fonix232
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- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 3 days ago:
So is it Jew York or Jew Mexico?
- Comment on rest in pepperoni 4 days ago:
Almost literal self-suck
- Comment on London’s homicide rate drops to lowest in more than a decade 5 days ago:
Having lived in London now for ~8 years... I can confirm that the city does feel much safer in the past year or so. ASB in the areas I frequent dropped considerably, phone snatching has dropped below pre-COVID levels, and even gang-related activities seem to have quieted down a bit.
Yes, of course, a city of 10+ million will never be completely crime-free, but overall I'd say London is healing.
- Comment on After Micron's greedy decision, SK Hynix could also exit consumer DRAM and NAND business 5 days ago:
The thing is, this is happening precisely because manufacturers are giving a flying fuck. They're seeing that the AI bubble is about to burst, and that this increased demand won't last for long. So why spend tons of money on expanding production capacity when said capacity wouldn't even be used?
Not to mention that the current pricing bump is entirely on the OEMs, not the ODMs (ODM here being the DRAM manufacturers, OEMs being the RAM module manufacturers). OEMs have already bought and paid for the DRAM they're selling right now, as it takes generally 2-3 months from manufacturing for the product to hit the shelves, and DRAM modules are usually bought at least 6 months, but usually 12-18 months ahead. Meaning these fuckers bought the DRAM cheap, saw the possibility of there being scarcity in the future, took a guess on how much they will need to inflate prices to reduce demand... And immediately jumped to those prices because if morons will pay £1000 for 64GB of RAM instead of £200, even though the production cost is still at £50... Well that's just "good business" to maximise profits, innit?
- Comment on This CEO laid off nearly 80% of his staff because they refused to adopt AI fast enough. 2 years later, he says he’d do it again 5 days ago:
That's actually somewhat of a Safari bug.
Safari has this tendency of opening videos in full screen, if the video is natively embedded (not using a third party video player component), is set to auto play, and isn't flagged specifically for not opening automatically in full screen (this is a Safari specific flag that no other browser requires as no other browser has this stupid default behaviour).
- Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced 1 week ago:
Fortunately bad quality DRAM can be found out much quicker than bad quality capacitors.
- Comment on HP reportedly eyes Chinese suppliers for DRAM as global shortage sparks shake-up — analyst says memory chips are commodities that can easily be replaced 1 week ago:
Not really. DRAM at its core is not even useful without a controller that actually provides managed access to it. Any backdoor would need to be either in the controller or a layer above for it to be functional. And controllers aren't the issue, DRAM chips are.
- Comment on Cloudflare defies Italy’s Piracy Shield, won’t block websites on 1.1.1.1 DNS 1 week ago:
You fight government overreach by civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach in the same manner.
If you give a free pass to corporations disobeying laws just because you personally dislike those laws, soon you'll find all regulations are pointless because no corporation follows them...
Also, there's no such thing as "governmental overreach" in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people. You elect the representatives, you have a say in what laws get passed. I do agree that we could do with a refresher because the current forms of representative democracy are breaking thanks to (primarily right wing) political false marketing with no repercussions, and nowadays we do have a way to have people give direct input on laws and regulations before they get passed, but that doesn't negate the fact that the government isn't supposed to be some shady ruler class but rather a form of communal governance.
- Comment on X pulls Grok images after UK ban threat over undress tool 1 week ago:
Threats do work when delivered properly. See how the EU forced Apple into moving to USB-C or opening up sideloading/alternate app markets.
You just need to have weight to throw around behind your threats. The EU has weight. The UK alone? Hah.
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
tbf that face scanning BS was 100% on the companies contracted out to do the verification, because the moronic law had absolutely no control over HOW the user's age must be verified and how the data used to verify the age should be stored.
- Comment on X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns 1 week ago:
I really hope they take into account just how many people HAVE seen the pictures and how many COULD HAVE seen it.
Also the fact that X would have had no filter preventing kids seeing that image, which doesn't just go against revenge porn laws, but also the OSA - which would be the first actual positive of the latter.
- Comment on Someone, I'm thinking with multiple accounts, is downvoting EVERY comment I make. Mildly aggravating, mostly sad for someone like that. Can I find out who and just block them? 1 week ago:
That won't help when you're making comments on instances that have downvotes enabled...
