Land_Strider
@Land_Strider@lemmy.world
- Comment on These AI generated pics are becoming impossible to spot 19 hours ago:
2 fat guy pictures, but with quite the averagely-tended faces and a somewhat digital touch-up. 1 outright regular, maybe overweight person with semitic beard. 1 absolutely fabulous gentleman with furry undertones.
Not even closely ugly. Just some quantifiable stuff imo.
- Comment on NASA and Boeing say Starliner astronauts ‘are not stranded,’ but will be on the ISS for a few more weeks 1 day ago:
SPACE!
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
Oh no, not at all. First, you need to download the dependencies tho. Start with downloading more ram.
- Comment on US bans Kaspersky antivirus software due to 'national security risk' 1 week ago:
Tbh, uBlock Origin + brain.exe has been carrying the heaviest load for years for me. Windows Defender would catch 80% of the occasional slips where brain.exe wanted some risks, too.
- Comment on NASA finds humanity would totally fumble asteroid defense 1 week ago:
Well, if you allow CELL to gobble up that one android…
- Comment on Gaza war: Five Israeli soldiers killed 'by tank fire' in Jabalia 1 month ago:
Last thing or not, bombings and shootings will continue until
the morale improvesthe beach houses are built. - Comment on Later, losers 1 month ago:
For all of our sakes, I, too, hope he doesn’t.
- Comment on YOU. 1 month ago:
If you are into emoticons, you can use custom emoticons of one server on another. If you share files, such as clips, until recently discord allowed only 8mb on free tier. Now it is 25mb, but can get up to 500mb with nitro. Video streaming is limited to 1080p at 30fps, nitro unlocks up to 4k with 60fps.
Basically allows more bandwidth and storage on their servers, which is understandable I think.
- Comment on Gen Z mostly doesn't care if influencers are actual humans, new study shows 1 month ago:
One is temporary, the other is perpetuated for eternity through atrocities.
- Comment on House Passes Bill That Defines Criticism of Israel as “Antisemitism” 1 month ago:
Pretty sure their media apparatus can “lawfully” show stock images with people photoshopped to be saluting Hitler on any news about student protests against being complicit in Israel’s genocide now.
- Comment on Reddit embracing all out enshittification 2 months ago:
Oh no, forming your ideas into comprehensible essay format with intersentence connectivity and flow, maybe even splitting into paragraphs, isn’t even close to LLM speech.
I do form long, connected, split texts and comments, too, but there is a great difference between mine and an LLMs tone, cadence, mood or whatever you wanna call these things.
For example, humans usually cut corners when forming sentences and paragraphs, even if when forming long ones. We do this via lazy grammar use, unrestricted thesaurus selection, uneven sentence or paragraph lengths, lots of phrase abbreviations e.g. “tbh”, lax use of punctuations e.g. “(ChatGPT?)”, which also is a substitution for a whole question sentence.
Also, the bland, upbeat and respecting tone the bots mimic from long-thought essays is never kept up in spontaneous writing/typing. Dead giveaway of a script-speech than genuine, on-point and assuming human interaction.
Us LLMs can’t do these with rather simple reverse-jenga syntax and semantics forming, with simple formal pragmatics sprinkled, yet. The wild west, very expansive, extended pragmatics of a language is where the real shit is at.
- Comment on Progress! 2 months ago:
You fool, you fell for me genjutsu.
-Not Itachi, probably.
- Comment on Satellite images reveal China built a replica of Taipei’s presidential district in remote Inner Mongolia, fuelling speculation that Beijing uses the site as training ground for an invasion of Taiwan 2 months ago:
Hey, it is noted in the article that this is a satellite image, and I don’t see the plane anywhere in the shot. So either:
A) The plane is above the satellite, which probably would require an even larger plane to cast such a deep shadow effectively,
B) The plane is far away horizontally and actually bigger than the estimated 3 miles length to compensate,
C) It is just a simple scaled down cardboard replica with someone’s kid’s platic toy plane casting a shadow on it,
D) It is a big Chinese Dickbutt drawn to imitate a plane’s shadow so that the photographing satellite would say “oh shit” and look over its shoulder, as part of the prank.
- Comment on legs to die for 3 months ago:
I’ve encountered these guys all my life. They are mostly small skittering puffy-stretches at a glance, but sometimes they can look like their red headed larger and snake-eating relatives at 4-5cm lengths.
They are extremely soft to the touch, as if a very light breeze just brushed off your arm hair. What I didn’t know is that they are like cats in this behaviour:
House centipedes have been observed to groom their legs by curling around and grooming them with their forcipules.
- Comment on "How to help someone use a computer.", a guide from 1996 3 months ago:
While I do share your sentiment on most of these points, I think this guide assumes the person with the problem is already in an intrigued state of mind about the problem. Them being interested about the end result doesn’t change this in this matter, as they are interested in getting results AND learning the steps to do that, rather than learning how the steps are constructed by the working of the computer. That applies to computer-literate people (more precisely people who know how to navigate the front-end usually) who are also not related to computer engineering in any time of their lives. They don’t need to know the video player program generates logs, let aside having knowledge about how to read them.
However, the people with a computer problem but with no interest in learning how to solve it and just would like it to work without their effort, which I assume the guide doesn’t have in mind as target audience, are the type that a lot of people immediately think of when such stuff is mentioned. I’d agree your sentiment applies correctly to this specific type.
