ReallyActuallyFrankenstein

@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨id Software released its first game 35 years ago today, John Carmack’s breakthrough side-scroller engine — Commander Keen title brought smooth scrolling to PCs⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What? Do you have a link? That’s a gut punch if so…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.

  I mean…sorry, but this is wrong. Mitsui CDRs for example are still being sold on secondary sites advertising 100+ (and sometimes 300+) year longevity. Similar to bitrot, internet rot makes it hard to find advertisements from the 90s, but I am comfortable that was true then too and not limited to “gold” high quality discs like Mitsui.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨This long-term data storage will last 14 billion years⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on we’re originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly naturally amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction.

  So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, thanks!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hands-On With The Anbernic RG DS; The DSi Reimagined (my review)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen a similar recent DS-emulation system review and they were playing Rhythm Heaven, and what really looked like it would bother me is the emulation input latency (it appeared roughly 10-20ms). Have you played Rhythm Heaven or other latency-sensitive games and do you notice any delay?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure, but it’s not this principle at play right now. I bought 64GB of DDR4 RAM 6 months ago on a whim for $87, and now it’s $300-450. That isn’t just because it’s not “cutting edge,” that’s extreme demand compared to supply.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are people buying refurb pcs just to strip out the DDR 4 ram with the current price hikes on new ram?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman’s Dirty DRAM Deal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the internet, you can’t swear here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, that is much closer to half than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That is so technically accurate, I love it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Half of the US Now Requires You to Upload Your ID or Scan Your Face to Watch Porn⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.

  I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Did Larry Ellison get controlling stake in US Tiktok? I thought he was trying, but did I miss that happening?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  SWF vector animations are incredibly resilient, actually. I can still pull my saved SWF memes, and run them through Ruffle at modern resolution, or Swivel to get 60 fps 4K lossless MP4 versions, or bigger. Kind of cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Similar in the virtual spaces. “My AI agent is almost ready to live my life for me, the future is awesome.”

• ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 !?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.