Red_October

@Red_October@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump signs executive order targeting flag burning⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You assume the constitution means anything anymore. It doesn’t, this administration treats it like an obstacle that will inevitably be overcome and can be ignored in the meantime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Evolution: 🖕⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  He’ll probably be pretty impressed and offer a high five.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam: Updates to User Review Scores Based on Language⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It really sounds like you’ve misunderstood what this change is actually doing. This isn’t steam forcing you to use a particular language, those settings aren’t going anywhere. It’s also not going to force you to see reviews in the game’s native language either, so your worry about “french reviews of French games made in france” is just… wrong. What it’s doing is sorting reviews by language, under the idea that reviews written in the language you use are probably more relevant to you. And if even that is unacceptable, you can disable the whole system to keep it just the way it is.

  This actually means you’re MORE likely to get reviews that are more accurate. First, because it limits the impact of regional review bombing. Now if a game upsets one particular population, their review bombing doesn’t render the whole score meaningless. It’s worth pointing out, games have been heavily review bombed for the sin of competing with, or beating, other regionally popular games for awards. It also means that if the content of a game hits better, or worse, for a demographic based on language, that will be reflected here. If the game is getting rave reviews where it was made, but the translations and voice work for YOUR localization are terrible, you will see reviews that reflect that. You probably don’t care how great the voice acting was in the native Chinese version if you only speak English, and what may seem culturally brilliant to a Japanese audience may lose a lot of the impact for you.

  I just want to use my currency and being able to just speak English.

  This change was made with you in mind.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Still Can't Say How Much the ROG Xbox Ally X Will Cost Due to "Macro-Economic" Conditions, Despite Announcing Release Date and Availability Details(Leaked prices $549.99/$899 for Ally/Ally )⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah they can’t say because who fucking knows what tariffs will or won’t be in place next week, much less when the thing launches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton claim former Subnautica 2 leads have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Even that assumes Krafton is telling the truth, and there’s really just no reason to assume they are.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Krafton claim former Subnautica 2 leads have "resorted to litigation to demand a payday they haven't earned"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s certainly an… interesting… approach to handling the PR on this issue. Maybe it might have worked better if this was the first story out about it, but it’s a little late for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but are any AI chatbots really open source? Isn’t half the headache with LLMs the fact that there comes a point where it’s basically impossible for even the authors to decode the tangled madness of their machine learning?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How abnormal is it for a mother to be her son a fleshlight for his 18th birthday?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay but also giving a kid a sex toy before their 18th birthday is how you end up on a list and have to tell your neighbors about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Itch delisted ALL Nsfw games, rather than sorting and qualifying content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Helion Secures Land and Begins Building on the Site of World’s First Fusion Power Plant⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well that’s certainly optimistic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨change_org⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Well signatures and phone calls only go so far. When it comes to big, serious, literal life or death issues, petitions just aren’t going to get the job done and it becomes pretty pointless to waste your energy on that particular course of action.

  Similarly, it’s pretty shitty to act like action on smaller issues means we’re just ignoring bigger issues. Your concern for Idaho’s treatment of disabled kids isn’t instead of wanting Israel’s genocide to stop or the Ukraine war to end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK Government responded to the "Repeal the Online Safety Act" Petition.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So peaceful words aren’t working? Well alright, sounds like it’s time for plan B.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Last Epoch developer Eleventh Hour Games gets acquired by KRAFTON⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That doesn’t really read to me like a good sign. If Krafton is willing to do what they did to Subnautica’s team, then basically no contract they sign is worth the paper it’s written on. Seeing them effectively murder their own project and dismantle a proven successful developer like this doesn’t inspire confidence that they’ll be more graceful in handling others.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just a reminder that one out of three calories produced in the US gets thrown away because of shit like this⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably not really. Their reasons are likely to be exactly what they stated, a weak attempt to keep costs down. They’re not cackling villains twirling their mustaches in glee at the power they hold over their peons, they’re just greedy. They want the red number on the spreadsheet to be smaller, they don’t care how much misery it causes. When it comes down to it, the behaviors of the owner-class can just about ALWAYS be explained, and predicted, by the simple measure of “What makes more profit.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does anyone else find it suspicious that there wasn't any criticism on here about Stop Killing Games until after it hit 1.4M signatures?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think suspicious is the wrong word. Suspicious seems to suggest doubt or a lack of certainty, but the criticism is pretty predictable. Industry forces could afford to ignore it when it looked impossible to get the signatures, but now that the signatures are in the bag they’re having to take a different tactic.

  SOME of the criticism is certainly genuine and exactly what it appears to be at face value, but it was inevitable that those doubts would be artificially boosted now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If government hackers can infiltrate big companies, why not hack normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If I went to all the trouble of hacking you and I emptier your bank account and savings, I’d get $12.

