TheObviousSolution
@TheObviousSolution@lemmy.ca
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 day ago:
It doesn’t matter as long a the supply continues to grow. It also helps make the rest of the world less dependent on a US hegemony that’s now going sour. When investment firms are buying up so much inventory for data centers that aren’t even operational, a big part of that exists as an excuse for market manipulation by the really big hitters that have their presence in those cartels anyway. Once they start feeding their own demise and market competition, they will back off pretty quickly and will likely saturate the market from the surplus inventory they are clearly hoarding under bullshit excuses to try to eliminate and buy up the nascent competition.
- Comment on The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices 1 day ago:
Here’s to hoping that it increases pressure to break the cartels and start getting the ball rolling on more independent foundries.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
Oh yeah, that backlash has totally stopped them from getting away with it, you are totally right.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
Ask RAM prices.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
The game was not developed with generative AI. AI was used in promo and textures for a very limited time and then was substituted. If this is the war engine you are running, I want way off of it, my beef with modern AI is way different.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 4 days ago:
So they lost because the promo material that seldom makes it into the game included AI this time around, for a very short while? Do you think that makes the people so judgemental look better?
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 days ago:
They are still selling to you. 5090s “oh, they are back to MSRP again, buy buy buy!”, consoles that use them like the Nintendo Switch 2, etc. They are still selling to consumer markets, they just don’t want to sell to the markets that call them out on the monopolistic bullshit.
Now you have another reason not to buy NVIDIA: with the US being the corrupt hellhole that is now turning into an authoritarian regime and with them being willing to work with Palantir, it’s only a matter of time between the NVIDIA App software they force you to install becomes a surveillance tool. Because your private data is also much more profitable to them than you are.
- Comment on We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer] 5 days ago:
They should have boycotted them during the RTX 50xx if they cared about boycotting. As it is, people who have continued to buy into them have helped finance their own irrelevance.
- Comment on Anti-Palestinian Billionaires Can Now Control What TikTok Users See 5 days ago:
Seems like that was always the end goal. Imperialist global power built on colonialism continues to push forward neocolonialism, more at 11.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 5 days ago:
Oh no, they used gen AI filler art which they immediately replaced with human one. They did it the one way they could do it right, let’s demonize them into submission while the flagrant violators get away with murder because why bother?
- Comment on Reddit global rank is going down 3 weeks ago:
This was the latest from Huffman: npr.org/…/reddit-ceo-steve-huffman-its-time-we-gr…
Basically, rather than focus on quality, they just shifted to the same subjective engagement bait that also happens to be easy to manipulate on the backend and almost impossible to prove that’s plaguing all major social networks. It’s easy to see too, they let major subs go to hell by letting special interests and the power hungry just go nuts, and they now only show up if you really search for them. Do things like adding a sub like r/conservative, and the whole world view it feeds you is completely different and tailored by troll factories, bots, and the like. They are crowd sourcing propaganda bubbles just so they can feed off of the scraps.
- Comment on The Turing test has been inverted. 4 weeks ago:
Because I’m so frigging hot, I’m so frigging thirsty, I’m so hungry, that I think I’m hallucinating the turtle. I’ve been trudging through a desert way and now a turtle pops up in the desert out of nowhere. Is the turtle even real, can I not distinguish reality anymore … would eating it help quench my thirst and anger? Is it wrong to feel no emotion?
I don’t think the test itself is designed to measure emotional response so much as the emotional nuance and the 35 ms latency delay glitch in the Nexus-5 models when dealing with it.
- Comment on Libraries are cool 4 weeks ago:
In my nearby library, you can even take music and movies out. Old as shit music and movies on CDs and DVDs, but music and movies nevertheless.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
I don’t know of anyone who isn’t in some way contributing some way or form to some rather dystopian practices, intentionally or not. This is not a justification, just an observation. Just by being part of many societies and filing your taxes, people can be “working for evil”. The real crux of the matter is what you consider acceptable evil.
- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 4 weeks ago:
How popular is it against other distros? First I’ve heard of it (which admittedly doesn’t say much since I’m used to the older ones), which makes me wonder how close to a million people did. Did influencers spread the word or something?