- Comment on ublock Origin can get rid of Cookie Banners 2 weeks ago:
I'd honestly be so much happier if it was a permission request similar to e.g. accessing location or microphone access, for a number of reasons:
- would be easier to manage as it would end up being a single interface handled by the browser instead of a per-website implementation
- no differently worded, intentionally vague bullshit options that are designed to entrap the user
- no struggle finding the enable/disable option after clicking either accept or decline
- the ability to automatically provide a default answer that gets around to the fucking popup blocking 2/3 of the page
- Comment on Please the Beans 2 weeks ago:
That's incredibly selfish of her.
In this age when the skill of bean-pleasing is a dying form of art, masters of the skill must be shared. It is known.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
Holy delulu. The fact that you didn't get anything for over 12 years AND you still protect the company AND urge others to invest is proof of the fallacy here. The inability to admit you've been scammed. That you didn't get what you've been promised over and over and over.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 2 weeks ago:
"Hey come pay yesteryear's AAA title price for a game that's been overpromising and underdelivering for the better part of the past two decades" is not the sales pitch you think it is...
Sunk cost fallacy is a bitch. One must be severely delusional to think that after paying however much you did AND waiting for 12+ years, having a barely playable alpha when the original timeline was for a 2015 release AND it's still being promised for a 2027 release (which, given the state of the alpha, is likely to be missed too), this is in any way acceptable.
- Comment on US Trade Dominance Will Soon Begin to Crack 2 weeks ago:
It was inevitable and kind of expected.
The US wasn't built on that solid of a foundation. In fact the founding fathers have said explicitly that said foundation - the Constitution itself - should be a living document updated regularly by the people, for the people, to reflect the changes in the world and in the people themselves. It was literally written at one of the most prominent times of change, so of course those who saw said change and were responsible for enacting it, weren't idiots who thought things would never change!
The first cracks appeared in the US a hundred years later with the industrial revolution kicking into high gear and transforming the so far mostly rural, self-sufficient communities into manufacturing giants. That's when factory and mining towns began to boom, and when the US truly began to claim its world power status - without adjusting the laws of course since it benefited the handful few who managed to get their fingers deep into those oh so lucrative pies.
And it's not like there haven't been warning signs of the impending capitalist doomsday. Capitalism was literally built on the back of the industrial revolution (which allowed the means of production to transfer into and concentrate in private hands), and immediately people saw the issue with it - no wonder Marx saw the need to work out a competing socioeconomic system that, if you think about it, was truly in the spirit of the American independence and the US Constitution (aka by the people, for the people).
All that capitalist rush? That allowed a handful of people to become obscenely rich, without the curtails of previous obscenely rich (aka kings, royalty, nobles), allowing them to grab power without any of the responsibility. Kings paid with their heads for their wrong decisions, but in the US, that was deemed excessive, so instead y'all elected people who then got paid off by said obscenely rich to go against the people electing them... and the worst that happens was that the elected official got rich, then got replaced by another who got bought out the same way.
And all that money/power concentrated in such a small number of hands would ALWAYS lead to them wanting more and more until they sucked the host dry like a parasite. There's no symbiosis with capitalists because wealth (resources and man-hours) are finite, unlike their greed. And since the US made it harder and harder to amend the constitution, to make that document truly living and serve the people... The fall thus became inevitable.
- Comment on Who's on the market for...? 3 weeks ago:
The D in DIY stands for badDragon.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
May I draw your attention to the last paragraph of my previous comment? I've even added emphasis to it.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
I know many a furry. Most of them are perfectly average people who happen to have a "hobby" on the side (putting the word hobby in quotes as it is more of a lifestyle/identity, but these people don't make being a furry their entire identity), some of them are sexual deviants/freaks (nothing wrong with that mind you!), and a handful few are quite extreme when it comes to the topic...
You know what none of them are? Hateful, bigoted, fascists, or Nazis.
And honestly, I'd much sooner be friends with a wholesome dude who happens to enjoy getting fisted on stage by a dozen guys every weekend than someone who tries to commit a dozen hate crimes every weekend...
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Remember, it's always okay to punch a Nazi! That's the only education they understand.
[insert Skeletor running away GIF]
Until we meet again!
