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- Comment on Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing" 2 days ago:
The “full spectrum of pricing”, from ludicrous to overpriced to straight up exorbitant.
These guys have no idea how many bloody full price AAA games I have on my backlog and I have said, with considerable gravity, that I guess I’ll get to them later. In a few years maybe. We’ll see.
- Comment on Be nice 5 days ago:
Some poor sod at the US government: “Hold on! HOLD ON! We’re getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It’s very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!”
- Comment on Got emotional thinking about this 1 week ago:
My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn’t see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.
- Comment on US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter. 1 week ago:
Martin: Organized crime?
Cosmo: Hah. Don’t kid yourself. It’s not that organized.– Sneakers (1992)
Twitter is absolutely going to say “well, we’re definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We’re just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit”
- Comment on PSA on privuhcy 1 week ago:
There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner.
- Comment on “You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said 1 week ago:
Remember:
Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can’t just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.
- Comment on Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database 2 weeks ago:
AI is good at doing a thing once.
Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.
But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it’s not good enough for that.
- Comment on Enough 2 weeks ago:
The sign on the door reads “Execution Chamber”
- Comment on Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI 3 weeks ago:
People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
I wasn’t able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So… thanks, I guess!
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
Tried various distances, that didn’t help too much. I’m afraid I have to hold to the theory that I’m officially old now and need bifocals.
- Comment on Can you see magic eye pictures? 3 weeks ago:
I can see them.
Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.
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- Comment on Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names. 3 weeks ago:
Well, technically, Twitter has employees, so in very strict sense, they’re “manned”. However, thanks to these weird incomprehensible things called “current legislation” and “capitalism”, no employee is in fact personally responsible for the fuckups. And neither is the company as a whole! …Isn’t this great?
- Comment on Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement 4 weeks ago:
You know, I was mildly ambivalent about Ubisoft recently (just burned out by their games and not wanting to buy them until I’ve slept for ages) but… Really? This is the hill they want to die on? Well that does say a lot about them, now doesn’t it?
- Comment on Ok, I'll pay you the 1995 price 4 weeks ago:
I didn’t like talking to other people in 1995, and I sure as hell aren’t going to start enjoying it now.
- Comment on The signatures are still coming and it's already making an impact 4 weeks ago:
This initiative sure would make things more complicated for the game publishers, yes.
Because they’re currently not doing the bare minimum.
If they weren’t so accustomed to not doing the bare minimum, maybe they would have different opinions! Just saying.
- Comment on Is anyone else not feeling that patriotic for July 4? 4 weeks ago:
I thought you guys don’t celebrate it that much any more? Heard it got replaced with a Trump Birthday Military Parade Day or someshit. And it sucked so much that nobody is doing holidays anymore. Sorry, I’m in Europe, the new are coming in slowly from the US these days
- Comment on The Fediverse Passport: A needed tool. 4 weeks ago:
What Fediverse could use was some kind of equivalent of Linktree. “Here’s my personal accounts on Fediverse. Here’s some related to my projects. Here’s some other random links.”
Because currently I’m like “maybe check out my Mastodon profile, it has links” - it works, kinda, but I’m not sure it’s the best solution. For example, you could include support for this in the fedi software, so once you specify where your link page is, it’d pull the links and show them on your profile.
…I know, this would be too beautiful for this world and it’d get run over by spammers. But for glorious few days we’d have sensible Fediverse profiles! Think about it!
- Comment on When you work for a company owned by a A..hole 5 weeks ago:
Yeah, that company has red flags.
Red flag number 1: the contents of the note
Red flag number 2: using duct tape to attach the note to the wall. Hints at a huge managerial Skill Issue.
- Comment on Brazil's supreme court rules that platforms like Facebook and X can be held liable for user posts, requiring them to remove content even without a court order 5 weeks ago:
On the other hand, I think safe-harbour laws are very much necessary if we want the Internet to work for the positive good of the world. We want the companies to take reasonable precautions and act on problematic stuff if it crops up, but that’s probably enough.
But on the other hand, jeez, have you seen what kind of discussion shitholes Facebook and Twitter have cultivated? If your company is being described as an accessory to genocide, maybe something has already gone horribly wrong.
- Comment on The Harbinger of the Dystopia 5 weeks ago:
A couple of minutes in Dystopika, annnnnd…
- Comment on No JS, No CSS, No HTML: online "clubs" celebrate plainer websites 5 weeks ago:
“No HTML club” is kinda going too far on the Web. If you go there you might as well start a No HTTP Club and serve stuff over Gopher and FTP.
But we definitely need an HTML 2.0 Club.
- Comment on SteamWorld Dig is free on Steam for the next couple of days? Ah, go on then 5 weeks ago:
Ooohh, I liked this game when it was in Game Pass a while ago. Might as well grab the PC version.
…it’s already in my Steam library
…must have been on some Humble Bundle forever ago, then
- Comment on Yes, this is what people did back then 1 month ago:
Boot up my dad’s computer and play some shareware off the magazine cover disk I got months ago.
Or go to the library I guess.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
I’m happy that the news over here has to continually specify “the messaging service X”. Though I wish they would avoid potential confusion and also say “formerly known as Twitter”.
- Comment on Trump social media site brought down by Iran hackers 1 month ago:
Andrew Tate’s site was based on some OSS software that they didn’t credit (in violation of the license) and was an old version with known vulnerabilities. Which is why it got hacked.
I don’t know if Truth Social is in the same boat, but it’s possible. I think I heard it’s just Mastodon with federation turned off? Or am I thinking of some other crappy alt-right site?
- Comment on Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok 1 month ago:
Like all Point-Haired Bosses through the history, Elon has not heard of (or consciously chooses to ignore) one of the fundamental laws of computing: garbage in, garbage out
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 1 month ago:
Oh, thank you! MO2 seems a lot more clean and simple than Vortex.
…and in related news, now that I’m redownloading everything for funsies anyway, I have graduated from trying to keep my mod lists on a website to scribbling a list down in Joplin. With links and everything. In case these mods I’m using decide to move from Nexus or something.
- Comment on Nexus Mods' new owners promise they won't monetise the site to death as users panic at the whiff of venture capital 1 month ago:
Ok, so what is the current alternative nice option for SkyrimSE mods?
Preferably one with a mod manager/download client. Vortex is kind of janky but it did the job. I’d prefer not to manage any of this stuff manually, like cavemen. it’s been decades you shouldn’t need to do that
