StarPupil

@StarPupil@ttrpg.network

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pizza⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You aren’t missing much.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: Farage: Capitalism is Dead, We're Living in Corporatism⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The thing about fascists is that they do sometimes point out real problems, but their explanations on the causes and their solutions for those incorrect causes are wildly unreasonable. For example, Nigel here probably believes that “corporatism” is caused by the companies exploiting (white, British) people being owned by non British and non white people, and his solution is to ban those people from owning anything and indeed deport non white people and immigrants instead of regulating the actions of businesses in any way. So even if he’s correct that it’s a problem that people are suffering and the government is corrupt, he and Breitbart can’t be worked with because their solutions are bullshit and sharing glowing articles about them promotes their explanations and solutions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨In Cringe Video, OpenAI CTO Says She Doesn’t Know Where Sora’s Training Data Came From⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  An AI (in its current form) isn’t a person drawing inspiration from the world around it, it’s a program made by people with inputs chosen by those people. If those people didn’t ask permission to use other people’s licensed work for their product, then they are plagiarising that work, and they should be subject to the same penalties that, for example, a game company using stolen art in their game should face. An AI doesn’t become inspired, it copies existing things to predict what it thinks its user wants to see. If we produce a real thinking AI at some point in the future, one with self determination and whatnot, the story will be different, but for now it isn’t.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft in their infinite wisdom has replaced the Hide Desktop icon with Copilot.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in IT, and every time I do an install (sometimes new computers, sometimes not) for someone I see Microsoft’s little News widget they put on the Taskbar, the one that pops up a huge window if you mouse over it. Every time I see that, I ask the person if they ever use it, and they always say no. Then I ask them if they want it gone, and they always say yes, usually with some kind of relief. It’s a matter of two clicks to do it, easier than going into the settings menu like your screenshot, but every computer I haven’t been on previously has it. Now, I’d wonder why Microsoft would put something on the Taskbar that is, in my experience, universally disliked. To me it reeks of the pathetic, groveling, “I’ll suck your dick” energy they have when someone installs Chrome.

  Windows 10 changed a lot over the course of its lifetime, and while some feature are good, like Dark Mode, they’re mostly useless or downright bad. So putting something that most people will never use and will greatly confuse and annoy the average user in a place that has been dedicated to a single function for at the very least Windows 10’s entire lifetime (I think it’s there in 8 and maybe 7 also) for seemingly no reason other than to fuck with people’s muscle memory is just one more move very worthy of griping about, no matter how easy it is for users to turn off. Because 99% of users just won’t, because they aren’t confident enough to go futzing around in the settings. But they’ll still get whatever god awful popup this button shows every time they try to show desktop like they’ve been doing for over a decade. It’s yet another change that nobody asked for, nobody will use, and that the user will have to remember that it’s different now for no reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3d printed laundry hamper repair⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also waiting for this, let me know when you get it up