Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 1 hour ago:
what is a manamanagal?
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 hours ago:
It’s Melania’s magic power - but will it be enough to get her husband back from Peter Thiel’s claws?
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 hours ago:
I bought it because i appreciate the gesture of making his melania fanfic free for this stunt lol
My Amazon recommendations will never be the same again
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 hours ago:
I don’t have a kindle and just bought it!
- Comment on Update: Disrupt the Amazon/Melania movie premiere weekend 2 hours ago:
I’m doing my part!
- Comment on Trump’s acting cyber chief uploaded sensitive files into a public version of ChatGPT 3 hours ago:
This is the same guy who failed a polygraph, then smeared the people who told him he only needed to take the polygraph when he wants to see a highly classified program where only a limited number of people are allowed to see it (the previous guy on his seat didn’t want to see it because it’s not necessary for this job) for “giving him misleading information”.
He also wanted to remove Costello, one of the people at CISA who is seen “as one of the agency’s top remaining technical talent” after around 1000 employees were cut (he was hindered to do so after others learned about that - Costello had already gotten a letter giving him the choice to move to DHS or resign). Sources say that Costello pushes back regarding policy and contracting decisions - probably because he knows better.
He is Noem’s pet IT guy she took with her from South Dakota, and i think he’s out of his depth for sure, and probably compromised.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 10 hours ago:
Especially since people like him aren’t primarily pedophiles, because we all know that for the orange fuhrer it’s about having power over a human being that can’t defend itself, not because of attraction - he’s only attracted to gold.
- Comment on Poor Jeremy 3 days ago:
Depends on the type of snail, there are male, female, hermaphroditic and parthenogenetic types. Since they wrote “his reproductive organs”, Jeremy is probably a hermaphroditic snail.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
I can also see a lot of use in general for gaming! There might be a future where game assets are generated on the fly, dialogue and storylines are without artificial limits, no invisible borders in game worlds. The technology is useful, but not in the way those fools want to force it.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
You can’t even exfiltrate data reliably from a LLM - storage can be deleted, RAM is volatile anyways. No need for destruction at all, the compute itself is useful. There are so many science projects that currently don’t have the funding to get access to exactly the hardware that’s in use there.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
That’s mainly Grok, since Elon did never even bother getting approval for the shitton of Gas Turbines he placed which wreak havoc on the air quality in Memphis. I think xAI is the only Datacenter running on 100% fossil fuels, without permission from any municipality..
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
I have to agree, even if i have no issue with GenAI itself. No one needs that many datacenters as they are planning. Adoption will crash as soon as they try monetizing it for real. Even if they try using cloud gaming as a load in those centers - not one person i know would trade their local PC for something that’s dependent on a fast internet connection without data caps and introduces permanent 100ms+ delay on all games.
I swapped my 3070Ti 8GB to a 5070 16GB, if i sell off the 3070TI the upgrade cost me 300€ (but i tend to keep it as a backup), and I can run my local GenAI and LLM without issues now, I don’t need datacenters, i need CDNs so i can get my content i run locally. and TBH if they really try to kill local compute in gaming: i have enough games here to last me for a decade or more without getting bored, and i can play all of that while sitting in a mountain cabin.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
We suffer together! At least my semicolon is still safe.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
or 3-6 indies on sale - hell if you save up that money you can go nuts every steam/gog same, 360$ should get you around 1k$ games retail price upwards if you are a patient gamer
- Comment on US | Trump's champagne threat: 200 percent tariff on French wines and champagne 1 week ago:
I normally don’t use this word, but it is officially retarded to create a club where you have to pay one billion dollars to enter while having no decision power at all, but if you don’t want to enter you get hit with tariffs that are mainly paid for by your own population, especially on luxury goods paid by people who don’t look at price tags.
- Comment on Trump threatens tariffs on nations that don’t back US takeover of Greenland 1 week ago:
Can’t he just suffer a massive stroke in the next 24 hours? If there’s a person deserving of one, it’s this shitstirrer.
