kibiz0r
@kibiz0r@midwest.social
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Honestly, the difficulty curve on HZD feels like a sine wave sometimes.
Cuz:
- You do simply get stronger over time
- You also improve your use of tactics over time
- You also gain access to new tactics
- But they introduce much stronger machines too
- But a lot of a machine’s strength can be mitigated by approaching it with the right tactics
- But they also deliberately put you in situations where you can’t use the easy tactics
- But they also put you in situations where you can use the easy tactics, against a ton of very strong machines
So depending on how quickly you hit the skill ceiling on using your available tactics, how much you like to grind, how reliable your multi-tasking is, and your basic “twitch skills”, you might get a skewed perspective at any point along the way.
I don’t think there’s any harm in changing the difficulty back and forth (not sure). So maybe just go with whatever feels comfy at the moment?
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 days ago:
Dragon Quest Builders 2, inspired by FOMO over Pokopia.
Also continuing Horizon Zero Dawn for the third time. Just hard mode, but I kinda feel like I could do very hard.
- Comment on Fascism bad. 4 days ago:
A man
A plan
Amygdala
- Comment on Fascism bad. 4 days ago:
Fear is, famously, an excellent impetus for rational decision-making.
- Comment on Middle East war strengthens case for renewables, say clean energy experts 5 days ago:
The bonkers thing is: if you wanted to attack Iran, as the US, you’d need to be willing to cut ties to the GCC.
That means investing in renewables, having a way to stabilize USD without the petrodollar (global free trade with big trade deficits is a good way), and keeping energy demand fairly predictable.
Instead we got: repealing investments in renewables, tariffs, and spiking energy demands due to reckless data center build-outs.
- Comment on meow meow meow 1 week ago:
~pe~e^2^n~e~
- Comment on iykyk 🪰 2 weeks ago:
“But it feels good”
- Comment on Zero-hour contracts(Zero-hours contracts let employers hire staff with no guarantee of work, with employees only offered the hours for which they are needed) reach new record high 2 weeks ago:
“Flexible labor” is a euphemism for “derisking capital” (Cory Doctorow)
- Comment on Badabadeedabadie! 3 weeks ago:
He’s even got some yellow as a backup
- Comment on UK ad agencies undergo their biggest exodus of staff as AI threatens industry 4 weeks ago:
Classic example of what Cal Newport calls “vibes reporting”.
No quotes from agencies saying “we fired people because of AI”, but if you put “people got fired” and “AI threatens jobs” next to each other, you can get the reader to assume a more salacious story without technically lying.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
Oviraptor
Oiaptor
Overaptoreye twitch
- Comment on mullberry figs 5 weeks ago:
When the moon hits your knees
And you mispronounce trees
Sycamore - Comment on If God had wanted us to have nearly unlimited clean energy, He would have placed a fusion reactor into the sky. 5 weeks ago:
It’s massively impractical. You’re never gonna believe it.
These things require silicon (good luck finding sand!), but they’re mostly glass and aluminum (ridiculously rare substances that we can’t use willy-nilly on stuff that only lasts for 25 years, and then how are we gonna recycle that? we have no idea how to recycle glass and aluminum!), and then to make it scalable you’re gonna want some safe battery technology like sodium-ion (but where are we gonna find a bunch of salt on this blue planet?)
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 1 month ago:
Season 2 is coming! Probably late 2026.
- Comment on 'They saw them on their dishes when eating': The mushroom making people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans 1 month ago:
It’s Common Side Effects IRL
- Comment on Deep Time 1 month ago:
Looking at the state of the world… you might be right.
- Comment on It's barely a science. 1 month ago:
Of course it is! We’re just animals, after all. Is documenting the behavior of different species of beetles a science? The only difference is that we can replicate behavior through culture, not just genes.
- Comment on Deep Time 1 month ago:
Chronologically, sure. But are years really the appropriate measure of accuracy here? Biological evolution moves a lot slower than cultural or technological evolution does.
- Comment on I'm good, thanks 1 month ago:
- Comment on UK Wants All iPhones to Block Explicit Images Unless You Prove Age 2 months ago:
eff.org/…/age-verification-wont-protect-children
Imo, if you wanna protect kids from big tech, you gotta make their abusive business practices unprofitable. Enforce antitrust, make it legal to circumvent digital locks, require interoperability. Basically: restore competition.
- Comment on Bread mold 3 months ago:
It’s stabs all the way down
- Comment on Why do I always have "dreams" that give me anxiety (aka: nightmares)? Why do I never just get to re-live my happy memories in my dreams? Wtf brain?!? This is outrageous! It's unfair! 3 months ago:
You must have done something bad to deserve this. Trying thinking about everything bad you’ve ever done. That’ll help.
- Comment on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ 3 months ago:
The seal looks like this:
Code completion is probably a gray area.
Those models generally have much smaller context windows, so the energy concern isn’t quite as extreme.
You could also reasonably make a claim that the model is legally in the clear as far as licensing, if the training data was entirely open source (non-attribution, non-share-alike, and commercial-allowed) licensed code.
That said, I think the general sentiment is less “what the technology does” and more “who it does it to”. Code completion, for the most part, isn’t deskilling labor, or turning experts into accountability sinks.
Like, I don’t think the Luddites would’ve had a problem with an artisan using a knitting frame in their own home. They were too busy fighting against factories locking children inside for 18-hour shifts, getting maimed by the machines or dying trapped in a fire.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
For a majority of men, probably, but not an overwhelming majority. Which still leaves a ton of people you could be compatible with.
Don’t overthink it and try to be something you’re not. Just take your time, get to know people, be curious and honest. Stay true to yourself. Don’t apologize and adapt just because you assume you have to.
You’re not trying to date everyone, just the right one. So why bother with what the rest think?
You’ll find someone that “just works” with who you already are. When you do, your dynamic with come naturally as a result of your unique relationship, and it won’t be precisely the same as any timeshare sex model you might have tried to plan ahead on Lemmy.
- Comment on Downdetector is down 3 months ago:
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 3 months ago:
I hate this timeline so much
- Comment on Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss 3 months ago:
Like AI companies care about business ethics
- Comment on LLMDeathCount.com 3 months ago:
only a tool
“The essence of technology is by no means anything technological”
Every tool contains within it a philosophy — a particular way of seeing the world.
But especially digital technologies… they give the developer the ability to embed their values into the tools. Like, is DoorDash just a tool?
- Comment on You don't even need the other 4 points. You're fine. 3 months ago:
“Is the stress of late-stage capitalism making you unproductive? Here are some ways to improve your efficiency without questioning the underlying logic of the system.”
- Comment on The 512KB Club is a collection of performance-focused web pages from across the Internet. To qualify your website must both be actually useful and under 512KB in size. 4 months ago:
Those additional requests will reuse the existing connection, so they’ll have more bandwidth at that point.
