EvilBit
@EvilBit@lemmy.world
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
I was mildly obsessed. It felt like the future! I miss technology like that. I’m kinda excited for all this AR stuff people are talking about because I haven’t really been excited by the latest and greatest shiny black rectangle in a long time.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
Yep. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing, I always say.
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
Thanks! It was a pain to set up the little screen trick but for what it’s worth, I won the contest!
- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 1 week ago:
About 21 years ago (😩) I made a stereoscopic photo for some online contest. I was pretty proud of it.
- Comment on Ultima Underworld: The Stygian Abyss - Closest modern equivalent? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 2 weeks ago:
You replied to “It was modified to make these kinds of responses much more likely” with the rebuttal that it’s “statistical”. When something has a varying degree of likelihood, that’s exactly what statistical means.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 2 weeks ago:
You literally don’t know what the word “statistical” means.
- Comment on Those posts for little home gadgets that show up on social media, kinda like "as seen on tv" stuff but since it's tiktok/insta and other such sites, what would those be called? 2 weeks ago:
I think we can call them astroturfed garbage.
- Comment on Poop In A Box 4 weeks ago:
There’s a VR game that I think has a flat port as well, called The Last Worker. You basically play The Last human working at an obvious Amazon analogue. It’s pretty entertaining.
- Comment on Why was file search much faster in Windows XP than in subsequent versions? 4 weeks ago:
8 was designed terribly, but the engineering was unbelievably good. It was more streamlined and stable than it had ever been, it was just skinned by a tablet-obsessed moron.
- Comment on What's the e-reader you would buy if you were in the market? 5 weeks ago:
As I understand it, Onyx Boox/Palma devices are great, but Onyx is a flagrant violator of GPL FWIW. For a full size reader I always recommend/second the Kobo Libra Colour and for a Palma replacement, the Bigme Hibreak is fantastic and also comes in color for a great price.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 5 weeks ago:
It really was brutal, but in the way that makes you very aware that it’s your fault for sucking at it.
- Comment on Pick-ups from the Vancouver Retro Gaming Expo 5 weeks ago:
I used to sing Sub Terrania’s praises long before it was cool. That game is a gem. The development team was a bunch of demoscene madmen who were able to wring miracles out of the Genesis.
Their later game, Red Zone, is a technological flex like nothing else.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 1 month ago:
Now apply this to like, everything else ever.
Machine designed to convincingly fake human internet conversation sucks at ____________!
- Comment on Winging it 1 month ago:
Reminded me of this old gem, original source sadly lost to the sands of the web.
- Comment on Finished SMW: The Crown Tale 1 month ago:
I assumed as much. :)
Now get outta here, ya Powkiddy
- Comment on Finished SMW: The Crown Tale 1 month ago:
Retroid*
- Comment on Kinda fucked up tbh 1 month ago:
If you like pedantry, people have definitely flown in vehicles and even jumped.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 month ago:
That’s great advice. At least for as long as libraries still exist. 😫
- Comment on Duolingo CEO tries to walk back AI-first comments, fails 1 month ago:
I hear good things about Pimsleur as an alternative.
- Comment on Warhammer 40,000: Dark Heresy - Announcement Trailer 2 months ago:
Excuse my ignorance of genre names, but isn’t Rogue Trader a fully blown Warhammer CRPG?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Republicans: “Hey, you suggested it, but now that we’re thinking about it…”
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
“Own the libs”
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 2 months ago:
True enough, but you’d still be playing legal whack-a-mole because by the letter of the law, you could still be legally relatively poor but have access to an insane amount of money in lots of ways.
- Comment on Judge Rules Apple Senior Executive Lied Under Oath, Makes Criminal Contempt Referral 2 months ago:
In principle, yes, but hiding wealth is also like Rich Bastard 101 stuff.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
Corrected. One pedant point awarded.
- Comment on Hotdog for Scale 2 months ago:
Knowledgeable identification of an insect from the photo with cited reasoning: nice.
Dick joke : 4x the upvotes.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 months ago:
The problem is that the winners don’t share. They exploit the others. That’s exactly what got us here in the first place.
- Comment on How Will We Know If The Trump Tariffs Were A Good Idea? 2 months ago:
Any economist or data scientist should be able to pretty easily compare the economic course to a forecast of what would have happened with minimal interference.
Will we listen? No, because experts don’t count for shit in the US anymore.
- Comment on Pluralistic: The enshittification of tech jobs 2 months ago:
I would say the only silver lining here is that the exploitation of labor puts these giants in a precarious position where all of their critical work is being done by unhappy, extrinsically motivated people who are often only still there because they’re relatively immobile (i.e., they aren’t good enough at their job to find another one easily) or they were kept on because their salary is lower and they’re less experienced. It makes these massively complicated technology ecosystems extremely brittle, which is why software has been shit across the board for the past decade or so. It’s possible there will be a pendulum swing if and when quality becomes an attainable and marketable feature again.
