desmosthenes
@desmosthenes@lemmy.world
pragmatic, multidisciplinary creative & full stack dev. I tweet & make art, dev, design, politics; play path of exile. https://marko.tech
- Comment on Why do people collect stuff? 12 hours ago:
“security”
- Comment on Another NetEase-Backed Studio Has Closed Without Releasing a Game 13 hours ago:
yea every game netease makes is notable and multiboxable - at least I got a free trip to LA out of them, fully comped, for automating lineage 2 revolution
- Comment on Path of Exile 2 is free to play this weekend (Aug 29 - Sept 01) 20 hours ago:
they’re a much smaller team than most studios, particularly that big one that put out a far worse, far more expensive, far less engaging, simpleton, partially complete game that’s now sold to sheep in episodes. poe 2 is already grander in almost every way than its direct competitor
- Comment on U.S. Government Starts Pushing Economic Data Onto Blockchains as 'Proof of Concept' 21 hours ago:
the grift comes full circle
- Comment on Google encouraging healthy uses of their new AI image generator 2 days ago:
sad truth; thinking takes effort and care
- Comment on Google encouraging healthy uses of their new AI image generator 2 days ago:
our democracy is already straining under the flood of misinformation and over-information; this will just sink the final nail in the coffin. my parents already can’t tell current ai slop from actual news and video
- Comment on Austin votes on $2M AI park surveillance in 48 hours - Thursday 10AM City Hall. SHOW UP! 2 days ago:
let’s see if texas really about its guns or not; second amendment is knocking
- Comment on Another NetEase-Backed Studio Has Closed Without Releasing a Game 2 days ago:
nothing good comes outta netease
- Comment on PS5 may get more price increases in the US, analyst warns 2 days ago:
bruh you speak nonsense. there is no company like GGG (maker of PoE) when it comes to fairness, dedication to their fans, dedication to their core values and ideas of what an ARPG should be and both games are free (poe 2 will be free on full release) but yea fuck blizzard
- Comment on Schools in Florida are testing armed drones as a defense against school shootings 2 days ago:
anything but the actual solution. like we had automatics and semi autos back when in the start of the country
- Comment on Anthropic’s auto-clicking AI Chrome extension raises browser-hijacking concerns 2 days ago:
obviously lol
- Comment on Study links TikTok scrolling to poor study focus: Just five minutes of scrolling the social app made college students less focused 6 days ago:
durrrr
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 6 days ago:
yucky, shorts lol
- Comment on U.S. government takes 10% stake in Intel, as Trump expands control over private sector 6 days ago:
beat me to it
- Comment on I have started a magic-only challenge in Dark Souls 1 5 weeks ago:
this is the way
- Comment on AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds 1 month ago:
no shit. ai will hallucinate shit I’ll hit tab by accident and spend time undoing that or it’ll hijack tab on new lines inconsistently
- Comment on Google Introduced a New Way to Use Search. Proceed With Caution. 1 month ago:
sponsored content lol
- Comment on US debt is now $37trn – should we be worried? 1 month ago:
at 123% years old long overdue; we always had a spending problem - too many defense hawks keeping their beaks wet
- Comment on Path of Exile: Secrets of the Atlas - Reveal stream on June 5 3 months ago:
so hype for an atlas expansion
- Comment on Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews. 3 months ago:
shame about pocket - wonder how much of a hole that really burned in their pocket - if much
- Comment on Audible unveils plans to use AI voices to narrate audiobooks 3 months ago:
I like your way of thinking
- Comment on Trakt Upcoming VIP Renewal Pricing Changes – Effective May 20, 2025 3 months ago:
double price bump for something like this kinda touch to swallow; was a paying member for 8/9 years too
- Comment on Boarding passes and check-in could be scrapped in air travel shake-up 4 months ago:
nope
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 4 months ago:
oh wow that’s grimey
- Comment on Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke tells employees to prove AI can’t do the job before asking for resources. 4 months ago:
what laptop? ^* is what I said
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 5 months ago:
touché
- Comment on Bluesky made more money selling T-shirts mocking Mark Zuckerberg in one day than it has in two years of selling custom domains 5 months ago:
it’s a fire shirt not gonna lie
- Comment on thoughtbot is pausing activity on X and Meta (they are on mastodon, RSS, other platforms) 5 months ago:
thoughtbot?
- Comment on Amazon Boycot March 7-14th | No Purchases. Its time to disrupt the system. 5 months ago:
easier to just cancel prime
- Comment on Obsidian is now free for work - Obsidian 6 months ago:
the extensions mostly
