ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
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- Comment on In wake of Windows 10 retirement, over 780,000 Windows users skip Win 11 for Linux, says Zorin OS developers — distro hits unprecedented 1 million downloads in five weeks 2 days ago:
I’m not on a downvote-enable instance, but I think from the other times this user has shown up, they’ve said that the thorn symbol is meant to disrupt AI.
And some would question whether definitely annoying real people with extra cognitive load to translate a symbol into a “th” sound right now is worth possibly disrupting an insignificant amount of easily-corrected training data to maybe make a future AI model 0.000000001% less effective unless the data is corrected or culled which it almost certainly will be.
- Comment on Trump blasts Ukraine for showing 'zero gratitude' for US support 3 days ago:
Oh, he must have talked to Putin again.
It looks like our worst-possible-timeline continues to innovate! In this case by just repeating itself.
- Comment on Google’s Sundar Pichai says the job of CEO is one of the ‘easier things’ AI could soon replace 1 week ago:
Pichai’s comments come as other tech CEOs have also predicted the coming of a new era of chief executive automations. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman previously said AI will someday do his job better than him, adding, “I will be nothing but enthusiastic the day that happens.” Sebastian Siemiatkowski, CEO of buy-now-pay-later firm Klarna, also said in a post on X earlier this year that “AI is capable of doing all our jobs, my own included.”
Yeah, I’m not surprised the wealthy person who owns the AI and company is enthusiastic about his job being “replaced,” since - as the owner and therefore spout of the AI value funnel - he now has to work even less to extract the value of hundreds or thousands of human lives.
- Comment on Sony cracks down on Concord custom servers, issues DMCA takedowns on gameplay videos 1 week ago:
Happiness is value, and value must only be captured by the IP holder.
- Comment on Hard drives on backorder for two years as AI data centers trigger HDD shortage — delays forcing rapid transition to QLC SSDs 2 weeks ago:
DDR4 too, as they phase it out. I bought 2x32GB of DDR4 for my older system 8 months ago for $80. Now a deal for 32GB is $90-100.
- Comment on MPV: The Ultimate Self-Hosted Media Solution You're Probably Sleeping On 2 weeks ago:
[Grab shoulders and shake violently enough to cause Shaken Adult Syndrome]
BUT IT’S SO VERSATILE! STOP SLEEPING ON IT!
- Comment on The Last Truly Custom Nintendo: A 3DS Retrospective 3 weeks ago:
I’m surprised Retroid Pocket 5 is a reliable Switch emulator - are there games that don’t run at native speed?
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 weeks ago:
Yes, good point, I should have specified I was thinking of the Spielberg version.
- Comment on The Future of Advertising Is AI Generated Ads That Are Directly Personalized to You 3 weeks ago:
At this point Minority Report’s mostly ordered but slightly corrupt-behind-the-scenes society seems almost utopian.
Nope, we’re getting Biff Tannen’s Back To The Future 2 reality as a base, with a free AI dystopia expansion pack.
- Comment on Obamacare enrollee sees premium spike over 300% as sign-up period begins: 'This will devastate us' 3 weeks ago:
This is a typical example of the different standards applied to Republican and Democratic initiatives.
Even the weakest Democratic compromise on healthcare reform has to have a specific plan and measures of success and meet them exactly, and even then have to overcome GOP propaganda to succeed - unexpected success like what you reference won’t be counted or acknowledged.
On the other side, Republican initiatives can be nebulous and philosophically-based, to the point of delusion. Their policy to hand trillions over the last 30 years in tax benefits, subsidies and contracts to rich people and companies, not only on just the presumption they will stimulate growth, but despite evidence to the contrary just persist based on nothing but dogma. Their healthcare plan is “no,” which is objectively the plan nobody can say is likely to succeed.
Yet somehow people give both similar attention and credibility.
- Comment on Is the Atari Jaguar worth playing in 2025 !? 3 weeks ago:
I like Jaguar but you have to bring a lot of patience since games usually take a lot of time to get into, emulation hasn’t really been perfected, and the unique controller is a barrier to the full experience in some of its better games.
