umbraroze
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- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 1 week ago:
Episode 230: Google
“…over there, you can see a YouTubeAI datacenter on fire. It’s not supposed to be like that.” - Roz, probably - Comment on Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform 1 week ago:
My feeling on Xbox since Xbox One days has been pretty much “this is an awesome platform, you’re sitting on a gold mine Microsoft, what the fuck are you doing?”
The last bit of brilliance they did utilise properly was GamePass, and of course they cocked that up by getting greedy.
Last few years have been extremely rough. The only lucky thing about this is that instead of full Xbox exclusivity Microsoft was pushing Xbox/Windows cross functionality. …Yeah, I’ve been pivoting to PC, but Steam/GOG instead.
- Comment on meanwhile on instagram 1 week ago:
I was about to ask “I’m mildly concerned, are American Evangelicals okay?” but then I remembered there has never been a time when they have been okay, so I don’t know why am I even asking.
- Comment on This MF is quadrupling down and dropping Alien files before dropping the full, unredacted Epstein Files. GODDAMN. 2 weeks ago:
A significant chunk of American pop culture of the past decades is based on the premise that The Government is Hiding Something.
Trump’s going to throw a big wrench in that by releasing fucking everything. Except a few things. A few great secrets.
I swear American pop culture in the coming century or so is just going to be The Government is Hiding The Epstein Files, over and over and over.
- Comment on allium gang rise up 🌰 2 weeks ago:
I just went grocery shopping and oh wow looks like onions are nice and cheap and domestic.
Early this week I was cutting onions (figuratively), I feel better now that I’m cutting onions (literally). Made some tacos. Things are good.
- Comment on JD Vance visits Milan, Italy 3 weeks ago:
I hope the locals were like “I didn’t know which car to boo for, so I booed to all of them”
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
Oh thank goodness, I saw the link in the photo is to Roosh V forum, and I was like, hell no, I’m not going there
- Comment on Top of the world, ma 3 weeks ago:
I’ve said this before, but “AI vegan” is a pretty odd term. It’d imply that using AI is somehow a default, entrenched, normalised thing. That not using AI is going against the status quo.
This makes as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”. Go on. Go say that to some Linux user’s face, I’m waiting.
- Comment on Games you really want to play, but can't or won't? 4 weeks ago:
There’s like a boatload of really classic Xbox 360/One era games that I’d love to play on PC.
Problem is they were made by Ubisoft or EA. Repurchasing them is already dubious from the get-go, but chances are the versions in Steam, if they’re still there at all, are old neglected buggy builds. And things are not much rosier on the Uplay or Origin! They may have gotten a patch or two, but old shit’s janky. These need the GOG treatment.
I did get the Mass Effect trilogy rerelease for a pittance. Also found out I somehow had Dragon Age Origins already. These should keep me occupied for a while, as (to paraphrase a certain video game villain) at this very moment, EA burns.
- Comment on So disappointing 4 weeks ago:
“From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh, it disgusted me. I craved the radness of the rave…”
- Comment on My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht! 4 weeks ago:
Long ago, in Finland, the election night live coverage was on YLE TV1 and there was some other show on TV2. Since they both had the same Teletext pages and the same subtitle pages, someone posted online some choice screenshots.
(Don’t remember much, besides one with the main reporter guy, with the subtitles going like “goddamn it”.)
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I’m in Finland. I sometimes say stuff like “oh it’s -30°C today. It’s getting just a little bit nippy.”
A friend of mine in California is like “Jesus Christ what are you talking about” and yes, he can convert that
- Comment on I liek tudles 5 weeks ago:
Ancient shellmaster! Awww.
- Comment on I'm there! 1 month ago:
I would totally go to a camp that involved turtle weighing. Any activity involving turtles, really! They’re so shelly aww
- Comment on Ġ̵̻ͅį̴̹̜̼̙͍͋̈̕m̷̦͎͈̎̄̄̿̈ṁ̶̭̫͓̞̻̾̂̚ë̶͚́̍̀͆ ̴̻͗̈́̿̂̚͝f̴̧̳̝͓̫̆̍͌͠u̸̧̖̠̗͔̽̽̾ȇ̶̝̠̎̔l̵̡͙͔̀́̃́̓͘,̵̠̜̽͛ ̴͙̜͇͚̥̜̑͛͐̓͆͒ḡ̸̮͝͠ḯ̸͍̩͛͗̍͝ṁ̶̛͎̖̭̖̓̃͑̃ḿ̵̫̇e̸͈͕̍̍͒ ̸̧̣̣̣̹̺͌̃ẇ̴̤̳͇̪̝̑̈́̏̚i̶͖͒̒r̶̢̪̙͉̭̥̂̐e̵̞̳̻̍͘ 2 months ago:
Well, there aren’t any real scientific definitions but there sure are legal and regulatory definitions.
(I haven’t checked the local requirements but there’s micro voltage, low voltage and high voltage. Micro voltage is basically anything below 12v - for anything above that you need to be a certified electrician. Doubly so if you go to triple digits)
- Comment on Al hg g y8vivoycoxt7 ez6ez6rxrx;;; lol 2 months ago:
What do publishers do? Editing, layout, other parts of design (e.g. covers), most importantly printing, marketing and distribution.
