MurrayL
@MurrayL@lemmy.world
- Comment on Can to many hits to the head make a person the R word in animals? My bc loves to run around the house and hits his head constantly but shakes it off. He acts normal and everything exceept4 zoomies? 7 hours ago:
I derive a great deal of happiness from how often this community lives up to its name
- Comment on The excellent fusion of Balatro and chess in Gambonanza releases May 1 14 hours ago:
If you’re waiting for this but still looking for an offbeat chess game to play in the meantime, check out Shotgun King: The Final Checkmate.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 1 day ago:
Sorry, didn’t mean to cause any stress - clearly I was wrong here. Reading through I saw a lot of sentence structures typical of LLM writing, but like you say this is partly because they were trained on writers’ work.
I’m a writer myself, so I’ve seen first hand how LLMs are rotting our profession from the inside. That’s not an excuse for making false accusations, but I hope you can understand my exasperated tone when I found what seemed like slop on my feed.
- Comment on The Anatomy of an Impossible Port: Bringing Dead Cells to the R36S 1 day ago:
Tried reading the article but it’s clearly written with AI. There might’ve been some editing but the stink of slop is all over it.
- Comment on Meta's AI display glasses reportedly share intimate videos with human moderators 2 days ago:
Finally, a way to indulge in exhibitionism without having to leave the house!
- Comment on What's the point of specifically Americans identifying with other cultures if people born there will just make fun of them for it? 2 days ago:
I think people make fun of it because to a non-American it comes across as deeply insecure. The trope is that the USA has no history of its own and so its people latch onto the smallest scraps of heritage via ancestry as a way to give themselves some cultural context and cachet.
I don’t think it’s invalid - in many cases the ancestry is genuine, even if distant and/or fractional. If it helps them find meaning or feel connected to something then I’ve got no issue with it.
The issues only really arise IMO if someone starts weaponising that ancestry or insisting they now have the authority to speak for a people they have no tangible connection to.
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 days ago:
You got a 2017 laptop with an A18 Pro chip? Wow that’s incredible!
- Comment on Apple introduces Macbook Neo - cheaper Macbooks starting at $599 2 days ago:
Except for them to be directly comparable you’d also have to get a keyboard cover for the iPad, making it more expensive than the MacBook, and it’d still have one fewer USB port and no audio jack.
- Comment on ard 3 days ago:
See also: haggard, laggard, braggart (this one changed to a ‘t’ for some reason), dastard, dullard, and a few others. It’s uncommon but it’s out there!
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 4 days ago:
RTFA
In the past several months, many specialized download managers were created that completely bypassed the site, donation messages, and download protections. Some of these download managers locked certain features behind a paywall that required users to pay in order to gain access. The use of Myrient for commercial, for-profit purposes has always been strictly forbidden. Such egregious and abusive usage of the site cannot be tolerated anymore.
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 5 days ago:
Blaming it on AI seems misleading given the owner explicitly blames leechers in the community. Selfish chuds were routinely bypassing download limits and then had the gall to add their own paywalls without contributing anything back.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 6 days ago:
I couldn’t stand Discovery but Academy very quickly won me over.
- Comment on Interview: Mary Wiseman On Tilly Settling In As A ‘Starfleet Academy’ Teacher And Dealing With Toxic Fans 6 days ago:
She’s a guest star in a single episode.
- Comment on Doom Bar maker Sharp’s Brewery in Cornwall to be closed by US owner 1 week ago:
They make Coors, Miller Lite, and Carling. Safe to assume they don’t know and don’t care.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
Safety. What else?
You can see a news report from when it came into force here: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-60203081
- Comment on Chocolate kept in anti-theft boxes as retailers warn it's being stolen to order 1 week ago:
I think that principle is intended to apply to staples, when people in poverty are forced to steal food so as not to starve.
Stealing bars of Dairy Milk and then selling them on seems like a different thing.
- Comment on YSK Your smoke detectors should be replaced every 7-10 years 1 week ago:
I’m fact, smoke alarms with user-replaceable batteries became illegal in Scotland a couple of years ago.
Still waiting to see if the same regulation gets applied across the entire UK, but anecdotally I’ve noticed it’s already much harder to find anything other than 10-year battery or hardwired models in my part of England.
- Comment on ‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront 1 week ago:
You’re acting like harassment of the sort in the article is some kind of unavoidable natural phenomenon, and the only possible course of action is for the victims to suck it up and take it.
Steam is a platform owned, operated, and fully controlled by Valve. They have the ability and the money to take steps to improve the situation, but instead they seem perfectly happy to let it continue. It’s gross.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 2 weeks ago:
Sega, I guess?
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 2 weeks ago:
Once again, people who pirate the shows end up with a better experience than legit customers. Tale as old as
timedigital media. - Comment on I Bought a “Junk” PSP From Japan: Here’s How It Went 2 weeks ago:
The clearly and repeatedly say the website they ordered it on, to the point where the post feels like an advertorial.
- Comment on Battlefield 6 sets out to rally flagging player numbers with a big dose of hallucinatory gas 2 weeks ago:
It’s not slop, this staff writer just has a very idiosyncratic style that the RPS editors are seemingly happy to indulge.
- Comment on Brave CEO claims news about Brave Browser tracking its users is “fake news” 2 weeks ago:
Don’t trust anyone who unironically uses the term ‘fake news’.
- Comment on Confirmed: Comic Book From ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ Ep. 6 Was NOT Created With AI 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t be at all surprised to learn that they outsourced it and the outsourcer used AI but said they didn’t. It wouldn’t be the first time, even on high profile projects - Marvel’s Loki ran into exactly that issue before.
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 2 weeks ago:
It’s interesting how simulators do tend to draw in people who also do the same thing as their IRL job.
Lots of farmers play Farming Simulator. Lots of truckers play Euro/American Truck Simulator. Lots of pilots play MS Flight Simulator.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I do not want to see Weekend at BernAI’s.
- Comment on Ask AI: I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive? 2 weeks ago:
I’m afraid you’ve failed the Voight-Kampff
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 2 weeks ago:
Most people can’t tell the difference between a 320kbps mp3 and an uncompressed file, but hey if folks really want to waste their money on snake oil like gold-plated cables then I say let ‘em.
- Comment on Video Games Need to Be Cheaper to Buy 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Oatly banned from using word ‘milk’ to market plant-based products in UK 3 weeks ago:
It’s a stupid decision but I don’t think the people in charge of this are the same people investigating blackmail by foreign powers.
Makes about as much sense as the people who say ‘why do we bother researching space when we have problems here on earth?’
