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- Comment on Kids 3 months ago:
Is there a higher resolution version?
- Comment on Linux Mint 22 released: An attractive option for migrating away from Windows | Windows 11 system requirements block millions of PCs from upgrading, while Linux Mint continues to work on older hardware 3 months ago:
I switched to Mint for my new PC a few months ago. There are a handful of games that don’t work on it, but they’re few and far between.
- Comment on YouTube tests server-side ads to make your coveted blocker obsolete 3 months ago:
I’m in the same boat. There are a lot of parts of the Internet that should be free, but YouTube is not one of them. Video hosting is one of the most resource intensive services around, and if we as consumers aren’t paying for it they’ll find a worse way to fund it.
- Comment on 77% Of Employees Report AI Has Increased Workloads And Hampered Productivity, Study Finds 3 months ago:
A hit-piece commissioned by the Joker to distract you from his upcoming bank heist!!!
- Comment on Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales warns of addictive nature of social media [Interview with Nikkei] 3 months ago:
What’s trust cafe?
- Comment on Disney hack leads to 1.2TB of Slack communications leaked online 3 months ago:
I can’t find it now, but my company attempted to get that from Slack and IIRC it was an option but more expensive than they were willing to pay.
- Comment on Are ya? 4 months ago:
I’m also curious to see the original image
- Comment on ‘FUN WITH LASERS’ (CustardFist) 4 months ago:
That sounds like nonsense. I’ll have to look it up!
- Comment on Mozilla Firefox Blocks Add-Ons to Circumvent Russia Censorship 5 months ago:
I care about the people there. Same with any oppressive nation/state/province/etc. You can say Russia is a tyranny and you’d be correct, but don’t forget that there are certainly people living there who don’t agree with the regime – and there are people actively being oppressed.
Surely you don’t think there aren’t any gay Russians, for example. Let’s not throw out all the people who are victims of Russian oppression while we condemn the country itself.
- Comment on OpenAI founders Sam Altman and Greg Brockman go on the defensive after top safety researchers quit 5 months ago:
I’ll explain for you, because there’s a lot of misinformation around.
What is being called AI these days is various companies’ version of what’s called an LLM – Large Language Model. Put simply, an LLM is a very sophisticated piece of software that takes what is asked of it to determine what is statistically the most likely sequence of words to follow as an answer.
This means you can ask a question the way you’d ask a human, and the way it answers will closely mirror how a person would answer (as opposed to stuff like Google Assistant or Siri, where you need to ask a question a specific way to get a decent answer).
Note, however, that at no point did I say that an LLM is accurate. This is the fatal issue that is never included by proponents of this kind of AI. They don’t have any mechanism to retrieve information, or verify the truthfulness of the answers given. You wind up seeing a lot of answers from this kind of AI that is either partially or completely wrong.
My favorite example is the result you get when googling “african countries that start with the letter K”. Someone posted the answer they got from an LLM to a forum online, which said that there is no country, and that became the top google result…despite the fact that Kenya obviously exists and starts with the letter K.
Essentially, LLMs are really fascinating in how well they approximate human speech – but they have absolutely no intelligence behind them. Proponents of this tech as AI either ignore this, or outright lie about it. As a result, a lot of companies have started using this tech to replace their support teams and/or the search functionality of their websites. I’m sure you can imagine the negative effects this has caused.
- Comment on Glorious Victory 6 months ago:
FYI l: That’s the CEO of Arrowhead, who made the game.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 6 months ago:
Happy I could help, sorry to hear bad news.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 has received 100,000 negative reviews since announcing players must link Steam to a PSN account 6 months ago:
The ‘official’ reason, as I recall reading it, is increasing security for players. Link to the announcement.
Personally I think that’s a load of hooey.
FWIW this won’t involve a new launcher, to my knowledge.
- Comment on Helldivers 2 Players Express Frustration On Steam As It Will Soon Require A PSN Account 6 months ago:
You already need a PSN account for cross play
Factually incorrect. I never linked up and have played with at least one person I knew was on PlayStation.
- Comment on #justgradschoolthings 6 months ago:
Thanks for sharing the source! I had a feeling it was The Reductress, I love their stuff.
- Comment on Siphonophorae are natures little horrors. 6 months ago:
What’s the bottom left one?
- Comment on Rabbit R1 is Just an Android App 6 months ago:
He’s my go-to for tech reviews. He’ll happily gush about what he likes, but he isn’t shy about what isn’t good.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
Okay.
- Comment on How RCS on iPhone Will Make Texting Better for Everyone 6 months ago:
A variety of small but useful features. Typing indicator, reactions, read receipts, and larger media limits. I’m sure there’s more, that’s all I can think of off the top of my head.
- Comment on Door hinge pin keeps coming up. How to solve? 6 months ago:
Thanks for trying, SatansMaggotyCumFart.
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 6 months ago:
…what? How is that related at all?
- Comment on Why I ditched Gmail for Proton Mail 6 months ago:
Honest question: how many email-havers do you think know what GPG is?
- Comment on Tesla stops cybertruck deliveries—accelerator pedal may be to blame 6 months ago:
My partner suggested “Tesla Tittyflips” as a modern replacement to “punch buggy”. That’s been a fun game on long drives.
- Comment on How disheartening for Snowden to do the right thing and be stranded in Russia. 7 months ago:
I think I understand it. It makes sense if his goals were to 1) release this information and 2) survive afterwards. Doing #1 was relatively easy, as he had the access to accomplish it.
But to then stay alive and (relatively) free required being beyond the reach of the US government. Being in the States is out of the question, and by extension so is being in any country with an extradition treaty with the US. I don’t know what all the options were, but ultimately he chose Russia as the place he would live.
If you assume his goal is freedom for mankind in general, it does seem hypocritical to go running to an authoritarian country for safety. But it seems pretty clear he wasn’t motivated by a vague principle, but rather wanting to blow the whistle on a specific injustice he saw.
- Comment on "No, seriously. All those things Google couldn't find anymore? Top of the search pile. Queries that generated pages of spam in Google results? Fucking pristine on Kagi – the right answers, over and ov 7 months ago:
That’s Cory Doctorow, my guy. He’s not making an ad.
- Comment on El Salvador Will Keep Buying 1 Bitcoin Daily Until BTC 'Becomes Unaffordable' With Fiat Currencies, Says President Bukele – Featured Bitcoin News 7 months ago:
Relatable. In our rush to say the clever thing we’re thinking, we don’t stop to double check that we read it correctly in the first place. I’ve been guilty of that too many times…
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 7 months ago:
No worries mate. I appreciate the correction regardless.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 8 months ago:
Y’know what, that’s a fair point. Though I’m not the original commenter from the top, heh.
- Comment on VR Headsets Are Approaching the Eye’s Resolution Limits 8 months ago:
…because they frequently do? Glaring errors are like, the main thing LLMs produce besides hype.
- Comment on AAAA!!!!!!!! 8 months ago:
It’s a joke about how the head of Ubisoft referred to the game Skull And Bones as a “quadruple-A” game. The highest-budget games are often classified as “triple-A”, though people also tend to use the term as a way to indicate size or quality. By calling S&B an AAAA game he was signaling that it would be in a class of its own in terms of quality, most likely.
The game itself has been pretty universally considered “meh” at best, so this meme is making fun of the original claim.
I hope this explanation helps!