theunknownmuncher
@theunknownmuncher@lemmy.world
- Comment on Political discourse 6 days ago:
It also tries to downplay political division “in real life”. In real life, the American president is a fascist directing a masked police force to deport legal residents without due process, illegally deploying the national guard against citizens, and grifting shitcoins and accepting bribes in plain sight.
- Comment on You're Welcome, Grandma! 1 week ago:
👍👍 Oh yeah I’ll try this in the argument with my girlfriend, thanks science
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
No, that is plainly incorrect. MAGA and the Project 2025 plan are an indisputable textbook example of fascism, complete with a dictatorial leader, obsession for rebirth of a nation which is idealized to be assumed to be of homogenous identity, and cleansing of undesireables/foriegners. From Trump/MAGA rhetoric, to ICE deportaton raids, to nationalizing companies like US Steel and Intel, they’ve literally checked every box and are following the fascist playbook step by step.
So, you’re actually the moron.
- Comment on Why do conservatives define being fascist solely as "being violent?" 1 week ago:
Because they genuinely don’t know what the definition of fascism is
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
LOL you think a court will enforce this C&D for a parody account??? 🤣 are you an adult??
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 1 week ago:
Lol please explain how the world works
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
AI
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 2 weeks ago:
Did you read the article?
You caught me, no, I should have read it before typing.
Still, thinking about the possibility of the next game is killing my already low motivation to grind. I’ve already unlocked all of the content you can buy from samples, but the super credits are just too painfully slow for me. I think the remedy would be some kind of currency exchange system that allows you to trade samples or slips for super credits and vice versa.
I’d say it’s fair to make a distinction between “pay-to-win” and “pay-to-enjoy”, but I’d argue that the distinction makes little difference because “pay-to-enjoy” is just as bad. I’d have absolutely zero complaints about any of this if the paid content was only cosmetic stuff.
All of your comment is pretty fair and valid. Things could definitely be worse. Maybe I should be more grateful for that? There is a FOMO aspect to their rotating shop, but the warbonds are always there which is “nice” of them.
The gameplay is really fun and a great experience.
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
You’re making the same mistake Microsoft made
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
Yes, exactly! Now you get it!
- Comment on Microsoft doesn't understand the Fediverse 2 weeks ago:
So I guess I’ll explain the post for you, since it seems you do not understand the fediverse, either.
cyberplace.social federates with lea.pet but is not responsible for and cannot control the Microsoft parody account on lea.pet. Microsoft sent the notice to the wrong server. That’s why Microsoft does not understand the fediverse or how federation works, and why the post is funny instead of dumb. Now you can laugh too! You’re welcome!
- Comment on A Destiny-style social hub is "on the feature list" for Helldivers 3, says Arrowhead CEO 2 weeks ago:
It already takes a literal eternity to earn the super credits needed to unlock actual game content, not just cosmetics, without paying them real money.
If they’re already thinking about Helldivers 3, it completely kills my motivation to even try to unlock more Helldivers 2 content, unless we are somehow guaranteed that our unlocks and super credits will carry over.
I genuinely don’t understand why this game is in the good graces of the internet while infested with pay-to-win non-cosmetic microtransactions. The “social hub” will exist not to socialize but as a place to display your paid content to other players.
- Comment on The time has come! 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 weeks ago:
Don’t care
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9921530/
I wouldn’t be as sure about that as you are
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
…columbia.edu/…/mind-reading-technology-can-turn-…
We already live in a world with existing, functional mind-reading devices. There is even a device designed to help people suffering from ALS comminicate, that has a privacy feature where the device activates or deactivates whenever the user thinks a password, in order to allow the user to maintain private thoughts.
Phones are not fMRIs though.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
It sounds like they’re specifically talking about a phone, making reference to app permissions and TikTok.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
WiFi can also do pretty precise location. Bluetooth/BLE even more precise (inches or less)
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
That’s already the original use case. Cardiac signature biometrics, can install in a doorway and do identity verification and track/monitor every individual that passes through the threshold
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
3 letter agencies have already been using this for cardiac signature identity verification and tracking for a long while
- Comment on YSK that you can force Windows 10 to open your default browser instead of MS Edge with MSEdgeRedirect 3 weeks ago:
laughs in GNU Linux
- Comment on If what they taught us about checks and balances was a lie maybe what they taught us about civil disobedience was a lie too. 3 weeks ago:
I was taught that the founding fathers’ did not take into account a two-party political system when they designed the system of checks and balances.
- Comment on Ants be like 3 weeks ago:
furby hancock 🤌
- Comment on Flashbang! 4 weeks ago:
thousands of years
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 4 weeks ago:
😂
- Comment on Pollsters Are questioning AI Instead of Real People 4 weeks ago:
I mean that’s basically as accurate as their conventional methods, anyway
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 weeks ago:
Honestly, probably lol
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 weeks ago:
No, I’d definitely agree that AI sentiment overall is pretty negative. I am not such a hardliner, but they are definitely out there.
IMO the problem is not LLMs itself, which are very compelling and interesting for strictly language processing and enable programs and usecases that were almost impossible to implement programmatically before; the problem is how LLMs are being used incorrectly for usecases that they are not suited for, due to the massive investment and hype in them. “We spent all this money on this so now we have to use it for everything”. It’s wrong. LLMs are not knowledge stores, they are provably bad at summarization and as a search interface, and they should especially not be used for decision making in any context. And people are reacting to the way LLMs are being forced into all of these roles.
People also take strong issue with their perceived violation of intellectual property and training on copyrighted information, viewing AI generated arts as derivative and theft.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 weeks ago:
Lol you shared your personal experience and got downvoted… lmao even
- Comment on monthly challenge 5 weeks ago:
Nope, it’s wrong lol
