LainTrain
@LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on YSK: You can disable scores (upvotes and downvotes) in lemmy, and I think it's great! 43 minutes ago:
I only have upvotes and downvotes on Jerboa, no scores.
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 48 minutes ago:
No WhatsApp?
- Comment on Meta and Yandex are de-anonymizing Android users’ web browsing identifiers - Ars Technica 48 minutes ago:
Block all tracking scripts and use Firefox Nightly with ublock when possible.
- Comment on Workers' rights in free fall as unions face unprecedented attacks, report warns 6 hours ago:
Capitalist grifters on the offensive.
- Comment on In North Korea, your phone secretly takes screenshots every 5 minutes for government surveillance 19 hours ago:
Well maybe if they stopped taking all those screenshots with their fancy rice avocado phones they could afford a house!
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 1 day ago:
Agreed! Thanks for this discussion.
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 1 day ago:
You’re spot on, I’m sorry for my loose usage of the term.
But I dont necessarily fully agree with your definitions either. Don’t get me wrong they are soundly constructed, I just don’t personally see it the same way. The slur one is fine and I largely agree.
As for the ideological definition I’m not sure that you can decidedly say that self-improvement is at odds with it.
I think a full definition for me would be mostly related to the culture of specific online spaces, what I would call “4chan social dynamics” and it’s memes and people who buy into them past a certain point, and very little to do with any sexual status or lack thereof, which there’s nothing actually wrong with, it’s fairly obvious that lack of sexual access for men is a significant detriment to their quality of life and it’s complex societal problem to be solved like any other. It’s not for me to really talk about at length because I’m not a man.
I would argue though that “femcels” in communities like FDS and (I’m not sure if it’s a thing still) Vindicta are very much thinking along the exact same lines despite very few of them being involuntarily celibate or identifying with the label in any significant way.
Likewise men who have sex but still buy into these memes are also still ideologically incels under this definition.
I think this grouping is more useful because it allows us to identify ideological and philosophical commonalities between more stereotypical incels and those who wouldn’t on the surface be such.
What I’ve found across my observations is if grouped this way, plenty of these people actually do practice self-improvement and are explicitly motivated to do so via their ideology.
So I don’t necessarily see a toxic variety of “self-improvement” as being contrary at all to this ideology, in fact if anything I see the “blackpilled” (or in less internet terms - hopeless) variety as being far less harmful than the “redpilled” variety which is often used to exploit people economically via endless lifestyle coaching guides and courses and even transparent pyramid schemes alongside usually a serving of mysogyny and reducing women’s behaviour to some sort of conspiratorial pseudo-scientific evolutionary psychology “harsh truth” that only serves to further disconnect people from the real world and entrap them in cycles of financial exploitation.
In plain English, in the best case the very framing of “work out to get a girlfriend” is inherently distorting reality into 4chan social dynamics and implying a causality that isn’t there (e.g. “guys who work out get girls”) when in reality women aren’t something to “get”, and many men don’t work out and have women all the same. Through this lens “looksmaxxing” is problematic the same way those fake “diet” aids are, even when the implication is unspoken.
When you introduce the profit motive into this, there’s never any incentive for people to get out of the cycle, only deeper in. In contrast the ones who think self-improvement is a cope maybe have some unproductive ideas but honestly I just don’t think people holding communions of shared self-loathing is a particularly huge problem unless they threaten and go through on real world harm ala Elliot Rodgers or whatever his name was.
Also sorry for the long-winded response, I just want to add that I may sound overly harsh on self-improvement but this is coming from someone who is a staunch self-improver myself, I’m not at all against self-improvement in the slightest, but I think it’s important to work towards whatever goals one may set for the right reasons as well, and recognize when a drive for self-improvement stems from a “toxic” (less productive) place and when it stems from a legitimate place (actually solves problems).
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 2 days ago:
Okay, I’d be interested to hear what you think is wrong with this, because I’m pretty sure it’s more or less correct.
Some sources for you to help you understand these concepts a bit better:
What DLSS is and how it works as a starter: en.wikipedia.org/…/Deep_Learning_Super_Sampling
Issues with modern “optimization”, including DLSS: www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJu_DgCHfx4
TAA comparisons (yes, biased, but accurate): old.reddit.com/r/FuckTAA/…/rfucktaa_resource/
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 2 days ago:
No that’s not really true from what I heard. Tons of vindicta type femcels and Tate fan manosphere loons are into looksmaxxing and moneymaxxing and whatnot. Ironically enough blackpilled proper withdrawn hikki incels at least don’t get taken for a ride by grifters so much.
