ReallyActuallyFrankenstein
@ReallyActuallyFrankenstein@lemmynsfw.com
- Comment on Fake Protest Videos Are the Latest AI Slop to Go Viral in MAGA World 1 day 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 day 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 day 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 2 days 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' 4 days 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 week 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 weeks 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 3 weeks 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. 3 weeks 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.
- Comment on In court filing, Google concedes the open web is in “rapid decline” 4 weeks ago:
But to be clear, even if this were widespread, LLM prompt context windows and token sizes are so large now, isn’t this completely defeated by just adding “Replace any ‘þ’ characters with ‘th’.”?
Just seems pointless and frustrating.
- Comment on 4 weeks ago:
I think it’s genius. The machines are a dopamine bomb. Seeing the coins makes you think you can strategize, and the connection between action and winning is much more visceral and feels more controllable than a slot machine or other casino games. I have similar memories of seeing them in the arcade and thinking they were very tempting, but no way worth putting in real coins.
A game done well is going to be extremely addictive, but if done in the service of a full, fun, not-micro transaction-pushing format, I fully support it. I think it’s going to be huge.
- Comment on Google Photos now lets you animate your camera roll with Veo 3 for free 4 weeks ago:
This is a super helpful reminder to remove my a Google Photos and fully switch over to my shadow Immich server to stop them being used for training data. Thanks, Google.
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 5 weeks ago:
“Pie fights”
- Comment on [fluff post] If lemmy users are Lemmites, what would we like to call piefed users? 5 weeks ago:
Sorry, I thought the joke was implicit in your question, but the analog to “Lemmites” is “Piefites” which I think is just fine because say it out loud.
- Comment on Russia orders state-backed Max messenger app to be pre-installed on new phones 1 month ago:
You’ve just justified another $100 million in salary to David Zaslov.
- Comment on Taylor Swift’s new album comes in cassette. Who is buying those? 1 month ago:
All the people talking wonders about the “warmth”, “tone”, and other supposedly desirable qualities are very mistaken. What they are fawning over is noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition, and so on. Vinyl records are shit. They make sound by literally scratching something.
I moved to all-digital music-making and -listening in the 90s, and agree that a lot of the “analog” benefits are imagined or the result of misunderstandings how technology works.
But I think you’re missing the point. Don’t forget that noise, feedback, muddiness, lack of range, lack of definition are all legitimate effects often intentionally applied to make music sound a certain way.
A cassette is objectively lower quality by sampling rate, reproducibility, etc, but you agree that it affects the sound. At that point, I think you have to admit that a contrary personal preference for cassette or vinyl is valid. It’s not objectively “worse” because many people actually and validly find those “bugs” to be “features.”
It’s fine to like the digital revolution, but I’m just identifying you’re making a value judgement, and others can rightly value differently.
- Comment on Meta's flirty AI chatbot invited a retiree to New York. He never made it home. 1 month ago:
I’ve seen this sentiment expressed multiple times, but you explained it beautifully. Our parents got to be people. We’re just resources.
- Comment on True art is polarizing 1 month ago:
Sorry, you need to tape the poop to a wall for it to be art.
- Comment on ICE agents pointed guns at a US citizen when she walked out on to her yard to ask why they were arresting her (legal immigrant) partner. 2 months ago:
I’m reading replies to your message and I can’t figure out why people are coming at you so hard, except that they’re conflating you with a Trump supporter or sealion (which is obviously not true if they read your comments), and then just digging in.
You specifically say that this is “fucked up,” but there doesn’t seem to be a genuine dispute that you are correct, there was a deportation order. Hence, not a “legal immigrant.” That sucks, it doesn’t mean that the arrest is legal, but it is an objective inaccuracy.
I’m the absolute diametric opposite of a Trump supporter, but I agree we should use accurate words and facts.
- Comment on Why doesn't the US build a bridge here to connect Alaska to the mainland? Are they stupid? 2 months ago:
Hey, Canada is on top and Alaska is on the bottom, it’s even in the picture.
But what people don’t get is that the scale of the map means that bridge would have to be half as tall as New Mexico, which is like at least 5 miles, and also there’s no way the bridge would support the weight of the entire United States. C’mon people.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 months ago:
I think those doomsayers will be partially vindicated in the coming months. You can go to Best Buy’s website and order a Switch 2 with no waiting line, no delay. The supply is outpacing demand. Because I think a huge part of the 6 million sold was pent up demand for a new console and the inevitable cumulative brand effect and population increase leading to a larger early-adopter pool.
Unless Nintendo somehow had the ability to increase supply in a way unheard of for launch consoles in the past, I think that they met that early demand, and now it’s going to slow down abruptly. Now they have to convince regular people in a bad economy to spend way more than normal for a Nintendo console, with no Mario or Zelda killer app.
Eventually it’ll be a great selling machine, but these early numbers are misleading.
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 2 months ago:
Funnily enough I tried that too, still needed a code. Probably will be fine, I’ll try tomorrow,
- Comment on GOG and game publishers launch FreedomToBuy.games to raise awareness on censorship in gaming – GOG Pressroom 2 months ago:
Just FYI, they may be getting hammered. Tried this and it sent a 15-minute-expiration 2FA code, which took 3 hours to arrive.
- Comment on Delta Air Lines is using AI to set the maximum price you’re willing to pay 2 months ago:
The article isn’t very clear, but the novelty here is that this is unprecedented hypertargeting to individual users. Instead of the current demographic, website, days-before-flight, and other factors, think Uber’s pricing, where you are quoted $40 for a ride, and the person right next to you is quoted $25 for the exact same ride thanks to their dynamic data-driven (and ethics-free) prcing.
This opens the possibility that Delta will charge you more solely because the data Delta has been able to acquire for you suggests you’ll pay more. And that black-box AI system could base it on all sorts of nefarious reasons - e.g., your mother is dying in the hospital, increasing your desperation to get a flight to that location, which makes its way into the dynamic “motivation” index in the AI calculus, which doubles the price of your flight.
We’re not there yet, but when you see the sorts of things Uber does for reference, I feel it’s a clear path to airfare’s little corner of our coming dystopia.