Tempest 2000 (9/10) remains super fun. But there are also versions to play on other systems that are arguably better.
Aliens vs. Predator (8/10 but very subjective) is a truly unique and fun game but has a HIGH barrier to entry with pacing and framerate issues. Like the best retro games, they really did plan around the framerate to turn it into an advantage - literally turning around to check if you’re being followed while playing in a dark room is terrifying because of the slideshow reveal - but a gamer in 2025 probably can’t connect with that and will just see “bad framerate.” You need to commit a few hours to get into that zone if you want to try it. The numpad overlays customized to each human/alien/predator style help a lot.
Super Burnout (6/10) was a fun racer but could have been done on SNES.
Rayman (9/10) of course is great, if you want to play the first release originally on Jaguar, but naturally the game has been released everywhere.
Raiden (8/10) is very good, but also not exclusive.
Fight For Life (1/10) if you want to experience the biggest Jaguar disappointmen, after it being hyped up as from a guy who was on the Virtua Fighter team.
Kasumi Ninja and Ultra Vortek (both 5/10) if you want to see how Atari hoped to stay relevant against Mortal Kombat.
Cybermorph (6/10) to see what the pack-in game was like. But it’s mostly empty exploration and was more meant to demonstrate Jaguar can do 3D art a time it was trying to hype itself as a “64-bit” system.
Iron Soldier (8/10) only if you can play with a real controller and have the numpad overlay.
- Comment on Sora might have a 'pervert' problem on its hands 4 weeks ago:
I’m pretty sure agreeing to the cameo feature was explicitly to find reasons to write a variation on this article. At that point, hey, she paid the price, can’t fault her for putting out the article which legitimately raise awareness how your identity will be misused.
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Accusing gentle Elon of a misdeed?
- Comment on X is now offering me end-to-end encrypted chat — you probably shouldn't trust it yet | TechCrunch 5 weeks ago:
Right, the have the key, and the lock, but the key isn’t in the lock, so it’s utterly impossible for them to access it.
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 1 month ago:
“… And it’s not weird! Collectible avatars, it’s a good idea.”
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
You haven’t seen a lot of Sora 2 videos. Identifiable traits require a pretty careful eye in many videos to spot.
You absolutely can’t even rely on the watermark, since removing that watermark is trivial to the nation-states running disinfo campaigns, and even for end users removal is trivial compared to creating typical public AI video models.
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 month ago:
He’s been a right-wing asshole for a long time, unfortunately.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 1 month ago:
Laughing at that last row: “Chief executives.”
What percentage of chief executives will push an AI replacement agenda, and then coincidentally decide that their executive roles are so strategic and complicated they can’t possibly be replaced?
- Comment on Microsoft is plugging more holes that let you use Windows 11 without an online account 1 month ago:
I don’t know why it was so easy for you, but the last four Windows 11 machines I set up over the last two years definitely required increasingly complicated hacks just to not create an online account.
- Comment on Emperor of overpromising Peter Molyneux says he's done with games after Masters of Albion, which is also his 'redemption title' 1 month ago:
Fade to black.
Ultra-slow fade-in: Directed by Peter Molyneux.
- Comment on Updates to Xbox Game Pass: Introducing Essential, Premium, and Ultimate Plans - Xbox Wire [prices going up] 1 month ago:
Don’t suppose there’s still a cheap trick to buying 3 years of vouchers for relatively cheap and upgrading to Ultimate? That worked great in 2022, but I’m guessing they shut it down.
- Comment on With a final screech, AOL's dial-up service goes silent 1 month ago:
Random!? You just don’t speak computer!
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
That makes sense, thank you.
- Comment on Borderlands 4 Dev Gearbox Asks PC Gamers to Wait 15 Minutes for Shaders to Compile in the Background While Playing After Reports Indicate Recent Update Causes Stuttering - IGN 1 month ago:
Here’s a dumb tech question: This happens for so many games, shaders compiling holding up the process. But after an initial compile, it seems like this is written to a file and doesn’t happen on every boot. So can they not simply include pre-compiled shaders?
