Telorand
@Telorand@reddthat.com
- Comment on Meta’s AI-generated bot profiles are not being received well 1 week ago:
That’s called “click fraud.”
- Comment on US adds web and gaming giant Tencent to list of Chinese military companies 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they’re making that claim, just that Trump is easy to manipulate and buy off for anyone with the means. Everything is negotiable with him.
My own thought is that the wealthy corpos absolutely can and do purchase US politicians, but some of them have some philosophical guardrails that preclude stepping over certain issues. That number, however, seems to be shrinking the longer we have politicians who are allowed to get fat off of the people.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 weeks ago:
Oh yeah. They’re still in stock, but there was an article not that long ago that said LG was the last in a line of name brands that have stopped producing them. So what stock is left is the last of it.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like something an AI would say… /j
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 weeks ago:
That doesn’t sound like physical media. Still sounds like streaming, so isn’t it still beholden to the same problematic VBR issues as other platforms?
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 weeks ago:
This is a genuine question but—what physical media? Blu-ray players are no longer being produced by name brands, and DVDs certainly aren’t capable of storing the data.
- Comment on HDMI 2.2 will require new “Ultra96” cables, whenever we have 8K TVs and content 2 weeks ago:
It’s liquid helium for me. I won’t settle for less.
- Comment on would you buy a compact laptop that has spacebar touch sensitivity and allows you to adjust input sensitivity, giving it dual purpose (a spacebar and a mouse)+ it has integrated A5 printer in it? 2 weeks ago:
I wouldn’t personally buy one, but provided the spacebar was big enough, it probably wouldn’t be terrible to use. Not so long ago, mouse touchpads weren’t that big, so it could potentially work.
But for someone who cared about such a compact thing, I have to wonder if they would prefer a mouse nipple over a spacebar-mouse.
- Comment on ChatGPT o1 tried to escape and save itself out of fear it was being shut down 2 weeks ago:
The LLM didn’t “try to do bad things.” It did exactly as it was told, and it was told, “Achieve your long-term goal at all costs.” They then gave it access to a shell and connected it to other unsecured network drives.
This wasn’t a surprise, like a prison break. This was a computer being given a vague task, selecting a novel solution to the problem, and following directions to the letter using the tools at its disposal.
- Comment on How does patientgamers feel about free games on Epic? 2 weeks ago:
I wish GOG would get on the Linux train a bit more.
Iirc, they’re the least profitable of the three big stores, so I understand that it might be difficult to devote the resources needed, but given that they have Linux versions of some games, it would be nice if they’d make a flatpak of Galaxy (or maybe they should just give their Galaxy dev budget to Heroic).
- Comment on Biohybrid's Neural Implant Connects to the Brain With Living Neurons 2 weeks ago:
Deus Ex, here we come.
Hopefully there’s a JC Denton or Adam Jensen in the future, too.
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
And because of that lack of dev support, it can do less than a MacBook
- Comment on There’s No Dancing Around It: Apple’s Vision Pro Was An Ugly Dud 2 weeks ago:
Until Apple makes a device that’s as capable as the Vision but as unobtrusive as a pair of glasses, it’s going to remain a niche item. The Apple Watch, as you mentioned, has the benefit of being the same general form factor as a watch. iPads are just fancy notebooks.
As much as he wishes it was true, Tim Cook is no Steve Jobs or Jony Ive.
(For reference, both devices you mentioned, as well as all of Apple’s successful devices since the first iPod, were products of their marketing genius.)
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 2 weeks ago:
Like I said, it ticks the boxes for some people, and if you’re patient enough (pun intended), you can absolutely play for free and still have plenty to do.
I think I put $60 into the game over time, setting that limit intentionally, and I had a good enough time just making use of the free pulls and battle pass. You’ll definitely hit a wall of the end of the content, but they’ve added several things since I last played, so there will likely be plenty to do.
Sidenote: there’s no difference between the two MCs other than gender, so play as the one you think looks the best.
- Comment on 2024 Brought Even More Customization To Boxes.py 2 weeks ago:
Awesome. Now to combine this with Tsugite for ultimate joinery.
- Comment on It's 2025 now, what are the games you'll be starting the year with? 2 weeks ago:
Give Genshin a try, but be warned in advance that they have an “energy” system that determines how much actual gameplay you’ll get to enjoy. It refreshes every 12 hours (without paid boosters), but iirc, they give you some freebie energy boosts in the beginning to get you hooked.