  If I emptied Sony’s accounts, not only would I have potentially millions or more, but I could also get industrial secrets that could be worth even more, or possibly could be used to further my own electronics industry.

  One of these isn’t worth the effort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You seem to have missed the point. Whether or not you think that would be an easy job, the whole reason you’d be there is to be the one that takes all the blame when the autopilot kills someone. It will be your name, your face, every single record of your past mistakes getting blasted on the news and in court because Elon’s shitty vanity project finally killed a real child instead of a test dummy. You’ll be the one having to explain to a grieving family just how hard it is to actually pay complete attention every moment of every day, when all you’ve had to do before is just sit there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This technology purely exists to make human drivers redundant and put the money in the hands of big tech and eventually the ruling class composed off of politicians risk averse capitalists and beurocracy. There is no other explanation for robo taxis to exist.

  There is another reason, though, and it’s much simpler. Basic greed.

  There are people who see the opportunity to make more money for themselves, so they’ll do it. When it comes to robo taxis, they’re not interested in class struggles, it’s not about politics, their interest in making human drivers redundant extends only so far as increasing their customer base. These aren’t Machiavellian schemers rubbing their hands together and cackling at their dark designs coming to fruition, it’s just assholes in suits who’s one and only concern is “number go up.”

  Even when it comes to their politics and to the class dynamics, their end goal is always the same. Number go up. They don’t care about what harm it could do. They’re not intent on deliberately doing more harm, they give no thought to doing less harm, they do not care. All that drives them, ever, is Number Go Up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Freaks Out and Drives into Oncoming Traffic on First Day⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember guys, Tesla wants to have a living person sitting behind the wheel for “safety.” Don’t YOU want to get paid minimum wage to sit in a car all day, paying attention but doing nothing unless it’s about to crash, at which point you’ll be made the scapegoat for not preventing the crash?

  Welcome to the future, you’re gonna hate it here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the fuck⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think a big part of why it’s funny is because the original was so very NOT funny. It was such an intensely dark shift in tone, a deliberately serious dramatic beat, in a comic that was all silly fun, completely unexpected and out of place.

  If it was just a miscarriage joke then yeah it’d just be purely fucked up, and pretty quickly forgotten. It’s the meta context that turns the whole thing into more of a joke than any single comic could tell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  OK boomer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Outer Worlds 2 Can't Be Anti-Capitalist When It's Charging Us $80 To Play It⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Clearly they should just make their own coffee and cut the avocado toast right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG One-Click Mods | New era of modding begins⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So they added one thing, but you’re complaining they haven’t added literally every other improvement you can imagine?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oh noes!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe if we’re lucky they’ll all fall in the pit and disappear together!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the thing that made it blindingly obvious was that it was a 30 second video of a tall truck driving full tilt toward a low bridge, so obviously something was about to happen!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Sealed Copy Of Fallout 3 DLC Is Selling For Over $2,000, And Fans Have No Idea Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is it SELLING for that price? Or is it LISTED for that price? I could put my beat up left shoe up for sale for $10,000 if I wanted to, but until someone actually buys it at that price, which nobody will, it’s meaningless.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mom sues porn sites (Including Chaturbate, Jerkmate, Superporn and Hentaicity) for noncompliance with Kansas age assurance law; Teen can no longer enjoy life after mom caught him visiting Chaturbate⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well the kid definitely can’t enjoy life now that his mom caught him and put him on blast in front of the entire nation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Cars Don't All Come With Dipsticks Anymore, Here's Why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Engineer was also told they would get a bonus if they could make maintenance more common and more expensive under the guise of improved technology.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The World's First Mass-Produced Flying Car Is Here and It Costs $1 Million⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Investors and venture capitalists fronting money and riding the Hype-Go-Round, but when the music stops and the lights go out someone’s going to be out a shitload of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem isn’t one of motivated learners being forced to drag their heels amidst their unmotivated peers.

  The problem is that the core function of LLMs, the whole basis for their existence, is completely and entirely truth-agnostic. Not only do they not know what is the truth and what is not, they don’t even know what the difference is. LLMs are very good at guessing what word looks like it should come next, they can make very convincing statements, they can be very persuasive, but those words don’t MEAN anything to the machine and they are made without any consideration for accuracy.

  They are literally making everything up on the basis of whether or not it sounds good, and every crackpot bullshit conspiracy theory from flat earth dumbshittery to very sincere-sounding arguments that birds aren’t real have been included in the training data. That all linguistically SOUNDS fine, so to an LLM it’s fair game!

  And even curating your training data to ONLY contain things like textbooks wouldn’t cure the problem, because LLMs just aren’t capable of knowing what those words mean. It’s why they can’t do even basic Math, the one thing Computers have been incredible at!

  Using an LLM as an actual teacher is genuinely worse than no education at all, because it will just create a generation that, instead of knowing nothing, will very confidently be wrong all the time.