tormeh

@tormeh@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft admits it would have to let Trump spy on EU data if demanded⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Color me skeptical of anything Deutsche Telekom. I’d rather look at OVH, Hetzner, and Scaleway than at something from Telekom.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Welcome to startup land. If you’re profitable that means you’re not investing into growth and that means you probably don’t see much scope for growth and that means you’re yesterday’s news. It kinda makes sense, although it can get a bit absurd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bbbzzzz bbzzzzz mmmmmmm bbbzzzzzzz⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some of these series are alright if you skip every other game. After two-three releases they will have accumulated some innovation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta will cease political ads in European Union by fall, blaming bloc’s new rules⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bots and troll farms are not impacted, though. I don’t expect this will lead to better politics.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨bad board games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s about landlordism specifically, not capitalism. Used to be called “The Landlord’s Game”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, there’s a lot of “art” in video games that no other industry would recognize as such. Brick textures. That kind of thing. I’m perfectly okay with using AI for these necessary but unimportant tasks. Same with using stock assets. These assets just have to be good enough for nobody to notice they’re there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We're Not Innovating, We’re Just Forgetting Slower⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In a world where electronics were really expensive and did not go out of date so quickly, maybe people actually would have tools and spare parts lying around for the power electronics. But a) that’s not the world we live in, and b) usually the software is not user serviceable, at least with reasonable effort, and the microelectronics never is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Well OK then⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And tbf they’d be correct. Best you can hope for is a laugh.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve opening pre-orders for new hardware⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn. Thought they launched something new.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA is full of shit⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re on Windows it’s hard to recommend anything else. Nvidia has DLSS supported in basically every game. For recent games there’s the new transformer DLSS. Add to that ray reconstruction, superior ray tracing, and a steady stream of new features. That’s the state of the art, and if you want it you gotta pay Nvidia. AMD is about 4 years behind Nvidia in terms of features. Intel is not much better. The people who really care about advancements in graphics and derive joy from that are all going to buy Nvidia because there’s no competition.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe someday 😌⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Do these people not ever talk to anyone in real life? How do you arrive at thinking all real humans are Marxists/Leninists?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We live wasted lives⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Once everything has been optimized and runs smoothly, there are no surprises anymore, nothing interesting, you just do a routine that you’ve specialized in and have gotten bored at 10 years ago. Our quality of life is unparalleled. Our quality of work less so. It’s safe and all, but so so boring

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corporations are saving the planet!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the kind of plastic used in bottles is one of very few that actually are profitable to recycle. PET, I think. This is actually something recycling companies want. Most other plastic is just burned or shipped somewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MrBeast scraps AI YouTube thumbnail generator days after announcing it: 'If creators don't want the tools, no worries'⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If his shows aren’t entertaining why are so many people entertained by them? Makes no sense. People may have no taste, but that’s a different issue.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BBC is Getting a Paywall.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Exactly this. Isn’t the point of the BBC world service to communicate/propagandise the British view of what’s happening in the world to other countries? Imagine Russia Today adding a paywall? It’s counter to the entire point! I think you may be on to something about this being a concession to Trump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They used to keep that thing ice cold straight through the 90s.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The tusks know where they are because they know where they are not

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mantis, watch out!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You didn’t have to write this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm sure it's just a coincidence that everything that can be wielded against them either just isn't implemented (good mod tooling) or doesn't work properly (user/instance blocking)⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Would love to block .ml. The stuff coming out of there is just too dumb.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let my Duolingo streak expire cos I don't want to give them any more AI training for free and this popped up 🙄⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d be surprised if anyone has. You need to actually use a language to learn it properly. But an app is a good start and supplement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kid gave a reasonable answer without all the math bullshit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tge principal is not necessarily any smarter than the teachers. Often it’s the opposite.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Console war, console war never changes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda agree, but the consoles already are alternatives to Windows. Don’t really see what’s super special about the Steam Deck, tbh.

  Surprised Microsoft hasn’t made some sort of DRM to prevent Xbox studio games from being played on Proton, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, Intel tried with OneApi. As for AMD they go 5 minutes between every time they shoot themselves in the foot. It’s unbelievable to watch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Taps Palantir to Compile Data on Americans⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If it wasn’t Trump I’d agree. However, getting Palantir involved sounds less like unifying databases than creating a social credit score-kind of system, complete with political opinions and other kinds of sensitive data

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Om nom nom⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s vile

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's play this game again⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The USA.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Drink deep, my loves. As it ever was and will be, this too shall pass⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hydrohominid

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No need to hurt me, GOG :(⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Witness (2016) is a really good puzzler, as is The Talos Principle (2014) (it’s gotten a UE5 remaster now).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When you see danger coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so great and so bad at the same time. We’re gonna have to go back to using tar and shit for things we actually want to last. That’s not going to be cheap…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix will show generative AI ads midway through streams in 2026⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Enshitification is a consequence of legalized dumping. Companies are allowed to dump loss-making profucts and services on the market until they achieve dominance, then they squeeze the users that now have nowhere else to go. In startup-lingo this is blitzscaling followed by monetization. Our competition laws are 30 years behind the curve on this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Every post in Ye Power Tripping Bastards⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Worth noting that the y in “ye” is not actually a y: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_articles

  Tldr: “Ye” is pronounced identically to “the”. The “th” sound used to have its own letter.