mrmaplebar

@mrmaplebar@fedia.io

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  ChatGPT No thank you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, you can make whatever you want. And I get it, to quote The Clash, I'm pretty bored of the USA too.

  Of course, an IP block isn't going to work because an American like myself can just use a VPN in another country to get around it. And yes, the moment you start federating with other instances you're going to come across American stuff again, so unless you isolate your instance (which you could do... but then people are unlikely to join it) you're gonna have to deal with Americans.

  With that said, I actually think it's a great idea for people to make regional fediverse servers, not necessarily to block out Americans in an attempt at digital nationalism/isolationalism... But to make sure that the infrastructure of the internet is not so America-centric, and to make it so that there is always a place to talk about local issues and events that matter to you, in your native language.

  Even as an American, I feel that right now the internet is far too reliant on American infrastructure, services and communities.

  I'd love to see, for example, Japanese lemmy server, an Italian mastodon server, a German peertube server, a Brazilian pixelfed server, a Canadian misskey server, and so on.

  I just think that banning Americans and American topics is probably not an effective way to do it, particularly because there are lessons to be learned for us all about what is going on here right now.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨/c/fuckai in shambles rn⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Let's get one thing straight: generative AI is more like the Borg than it is like Data. Discarding humanity and individuality while assimilating everything within reach for the benefit of the corrupt hivemind. And why? Because resistance is futile?

  Data, on the other hand is acting on his own preferences and agency. What he lacks is emotional content, and it's what prevents him from creating the expressive art and music that he strives to make (as is a key theme in multiple episodes where data paints, does poetry, plays violin, etc.).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This has all the markings of more VC AI garbage. Hopefully it does pull some users away from Reddit just to break up the centralization a little bit more, but overall I don't see what the appeal is supposed to be.

  I'll stick with the fediverse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Where they are... even more dead?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Good.

  And sure... People will obviously try to break this rule, and I'm sure some will succeed. But that's true of any rule. Rules don't prevent bad behavior, only deter it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do we need more users ?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don't disagree that we need more positive and high quality hobby content. Sure.

  But personally I'm so sick of dudes complaining about "political shit and rage bait and virtue signaling", whatever half of that banal nonsense is even supposed to mean...

  In fact, I'd go as far to say that people who whine about everything being "political" is a bright fucking red flag to me. My immediate assumption upon reading that is "this person is a Trump supporter who voted for this exact shit to happen because they want it to happen, and they don't want to be confronted by the fact that other people don't." I know exactly what kind of people don't want to hear about "politics" anymore now that Trump is elected, trampling our institutions, and fucking everything up. Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How so? About what?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨UK government starting to think about leaving X⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Starting to think, huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨once you start to realize that incels are right as a non-white, you see why Elliot rodger did it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  huh?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks Maya⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, why didn't I think of that!?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨X could be banned in UK amid sexualised AI images concerns⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  "Could be"? Why the special treatment?

  If any other website was distributing such disturbingly illegal content they would've been banned in the span of days and the owners and creators or that content would've been prosecuted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Help] Improving HDD storage setup for personal server⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that sounds pretty solid to me. Realistically you should count on having 3x drives for your important data:

  1. The main data drive(s)
  2. Drive(s) for redundancy, mirroring the data drives. (I use btrfs RAID1 for this.).
  3. Offline local hard drive(s) that you keep somewhere relatively safe that you occasionally backup to.
  4. (Optionally) Some kind of offsite backup.

  So if you plan on having 2TB of data, you'll ideally want 3x 2TB drives. 2 in the PC mirroring eachother, and 1 in a closet or safe that you plug in and backup to a few times per year. (With bonus points if you can get another 2TB of off site or cloud storage to also backup to, in case of catastrophy.)

  As for how you build it, I think it doesn't matter too much. Its possible to use whatever random spare PC parts you have to make a decent home server, imo. A lot of people on YouTube and Reddit have all kinds of fancy servers in a rack, but an old repurposed desktop can be fine. ( I would probably use new, decent quality drives though.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you are willing to abandon your self-proclaimed "principles" at the first convenience you never had any to begin with.

