vithigar

@vithigar@lemmy.ca

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never understood the hate for Aloy. She was at worst bland with a pretty heavy helping of “I’m better at everything because I’m the main character”, but she’s hardly alone in that, and it doesn’t usually attract that much ire.

  I really didn’t understand the complaints that she was unattractive or even outright ugly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is already pretty close to how many EVs are designed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok, boomer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Average annual family income in the US is around $80k/a. Are you seriously suggesting that families should be looking for homes in the $20k to $30k range? What kind of home, exactly, do you think you get for that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Soon...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “me at my parents age” is in the future.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fucking idiots⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does the extra fuel you used hauling around your entire launch vehicle not count as waste?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, sure, if the writers wanted to put the chip in something else they could write different lore about what it does, granted. In the same spirit of “How do you kill a vampire? However you want.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The chip specifically interacts with human brains on a biological level. It’s not an AI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any games you don't play as it was intended to be played? If so, what game and how?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think they could. The chip isn’t a normal program that any old computer can run.

  Biochip

  The chip needs a brain onto which it can imprint its stored engrams. Its not a normal chip and it’s specifically made to interact with a human brain in experimental ways. At best it would just do nothing if plugged into a fridge, like installing drivers for hardware you don’t have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyday AI looks more like the '08 housing bubble⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re all paying each other. That’s literally the point this image is trying to express.

  What’s especially insane is that the companies that are actually providing the service to end users, i.e. Coreweave et al, are not the ones seeing massively inflated prices, contrary to your point about the monthly fees justifying the higher evaluation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨reddit chatroom⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This isn’t probing though. Probing would be like… mentioning some anime that featured fan service of questionably aged characters and gauging the response.

  This is just straight up announcing yourself.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A ‘demoralizing' trend has computer science grads out of work — even minimum wage jobs. Are 6-figure tech careers over?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Same. I use it very occasionally for parenthetical phrases because I just think it’s the most appealing way to do so.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reddit had no monetary cost.

  It’s much easier to stick to a boycott when it requires a layer of active acceptance and payment to acquiesce.

  Reddit is just… there. A query on basically any search engine is going to serve you up reddit links, and clicking one of them costs you nothing.* Even you don’t have to commit to the decision there’s far less resistance to backsliding.

  ^*Yes, I know, there is a privacy and personal content/traffic cost. We both know that’s not what I’m talking about.^

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU Chat Control: Germany's position has been reverted to UNDECIDED⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m sorry, did you just “no actually” someone who was espousing books as disconnected entertainment?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in a similar boat. Pledged but it’s been years since I gave them money and I’m not really following it closely anymore. Can’t say I ever felt like a rube though, backing a crowdfunded project is always a gamble to some degree, and that money was so long ago that any impact on my situation from having it or not has long since faded.

  I’m a little disappointed in the date potentially being pushed back, but it’s not like I marked it on my calendar or anything. If they had said nothing and the date just slipped by I probably wouldn’t even notice if no one else brought it up.

  I’ll play S42 if/when it comes out, and probably even enjoy it, but I’m not chomping at the bit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #3141: Mantle Model⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In theory yes, but once you have multiple particles interacting things get really complicated really fast and nice tidy interference patterns like in the double slit experiment become much less common.

  All atoms are multiple particles at quantum scales, even a single hydrogen atom is comprised of four.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex got hacked.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Encryption and hashing are different things. You can’t get the original back out of a secure hash. They’re used only to confirm that whatever piece of data you have now matches the one that was provided originally, because they produce the same hash. You can’t store hashes for any data that you ever want to be able to read.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a whole genre! ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s also really bad even for AI.

  Not only would it have been really, really easy to find a non-AI image, it would have been similarly easy to get better results from image gen. It’s like they went out of their way to find the worst slop possible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that sounds ridiculous, since I can “simply not use them,” but I want to spend my money on an appliance, not a consumer data collection tool.

  For what it’s worth you’re actually spending the manufacturer’s money (or at least some of their profit margin) on a data collection device that they won’t get to use.

  Smart devices are cheaper because the data collection subsidizes them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I won’t stand for this PowerShell superhero comic erasure.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair point. Which I guess changes my reasoning from “I don’t watch them because they’re bad at games” to “I don’t watch them because they are insufferable clowns”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is basically why I can’t watch any “variety” streamers. They are, without exception, absolutely awful at learning new games or even just understanding what’s happening on screen.

  You’d think that would be antithetical to having your livelihood hinge on playing a wide swathe of games, but here we are.

  Steamers that focus on a specific game/genre thankfully tend to have some idea what they’re doing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who is the enemy?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t even have those anymore and now their absence is causing problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Tycho, of Penny Arcade, actually had some words on this subject around the time the PC version of Stellar Blade came out and people were up in arms about it. I’ll quote it here because I think it’s a good passage.

  I used to say that I grew up Christian, but I think it’s probably more accurate to say Evangelical, especially now that more people might know what I’m talking about. Sex was VERY naughty and we needed to be constantly on the lookout for incursions of this secular, demonic, but also somehow worryingly inherent force…? Breaking that pernicious notion down and enabling people to express themselves was the project I thought I’d more or less seen completed. Now it’s come around some weird bend, with precisely the same energy as before, except now it’s being done for the correct reasons. It can’t possibly be this dumb. And yet!

  It’s incredibly fucking boring to have the tail end of the revolution you saw win shame the tools that gave them victory, dust off a bunch of regressive shit, and then have the pluck to feel righteous about it.

  It sort of mirrors my own experience (minus the evangelical upbringing). I definitely recall a period of general sex-positivity that has now come around some strange turn whereby the very same voices are admonishing people for daring to enjoy sexy things.

  It’s very strange.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Compute will become pervasive, as in Windows experiences are going to use a combination of capabilities that are local and that are in the cloud.

  …what does Davuluri think “pervasive” means?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Is Now Being Sued Over Sunsetting Windows 10⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m in exactly the same boat. Five linux machines in the house plus two windows gaming rigs, mine and my partners.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Which way?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I had a lot of trouble with this and in my case I just have weirdly curved nails. Viewed from the front my big toe nails are basically half-circles, so any pressure at all pushes them edge first into my toe.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft CFO calls for 'intensity' in an internal memo, after blowout earnings⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It goes a layer further than that even. If the rate at which that growth is happening isn’t itself growing then investors start getting nervous.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Chatbots Remain Overconfident — Even When They’re Wrong: Large Language Models appear to be unaware of their own mistakes, prompting concerns about common uses for AI chatbots.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The use of language like “unaware” when people are discussion LLMs drives me crazy. LLMs aren’t “aware” of anything. They do not have a capacity for awareness in the first place.

  People need to stop taking about them using terms that imply thought or consciousness, because it subtly feeds into the idea that they are capable of such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right? The fact that this is an extra bit of tracking information I don’t want makes this an easy sell for anyone looking for a reason to do this, but for me it’s because it just makes links uglier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla Robotaxi Stops Mid-Intersection After Running a Red Light… The Influencer Onboard Calls It “Impressive”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Raising a question means what you think it does. Bringing up a question which is a natural consequence or follow-up to a previously stated point.

  The original meaning of begging the question is quite different and is a form of circular argument where the premise of an argument already assumes its conclusion is correct.