthetic caffeine, since it’s cheaper and more reliably available

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When did it become normalized to start passing credit card processing fees to the customer?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  A consumer incentive to use cash seems like a good thing. It’s not like there’s ever a scenario where credit card companies aren’t taking a fee to use their cards.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USA Used Claude AI Model to Capture Nicolás Maduro⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  just before the assault on the government quarter, all radars in the air defense units suddenly failed.

  After American drones and helicopters appeared in the sky, the soldiers felt the effect of a powerful energy wave that effectively suppressed any possibility of resistance.

  What is this, has it been previously used? Is the US military giving up info on its secret weapons for the sake of stupid vanity missions?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of computer setup would one need to run ai locally?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  If your focus is LLMs, get a 3090 gpu. Vram is the most important thing here because it determines what models you can load and run at a decent speed, and having 24Gb will let you run the mid range models that specifically target this amount of memory because of this being a very standard amount to have for hobbyists. These models are viable for coding, the smaller ones are less so. Looking at prices it seems like you can get this card for 1-2k depending on if you go used or refurbished. I don’t know if better price options are going to be available soon but with the ram shortage and huge general demand it kind of doesn’t seem like it.

  If you want to focus on image or video generation instead, I understand that there are advantages to going with newer generation cards because certain features and speed is more of a factor than just vram but I know less about this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Splinter Cell series - Chaos Theory, Conviction, and Blacklist⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think I ever actually fully played through a Splinter Cell game, but I have vivid memories of repeatedly replaying the demo of the first one off a PC Gamer demo disc. Really atmospheric games. Also I gotta put a link to Chaos Theory OST because Amon Tobin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn I got ripped off

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As AI enters the operating room, reports arise of botched surgeries and misidentified body parts⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Some years ago I did work rating robot surgery videos on amazon mturk for 25 cents each, despite having basically no idea what I was looking at, can’t help but wonder if any of that got used to train this sort of AI

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that our current priority should certainly be to implement a government that can be trusted to regulate things effectively

  I don’t, limiting the danger it poses to us and guaranteeing civil liberties should be a higher priority.

  Still, the ultimate goal should be government action on this topic because we cannot solve the problem at an individual level. Some people can have better outcomes than others but there’s no level playing field without government intervention.

  To me what a level playing field would look like for social media would be mostly about the government no longer doing harmful things, enforcement of the DMCA in particular comes to mind. Exercising more control over who can use which parts of the internet and how, is obviously incredibly dangerous especially given that we know it is possible for a government like the current one to come to power.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I accept that providing social commons which are largely independent from culture and belief is the legitimate purview of the government, but there should be a line right there because when governments manipulate their populations to think or behave a certain way it usually isn’t towards the best interests of the people.

  Which isn’t to say that nothing should be done to prevent mega corporations manipulating people, I just don’t think that should come in the form of things like, for instance, what they’ve actually done with TikTok since this article was written, which is mandate the creation of a US specific version that is obligated to be increasingly friendly to the propaganda interests of the current regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Why the education system is horrible and needs to be dismantled and entirely reconsidered” is slightly off topic, but yeah you got me I do not think the argument is all that different wrt education. It is very different from those other things though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK TikTok Is Harming Children at an Industrial Scale. We know this because we obtained messages from TikTok engineers and executives⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Providing healthcare and social services is not inherently about controlling how people think and what information they have access to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Not that limit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way ChatGPT would be creative enough to put a number on its side

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I made a way to remotely control my homelab without any internet access required⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is MeshCore a separate network?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every comment on this video is responding to the title and description despite them being on the wrong video⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  superfluous conspiratorial conjecture

  Isn’t it pretty much established fact at this point that a large proportion of comments online are now from bots? Maybe this explanation isn’t ‘banal’ but that doesn’t make it farther from the edge of occam’s razor than the other options you’re proposing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LLM's despite all the flaws it probably made it easier to switch to Linux.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s great if it is info you can immediately verify though, like whether it made up a function name or command line argument, or questions like “where are the files for _____ stored on my os”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Take-Two CEO Responds to Stock Price Drop Following Google Genie Announcement: 'I Think People Are Confusing Tools With Hits' - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  and once you make amazing entertainment you have to market it worldwide, and the people who are best at marketing entertainment worldwide are big, significant entertainment enterprises with the balance sheet to actually support those launches, companies like us. So I feel more optimistic than ever that new technology is going to allow us to supercharge our business.

  So the argument is basically that their company will not be overshadowed because they’re using AI too, and because the important part of making a successful game is advertising it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palantir declares itself the guardian of Americans' rights⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like he’s trying to say that it’s ok that they are spying on everyone because they found a way to do it technically within the bounds of the 4th amendment, which would still be terrible but it seems unlikely even that is true.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Will they though, search engine results lately seem very much like a decisive victory for the SEO slop

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If the government raided your house and found a bunch of .mkv files but you insist its all legally obtained, how do they ascertain if they are actually pirated or not?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In the US, virtually no one has been legally prosecuted for consumer level piracy since around 2010. The only exception is a small group of copyright trolls that focus on porn videos. The government was never the one doing it; if the government raided your house and found evidence that you illegally torrented .mkv files, they wouldn’t care or do anything with that information.

  That said you should still use a VPN, because industry groups are now completely focused on getting ISPs to send intimidating letters to people and eventually shutting off their internet. If you use a VPN and bind your torrent client to it, you are entirely safe from all consequences that actually happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta burned $19 billion on VR last year, and 2026 won’t be any better | TechCrunch⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  VR is cool but Facebook VR is a horrifying concept

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It makes for some pretty neat (infuriating) game mechanics. Like an infinite mob spawner, but more intuitive and less dull.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ICE Agents pepper spray, beat up, and kill a person, after forcefully capturing him.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think maybe we’re getting to the non-boring type of dystopia

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sure it helps a lot that these are games with player hostable servers