CosmoNova
@CosmoNova@lemmy.world
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 1 hour ago:
The overpromising is criminal despite what the actual law says. Let the companies pushing AI beyond it‘s boundaries bleed.
- Comment on Apple sued by shareholders for allegedly overstating AI progress 1 hour ago:
All the shareholders of AI progressing companies should do this.
- Comment on The emulator that lets you play NES games in 3D has left early access on Steam 3 hours ago:
Didn’t know about this. This is amazing.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 3 hours ago:
Honestly the cancellation was years overdue. I‘m almost surprised it took them this long but then again it‘s not surprising they couldn‘t even get around doing that.
- Comment on Gov. Landry signs new drone defense law; first in nation 4 days ago:
For people who supposedly hate China and big government these MAGA fascist are trying to be a whole lot like the worst part of the Chinese Communist Party.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 1 week ago:
Amazing! The upper left quarter is essentially my childhood.
- Comment on YouTube might slow down your videos if you block ads 1 week ago:
Oh they already do as of this week. But I am sure it‘s only temporary like last time and even then it‘s better than being served an ad. Google won‘t win this feud.
- Comment on Half of companies planning to replace customer service with AI are reversing course 1 week ago:
Point and laugh, everyone.
- Comment on Bambu Lab Controversy Deepens: Firmware Update Sparks Backlash 1 week ago:
Bambu as a company are pretty much the poison for 3D printing that made ink home printers a nightmare. That and lobbying to regulate and criminalize a lot of what makes 3D printing great. I fear we‘re at our peak already and it can only go downhill from here. We are just not allowed to have nice things in the 21st century.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
I use Discord too. This isn‘t about you or every single Discord user specifically but my impression of the average user and consumer. They may complain at first but then they vote with their wallet and often can‘t even help making ironic remarks about having irresponsible spending habits. Why you bought it is up to you and I think there are good reasons for it despite everything. The console is at the beginning of it‘s life cycle so it‘s a bit early to completely judge for me.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
Or am I just some Discord neoliberal?
So that’s what ticket you off? Because we agree on pretty much everything else it seems. I really don’t know what to tell you here. Discord’s entire business model is neoliberal to the core so naturally you find tons of neoliberals on servers there. You know the kind who complained about 90€ for Mariokart and 10€ for Welcome Tour once they were announced but then shared pics of their Switch 2 hauls on release day in the same chat. It is what it is and I think there is no point in having strong feelings about it.
- Comment on 'Fortnite' Lobbies Can Now Have Up to 92% Bots - Players Are Furious Over Supposed OG Season 3 Update 1 week ago:
Bots in Fortnite are no secret but it really has gotten bad, huh? I remember trying the game out some years ago, was annoyed by the obvious bots in my games and never touched it again after one session. Things must’ve gotten more downhill since.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
Care to paint a different perspective for me then? Just disagreeing isn‘t a good strategy for a discussion.
- Comment on News outlets in crisis mode as Google-led AI search push crushes website traffic 1 week ago:
The sad part is this is actually his job description and Alphabet could get sued by shareholders if he didn‘t do exactly that. The stock market needs to be criminalized, not glorified as the one truth like it‘s treated right now.
- Comment on Apple’s most sweeping software redesign disappoints mainland Chinese consumers 1 week ago:
Sorry, I really don‘t mean to be rude or hurtful, but from all I‘ve seen and I mean ALL I‘ve seen Chinese consumers have no taste whatsoever. Yes, their manufacturing has become great if they actually care about something but this argument is not about stability. What I mean is the more a company relies on the Chinese market and tailors their commodities abd luxury products around Chinese consumers, the uglier they become. Just look at European cars lately. Hideous. So yeah sorry again but I take that as a seal of quality for Apple‘s UI design.
- Comment on Switch 2 Breaks Records By Selling Over 3.5 Million Units In Four Days 1 week ago:
In the end of the day Nintendo products are for casual gamers who only care about commercial material. It wouldn‘t even cross their minds to read reviews or discuss it outside their neoliberal Discord bubble. Emulating? How scary!
Besides, the Switch is a beloved system and many users waited for an upgrade for years. The Switch 2 is downwards compatible and able to give your older games a considerable performance boost. 90€ for new games just isn‘t enough of an argument to sit out this generation when you‘ve already spent thousands on games in the Nintendo ecosystem. The locked in effect is strong.
I am not very surprised by this but I sure as hell am glad I bought my Switch and and several games second hand for I‘m mostly a PC gamer.
- Comment on Scientists discover that feeding AI models 10% 4chan trash actually makes them better behaved 2 weeks ago:
And I wish they would tone down the hype. Maybe we can meet in the middle?
- Comment on Asus and Lenovo’s handhelds get price hike as Valve pauses some Steam Deck sales 2 weeks ago:
You would do that probably because you have a huge Steam library but many Switch users have a huge Switch library and want that performance upgrade. You and me are not their target audience but it remains to be seen if the Switch 2 will flop or exactly what Nintendo fans want right now. There‘s a huge difference between 600€ and 1000€ anyway.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
I‘ll just say I won‘t grand any machine even the most basic human rights until every last person on the planet has access to enough clean water, food, shelter, adequate education, state of the art health care, peace, democracy and enough freedom to not limit the freedom of others. That‘s the lowest bar and if I can think of other essential things every person on the planet needs I‘ll add them.
