mhague
@mhague@lemmy.world
- Comment on OpenAI says over a million people talk to ChatGPT about suicide weekly 1 day ago:
I wonder what it means. If you search for music by Suicidal Tendencies then YouTube shows you a suicide hotline. What does it mean for OpenAI to say people are talking about suicide? They didn’t open up and read a million chats… they have automated detection and that is being triggered, which is not necessarily the same as people meaningfully discussing suicide.
- Comment on When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game? 2 days ago:
It’s funny when you’re playing soccer and you’re locked in and then out of nowhere a player gets domed by the ball. Especially when you smoothly recover like you meant to rocket the ball off the defenders head.
- Comment on Black widow life 2 days ago:
Male wolf spiders may hang back and watch mating pairs from the shadows, learning how to successfully attract a mate. Just like us fr
- Comment on $1,000 richer 4 days ago:
I’d take the $1000 and then pay someone $100 to tell me I’m beautiful.
- Comment on Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food? 6 days ago:
Even though corporations play with labels, I still think of it as “this single food item is not a substitute for a meal.”
But it’s silly to assume people will split most of this crap. It’s not like a bag of chips you can roll up for later, it’s molten-frozen astronaut food.
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
That’s a great question!
I do indeed read my posts back—how else would I proofread them? 🤖
- Comment on The C programming language is like debating a philosopher and Python is like debating someone who ate an edible 1 week ago:
Haskell
- Comment on Tesla reintroduces 'Mad Max' Full Self-Driving mode that breaks speed limits 1 week ago:
Need jammers to confuse and break Teslas. They’re weapons designed to break laws and protect occupants at the expense of bystanders. Can’t be mad if a bystander redirects your Tesla into a ditch.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 1 week ago:
Data brokers are allowed to buy data from the dark web after our data is hacked. I saw a 1 million fine I think?
App store owners will use this or that, which will get hacked, then our data will be bought up, and then it will be endlessly repackaged and moved around. That’s why you can’t remove your data using those scam services; the moment it’s moved to another broker it’s fair game again. You’ll never scrub your data.
Your insurance will know what apps you installed. Walmart will know what apps you installed. Police bypass warrants by leasing this data from corporations like Flock. Just add it to the pile.
- Comment on A roundabout 2 weeks ago:
They never show the full version of this gif, where you can see the elevated section of road the driver is aiming for. Have people seriously never seen a highway overpass? Do you guys just assume that every highway uses offramps instead of jumps?
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”
They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.
- Comment on I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time 2 weeks ago:
This is kinda funny. It’s like “Jesus was a white guy” mixed with “cis whites need to check their privilege”
The idea that you could go back in time as a nutritionally giant white guy speaking gibberish and fit in because white is a bit anti history.
If we’re sending people back in time it’s going to be Dwayne Johnson.
- Comment on Logitech will brick its $100 Pop smart home buttons on October 15 - Ars Technica 2 weeks ago:
I don’t get it. Little “drivers” that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?
Where is the “requirement” for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?
I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You’re supposed to pretend it’s necessary! Did they skip that step?
- Comment on Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad? 2 weeks ago:
Because maga are human and they have similar capabilities to us.
For example, I know you know that they are often draped in Christianity, patriotism, etc. Does that mean we’re all anti-christian and anti-american?
They learn to associate us with certain labels. And then they learn new labels in the context of labels they’ve internalized. Antifa means a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things.
- Comment on Best stay away from that guy 3 weeks ago:
Needs to be injective and surjective
- Comment on Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn't mean it to look like a Nazi swastika 3 weeks ago:
“There was an emote. But then the show had a plot twist. So now the emote kinda looks like a swastika. We’ve removed it after making sure it wasn’t on purpose.”
They’re on drugs
- Comment on Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop 4 weeks ago:
It’s EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they’re somehow escaping the taint?
It’s like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country… but then they think they’re still a normal artist.
- Comment on EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm 4 weeks ago:
Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.
After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!
- Comment on Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers 4 weeks ago:
My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.
Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.
Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like 6 Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.
- Comment on Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam. 4 weeks ago:
Reminds me a bit of Colobots
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 4 weeks ago:
John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It was just a problem with the implementation.
Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.
- Comment on Magic is real, we just know how it works and call it technology 5 weeks ago:
I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.
It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.
It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.
Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.
But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.
- Comment on Peter Thiel Antichrist lecture: We asked guests what the hell it is 1 month ago:
Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 month ago:
‘Curated echo chamber’ is a great euphemism for a human brain.
- Comment on None of the last 31 political attacks was by anyone from 'the Left'. Not one. We can count them. - AzExpress 1 month ago:
When people use “left” and “right” for serious topics
- Comment on Worth checking 1 month ago:
We’re just gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares
- Comment on Now it's stuck in my head 1 month ago:
Always makes me think of the ending of 40yo Virgin
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.
ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it’s different.
I think it’s a bad idea but I can’t stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory… I’d like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.
- Comment on Microsoft still can't convince folks to upgrade to Windows 11 1 month ago:
Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won’t even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 1 month ago:
I think Claude would refuse to work with dictators that murder dissidents. As an AI assistant, and all that.
If they have a model without morals then that changes things.
