Veraxus
@Veraxus@kbin.social
- Comment on Waveterm 11 months ago:
Are you implying that there is anything else that matters?
- Comment on How do you manage code snippets? 11 months ago:
Jetbrains IDEs have “Live Templates” that I use extensively.
For little notes and snippets (especially CLI snippets) I use an app called Stashpad, which I love.
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
That sort of thing already happens in the enterprise world. If they want to abandon it, or even unintentionally abandon it, then it becomes public domain.
- Comment on Brace yourself, a report suggests that Copilot is coming to Windows 10 1 year ago:
Makes sense, since Microsoft explicitly won’t allow a massive number of computers to install Windows 11.
- Comment on Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids 1 year ago:
You realise the AI is being trained on pictures of real children, right?
Disingenuous and misleading statement. No readily available AI is trained on CP.
So it’s wrong for it to be based on one child, but according to you the AI “art” (as you keep calling it) is okay as long as there are thousands of victims instead?
Disingenuous and misleading statement. I’m guessing you don’t understand how AI works. As for AI output, a randomly generated nonexistent person is nonexistent. Simple as that.
Sidenote: I disapprove of nonconsensual Photoshop and AI illustrations of real people. AI is just another illustrative tool, and the choice of tool is beside the point.
So you’re cool with images of 6 year olds being penetrated by a 40 year old as long as “tHe Ai DrEw iT sO nObOdY gOt HuRt”?
No, I am not. And that is still utterly unimportant. It doesn’t matter how I feel about someone’s fictitious illustrations, sculptures, writings, or anything else created by a person or AI that is wholly fictitious.
That’s literally the whole point I am making: It doesn’t matter how I feel about it, it doesn’t matter how YOU feel about it. It’s not real. Neither you nor I nor anyone else has the right to judge someone else’s art.
- Comment on All Those 23andMe Spit Tests Were Part of a Bigger Plan 1 year ago:
it wouldn’t be crazy for the 8.8 million 23andMe customers who once absently checked a box saying yeah, sure, use my data for whatever, to feel like they’ve been bait-and-switched now that their genes are laying the groundwork for potential cancer cures.
Yes, it would be crazy. And stupid. As a 23andMe customer this is EXACTLY the kind of thing I expected them to do with the information.
- Comment on Child psychiatrist jailed after using AI to make pornographic deep-fakes of kids 1 year ago:
Careful, any time I point this out, the fascists come out of the woodwork to call me a pedo.
Criminalizing the creation, possession, or viewing of entirely artificial artwork is beyond unethical; it's extraordinarily evil. I don't care if you find someone's artwork gross, troubling, distasteful, immoral, etc... that's art. Victimizing real people is not "art" or "speech" or "expression"... so as long as that isn't happening there is no ethical grounds whatsoever for restricting a persons exercise of expression, especially in private.
Social consequences for creating, sharing, viewing certain artwork is one thing... but the government or law punishing someone for it is a different thing entirely.
- Comment on abandonware empires 1 year ago:
I would. Not only would I do so voluntarily, but I also support STRONG consumer protection laws that would force any product or software or copyright or patent into public domain the instant it’s been unavailable for sale for 3 or more years or has gone without update for 5 years.
Our public domain and consumer protections are pathetic, and should be vigorously bolstered and defended.
- Comment on Epic v. Google: everything we’re learning live in Fortnite court 1 year ago:
Epic is right about this… but these are American companies, and America loves monopolies. No matter how obvious, justified, or cut-and-dry, this didn’t work against Apple and it won’t work against Google.
- Comment on Internet providers say the FCC should not investigate broadband prices 1 year ago:
Criminals say their crimes should not be investigated - full story at 11.
- Comment on Janeway would back him up 1 year ago:
You are thinking of beef. The Rich are full of bacteria and parasites and should be thoroughly cooked before consuming.
- Comment on Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working 1 year ago:
“We are grossly overcharging for our product and nobody is buying… what could be the problem!?”
- Comment on Auto execs are coming clean: EVs aren't working 1 year ago:
“We are grossly overcharging for our product and nobody is buying… what could be the problem!?”
- Comment on Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism 1 year ago:
Wow, that was fast... but I am IN!
- Comment on Welcome To Aftermath - Worker-owned video game journalism 1 year ago:
This. This. This.
100% this.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Cancel. They don't deserve your business. They keep making worse and worse decisions that are more and more anti-consumer. Don't give them your money. Don't reward this behavior.
- Comment on Xbox users call out Activision and Microsoft for "vomit inducing" full-screen Modern Warfare 3 ad 1 year ago:
This kind of thing is the reason I've started moving completely away from Microsoft products, including Windows. Microsoft is getting more and more invasive and aggressive pushing advertising onto people in their own private spaces, and that is unacceptable.
Thankfully, with Valve continuing to rapidly improve Proton, just about any Windows game runs on Linux now with very little elbow grease.
- Comment on Amazon Execs Intentionally Made Site Shittier to Rake in More Profit, New Quotes from FTC Lawsuit Show 1 year ago:
Well... yeah.
- Comment on Sundar Pichai argues in court that Google isn’t evil, it’s just a business 1 year ago:
So… evil.
“That’s not a shit, it’s a doodie!”
- Comment on Remember when Target blamed theft for closing stores? It's all lies. 1 year ago:
Well, yeah. It's same the lie that publishers use to justify the use of unethical, anti-consumer, customer-punishing DRM.
- Comment on Sikh 'barred from Birmingham jury service' for religious sword 1 year ago:
So you don't know what the kirpan is for or what it symbolizes.
Way to advertise your ignorance like some maga chud screaming "woke".
- Comment on Google CEO Sundar Pichai testifies in US antitrust trial 1 year ago:
Three words: Open widespread corruption.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I hope to the gaming gods that Squadron 42 can recapture the feelings that the old Freespace games did. The desperation, the feeling like you are part of something... nobody else has even TRIED to do anything like that since.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
Hello, fellow person of fine taste!
- Comment on [deleted] 1 year ago:
I don't think I can rank things that way any more. I think of my "best games of all time" category as "absolute masterpieces". So here they are in the order in which they come to mind, which is as good an indicator as any.
- Daggerfall
- Fallout 1 & 2
- Vampire the Masquerade: Bloodlines
- Sekiro
- Bloodborne
- Alpha Centauri
- Disco Elysium
- The Longest Journey
- The Journeyman Project 2
- Asheron's Call (the original)
- The Witcher 3
- Horizon: Zero Dawn
- Close Combat series
- Comment on Is Destiny 2 Still Worth Playing in 2023? - IGN 1 year ago:
Never was.
- Comment on Microsoft now thirstily injects a poll when you download Google Chrome 1 year ago:
And then there is Firefox, which isn’t evil at all. Lets not settle for any level of evil.
- Comment on System Shock 2: Enhanced Edition - Official Trailer | The Indie Horror Showcase 2023 1 year ago:
I really wish Nightdive was a little more ambitious with these.
The System Shock remake looks exactly how my rose-tinted memory remembers it.
This, however, looks awful. This is not how I remember SS2, even it's literally how it originally looked. :-(
- Comment on Deep Rock Galactic: Rogue Core - Teaser Trailer 1 year ago:
Give me an R! Give me an S! Give me a rock. And. Stone!
- Comment on Apple considered switching to DuckDuckGo from Google for Safari - Bloomberg News 1 year ago:
It’s okay. If you want something genuinely as good as Google, if not better, Kagi is what you want.