mhague

@mhague@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How did we go from being against fake pictures of the moon to accepting things like changing out the entire sky?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It was a reddit post and a bunch of corpo news talking about the reddit post. Samsung didn’t trick anyone, the ML algorithms were always in the open, people just had to turn off the “scene optimizer” mode.

  It definitely seems like it was a big thing but it’s hard to see if literally anything happened as a result or if anyone actually cared.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When was the last time you actually laughed while playing a game?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s funny when you’re playing soccer and you’re locked in and then out of nowhere a player gets domed by the ball. Especially when you smoothly recover like you meant to rocket the ball off the defenders head.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Black widow life⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Male wolf spiders may hang back and watch mating pairs from the shadows, learning how to successfully attract a mate. Just like us fr

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨$1,000 richer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d take the $1000 and then pay someone $100 to tell me I’m beautiful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who makes up the "serving size" on microwave food?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even though corporations play with labels, I still think of it as “this single food item is not a substitute for a meal.”

  But it’s silly to assume people will split most of this crap. It’s not like a bag of chips you can roll up for later, it’s molten-frozen astronaut food.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wouldn't mind knowing myself⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine going there based on a rumor and all you find are some dumb seeds you can use to restart agriculture.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A roundabout⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  They never show the full version of this gif, where you can see the elevated section of road the driver is aiming for. Have people seriously never seen a highway overpass? Do you guys just assume that every highway uses offramps instead of jumps?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”

  They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I will be taking no followup questions. Thank you for your time⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is kinda funny. It’s like “Jesus was a white guy” mixed with “cis whites need to check their privilege”

  The idea that you could go back in time as a nutritionally giant white guy speaking gibberish and fit in because white is a bit anti history.

  If we’re sending people back in time it’s going to be Dwayne Johnson.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the GOP think “ANTIFA” is bad?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because maga are human and they have similar capabilities to us.

  For example, I know you know that they are often draped in Christianity, patriotism, etc. Does that mean we’re all anti-christian and anti-american?

  They learn to associate us with certain labels. And then they learn new labels in the context of labels they’ve internalized. Antifa means a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best stay away from that guy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Needs to be injective and surjective

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fortnite devs Epic modifying Peacemaker emote after establishing Warner didn't mean it to look like a Nazi swastika⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “There was an emote. But then the show had a plot twist. So now the emote kinda looks like a swastika. We’ve removed it after making sure it wasn’t on purpose.”

  They’re on drugs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former BioWare lead writer reads the runes on EA-Saudi deal and speculates that 'guns and football' are in, 'gay stuff' is out, and the venerable RPG studio may be for the chop⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they’re somehow escaping the taint?

  It’s like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country… but then they think they’re still a normal artist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EA CEO says company values will 'remain unchanged' under the new ownership of Saudi Arabia and Jared Kushner's investment firm⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.

  After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Relooted - Game made by South Africans has been bombarded by right-wingers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.

  Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.

  Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like 6 Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mars First Logistics, an open world Mars colonization game where you can develop and control vehicles (rovers, flying vehicles) to make money completing construction projects, released on Steam.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Reminds me a bit of Colobots

• ⁨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:

  John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It was just a problem with the implementation.

  Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Worth checking⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We’re just gonna have to form human relationships with artists like a bunch of squares

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now it's stuck in my head⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Always makes me think of the ending of 40yo Virgin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A half baked idea I want to see implemented is using local LLMs to generate the most vile / ragebait / unhealthy responses to trending topics and then use that like an inoculation.

  ie in natural settings humans are better at detecting dead ends / performative rhetoric / etc. But online it’s different.

  I think it’s a bad idea but I can’t stop wondering considering LLM bots, dead internet theory… I’d like to have a taste of what others might be cooking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I declare bankruptcy!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Russian number

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We are helping⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to map out the bunkers / assets of our elites. To better play chicken with them. Let’s all live like they do and if their example destroys the world, we make sure to clean up our mess on our way out… for the people who come after us.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨language learning⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What if I have a Divayth Fyr kind of thing going on? Please advise

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Time to bash Americans again⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine being racist and wanting to enjoy it instead of making it political. In the US it’s culture war shit. In Europe you can go to a football match and throw bananas at the black players and it’s chill. It’s just easier to be casually racist in Europe because racism doesn’t exist there, and if it does, it’s not as bad as America.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨why⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that a you all? You’ll

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The duality of man⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In the context of aggressive foreign policy where we bomb the shit out of people… They are probably referring to how in the 1910s USA was stumbling through an incursion into Mexico to fight rebels / raiders. As we joined WW1, some saw us as a rowdy militia, like cowboys. We had to borrow materiel because we weren’t yet a proper war-machine like European countries were. Exactly 100 years ago that wasn’t the case though. Yet there would still be quite a ways to go until the era of “top 3 air forces” and super carriers patrolling the globe while drones blow ‘terrorists’ to smithereens.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train your brain⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They spent a lot of money and political capital to train their AI just for it to get leaked back to the masses.

  If only every AI company scraping the internet would have their model be given back to the people. It’s the minimum they could do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨it would be a better look⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Does this mean St Peter held his gun sideways?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Finished while ago Khamelion (MK Armageddon), by me⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the gall of a dying warrior.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How much do you know about transformers?

  Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish.

  Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser.