skisnow
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- Comment on There's a brand new Dreamcast game that's out, called Mute Crimson, and it's free 1 day ago:
I think you mean icedlizardgames.itch.io/mute-crimson-dc
Don’t support global fascism by linking to X.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 1 day ago:
Yeah on closer look it seems like this particular baby strawberry is also a mod on nearly 50 other groups across more than 10 instances. Not good.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 days ago:
So challenging that you need to protect your own feelings by banning anyone who downvotes you? Grow a pair.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 days ago:
From your link:
Shielding members of a community from external forces that would diminish or prevent free expression in that community is one of the major responsibilities of a community runner.
This is a noble intention and not without merit. However it completely falls apart when it’s YOUR posts that you’re banning people for downvoting.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 2 days ago:
It’s frankly terrifying how Reddit is now both what the major LLMs are trained on and what most search engines return as the top result for a lot of searches, when you look at the degree with which arbitrary shadowbanning, bans for posting in the “wrong” other subs, flair requirements etc all come together to make these huge self-censoring subs where the manufactured consensus is controlled by a shadowy cabal with no real oversight.
Time was that you knew when you were in a bubble and what shape that bubble was; the left-wing subs were overtly left-wing and stated as much in their description, the right-wing subs were likewise explicitly right-wing, and the topic subs were explicitly about that topic. But nowadays you have subs that are ostensibly about personal finance or history or funny memes or whatever, where an outside reader looking in has literally no idea that anyone who’s ever also made a post in r/politics gets their post automatically and silently hidden with no notification, and what they’re reading is a secretly curated wall of propaganda.
- Comment on Alpha decay go brrrrrrr 2 days ago:
Who measures uranium in pounds? I feel like if you’re not using metric you probably shouldn’t be handling uranium.
- Comment on YSK about 15 bean soup. 2 days ago:
“15 bean soup is great but you gotta check the packet for rocks” is the most American thing I’ve read today.
- Comment on User "threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works" is banning users for downvoting his posts. 3 days ago:
That mod is also literally the only active user in that group. Your post is the most attention it’s ever got.
- Comment on Larry Tesler, inventor of the cut, copy, and paste commands, dies at 74 3 days ago:
…5 years ago, which is presumably why you chose to crop out the date before reposting.
- Comment on Microsoft is testing full-screen Microsoft 365 ads in Windows 11 for expired subscriptions 3 days ago:
Help LibreOffice developers replace Microsoft 365: www.libreoffice.org/donate/
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 4 days ago:
Cameron’s government passed same-sex marriage. Starmer’s Labour are engaged in open war against trans people.
- Comment on Important update: It's 10 poptarts 5 days ago:
Once every 2-3 years I forget what they’re like, see a box on the shelves, and think hey they actually look quite fun.
Then I get it home and the contents look fuck all like the picture on the front, and also it tastes, not bad as such, but disappointing and definitely not worth the calories.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 days ago:
I think they’ve had the exact same bunch of weaselly data analytics people in that the US Democrats did.
Both parties have been conned into believing the Moneyball data superintelligence that says the best chance they have of picking up votes are from “centrists” whose main priorities are hot-button culture war topics.
They’ve let themselves get dragged down into mud-wrestling with the pigs because a computer told them they should.
- Comment on Labour votes AGAINST letting disabled people use the bus for free before 9:30am 5 days ago:
It’s both despairing and frankly suspicious how suddenly Labour have shifted hard right.
They’re further right than David Cameron by now, and I’m not exaggerating.
- Comment on Practical Magic 5 days ago:
Nah, they’re gonna be more like the “Anthony Adams Rubbing Hands Together From Behind a Tree” meme when they realize how much they can jack up their prices on Etsy now.
- Comment on Practical Magic 5 days ago:
Three Nazis will be removed from their lives as well.
- Comment on Can anyone identify this colony formation? 5 days ago:
I think they’re just doing a bit. Nobody is actually that dumb.
- Comment on 5 days ago:
Yup. I had exactly the same trepidation, and then it was all like “As an AI model, I don’t have access to the data you requested, however here are some examples of…”
- Comment on 5 days ago:
I thought there were no good Nazis, but he just proved me wrong.
- Comment on Exactly Six Months Ago, the CEO of Anthropic Said That in Six Months AI Would Be Writing 90 Percent of Code 6 days ago:
That’s exactly what I thought when I saw it. Big difference between “creating 90% of code” vs “replacing 90% of code” when there’s an absolute deluge of garbage being created.
- Comment on When the government can see everything: How one company – Palantir – is mapping the nation’s data 6 days ago:
Someone want to estimate what are the chances that Peter Thiel isn’t illegally handing all that data over to MAGA strategists under the table, in the full knowledge that the worst he could ever get is a trivial fine?
- Comment on 6 days ago:
I don’t think this gets nearly enough visibility: www.academ-ai.info
Papers in peer-reviewed journals with (extremely strong) evidence of AI shenanigans.
- Comment on THIS JUST IN: FBI suspects Kirk was likely targeted, more info to come 6 days ago:
Can someone explain this? I don’t understand
- Comment on 6 days ago:
LOL, it seems like every time I get into a discussion with an AI evangelical, they invariably end up asking me to accept some really poor analogy that, much like an LLM’s output, looks superficially clever at first glance but doesn’t stand up to the slightest bit of scrutiny.
- Comment on 6 days ago:
“I asked it to burn an extra 2KWh of power breaking the task up into small parts to think about it in more detail, and it still got the answer wrong”
- Comment on 6 days ago:
Not bizarre at all.
The point isn’t “they can’t do word games therefore they’re useless”, it’s “if this thing is so easily tripped up on the most trivial shit that a 6-year-old can figure out, don’t be going round claiming it has PhD level expertise”.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
Yeah, those dumbasses. It’s obviously a monkey.
- Comment on Only way that you're happy here... 1 week ago:
Yeah, and his former fanbase was exactly the sort of educated professional that isn’t likely to tolerate his White Nationalist conspiracy theory bullshit. It’s remarkable how suddenly Dilbert went from being pinned onto the cubicle walls of every office in the Western world, to this meme right here being the first time this year I’ve seen a Dilbert character anywhere.
- Comment on Plex got hacked. 1 week ago:
It shows how low the bar is, that just bare bones complying with GDPR notification requirements so as not to risk a €20M fine, is enough to make people talk about how good a job you did.
- Comment on Reddit lost it 1 week ago:
I think the most pathetic aspect of crushing on an AI is that they’re notoriously sycophantic and will support whatever dumb shit you say, so to fall for that you’d have to be really desperate for a level of validation that no real person would ever give you.