PennyRoyal
@PennyRoyal@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on Fractured Blooms is a cosy game about tending your garden and-- oh god that's a lot of blood 2 days ago:
Inspired by a true story? WHAT DO YOU MEAN, INSPIRED BY A TRUE STORY?!
- Comment on Bonuses banned for 10 English water bosses over sewage pollution 3 days ago:
Now jail the bastards
- Comment on New AI test can predict which men will benefit from prostate cancer drug 1 week ago:
We need more enlightening terms for this stuff. The hallucinatory waffling waste of energy isn’t AI, it’s all LLMs. The models which work well in medicine aren’t generally LLMs, and aren’t even known as Generative AI either, they’re very advanced data aggregation systems. If we keep calling everything AI, it all gets erroneously lumped together and tarred with the same brush, held in a badly drawn hand with too many fingers. The data science used in medical images is a world away from LLM nonsense, and has been making decent progress for at least a decade - here are some of the more amazing uses
- Comment on I hope i don't get downvoted for this 1 week ago:
“I am a man that’s made of meat, While you’re on the internet, looking at feet”
- Comment on Thames Water fined £122.7m in biggest ever penalty 1 week ago:
Now start jailing the executives responsible
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
Yeah, that’s pretty much my attitude. Why am I worrying about a watt here and a watt there when muppets are constantly asking LLMs inane questions and getting them to make dodgy hentai.
- Comment on Is it OK to leave device chargers plugged in all the time? An expert explains 1 week ago:
I have a whole bunch plugged in constantly for various synth nonsense. Running off solar, I thought it would be worth seeing how much of a difference it makes turning everything off at night, and basically it wasn’t worth the effort. It’s like a percentage point on top of the things like my fridge that run constantly, and is way less than using my toaster once a week. That said, if you’re on mains, it’s probably a worthy consideration if a lot of people were to do it, but it’s also probably comparable to using ChatGPT once a day or something
- Comment on I knew it 1 week ago:
In fairness, my aesthetic of choice is brutalism, so if I became ungodlyly famous, my house would very much look like a bunker, which is proof you can have your cake and eat it
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 4 weeks ago:
A role model for any child
- Comment on Kids nowadays don't have many (if any) videogame heroes... 4 weeks ago:
Du Bois from Disco Elysium?
- Comment on What's the way out of the India Pakistan crisis ? 4 weeks ago:
It’s a nuclear winter, isn’t it? Damnit, I hate those
- Comment on Fuck you, Genie 4 weeks ago:
I’m in this meme and I don’t like it
- Comment on Are We All Becoming More Hostile Online? 4 weeks ago:
No, fuck off, how very dare you suggest such a thing you horrid bastard you, just you wait, I’m going to punch you in the elbow and knock over your second-favourite house plant for insinuating such lies
- Comment on i truly believe that there's an open war between Humanity vs. Advertisers and their allies. 4 weeks ago:
Came here to say that, he called it decades ago. Advertisers, marketers, and developers, all of them parasites
- Comment on Naval drone downs $50m Russian fighter jet, Ukraine says—"world's first" 5 weeks ago:
The new Ukrainian sea drones are no joke, SAMs and a minigun in addition to torpedoes make them incredibly versatile
- Comment on Amazon launches first Starlink-rival internet satellites 5 weeks ago:
Yep. All for ego. Those two should just get a room and leave the rest of us alone
- Comment on Technological Suggestions for LGBT+, Immigrants, Protestors, Anti-War Activists and Other Marginalized Groups 2 months ago:
Meshtastic network is a communication system that doesn’t rely on mobile phones. Have a look at it, it’s simple, secure, cheap, and rapidly growing
- Comment on YSK about SomaFM, an independant non-commercial internet radio with really nice and diverse curated channels 2 months ago:
I would add Radio Fip into the discussion, French, eclectic as hell, with many channels (though I pretty much only use the main one)
- Comment on Discover more than a dozen game consoles you never knew about 2 months ago:
Author’s website, which, after playing a little text game, takes you to a better place to buy it from than Bezos’s fetid swamp - curiousvideogamemachines.com
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 3 months ago:
I’ve turned mine on, even if only on low, as I light the stove since first reading about this, but I think I’m a little more fact-absorbent than most people
- Comment on YSK: Gas stoves cause cancer 3 months ago:
I read that running an extractor hood mitigates the risk a fair amount. Not completely, but enough that you shouldn’t worry if gas is your only option
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
Says it’s verified. Very different to everything else, but it looks really intriguing, thanks
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
Nice, same guy who did Inside, which is proving both entertaining and disturbing
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
That looks pretty sick, I’ll check them on the watchlist
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
Thanks, that deal website is a proper touch, I’m going to keep an eye on that
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
That does look mint, thanks!
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
That’s loads to get into, thanks
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
I love these pixel-art sidescrollers, so I’ll definitely give this a go. One of the first deck games I bought was Expendabros, and I enjoyed it for what it was, and the nostalgia. It actually made me want to play Flashback again, and it just so happens that Flashback is less than a quid this few days, so that’s going to be me for the next few days!
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
Mint, I’ll check that out. I liked the original Thief
- Comment on Recommend me a steam deck game 3 months ago:
I’m still fresh to the deck, so I’ve not tried all this steam-key-store business out, but from my quick peruse, that site looks good to know, and mad Max looks right up my street, or outback track as the case may be