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- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
There are no reliable automated LLM output detectors. Anyone who says otherwise is either trying to sell you snake oil (or is unwittingly helping someone to sell snake oil to someone else, I guess).
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
I was about to link to that, and specifically the stuff that now seems to have been moved to Signs of AI writing.
I thought that was a very interesting read, because it’s so much better than the usual AI ragebait that led to people getting pilloried over the fact that they actually know how to use em dashes. You can’t detect LLM use just by the fact that someone uses em dashes. It’s a complicated stylistic issue that usually boils down to “well, you know what ChatGPT output looks like when you see it”.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says Nvidia engineers should use AI tokens worth half their annual salary every year to be fully productive 2 weeks ago:
It’s moments like these that make me think about the state of the world and my part in it. I may just be a random loser on the Internet, but I do know a lot more shit that some of the biggest multi-quad-spillion-dollar CEOs, apparently.
For example, it’s an old fact that tech CEOs know jack shit about measuring productivity, even when they’re obsessed with it. Yeah. One more example.
- Comment on Wonder what their cousins liked to snack on... 2 weeks ago:
Another fun reptile fact!
Tortoises are mostly herbivorous. However, many species of tortoises will not stop munching on leaves where snails are sitting. They are happy to eat snails for the protein. And also to demonstrate the snails that turtles are significantly faster!
(Also I wish I had one particular video at hand, of Galapagos tortoises eating pumpkins)
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 3 weeks ago:
[insert that meme of a cat peeking behind a snow bank going “wtf they’re doing over there” or something]
Last time I was blown away by graphics was when I started up my brand new Xbox 360 and played Bioshock and was like “whoooa, reflections, water effects, whoooa”. Everything since has been a mild gradual improvement.
In fact, I expect this stuff to be mild improvements you can barely notice unless you’re specifically looking for it. Don’t make it big and don’t stir drama, Nvidia.
And just about the last thing you want to tell people is “you know what, we’re doing a giant leap here, you’ll better buy new hardware now.” …In this fucking economy.
- Comment on What are your best memories of playing Civilization III? 3 weeks ago:
My best memories of playing Civilization III?
My only memory of Civ3 was me going “ehhhh, this is too complicated” and going back to Sid Meier’s Alpha Centauri!
Now Civ II, that was the game! …but I didn’t play it that much after I got SMAC.
…I’ve been slowly trying to learn Civilization VI, only because Turtles are apparently a Thing! 😄🐢 Didn’t buy Civilization VII because Turtles Weren’t A Thing ☹️.
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- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 4 weeks ago:
I’d be willing to get YouTube Premium just to get rid of ads, but they’re bundling it with YouTube Music and I’m not trusting Google with my music purchases any more, thank you.
They discontinued Google Play Music (fortunately only after a long long period of time allowing you to download MP3s with their bloody terrible client app, so no loss there) and told me that you can just import the purchases to YouTube Music. Which I couldn’t actually access.
Also I don’t want a music streaming service, I just want to buy the albums. It’s pretty sad that it seems the only remaining feasible local option for electronic music purchases is iTunes! Bloody iTunes!
- Comment on Forced age verification is comming sooner than we thought. 5 weeks ago:
If the speedrun strategy is “introduce a stupid law, wait for everyone to go ‘holy shit none of this can be realistically implemented in this timeframe’, wait for OS vendors to just ban the use of the OSes in the country, watch the local industry as a whole to rally and petition the government to stop the madness before there’s a new dark age, repeal the clearly stupid law”, all before the California law comes to effect - I’ve got to say it’s a bold strategy and we’ll see how it plays out.
- Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 month ago:
My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”
The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.
Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 1 month ago:
I was about to ask “I’m mildly concerned, are American Evangelicals okay?” but then I remembered there has never been a time when they have been okay, so I don’t know why am I even asking.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 1 month ago:
A significant chunk of American pop culture of the past decades is based on the premise that The Government is Hiding Something.
Trump’s going to throw a big wrench in that by releasing fucking everything. Except a few things. A few great secrets.
I swear American pop culture in the coming century or so is just going to be The Government is Hiding The Epstein Files, over and over and over.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 1 month ago:
I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.
Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.
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- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
Oh thank goodness, I saw the link in the photo is to Roosh V forum, and I was like, hell no, I’m not going there
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 1 month ago:
I’ve said this before, but “AI vegan” is a pretty odd term. It’d imply that using AI is somehow a default, entrenched, normalised thing. That not using AI is going against the status quo.
This makes as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”. Go on. Go say that to some Linux user’s face, I’m waiting.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 2 months ago:
There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.
Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.
I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.
- Comment on So disappointing 2 months ago:
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 2 months ago:
Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.
(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)
- Comment on 'Scowling Void of Pure Nothingness': Critics Destroy $75 Million Melania Trump Documentary | Common Dreams 2 months ago:
75 million dollars. 75. Million. Dollars.
How much of it went to the crew and other people who actually made the damn thing?
Or even used for their benefit in other way, for that matter - I’m asking because apparently the crew did overtime hours with no food while the director lorded over the underlings and stuffed his face. (Don’t do overtime if your boss isn’t personally ordering a ton of pizza, guys.)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
As pointed out, Goodreads has been owned by Amazon for a good while. And they also own slices of some other similar book sites (LibraryThing, for example, and some other site that was merged into Goodreads).
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Also, to avoid doing unpaid labour for Jeff Bezos, go from Goodreads to Bookwyrm!
- Comment on De-Escalating Social Media 2 months ago:
What I need is “this post really seemed like a good idea when I was drunk, but in retrospect, maybe it’s not”.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 months ago:
The fuck you on about?
May I enquire if you are completely informed on the topic?
Have you ever played Portal beyond the first rooms? You definitely need fast and precise aiming in Portal.
Have you played Portal on controller? I’ve played through the game twice on controller on Xbox 360 and with mouse and keyboard on PC.
Both are very much playable. You don’t need goddamn motherfucking MLG 100% 360° 720° noscope quickscope blaze it mtn dew it skillz only attainable through rarest of gamer mice and finest of mechanical keyboards. It’s perfectly serviceable on controller. That was my point.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 months ago:
The official Xbox 360 rechargeable batteries were absolute hogwash. Terrible battery life when they were new, and it just kept getting even worse really fast.
I could imagine the third party batteries being better. I’ve only ever had one set of Xbox One/Series controller rechargeable batteries (third party but AFAIK officially licensed) and they’re working just fine.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 months ago:
To be fair to be fair, Portal on Xbox controller is entirely serviceable. You don’t need super fast precision control in Portal anyway.
- Comment on ...is this retro? 2 months ago:
My current annoyance: my Xbox 360 works just fine, but none of the controllers turn on while battery powered. (IR remote works, but it’s not exactly suitable for gaming.) And Xbox 360 was the pinnacle of Microsoft’s “well we have to do slightly incompatible shit just for the hell of it” attitude - you can’t just use a standard USB cable, it uses USB over a weird proprietary connector. (On the other hand, I’ve looooooved Xbox One and later controllers on PC)
My Halloween tradition is Bullet Witch - had to jank up the PC version to working state last year when I first noticed this problem with the 360 controllers.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”
A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that
- Comment on I liek tudles 2 months ago:
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.