Almacca

@Almacca@aussie.zone

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's everyone doing tonight?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Beer, whiskey and Talking Heads. Also Lemmy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “The marketing and salespeople were enthused by the possibilities of working with these new tools, he added.”

  [sigh] Because of course they do. Those people couldn’t find their own arses even if they used both hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Balls Clapped⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The worst thing about this guy getting beaten up was that it had nothing to do with his actions at DOGE. It was just some random muggers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I daresay it was a book sold in America for ‘English Pronunciation’, or something, but it definitely spells out an American accent, which is understandable. Not sure why the person in the post feels so called out by it, other than ignorance of one’s own accent.

  I always kind of enjoy reading spelled out accents as a literary exercise. Pratchett was great at it with the Mac Nac Feegle, for e.g., and wasn’t that James Joyce’s whole thing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s easy for you to say.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I like to troll Americans occasionally by calling American English ‘English (simplified)’.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ah minthi spikchur anadón likit⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Neffinal Jabra would be a good stage name for a standup comedian.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I want to go back⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I only had a joystick when I played that. I should try it again now with my wheel. The stunt school that taught you to do j-turns and such was so good in that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Upset about progress⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, it is a really shit post.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨May as well ride the sewer-slide now SMH my head⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bill Hicks put it best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the United Kingdom has the most corrupt real estate market in the Western World. A famous Bangladesh politician bought 350 properties in England.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Jeez, it must be bad if it’s worse than Australia.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apparently only partially, but mostly a natural gas plant to even further wreck the planet.

  There’s hundreds of billions of dollars available to pour into this, and for what benefit to the nation? Meanwhile, the rest of the country’s infrastructure is crumbling.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can anyone relate? No? Me neither, then.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So, metaphorically, exactly what’s described in the meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Aussie funk music recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Saving this post so I can come back. I’ll be checking all them out.

  For an older band, Swoop. I sill have the CD.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  On a suspicion, I had a quick look, and of course there’s also tax incentives, apparently.

  Love this quote “Texas had long been a preferred location for large data centers given its central location, economic climate, reliable electric grid, historically low occurrences of natural disasters, educated workforce and pro-business environment.” :|

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine not being able to shower, because AI slop generator machines need that water!⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If AI centres need so much cooling, why are they building them in Texas in the first place?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I watched that on your recommendation. Turns out he’s just an old Usenet troll that spent to much time in his own head and started to believe his own bullshit. What’s baffling to me is how he became so influential.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Game Society Pimps have played a couple of them and made them pretty hilarious. youtube.com/playlist?list=PLnMlh8dHsRY9E2yZEwqIk1…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's utterly hypocritical that the "defence" industry/sector is not called what it really is, the war industry.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Regardless of what you call it, making the production of weapons an ‘industry’ is psychotic.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Spending all your dough may look tacky and ostentatious, but it creates more jobs than piling it up in a vault.

  Won’t somebody think of the mega-yacht industry?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Peter Thiel’s bestie going mask off⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  So like covering everything with gold and putting your name in giant allcaps on them?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft confirms it made $27 billion after laying off 9,000 people, and its CEO physically cannot stop talking about AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As it samples itself it will get worse. LLM and similar generative AI is not the future, it is already the past.

  Could we start calling it ‘degenerative AI’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nobody expects the spanish inquisition!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I could go for a comfy chair.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ninja Gaiden: Ragebound | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I played the demo and will definitely get the full game when it goes on sale.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Probably still less than 2000 years old, though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m deeply suspicious of anyone these days that writes a manifesto. They’re generally up to no good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Billionaire Mark Zuckerberg writes a manifesto on bringing "personal superintelligence" to everyone to improve humanity, but doesn't even define what superintelligence means.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve become a bit of a fan of memory foam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Warner Bros. Games is working on another live-service game, despite Suicide Squad flop⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Good luck!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Saw this on r*ddit, had to share with my people⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Clint Howard.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely ‘X’ isn’t doing that? Say it ain’t so!