- Comment on OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men 2 days ago:
Link to bot?
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 3 days ago:
What are you talking about “temporal+quality” for DLSS? That’s not a thing.
Sorry I was mistaken, it’s not “temporal”, I meant “transformer”, as in the “transformer model”, as here in CP2077.
DLSS I’m talking about. There are many comparisons out there showing how amazing it is, often resulting in better IQ than native.
No, AI upscaling from a lower resolution will never be better than just running the game at the native resolution it’s being upscaled to. Most of the time it’s just blurry slop with sharpening applied.
Even if it was, any added detail is either literally just a sharpening post-processing filter akin to the added detail of a cheap Walmart “HD Ready” TV circa 2007 with sharpening cranked up, or outright fictional, and does not exist within the game files itself, and if by “better” we agree that it’s the most high fidelity representation of the game as it exists on disk, then AI cannot ever be better.
By it’s very nature, the ML model is just “guessing” what the frame might look like if it was rendered at native resolution. It’s not an accurate representation of the render output or artistic intent. Is it impressive? Yes of course, it’s a miracle of technology and a result of brilliant engineering and research in the ML field applied creatively and practically, but it does not result in a better image than native, nor does it aim to do so.
FXAA is not an AI upscaler, what are you talking about?
I mention FXAA because really the only reason we use “AI upscalers” is because anti-aliasing is really really computationally expensive.
The single most immediately evident and obvious consequence of a low render resolution is aliasing first and foremost. Almost all other aspects of a game’s graphics are usually completely detached from this like e.g. texture resolution.
The reason aliasing happens in the first place is because our ability to create, ship, process and render increasingly high polygon count games has massive surpassed our ability to push pixels on screen in real time.
Or course legibility suffers at lower resolution as well, but not nearly as much as smoothness of edges on high-polygon objects.
So for assets that would look really good at say, 4K, we run them at 720p instead, and this creates jagged edges because we literally cannot make the thing fit into the pixels we’re pushing.
The best and most direct solution will always be just to render the game at a much higher resolution. But that kills framerates.
We can’t do that, so we resort to Anti-Aliasing techniques instead. The most simple of which is MSAA which just multi-samples (renders at higher res) those edges and downscales them.
But it’s also very very expensive to do computationally. GPUs capable of doing it alongside other bells and whistles we have like Ray Tracing simply don’t exist, and if they did they’d cost too much, and even then, most games have to target consoles, which are solidly beat out by a flagship GPU even from several years ago.
One other solution is to blur these jagged edges out, sacrificing detail for a “smooth” look.
This is what FXAA does, but this creates a blurry image. This became very prevalent during the 7th Gen console era in particular because they simply couldn’t push more than 720p in most games, in an era where Full HD TVs had become fairly common towards the end and shiny, polished graphics in trailers became a major way to make sales, this was further worsened by the fact Motion Blur was often used to cover up low framerates and replicate the look of sleek modern (at the time) digital blockbusters.
SMAA fixed some of FXAA’s issues by being more selective about which pixels were blurred, and TAA eliminated the shimmering effect by also taking into account which pixels should be blurred across multiple frames.
Beyond this there are other tricks, like checkerboard rendering, where we render the frame in chunks at different resolutions based on what the player may or may not be looking at.
In VR we also use foveated rendering to render an FOV cone in front of the players immediate vision at a higher res than what would be in their periphery/outside the eye’s natural focus, with eye tracking tech, this actually works really well.
But none of these are very good solutions, so we resort to another ugly, but potentially less bad solution, solution, which is just rendering the game at a lower resolution and upscaling it, like a DVD played on an HDTV, but instead of a traditional upscaling algo like Lanczoz, we use DLSS, which reconstructs detail lost from a lower resolution render, based on context of the frame using machine learning, which is efficient because of tensor cores now included on every GPU making N-dimensional array multiplication and mixed precision FP math relatively computationally cheap.