- Comment on RAM is so expensive that stores are selling it at market prices 4 weeks ago:
If this bubble doesn’t pop soon, I expect a memory card thefts to start making the headlines. Small and easier to carry off while being more expensive than some jewelry of the same size.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 5 weeks ago:
Might as well just build your own mini-ITX PC and install SteamOS if it gets to that point
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 5 weeks ago:
With SSD, memory prices, and GPU prices still going up, releasing console-beating Steam Machines still seems way over the horizon to plan for. Once the AI bubble “pops”, maybe … but with so much going on in the world in terms of geopolitics also threatening to affect markets, I wouldn’t dare to look into the future.
- Comment on If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director 5 weeks ago:
Unless you are going for console exclusives, a PC is upgradable and can be just about as plug and play, specially now with SteamOS. The SteamDeck has really helped normalized control schemes into their gamepad.
- Comment on Is it gay to have pleasurable sex with your wife? 5 weeks ago:
I think their view of women is pretty clear:
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 5 weeks ago:
The way your post was making it out to seem, “forces an instance to federate out” sounded like he was doing something so egregious that he was forcing instances to be defederated, sheesh. Anyway, see my original comment to your post.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 5 weeks ago:
Wait, are people just getting mad at you because you crosspost from .ml instances? You are going the Flying Sphaguetti Monster’s work.
- Comment on I am fucking tired of this shitty behavior. 5 weeks ago:
The way I see it, it can be made part of other features. Have names be auto-reserved locally between instances for future user migrations if they desire. That a user acting in bad faith retains the same name throughout different instances is merely coincidental - I doubt they won’t mind switching it up, specially if they are automating account creation and astrosurfing.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 month ago:
It’s sort of funny they have the reputation as one of the least corrupt countries in the world. It’s funny because when you say that something is incapable of being evil in some way, that means that are fertile grounds that invite it.
The public does not consider corruption a major problem in Danish society means those that are corrupt can get away with more because of less supervision. The OCDE has serious concerns about the lack of enforcement of bribery paid by Danish companies abroad and the Danske Bank money laundering scandal, which was the largest money laundering scandal ever in Europe and possibly the largest in world (at least until the Trump era), involved - you guessed it - Russian (among other USSR remnants) money laundering. Denmark will do what is good for Denmark, but Denmark is not the EU.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Says a Surveillance State Is Preferable to China Winning the AI Race 1 month ago:
It’s funny how many governments are getting surveillance wrong. Mass surveillance and aggregating the data with other social network databases is where the danger is at. Personal surveillance is right up there with recording authorities abusing their power and protecting your home. Ironically, the reverse is happening. The same governments where laws like GDPR criminalize personal surveillance also sign up for palantir’s services and mass surveillance systems as they allow companies to no longer give a shit on their websites about the GDPR and effectively allow them to collect all the personal data GDPR was supposed to protect. People shouldn’t be so keen to disseminate public videos onto social networks, but they should definitely be allowed to record and submit them to the authorities or to the courts if necessary.
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
oskibi doomer
- Comment on Ok, boomer 1 month ago:
- Comment on We gotta be more encouraging 1 month ago:
The biggest problem is that your theories are not going to equate to the depth, degree, and experience of people who’ve been over a decade in Universities studying their own, who receive grants and everything to do so. It may be a revolutionary theory, but every scientist has got their own. That’s what you are competing against. Hell, there are plenty of brainiacs at each other’s throats over whose theory they believe is right.
I have a personal theory that I believe can encompass a lot of phenomenon, but I lack the graduate level experience or the extraordinary intelligence to raise eyebrows, so it has to remain largely faith based. There are much more knowledgeable people who dismiss the basic core tenets of it. And unless you map it out onto some real math and start making predictions that can raise eyebrows, it will remain that, faith-based. Society doesn’t give a shit about ideas, they give a shit about implementations of those ideas.
- Comment on Amazon to replace 600,000 US workers by 2033 with robots 2 months ago:
Do you really think that’s what this is, or do you have the self-awareness that you are trolling?
- Comment on Apparently Palantir can access the content of social media accounts that were deleted a decade ago. 2 months ago:
Pretty sure they also have access to banned Reddit accounts whose users can no longer access their history to know what they will be judged and profiled for, too.
Just assume every social network either allows this directly or enables a third party to do it, Lemmy specially.
