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- Comment on The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says 1 day ago:
As someone who’s been through the Bay Area/ Silicon Valley Startup gauntlet, I can assure you that there are plenty of engineers who are deep in the AI koolaid.
- Comment on Framework under fire for Omarchy/DHH/Hyprland support? 1 day ago:
Goddammit, Framework!
- Comment on Rating the Vibes of Megastructure Games - nocaps (YouTube, 8min) 3 days ago:
Why is The Ascent not included? Thats the game that gave me the most Nihei-esque megastructure vibes.
- Comment on Not a game: Cards Against Humanity avoids tariffs by ditching rules, explaining jokes 3 days ago:
Card games are classed as tabletop games due to the top of the table being the place where they’re played.
- Comment on Memo to Bari Weiss Re: CBS News: You’re doomed 5 days ago:
I’m sure when her eventual layoff or resignation hits, she’ll be crying all the way to the bank.
- Comment on New Yale Study Finds AI Has Had Essentially Zero Impact on Jobs 5 days ago:
Surprisingly, they found that the rate of change in the labor market’s makeup in the wake of AI closely matches the pace when computers and the internet were first taking off. In other words, AI doesn’t appear to be more disruptive than those two technologies — at least so far — despite heavy hitters like Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei saying that AI will cause massive upheaval in the world and that entire sectors of jobs will be lost forever.
So jobs are being lost to AI, but the job loss is in-line with other disruptions, as opposed to being more outsized. I don’t think the emergence of computers and the internet were that un-significant, and there absolutely are job sectors that were lost.
- Comment on An AI Just Attempted Murder... Allegedly... by SomeOrdinaryGamers [21:15 min] Video 1 week ago:
eh, using the “computer/ software engineers aren’t certified PEs so they’re LYING” things is such a silly argument. Government certification programs don’t dictate language, and easily half if not more of computer jobs are called “engineers” of some kind.
He called it a ‘film degree’, but it’s actually a 2-year broadcasting and cinematography diploma.
Sounds like a degree about filming stuff to me? This is nitpicky stuff, and I’m not sure why I’m supposed to dislike (or care at all about) this guy in the first place. The thumbnail literally calls the guy a fraud, but it just seems like the creator has an axe to grind.
- Comment on Australian authorities ask platforms to self-assess potential 'child endangerment social media' 1 week ago:
Ah ye, all the kids chatting in the PR comments as they merge more porn into their git repos.
Clearly Australia has some savvy folks in charge.
- Comment on Sports piracy site Streameast returns after US government let domain expire 2 weeks ago:
That is absolutely HILARIOUS.
- Comment on Trump Posts an Absolutely Bonkers AI Video in Which He Promotes a Magic ‘Med Bed’ That Can Cure Any Disease 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s macroscopy vs microscopy.
Food and nutrition and health is all “invisible” to you in a way that a cat engine isn’t. To the average person, even hearing cellular functions explained sounds like magic, because it takes SO MUCH knowledge to get to the point where you can truly grok how a specific medicine works in the body.
That also explains why fuel additives are an area where that happens in cars. You can’t see the difference in e.g. AKI ratings in action. You can’t see summer vs winter fuel blend changes. So why isn’t it possible that this additive could do things you can’t see as well?
- Comment on Download Eden a Switch emulator as long as you can 2 weeks ago:
Nintendo is the worst.
- Comment on If AI Was Really Used to Censor ‘Together’ in China, It Represents a Potentially Terrifying Future 2 weeks ago:
Right, which is an argument that our current form of government is bad, not that censorship and loss of personal autonomy is good.
- Comment on Secret Service traced swatting threats against officials. They found 300 servers capable of crippling New York’s cell system 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
What people overlook is how Valve removing those barriers to listing directly brought about the indie revolution that’s happened.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 2 weeks ago:
They already scan all submitted games with malware scanners. Manual approval wouldn’t be any different, they weren’t doing binary analysis or source code review before. Their AV scanners back then would have given them the same result as their AV scanners now.
- Comment on Infected Steam game downloads malware disguised as patch 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on LinkedIn set to start to train its AI on member profiles 3 weeks ago:
But… why?
