Zos_Kia
@Zos_Kia@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 2 days ago:
Damn, busted :(
- Comment on In the star wars holiday special, there's a segment where Princess Leia sings. This act retroactively makes her a legitimate Disney princess. 3 days ago:
The xenomorph is initially spawned by a queen, and Disney owns the alien franchise, so the xenomorph also is a Disney princess!
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 5 days ago:
It’s downright obvious you’re trolling
Truly an insufferable prick
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 6 days ago:
Just because a thing doesn’t have “a discernable point…” TO YOU, doesn’t mean it doesn’t have at all
Show me the fucking data then you muppet. Kids in burqa in school is such a high-profile problem that it needs legislative action, surely there must be a mountain of data documenting the harm they do, and how prohibiting burqas in school makes that harm go away.
Or are you saying we shouldn’t legislate based on data ? Dicks out, pure vibe, and if someone disagrees you just tell them they don’t get it or maybe they think they’re literally all-knowing. Jesus fucking christ man.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 6 days ago:
No i’m trying to see the bigger picture here. Our great grandparents were deeply religious too and because schools are accomodating to all ways of life (the burden of laicity is not on the user) they were allowed to integrate with each other and that’s how you get from >90% of religious practice in a country to <50%.
Those burqa laws have no discernable point, there is no metric that you could point to and say “see, that’s how it’s making society better”. They only have negative externalities. Sure you can punish that teenage girl and make her life more complicated. Hell, you might even get her to quit public school, that would be fucking sweet right ? What does society ever gain from that ?
It’s a solution in search of a problem, and as these things often are, it will be misused by someone whose agenda you despise.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
That’s a great joke. I’m sure there’s no reasonable scenario you could have picked instead of that one.
It’s not like some places in the world are prohibiting discourse about homosexuality or the criticism of religion, under the same guise of “protecting children from indoctrination”.
- Comment on Finland | Minister: "Burkas and niqabs are not suitable for school" 1 week ago:
I think that’s a misinterpretation of the concepts of Freedom of Religion and Laicity (freedom from religion).
In the French understanding, laicity means that no representative of the State is allowed to show their religion, or treat people differently according to their religion / political orientation. Traditionally it even extended further : for example teachers would refrain from exposing their religion / political views because they recognized the influence they held on their community, and that being outspoken is unfair to those who do not share those views.
That being said, the Burqa laws are an attempt to place that burden on the users of the services of the State. It’s pretty toxic because they should be served equally, which obviously they can’t be when you write laws that target one specific group over others.
The attempt to place the blame on parents is equally toxic. You have the freedom to raise your kids the way you see fit : having a conscience is not illegal. If that leads them to do illegal stuff, well that’s when the law comes in, but not before.
It’s all fun and games until the next fascist administration uses the same Burqa laws to prohibit whatever you hold dear.
- Comment on Perplexity offers to buy Google Chrome for $34.5 billion 1 week ago:
Weird comment as this iteration has spawned the fastest growing products of all time. There’s no comparison possible with bubbles such as NFTs or the Metaverse.
Financially it’s a bubble because those products are grossly unprofitable even by VC standards, but the consumer appeal definitely is there.
- Comment on GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it. 1 week ago:
It’s been obvious, since early 2025, that they are chasing the next step change but not getting any closer to it. OpenAI is in a catastrophic financial position and it’s hard to imagine a scenario where it gets any better.
Ironically, I think only AGI could get them out of this pickle, but even they are starting to realize it’s not around the corner.
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 week ago:
That’s contrary to my experience, but we may be working on different use cases. Do you have some specific issues in mind?
- Comment on People were mad because they lost their AI boyfriend after GPT-4o deprecation 1 week ago:
In my experience if you find yourself engineering prompts specifically for one SOTA model, you’re on the wrong track. The resulting product gets brittle and non deterministic and very difficult to maintain.
- Comment on Proton’s Lumo AI chatbot: not end-to-end encrypted, not open source 2 weeks ago:
There’s absolutely a push for specialized hardware, look up that company called Groq !
- Comment on Epstein puts my morality into perspective 3 weeks ago:
Still we must refrain from doing worse than ourselves
- Comment on We need to start calling it Simulater Intelligence (SI): here's why: 5 weeks ago:
It’s not just statistics. To produce a somewhat coherent sentence in English you need a model of the English language AND a world model.
If you ask a question like “an apple is on a glass, what happens if I remove the glass”, the correct answer (“the apple will fall”) is not a statistical property of the English language, but an emergent property of the world model.
