leftzero
@leftzero@lemmy.dbzer0.com
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 22 hours ago:
Whenever I can hold them flat and horizontal without bending when grabbed by a corner.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Explain how protein folding software, which predates “genAI” by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 days ago:
Smartphones are actually useful, and don’t have the moral, ethical, economic, societal, and existential issues that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) has.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
Of course not, but I think not supporting those that use it to produce something you want to enjoy doesn’t necessarily imply not enjoying what they produce, as long as it’s not too thoroughly damaged by their use of it and as long as it can be obtained in ways that won’t support them.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
Yes. Shit’s buggy enough as it is, infect it with this crap and it’s outright malware.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
Good. Burn both companies to the ground. Set them as an example.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
Brain rot, job destruction, increased inequality, massive acceleration in global warming, massive decrease in the quality of critical systems, societal and economic collapse…
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
Nah, just pirate the stuff.
If they don’t give a fuck about original creators, why should we give a fuck about paying them?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 6 days ago:
They didn’t use it for placeholders (which wouldn’t excuse them anyway, if you want a placeholder you can pay an artist to make it).
They got caught using it in production and came up with the placeholder excuse (which no one who’s ever seen a placeholder texture would fall for) on the spot, throwing the QA team under the bus to try to cover what is clearly a systemic problem with the company.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 6 days ago:
So to a hypothetical alien civilization, humans probably seem to spend a lot of energy on sex.
I mean, it’s nothing when compared to the effort most (male) birds dedicate to it…
Also, flowering plants, especially the ones with edible fruit.
Also, any fungi that produce mushrooms.
- Comment on Why do we produce so much porn? 6 days ago:
Archeologists have a very hard time calling a dildo a dildo, no matter how obviously ribbed for the user’s pleasure it might be.
- Comment on What is this colour? 1 week ago:
In Catalan we’d call this “color de merda d’oca”. Goose shit colour.
- Comment on earth, fire, water, wind - it's not hard 1 week ago:
earth, fire, water, wind - it’s not hard
Forgot the most important element of all: surprise.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 week ago:
Seems more reasonable to put UK-blocking systems on them…
- Comment on Oracle made a $300 billion bet on OpenAI. It's paying the price. 1 week ago:
Well, it’s called One Rich Asshole Called Larry Ellison, after all… 🤷♂️
- Comment on Valve: HDMI Forum Continues to Block HDMI 2.1 for Linux 2 weeks ago:
Don’t they mostly download it directly from streaming platforms these days, skipping the display and its connector altogether…?
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
Because you asked:
The admins over there have some profoundly questionable views, which tends to push away reasonable people and attract bootlickers.
Such as?
Generally answering a question tends to add to a discussion, yes.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
Mostly this is an issue with .ml and .world.
The others will often tell you their bias before you join, often in the name itself.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
They’re tankies.
- Comment on Why do .ml users get a bad rep? 2 weeks ago:
Biggest issue is that said admins are the lemmy devs. .ml is their test instance.
- Comment on Trains cancelled over fake bridge collapse image 2 weeks ago:
I mean, it’s the time to get an inspector off of bed, on the road, to the site, and for them to go “yup, bridge’s still there” and call back…
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but that’s usually much less poetic, North by Northwest notwithstanding.
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 weeks ago:
Most Mediterranean cultures used to have names for at least eight winds, each at 45 degrees from each other. Greeks (and therefore Romans) used twelve, at 30 degrees.
Here’s a classic navigator’s wind rose, for instance, with 32 different named winds / directions (might be a bit hard to read on dark backgrounds, here’s the original SVG):
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 weeks ago:
without being too many to remember
People used to have no problem remembering the names of at least eight winds, depending on the direction…
Here are the ones used in Catalonia, for instance; we were taught them at school:
Though, to be fair, llevant means where the sun rises and ponent where it sets, migjorn means midday, which makes sense given the other two, and everyone already knew tramuntana, cause it’s a headache when it blows, so it’s mostly the other four we have to remember… the Greek one seems quite harder, though, then again, I’m not Greek…:
- Comment on Why don't compasses have just two Cardinal directions (North, East, -North, -East)? 2 weeks ago:
If the four cardinal points bother you, better not look up wind roses or rhumbline networks…
- Comment on Are people with High functioning autism allowed to become police officers? 2 weeks ago:
There’s also an intelligence test, where you need to score below a certain level.
- Comment on Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal 3 weeks ago:
I’m in this picture and I don’t like it.
- Comment on Condoms and contraceptives to become more expensive in China as Beijing accelerates push to lift birth rate 3 weeks ago:
It’s also the plot of the classic Greek play Lysistrata, wherein the eponymous protagonist incites a sex strike to end the Peloponnesian War.
- Comment on Biometric 'human washing machine' cleans, dries and adapts to your mood 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on I hate how inescapable politics are on Lemmy, but ya know, at least nobody's constantly asking how I wipe my butt or pick up my dog's poop then completely ignoring me when I try to answer. 3 weeks ago:
- Bidet.
- Two dogs, taking turns. One poops, the other eats it. And then licks your face.
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