yakko
@yakko@feddit.uk
- Comment on Bird Law 11 hours ago:
I have something significant to share about this topic
- Comment on Sony is testing dynamic pricing: one game - different prices on the PlayStation Store 1 day ago:
GOG 💪
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 2 days ago:
Hey, HISTV is showing a ton of promise right out the gates. Targeting 5mbps, I’m cutting anime episodes down from 2gb to 1gb with barely any noticeable change in quality. This is some gourmet shit, brethren.
- Comment on Are the Greens and Reform Replacing Labour and the Conservatives? 2 days ago:
I was only trying to cede the point in a sarcastic way, it just didn’t come across well. Oops, fuck it
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 3 days ago:
I’ve done that, it’s unpleasant but at least only the smell follows you home.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 3 days ago:
The last few decades in tech have been a generally abysmal downward arc. I used to envy my friends who got into software early, carved out a niche, and made great money. Now they’re depressed and neurotic, all the money in the world and barely ever happy. Sorry if you thought I was making light of your hardship, humour is just how I cope with my own troubles. I’m glad you found a path forward.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam 3 days ago:
(•ө•)♡
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam 3 days ago:
It’s valid! I’m just delighted by the genuine human feeling of it, people are great.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 3 days ago:
How long can laurels be rested on? Apparently at least 25 years.
- Comment on Ground invasion launched against Iran with thousands of fighters 3 days ago:
I’m hearing “our whole plan is funding the Kurdish resistance while we try to get Iran to give us some pretext to ratfuck the election”.
- Comment on Slay the Spire 2 Launches, Immediately Shatters a Concurrent Player Record on Steam 3 days ago:
Hahaa, fella acted like a dog who heard the word bath 😄
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 3 days ago:
Baby steps towards growing a Wolfenstein guy, we’ll get there. Maybe around the time they put Trump in a life support mech.
It’ll be good telly, I bet.
- Comment on Are the Greens and Reform Replacing Labour and the Conservatives? 3 days ago:
No yeah you’re right, I don’t need a complex explanation for it
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
I could just about muster up five large for my own tame MP. I just don’t know if I could afford the pet insurance.
- Comment on Are the Greens and Reform Replacing Labour and the Conservatives? 3 days ago:
Increasing polarisation under First Past The Post and a media apparatus that systematically destroys all nuance? Say it ain’t so.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 4 days ago:
Thanks, I’ll remind myself to report back when I dive in! Ordered the backup drive today, so it’s already in motion. Like you I’m pretty laid back about my video editing work. Simple is good. I do edit a clip show for my kid every week these last two years so I’m at least slightly aware of these ideas, if only as a dilettante.
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 4 days ago:
This looks promising! My main use case is Jellyfin through Android TV, and it looks like AV1 has support for that. I currently have about 6 Tb of kids cartoons that are eating up most of my media server, would be great to shrink those slightly.
I think before I try this, I’ll want to spring for an offline backup of the library, then begin transcoding… I need one anyway, at least now I’m excited enough to actually do it!
- Comment on Honey, I Shrunk The Vids [Mr. Universe Edition] v1.0.5 4 days ago:
I’m starting to run low on space with my media server, this could be a good way to forestall having to buy hard drives that don’t suck!
- Comment on Can some please explain to me why it is that your health insurance can deny you medication, even if your doctor says you need it? 4 days ago:
This is the lore. I haven’t heard from anybody trying it, I hope OP will make the attempt and report back.
- Comment on BrewDog bought by US cannabis and drinks firm for £33m, costing nearly 500 jobs 5 days ago:
Doesn’t change anything for me at least, still going to mainly support local breweries and occasionally make my own. It is a shame about those jobs, hopefully those people go on to do something worthwhile in their industry, maybe start a new employee-owned venture?
- Comment on Pornography depicting sexual relationships between step-relatives set to be banned 5 days ago:
I do have a cause, though; it is obscenity. I’m for it. Thank you. Unfortunately, the civil liberties types who are fighting this issue have to fight it, owing to the nature of the laws, as a matter of freedom of speech and stifling of free expression and so on, but we know what’s really involved: dirty books are fun! That’s all there is to it. But you can’t get up in a court and say that, I suppose.
Tom Lehrer
- Comment on China tests world's first megawatt-class flying wind turbine 1 week ago:
I did not know that
- Comment on Someone got pissed off at this horseshoe, chain and ring puzzle and threw it in the river. 1 week ago:
It’s 2026, and people doing a service to the public are considered shitposters
- Comment on Current events dictate that I post this. 1 week ago:
It’s super hard to joke on Lemmy lately, everyone is srs af
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Nah it’s fine I’m new to UK politics and I have to say once you get past the surface differences, it’s still deeply confusing.
- Comment on Green Party wins Gorton and Denton by-election with Labour pushed into third by Reform 1 week ago:
Or red ones!
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 1 week ago:
I’ll take that onboard. Still, nothing can convince me anyone should ever talk to an AI about whether to launch nukes. The entire question is insane, so the answers hardly matter.
- Comment on AIs can’t stop recommending nuclear strikes in war game simulations— Leading AIs from OpenAI, Anthropic and Google opted to use nuclear weapons in simulated war games in 95% of cases 1 week ago:
Those prompts are aimed at producing a specific result for sure. The war game doesn’t prove anything on its own, but I can’t help feeling that in a real life scenario where anyone asks an AI what to do, they’re going to have a specific outcome in mind already, one way or another.
That’s just how misty people are, by the time they ask for advice they’ve already made up their mind. So the war game was realistic, but only by accident.
- Comment on Car Wash Test on 53 leading AI models: "I want to wash my car. The car wash is 50 meters away. Should I walk or drive?" 1 week ago:
I wonder… If humans were all super serious, direct, and not funny, would LLMs trained on their stolen data actually function as intended? Maybe. But such people do not use LLMs.
- Comment on Political leaning 1 week ago:
If we’re calling this class consciousness… There’s organic, and there’s this, which is like dandelions that grow out of cracks in the pavement near a burn pit.