  We wants to appear like he believes in checks and balances when in reality he doesn't give a damn.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wafrn, a fedi software that also connects with bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Cool! This one is new to me. Nice to see that it has good bluesky integration, too.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I'll assess them: they are incompetent and talentless.

  That'll be $20.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We own the hardware, but not the experience anymore — Big Tech keeps building smarter, more connected devices, but the user experience feels more intrusive, more confusing, and less human⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The supreme irony of that message coming from Windows Central...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Expert: EU Commission wants an "unlimited special legal zone" for AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck no. The fact that AI needs special carve-outs from existing laws just goes to show how fucking stupid and gross it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Mental gymnastics 🎖

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump, 79, Rants Incoherently About Robots and AI⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This dumb fucking child rapist

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wish I could think anything positive about this, but I can't imagine anyone who actually cares about music needs or wants this. Instead it'll almost certainly be used as an illegal and unethical dataset to further train bullshit AI to make slop songs. As easy as it is for people to claim "preservation", I do have to question the motives of stuff like this...

  Fuck AI. Support your favorite human artists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gay sex is famously apolitical. 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vince Zampella, video game developer behind 'Call of Duty' franchise, killed in mountain road crash⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Fuck man...

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What free to play games can run smoothly on my old laptop?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sonic Robo Blast 2 Kart - A super fun and challenging Mario Kart style game made in the original Doom engine.

  CatsEyeXI - An unofficial, custom Final Fantasy XI MMO server with fast leveling, solo play and many quality of life features. (Following guides is still recommended, because it's a complicated and vague game at the best of times!)

  ETLegacy - A free to play version of Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory, a fun and fast team-based first person shooter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Putting aside the massive ethical and legal implications of blatantly exploiting human culture and works in the name of corporate profits...

  I really hope they aren't expecting us mere mortals to pay for AI generated games and media.

  Because if I end up losing my job to a robot that was trained on my own stolen words, images, code and sounds, paying $70 for some slop is right down at the bottom of the list of things I want to do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, they could have used Mickey Mouse, a gray box, or a low poly model whipped in Blender in 5 minutes... After all, that's what people have been doing for like 30 years. None of those things would have required the mass industrialized exploitation of millions of people's work and culture. None of those things would add value to some tech bros business.

  As a side note, something tells me that if they had used Mickey for their placeholder art it wouldn't have "accidentally" found its way into the final game.

  Plus... how do I know they didn't use AI as the basis for all of the art in their game? For all I know, AI was central to setting the aesthetic of this game due to being at the very front end of their production pipeline. Hard to know, especially when they are so sketchy about it. (At least Larian were bold/stupid enough to admit that the concepts for their game start with AI.)

  It cheapens the game and undermines whatever work they actually did.

  Calling your game "indie" when you're actively exploiting artists to make it is like calling your Etsy store "diy" despite knowing that it's a bunch of Chinese dropped shipped junk made by children in a sweatshop. It's disingenuous at best.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless the model that they used was trained entirely on artwork that was public domain, creative commons, licensed or owned, then its basically certain that it wasn't used responsibly.

  You cannot make something on a foundation of someone else's exploitation and be considered responsible, ethical, original or independent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some US States

  None of the even remotely good ones. Why is Denmark trying to be Alabama, again?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark wants to ban VPNs to unlock foreign, illegal streams – and experts are worried⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gotta give Denmark credit, they're really going for the Shittiest Western European Country Award. Granted, I'm from the USA and we're obviously an unmitigated disaster, but like, what the fuck are you guys doing? Competing for attention?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Carr on Why Everyone Is Wrong About AI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Bad take for two reasons:

  1. Being consistently funny requires intellect and general cleverness. You can't be quick witted if you're stupid.

  2. More importantly we are all mostly ignorant. You could have a PhD in 3 topics and have spent years in higher education, and you still know only a tiny speck of all that there is to know.

  I'm not a fan of Jimmy Carr, especially after the Saudi shit, and I fucking hate AI. But the idea that we shouldn't value the opinions of artists is pretty dumb. There are plenty of smart artists with interesting things to say and unique perspectives.