demonsword
@demonsword@lemmy.world
random bald, fat, middle-aged Brazillian guy
- Comment on DVDs and public transit: Boycott drives people to ditch Big Tech to protest ICE 2 days ago:
This would only work if the supposed payload targeted a vulnerability in a media player. I might be wrong but I’ve never heard of one such vulnerability. And since there are so many different media players out there, such attack would not compromise as many people that other more efficient attack vectors could
- Comment on Nvidia might not have any new gaming GPUs in 2026 — and could be 'slashing production' of existing GeForce models 2 days ago:
Or code your own, it’s simple to code a simple game.
This might be enough for anyone that only enjoys tic-tac-toe or maybe checkers.
- Comment on The new Microsoft copilot key is impossible to properly remap. 2 days ago:
this is the truly Alienware keyboard
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 week ago:
I’m more closed-minded. Billionaires shouldn’t exist, period. What I’d like to do to the existing ones cannot be posted here because that would entail be banned from the community.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 1 week ago:
why stop there, let’s go 640k TV, that ought to be enough for anyone
- Comment on VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files 1 week ago:
#nano4life
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Is Wikipedia's Volunteer Model Facing a Generational Crisis? 1 week ago:
I used to complain that regular people can’t write a single page of text. Regular people nowadays can’t read a single page of text… our society is devolving, fast.
- Comment on A WhatsApp bug lets malicious media files spread through group chats 1 week ago:
Not everyone uses this shit willingly. I’m forced to because of my job, for instance.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Microslop played the long game when they bought github
- Comment on Games that have now or will be turned 40, 30, 20 and 10 years old as of 2026 1 week ago:
fuck I’m old
- Comment on US controls 90% of AI chip markets and produces far more advanced AI models than China, yet it has lost much of manufacturing capacity needed to build at scale and depends on rivals for materials 2 weeks ago:
America could come up with a miracle drug that cures every disease known to man
And then the average USAling would never be able to afford that drug even if bankrupting themselves. And your big pharma would also keep it out of the hands of most of the world by patenting it and keeping the price artificially high. And you’d all still boast that you discovered that miracle drug and all the rest of the world is inferior to you.
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 2 weeks ago:
I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the dark ages.
Fair enough, let me rephrase that:
I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the bronze age.
- Comment on Ubisoft initiates colossal restructure to become a more 'gamer-centric' company 3 weeks ago:
The publisher is restructuring around five ‘creative houses’ by implementing cost-cutting, project cancellations, and a return-to-office mandate.
“We’ll become gamer-centric by fucking our employees even more”
- Comment on Nvidia accused of trying to cut a deal with Anna’s Archive for high‑speed access to the massive pirated book haul — allegedly chased stolen data to fuel its LLMs 3 weeks ago:
pumping oil out of pubic lands
this sounds really painful lol
- Comment on Your Brain on ChatGPT: Accumulation of Cognitive Debt when Using an AI Assistant for Essay Writing Task – MIT Media Lab 3 weeks ago:
I mean this feels like an obvious result.
I’m glad scientists think otherwise, or we would still be living in the dark ages.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 3 weeks ago:
not OP but I believe they’re “soft” in the sense that they don’t have moats/high electric fences/battalions of armed guards around 24/7
- Comment on Opera: A Legacy Browser Lost | Why the modern hollow shell of Opera has made it impossible for me to recommend a former favorite. 3 weeks ago:
an old user who hates to change his ways
Ain’t we all? this is why I use MATE btw
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
Just like with watershed TV/movie/music, it seems quaint and overhyped as their innovations become the norm.
There is even a trope that describes that
- Comment on Ubisoft target audience when they play a good game 3 weeks ago:
If you launch the game outside steam the time isn’t accounted. I know this because I love playing Timespinner with a randomizer. Inside steam I have 40h of played time. If the timer counted my randomizer sessions I’d have at least 4x that
- Comment on Ed Zitron on big tech, backlash, boom and bust: ‘AI has taught us that people are excited to replace human beings’ 3 weeks ago:
All these involve learning and maintaining skills more removed from power than skills of more industrial professions (monotonous work).
I tend to disagree. There is something gratifying in making something with your own hands/tools. I could buy a table, or a drawer, or a pre-built computer. But I kinda enjoy making/assembling mine own. There are other people out there that enjoy gardening, and plenty other “monotonous work”.
- Comment on ChatGPT Gave Teen Advice to Get Higher on Drugs Until He Died | Futurism 3 weeks ago:
If two guys are hanging out and one says “hey I think I think I should take more drugs” and the other says “hell yeah brother do it” they aren’t responsible if the first guy ODs
They are indirectly responsible. Dangerously close, depending on circumstances, of being criminally responsible.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 3 weeks ago:
But today’s money doesn’t really have any frontiers our boundaries. If a corp is being openly traded in the stock market, it belongs to the very same assholes that own the americans megacorps.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 3 weeks ago:
No, I actually loved her at first. Then it turned out she only ever wanted me for money.
Sad to hear that. I hope you meet someone better in the future
- Comment on Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware 3 weeks ago:
You can reach 1 million in assets over a decade or so as a middle class worker.
This might be true in a rich 1st world country. For a small subset of “middle class worker”, most live paycheck to paycheck, barely scraping by.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 3 weeks ago:
Capitalism, when unchecked, tends to create those giant monopolies you’ve mentioned. It is capitalism at its end game, total consolidation.
- Comment on AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage | Cory Doctorow 3 weeks ago:
and he’s just repeating himself ad nauseum
this is usually how you build mindshare of anything
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 3 weeks ago:
I only browsed to see if using “services” would be cheaper than the upkeep on my ex was. It would be.
This is quite the misogynistic take, dude. Did you marry only to fuck someone? People usually marry for many reasons beyond just sex. Love, companionship, shared dreams.
- Comment on Make Microsoft's CEO cry by installing Chrome's 'Microslop' extension 3 weeks ago:
not OP, but I’m almost certain that’s xkcd (and it’s an antique for sure)
- Comment on Wine 11 runs Windows apps in Linux and macOS better than ever 3 weeks ago:
on average that’s the expected outcome, but sometimes there’s a regression here and there for specific apps