Zacryon
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- Comment on But DrUgS at The Border!! 2 days ago:
- Comment on Oscar-winning animated film 'Flow' created entirely with free and open-source software Blender 3 days ago:
Rendered in EVEE? Really? Wow! Considering you get so much more optical fidelity with Cycles it’s really astonishing they’ve used EVEE.
- Comment on Nokia to deploy the first cellular network on the Moon 1 week ago:
We believe delivering Nokia’s 4G/LTE system to the lunar surface is a transformative moment in the commercialization of space and the maturity of the lunar economy.
… I fucking hate capitalism.
- Comment on put that in your pipe and smoke it 1 week ago:
These look like toilet paper rolls.
- Comment on Microsoft Study Finds Relying on AI Kills Your Critical Thinking Skills 3 weeks ago:
Well at least they communicate such findings openly and don’t try to hide them. Other than ExxonMobil who saw global warming coming due to internal studies since the 1970s and tried to hide or dispute it, because it was bad for business.
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 3 weeks ago:
There are indeed several modified concepts of capitalism, which improve upon the shortcomings of our current system. For example, humanistic capitalism.
If we can’t ditch capitalism at all (yet), maybe we can at least improve upon the current system
- Comment on Advice on enjoying your life 3 weeks ago:
Time to ditch capitalism in its current form.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 3 weeks ago:
If the “win for everyone” includes shipping a game as microtransaction-based instead of ad-based, I doubt it’s really a win. Microtransactions usually come with dark patterns and rely on techniques from the gambling industry.
- Comment on Valve ban advertising-based business models on Steam, no forced adverts like in mobile games 3 weeks ago:
Some options you could consider include […] making your game free to play with optional upgrades sold via Microtransactions or Downloadable Content (DLC).
I am not sure this is better. I hate microtransactions usually more than ads.
Ads don’t cost you money, just time, and sometimes some screen space. They are annyoing and that sucks. But leveraging dark patterns as stuff like FOMO and other psychological tricks to nudge people towards microtransactions can cost you a lot. A business model, which relies on techniques from the gambling industry – also by catching some whales – is imo way worse than ads.
Such games aren’t made for all players, just for some who don’t have control over their expenses (or can really afford it).I can live with DLCs as long as there aren’t so many that it becomes increasingly indistinguishable to microtransactions. But in the end I don’t want to buy a fucking lego set, where I have to constantly buy new stuff.
That’s why I prefer single purchase games. I am also ok with paying more for them if that means the devs get the proftis to keep the development of games I like going. Buy once – have it all. Keeping games at a comparably equal price over decades is imo not meaningful anyways due to factors like inflation. But the gaming community can be really unforgiving in this regard. That’s why ad-based or microtransaction-based games are taking off. A majority of gamers are uncritical enough that this works. And then they are surprised when it bites them in the ass…
- Comment on YSK someone created a site to endlessly scroll Wikipedia 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Microsoft is cracking down on people upgrading to Windows 11 on unsupported hardware 4 weeks ago:
I am using Linux for work anyway and used Windoof just for gaming. I have hear good things about gaming on Linux recently, so that’s a good incentive to make the full switch.
- Comment on Patch this Bish! 4 weeks ago:
TIL
Thanks for the link! This is really awesome. - Comment on Patch this Bish! 4 weeks ago:
- regrow hair cells to mitigate hearing loss
- (optional) eternal life and youth
- Comment on Self-Driving Waymo Cab Smashes Into Delivery Robot 2 months ago:
I don’t know about the equipment of Waymo cars, but I would be surprised if they didn’t have LIDARs or some other form of distance based environment detection.
And that should be sufficient to implement basic obstacle detection. You don’t need to use machine learning if you can use sensors telling you that “something is too close”.
- Comment on Bombs Awat 3 months ago:
The famous flying fish.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
because some bureaucratic board has been bullied into being quiet about it
That’s a bold thing to claim.
They are not quiet about this.
And yes, until there is sufficient proof for the genocide allegations and/or the ICJ rules it as such, I can’t confidently say for myself that it’s genocide.
There is a tremendous amount of work invested in this case by people much more qualified than you or me.
Still, from my side is in no way a justification for the cruel deaths of so many innocents. Civilian casualties are in no way tolerable for me.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
That’s indeed unbelievably cruel.
This does not constitute a genocide though.
- Comment on Sympathy for their PTSD 4 months ago:
Humans are not made to kill other humans. And those who fight the wars of the mighty, are those who are among the ones who suffer the most.
War is really stupid. And it’s astonishing how we continue to be such a stupid species. Given how far we’ve come, one would think that we’ve finally realized how much humanity could achieve if we were working together instead of killing each other.
By the way:
It’s obvious that what Israel is doing is very much a genocide
The international court of justice has not ruled on this yet, but continues to observe and investigate whether such genocide allegations could apply.
However, I am not a fan of anyone who practises or participates in wars and so easily tolerates the deaths of innocents.
- Comment on Why did it take so damn long for humanity to "learn" how to draw/paint realistic images? 4 months ago:
The artist needs to use the brain and translate a lot, and I mean an awful lot, of the information seen in the model (3d space) into 2d.