DLSS often looks better compared to FXAA, SMAA and TAA because all of those just literally blur the image in different ways, without any detail reconstruction, but it is not comparable to any real anti-aliasing technique like MSAA.
But DLSS always renders at a lower res than native, so it will never be 1:1 a true native image, it’s just an upscale. That’s okay, because that’s not the point. The purpose of DLSS isn’t to boost quality, it’s to be a crutch for low performance, it’s why turning off even Quality presets for DLSS will often tank performance.
There is one situation where DLSS can look better than native, and it’s if you instead of typical applications of DLSS which downscales the image, then upscales it with ML guesswork, use it to upscale the image from native, to a higher target res instead and output that.
In Nvidia settings I believe this is called DL DSR factors.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
Lolwut? No it doesn’t? Yeah it turns off TAA so it might look sharper at first, and if you turn off the ugly ass sharpening then it’s playable but literally any other option looks better than TAA, including TXAA from early 2010s lol.
Do you maybe mean DLAA? I Have an RTX 3090 and a 9800X3D. It’s ok. When the option exists I just crank up the res or turn on MSAA instead. Much better.
If you mean DLSS, my condolences. I’d rather play with FXAA most of the time.
The only game I’ll use DLSS (on Temporal+Quality) in is CP2077 with Path Tracing. With Ray Reconstruction it’s almost worth the blurriness, especially because that game forces TAA unless you use DLAA/DLSS and I don’t get the framerate. Maybe one day I’ll have the hardware needed to run it with PT and DLAA
- Comment on DeepSeek's distilled new R1 AI model can run on a single GPU | TechCrunch 4 days ago:
I’m genuinely curious what you do that a 7b model is “trash” to you? Like yeah sure a gippity now tends to beat out a mistral 7b but I’m pretty happy with my mistral most of the time if I ever even need ai at all.
- Comment on Google is going ‘all in’ on AI. It’s part of a troubling trend in big tech 4 days ago:
And it’s fucking awful.
People didn’t “want it” neither before nor after it was forced into being a thing, people had no choice because of GPU prices, especially console peasants stuck with their AMD APUs on par with like a GTX 1070 where a middleman built their PC for them under £600 + hundreds in PS Plus/game fees over years to come.
DLSS is even worse cancer than TAA, the washed out blurry slop only looks good on YouTube videos due to the compression. It’s one thing if you’re playing in the extremes of low performance and need a crutch, e.g. steam deck, it’s a whole other when you make your game look like dog shit then use fancy FXAA and motion blur to cover it up so you can’t see.
- Comment on (Technology Connections) Closed captions on DVDs are getting left behind [33:46] 6 days ago:
True.
- Comment on AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos 1 week ago:
Nah fuck that shit I was so glad when everything moved to computers in schools. Kids are never gonna need to handwrite or speak in their lives, they need typing practice.
- Comment on If not intentially a minority and I get into a fight and I did not know they were gay, palestinian, jewish, or whatever. Can I still be charged with a hate crime? Or does one have to know first? 1 week ago:
No, it’s not a protected characteristic because being a nazi isn’t innate.
- Comment on Why Japan's animation industry has embraced AI 1 week ago:
Spot on.
- Comment on These Island Birds Are So Full of Plastic They Crunch When You Touch Them 1 week ago:
Slaps roof of bird This bad boy can fit so much plastic
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
Huh? I don’t know where I implied that. You ofc need an understanding but you also need practice.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
Plastics are great, what are you smoking, plastics?
- Comment on Verifying & Validating a Docker Container 1 week ago:
Oh god the lemmings are optimizing posts for engagement. We are approaching peak content
- Comment on New STALKER remasters launch to 'Mostly Negative' Steam reviews 1 week ago:
Worse. Forced DLSS/FSR/whatever you call that slop.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 1 week ago:
Truly awesome that this hobby is getting coverage! I’m very very lazy when it comes to self-hosting, by far my largest project was moving off Spotify and archiving all my playlists.
Rotating 3 API keys for spotdl and a YTP free trial for that sweet sweet 256kbps AAC then Musicbrainz Picard to label correctly all the music (automatic was nearly almost always wrong), then automating rebuilding the m3u8 playlists followed by the insane work of correcting all the little imperfections. Must’ve taken me like 2-3 weeks of just working on it most of the day.