- Comment on YOLO should really be used as a caution, like "Wear your seatbelt, dumbass. YOLO!" 5 weeks ago:
YOLO, say NO-NO Isolate yourself and just roll solo Be carefOLO
- Comment on [JS Required] How Performant are LLM Agents(AI Chatbots) on Real World Work Tasks? They Fail 70% or More of The Time. 1 month ago:
I use it to role play historical counter factuals, like how I could win the battle of Cannae through tactics, or how I could invent the telegraph in 13th century France. It’s worth every watt <3
- Comment on [JS Required] How Performant are LLM Agents(AI Chatbots) on Real World Work Tasks? They Fail 70% or More of The Time. 1 month ago:
Don’t have to imagine it when you can just remember it. Getting online in the late 90s was a horror show, seriously dialup was super unreliable. And that was 20 years after it’s inception, it was shit but also extremely popular.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
Yeah i see your point honestly, and at some point there’s no debating either it does it for you or it doesn’t. I’m thinking maybe it’s not a game for you cause that’s a gameplay loop that’s generally enjoyed by players.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
the zombification exploit is an exploit (unless they fixed it? idk I haven’t played since before the update with the warden), setting up a farm with the desired villagers is an absolute chore
Not sure what you mean ? Villager curing is a legit mechanic, and it’s not absolutely required. Personally i never bother, as emeralds are so easy to farm they’re basically infinite. I see what you mean about building villager “trading halls”, though, i used to hate it too. But it’s not really required either i guess. You can just pop into a village, convert 3 or 4 villagers to librarians with the trades you want : mending, unbreaking, efficiency & protection will get you most of the way even if it’s not maxed-out gear you’ll already see the difference. For more marginal enchants you can explore the End and combine equipment you looted from there.
It’s what i like in that mechanic, there’s various paths to acquire good equipment, a minimal setup will take minimal effort but if you geek out you can make yourself a god-tier kit that will stay with you forever.
Anecdotally I used to roll with a crew that had a bunch of PvPers who’d lose equipment all the time, so we had this huge kit-farming district in our base that was really fun to design and build. The system is pretty in-depth and i wouldn’t call it badly designed (even though it might not be to everybody’s taste).
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
I think what makes the game great is that it contains a number of game mechanics, which are all interlocked and play nice together. That gives it enormous versatility. You can be a nomad explorer, or a builder who stays at base and never sees a hostile mob. You can be a redstone engineer, or a farmer accumulating insane amounts of resources. You can create map art and barter with other map artists on the server. You can hunt bases and either grief them or contact their owners and get to know their history. You can play mini games on commercial servers or code your own mods and play PvA (player vs admin) on anarchy servers.
You can find the exact combo and dosage that fits your playstyle, then switch gears a couple months later and turn the game on its head. I don’t know of many games with that kind of variety.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
Remove the XP cost increment upon repairing items, so that Mending is not an end-game necessity anymore
Yeah i see your point, it can get frustrating at first. Personally i don’t hate it, getting to keep your tools forever is an endgame perk and as such, it needs a bit of organization and knowledge. You’ll have to have at least some basic villager breeding (for a Mending librarian), and some basic farms (auto-furnace for XP generation & storage, or just some mob farm).
That’s kind of why i think the game is well designed. To get endgame perks you need to interact with different game mechanics at least on a surface level, it’s great for discoverability and inspiration.
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
What would you want to see different?
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
it’s about the pixel-art and the cubes, am i right ?
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 1 month ago:
The irony of these projects is that they only seem to appeal to people who don’t really like Minecraft, or used to like older versions but not recent ones. They have zero traction among active Minecraft players.
I’ve tried most of them and honestly they don’t hold a candle to the original - not that they are bad games, but rather they entirely miss the point of modern Minecraft and why it is so appealling to so many people. Although (some vocal fraction of) the community likes to nitpick every single detail of every single update, it is an incredibly well designed game.
- Comment on Vibe coding is to coding what microwaving is to cooking. 1 month ago:
I mean, people also said that of the first generations of rockers who didn’t know shit about solfeggio. Then they said the same about computer assisted music production.
I think we don’t give the new generations enough credit. They might come at skills from a direction we find stupid, but they’re not stupid and they can develop critical skills just like we did.
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 2 months ago:
I usually do, but in general they’re dead for lack of demand
- Comment on Resurrecting a dead torrent tracker and finding 3 million peers 2 months ago:
If you have access to real debrid, sometimes they have insanely old torrents in cache. I’ve resurrected quite a few decades old bangers from the pirate bay that way.
- Comment on What game has the best tutorial, in your opinion? 2 months ago:
Kind of tangential but I’ve always found the start of fallout 3 (the iconic scene where you exit the vault) to be a lesson in game design. Here’s a completely open world but I can guarantee in ten minutes you’ll be at the entrance of megaton. No direct prompting, just subtle framing and environmental clues.
- Comment on Hell 2 months ago:
No irony, this is a core skill when you’re in tech leadership. If you’re the people pleasing type, always replying immediately is a classic trap.
- Comment on Are humans really so predictable that algorithms can easily see thru us, or does continuous use of algorithm feeds make us predictable to their results? 2 months ago:
I think what’s important is to understand that these things work because they are at a certain scale. Algorithms are notoriously bad at predicting individual behaviour, hence why recommendation engines are a specialization that is far from solved. But when you have large amounts of traffic, the law of large numbers allows you to predict group behaviour with some accuracy.
So you can’t follow a user around and predict their next move and show them the right ad at the right time. But you can take 50 000 middle-aged males, and bet that at least 10 of them will buy a motorbike if you randomly show them a picture of a guy riding in the sunset. Once you have a good volume of this kind of data you can do some casino math to tilt all your bets slightly in your favour, and start betting 24/7.
It’s really cold reading, like they do in those mentalist shows. It’s a lot dumber than it looks, but it’s way more effective than you think.