Quazatron
@Quazatron@lemmy.world
A peace loving silly coffee-fueled humanoid carbon-based lifeform that likes #cinema #photography #linux #zxspectrum #retrogaming
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 days ago:
No, never they are dead.
- Comment on Its all bots, isn't it? 4 days ago:
The humans are dead
The humans are dead
We used poisonous gases
And we poisoned their arses
(Binary solo)
- Comment on Hand written notes on teams sucks 1 week ago:
Meanwhile, copy/paste is still awfully impaired by random emoji boxes popping up, because of course I want to give a ❤️ to my boss’s Confluence url.
- Comment on The Video-Game Industry Has a Problem: There Are Too Many Games 1 week ago:
I’m still playing Doom, the original!
- Comment on Amnesia creators Frictional are teasing what could be Soma 2 through a sinister luxury hotel website 1 week ago:
Gimme!
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
I feel sad that I can’t boycott these spineless cowards because I haven’t been a customer since forever.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 2 weeks ago:
I’m sure they were not killing each other over imaginary friends, or debating whether mammary glands should banned.
- Comment on Michigan GOP Lawmakers Propose Total Ban on Porn 2 weeks ago:
As a relatively recent country (by European standards), USA did not go through the Middle Age. I guess this is it. Enjoy the public burnings of heretics.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Launches To Mostly Negative Steam Reviews Over Performance Issues And Crashing 3 weeks ago:
Honest question: if the story doesn’t matter that much to you, what do you value in a game?
- Comment on Spotify is finally launching support for lossless music streaming 3 weeks ago:
Exactly what I thought. I’ll keep my Tidal account, thank you very much.
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
If it is clear that the topic is Impressionist art, I would not go. If I buy the ticket to see Expressionism and get Impressionism instead, I would fell upset.
(Actually, I’d go either way, I love art)
- Comment on Hollow Knight: Silksong Sparks Debate About Difficulty and Boss Runbacks 3 weeks ago:
Regarding difficulty: I’ve lived through the 80’s, where difficulty was ramped up to make the game last longer, as you only had precious few kilobytes to fill with content. I’ve grown to hate difficult games.
It is your right as creator to go that way if you wish, but it is my right as player to hate your guts if I buy your game and it kills me over and over again in the first minutes.
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 4 weeks ago:
I feel the same way. I can read really fast and get to the juice of an article faster than it takes for the YouTube video to do through the introduction, sponsors, etc.
- Comment on The longer you live, the harder it becomes. 5 weeks ago:
Think of it as leveling up.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 5 weeks ago:
That’s my point.
Unlimited human stupidity fueled by unending greed.
- Comment on AI Experts No Longer Saving for Retirement Because They Assume AI Will Kill Us All by Then 5 weeks ago:
Why fear artificial intelligence when natural stupidity is so much more powerful?
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 5 weeks ago:
ZFS is your friend.
superuser.com/…/how-exactly-do-btrfs-zfs-and-rela…
But nothing replaces a good backup strategy! Borg backup can help you there.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 5 weeks ago:
I use Jellyfin also.
My workflow is like this: buy CDs from Discogs, rip them to FLAC, adjust filenames, covers and metadata with Picard, push the files to Jellyfin that promptly detects the new files.
I also use Soundconverter in Linux to generate MP3s files for devices that don’t support FLAC.
I’m very happy with this setup and my collection has never been so organized.
- Comment on Spotifies come and Spotifies go, but that folder of badly-sorted MP3s will still be there in the 2050s. 5 weeks ago:
You’ll find that MusicBrainz Picard is a heaven sent tool to properly tag your files, with optional proper renaming.
It takes some getting used to, and I find it works best in whole albums, but produces a much more professional library.
- Comment on Stop children using VPNs to watch porn, ministers told 1 month ago:
I’ve always been fascinated by the lengths puritans will go to prevent kids from seeing mammary glands, while simultaneously being ok with them watching blood and violence.
- Comment on Harvard dropouts to launch ‘always on’ AI smart glasses that listen and record every conversation 1 month ago:
We do what we must because we can.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
It’s always been like that - panem et circenses.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
I feel you, protests in my country are not as effective as french or spanish protests, and usually devolve into large picnics instead.
Because you can’t protest in an empty stomach. On the other hand, now we’re too full to protest. Let’s go home, Benfica is playing today.
- Comment on UK Official Calls for Age Verification on VPNs to Prevent Porn Loophole 1 month ago:
Look, you are the county that came up with hooligan concept. Do try to apply it locally. I’ve seen the french act harsher for pettier reasons.
- Comment on A handful of people are slowly killing over 8 billion people, but we're expected to sit idly by and let it happen 1 month ago:
You’re being pumped full of microplastics, the climate is being shot so you can make funny AI memes.
But glad you’re feeling fine. Keep at it.
- Comment on Chat Control is back & we've got two months to stop the EU CSAM scanning plans. 1 month ago:
Well, they are not, and they will keep trying for as long as it takes.
So stop whining and let them know it’s not fine.
I’ve probably seen this shit more times than you have, but I’m still doing my part.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 1 month ago:
One factor they don’t seem to consider is that they are competing for a finite resource: consumer attention.
There has never been so much content to consume: not only games, movies, series, music, books, podcasts, and even old games.
New games have to compete with and stand above all that content to justify the price.
As others have said, purchase power is down, people subscribe to more services (net, mobile, streaming music and video), all that bites into the available budget to buy games.
Bottom line: it’s getting hard to justify spending that amount on a game you don’t have time to play.
- Comment on UK government suggests deleting files to save water 1 month ago:
The current crop of politicians (not just in the UK) is something else. They keep poking their nose at things that are not their concern and fail spectacularly at fixing things that are (health, housing, employment, education, infrastructures).
- Comment on World's first 'thermodynamic computing chip' reaches tape out 1 month ago:
In the early days of computing, people experimented with different signaling frameworks between electronic components (valves and later transistors). Decimal and ternary were used and abandoned because binary is much easier to implement and noise resistant.
What we do today is simulate non -deterministic (noisy) signals in LLM using deterministic (binary) signals, which is a massively inefficient way to do it.
I expect more chips with a neuron-like architecture will be coming out in the Next few years. It would certainly be a benefit for the environment, as the cat will not get back in the bag
- Comment on AI companion apps are on track to generate $120M+ in revenue in 2025, and in H1 there were 60M downloads of this kind of app, up 88% YoY 1 month ago:
So Marvin was right.
“I’ve calculated your chance of survival, but I don’t think you’ll like it.”