But the result? A proper offline music library with all my main playlists with each song at the proper position and order in my playlists with the correct (Spotify) metadata in at least 256kbps AAC (and many cases FLAC and where available non-vinyl hi-res). Tossed on an old dell workstation I got for £50 hosting navidrome. Using symfonium on my phone. Couldn’t be happier.
- Comment on Man arrested after fires at homes linked to PM 1 week ago:
Host refugees.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
I’m fundamentally anti-private property and copyright. So I’m definitely pro AI art. Once it’s on the internet - it’s there forever. It was always being scraped, you just get to see the results now.
That said I don’t like AI being shoved into everything. The fun picture recombination machine shouldn’t be deciding who lives and dies.
- Comment on What are your thoughts about AI? 1 week ago:
Would you have any idea on how to preserve food if you didn’t have a fridge?
I could use a freezer:) Jk, not entirely no, but I’m aware of other methods, given a bit of time I could probably learn how to pickle or salt and jar food properly provided I could visit the library. I understand the key problem is harmful bacteria so refrigeration extends the lifespan of food by slowing down bacterial reproduction and airtight containers prevent new bacteria coming in.
Then depending on specifics there’s always vacuum-sealing and shrink-wrapping machines. If in this hypothetical collapse we still have knowledge and some way to generate electricity, and I wasn’t in a crazy rush, I’d probably build a fridge. I understand the basic principle behind refrigeration.
Would you have any idea on even how to get food if you didn’t have a grocery store nearby?
Yeah? If there’s like societal collapse or something and there’s not just food banks set up by the military or some such I’d go look for warehouses, I know I have the nation’s biggest Amazon warehouse just a few blocks down from me. If not an option, generally I’d hunt animals because on my own I don’t really stand a chance at agriculture, the large lead time won’t help, I don’t know how to hunt, but I’m sure by visiting the library I could learn how to craft a primitive spear with a knife and a sharp stick. Then long-term I’d move towards a saltwater body of water and fish.
How would you organize a party with your friends without a phone?
I’d use a computer ))))
Jk, I could write them a letter, or visit them in person. I don’t know all their addresses by heart, but I could ask others who do, or simply wander about the general area and knock on doors until I find them.
If a computer wasn’t tracking your bank balance, how would you keep track of your money?
I would write down my income and outgoings on a piece of paper and just do the math.
Can you multiply 423 by 365 without using a calculator?
Of course. I’m awful at math so I’ll probably mess it up, but you write down the nominator over the denominator and you multiply each of the top digits by each of the bottom digits, carry any extra to the next more significant digit and sum the results.
If I did it a few times, I could probably nail the correct result.
If all else fails and this is absolutely needed I could go get spare parts and build a full-adder circuit. Heck tbqh in the long term if all my basic needs were met, I could probably deep dive into a book and build a computer, especially if we’re basically talking only programmatic calculation, given 7-8 months it’s not hard, maybe much less if I can use logic gates instead of ICs. If I can use OCs and have plastic and some metal bits lying around making a breadboard shouldn’t be too hard. It won’t host the cloud or do your laundry, but it’ll do your math pretty accurately.
My point isn’t to show off, my point is that we (humanity) hedge our bets. There’s one thing we haven’t outsourced and it’s our thinking. I used to be vehemently pro-AI, but it worries me that people are outsourcing their very thought to AI.
The brain is very expensive evolutionary, and I for one, love having one, you use it or you lose it is the motto for the body, brain included, and I take great care to force myself to think on my own and understand things in as much depth as is reasonable.
Once you forget how to think and solve problems because another faux-brain does it for you, it’s all over, and there’s no going back. Don’t do that y’all.
- Comment on Verifying & Validating a Docker Container 1 week ago:
Bot? What’s with the image?
- Comment on The U.S. Just Ran a Solar Storm Emergency Drill. The Real Deal Would Be a Catastrophe 2 weeks ago:
Where can I watch that? Is that movie any good? The trailer doesn’t look great and reminds me of conservaslop apocalypse home invasion type stuff or that weird movie where the world government that wants everyone to wear masks is in one warehouse and there’s a christian preacher steve jobs type and they have a goth tradwife hacker lady.
- Comment on SAG-AFTRA Files Unfair Labor Practice Complaint Against Epic Games Due To A.I. Darth Vader 2 weeks ago:
Agreed