- Comment on Someone call the PETA folk 3 months ago:
Diamond Dogs? Not my Metal Gear merc company! (May have introduced some weaponry to dogs tho)
- Comment on Anime pfps rise up 3 months ago:
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Dunno why that got down voted even though it agrees with and elaborates on the comment I replied to.
It is just a statement. I didn’t even urge, encourage or request anybody to stop using that, so not even pressing on the toes of anybody except really insecure people like the other commenter on your level.
Hell, it is used by those insecure people who can’t handle a criticism about their beliefs, usually in context where the subject is women, minorities, people living difficult lives, people enjoying crazy shit harming no one (else), rebellious populations that are directly or indirectly fucked by the colonialism.and fight back with whatever they have, even if it looks primitive in the face of their adversaries firepower.
And here I am making just one criticism about the use of a word that has almost become the Reddit’s “this” in Lemmy political environments, and I’m the one clutching pearls or being insecure.
- Comment on Apple Terminated Epic’s Developer Account 3 months ago:
Very vulgar and tbh very beaten, redneck level childish expression mostly used overtly in bullshit reactions with almost zero regard to the context.
- Comment on Google is making a map of methane leaks for the whole world to see 4 months ago:
Curious to see how this will flame the “China making up all the bad gases” data simplification while it will omit everything else in that regard as they won’t be its business.
- Comment on My most memorable NES games 4 months ago:
So many memorable childhood games. Much bonding over Jackal and fighting (or trying to start a fight) in Ice Hockey. Nice solo gaming with awesome music on Gun.smoke and Balloon Fight.
- Comment on Take a look. 4 months ago:
Behold, a man!
- Comment on I went back in time to kill Hitler but instead we fell in love and our romance averted the war but then I was kidnapped back to the present and Hitler's broken heart made him do WW2 anyway. AMA 5 months ago:
Which government? The reptile ones?
- Comment on One thing I hope to see in the Fediverse is people engaging with old content 5 months ago:
Pointless part I can understand, but annoying? What’s more, it should prove what you make effort to post can still get engagement over time, and not scattered to winds.
- Comment on After injecting cancer hospital with ransomware, crims threaten to swat patients 5 months ago:
Can’t wait for the GTA Online players to swat me in my home… wait we don’t have a SWAT that automatically kicks doors in without any question, so shove that threat up yours, hackers!
Jokes aside, the “swatting” being a term and applicable threat method is pretty sad. Especially when the duty officers responsible for your protection can be the ones that can put your life at risk with unverified reasons bordering institutional paranoia.
- Comment on Nic Cage through the years 5 months ago:
- Comment on Male Loneliness 5 months ago:
Whenever I hear about “but we have such and such technologies that we didn’t have in the olden times you so fondly mention” as if we deride the technological marvels as the cause of current worse times. We could simply had most, if not all, of these technological improvements on top of 90s movie styles, games quality, face to face conversations, outside activities, etc. had we not taken to radicalization of every thought via mass media plus manipulated social media. One major tenable improvement besides the mostly-unrelated technological improvements that we have over 90s is the more equal rights for a lot of gender varieties and equal rights for women, and that is just about it. We have almost regressed on a lot more societal aspects all over the word, including, and sometimes more prominently, in the first world countries.
These kind of takes can be on the extreme so as to attribute all these technological improvements to a person/party. In Turkey, we have these old conservatives that attribute smartphones, relative food abundance, computers, car abundance, restaurants to Erdoğan’s reign, and arguing we wouldn’t be having these otherwise. I feel the same energy from these types of comments.
- Comment on China Is Stealing AI Secrets to Turbocharge Spying, U.S. Says 5 months ago:
Hey, to be fair the bully who is warning you to keep your lunch money safe from the other bully is the currently the USA. Immediate wrongdoing will always have a place, even in the face of likely worse wrongdoing that is set to be in the future.
And one thing also, for the upper comment: Drone striking a whole people, changing the strike type every decade, and carrying out genocide over a prolonged time does not make mass killings any better than a hands-on approach. One produces more reaction, fucks up generations completely, assimilates or annihilates whole cultures, the other is a swift solution in service of a fucked-up ethos. Neither is favorable in comparison.
- Comment on Twitch updates sexual content guidelines amid ‘topless’ meta backlash 6 months ago:
Nah I wouldn’t say it is different in the rest of the world. Yes, open minded people everywhere don’t get bothered by bare skin in a lot of situations, but there are also a lot of people that perceive it as a taboo. Besides that, a lot of people that okay with bare skin on many contexts, there are still many of them that don’t expect or want a bare skin to be a factor in a lot of others, varying by individuals.
For example, I wouldn’t mind bare skin and varying degrees of intimacy in a lot of entertainment media, but still I would expect this to me a non-factor in the indicator of quality in most of them. For twitch, a platform that has come about and widely known as a gaming streaming site, I would expect the key performance indicators of content creators to be their gaming skills and gaming related entertainment value, not their bare skin. Alas all of us know that bare skin would definitely be a factor in the KPI of content creators because also sex sells, but I’m not going to Twitch to purchase sex.
- Comment on makes sense 6 months ago:
Isn’t Factorio very optimized, not in the sense that it uses all system resources completely, but in the sense that it has very efficient code enabling millions of operations and increasing without needing much more system resources to scale it?
I would definitely go with Arma in this case. Although it has very heavy calculations for a lot of things to start with, it can’t scale well and cause CPU bottleneck very soon.