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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein arrests: 0. Nancy Guthrie: still missing. The head of the FBI:⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point we would be lucky to have somebody like president Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho who actually seems to govern in good faith.

  What would the current government do if presented with a super-intelligent advisor? Fix our problems? Lol to that. They would be lucky to be kept alive because somebody that smart is clearly a threat to those who already got theirs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘I think the franchise is dead’: Saints Row design director says IP owner ‘ghosted’ his prequel pitch | VGC⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s always Goat Simulator 3 if you can be happy with gaming culture satire and way fewer guns.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lmao⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That seems like one of the more reasonable scenarios to expect “AI” to thrive, actually.

  You have dozens to thousands of people doing the actual work, then you have one CEO or owner that asks the AI to summarize what all the workers have been doing and communicating. It then presents them with a list of suggested decisions with some metrics tied to them like chance of success and Net Present Value (NPV).

  The AI wouldn’t even have to do a good job! It would just have to get things wrong or make up bullshit whole cloth as much as human middle managers, or maybe even less!

  I think this is a possiblity not because the AI will do a good job, but because the ONE thing that LLMs seem to be good at is mimicking what a random human might type, including humans who are often ignorant or wrong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Better be a sex offender registry on those damn space ships⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That would be a humongous world-changing announcement in a sane timeline. Half the people in our stupid culture wouldn’t even register it as a blip though.

  In situations like this I like to think of the history students a thousand years from now, assuming the earth is still habitable, etc.

  “So humanity’s first public recognition of extraterrestrial life only happened when it did to distract from the fact that the Big Country at the time had reelected the planet’s worst person AGAIN and they needed to delay justice until they died for… let me double check the text… they needed to delay getting in trouble for being at the top of a global human trafficking and rape operation?

  And I am supposed to believe these people had running water, airplanes, internet, and space programs? They lied about every other damn thing!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Android will become a locked-down platform in 194 day⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The tech companies are doing a great job at making me uninterested in the hottest new phones. I used to follow the news about them and know the tech specs and stuff, because I’m a nerd and gadgets are fun and smart phones in particular are the intersection of SO much technology and engineering. Moore’s law was alive and well during all my formative years, so I am even conditioned to expect the excitement.

  But lately, not only have I been ignoring what the big players are offering, I have been ignoring the phone I already have! Instead I have a PC at the end of the couch with a monitor on an arm that s swings right over my lap.

  I use my phone pretty much just for music, web browser, Voyager (Lemmy on the go), and occasional texting. When I am at home I will sometimes misplace my phone for hours and just not worry about it.

  I have already pushed the megacorp phone + social media experience so far out of my daily life, that if future options for open linux phones are rough around the edges and don’t have tap to pay then oh well I don’t think I care.

  It’s much easier to live without the shiny new thing once you see how well your brain does when separated from it. (and you have some loved ones who are still hopelessly addicted to the scroll)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's wrong with my dishes?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Works fine in the model home.

  Git gud.

  Closed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAS Syndrome⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn it, I was just getting ready to sanitize my light year of lead and now I cannot find that damn thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It was ready to kill and blackmail’: Anthropic’s Claude AI sparks alarm, says company policy chief⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, they seem to think we are like the drug addicts who will seek out the batch killing people with ODs because it must be strong.

  Should we tell them that the free first hit is supposed to make the user feel GOOD? Meh, let’s watch how much money they can burn before it all crashes down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Race for AI is making Hindenburg-style disaster ‘a real risk’, says leading expert⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh touche, not Michael Woolridge! The technology has created an entire segment of the economy worth many trillions of dollars based on NOTHING BUT promises! We are living in a promise-based economy!

  ~/s but not really~

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hacked ChatGPT and Google's AI – and it only took 20 minutes⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  RAG-AI doesn’t place weight on some sources over others

  I had to smile reading this because doing that is why google exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, and you start AND end the game riding with other goats through the farm on a replica of the Skyrim prisoner cart from the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, it is a really good looking and really thoughtfully made game. If you have been a gamer for decades there are tons of references and jokes you will appreciate. I appreciate the Sweden references too. I’m an American but I’ve gotten to visit the real-world equivalent of Goatenburg.

  It is really good to play with a group that includes non-gamers or kids, because you can’t really die but you can use overpowered abilities and items on each other and NPCs. It is damn funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I see the Postal series has gotten some mentions, but where is my Carmageddon Crew?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Goat Simulator 3 has up to 4p split screen co-op, and it’s a big GTA-style sandbox game just loaded with hilarious stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨lelz⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  In my anecdotal experience, the more Trumpy conservative somebody is, the more they are already miserable and complaining about everything all the time. If things get objectively worse for them then they might not act any differently day-to-day. The only question is how far things have to go before they will blame the correct people, if that is even possible for many.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh they do care, just in the wrong way.

