Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 1 week ago:
Heard a song from Wuthering Waves, and it caught me be surprise with how good it was, so I figured I’d give the game a try.
It feels a lot like Genshin Impact, but the world and story feel better, is not Mihoyo, and the voice acting includes the main character. For a F2P experience, it’s been fun going through the initial story. To its detriment, however, there’s three different gacha currencies. Definitely not worth bothering with beyond freebie pulls. Overall, I’d recommend it, but only the free stuff.
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
Jesus H Christmas, that’s depressing
- Comment on Spotify Add Lossless Audio(24-bit / 44.1 kHz FLAC) for Premium Subscribers 1 week ago:
At that point where it matters, I feel like I should be buying the music from the artist, not streaming. My latest favorite band, Mad Routine, gives you the WAV masters when you buy their albums, and they are meticulous about sound; those lossless tracks actually sound better, even with Bluetooth.
However, I think few bands are actually putting in the effort to have beautifully crafted lossless tracks. Also, I have no way of knowing if Spotify is merely increasing the bitrate but using the same lossy source file, which is what I suspect is probably the case. After all, why share valuable goods when you could pretend and throw out a few buzzwords, instead?
- Comment on Pay-per-output? AI firms blindsided by beefed up robots.txt instructions. 1 week ago:
I think the analogy is apt. If you post a price on goods, and somebody walks into a store, picks up the item, and walks out without paying, they can’t simply say, “Well, I didn’t care to read the price, and nobody presented me with a contract, so I just took it,” as a valid defense. There’s sometimes an explicit agreement upon terms, sure, but there are times where that agreement is implicit: they put a price on a thing, I pay it, else it’s stealing. I don’t need to sign a contract every time I get groceries.
I do, however, agree that this will only have teeth once it’s argued and upheld in court the first (few) time(s). If nothing else, it’s good to see people trying to solve the problem, rather than just throwing up their hands and letting billionaires run amok with virtual impunity. Maybe this won’t work to reign in AI tech bros, but maybe it will inspire the things that do.
- Comment on OpenAI Backs AI-Made Animated Feature Film 1 week ago:
Eh, I think I’ll just rewatch episodes of Bluey instead.
- Comment on Doctor uses Reform conference speech to link king’s cancer to Covid vaccine 1 week ago:
After setting out what he said were findings showing that vaccines “created havoc” in the human body, Malhotra said he had been asked to share something by a doctor who he described as one of Britain’s most eminent oncologists.
I want names. These dangerous goobers always play fast and loose with the word “expert,” and if he’s just going to point to a single doctor—without a name—I am just as justified to believe he’s hallucinated the entire thing.
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 2 weeks ago:
Been playing through The Messenger again. Still an amazing game.
Also picked up No Man’s Sky again to build the Corvette class ships, build up some settlements, and collect some of the newer cosmetic building items. It’s impressive how much love has gone into that game, and it gives me a chuckle that it now has basically everything Star Citizen has (ships with walkable interiors, food, planet exploration, space combat, main quests, etc.).
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
Not with that attitude! /j
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
Barf. I try hard not to think about it, since it’s shoved in our faces at every turn, but you’re absolutely right that our data is going to these AI corpos.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
Hot take: buy your music instead—direct from the artist whenever possible, or start building your collection from whatever you can find at a thrift store.
- Comment on DM me on Spotify: Spotify launches a messaging feature. 3 weeks ago:
…the websites that host stuff and do it free and efficiently.
It’s never free. The instance you’re using isn’t free; it’s paid for by donations. ISPs and server hosts don’t just give bandwidth out of charity or for the public good. One way or another, these for-profit companies are getting their pound of flesh, typically by selling targeted ad space.
The fact that these companies are adding chat features means they’re now going to try mining conversations for additional consumer profile data points, which they can then sell to advertisers.
This new change is gross, and I hope nobody uses it.
- Comment on Silicon Valley Is Panicking About Zohran Mamdani. NYC’s Tech Scene Is Not 4 weeks ago:
…For dinner? …In prison? …Take a one-way trip to Mars?
