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- Comment on 1 day ago:
It’s almost twice as many characters, but only one more syllable. It feels so long counting it out :)
of course, english has a lot going on that’s unreasonable as well so …
- Comment on 1 day ago:
or fingersAtTheEndOfTheFeetNotToBeConfusedWithTheOnesOnTheHands
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 days ago:
yeah, i’m working my way back down to jukebox, whatever the fuck this all is, is far too intense
/s
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 days ago:
So it’s just a clone of Wells Fargo?
- Comment on Visa says AI will start shopping and paying for you in 2026 2 days ago:
If I have to switch to cash I fucking will
That’s becoming a taller order every year, at least in the US. For a lot of services, Western Union is the last bastion of paying in cash.
- Comment on Na Na Na Na Na Na 2 days ago:
In 1991, I worked at a Christmas tree farm. They had an ancient tube stereo with an 8 track and one single Christmas tape. Volume at 11.
In 1994, I got a job at a newly built Staples. They had no internet and they chouldn’t get their satellite connection to work, so they sent us a commercial song box that contained an 8 track of pop songs from the 70’s. To this day, I can’t listen to Sweet Home Alabama.
- Comment on YSK: The pulled *60 Minutes* CECOT segment aired in Canada and is available online 2 days ago:
You need a torrent handler.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 3 days ago:
Over placeholders? Jesus.
I at least understand it if they were actual final assets. Is the worry that they weren’t really placeholders?
Next up, if you used photoshop you’re out because it has AI features that you might have used.
- Comment on Explained: Why you can't move Windows 11 taskbar like Windows 10, according to Microsoft 5 days ago:
They didn’t just rewrite it, they rewrote it in
fecesReact - Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 6 days ago:
Spending disposable money on hobbies is fine
- Comment on surely your hobby can't be that expensive 6 days ago:
Nope, if you can’t do it adequately with a cell phone camera, it’s gonna eat you alive.
- Comment on Creating apps like Signal or WhatsApp could be 'hostile activity,' claims UK watchdog 1 week ago:
The future is in making a laptop that doesn’t appear to be encrypted. AI-powered steganography will be the only way to communicate reasonably at some point. The only thing that’ll give it away is that there are more than the usual number of poorly cropped and unique memes.
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 1 week ago:
interesting
- Comment on Trump imposes full travel bans on seven more countries, Palestinians 1 week ago:
They couldn’t figure out how to pronounce it.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
What do what the odds are?
Not allowed to vote in 2028.
Voting is fixed enough that it won’t matter in 2028.
voting for anybody but glorious leader in 2028 is punishable by death.
- Comment on Linux Kernel Rust Code Sees Its First CVE Vulnerability 1 week ago:
A link in the middle of the article leads to a rather detailed explanation of why they’re rewriting binder. Pretty decent read.
- Comment on Reporter suggests Half-Life 3 will be a Steam Machine launch title 1 week ago:
The hardware itself is probably already a loss leader.
If they wanted it to launch with Half-Life 3, they would have had to start working on it like five years ago.
- Comment on Video game hardware sales had a historically bad November in the US 1 week ago:
I been thinking about donating plasma on the side just to get one of those.
The problem is the actual return on time is poor. I could probably make more of her hour walking around, offering to shovel people’s driveways when it snows.
- Comment on I didn't want to use AI, so I made something that detects it! 1 week ago:
Maybe.
I think the pushback stems from a bunch of different things.
It’s genuinely bad at some things. asking it to make a clock out of CSS and HTML is mostly awful.
Historically, it’s been really bad at everything. So if someone hasn’t done a serious dive on it recently, they’re going to have the impression that it’s even worse than it really is.
A lot of people don’t understand how to use it, a lot of times it’s like working with a monkey’s paw. You’ve got to pre-guess all the things that could go wrong and keep adding detail until it has no choice but to do it right. And even then, you have to come back and do iterations sometimes.
It’s making a bunch of oligarchs extremely wealthy, for no good reason, on the backs of the working class, while we can barely buy RAM. At the same time, they’re burning through a hell of a lot of natural resources.
They’re shoving options and features down our throats and making us pay for them even if we don’t want to use them.
Some people are genuinely scared that corporations will use it to replace skiled labor with unskilled labor, which they are.
I have seen advanced versions rewrite an entire cross-platform basic interpreter in a couple of tries.
I lost a rather complicated Python program I wrote to manage projectors for my Halloween display. I had it make a framework. I went through all of my different options and modes one at a time and explained exactly how they needed to work. I recreated a couple of weeks of work in a couple of hours and added a significant number of features.
It’s crap like make that admin page look good on a cell phone that’s absolutely bananas. That’s a feature I would never have the time to sit down and work on because it’s not that big of a deal. But it would literally be a day of trial and error on multiple test devices for me to write it myself.
Would it be better received if it were marketed differently? Probably a little bit. But not beyond the things that I wrote about. It would be a subtle improvement in visibility I feel.
- Comment on GitHub walks back plan to charge for self-hosted runners 1 week ago:
They’re doomed to rust in peace eventually.
There are way too many completely compatible alternatives.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
ehh, let the votes sort em out :)
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
Again, who cares enough to bother?
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
English is not the last language that should complain; unfortunately, 54% of the US population has a literacy level below that of a 6th-grade student.
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
hey, VoteNixon just ran over it, Firefly is the one that brought it into the world and threw it into traffic :)
- Comment on Typical monopoly people 1 week ago:
I love this
Because god forbid someone reposts an image here from Reddit that had been censored. what a travisty :)
Strangest fucking hill to die on.
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 week ago:
A lot of the industry artists are at the very least using AI to screw around with concept art for references. The kind of stuff where they used to use google to search. One of my friends fed a service a fairly raw hand-sketched drawing, told it how to finish it off, then asked it to put it in different poses at different angles, then used that to hand-make the character into 3D.
There are, of course, many artists who wouldn’t touch any of it with a 10-foot pole.
- Comment on Fair's fair. 1 week ago:
An authorized service technician has entered the farm
- Comment on Fair's fair. 1 week ago:
Everything is of course expensive. One of my exes was a farm girl. They had a smallish farm 250 Acres (101 Hectares).
He had a couple dozen cows, planted every other inch he could find, and rented a few neighboring fields. He had everything for planting/maintaining/harvesting. Anytime something got paid off, he picked up something else. Everything was a juggling act. Every free dollar was reinvested. They lived relatively decently, but modestly. Everyone got whatever they needed; nothing was extravagant. He had some outrageous amount in loans, many millions.
- Comment on What are your opinions of using Pi-hole for DNS within a homelab environment? 1 week ago:
I run a pi-hole on a pi 3 and another in a container in docker. Something rarely goes wrong with both and I have a script that sync them.
I replaced their google with searxng, but in the end, they needed ads for their free to play games, so I had to turn it off for them.