Oh you mean what do scientific publishers do? Um… that’s a good one, huh… they just kinda take the money and leave everyone else to do the actual work?
- Comment on Grim Statistics 2 months ago:
The Church of Alpha the Utterly Indifferent, from “The Songs of Distant Earth” by Arthur C. Clarke?
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Having really hard time converting Kindle books lately, especially since last time I tried this, the deDRM plugin couldn’t handle the newest Kindle for PC versions. Is there an easy way that doesn’t involve getting a physical Kindle device? Does the Android thing work?
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
Google Play Books allows publishers to set the DRM policy. Some titles are not protected and can be just downloaded as EPUB. For the DRMed books, it can send them to Adobe’s ebook reader/sync app, which (last I checked) can be decrypted by the deDRM plugin.
- Comment on Why do you hate AI? 2 months ago:
I don’t hate AI (specifically LLMs and image diffusion thingy) as a technology. I don’t hate people who use AI (most of the time).
I do hate almost every part of AI business, though. Most of the AI stuff is hyped by the most useless “luminaries” of the tech sector who know a good profitable grift when they see one. They have zero regard for the legal and social and environmental implications of their work. They don’t give a damn about the problems they are causing.
And that’s the great tragedy, really: It’s a whole lot of interesting technology with a lot of great potential applications. And the industry is getting run to the ground by idiots, while chasing an economic bubble that’s going to end disastrously. It’s going to end up with a tech cycle kind of similar to nuclear power: a few prominent disasters, a whole lot of public resentment and backlash, and it’ll take decades until we can start having sensible conversations about it again. If only we would have had a little bit of moderation to begin with!
The only upside AI business has had was that at least it has pretended to give a damn about open source and open access to data, but at this point it’s painfully obvious that to AI companies this is just a smoke screen to avoid getting sued over copyright concerns - they’d lock up everything as proprietary trade secrets if they could have their way.
As a software developer, I was first super excited about genAI stuff because it obviously cut down the time needed to consult references. Now, a lot of tech bosses tell coders to use AI tools even in cases that’s making everyone less productive.
As an artist and a writer I find it incredibly sad that genAI didn’t hit the brakes a few years ago. I’ve been saying this for decades: I love a good computerised bullshit generator. Algorithmically generated nonsense is interesting. Great source of inspiration for your ossified brain cells, fertile grounds for improvement. Now, however, the AI generated stuff pretends to be as human-like as possible, it’s doing a terrible job at it. Tech bros are half-assedly marketing it as a “tool” for artists, while the studio bosses who buy the tech chuckle at that and know they found a replacement for the artists. (Want to make genAI tools for artists? Keep the output patently unusable out of the box.)
- Comment on Trying to find a messenger bag at Amazon 2 months ago:
I was thinking it was a movement for sex worker rights, or something
- Comment on hl shirt 2 months ago:
Physical copies of Half-Life 2 are probably, dunno, considered unholy artefacts or something. (The very first versions of Steam were not fondly remembered)
- Comment on Make me feel like a man 2 months ago:
I’m a trans girl, and this shit is the only thing that has even mildly piqued my testosterones in recent years:
- Comment on mmm... tastes like chimkin 2 months ago:
Tortoise: “I’m not a goddamn rock! You pooped on me for the last time! …Not so tough these days, eh, dinosaur?”
But seriously, not surprising. I heard that many tortoises, while herbivorous, will just happily munch all snails that rest on the greens. (For nutrition. And also to demonstrate superiour speed!)
- Comment on 3 months ago:
My father had an Acer laptop. It broke.
One of my friends had an Acer laptop. It broke.
I think my father had a 486SX Acer laptop which worked wayyyy past its reasonable age, but it’s in the closet and the hinges look crumbly and I kinda fear that if I touch it it will be atomised.
Me, I’ve used Asus laptops since 2011, and these things are only slightly less resistant to nuclear explosions than Thinkpads
- Comment on The car of the guy who insists that you have a terminal case of TDS 3 months ago:
You just know the owner plastered the car with words like Joy, Knowledge, Self-control and Virtue because deep down they know they have none of those qualities and hope that this ritual will manifest them.
- Comment on You can do anything at Zombocom 3 months ago:
That’s not Zombo COM1:, that’s the serial port, the one above it. This is Zombo VGA.
- Comment on Day 477 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Oh crap. Reminds me that for some reason or other (Mostly just time issues I guess, and because dualbooting Windows was pain I guess) I never completed Max Payne 2. As a giant fan of the first game I loved it.
Wonder if I need to go dig out the discs. Wait wait what, I already have them on Steam? How? When did I get them? Never mind. Hope these aren’t a massive headache to get running
- Comment on 4 months ago:
Time to quote the Bible to the boomers who always hypocritically claim to love it so much:
“To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:” - Ecclesiastes 3:1
…and mayonnaise should be used extremely wisely: never in vain, never merely due to tradition - and no matter what, it should always be used with full knowledge about its true, if somewhat mysterious and indescribable-in-words purpose. Those who never consider these mysteries are not fit to decide whether it is appropriate to use mayonnaise or not.
[mic drop]