^But also remember, you first have to make sure they're a Nazi, then the beating can commence^
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Tell me you never used AI tools in your workflow without telling me.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Alright troll, off you fuck then.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Gamers also don't generally reflect the opinions of the entire population.
The way the question is asked is also important. Obviously a majority will hate genAI slop, but a good (indie) game where the developer had absolutely no chance of hiring actual people (therefore no artist, software engineer, etc. was hurt in the process), now that's a different story.
See this here for example. People are freaking out because AI was mentioned. Not because COE33 is a bad game (though I do think it's overhyped, personally), but because AI got mentioned - in a way that doesn't even affect them.
Thing is, there are some malicious actors in the AI sphere, both for AI and against - and the ones against are pushing absolute BS stories to ragebait people and build "consensus" on AI being bad.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Human workers did make those assets. Using AI. As placeholders.
Maybe stop the rate hating for a moment to understand the situation before you comment absolute shite?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Except in this case it wasn't used to replace talented artists.
AI is precisely for this kind of work, the uninspired, "someone's gotta do it" kind of boilerplate bullshit. No artist is enthusiastic about having to make brick pattern number 3591. But someone's gotta make it. At that point, it might be just one artist generating all required 8000 patterns via AI, knocking it out in one day, then getting back to working on things that do require their talent.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Why are YOU being obtuse here?
No company with an in-house design team will start trawling marketplaces to spend money on PLACEHOLDERS.
And it's not like the designers "didn't want" to make the textures, you donut - it's that resources need to be allocated, and making minor textures falls on very tail end of the priority list.
At which point they probably had one designer generate the needed placeholders using AI, to ensure they're good enough for placeholders, and called it a day.
I'll ask you one better - why are you trying to force companies to go out of their way to spend money? When digital design tools hit the market, would you have been standing in line telling companies to instead hire out actual manual art instead of working with digital tools, if they didn't have the required in-house resources?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
Did you read MY comment at all?
When you have in-house designers you won't go shopping around for textures, especially not placeholder ones.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
No. Instead of making designers work on Brick Texture #7298, they allowed them to work on actually interesting design bits while the necessary textures were placeholdered by AI.
Also, stolen art... The same argument comes up here as with piracy. If I take something you created, BUT you're not deprived of said thing, then it's not theft. It is a breach of licence but not theft.
I do agree that some genAI models have very questionable copyrighting issues due to source dataset usage, but, just by creating a model you haven't deprived anyone of ownership of their property. You haven't actually done any financial damage to them.
So please stop overblowing the issue and instead begin by pushing for support of artists' rights to decide if their art can be used by third parties for the purpose of AI training, which is the core issue here. And even go and push for artists' rights to reserve their art's training data usage to themselves, thus allowing artists to create their own specialised models with their own style that they can use to offer cheaper art, or even license the use of the model out for money, thereby allowing artists to directly benefit from AI instead of being fervently against it.
You're also forgetting that most companies like Sandfall Interactive, that work on a budget, have their own designers so they don't just shop around for artists, even without AI. But without AI it would've meant that those hundreds of brick etc. textured would've gotten a placeholder that was unsightly. See e.g. Valve's Source Engine pink-black checkerboard placeholder. Would you have preferred that?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 3 weeks ago:
I fully agree with the ethical parts, but not with the bit of people hating it.
Reality is that people on platforms like Reddit or Lemmy (or the tech side of the Fediverse in general) can be incredibly fervent about their AI hate, but they don't represent the average people, whose work has become ever so slightly more convenient thanks to AI - let that be due to meeting summarisation, or writing tools making complex emails easier, or maybe they're software engineers whose workload has been reduced by AI too... I am a software engineer and I use our own Claude instance extensively because it's really good at writing tests, KDoc, it's super helpful at code discovery (our codebase is huge, and I mostly work on a very small subsegment on it, going outside of my domain I can either spend an hour doing manual discovery, or tell Claude to collate all the info I need and go for a coffee while it does so), or to write work item summaries, commit messages, and so on. It doesn't even have to generate (production) code for it to be incredibly useful. And general sentiment within my co-workers is that it's a great tool that means we can achieve targets quicker, and luckily our management realises that we do need the manpower to do things manually still, so it's not like they're reducing teams by expanding on AI. They'd rather take the improved performance, thus the improved revenue, than keep revenue stagnant-ish and reduce expenses.
So yeah the sentiment isn't all negative.