- Comment on 007 First Light gets PC specifications released and that's a lot of RAM needed 2 weeks ago:
Dont forget this game has been in development for a lot longer than the RAM/SSD price increases have been forseeable - from the perspective of their development cycle the ram upgrade would have been a pretty low cost upgrade.
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
I’m living in Vienna, having grown up in this city. I can assure you that while the city has grown, it actually put a lot of effort into primarily increasing population density instead of growing into the countryside (well, they have expanded too, but not by much in comparison to the population growth). The extra heat does not come from more concrete here - Vienna is one of the greenest large cities in Europe, and with lots of forest surrounding the west and the river going through it is a pretty privileged situation overall. Also, this year for example i can count the amount of days below 0°C on one hand - i haven’t seen ice in any meaningful amount. All together i’d say our temperature window has shifted by around 10°C upwards since the late 80.
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
I’m not sure you aren’t talking with Mark V. Shaney
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
i’m mid 40s in central europe and can clearly remember that summers were around 32°C max in my childhood, last 2 years we had 40°C. I can remember winter being a lot colder, regulary freezing the Danube river for extended periods, allowing skating - these times it’s a bad idea stepping on the thin ice that never freezes over completely. And i can clearly remember huge amounts of insects, making a mess of the windshield when driving - nowadays the windshield nearly stays clean. The boomers are lying to themselves, because the truth is too hard to acknowledge.
- Comment on Evidence 3 weeks ago:
where does this come from?
- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 4 weeks ago:
Well Heroic Launcher works fine for my GOG Library, so that’s not so much of an issue for me. What i miss much more is Playnite, which integrated pretty much everything from steam to GOG, Epic, Amazon and Emulators for pretty much everything.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
The lower averaging one is the female one, but one must remember that japan is deeply conservative and that means household and caring for kids/elders are womens duties - additional to the working hours. I couldn’t find data for the amount of unpaid work done, but i found participation surveys, which show the difference in what percentage of men/women are involved in unpaid work on any given day in the working populace:
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- Comment on GOG is Getting Acquired By Its Original Co- Founder: What It Means For You 4 weeks ago:
I think Gog is more popular then ever, because people start recognizing that buying from GOG is like buying organic produce and has it’s worth - they are in a pretty good market position with this image, and i fully believe them when they write that “[they] have seen more enthusiasm from gamers towards [their] mission than ever before”.
- Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
1) This is the official working time, which does not include the obligatory overtime where bosses require their employees to accompany them going drinking and stuff
2) They want japanese babies, and no immigrants - so their working time MUST get below other western countries or it will never happen. - Comment on Japan’s Birth Rate Set to Break Even the Bleakest Forecasts 4 weeks ago:
- Comment on Does playing audio at a high volume bluetooth wirelessly use more phone battery power than lower volume or are equidraining? 4 weeks ago:
Yup, in this case the phone sends out an analog signal, and must increase the amplitude of the signal to increase the volume, which needs more energy.
- Comment on Is there a point we can track down when we stopped caring about doctors, nurses, teacher, etc? And thought it was a great idea to pay atheletes millions and screw everyone else? 4 weeks ago:
And the overwhelming majority of athletes do not earn well. It’s only the top 1% that gets rich, and only those in sports with a lot of public appeal.
- Comment on Are we truely prisoners of our upbringing? 4 weeks ago:
For the most part. There will always be exceptions, but social mobility in the western world is decreasing, and in poorer countries the situation is even worse. When you are born in a specific social “caste”, there’s a good chance that you will never get out of it. The probability of a child exceeding the education level of their parents is also low.
- Comment on AMD's legacy Ryzen 7 5800X3D chips now sell for up to $800, more than a new 9800X3D — AM4 chip costs twice as much as MSRP, as enthusiasts flock to old DDR4 memory 4 weeks ago:
I really dodged the bullet by upgrading my aging 2600X with an 5950X and filling the memory banks to 64GB on my AM4 platform half a year ago, I really hope that the current price level entices a few new players to enter the market.