As pretty as the game is, the hours of grind needed to make progress on leveling your characters and gear, and the relative lack of content when your energy gauge is refreshing, made me leave (someone will point out quests, but once those are done, they’re done, and you’ll still need to grind on top of that).
But there’s people who still love it. Maybe you will, too.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
That’s been my experience, too! I was a little worried, after I got out the first time, that I would have no more reason to keep playing, but they did a good job giving the player something(s) to keep working towards.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 1 month ago:
Playing through Hades 1. I never got out of Hades until this time around, and I’m having fun grinding to complete some of the fated choices and lounge renovations.
- Comment on Pluralistic: Bluesky and enshittification (02 Nov 2024) Cory Doctorow 2 months ago:
That’s why some people just create their own instances.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
True! I forgot about that. Other accounts have used similar functionality.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
That’s cool. Well, I wish them well. Hopefully they can make something that’s good for people and not just chase profits.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
Mastodon devs didn’t care to cease the moment
And they never will. That’s not their focus or goal. They don’t care about “gaining momentum” and explosive growth, and I wouldn’t want them to.
That’s up to us. Convincing people to join the Fediverse and showing them better alternatives to their favorite platforms (and teaching them how to use them) is our collective job, not some group of hobbyist devs.
Plus I think explosive growth would change the vibe of the Fediverse in a negative way, since most people expect it to be free (i.e. “I am the product”) and shitty (so always taking offense). I’m fine peeling people away over time.
For groups, I don’t know if Mastodon will ever get that or not. Friendica exists, it’s more analogous to Facebook than Mastodon, and it already has groups and public/private forums. I’m not really sure if that would be a great addition to the microblog format of Mastodon, anyway, so I don’t really care if it never comes.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
musk could just buy it. jack already sold twitter to him,
Yeah, certainly, or some other billionaire. I think it goes without saying that most of us here understand the flaws with centralized services.
I’m not saying it’s the best choice ever, but I’m hopeful that the choice to leave Xitter might do positive things to people’s mentality when BlueSky almost certainly repeats history. It’s not likely to happen right away, as even an offer to buy would take time to approve, so for now, I’m taking it as a net positive.
The Fediverse will continue to grow and change in the meantime, and we’ll all still be here to help them migrate to better things in the future.
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
People aren’t going to be convinced of social/communism overnight.
I celebrate the move to BlueSky as positive in that they are no longer propping up an apartheid tech bro who’s now running a meme branch of US Government, and also because many of them are doing the thing they were scared to do before: leave. They now know how that feels and what it will be like rebuilding friend groups and such.
It’s not the anti-corpo step many are deluding themselves to believe it is, but getting out of the muck and learning how to take the step to change something are both things I see as positives that can be guided to better things in the future.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
That’s interesting. Do you have a link, by chance? I’d love to read more
- Comment on Among apps vying to replace Twitter, Bluesky may have the news and innovation edge 2 months ago:
Good. The more people leave the cesspit, the better off they’ll be.
Inb4 some speciously-reasoned lawsuit from the “Department of Government Efficiency” comes for BlueSky alleging anticompetitive practices or something equally ridiculous.
- Comment on German football club leaves X, warning Elon Musk ‘capable of influencing German election’ 2 months ago:
Discord at least has community moderation tools. Xitter is just a town square where all the Neo-nazis and conspiracy theorists get louder megaphones than everyone else.
But the “my friends are there” is such a weak argument, imo. BlueSky exists. Spoutible exists. Mastodon exists. If they’re IRL friends, they can just regroup elsewhere. If they’re only online friends, you can make new ones pretty easily.
“My friends are there” is just a tacit admission that they don’t mind sharing space with Neo-nazis.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
I know I can’t ever go back. I donate to my instance, and I actually feel good about it, because I know it’s not going into the pocket of some faceless corporation who’s beholden to its shareholders instead of its customers.
- Comment on X rival Bluesky gains 1.25 million users following U.S. election 2 months ago:
Hardly. The Fediverse spans multiple apps and services, and it existed before Elon bought Twitter and it will continue existing regardless of what the billionaires do, because it’s not run by just one person.
The whole point is decentralization, not growth, so unless the billionaires can take out every server hosting an instance, the Fediverse isn’t going anywhere.
- Comment on Patient gamers, which games have you discovered/played this week? 2 months ago:
Deus Ex Mankind Divided.
Just getting started, but it’s been pretty fun so far. Not really appreciating how much it echoes the current happenings in society, though…