aesthelete

@aesthelete@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s awesome. I always wondered why more computers didn’t add support for that in general.

  I’ve seen dongle-style things to add CEC support, but I heard mixed things about those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I didn't verify the headline.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Apply holy water to deactivate the magnet

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the steam machine supports hdmi cec.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Xfinity has an outage, I don’t pay for those days. The government’s been shut down for 39 days so can I pay 39 days less in taxes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It is being run like a business: poorly. Exactly how most businesses run.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's a recent game you've tried playing that isn't worth the hype?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  All of the games you listed here were pretty under hyped IMO except for perhaps Silksong.

  I understand this is all subjective, but I think you’re leaning toward like indie gaming hipster material with this comment…and that’s my opinion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And if AI is going to be the last straw, how long can we put it off for? Could it pop next year or can we still hold it off for another decade with even more ludicrous number-fuckery? I think that’s where the trick is going to be.

  The thing that boggles my mind in all of this is the possibility that Trump installs some absolute tool bag in at the Fed and then just has the federal reserve bail out all of the bad investments. It’d mean probably hyperinflation, but who cares about normal shmucks trying to live a life? It’s much more important to pay the genius, scammy billionaires so they can keep their mega yachts gassed and assed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Big Short Guy Just Bet $1 Billion That the AI Bubble Pops⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember the news reporting about record breaking amounts of loan defaults in like 2007 as well. The signs were all there, but people were too oblivious or high on their own supply of farts to see them.

  Anytime people are like “we couldn’t see this coming” I never understand why they are allowed to pass that obvious lie off in public.

  The AI bubble signs are in plain view literally everywhere you look right now. If (or much more likely when) it bursts everyone will be talking about how they couldn’t possibly see it coming again.

  If people say they couldn’t see this shit coming, maybe their myopic asses shouldn’t be in charge of things ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨sushi delivery⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah seered tuna is awesome

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I get very good sound out of class d amplifiers. They’re cheap; they’re energy efficient, and they usually pack in features for digital formats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re not wrong that AI makes human style mistakes, but a human can learn, or at least generally doesn’t have to be taught the same fucking lesson at least once a week for a year (or gets fired well before then).

  This is the point nobody seems to get. Especially people that haven’t worked with the technology.

  It just does not have the ability to learn in any meaningful way. A human can learn a new technique and move to master simple new techniques in a couple of hours. AI just keeps falling back on its training data no matter how many times you tell it to stop. It has no other option. It would need to be re-trained with better material in order to consistently do what you want it to do, but nobody is really re-training these things…they’re using the “foundational” models and at most “fine-tuning” them…and fine-tuning only provides a quickly punctured facade…it eventually falls back to the bulk of its learning material.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is my take with it too. They seem to be good at creating “high fidelity” mock-ups, and creating a basic framework for something, but try to even get them to change a background color or something and they just lie to you.

  They’re basically a good tool for stubbing stuff out for a web application…which, it’s insane that we had to jump through all of these hoops and spend unknown billions in order to get that. At this point, I would assume that we have a rapid application development equivalent for web apps…but maybe not.

  All of the “frameworks” involved in front-end application delivery certainly don’t seem to provide any benefit of speeding up development cycles. Front-end development seems worse today than when I used to be a full-time full stack engineer (and I had fucking IE6 to contend with at the time).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was no need to ever improve upon THIS⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My car is still mainly like this.

  It has a touchscreen thing but it’s only for the entertainment and it has steering wheel controls as well so there’s an alternative to using the screen while driving.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, not really. This is lemmy. Nobody hears you scream here.

  I also forgot I even posted this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Corcoran Group CEO says Gen Z’s housing market struggles mirror what boomers faced 30 years ago: ‘Stop buying Starbucks coffee,’ she advises⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no idea who this person is nor why I would possibly give a shit what she has to say about anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft builds on Recall with Gaming Copilot — fails basic privacy tests⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s great we really need to get the AIs playing the game for me so I’ll have more time to spend on things I enjoy: like standing in the bread line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is making every Windows 11 PC an AI PC⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s obvious that Windows and Microsoft remain as evil as they were in the 00s when they basically singlehandedly held back web development with ie6 for a fucking decade.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The aws outage is so funny, I can see which companies are amazon scums.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Is atlassian scum? Confluence was acting all kinds of fucking terrible today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are AI companies suddenly opening up coffee shops?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I sense my IT career is over

  Me too. Honestly, even if it never deflates I think long term I’m out.

  Is there anything we can do with these skills other than enrich billionaire tech bro assholes? I tried very briefly tonight to look for nonprofits that are looking for software people and saw nothing but search engine mismatches.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You will own nothing and love it feudal peasants!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech CEO Hanneke Faber wants an AI agent in every board meeting⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This lady seems like such a fucking idiot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Nah I’m good I don’t dig talking to inanimate objects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re like an idea a twelve year old Steve Jobs / Jony Ive wannabe would come up with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Rules Could Force Tesla to Redesign Its Door Handles. That’s Harder Than It Sounds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate fucking “flush handles”. Good riddance to terrible garbage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We'll never have anything like the DVD screensaver ever again⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Stuff like this had to be killed as part of the corporate initiative to never allow anyone to have a moment’s worth of peace ever again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A key difference here is that Framework is trying to build a “community”. At least some of their value depends upon community if you think about it for a bit (e.g., if nobody uses the marketplaces, they’d be empty of goods and a lot of the point is lost).

  If they center assholes as being representative of what the community is about, they naturally exclude others by doing so.

  It’s easy to take the “can’t we all just get along?” stance with this, but some things require a little more reasoning and philosophy than platitudes.

  What good is a big tent if most normal people left the tent because you let someone stand on stage at the tent’s center and go on long, racist tirades?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Any swifties here to verify this?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It probably works with both meanings (and is a bit cringey because of that), but I kinda read it as she’s talking about him overall as being kind of a redwood tree…which would make sense, because he’s 6’5" tall and 250lbs. That’s a pretty massive dude…probably from both angles.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I get no longer supporting products, but bricking them?

  I think what’s happening in the background here is these “Internet of Trash” devices hook to cloud infrastructure for which the business no longer wants to pay.

  If they were interested in actually building something useful, they would open up their API layers and add a way to link them to different services. But since they don’t give a fuck about you as a customer, and they plan poorly as a business, instead they code everything so that it is hopelessly coupled (probably through hard-coded things up to and including certificates) with specific garbage they made, and impossible to move to anything else, and then they brick your shit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI video generation will have tonnes and tonnes of crap, but it will also have masterpieces.

  Doubt.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework supporting far-right racists?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To use another example, a musician might be known to be an asshole during their lifetime. Then they die. Is it harmful to listen to their music if you’re not contributing anything to their estate or their estate isn’t run by similar assholes? It’s debatable and a gray area, but I’d probably say no in most circumstances.

  How about if they’re known to be an asshole and you buy their albums anyway, you go to their concerts, and you loudly pronounce on social media how you support them and that their work is great? That’s a much easier case to make to say, yes, you’re being harmful.

  You’re supporting someone who is an asshole, and you’re doing–at least–two types of harm:

  (1) you’re demonstrating tolerance for shitty behavior which does not provide a good negative reinforcement to correct the shitty behavior, and

  (2) you’re positively reinforcing the shitty behavior through your support

  It might be more nuanced if there were higher stakes involved, such as if the good belying this debate was of crucial need to help along a much larger good cause. But that’s where particulars matter. These contributions these assholes are making are not solving world hunger. They’re nerdy little Linux bits.

  Use the bullshit all you want, but for fuck’s sake stop materially supporting and going on a promotional tour with the villains that made it.