Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 day ago:
Yes, I know. I’m not looking back at the entire timeline of history. I’m looking at the most recent example, because while the idea is not new, it is not an idea that lasts on its own; people wise up over time, which is why the idea gets rehashed by different figures at different points in history.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
It does predate them. They didn’t invent it, and I never said they did. I said their actions are the reason the US reveres wealth today, as in it’s the most contemporary set of events that have reinvigorated that well-practiced strategy.
If you’re looking for specific historical knowledge, as in citations, here you go:
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
Great, congrats. You are today’s biggest pedant. Here’s your prize.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
Sure, but why it exists today in the US is a direct result of the robber barons’ influence in the early 1900s. The core idea isn’t new, but this instance is.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
I know you don’t necessarily mean it this way, but there’s a very interesting (and infuriating) history to why the US reveres the wealthy. The short version is that the ultra wealthy were pissed about the New Deal, so they used fundamentalist Christianity to tie the idea of wealth to holy favor from Yahweh.
We will have to overcome that idea if we hope to gain real class consciousness.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 3 days ago:
which I could have played many more hours, just because I didn’t have the patience to get past a level/battle/boss, whatever
I appreciate your feelings, but I need to point out that you don’t actually know that you would have continued playing that game. Let’s say you had this tool to help you clear a boss (and we’re being very generous in assuming it can). Most games ramp up in difficulty, and many bosses or hurdles act as skill checks. What do you suppose would happen when you got to the next difficult spot? It almost certainly wouldn’t be easier than before.
I get that there’s difficult games out there that are hard for the sake of being hard (Fromsoft has some of the most egregious examples), but that might just be a sign that those games aren’t actually your cup of tea, and that’s okay, even if it’s from a flaw in the game design. If you’re not having fun with a game anymore, you should give yourself permission to walk away.
If you drop a game for any reason, you are never required to pick it back up, and this idea that we all need to “work through our backlog” is making what’s supposed to be a fun hobby into a chore.
- Comment on Scientists say quantum tech has reached its transistor moment 3 days ago:
Wake me when they make the contemporary analog to the Apple 2e. Otherwise, this just sounds like a bunch of giant corporations that continue peacocking around in an effort to get VC money.
I applaud the scientists, however, who do this kind of stuff for the love of discovery. Good luck to all of them.
- Comment on Sony Patents System to Generate AI Podcasts in the Voices of Your Favorite PlayStation Characters - IGN 3 days ago:
I sometimes remember that there’s gamers out there who have disabilities…
And then I remember my friend who has to use a mouth controller to play games, and I’m certain they wouldn’t want this shit anywhere near them. What a demoralizing feeling to have a computer play the game for you. Yuck.
- Comment on 'I'll believe it when I see it': Windows 11 users are cynical about Microsoft's promises to fix the OS and stop pushing AI 4 days ago:
Sorry, I can’t hear you over all the Linux on my computers since last year. Did you say “promises to shit on the OS and super push AI?” Yeah, sounds about right for Microslop.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 5 days ago:
- Playnite, if you’re on Windows (though Linux might be over the horizon).
- Heroic Games Launcher if you’re on any platform.
Playnite is the better choice if you’re on Windows, but either way, don’t let Tim’s dumb store stop you from ruining his day by generating a bunch of metrics that show you’re only playing freebies!
- Comment on Exposed Moltbook Database Let Anyone Take Control of Any AI Agent on the Site 5 days ago:
Well that didn’t take long lmao
- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 1 week ago:
You’re not, but as counterintuitive as it may seem, there are people who use the Fediverse and big platforms like TikTok, Xitter, etc. My words are for them.
- Comment on TikTok claimed bugs blocked anti-ICE videos, Epstein mentions; experts call BS 1 week ago:
Maybe—and I’m going out on a limb here—just maybe, using centralized media to document State-sponsored domestic terrorism is a fucking stupid idea. Especially since the very same platform is co-owned by the State.
Y’all, we already went through this with Xitter. Sorry you fell for it again, but this won’t be the last time if you continue to cling to platforms owned by the very people who want to censor you.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 2 weeks ago:
Yes, and I passed that research paper onto someone who works with researchers who think LLMs are the best new invention for technical writing. It’s going to be a constant battle, even amongst people who should know better.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 2 weeks ago:
I don’t know if I’d say “a lot,” but I think you are correct to say “some.” We don’t need to suddenly start flinging around generalized invectives towards science, especially when there’s already a concerted effort by conspiracy theorists and bad actors to convince people to reject science out of hand.
- Comment on RAM shortage chaos expands to GPUs, high-capacity SSDs, and even hard drives 2 weeks ago:
Same. I’m thinking about replacing the PSU, which is one of the original parts, to ensure the rest of the parts don’t fail due to improper power delivery.
At least PSUs haven’t yet spiked in price.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 2 weeks ago:
Absolutely, I agree. I think we are likely to see a shift in what indie devs use for their game engines (love2d, Godot, etc.) as PC specs stagnate, and I am of the opinion that GOG will see an increase in sales, too.