If so, then I agree.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
Those worked pretty well by the end, tbh
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
I just bought a cassette for my favorite band, Mad Routine. I don’t intend to use it, because it’s a special item with a limited run, but I would if I had a spare and a cassette player.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 4 weeks ago:
The next level is getting one of those radio tuners, a discman, and explaining to your friends that you use the discman, because the car CD player is broken.
- Comment on YSK: Almost every single new logo you see is ai slop 4 weeks ago:
At least they’re a great representation of who owns the AI models and what they produce.
- Comment on Mozilla warns Germany could soon declare ad blockers illegal 4 weeks ago:
So the acronym is now AMAMA!
- Comment on Bunny Girl and the Cult + Clinic of Horrors 4 weeks ago:
I appreciate you sharing this. I had no idea they had such a broad catalog!
- Comment on Bunny Girl and the Cult + Clinic of Horrors 4 weeks ago:
Oh damn. They did the Internet Explorer webcomic. They’re fantastic!
- Comment on (ICW-NRU) Meta Leaks Part 1: Israel & Meta, The Greatest Global Mass Censorship Campaign to Ever Exist 5 weeks ago:
Anyone who uses a Meta product, at this point, and thinks they have free speech, privacy, and/or ownership of their data either just joined the internet or is choosing to stay ignorant of the lengthy and growing list of abuses—abuses that are core to their business model.
- Comment on Man Gives Himself 19th Century Psychiatric Illness After Consulting With ChatGPT 5 weeks ago:
This is not just “using the internet,” though. AI use ≠ finding some conspiracy-fueled rant on some long-forgotten message board. ChatGPT does not scour the internet or have any sort of meaningful sanity checks on the pattern of words it generates. It doesn’t “know” what it’s saying, nor does it “care.”
If he had done even the most basic of generic internet searches, he would have discovered the DASH diet.
The inclusion of this goober’s use of AI is yet another example why using what is essentially a reinforcement and pattern-generation engine is one of the dumbest things a person can do. It doesn’t seem to matter how many experts remind people of its limitations, so all that remains is pointing out every time somebody does something stupid, so people can at least get a reminder that the other end of the conversation is dumber than they are and only an illusion of intelligence.
- Comment on Mastercard and Visa face backlash after hundreds of adult games removed from online stores Steam and Itch.io 1 month ago:
Somebody should check their PCs and internet history; after all, name a better duo than Conservatives and Projection.
- Comment on Humans can be tracked with unique 'fingerprint' based on how their bodies block Wi-Fi signals 1 month ago:
Ironically, they’re still wrong, because even in their wildest conspiracies, they didn’t imagine Wi-Fi could be used to “take pictures” of a sort.
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 month ago:
If I could upvote your comment five times for promoting libraries, I would!
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 month ago:
Inb4 “AI Delusion Disorder” gets added to a future DSM edition
- Comment on A Prominent OpenAI Investor Appears to Be Suffering a ChatGPT-Related Mental Health Crisis, His Peers Say 1 month ago:
I have no love for the ultra-wealthy, and this feckless tech bro is no exception, but this story is a cautionary tale for anyone who thinks ChatGPT or any other chatbot is even a half-decent replacement for therapy.
It’s not, and study after study, expert after expert continues to reinforce that reality. I understand that therapy is expensive, and it’s not always easy to find a good therapist, but you’d be better off reading a book or finding a support group than deluding yourself with one of these AI chatbots.
- Comment on Fullstack Engineer - Waifus (for people looking for job) 1 month ago:
Also, you’d have to work for Xitter and explain to future employers why you chose to work for an open fascist that facilitated the economic recession of the mid-2020s.
- Comment on Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says 1 month ago:
I agree with you, but OP didn’t make that explicitly clear; being a total stranger and given the number of people who unironically promote everything from long-debunked conspiracy theories to outright lies, I do not see why anyone should assume somebody is joking rather than in earnest.
You’re welcome to infer that OP is being sarcastic, but they haven’t made a comment on the matter either way.
- Comment on Dentist accused of fatally poisoning wife asked daughter to create deepfake AI video of mom asking for chemicals, daughter says 1 month ago:
I thought they were serious, too.
- Comment on OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses' 1 month ago:
Man, remember all the custom cupcake bakers who were clamoring for an AI to take their craft?
Me neither. Billionaires are a scourge upon society.