The whole point is that the profiles are real people to network with professionally. The second people know that a profile might be a corporate bot, I feel like the site is DOA.
- Comment on Block Blasters: Theft of $32k in crypto from a stage 4 cancer patient due to valve’s incompetence in allowing malware on their platform 3 weeks ago:
They were contacted by an unknown person who requested they play their video game demo (downloadable from Steam). In exchange for RastaLand playing their video game demo on stream, they would financially compensate them.
Unfortunately, it’s extraordinarily easy to hide malware in any application that is expected to have online components, because you can add the malicious, “staged” malware after install. Also, depending on what the code is doing, it may not even appear malicious to malware scanners.
Crypto-stealers often don’t even need to elevate privileges or access system components or create backdoors in order to operate, they’re just sending info out, so from a behavioral perspective they often don’t really “act” maliciously, as software.
Sadly, this is less about Valve not preventing something, and more about someone falling for targeted phishing.
- Comment on After current events I'm now replaying this gem. Forgot how fun killing Nazis actually is 3 weeks ago:
Sniper Elite is my series of choice for de-Nazification fantasizing, mostly because the Wolfenstein games don’t run so well on my GPU. :P
- Comment on US Oversight Committee Requests Discord, Steam, Twitch CEOS At Online Radicalization Hearing | Aftermath 3 weeks ago:
Turn young white men against you instantly with this one easy trick!
- Comment on Ethical alternatives to Spotify 4 weeks ago:
I think their point is that in an economy that isn’t profit-driven, artists (just like everyone else) would not rely on their art/labor for survival.
Artists generally prefer this model as well, since they don’t have to tailor their art to anyone else’s tastes. We already see models moving towards this, like Patreon, where you pay the artist to produce whatever art they want, rather than buying a completed work. The next step is this being UBI (which is essentially a public patronage system), not private patrons.
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 4 weeks ago:
During the iPhone 17 launch event, Apple revealed that its customers took 500 billion selfies last year, a massive figure that shows just how normalized the practice has become.
Selfies were often mocked when they were deemed the purview of Instagram-obsessed teenage girls, but these days it’s not unusual to see everyone from seniors to a gaggle of sports bros gathering around a single phone like an object of worship.
Yes, now everyone is Instagram-obsessed, not just teenage girls. The ageism and misogyny was wrong. The negative assessment of people being vain was not.
- Comment on The iPhone 17 square selfie camera is a bigger deal than you think 4 weeks ago:
so in other words it’s automatically removing some of my image in order to fake being portrait or landscape?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
Coolio
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
People who aren’t having issues don’t go online to post about it. Since we know the daily player counts hovers around 29,000, those very real hundreds of complaints can still be a very small portion of players experiencing issues.
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
I haven’t had any elevator issues in a while, though I know some people have with the freight elevators. Guild chat isn’t something I care about, since every guild/clan/alliance I’ve been a part of has always used mumble/TS/discord.
It’s not really that buggy now, and I don’t know what you mean by “game loops don’t consistently work”?
- Comment on Star Citizen fans sigh deeply, rub their foreheads as developer casts doubt on Squadron 42's 2026 release: 'I don't know if we're going to make it' 4 weeks ago:
Un-sarcastic answer, it’s actually in a really good spot. The backend changes they put in over the past year have boosted the per-server player counts like crazy, they churned through most of their ship backlog, and they’ve been running a bunch of story events. Performance is way up, especially for client fps in high-population areas (15 fps this time last year if you were in a crowd, 35+ now).
PCG has been super negative on SC for years. Sometimes very justifiably, but many times not.
- Comment on Anonymity is dead and we’re all content now 4 weeks ago:
I love the double meaning in the title. We’re both content for consumption, and content with the situation.
- Comment on Nintendo now has a US patent on summoning characters and making them battle for you | VGC 4 weeks ago:
This describes literally every pet system in any game where the pets can battle.
This is so overly broad, it’s insane.
- Comment on have some standards 5 weeks ago:
Oh boy do I have a surprise for you…