Armok_the_bunny

@Armok_the_bunny@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Not quite, deletion from a hard drive also unflags the space the data was located at as being in use, so it will be overwritten eventually so long as the drive continues to have things written to it. Simply flagging something as being archived means that information will remain on the server indefinitely, the exact opposite of what is intended by a delete button.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Why yes, I do frequently google things. Searching for proper tutorials and official documentation for technical subjects is a more intelligent thing to do than asking an LLM to do all my thinking for me. As for the actual humans I was talking about there, I meant bringing my car in to be serviced by a mechanic as an example, if I learned the mechanic working on my car was just following instructions provided by chatGPT I would be fucking livid.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll be honest, my biggest problem with something like this is that ai sophisticated enough to do anything useful cannot be run locally. That means every single time the clanker is asked to do something you are uploading significant amounts of personal information in an unencrypted form to some datacenter somewhere, for whoever to just do whatever they want with it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Except for the medicine stuff, I am confident I would be able to do all of those things actually, given a bit of time for research and enough motivation. Even more critically, when I have a problem like that where I don’t care enough to figure it out for myself, I call upon the expertise of an actual human that really knows things, not a glorified autocomplete with internet access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many developers leave GZDoom due to leader conflicts and fork it into UZDoom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  My answer to you is that I fully expect the ability to do stuff yourself to be seen as extremely valuable in about 2 or 3 years. This whole AI thing is pretty definitely a bubble, and on top of that it also looks to me like the blockchain and metaverse tech-fads, and I strongly believe that when the bubble bursts people that can say “I spent all that time learning to do things myself rather than rely on ai to do my thinking for me” are going to be the only people with careers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft just changed where your Word documents live — here’s why it matters⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint, I lost an unknown number of files (unknown because I have no idea what all I failed to recover) years ago when my OneDrive backup filled up and my attempts to clear out space in the cloud backup propogated to my local storage, deleting everything I had in my local documents folder.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, I do not believe that is a thing. Apparently there are some wind turbines with diesel generators attached somewhere, but it’s not for that reason. Offshore wind seems to have them in case they get disconnected from the grid because they rely on some power to protect themselves from ocean air, and apparently a wind array in Scottland had some to keep the turbines from freezing over. Frankly though there just isn’t room in the turbine’s housing to keep a whole diesel engine, at least most of the time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨U.S. solar will pass wind in 2025 and leave coal in the dust soon after⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What would stop you from switching to a flip phone (or dumbphone) in 2025?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have exactly one game and exactly one 2fa app that I would meaningfully miss out on switching to a dumb pbone, outside of those two things I would genuinely consider it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Were this reddit I would be highly tempted to give that some gold.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3139: Chess Variant⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I would say you can only move a tile if you have a piece on it as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst one I’ve encountered apparently has a secret bench somewhere that makes it much better, and the second worst (the runback that I think everyone is talking about) is about as long as the runback to crystal guardian I think.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, there are some really bad runbacks, but yeah most of them are fine.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll never touch Mac, partly because I have issues with Apple’s business practices, and partly because I manage to break every single piece of software I touch and I’m not confident I’d be able to unbreak a mac, but if not for those factors I actually would be more likely to use it over Windows on the off chance I encounter things I can’t do on Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows Update and SSD Problem is WAY worse than we thought! Full Demonstration - JayzTwoCents⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  God I am glad I switched to Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inspiring. Innovating.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of the carbon might return to the atmosphere via rot, but far more of it would be put into the soil or trapped in lumber. Besides, the solution is extremely cheap and effectively self replacing, just let new trees grow as old ones die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Porn is different for many reasons, chief among them being that the age verification laws don’t actually keep kids from accessing it. On top of that, porn is something that most people are embarrassed about accessing for a wide variety of reasons, and for them any requirement that they make available proof that they did so is equivalent to a legal ban on accessing that perfectly legal material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Samsung schedules Galaxy event 5 days before Apple's⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Wtf are you talking about, apple is nowhere close to 100% market share no matter how much they wish they were, and FOSS alternatives are sufficiently difficult to install that the vast majory of consumers haven’t bothered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what are the grievances with the "male loneliness epidemic"?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cis effectively means not-transgender, so born as exacly the same gender you identify as. ‘Het’ then means heterosexual, making cis-het someone who is either completely male and into women or completely female and into men.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Volume of requests and power consumption requirements unrelated to requests made, at least I have to assume. Certainly doesn’t help that google has forced me to make a request to their ai every time I run a standard search.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool, now how much power was consumed before even a single prompt was ran in training that model, and how much power is consumed on an ongoing basis adding new data to those AI models even without user prompts. Also how much power was consumed with each query before AI was shoved down our throats, and how many prompts does an average user make per day?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3126: Disclaimer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The method I (just now) thought up using to signal humanity was responding to accusations of being an LLM with a “fuck you”. The combination of vulgar language and defiance of the sycophantic tendencies of LLMs feels to me like a pretty effective proof of humanity, at least for now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calling something "a joke" feels meaner than calling something "a bad joke"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Something being a joke means it’s [insert negative attribute] enough to be laughable, but it being a bad joke mean it’s [insert negative attribute] but not enough to be funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨McDonald’s AI Hiring Bot Exposed Millions of Applicants’ Data to Hackers Who Tried the Password ‘123456’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The risk is that some unknown hacker discovered this vulnerability and abused it before the researchers discovered and reported it. It sounds like the company has confirmed that didn’t happen, but they aren’t 100% trustworthy in that regard, simply because they might have missed something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Th EU iniative for Stop Killing Games has reached the goal of 1 million signatures!!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After giving such a bad answer to it that some other part of the government stepped in and said the answer was dramatically insufficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean that you straight up cannot unlock new equipment, costumes, starting points, and the like while offline and/or disconnected from the game servers. IIRC the game just doesn’t track stage mastery without a connection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signatures skyrocket for Stop Killing Games campaign after big youtubers take up the cause, resulting in 100k signatures in 2 days. (Details on how to help in text body of post)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think it’s unreasonable to want a game that I paid for to remain functional long term. In my case I have a copy of the Hitman trilogy in my Steam library, and as it stands when the servers for that game go offline it will become nearly unplayable just because the unlock system is reliant on the publisher’s servers. It would be easy for them to just release a patch as they decommission those servers to allow the unlock system to function offline, but right now there is no guarantee of that happening, nor any real reason to do so besides some consumer goodwill.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Super Metroid get any better?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The following post will meander a bit as I wrote it in a kind of stream of consciousness state.

  I don’t know where you heard that Super Metroid was originally a remake of the NES game, I’d never heard that and I can’t find anything to back that up. As well, keep in mind that Super Metroid came out a full decade before Zero Mission did, and the original NES game that Zero Mission is a remake of was even lighter on story than Super is. If you aren’t enjoying Super because of a lack of story that’s fine, you won’t miss much if you skip it, though I will warn you that a very common complaint about fusion is that until basically the very end the game is extremely linear. That said, I also think it’s unfair to call Zero Mission an asset flip, it’s much more a full on remake. Back to the Super Metroid thing, I will point out that the Wrecked Ship in Super Metroid is mostly not the Wrecked Ship you traverse in Zero Mission, there’s like one screen that is shared between the two games.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's an absolutely medium quality game? Not great, incredible or terrible or any single ended extreme. Dead medium quality⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lies of P is amazing how dare you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a point in the Dark Souls games where you're too high level to be expected to be summoned by anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You are partly correct about DS2. It did increment even by wiping without spending the souls, but on the other hand the ranges involved meant that there was very likely always someone in range.