ter_maxima
@ter_maxima@jlai.lu
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think eugenics can be prevented by preventing scientific progress. It’s an ideological problem, just like nuclear bombs.
- Comment on Researchers announce babies born from a trial of three-person IVF 2 weeks ago:
Really hope we can have this for polyamorous relationships soon. Powers of two are more convenient though :
4 people make 2 “fictitious ancestor” cells, which are induced into meiosis. The resulting gametes are assembled, and here you go ! A child that is genetically related to all 4 parents (who are technically their grandparents)
- Comment on Steam is cracking down on porn games, to keep Payment Processors happy. 2 weeks ago:
Doing the right thing for the wring reason if you ask me. I don’t think it was ever a good idea to sell incest games in the first place, but banning them because they make payment processors uncomfortable ? Fuck that.
I don’t want payment processors to be the arbiters of what we are allowed to play !
- Comment on Minecraft and Terraria each fit the other game's title better than their own. 2 weeks ago:
I like both games, but my playtime says I prefer Minecraft 😆 I think I like it because it’s kinda boring.
Terraria is a lot of fun, yes, but I don’t feel like I can simply exist in that world, I have to play there. Whereas in Minecraft I can more easily just chill, get kinda bored, just walk around looking at stuff and think…
I like how tranquil and slow Minecraft can be. It doesn’t feel like a game so much as an other world I have access to. I like that it leaves me alone with my thoughts.
- Comment on Google Keeps Making Smartphones Worse 2 weeks ago:
Linux phones will hopefully fix that soon(ish)
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- Comment on Since we're doing magic eyes now... 3 weeks ago:
These are all backwards. The eyes are reversed so everything that’s supposed to be a hole looks like a bump and vice-versa.
- Comment on Pop it in your calendars 3 weeks ago:
Publishers are cancer. Self publish whenever possible !
- Comment on Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week? 3 weeks ago:
The same game I have played every week for 15 years : Minecraft.
- Comment on X CEO Linda Yaccarino is now ex-CEO 3 weeks ago:
Hope she has an ex from the south of England that she gets back together with.
Then that person will be the Sussex ex-ex of X’s ex-ceo !
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 3 weeks ago:
Add a whole bunch of white on white nonsense ! You can also insert letters in the middle of words with a font size of 0, although that fucks up a human copy-pasting too, so probably not recommended.
The simplest way is to make your CV an image, and include no OCR data (or nonsense OCR data) in the PDF
- Comment on BREAKING: X CEO Linda Yaccarino Steps Down One Day After Elon Musk’s Grok AI Bot Went Full Hitler 3 weeks ago:
Non-fediverse social media is designed to be addictive because that’s how the people running it make money.
- Comment on AI is driving down the price of knowledge – universities have to rethink what they offer 3 weeks ago:
Universities have not been in the business if monetizing knowledge for decades, if not centuries.
Knowledge has been easy to access for a LONG time. Universities give you access to a well constructed curriculum, competent teachers, and a certificate you actually learnt the material somewhat decently.
American universities are too expensive, yes, but American anything means you pay more and you get less, so singling out universities is missing the forest for a tree (even if arguably one of the biggest of those trees)
- Comment on Threads is nearing X's daily app users, new data shows 3 weeks ago:
Real life people use Threads !? I guess that speaks more to Twitter’s decline than Threads’ success that the numbers are getting close…
- Comment on The Steam controller was ahead of its time 3 weeks ago:
We really need a new version
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 3 weeks ago:
Maybe it says more about me than about game pass, but even at 5€ a month it would be significantly more money than I spend on games every year.
Not that I couldn’t afford it, but I mostly play games that are at least 5 to 10 years old, either on second-hand physical copies or heavily discounted sales/keyshops. The most recent game I’ve bought is Elden Ring, even then only recently because I found a cheap physical copy.
- Comment on Study Finds LLMs Biased Against Men in Hiring 4 weeks ago:
I don’t care what bias they do and don’t have ; if you use an LLM to select résumés, you don’t deserve to hire me. I make my résumé illegible for LLMs on purpose.
( But don’t follow my advice. I don’t actually need a job so I can pull this kinda nonsense and be selective, most people probably can’t )
- Comment on Founder of Arkane Studios: "I think Gamepass is an unsustainable model that has been increasingly damaging the industry for a decade"; impacts sales 4 weeks ago:
Game Pass is the same scam as Netflix was back then, and I’m not falling for it twice.
Netflix used to be too good yo be true as well. 10€ a month for literally everything ! Now they don’t even make blu-rays anymore and you spend more time looking up which service has the thing you want to watch than watching it, so people are pirating again.
I’ll stick to physical games and GOG as much as possible.
- Comment on Study finds smartphone bans in Dutch schools improved focus 4 weeks ago:
As a 1998 French Zoomer, they were never allowed in class, and only allowed at recess in high school.
- Comment on Samsung phones can survive twice as many charges as Pixel and iPhone, according to EU data 4 weeks ago:
But they don’t have GrapheneOS 😟
- Comment on Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked 4 weeks ago:
No, the fact it’s technically legal doesn’t mean you have to make it easy for them.
- Comment on Cloudflare to AI Crawlers: Pay or be blocked 4 weeks ago:
If they could stop blocking real users at the same time they block AI crawlers, that would be nice.
- Comment on 'Xbox Hardware Is Dead,' Says Founding Team Member, 'It Looks Like Xbox Has No Desire — Or Literally Can't — Ship Hardware Anymore' - IGN 4 weeks ago:
While this is bad for the market, it’s also entirely expected.
Xbox have been producing sub-par hardware with names no one can remember and barely any exclusives, it was only a matter of time.
To other Europeans : do you know anyone who owns an Xbox ? I’ve only ever had one single friend in middle school who had a 360. I’ve never seen any other model outside of an electronics store.
Their current gen is hamstrung by the existence of the Series S, and the utter lack of features in their controllers (no gyroscope or any motion sensors ? No advanced rumble ? No touchpad ?). No one who is serious about controller gaming buys an Xbox controller, especially because of the lack of gyro.
Their dedication to digital-only and pushing the games pass also alienates anyone who wishes to play physical games and/or offline.
- Comment on Day 347 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 5 weeks ago:
They kinda murdered the game for me when they made it so easy to switch servers during play and avoid ever fighting anyone…
- Comment on Zero-day: Bluetooth gap turns millions of headphones into listening stations 5 weeks ago:
This is why I chose to get a Corsair Virtuoso, which has a removable microphone.
- Comment on New Google Search Emoji Answer Feature to Replace All Those Copy and Paste Emoji Websites; You Will be Able to Copy the Code for Emojis With a Click. 5 weeks ago:
Idk about emoji, but other obscure unicode symbols would be very useful. You wouldn’t believe how often one needs the alchemical symbols for the 4 elements !
- Comment on Hytale, once touted as the Minecraft killer, is ceasing development 5 weeks ago:
I love reading a basic text article on the modern internet…
- Comment on Some people want wealth because it means power over others. Some people want wealth because it means they can minimize interactions with others. 5 weeks ago:
Some people want wealth to expand their stamp collection.
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
I hope they will atop doing that eventually…
- Comment on YouTube Will Add an AI Slop Button Thanks to Google’s Veo 3 1 month ago:
Nope. “Content unavailable” no matter what I do.
