CosmoNova

@CosmoNova@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Their bird population never recovered because even migratory birds have their fixed routes and when you exterminate thousands upon thousands of swarms that have settled there for countless generations it breaks the cycle. I guess environmental pollution also doesn’t help. It‘s not like bird populations are doing great anywhere these days but with that history it‘s extra hard for them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Enshitification of Youtube’s Full Album Playlists⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen it a while ago and immediately knew this is exactly what’s going on. Didn’t know it was this wide spread though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China has introduced a drone that flies like a bird. The new invention could turn the drone industry upside down⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the perfect weapon to spy on other countries for them because any bird would stick out like a sour thumb in China so it can’t be used against them. Meanwhile in other countries it wouldn’t even be looked at.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Paul McCartney and Dua Lipa among artists urging British Prime Minister Starmer to rethink his AI copyright plans⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What fine? I thought this new law allows it. Or is it one of those instances where training your AI on copyrighted material and distributing it is fine but actually sourcing it isn‘t so you can‘t legally create a model but also nobody can do anything if you have and use it? That sounds legally very messy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtuber Geekerwan has find the motherboard of Switch 2 and after reverse-engineer it have simulate the performance on a similar PC⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are plenty handhelds in all shapes and sizes in that price range for exactly this. How many more do we need?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo is Trying to Stop You From Filing Lawsuits Against Them With New EULA Amendment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘ll still buy their controller because you can‘t sue Chinese companies either so what‘s the difference? However I‘ll use it for PC gaming. No way I‘m going back to their ecosystem. Those days are gone.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple Eyes Move to AI Search, Ending Era Defined by Google⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  So this is it? The internet is done and finished. Killed by bots.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half Life 3⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like Minecraft or more recent Zelda titles but for what’s worth there is still a lot of untapped potential there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Polygon Has Been Sold With Mass Layoffs Hitting The Outlet⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Quite often they openly refer to Xitter posts as a source for simple game mechanics when the game has literally come out already. They don‘t even play the games they report on anymore.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Would‘ve played the hell out of a new Team Fortress but I‘m completely burned out from MOBAs personally. Invite-Only is also something I deeply reject as a concept no matter the reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve's invite-only Deadlock has an even more exclusive top-secret hush-hush version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You see, this community just really hates PvP for some reason. Apparently playing games with other people rather than with yourself is an inconceivable concept to some. Unless it‘s coop that is. And I too love a good coop experience but PvP is quite literally the mother of all game types so it‘s strange to see how much hate it gets in this particular corner of the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grand Theft Auto VI is Now Coming May 26, 2026 - Rockstar Games⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  So will they give back the most anticipated game 2025 award now or how does this work? Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI models routinely lie when honesty conflicts with their goals⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s interesting they call it a lie when it can’t even think but when any person is caught lying media will talk about “untruths” or “inconsistencies”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Haven’t heard of that and will look into that. Thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I fear communities are lacking resources and structure to handle the masses. It‘s something corporations already struggle with but they house like 10000 times more active users. One way to go around that was mentioned above and suggested that new users may keep creating new instances and communities so a few places don‘t just explode in size. But from my experience, if a community already covers a topic, there won‘t be much competition and we end up with a power mod environment (Reddit) at best and instances going dark from overload (hug of death) at worst.

  But I don‘t want to sound too bleak about all of this. In the end these are challenges that someone might already work on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess there is a hope that if more people join the Fediverse existing instances and communities won‘t just become more bloated but people create their own alternatives. However I have to say that I have no interest in running one myself. I‘m mostly here to discuss things that pique my interest. Running a community just isn‘t what I‘m here for and I‘m afraid too many people are just like me in that regard and we‘ll create an environment that‘s all too similar to Reddit.

  I also don‘t think it‘s good for the platform when people leave a community with a grudge to create a competition „with blackjack and hookers“ style. I want people to come and just create communities because they want to. That‘s where I see a future for the Fediverse.

  But I also wouldn‘t want to subscribe to 5 communities about the exact same topic because that would just spam my feed with the same threads probably. However I would actually like to hop between them easily so I don‘t stick around the same few people or have to abandon one for another. A lot would have to change about the way we interact with the platform (UI) and how it‘s connected for this to work though. I‘m thinking about subscribing to topics and it shows you a good mix of communities where overlapping threads are kind of stacked or something and you could swipe cards to see comments from different communities about it or something. This is a tough one to figure out. Might not even be possible at all.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Affinity being prosumer puts it perfectly. If you only work on your own on smaller projects it does everything it needs to do but as soon as you work with other people professionally and have to share files? There‘s sadly no alternative for Adobe whatsoever. I am very happy with Affinity 2 but it‘s not a standard in the industry.