The “runs like shit” games have a shrinking market.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 2 weeks ago:
Inb4 we get astroturfed “Luddites” telling us to just abandon electricity and live like the Amish.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 2 weeks ago:
It’s not a win-win, it’s a silver lining amongst a shitstorm of suck.
Why? Because what if you’re not trying to upgrade but just maintain? What if your RAM fails? Or your GPU? Now you’re out there with the AI tech bros vying for a piece of a production line that you have no influence over, but they do. If you just built your rig, you might be safe to wait a while, but what if you built in 2020? Those parts are getting old, by computer standards; they don’t last forever.
We don’t actually know when prices will normalize, because nobody is calling in the IOUs, and nobody is clamping down on that circular economy; 2027 is just a guess. We might be waiting even longer.
- Comment on Big AI has PC users furious. Nvidia and Micron's weird emotional appeals make it worse 2 weeks ago:
You just described the AAA gaming market almost to a T.
The indie market, on the other hand, typically cares about what they produce, and you’re far more likely to get optimized games there that don’t require extra launchers, internet connections, or a massive GPU—not that it doesn’t happen there, mind you, but it’s going to tend to be more of a skill issue than a profit-driven one.
Also, there’s still very good games in the retro space.
- Comment on Europe Has a New Plan to Break Free from US Tech Dominance 3 weeks ago:
I would be curious to find out why, honestly. Is there some economic factor? Has Adobe thoroughly captured the market? Is it cultural? I know the comment author speculates that it’s a cultural/political shift, but I’m curious what the data would show!
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 3 weeks ago:
I sincerely mean this: thank you for your sacrifice. I wish there were more people like you who were willing to make the sacrifices necessary to stick it to the big corpos.
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 3 weeks ago:
I’ll be excited if Linux hits 20% total market share, which is about where Apple sits last time I checked. That would put Linux squarely as a contender for normies.
- Comment on Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58% 3 weeks ago:
First tech device I’ve ever bought where I didn’t feel some amount of buyer’s remorse. There’s nothing I dislike about it, and I can even install my own distro on it, if I so desire. Because of the form factor, I’ve even been able to tackle my backlog!
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 3 weeks ago:
According to the article, it might be a company in China, but that remains to be seen. They could just as easily pivot into AI bullshit to try to get a piece of that pie before the bubble pops.
- Comment on Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it? 4 weeks ago:
Exactly. They’re okay with the fascist Xitpool, but if any regular dev ever crossed those “guidelines,” they’d be banned in a heartbeat.
- Comment on Valve amended the Steam survey for December 2025 - Linux actually hit another all-time high 4 weeks ago:
Considering Linux desktop adoption was around 4% the last time I checked, and considering this is just Steam users (e.g. some might strictly be using GOG or similar, some don’t play games at all), this is pretty big.
- Comment on YSK: Albert Einstein wrote about Socialism, and specifically calls out issues with the version proposed by technocrats. 4 weeks ago:
I have an idea: fuck capitalism!
archive.org/download/AlbertEinsteinAndHisWorks
The essay is titled: Why Socialism?
- Comment on News orgs win fight to access 20M ChatGPT logs. Now they want more. 4 weeks ago:
…OpenAI now faces calls for sanctions and demands to retrieve and share potentially millions of deleted chats long thought of as untouchable in the litigation.
Proof that chats are never deleted, they’re just hidden and archived. Stop giving the slop bots free training data.
- Comment on NY Orders Apps To Lie About Social Media Addiction, Will Lose In Court 4 weeks ago:
Good anecdote but this is just hegemonic propaganda. Social media has also revealed the reality behind the hegemonic narrative. That’s what they’re actually afraid of.
It’s not propaganda, it’s a fact. The rise of conspiracy theories becoming mainstream, the rise of fascist groups that are currently undermining global peace and stability, the ability for long-debunked pseudoscience to be treated as equal with science: all of that is facilitated by social media giving an equal platform to people that do not deserve one, particularly the platforms run by capitalists. Social media has indeed done some good, but my argument was never that social media is wholly bad, just that it’s a net negative.
I agree that “they” are afraid of The People organizing and seeing through all the bullshit, but that’s not something unique that social media is able to facilitate, and it’s not something social media has been particularly effective at doing. People of the past were able to see through the bullshit without social media, and if we all lost the internet tomorrow, people would still manage to communicate and share ideas. We did it for decades through books, newspapers, speaking events, zines, etc.
We don’t need social media to progress, and I would argue that recent history seems to indicate the contrary.
It’s not true. What about the people in charge of this platform? The bulk of the issues arise from capitalism and this type of censorship is designed to abolish its criticism.
There are no people “in charge” of this platform. If you wanted to, you could spin up your own instance with the sole member being you. You could fork the code and start your own Lemmy v2.0. We are collectively responsible for the operation of this federation of services, and even here, you still find the tolerance of bad actors and the spread of rotten ideas.
Has the Fediverse been a net positive? Maybe. But we are small fish compared to the fat cats that are Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Xitter, etc., and there’s no dispute that their influence has reached far and the ideas they’ve allowed to fester for profit have been destructive, to say the least.
Social media doesn’t exist in a vacuum; it’s within the context of a global society run by greed, and the fact that it sometimes does good doesn’t outweigh the capitalists who weaponize it against us.