leftytighty

@leftytighty@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  what a damaged human being

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I am doubting myself now after not being able to quickly find a verified source but I’ve worked with lots of smart TVs and seem to recall Samsung or LG models using this simulated effect. It would have had to have been simulated since there was no signal coming in, and I recall the pattern being noticably pseudo random.

  As for why: I have no idea! Maybe just for user familiarity reasons, since a lot of people grew up with that kind of analog feedback that the antenna wasn’t getting a signal.

  Take what I said with a grain of salt, though, since like I said I wasn’t able to quickly verify it. It’s a vivid but ambiguous memory, though, since I also thought it was strange

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨People born after 2000 have never seen the cosmic microwave background on their TV set.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Depending on the TV it’s likely simulated noise at this point

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What important living beings go in the back anyway? It’s usually just babies, pets, and children.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Fair enough, I felt it important to clarify (and check) so these developers and Team 17 aren’t unfairly punished by the general state of the industry.

  It doesn’t seem like you need to worry here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rogue Point is a new tactical shooter from Half-Life remake Black Mesa developer Crowbar Collective⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a coop game and what they’re describing sounds more like “progression” than microtransactions. Unlocking new things is a core gameplay mechanic going back to before the Internet. Did I miss where it implies anything about microtransactions or pay to win (again: coop game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft closing Arkane Austin was “stupid”, says founder: recreating “a very special group” like that would be “impossible”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  focus on profits rather than human well-being, period, is destroying the world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting these valid points aside we’re also all just taking for granted that the software would have properly identified a human under the same circumstances…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon's Death Machine (aka Tesla) Mows Down Deer at Full Speed , Keeps Going on "Autopilot"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a run of the mill fascist (rather than those in power) is actually an incredibly submissive position, they just want strong daddies to take care of them and make the bad people go away. It takes courage to be a “snowflake liberal” by comparison

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is a fair point. It becomes a matter of which questions we’re asking as a society, though. Of course we are not at a stage where capital is the only driving force for science (thank goodness for public funding) but it’s not far fetched that we might be, and a world where questions are only asked in the context of profit generation (and unsatisfying answers are suppressed) is a dystopian world indeed.

  It’s fair to say capitalism is having a negative impact on science (e.g. journals) but it’s not as dire as what’s suggested

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨...⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Capitalism isn’t just about “things need funding” the point of the meme is that capitalists determine what gets funding. A socialist state might put economic force behind other scientific endeavors, ones driven by capital are intended to create profit. The profit motive drives innovation instead of the pure ideological pursuit of truth or any other driver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sympathy for their PTSD⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Too bad about the order of operations

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ FFT-based ocean-wave rendering, implemented in Godot ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The link goes into discussion of complexity and parallelism advantages of this approach. That implies that it could be faster

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Calif. Governor vetoes bill requiring opt-out signals for sale of user data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean yeah we’ve been talking about the issues with capitalism for over 100 years, it excels at keeping things just tolerable enough for the working class that we don’t take heads

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨stop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s possible we’re facing a future in which meat is not sustainable and we won’t want to spare any for cats, it’s something worth studying

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NVIDIA uses of AI technology aren’t going to pop, things like DLSS are here to stay. The value of the company and their sales are inflated by the bubble, but the core technology of NVIDIA is applicable way beyond the chat bot hype.

  Bubbles don’t mean there’s no underlying value. The dot com bubble didn’t take down the internet.