I don‘t want to live in a world where we treat machines like celebrities while we don‘t look after our own. That would be an express ticket towards disaster like we‘ve seen in many science fiction novels before.
Research towards AGI for AGI’s sake should be strictly prohibited until tech bros figure out how to feed the planet so to speak. Let‘s give them an incentive to use their disruptive powers for something good before they play god.
- Comment on An earnest question about the AI/LLM hate 2 weeks ago:
Why won‘t they tell us what they replaced windows with or on what they installed Lineage, though? The more people speculate, the more questions I have.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
All I‘m saying is that said lab was one of the largest ones in the world to research SarS at that time and if my memory serves me right was only one of three in the world to research the type of SarS that could infect humans. Cave bats knowing to carry it naturally don‘t live anywhere near that region either (a detail most people probably never even considered). That makes the whole food stall theory doubtful with this giant lab next door.
Mix that with how the local and then national Chinese government have mismanaged the outbreak every step of the way (I still remember the terrifying headlines from late 2019 of warning doctors that vanished and fleeing international journalists vividly, so don‘t tell me that didn‘t happen) and it looks a whole lot like a classic lab leak combined with no action to contain it because then you would have to admit something went wrong. Because yes, lab leaks do happen from time to time but they‘re usually contained, but there are no signs containment was ever a priority in Wuhan apart from blocking national flights (international flights still went in and out though. The government didn‘t even issue a warning. Gotta keep the trade flowing I guess.).
It‘s also extremely valuable to actually listen to virologists word for word because what they have said many times is that Covid-19 just doesn‘t look like a virus you would make in a lab, implying it would be reckless to do research on something like that. That‘s the sole reason they disprove of the lab theory. They blindly trust their Chinese colleagues to work as vigilant and exemplary as they do when the timeline points to the opposite.
I doubt we will ever see any proof of a lab leak because Chinese officials have swept that lab and the records squeaky clean before they allowed any foreign investigation of the site. The lab leak theory is by far the most plausible one and believe me when I say it will happen again because those corrupt structures are still intact.
- Comment on Frequent TikTok users in Taiwan more likely to agree with pro-China narratives, study finds 2 weeks ago:
TikTok is definitely the cause and has been washing the brains of friends and family for many years now. It‘s odd how the most apolitical people suddenly drop pro Chinese talking points at a gathering.
But what‘s worse is how it radicalizes young adults and teenagers and pushes them to the far right. It‘s well documented how much anti-democratic content the platform is pushing aggressively and that‘s extremely beneficial for China.
- Comment on Replace jobs with AI then hire people to replace the AI’s job… 2 weeks ago:
It looks to me like all they accomplished was making the job more dreadful and I‘m afraid the people making these decisions will see that as a partial success.
- Comment on Stranger Than Heaven - Story Trailer 2 weeks ago:
I know it might be an annoying nitpick but if the game does not comment on Japanese warcrimes then I‘d be deeply disappointed but sadly not surprised.
- Comment on Besides mod logs, is there a better way for the Fediverse to keep track of malicious actors, such as Kiwi farms members and genocide deniers? 2 weeks ago:
Mod logs aren‘t necessarily a good tool to keep track of bad actors either because you don‘t know the mods. I think someone would have to have a lot of entries from several communities for me to even raise an eyebrow. It‘s tough.
- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 2 weeks ago:
That way of thinking is a trap. They did have a more reasonably priced ad free tier but people using it only made it worse over time because the line has to go up.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo 2 weeks ago:
The presentation looks too fluid. I don‘t see any room or reason to use a controller live on stage there other than to pretend. Feel free to send me time codes where the camera itself actually looks like it‘s controlled by the guy behind the pult, though. I can‘t see anything. Looks like a normal tech demo with preselected inputs.
- Comment on Epic Games Unreal Fest News 2 weeks ago:
What actually stuck out most to me besides Witcher 4 was their LLM based „Don‘t press the button“ game presentation at the very end of the show. No one is really talking about it because it was really lame but I think it‘s telling how they showed the AI driven stuff after everything else almost to kind of sweep it under the rug because they know most people are already sick of AI but they still had to include it for gullible shareholders or something.
- Comment on The Witcher 4 | Gameplay Tech Demo 2 weeks ago:
Well damn I know it’s just footage of a tech demo so there is a lot that can happen still and it was definitely not played live (as they tried to make us believe if you watched the full event. Like seriously, who’s going to believe you when you slice up a horse and voxelize trees? Holding the controller on stag was just corny, sorry guys) BUT it looks amazing! I especially loved how they showcased some of the technical details. I really didn’t think it would impress me this much because they showed way more about a game that’s probably years away from release than I ever anticipated. And again, a lot can still happen and go wrong but I would lie if I said I wasn’t hyped already. Mission accomplished I guess.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 3 weeks ago:
When did Snowden whistleblow? This isn‘t exactly new tech.