Quexotic
@Quexotic@beehaw.org
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
Aww shucks. Thanks!
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 2 days ago:
You’re welcome. Here’s the Wikipedia donation page. They did the work, I just googled.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 3 days ago:
en.wikipedia.org/…/Literacy_in_the_United_States
It’s gone down a ways. It’s kinda bad.
- Comment on Spit On, Sworn At, and Undeterred: What It’s Like to Own a Cybertruck 4 days ago:
Who’s the snowflake now, amirite?
- Comment on ID photos of 70,000 users may have been leaked, Discord says 1 week ago:
Currently 25 states require it. Incidentally 23 of to lowest 25 states allow child marriage. Funny isn’t it?
- Comment on Steam is now blocking NSFW updates for published adult-only games, according to a raunchy RPG developer 2 weeks ago:
Yep. Because they can’t do it with the law, they’re doing it with payment processing. Maybe crypto will be the answer, gods help us.
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 2 weeks ago:
Hmm are you implying collective actions are in order?
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 2 weeks ago:
I cancelled prime quite a while back and I’ll use the free month they offer and immediately cancel and also get it for the month of November to make life a little easier, and again, I’ll cancel it immediately.
It just isn’t worth it!
- Comment on Way past its prime: how did Amazon get so rubbish? 2 weeks ago:
I came here to say obviously it’s enshitification, only to find that the article is actually written by the Corey Doctorow. Love that guy.
- Comment on Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for mentioning that. Only lemmings.world? Do you have logins for others?
- Comment on Bluesky rolls out age verification for users in Ohio | TechCrunch 3 weeks ago:
We jail execs in the US? Huh. Didn’t know that.
- Comment on World's Largest Sand Battery - YouTube Short 3 weeks ago:
I sincerely like your story.
- Comment on The gamers have done it again, this time building a functional ChatGPT in Minecraft—but before you get too excited, it takes literally hours to provide a response 3 weeks ago:
And the cynic in the back of my head is saying “oh, just you wait! You’ll love what’s next!” while another finger curls on the monkey’s paw.
- Comment on Ohio Republicans pass pornography age verification ID law as part of state budget • Ohio Capital Journal 3 weeks ago:
From what I’ve learned recently, those may not be safe options.
Best bet would be Mullvad, IMO.
This video summarizes it well though it is a bit of a shill. I’ve actually taken the time to validate the claims made here and haven’t been able to refute them.
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- Comment on Doug Bowser is stepping down as Nintendo of America president and COO | VGC 3 weeks ago:
Is it weird that I misread that as gazonga twice before I got it right?
- Comment on I fixed Borderlands 4's stuttering issue by upping my shader cache size to 100 GB, which feels like something I shouldn't have to do in a well-optimised game 5 weeks ago:
Statement like that makes me seriously doubt that it can even run on a PS5 which I was thinking about getting it for but this is kind of changing my mind
- Comment on Why OpenAI’s solution to AI hallucinations would kill ChatGPT tomorrow 5 weeks ago:
This is… Well, not entirely convincing.
So, say the computational cost triples. Intelligent methods to mitigate this would include purpose built hardware to optimize these processes. That’s a big lift, but the reward would be calculable and would have significant enough ROI that there’s no way they won’t pursue it. I think it’s a realistically conquerable problem.
And so what if it doesn’t know? Existing solutions will scour the Internet on command and this functionality, given a sufficiently high level of uncertainty, could be automated.
Combining the Internet access capability with a certainty calculation and assuming there is hardware optimization in the future, these problems, while truly significant, seem solvable.
That said, the solution probably will most likely make our world uninhabitable, so that’s neat.
My concern on top of this is that they will not exhaust funding even if private investment goes dry. The state (US, China) won’t stop funding till they reach total dominance.
We’re so screwed, guys.
- Comment on We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it 5 weeks ago:
As if the level of bullshit science produced by corporations wasn’t already high enough… Ugh.
- Comment on OK. I'm at wit's end attempting to convince Google's LLM to pronounce an English name correctly. 5 weeks ago:
The comments of this YouTube video are enough to tell me that your expectations are not realistic and that neither human nor machine is going to pronounce this correctly the first time except by coincidence.
- Comment on Doubting Your Favorite Web Search Engine 1 month ago:
Makes me wonder if something similar to the veilid architecture could solve some of the problems.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 months ago:
I hope and doubt.
- Comment on Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance 2 months ago:
Reminds me of the patriot act.
- Comment on AI Won't Solve Your Existential Crisis (And That's Perfectly Fine) 2 months ago:
That is if it doesn’t kill us by engineering a bio weapon first.
- Comment on Women Dating Safety App 'Tea' Breached, Users' IDs Posted to 4chan | 404 Media 2 months ago:
But can it really be a breach if it was never secure in the first place? They put it a bucket with absolutely no security. Anyone, literally anyone could have downloaded all of that data.
Also the app looks like some sort of awful vibe-coded meme garbage. I noticed it on the app store a while back and kind of wondered who would actually use it. I guess we know now that we have all of their driver’s licenses available.
Oh well.
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 2 months ago:
TIL. Maybe that’s a very good reason to release the code; fix the vulns.
- Comment on Boffins detail new algorithms that boost AI perf up to 2.8x 2 months ago:
Thank you!
- Comment on Ubisoft CEO responds to the Stop Killing Games petition, stating the publisher is 'working on' improving its approach to end-of-life support, but that 'nothing is eternal' 2 months ago:
Open source the server/game codebase motherfucker! Your copyrights should end when support does.
- Comment on ‘FuckLAPD.com’ Lets Anyone Use Facial Recognition to Instantly Identify Cops 3 months ago:
Might wanna access that site with tor.
