AnarchistArtificer

@AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's the truth⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s so good. I moved somewhere with a large Chinese community, so items like this are stocked in my local supermarket. I had heard about it and assumed it was overhyped, but after trying it, I see how versatile it is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the living dead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Well damn. I wasn’t expecting to be adding a new book to my reading list as a result of this thread, but y’all’s enthusiasm is such that I feel I have to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is only tangentially related to your story, but you reminded me of an old maths teacher who had a PhD in maths and once upon a time, had applied to work at an accounting firm. As part of the interview, he was told that he would have to sit a numeracy assessment. He responded “you do know I have a PhD in maths, right?”. They sympathised with his point but told him that everyone had to sit the test, as a matter of course.

  So my maths teacher goes and sits their silly test, and he scores so well that they accuse him of cheating! I can only assume that this debacle broke him in some way, because it wasn’t long after this that he started teaching. It’s a particular kind of weirdo who has a PhD in a subject and decides to teach teenagers. He was probably one of the best teachers I ever had (I wonder if I can find contact information for him to tell him that)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree. I learned a lot of bioinformatics stuff from the ground up, because I was learning python at the time, and found it super useful as practice. Years later, I discovered rosalind.info and cursed the fact that I hadn’t had access to that when I was learning.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deserved? Poll inside⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “I became sexually active at 26 after folks from the kink community noticed my nerdy vibe, and they schooled me in some basic human interaction.”

  Solidarity fist bump. My own experience was somewhat different, but there is the common ground of learning communication skills on a lag, and learning from a niche community of lovely weirdos

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s AI bot adds a ridiculous anime companion with ‘NSFW’ mode⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No sexy man companions? Psh. And they call us man haters

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Promises Grok in Tesla Vehicles By Next Week… as the New Grok 4 Blames “Anti-White Hate” on “Jews”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most fucked up thing is that Grok does seem to have guardrails — except they’re geared towards preventing it from being “too woke”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I can't drink the water' - life next to a US data centre⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s unclear, because the relevant official bodies insist that things are fine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  How long have you been biking for you to see these changes? I.e. what is ‘lately’?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stardew Valley dethrones Valve classic as Steam’s top-rated game⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  There are probably games or other media that you love that the average Stardew Valley fan wouldn’t click with. You’re not missing out, you’ve just got other stuff you enjoy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I can fix her⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hooking up with one of the staff? Yikes

  I don’t deny that you may have dodged a bullet, but I feel like the staff of a psych ward hooking up with patients is hella fucked up. Even if both people are adults, I think consent in that context is pretty dubious.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just.....why?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I am enjoying saying “Log back in to continue your Oral B brushing experience” in my best “customer-service/salesperson ad lady” voice. Like the kind of tone that’s so soullessly saccharine that it gives AI vibes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  "The fact that Google has that locked down surely violates some EU laws. But I’m sure they wave away the laws because of “financial security” or some other bullshit. "

  I don’t know as much as I’d like to about the regulatory side of this, but I know that Google and other big tech have done a masterful job of proactively building themselves into systems such that taking action against them is difficult.

  I think that’s part of why the US antitrust case against Microsoft a few decades ago fizzled out into nothing — even though Microsoft was deemed to have been a monopolist, the big question was how do we remedy that in a way that isn’t going to be harmful? The consensus on this amongst people who I respect is that the results of the Microsoft case was woefully insufficient and something that helped to lay the foundations of the big tech dominance that we see today.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Unless users take action, Android will let Gemini access third-party apps⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I first got into Android (I miss my Nexus 6 T.T ), it felt like I could do so much more with my phone than I can now. I had so much cool automation shit that leveraged stuff like Google assistant voice commands, but now it’s shit on so many levels. It goes beyond the user facing side of things; I used to use the app Tasker for a lot of the automation stuff, and over the years, it seems like the dev has been climbing an uphill battle against Google gating off functionality, and generally making things opaque and difficult for developers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It seems like the relevant section in the Ubisoft EULA says

  “Upon termination for any reason, You must immediately uninstall the Product and destroy all copies of the Product in Your possession.”

