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- Comment on Using a VPN May Subject You to NSA Spying 1 week ago:
As if they weren’t already scooping up people’s information already. The point of VPN and other defenses is just to make investigation too expensive to do as a free action.
- Comment on Justice is a luxury the poor can’t afford and the rich pay to evade. 1 week ago:
If there are reforms, I think that one of them is access to lawyers. Rich or poor, you shouldn’t pay for lawyers. Instead, they are all placed into a common pool, where each side picks their representatives. If both sides happen to pick the same lawyers, they roll a dice in front of the court until someone has the higher number. That person gets the lawyer, and the other side draws someone else of choice from the pool.
I also think that lawyers should rotate in the role they may serve after every case. Prosecution -> Defense -> Prosecution -> Defense, for their entire career as courtroom representatives. If a lawyer refuses to represent, they are barred from serving as a lawyer for four months, and their refusal goes onto a common dossier that anyone can see.
This encourages the whole profession of lawyers to ensure that the courtroom is fair to both defense and prosecution, and that both roles are equally valid when it comes to reputation.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
No, I didn’t use AI for that. Humans tend to come in many flavors.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
Keep in mind, a 122b (Qwen3.5 family), is high end for consumer machines, but it is likely that DQX would be using a much smaller model. Currently, we have Qwen models that are 8b, 9b, 27b, 35b, 122b, and 397b. Plus, ‘quanting’ can reduce how much memory a model takes up - at a tradeoff, o’course. I am guessing DQX would have multiple local models, and use the player’s hardware metrics to decide which model to deploy.
Alternatively, the Chatty Slime could rely on cloud AI. Depending on Square’s strategy, that could be a freebie or a paid service. If the Chatty Slime gave options to the player - say, trading a potion for a stat seed, or responding to a quiz, Square could sell player behavior data.
…Anyhow, my room has a mini-split AC. One of the best purchases in my life: my room lacked insulation in the first place, so it becomes toasty during summer. The side effect is being able to just run my GPU and not become a human slushy.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
On my system, I can play a RPG Maker game and use a 122b LLM at the same time, alongside to a podcast. A model in that parameter range takes up about 70gb of DDR4 RAM and 36gb of VRAM. However, it used to be that a 120b AI would take a larger footprint, bringing the system to the brink. The hardware requirements are going down, and the quality also increased, alongside speed. I believe when the next major sea change of hardware happens, AI will become very practical for gaming.
- Comment on Google's Gemini will make its way into Dragon Quest X to power a "Chatty Slimey" AI companion, Square Enix has announced 1 week ago:
While I think AI will be good in games, the games in question should be built with the AI in mind, rather than just shoving the AI into an existing game.
Square-Enix was doing a remake of an old detective game called Portopia, with the idea of being able to converse with NPCs about the case. That made sense, but they have seemingly abandoned the project. They should have kept working on that, instead of doing this Chatty Slime scheme.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 1 week ago:
Allowing ordinary people to modify their robots to have software that is loyal to the person, would be key. A Linux for automatons, essentially.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 1 week ago:
IMO, the United States is speedrunning the conditions needed to upset the apple cart. As such, much of my focus when making suggestions is the assumption that society would have a serious redefinition of how the economy is supposed to work.
To that end, I think UBI socialism could pair with capitalism, but in specific ways. UBI providing free necessities, while capitalism offers luxuries. For example, UBI allowing anyone to own a single generic car in one color, with a set feature list. Luxury cars have to compete against the free basic government car, by offering creature comforts, aesthetics, size, and so forth.
IMO, capitalism is great at offering interesting stuff for a person. But it is fundamentally is unfit at ensuring the wellbeing of people. Money should be used solely used for buying lifestyle, while everything fundamental to a decent life is freely given. Free fuel, free food, free basic lodgings, free utilities, free healthcare, free basic supplies, free childcare, free generic clothing, ect.
It is the bandages decorated with children’s cartoons, fashionable clothing, fancy christmas lights, and so forth that people have to spend money on.
- Comment on Robots will solve wealth inequality, they say 1 week ago:
I think robots can help, but it requires laws, overhauled society, and a twist on things. Instead of companies owning many individual robots, such as shelf stockers, cleanup bots, and food handlers, individual people own a single robot. This robot is loaned out to companies, but service can be retracted by the human owner.
That sort of requirement would make it so that companies can’t become fiefdoms of an individual will, as they have to get robotic labor from ordinary people.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 2 weeks ago:
SystemDOGE. It is just a matter of time before Big Balls exfiltrates our Linux data.
- Comment on Inside the fiery, deadly crashes involving the Tesla Cybertruck: Cybertrucks have locked passengers inside and burned so hot they’ve disintegrated drivers’ bones. 2 weeks ago:
On the fiery side, we might have MAGA troops manning Tesla Tanks.
- Comment on I am an American. I used to be proud of my country. Now it feels like a turd circling the drain. Is there anything going on behind the scene that America is actually doing good in? 2 weeks ago:
The pessimist in me says the same thing that happened for many Confederates and Nazis: Forgiven and allowed to return into the folds of society, to fuck over humanity again.
