grrgyle
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- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 2 hours ago:
TIL I look quite a bit like 2 LA cops in particular
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
Yeah! It’s like just considering these things is fun and enriching. You might let yourself get swept away in the fantasy a bit, but ultimately you’re telling yourself different stories.
So they only ever feel like stories, and not like, a whole to paradigm that you’re going to flash your BIOS with rofl. Just maybe run it in a sandbox/cgroup and see if anything actually fun or inspiring comes out.
Pardon the opaque metaphors.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
And writing, particularly editing, requires considering multiple possibilities and disregarding the bad ones.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
Yeah I remember loving all that conspiracy, X-Files, Umberto, past lives, lost cities, etc etc — all that stuff. But scratch at any of it and it’s always some of the dullest, unimaginative reactionary bullshit just a hair’s width below the surface.
Not to stereotype, but reminds of prison where everyone complains about capitalism without actually using that word (probably different now), but talk to them for more than 30 minutes annnnnd yup that’s antisemitism again. Fucking hell.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
Not everyone who doesn’t understand ai is a troll, and there are legitimate reasons to want to avoid using it, even when it is useful. I’ve got you both tagged as “cool” on my client so I’m assuming you’re both capable of chillness.
Not to high horse you, but maybe a little bit; the internet is a nice place when you don’t immediately assume trolling because someone disagrees with you.
- Comment on make fantasy great again! 1 day ago:
Oh my god that’s so cool I wish I’d thought of it. It’s similar to this idea I’ve been mulling over about a world where areas are fixed/dynamic based on how certain people are about them. But that is a better implementation than anything I sketched up.
- Comment on Reddit in talks to embrace Sam Altman’s iris-scanning Orb to verify users 2 days ago:
Also look at how FB et al can’t even keep themselves from tracking you all over the internet using all kinds of clever engineering engineering beyond plain cookies.
If it actually becomes ubiquitous, the ability to tie all the anonymous impressions to one person is too tempting for surveillance ghouls.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Thank you. For once I don’t have to be that person.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Spicy, but I love that take
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Yeah really. They should be more like campuses funding a hundred small teams each trying to make something they’re individually passionate about. Hell, even give them the IPs to play with and see what they come up with.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 4 days ago:
Fear of failure becomes self fulfilling, yeah. You get so worried about making the wrong move and losing money that you can have your spotlight stolen by a challenger doing it fresher for 1/10th the budget.
- Comment on Nier creator Yoko Taro reveals the sad reality of modern AAA game development, “there’s less weird people making games” 5 days ago:
Read the article, you say? What a radical notion.
- Comment on Interesting way to deal with people who have had enough 1 week ago:
Could also mean being too loud.
- Comment on Strawberries are nuts 🍓 1 week ago:
Yeah it’s just meaningless factoids to me now.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
My theory is that it offers a simple scapegoat …
That’s my intuition too. In my experience, adopting AI mostly has lead to marginally faster MVPs, balooning sloc in PRs, and an explosion of wildly unqualified people applying for tech roles and sometimes even getting them.
It’s a better kind of nihilistic business story to say that LLMs have been so disruptive, that people are getting fired, rather than investors are scared and greedy and are just being guided around by vibes and their amygdalae right now.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
What you’re doing is the secret sauce already, you’re just missing luck. Obviously take whatever job you need to pay rent in the meantime, but if you keep it up then I think you’ll get something eventually.
It is the worst time in all of history to be a software developer looking for work, so don’t internalise it.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
I think we’re going to see a big shift towards small to medium IT/dev companies, and a ton of freelancers. I’m one of those, because I’m about to start doing IT work for businesses in my small town.
My friend is a townie, and he does this. Actually, we’ve been musing about putting our lot in together, since I usually work for the corp outfits, except I can’t find fuck all lately in the 9-5 realm.
- Comment on 2025 be vibin' 1 week ago:
Yeah that’s like how I dance with my cat lol
- Comment on Undertale will be 10 years old in 3 months 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been wondering why my fav retro podcasts have been discussing contemporary games.
- Comment on Too bad we can't all act like this 3 weeks ago:
Where joke?
- Comment on What is something you like to tell people? 3 weeks ago:
Yeah I use tomatoes in mine constantly. It’s totally fine.
- Comment on I 3d printed a custom sized keyboard using open source software and hardware designs. 3 weeks ago:
I love those keycaps 😍
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
I believe any good thing you can say about crypto will eventually be coopted and controlled by capital.
The same is true for all “disruptive” technology unless it’s built specifically to be hostile to monied interests, like the fediverse - and even then, you have to continue defending it against incursions.
- Comment on Meta shareholders overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to explore adding Bitcoin to the company's treasury, with less than 1% voting in favor of the measure 3 weeks ago:
As soon as you could exchange it for real money it just became another tool of capital to move in secret.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Inclusive yes.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
I’m sorry to hear that. I hope it’s beautiful and sunny wherever you are and that you’re doing well.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
Never been more disappointed in us. 😞
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
You are an asset to the team. Welcome.
- Comment on Avocado 3 weeks ago:
I’ve sampled enough to say confidently that this is false.
- Comment on Here's for 2 years since I joined Lemmy 3 weeks ago:
4 years wow, so you must really remember the more quiet times. Even just in the last 1 to 2 years it’s got so much busier.