Close one eye or put an eyepatch on. I’d expect this makes 3D -> 2D transformations easier after a while.
- Comment on German politician calls for Greta Thunberg to be banned from attending pro-Palestinian protests 4 months ago:
Are you sure?
Yes.
This seems pretty nazi to me.
Tolerating civilian casualties within war-efforts is an extremely different thing than specifically favouring to hunt and eradicate them while possibly propagating some narrative like they are lesser humans or some fucked up racist shit like that. If that’s your standpoint on labeling Nazis however, then every nation which ever participated in a hot war with civilian casualties is probably pretty nazi to you.
Also germans online are one of the loud supporters of yet another genocide.
Not in my experience. But sure, it’s good emotional bait to blindly generalise over all germans and call them Nazis who favour genocide. How about you look for some verifiable numbers before reasoning from your individual experience with “online germans”?
Here:
Die militärische Reaktion Israels auf die Terror-Anschläge der Hamas vom 7. Oktober 2023 geht inzwischen für mehr als die Hälfte (57 Prozent) zu weit (+7 im Vgl. zu März), jeder Fünfte (21 Prozent) hält sie für angemessen (-7), für 4 Prozent geht sie nicht weit genug (-1).
Source: press report about a representative survey on the opinions of german’s regarding Israel’s war efforts.
…wdr.de/…/20240808_ard_deutschlandtrend_israel.ht…
(From last August.)Translation:
“The military response of Israel to the Hamas terror attacks on October 7, 2023, now goes too far for more than half (57 percent) of people (+7 compared to March), one in five (21 percent) considers it appropriate (-7), and for 4 percent it does not go far enough (-1).”On a side note, the article you’ve linked from middle eest monitor cited the foreign minister of Germany a bit wrong. Here is the official full translation of her speech: www.auswaertiges-amt.de/en/newsroom/…/2679832
With the following section in the middle east monitor article:
‘Self-defence means not only attacking terrorists but destroying them. When Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools… civilian places lose their protected status because terrorists abuse it.’
And here the full official translation of that part:
That’s why we have made it clear time and again that self-defence means, of course, not only attacking terrorists, but also destroying them. This’s why I have made it so clear that when Hamas terrorists hide behind people, behind schools, then we end up in very difficult waters. But we’re not shying away from this. This is why I made it clear at the United Nations that civilian sites could lose their protected status if terrorists abuse this status.
The article did not appropriately mark the sections which were omitted in the quote. It also changed words, omitted words or sections without marking it and thereby changed the tone of the quote and misrepresented it in a way significant enough for me to be so nitpicky about it.
Most importantly, the minister highlights, that terrorists abusing protected civilian sites poses a very difficult situation which could potentially lead to a loss of the protection status.
Furthermore, she goes on about the importance of humanitarian aid in Gaza. And also remarks how Germany supports the two-state solution to ensure security in the region, peace for Palestine and peace for Israel.
Does that sound like Nazis to you?
- Comment on German politician calls for Greta Thunberg to be banned from attending pro-Palestinian protests 4 months ago:
Please, before shitting all over Germany again with Nazi accusations and whatnot, keep in mind that this was demanded by populistic, right-wing politicians, who are – luckily – currently not running the government, but are in the opposition.
From the article:
Politicians in Germany think that climate activist Greta Thunberg should be banned from entering the country over her participation in pro-Palestinian protests, according to the domestic policy spokesman for Germany’s biggest opposition party, the Christian Democratic Union.
Surely you can call them out for it, but neither do they represent Germany, nor are they even running the national government.
- Comment on DarkPattern.games - a website that rates mobile games for their "dark patterns" 5 months ago:
I’ve always wanted to make a website like this. But then I got too addicted to some game and spent all my time on that instead. /j
Only partly joking, I really wanted to make a website similar to this. But then stuff happened. You know how it is.
(Here was an entire wall of text, where I detailed the idea, before I decided to delete it all again.)
- Comment on Lingering damage 5 months ago:
Tell the US government about it. Then they will bring you democracy and liberate you from the oppressive oil.
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 5 months ago:
Due to the “being allergic” part this is unfortunately not possible for me. But thanks for trying to provide me with a different perspective.
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 5 months ago:
Fair point. Although one may say this is fine here for comic purposes.
The same argument could be made about the statement “Gods perfect creation”.
But I’d argue that the suggestion of a creationist god expands the distance to scientific contexts even more while simple speech bubbles are fine due to less ideological conflict potential.Admittedly, I am also rather allergic to religions, which is why I am having a difficult time with that part of the meme.
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 5 months ago:
Nice!
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 5 months ago:
Me too. It’s a science meme community after all.
- Comment on Horseshoe crabs be like 5 months ago:
There’s no evidence for gods though.
- Comment on Stay motivated 5 months ago:
I wonder how you’re breathing. /j
- Comment on Based on a true story 5 months ago:
I feel this. Fell into a similar rabbit hole when I tried to get realtime feedback on the program’s own memory usage, discerning stuff like reserved and actually used virtual memory. Felt like black magic and was ultimately not doable within the expected time constraints without touching the kernel I suppose. Spent too much time on that and had to move on with no other solution than to measure/compute the allocated memory of the largest payload data types.