  In the business world “benchmarking” basically means “let’s copy what the successful people do, so that line go up”

  In their robotic, amoral view of the world, they see one of the most successful people on the planet (according to their definition of success) constantly spouting obvious lies and being surrounded by sycophants while getting elected twice and grifting billions and facing no punishments. Maybe if the tech CEOs get rich enough and their companies get important enough, they can join his club.

  Ohhh, and they must be how we get oligarchies!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It is indeed⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  That is awesome, and it sounds like something I would totally do.

  …if I didn’t already have enough pets of my own that scare birds out of the yard, lol. Fortunately I have pets that will eat worms. I have been thinking of building a nice bird feeder just outside the fence though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Western Digital runs out of HDD capacity: CEO says massive AI deals secured, price surges ahead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s a combination of that and the worry that there will be one winning ubercorp that practically merges with the US Government.

  I mean, they are all pushing all their chips in at the same time. It’s like they know it’s now or never.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the green specks they mentioned ARE the parts where it didn’t work. It was not like an analog issue that might tint the color of all the pixels, it was a digital issue where more than 99% of the pixels were the EXACT correct color and then a handful of spots had corrupted data which manifests as green specks on that monitor.

  I don’t know what the specifications say should happen when data loss happens, but I’d much rather my screen show a random spot rather than refuse to display anything that’s corrupted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  you can think of the units of measure as multiplying and dividing sort of like the numbers themselves.

  So if the nuclear battery continuously delivers 1 watt…

  In one hour it would have delivered 1 Wh or watt-hour, because 1W * 1h = 1Wh.

  And it works in reverse. If it takes 2 hours to deliver that 1 Wh? That’s 1Wh per 2 hours or 1Wh/2h=0.5W!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  ahkshuallly, don’t you mean a capacitor?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New nickel-iron battery charges in seconds, survives 12,000 cycles⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Well maybe this time the new battery tech can be real and gay!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Only Solution Capitalism Has Is to Sell Us More Useless Junk: Ad makers will never say the quiet part loud, but they increasingly know that we're unhappy and looking for solutions.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is where the information economy starts to eat itself. If every message arrives pre-saturated with irony, critique, and self-awareness, then no signal can rise above the din. Warnings, reassurances, satire, and sales pitches collapse into the same register. The audience isn’t persuaded or misled so much as numbed.

  It sounds like you are describing an unfolding future where all communication us ultra-processed.

  I have posted about this a couple times, but ever since I saw Jon Stewart a while back describe modern propaganda as ultra-processed speech. It’s engineered for reaction and engagement. It’s like you said, everything collapses into the same register when there’s a BOMBSHELL headline every day.

  But the ultra-processed thing has been reaching much further into our media and culture than political speech for a while now. Like I dunno, everything that has half the people’s faces buried in their phone in public.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dogs welcome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  We love dogs too in my household. I have four dogs, in addition to numerous other terrestrial and aquatic pets.

  But unfortunately, much like other people can be the worst, other people’s dogs can be the worst!

  And for that matter I am the rare Lemmy user that also loves kids. I am the fun dad and uncle. other people’s kids can also be the worst, lol.

  People just need to pay attention to the world around them and how they affect others. That would be nice. (good luck, amirite?)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are people disconnecting or destroying their Ring cameras?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean if we already have a dictator anyway, how about some infrastructure to go with it?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epstein Files: X Users Are Asking Grok to 'Unblur' Photos of Children⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  To add more specifics here for you, note that the f-stop is usually shown as a fraction, like f/2.8, f/4.0, etc.

  So first of all, since the number is on the bottom of the fraction, there’s where you get smaller numbers = more light.

  It’s also shown as a fraction because it’s a ratio, between your lens’s focal length (not focal distance to the subject) and the diameter of the aperture.

  So if I’m taking a telephoto shot with my 70-200 @ 200 with the aperture wide open at f/2.8, that means the aperture should appear as 200/2.8 = 71.4mm. And that seems right to me! If you’re the subject looking into the lens the opening looks huge.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Europe’s $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard Has Begun⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello, friends in civilized lands, especially those of you who work at financial institutions…

  Some of us in the states are excited to watch you do some damage to the entrenched middlemen that have been skimming from all of us for so long. Please do consider letting us sign up for the new stuff. Our money is still worth something, for now!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Important Announcement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What color are they now, what color are they now?

  A fine pink mist, oh a fine pink mist!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Still alive?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  normal people realizing he was never killed

  Or normal people realizing the connection to Mossad and/or other state actors.

  (I saw the account was faked, but I still think this would be much more significant than him being alive)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Top of the world, ma⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I feel like the third panel really captures the essence “I am angry about everything and you’ve shown me something I don’t like, which I guess can exist as long as it hides in the shadows away from my righteous gaze, therefore you are SHOVING it down my THROAT and I am morally justified in attacking those people until they go away”