DarkenLM
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- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 7 months ago:
I don't think AI codecs will be anything revolutionary. There are plenty of lossless codecs already, but if you want more detail, you'll need a better physical sensor, and I doubt there's anything that can be done to go around that (that actually represents what exists, not an hallucination).
- Comment on Microsoft revives aggressive Windows 11 upgrade campaign with intrusive popups for Windows 10 users 9 months ago:
I have to use W11, but I use ExplorerPatcher to make it bearable.
- Comment on Especially this meme 10 months ago:
Joke's on you! KBin shows the whole image.
- Comment on Adobe abandons $20 billion acquisition of Figma 11 months ago:
Adobe needs to stay the hell away, full stop.
- Comment on The international web standards organization W3C is no longer active on X/Twitter and has directed all their followers to Mastodon. 11 months ago:
It isn't?
- Comment on Japanese Institute breaks optical fiber speed record with 22.9 petabits per second — 1,000 times faster than existing cables 11 months ago:
I heard the voice line as I was reading it. Excellent and memorable game series.
- Comment on Be amazed by the uses of Tech... 11 months ago:
The problem is that in a flat plane with any amount of thickness, there will be always more mass diagonally than vertically, and it would still require a curve to evenly distribute the mass. I am by no means an expert on the matter, but from what I can recall, the only geometrical shape that allows for it is either a sphere or some complex hyperbolic curve, which is still not a plane.
- Comment on Be amazed by the uses of Tech... 11 months ago:
If the disk had the thickness of Earth's diameter and through some black magic fuckery made it so that only the mass directly below you affected the force of gravity on you, then yes.
It's probably easier to make an FTL engine than to make any sense of flat earth theories.
- Comment on What’s your favorite project you’ve worked on and why? 11 months ago:
That is an abomination. I will probably use it in a not-so-distant future.
- Comment on Madness 11 months ago:
If we're talking about the same guy, he had to manage the economy of a country that has been constantly been fucked up by it's government. That probably also contributed to his fascist ideas.
- Comment on Rishi Sunak Reportedly Said "It Was Okay To Just Let People Die" Rather than Impose a Second Lockdown, Covid Inquiry Hears 11 months ago:
Last pandemic in Europe where bodies piled on the streets wiped out a third of the population. We would have had Black Plague v2.0
- Comment on YouTube Launches Experimental AI Feature With Voice Clones of Major Artists 1 year ago:
In realistic terms, I don't think the Butlerian Jihad would have that much of a chance. I'd bet on Skynet and it's Judgment Day happening first.
That is, when AI truly exists. Right now, we have essentially gargantuan amounts of glorified if-else spaghetti.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
An AGI with virtually no restrictions and an extensive knowledge of all information humanity has ever gathered?
Make a computer that governs the world fairly and for the people, cause God knows we can't.
- Comment on Gonna be a great day! 1 year ago:
That "fairly concise analysis" has way too much "gun manufacturer says guns are not a problem" energy to be trusted. Specially comming from an investment firm, which are the Masters of Scamming.
- Comment on Look at all these people with a (very) bright future. 1 year ago:
Definitely living the moment, cause it won't be more than that.
- Comment on Microsoft to remove Windows 11 Tips app, following Cortana's demise 1 year ago:
It's almost like every OS will have issues if you start fucking up core parts of it, who would have guessed?
- Comment on bro pls 1 year ago:
We need to build one around the entire Earth!
- Comment on YouTube is testing a mystery button that starts playing random videos 1 year ago:
Backwards compatibility does have it's merit. Windows at least tries to make shit from the XP era work all the way up to 11. I've had some big headaches because some system decided to throw backwards compatibility out the fucking windows and break tons of scripts I had.
- Comment on Welcome to the Monkey House 1 year ago:
His objectives were beyond our understanding.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
The GPU market being wrecked by motherfuckers that wanted to build crypto farms, the cryptocurrency scams, the NFTs, etc.
And the greatest problem of all with crypto is that it is a solution for a non-existing problem. The web worked fine without it and it proved to be way more stable than crypto ever could.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
I believe it, but crypto's reputation is forever stained by the shitshow that happened, and it won't change in the near future.
- Comment on YouTube's plan backfires, people are installing better ad blockers 1 year ago:
Anything that get even near crypto might make a lot of content creators think twice before moving. I know I would.
- Comment on YouTube’s Crackdown Spurs Record Uninstalls of Ad Blockers 1 year ago:
It got killed once and like a Phoenix, it rose again amidst it's own ashes. Hell yeah, it will survive.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
I don't think even a decentralized service could hold a mass equal to youtube. That would require that either the owners of all instances pay from their own pockets with mostly no income to support it, or that every user paid up, which is not going to happen, at least not in a service like youtube.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
Did youtube at the time serve millions of users daily and stored a gargantuan amount of petabytes worth of videos?
Even if a competitor rises, they will need money somehow, and in this hell of a capitalist world, only big corporations have it.
- Comment on YouTube's ‘War’ on Adblockers Shows How Google Controls the Internet 1 year ago:
The problem with any youtube competitor is that there is no way in hell they can cover the costs of the infrastructure required to host the same amount of videos youtube has and streaming them to the millions of users youtube serves daily.
- Comment on Total War Warhammer 3 devs will remove Steam users starting boycotts 1 year ago:
Ah, yes. The leftpad incident.
- Comment on Total War Warhammer 3 devs will remove Steam users starting boycotts 1 year ago:
A surprisingly increasing number of companies seem to be making suicide sprints lately.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Well, they are statically correct. The average stand around a million. If we take a look at the quartiles, the median stands around 192,700, as a comment above said.
- Comment on Shots fired 1 year ago:
Though Mordor is where the greatest concentration of Melkor itself is in all Arda, so it could not be (easily) possible. Though God himself punched Arda so hard it went from a plane to a sphere almost solely because Sauron went to Númenor, so He might pull some strings to let it pass.
