Flambo

@Flambo@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this makes me wonder how much longer a towel could be used if it were promptly dried after use, rather than put up on a hook where some of it dries sorta and the rest of it clumps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So uhh.. how often should I be washing me towels?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  even when you are clean from showering, you are still covered in delicious skin, refreshing moisture, and things that thrive in the presence of both.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI was working on advanced model so powerful it alarmed staff⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  plausible: check

  testable: TBD

  falsifiable: TBD

  still, 1 out of 3. not bad!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill Gates says a 3-day work week where 'machines can make all the food and stuff' isn't a bad idea⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  if you won’t deny a thing to someone it’s pretty hard to sell it to anyone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  can we put the extra 30 hours on the end of each year as a formless blob of ‘time off’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jesse is smarter than what we give him credit for.⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  nah hold on it has to be

  day/quarter/week/year

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Could you give some details? Maybe an invite link? I can only seem to find expired links to any EV Nova discord that google turns up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Millennials: It's ok to mourn the death of social media⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, I’m fully on board with your defense of social media, but I think in this case the commenter is just saying “i miss the social media we had before they started calling it ‘social media’”. Even 2004 facebook fits this description, and I’m inclined to agree. I miss social media when it felt more like IRC and craigslist, when facebook was a glorified personal guestbook, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Too many products are easier to throw away than fix—consumers deserve a 'right to repair'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to be more efficient with what we make

  We need to make stuff with the goal of not having to make any more of it at some point. Currently we have an economy that gives no shits about what is made so long as it sells more this quarter than last.

  Either we need a magical wave of enlightenment to change the priorities of those who control the means of production, or we need to change the structure of our economy and its incentives to make “build to last” a winning strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This new data poisoning tool lets artists fight back against generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  So tl;dr he/his team did two things:

  1. argue the way AI uses content to train is legal

  2. provide artists a tool to prevent their content being used to train AI without their permission

  On the surface it sounds all good, but I can’t help but notice a future conflict of interest for Zhao should Glaze ever become monetized. If it were to be ruled illegal to train AI on content without permission, tools like Glaze would be essentially anti-theft devices, but while it remains legal to train AI this way, tools like Glaze stand to perhaps become necessary for artists to maintain the pre-AI status quo w/r/t how their work can be used and monetized.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  this is a grievance i’ve needed validated for a long time. tysm

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Over 10 Years After It Was Announced, Star Citizen’s Single-Player Squadron 42 Is ‘Feature Complete’ - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s such a wild example of feature creep, and yet it’s not quite the wildest example of Star Citizen’s feature creep. When Roberts’ funding exceeded his wildest dreams, he should’ve changed nothing from his original pitch and simply delivered that. For reference:

  Original funding goal: $2 million US

  Funding by end of Kickstarter campaign: well over $6 million US

  If they finished the project with a $4 million surplus, great! They’d have ample budget for post-launch support, and maybe even for some free post-launch content updates to improve goodwill. If that’d gone as planned, the dude’d be sitting on a whole new generation of goodwill.

  Oh, and we’d have a game like this:

  Pick up jobs as a smuggler, pirate, merchant, bounty hunter, or enlist as a pilot, protecting the borders from outside threats.

  A huge universe to explore, trade and adventure in

  Wing Commander style single player mode, playable OFFLINE if you want

  Actions of the players impact the universe and become part of its history and lore

  Fully dynamic economy driven by player actions

  If caught alone in an online ambush, send a distress broadcast to your friends and if they’re nearby they can jump in-system to save your bacon.

  You wanted proper Newtonian mechanics. You got it! Spaceships adjust their trajectory and orientation just like the real thing.

  10X the detail of current AAA games (as measured in polygons)

  Range of scale never seen before in a game - ships from 27m to 1km scale, all at same level of detail

  Support for Joystick, Gamepad, Mouse, Keyboard, as well as HOTAS, flight chair, rudder petals, and VR

  the cardinal rule regarding “in-game purchases” is: Players who spend money purchasing in-game credits will have no advantage over players who spend time!

  Instead they immediately pivoted to a pay-for-ships funding model and let the scope grow to seemingly every one of Roberts’ wildest whims

  The tech demo is cool. Realization of no-loading-screen transitions from surface -> atmosphere -> orbit -> microgravity -> docking with another ship is wild. Being able to watch your pilot and gunner do a space battle from out the window, while you go walking about the ship is wild. But having it be only a tech demo for this long is so disappointing, and having the focus pivot from singleplayer-with-online to online-with-singleplayer are significant disappointments.

  funding timeline: starcitizen.fandom.com/…/Crowdfunding_campaign

  original pitch/campaign: web.archive.org/web/…/star-citizen/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YouTube intensifies fight against ad blockers showing pop-ups, and users are frustrated | Blocking ad-block users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  corporations can’t seem to ever accept a limit for themselves.

  This is the result of competition. When success is measured relative to others, it’s forever a moving target. Under this definition of success, self improvement is equally effective as sabotaging another. And as we can see, it’s not just businesses sabotaging one another. If a business can get away with sabotaging its own consumers, as it can in the case of monopoly, it will.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta wants to charge EU users $14 a month if they don't agree to personalized ads on Facebook and Instagram⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s just that, living in that moment, it appears that these companies are so unbelievably large and powerful that they could never be unseated

  It’s also that the U.S. has shown repeatedly that it’ll prop up companies with ongoing subsidies, or even bail them out as in the 2008 crisis.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon Prime Video is able to remove a video from your library after purchase.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  strictly speaking it’s

  here’s a gift card so you can give us that money back again we can keep your money but give you something for free later.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is lemmy.ml turn into authoritarian?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  communist because u want a commune = communist communist because u want tanks and gulag = tankie

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm so glad I waited nearly 3 years to play Cyberpunk 2077, but I dread the fact that this is our new normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello Games had a similar issue with No Man’s Sky.

  Having played at release, Hello Game’s issue was much less “large scope games take long to make” and much more “we explicitly lied about features that are strictly not in the game”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are We Ready For This Site's Endless Feed of AI-Generated Porn?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  if xkcd was right about jpeggy porn being niche, i’d bank on terrible AI porn becoming a niche in the future too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And now Bezos is trying to inserts ads everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Are you expecting 1TB cloud storage for free?

  Your point stands, but let me point out that when gmail started their “9GB free” thing way back when, that was an unfathomable amount of storage for some of us. And gmail’s not the only service that’s offered huge amounts of free storage over the years. So yeah, I think it’s probable that a bunch of us have been primed to expect free storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy feels so much more welcoming than R*ddit... And it's weird⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I thought Reddit is a slur now?