skisnow
@skisnow@lemmy.ca
- Comment on A Jamaican accent just makes me smile 1 day ago:
A lot of races in Star Wars are dodgy stereotypes. Watto was so bad I think people just blanked it out.
- Comment on Trump wants the NFL to change its name so that soccer is the only sport called football: ‘We have to come up with another name for the NFL stuff’ 1 day ago:
For a moment I thought he was having a rare moment of clarity, but no, he was having a common moment of corruption
- Comment on Netflix kills casting from phones 6 days ago:
The kind of people they’re pissing off with this, are the same people most likely to switch to bittorrent.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
Yes that puzzled me too, I checked like 5 different transcripts and they all said the same thing.
- Comment on Honestly wtf? 1 week ago:
The swallow may fly south with the sun, or the house-martin or the plumber may seek warmer climes in winter; yet these are not strangers to our land.
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
My 3rd generation iPad became functionally useless after only 6-7 years even though the hardware was pristine. Almost half of the apps on it, including some major ones like YouTube, started refusing to run because they had a mandatory Update, and the App Store wouldn’t provide updates for the newest iOS version that the 3rd gen could support.
Meanwhile my Windows laptop that I bought at the same time is still in service after 12 years.
Fuck Apple to infinity.
- Comment on Valve dev counters calls to scrap Steam AI disclosures, says it's a "technology relying on cultural laundering, IP infringement, and slopification" 1 week ago:
That said, I support disclosing that AI was used in making the game
Which was the whole point of the original post.
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
There’s billions of people, literally billions of them
On lemmy?
- Comment on I dunno 1 week ago:
I don’t know how we’ve managed to get to 2025 and there’s still apparently people who haven’t seen a thousand shit PEMDAS posts already
- Comment on Epic boss Tim Sweeney thinks stores like Steam should stop labelling games as being made with AI: 'It makes no sense,' he says, because 'AI will be involved in nearly all future production 1 week ago:
Epic Boss Tim Sweeney can go fuck himself
- Comment on Zero Chull 2 weeks ago:
Don’t be "both sides"ing this, one of those sides was bigger than the other by an extremely large margin.
- Comment on Following your dreams 2 weeks ago:
Memes are weird, like, you contributed nothing to its creation, yet you’re acting all defensive like it was yours
- Comment on Racism restaurant 2 weeks ago:
What was their central thesis?
- Comment on Hi, Jeffrey! 2 weeks ago:
It’s easy to see why there was so much resistance to getting these released. It’s not just Trump in there, it’s every fucker, all chatting away pleasantly even when he’d already done one jail sentence for sex trafficking. Even Noam fucking Chomsky is cosying up to him.
- Comment on MAGA, splitting hairs. 2 weeks ago:
Yup, suddenly now they’re interested in nuance
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 weeks ago:
unimpressed with the ability to talk fluently with an AI computer.
That fluency is a pure illusion. Either he doesn’t know this, or he thinks we don’t.
- Comment on Zelensky associate at crux of Ukrainian corruption case said to have fled to Israel 3 weeks ago:
The article spends more time on Zelensky, who doesn’t actually seem to be implicated in any of this corruption beyond the fact that he had unrelated dealings with Mindich, than it does on Mindich himself, who didn’t even get his name mentioned in the headline.
This is clearly not a trustworthy news source.
- Comment on FOX BREAKING NEWS ALERT! 3 weeks ago:
Anyone remember when Wikipedia was the default byword for Unreliable Internet Source? The internet used to be good.
- Comment on Ancient ahegao 3 weeks ago:
I’m 97% sure this is shopped but that 3% is driving me mad
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 3 weeks ago:
But what if bias was not the reason? What if your face gave genuinely useful clues about your probable performance?
I hate this so much, because spouting statistics is the number one go-to of idiot racists and other bigots trying to justify their prejudices. The whole fucking point is that judging someone’s value someone based on physical attributes outside their control, is fucking evil, and increasing the accuracy of your algorithm only makes it all the more insidious.
The Economist has never been shy to post some questionable kneejerk shit in the past, but this is approaching a low even for them. Not only do they give the concept credibility, but they’re even going out of their way to dishonestly paint it as some sort of progressive boon for the poor.
- Comment on Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time 3 weeks ago:
Define “held accountable”?
If you mean who will pay out if there’s an accident, presumably Waymo will have found an insurer willing to cover them. But if you mean that someone out there must be punished to satisfy some sense of vengeance, then you may want to re-examine your values.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 3 weeks ago:
Marrow was interested in “how public institutions decide what’s worth showing, and what happens when something outside that system appears within it”.
Wanky pretentious edgelord crap. It’s obvious what happens when you put up a shit AI-generated poster in a museum without permission. Someone asks the staff why there’s a shit AI-generated poster on the wall and they take it down. Other artists have done the “sneaking something into a gallery” thing way better than this many times before.
Sure, Art is supposed to make you think and react. But art that makes you think “wow that guy completely failed at every aspect of this” is of no value. The true scandal isn’t that he did it, it’s that some dumbfuck at the BBC thought it was worth reporting on.
- Comment on Game marketing company takes down blog post bragging about how good it is at astroturfing Reddit after Reddit finds the post 3 weeks ago:
Just so nobody forgets, North Face planted ads on Wikipedia, and then threw one of their regional managers under the bus when they got caught, as if to claim that it wasn’t really the real company doing it.
- Comment on Surprise EU rollback of 'GDPR' digital-rights rules prompts alarm 3 weeks ago:
“Massive trillion dollar corporations are behaving absolutely fucking atrociously, so we need to do the same” is such an awful take that it makes me doubt the legitimacy of this user account.
- Comment on Hrmmmmm 4 weeks ago:
Your phrasing implies that the issue was that farmers all sat about at home not working because they weren’t getting paid. There were plenty of problems, but I’ve seen scant evidence that that the threat of getting fired for not doing your job was even in the top three.
- Comment on Over the past ~20 years, Google became the de facto entry point for learning new skills and information. Google also sucks now. This is a really big problem. 5 weeks ago:
This is one topic I’m quite willing to go into conspiracy theory territory on, because Google have a lot of very clever engineers and must surely know that their search is dogshit.
The only plausible explanation is that they’re somehow making more money doing this than they did by being quietly competent.
- Comment on Mathematics disproves Matrix theory, says reality isn’t simulation 5 weeks ago:
You don’t even need to reject the applicability of Gödel, because there’s no proof that our universe doesn’t include a bunch of undecidable things tucked away in the margins. Jupiter could be filled with complete nonsense for all we know.
- Comment on She is making a GREAT point 5 weeks ago:
It doesn’t stand up on its own terms on other levels as well.
Even the most cynical misandrist interpretation of how research is funded would still lean towards men being given the agency on whether sex lead to pregnancy.
- Comment on And what car did you learn in? 5 weeks ago:
It’s a good way to get answers to Password Recovery questions that people forgot they used when signing up to some website or email service 15 years ago but are still active on
- Comment on sucked in losers 5 weeks ago:
Sadly also too tall for the blood to reach their brains, resulting in Shit Art Syndrome and Dick Hygiene Forgetfulness.