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 month ago:
This is a helpful. This sounds like a way, even if I’m still in the “hmmm, yes, I recognize some of those words” stage. Maybe I’ll look for a detailed guide.
I admit, though, the details of how to do this are pretty hard to imagine for me - networking and tunneling seems very technical. Before I can jump off the Plex enshittification train, I just want a way to share my media with tech-illiterate family without complex setup on their end.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
In the latest edition of The NYT’s “America in Focus” project, Trump voters in their late 20s and early 30s who said they “somewhat disapproved” of or had mixed views about the president’s performance were asked about their reasons why.
This is a bit of copium - the article is only reporting on the survey subset of young Trump voters who shifted enough to disapprove or had “mixed views” on Trump, and then choosing choice quotes to play to a narrative.
The bigger statistic is:
A Pew Research Center survey in August showed that 69 percent of Trump voters under 35 approved of his performance as president. While still a substantial number, it represents a dramatic 23-point decline compared to the start of his second term.
So Trump’s support in under-35s fell 23% since January. That’s significant, but amount Trump voters, 69% approval is still high and contradicts the narrative of the headline.
- Comment on FFS Plex, the server is on my local network 1 month ago:
Sorry to hit you with a random question, but since I’m in a similar situation: are you using Tailscale to remote stream to your parents, or how do you get that working seamlessly with Jellyfin?
- Comment on Trump floats pulling licenses if networks are 'against' him after Jimmy Kimmel suspended 2 months ago:
And this is why Democrats fail on messaging. They don’t think they will win so they don’t even try.
Let’s say every Democrat congressperson is calling for impeachment, all the time. What this does is make Trump constantly be contextualized as impeachable. At first the GOP will have the messaging upper hand, and probably celebrate it as making it easier to undermine the concept of impeachment.
But as Trump continues to pull further into fascist territory, the public will still have to at least think, “huh is this impeachable?”. The left also will feel emboldened if there are some representatives actually representing us, sane people who remember that subtle historical aberration we call [checks notes] World War II. It’s an Overton window anchor that may eventually tear the hull out of Trump’s fascist yacht as it tries to pull us into fascist waters.
The GOP used and uses this technique all the time, repeating in their case lies and wedge issues, because propaganda works. It’s be nice if it was used for truth and good and not just lies and evil.
And sure, it may not work. But it’s something. It’s a reminder that is invaluable to the large section of goldfish brain public who can’t remember fascism isn’t normal.
- Comment on Samsung brings ads to US fridges 2 months ago:
We bought our gas oven from Samsung and the front right burner wouldn’t light after a few weeks. We got a full refund, but the front right burner started working again a few months later, and we still use the stove, though the oven light epileptically glitches every time we open the oven.
So, sure, you could pay for things that actually work. But it’s like that tagline at the end of Samsung advertisements:
Samsung: Buy Samsung, Then Get All Your Money Back, And Possibly Also Receive A Mostly Working Appliance For Free.
- Comment on He died doing what he loved. 2 months ago:
Ngl, the fact that a 9/11’s worth of people were dying every fucking day, just in the US, during the peak of Covid, and one entire fucking half of our country was just shitposting and TRYING to spread it more entirely reframed 9/11 for me.
I’m glad to see this, I feel like all Americans should have to come to some personal terms about the 9/11 worth of COVID deaths that half the country was just casually were ok. I prefer existentialism to nihilism as a response to the absurdity of the world, since nihilism is just going to trap us in a cycle of resigned apathy, but a little self-reflection is preferred either way.
And related to the 9/11 comparison: amazing how there was no reckoning about how hundreds of thousands of those cumulative deaths were attributable to Trump’s mishandling. From that standpoint, we elected Osama bin Laden times a thousand to be president, after he took down the twin towers.