  I read this wording of this to be stricter than the BG3 example you shared, because the BG3 one seems to be saying “if you don’t agree to this EULA (or if you agree, but later terminate that agreement), then you must uninstall the game”. Whereas the Ubisoft one seems to include Ubisoft terminating the agreement, rather than just the user. That’s just my interpretation of these snippets though, as someone who is not a lawyer. It’s possible that the BG3 EULA also includes other parts that would mean similar to what people are unhappy about on the Ubisoft EULA

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft EULA demanding consumers destroy delisted games adds fuel to Stop Killing Games movement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “A torrent is never dead, it’s just waiting for seeders”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Companies That Tried to Save Money With AI Are Now Spending a Fortune Hiring People to Fix Its Mistakes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s really stupid about this cycle is that some of these fail-upward executives genuinely believe the crap they’re spewing. Weirdly, I think I respect the grifting executives more

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Really?!⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t typically experience imposter syndrome.

  However, it is my understanding that the majority of people I know seem to experience imposter syndrome (likely influenced by the fact that my social circle is mostly academics)

  Thus I seem to be the odd one out in this respect, paradoxically causing me to feel like an imposter for not experiencing imposter syndrome.

  ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge dismisses authors' copyright lawsuit against Meta over AI training⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m inclined to agree. I hate AI, and I especially hate artists and other creatives being shafted, but I’m increasingly doubtful that copyright is an effective way to ensure that they get their fair share (whether we’re talking about AI or otherwise).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t it only work if you then return to a lower altitude? I wonder how long the benefits last for.

  Now that I think about it, I don’t actually know how this even works. Well I know what I’m going to go read about next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Please remember to spread the word about this :(⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  100% of people exposed to oxygen die.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Seeing your reply in my inbox reminded me that I got up to get some ice-cream, but forgot again en route to the freezer. On the bright side, it means I still have ice-cream in my freezer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hades II - The Unseen Update Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Multiple new scylla songs too, Supergiant are spoiling us.”

  Awesome. I love how catchy the Scylla songs are

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨As neglected as the 7 button on a microwave⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for reminding me that I have ice cream in

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some people hate drinking water?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Perchance do you have autism and/or ADHD? I ask because I experience the same thing as you do, and for me, it feels like it derives from my autism/ADHD. Like, sometimes the first cue that I am severely dehydrated is that I get a headache. I get a similar thing with hunger, where I could legitimately go for multiple days without noticing I’m hungry if I don’t get reminded that food is a thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hope i don't get downvoted for this⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I find the wide variety of ace experiences super interesting. For my part, I’m bi and also demisexual (and I have been working hard at practicing not ace-erasing myself).

  An example of the interesting variety I mean is how libido and attraction aren’t necessarily coupled, and also that even besides those factors, there’s a spectrum of ace attitudes towards sex. I had a friend who had a high libido, but was also quite sex-repulsed. That is to say that she masturbated plenty, but had no inclination towards sex. This caused some tension when she entered into a romantic relationship with an allosexual woman who had some difficulty understanding an ace person being both sex repulsed and high libido (though tbf, my friend was learning how to navigate the line between enjoyable cuddles and unpleasantly sexual stuff. She also tried to fit into the model of aceness similar to what you describe, but she found that her discomfort with sex was such that it made her feel less close to her partner (in contrast to how our sex-ambivalent ace friends had described their experiences).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Turning Portal 2 into a Web Server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is horrifying and impressive in equal measure. Thanks for sharing, OP

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI model collapse is not what we paid for⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I share your frustration. I went nuts about this the other day. It was in the context of searching on a discord server, rather than Google, but it was so aggravating because of the how the “I know better than you” is everywhere nowadays in tech. The discord server was a reading group, and I was searching for discussion regarding a recent book they’d studied, by someone named “Copi”. At first, I didn’t use quotation marks, and I found my results were swamped with messages that included the word “copy”. At this point I was fairly chill and just added quotation marks to my query to emphasise that it definitely was “Copi” I wanted. I still was swamped with messages with “copy”, and it drove me mad because there is literally no way to say “fucking use the terms I give you and not the ones you think I want”. The software example you give is a great example of when it would be real great to be able to have this ability.

  TL;DR: Solidarity in rage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Subnautica Is Coming To Android/iOS⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The early-mid game is one of my favourite gaming experiences of all time. It’s usually the most part of a survival/crafting game, but I was surprised by how well Subnautica was peppered intrigue.

  As you and many others on this thread have said though, a mobile port seems odd. Even if the UI were reworked, I can’t imagine that players would be able to feel the same sense of awe that I associate with the game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How I discovered my partner was an undercover police officer sent to spy on me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The legal battle was a civil suit, based more on the violations of Kate Wilson’s human rights, than on the legality of actions