  Personally I can not recommend using Adobe‘s AI features at the moment. I had to work on completely AI generated images for difficult customers and I assure you it was anything but pleasant. In the end it would‘ve been cheaper, faster and give far better results to use a stock image and edit it traditionally than being told to fix this and that with endless prompting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨List of Alternatives to Adobe Programs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Blender isn‘t flash but it‘s one of the best 2D animation programs out there and used by major studios.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of our biggest communities still have like two mods taking care of everything and are prone to cherry picking. It‘s the same old forum structures where the internet bubble effect is just as strong if not stronger than on larger, already problematic platforms. Some of the things I‘ve seen and experienced lately bring back memories from those internet forum days. Good ones but also the worst ones. And I have to admit it makes me doubt the Fediverse is actually scalable. There‘s just a lack of accountability in the end.

  Which is not to say a federalized platform isn‘t an alternative to giant corporations. Those have their own problems and fair share of fuck ups. But I think I‘m already starting to see the limits of the Fediverse. At least in it‘s current stage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If you see a bunch of otherwise normal people with the same odd behavior then you are probably seeing the effects of a marketing campign. The effects can last for years, even decades.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I was scrolling down to actually read some examples and those are it? Seriously?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta forecasted it would make $1.4T in revenue from generative AI by 2035⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Are they hoping lobster Jesus will kickstart a new religion and bring in many paying followers or what‘s their angle here?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Snapchat scraps ‘simple’ redesign as it loses users in North America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Silly corporation thinks they can roll back one update to undo all the damage that accumulated over several years. When it‘s a „straw that broke the camel’s back“ kind of situation it‘s not enough to remove the straw.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Apple CEO “cares about nothing else” Than Building Breakout AR Glasses Before Meta⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a robot would just steal your job if that was implemented well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion remake is... really making it apparent how outdated Bethesda is in its approach to making games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There‘s no Oblivion remake. Go to the Steam Page and carefully read word for word what it is you‘re talking about.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PewDiePie: I installed Linux (so should you)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So I read up on it again very briefly because that was ages ago but: The story goes in 2017 he paid an Israeli on Fiverr to dress as Jesus and hold a sign declaring that Hitler did nothing wrong. I have not seen the video so I don’t know for sure, but apparently he wanted to show how far you can take things with Fiverr without any resistance from Freelancers.

  I think he did something very wrong to shock his audience for clicks similar to Logan Paul’s disgusting Suicide Forest stunt around that same time and he got a ton of criticism for it. I don’t know what happened afterwards because I’m really not in that bubble but I don’t think a video likes this makes someone a Nazi and the comment above is a bit of a Fediverse knee-jerk reaction to this kind of stuff. I understand why people would still despise him for that though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube Tests AI Overviews in Search Results⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I‘m testing watching less Youtube and by „testing“ I mean the platform is literally slowly pushing me away. Everything about it just gets progressively worse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well played, Todd: You can see Skyrim, or at least its tallest mountain, from the edge of Oblivion Remastered⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also inspired by „the wanderer“ painting that has been referenced a million times without most people even realizing that yes, someone did that first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Digital Foundry] Oblivion Remastered PC: Impressive Remastering, Dire Performance Problems⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s Unreal 5 slop with OG Oblivion running in the Background. Of course it has these issues.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘You Can’t Lick a Badger Twice’: Google Failures Highlight a Fundamental AI Flaw⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And it’s easy to figure out why or at least I believe it is.

  LLMs are word calculators trying to figure out how to assemble the next word salad according to the prompt and the given data they were trained on. And that’s the thing. Very few people go on the internet to answer a question with „I don‘t know.“ (Unless you look at Amazon Q&A sections)

  My guess is they act all knowingly because of how interactions work on the internet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DeepSeek Transferred User Data & Prompts Overseas Without Consent, Claims South Korea’s Data Protection Authority; Activities Were Carried Out When Service Was Active In January⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And China a surveillance state. This was a given.