I would like to be wrong. It is my desire to see them overflowing baskets and filling cardboard caskets.
- Comment on Robot dogs priced at $300,000 a piece are now guarding some of the country’s biggest data centers 2 weeks ago:
At $300,000 a pop, being a dog catcher has never been more lucrative.
- Comment on CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court 2 weeks ago:
If I have to use AI to argue my case in court, it is because I don’t have enough money to hire a lawyer. You would think a CEO would understand their position in life.
- Comment on 'They Were All I Had': Lebanese Father Buries Parents, 4 Daughters Killed by Israeli Bombing 3 weeks ago:
I think it is because normal people aren’t excessively greedy. A recurring feature for many of our ‘leaders’ is that they are motivated by profit first and foremost. Schuemer and Jefferies are more than happy to roll over, if it gets them a treat from a donor.
- Comment on Iran includes American tech giants on list of new targets 3 weeks ago:
I suspect an offense against the USA would be easy to pull off. The low standards of ICE and the nature of their operation would allow just about any organized actor to have a free hand in the US, if they chose to do so.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 3 weeks ago:
Throwing down better people is the easiest way to stand above them.
- Comment on Datacenters are becoming a target in warfare for the first time 3 weeks ago:
Wouldn’t surprise me if the Trump Regime deploys bioweapons, and everybody else scrambling to develop counteragents.
- Comment on YouTube ads are about to get even longer and they’ll be unskippable - Dexerto 3 weeks ago:
Use a VPN and be Vietnamese. They are rolling out a law against unskippable ads, IIRC.
- Comment on New York Bill Would Force Age ID Checks at the Device Level 3 weeks ago:
I hope Mamdani and friends oppose this piece of shit. It exists to erase sexuality that doesn’t belong to the straight white dude, alongside filling the pockets of the wealthy by watching our every move.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 weeks ago:
The Magic Tower genre is definitely that way, and Soulestination moreso, because it has a lot to consider from the mechanics. For example, the Soul system.
You have a capacity of Soul, and for each soul you collect, you increase your stats by 1%. When you get to your cap, you enter a state of Rage - doubling your strength, and being forced to attack any adjacent enemy. This can be good for bosses or removing multiple enemies at junctions from play. However, this resets your Soul pool to zero, and increases your capacity by 1. This means it takes longer to become enraged, but your power potential also increases.
In the Magic Tower genre, the timing of your actions is everything, despite being turn based. Changes in stats dictate which kinds of enemies you can afford to encounter. The defeat of enemies is both a price and reward, so you have to engineer bargains. For example, glass cannon enemies are exceedingly deadly, but if you can strike them down in one blow, everything behind them is a deluge of goodness. But emphasizing attack means that sturdy enemies can take their time tearing you apart.
- Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled 4 weeks ago:
I think that ICE will be sent information about children, and then they will ship the good looking kids to the highest bidder.
- Comment on Uploading Pirated Books via BitTorrent Qualifies as Fair Use, Meta Argues 4 weeks ago:
I want copyright to go extinct. It has no place in a proper civilization.
- Comment on Day 599 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 4 weeks ago:
On my end, I am playing Soulestination on Novice mode to develop my meta. The idea of the Magic Tower puzzle genre, is that there are finite resources. The order in which you use keys, kill enemies, collect resources, and the application of meta knowledge is fundamental to optimal routing. If you like numbers or exploring possibilities, this genre can be pretty neat.
Unfortunately, Soulestination has a trash translation. I recommend DROD RPG, which is also generally better balanced.
- Comment on there is a special place in hell for these scientists 4 weeks ago:
As it turns out, Doomguy is a robot clone of BJ Blazkowitz, who was deliberately smuggled onto Mars by scientists who knew about Hell.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 weeks ago:
I bought a twin pack of Nutella from Costco. The unopened one developed mold after awhile, but the opened jar in the fridge was just fine. If anything, I was expecting at least the reverse.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 weeks ago:
Food lasts way longer than what one would expect. I got a bunch of eggs in the fridge from CostCo from about a year ago. They still taste alright, much to my surprise.
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO’s awkward taste test sparks mocking online: ‘His aura screams kale salad’ 4 weeks ago:
It should be a rule, that a food executive is required to eat at least seven meals a week from the business they are running. Their attitude about food quality would fundamentally change.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 4 weeks ago:
Because I want a 800lb gorilla to perpetually support my gaming distro, working Nvidia drivers, have enough freedom to use mods and whatnot, documentation suitable for people who aren’t terminal-brained, and so forth. Valve is the kind of company that can tick these boxes, simply through sheer inertia.
I tried Mint back in early 2025. It wasn’t quite right for my purposes, so I wanted to wait for something friendlier.
- Comment on Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades 4 weeks ago:
Hopefully, SteamOS Desktop will be in the wild and shaked off any teething issues. I want to switch to an OS that is suitable for a power-casual. If it looks like a 2nd American Civil War or WW3 is on, I might switch early to Cachy.
