zbyte64
@zbyte64@awful.systems
- Comment on Tankie 1 week ago:
Because AI does nonsensical things that would require extra effort for a human to do, in this case the lady has a soccer purse and a soccer ball
- Comment on Is there anyway I can screw around with ICE? I need a new hobby I come from a long line of immigrants. If i send my home address and phone number will they actually come and deport me to choose a cntr 1 week ago:
Also you have absolute immunity just in case there is any friendly fire
- Comment on Ubisoft Closes Canadian Studio After It Unionizes 1 week ago:
The pinkertons have entered the chat
Don’t worry, the America’s free market provides many paramilitary groups to shutdown those pesky unions and curious journalists. No need for government involvement!
- Comment on If president abductions are something that can apparently just happen how come Putin or Kim Jong Un aren't in some foreign prison right now? 1 week ago:
We tried to have navy seals plant listening devices in North Korea ahead of a summit, it did not go well. People say nukes, but I think their security is a whole nother level, like our government rarely knows where those leaders are at a given moment.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 1 week ago:
Joking about how right wing
cistransphobic women are „actually“ just men in dragFTFY
- Comment on These Apps Let You Bet on Deportations and Famine. Mainstream Media Is Eating It Up. 2 weeks ago:
Can bet on large swaths of people dieing but where’s the bet that Trump will be assassinated? Don’t they want an accurate forecast of that as well?
- Comment on How is Donald Trump able to get away with being part of a child trafficking ring but I get 20 years in jail for littering? 2 weeks ago:
Teflon Don, like Epstein, collected pictures of power people doing “embarrassing” things. Unlike Epstein he didn’t use a private island, he used hotels that catered to people with power.
- Comment on Google CEO Says We're All Going to Have to Suffer Through It as AI Puts Society Through the Woodchipper 2 weeks ago:
The thing about these
woodchipperorphan grinding machines is that as long as you are throwing others into the machine you get to stay in the back of the line. - Comment on Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI 2 weeks ago:
They want artificial employees to discipline the labor market but what they will get instead is a deskilled labor force and business structures that are even more resistant to adaptation.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t that have made the USSR capitalist as well? I think a key distinction is how authority within a party is established. If authority is derived from ownership then that is clearly capitalist. If authority is derived from the party itself, then that is something else.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
That’s all hard to do when billionaires are the ones structuring society. The point is we don’t get to choose corrective societal actions unless it is an exercise of individual privilege. I would have loved to take the train to visit relatives, but it literally is not an option.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
Urban centers have less waste or CO2 per capita than their rural or suburban counterparts. The problem is our pursuit of ever increasing profits is extremely wasteful but is currently how states gain influence.
- Comment on I have an idea ☝️ 3 weeks ago:
Ehh, the capitalist class doesn’t call the shots in China though, the party does. And their private corporations don’t simply have shareholders, it has party representation embedded in the control structure making “ownership” moot because ultimately the party can veto or seize production at moments notice.
That being said, when Xi starts claiming socialism is inevitable, he does so to delay it’s implementation.
- Comment on Rob Pike Goes Nuclear over GenAI 3 weeks ago:
When being a contrarian asshole becomes your marketing strategy.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
Our political system equates value to revenue and that is why we don’t tax accordingly. Business owners are labeled “job creators” and taxing them is framed as a negative value add.
Absolutely agree that athletes are also being exploited here and the burden should not fall on them to correct this.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
This. Everyone wants qualified, well paid teachers for their kids, just like how most people want universal healthcare. But our government and media structure actively disempowers any such movements in that direction.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
And when the social sector lobbies it is called “special interests” by the press. When capital owners do it they are called “job creators” by the press.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
Revenue is not the same as value, teachers enable much more economic activity than athletes. The fact we equate “profit generated” to the value of the profession is part of the problem.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 3 weeks ago:
Was thinking about this in the context of a joke I heard in the late 90s:
What do you call 100 lawyers at the bottom of the sea? A good start.
We didn’t we have jokes like that about the billionaires; at the time people were glazing Bill Gates. It’s wild because billionaires are the ones writing the laws, lawyers just act it out.
- Comment on After GOTY pull, Clair Obscur devs draw line in sand: 'Everything will be made by humans by us' 3 weeks ago:
But maybe if I use AI I can be wealthy. Sure it is accelerating climate change and will undoubtedly cost lives, but that is a small price to pay for me to horde money like a dragon.
- Comment on Microsoft wants to replace its entire C and C++ codebase, perhaps by 2030 3 weeks ago:
I’m skeptical they could do it in a way that inherits stability from Linux. Imagine bolting on their service control on top of systemd or map their registry system to /etc. They either bring all the bad over to Linux or write something that doesn’t support the windows ecosystem.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
She didn’t even use the Bible as a source - did not mention a single verse. She basically using herself as the sole source because there are 0 citations.
- Comment on Transcribed text of Samantha Fulnecky's assignment, paper, and professor's comments 3 weeks ago:
She didn’t even quote the Bible, just asserted that her interpretation is the right one without mentioning a single verse.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
I’m going to call a spade a spade.
In the same spirit, Americans are more interested in telling themselves they are right than recognizing what is good.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
If you don’t like the competition then don’t participate in said competition. Other people don’t agree with you and that’s okay.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
So you would say a godot competition is silly because it restricts developers from using other game engines? Now you’re just being silly.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 3 weeks ago:
Some people provide translated subtitles and the app does have a built in translator function. I found it’s enough to converse, but definitely niche.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 3 weeks ago:
I haven’t been banned yet, but then again I save all my shitposts for the fediverse and stick to book reviews on RedNote.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
The rules being “idiotic” is a different issue from whether using pre-existing assets as placeholders is okay. For instance, one could argue that genAI, even during the concept phase, is an unfair advantage like taking steroids for a sports competition. For the purpose of fairness they might have a blanket ban on genAI.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 weeks ago:
Like I said, when talking about morality you’re talking about a subjective perception of value. All the other issues I mentioned, like them not following the rules, have objective criteria to say “yes they broke the rules”. If your perception of authenticity includes gathering inspiration not from the originator but from a tool that samples art for you, then you would obviously conclude the end result is authentic. If however you define authenticity as something uniquely in the domain of the living, then they would not agree with you.