TehPers
@TehPers@beehaw.org
- Comment on Apple urged to axe AI feature after creating false headline claiming that Lugi shot himself 1 day ago:
Not Tim Apple too! Just the other day, Bezos did the same thing!
- Comment on BYD enters humanoid robot race as global talent search kicks off 5 days ago:
Why do robots need to be humanoid again? We’ve had robots and automated machinery be extremely successful for decades by being purpose-built for specific tasks.
- Comment on Most iPhone owners see little to no value in Apple Intelligence so far 5 days ago:
We tried the iPhone 16 recently, upgrading from a 14. Apple’s AI seemed basically useless. That combined with the dynamic island not respecting reduced motion settings lead us to return the phone instead and keep the 14. The old phone worked fine, but we wanted to try to get ahead of the incoming administration just in case.
Maybe the 17 will be better?
- Comment on Mark Zuckerberg's Meta donates $1m to U.S. President-elect Trump fund 1 week ago:
I can’t wait for people to complain about this on Facebook and Instagram, right before doomscrolling for hours.
I hope I’m wrong.
- Comment on Luigi Mangione, CEO shooting suspect, is a tech worker 1 week ago:
Nah, that’s not him. We were hanging out that day. That’s not your guy. Sorry officers!
- Comment on Cloudflare Logs Suffer Critical Failure, Losing 55% of User Data 2 weeks ago:
This article is a lot more clearly written, as expected from Cloudflare. For example, the other article makes it sound like 55% of all user data was lost. Cloudflare says:
During the roughly 3.5 hours that these services were impacted, about 55% of the logs we normally send to customers were not sent and were lost.
55% of logs during a 3.5h window is a lot less of a big deal.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 3 weeks ago:
I’ve already started making arrangements with my employer so I can hopefully stay employed with them. It’s happening, just a question of when now.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 3 weeks ago:
The other walk is happening too, for what it’s worth.
- Comment on Young people were becoming more anxious long before social media, and we should not be fixated on simplistic explanations that reduce the issue to technical variables, researcher says 4 weeks ago:
As someone who does not use TikTok, what reality am I unaware of?
- Comment on To appease a Steam user's demands for straight representation, Webfishing added a 'Straight' title that costs 9,999 fish bucks 1 month ago:
On this topic, I remember seeing a thread for Frostpunk 2 asking if it had DEI stuff in it.
There aren’t even any real characters in Frostpunk 2. Tf are you talking about DEI for in a game with no real characters?
- Comment on Why Amazon's latest AI is named after a dog 1 month ago:
So, in other words, it’s so users excuse it when it produces dog shit. Got it.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of November 3rd 1 month ago:
Playing FFXIV for the first time.
I don’t really care for multiplayer games as much since I don’t like to commit my time to others to play games (I like being able to get up and leave when I need to), but there’s a solo challenge that sounded fun, so I’m giving that a shot.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 1 month ago:
Is this supposed to be a leading question? I’m not making the decisions, but there’s no reason to be happy about losing contributors in any case.
- Comment on A more complete explanation for the removal of those Russian Linux kernel maintainers 1 month ago:
It’s supposed to put the LF in line with sanctions rather than at risk. They have no control over the invasion (aside from pushing a malicious patch that shuts down all Linux systems or something)
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of October 20th 1 month ago:
Factorio. Probably for the next month or so as well.
- Comment on Federal Trade Commission Announces Final “Click-to-Cancel” Rule Making It Easier for Consumers to End Recurring Subscriptions and Memberships 2 months ago:
I’ll give it about two weeks before some random court in Texas tries to block it.
- Comment on PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games 2 months ago:
Factorio is not for everyone, but it’s also one of the all stars of its genre. With the upcoming expansion in a couple weeks, it’ll probably eat another few hundred of my free hours over the next few months, and I know I’m not alone on this one.
- Comment on Recommend me your favorite linear games! 2 months ago:
Same devs also made Sea of Stars. I found it to be pretty fun.
- Comment on Which unplayed game in your library are you most looking forward to playing eventually? 2 months ago:
Fortunately, if you need character backstories and such, you could instead read the books or watch the TV series instead. I jumped straight into Witcher 3 and had no issues with missing background knowledge.
That’s not to say you shouldn’t play 1 or 2 though, just that there are other options.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake 2 months ago:
200V refers to the gen then? I saw the article mention some CPUs in the 200s so I guess that makes sense.
Odd choice to go with a V suffix though for a part that would probably explode if provided 200V power (at the usual current levels it draws anyway). Imagine a laptop CPU that draws 2000W and is somehow an improvement over previous gen - actually, that’s a very Intel thing to do now that I’m thinking about it.
- Comment on AMD Ryzen AI 300 CPU beats Intel Core Ultra 200V CPU in Linux showdown — Strix Point was up to 1.6X faster than Lunar Lake 2 months ago:
I think we’re gonna need some updated naming wheels for the new generations of processors. I have no clue if a “Ryzen AI 300” is supposed to be a high-end, mid tier, or budget processor, nor what the Intel Core Plus Ultra whatever (that somehow draws 200V power?) is.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 29th 2 months ago:
For what it’s worth, I feel the same way about normal settings for FP1 in that it’s pretty easy. Switching to extreme though, it felt as though I needed to play perfectly to finish a scenario. To me, I think it comes down to most of the difficulty being frontloaded. A solid start sets you up for the rest of the game, while a rough start can ruin a run as the game continues to kick you down with every temp drop, event, etc.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 2 months ago:
From what I understand, it’s Bevy ECS + a custom renderer, and likely some other custom code.
- Comment on Digital Foundry: Tiny Glade PC - Beautiful RT Visuals - 60FPS on a GTX 1060! 2 months ago:
I keep looking at this game not because I want to play it, but because I want to see how it was made. As someone who’s played with bevy a bit, it’s amazing to me what they were able to do with it, and it would be so cool to see how it was done.
- Comment on Reddit is making sitewide protests basically impossible 2 months ago:
Reddit makes an anti-user change. In other news, grass is green.
I haven’t been on the site in over a year and nothing since then has convinced me to go back. Maybe I’m lucky that I’m not in any Reddit-only communities, but it could also just be that I treat those communities as though they don’t exist and never had a reason to join one as a result.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of September 29th 2 months ago:
I made the mistake of starting Frostpunk (1) since I saw that 2 released. It’s an incredibly well-made game. The art style is beautiful, the game is intense, there is a lot of emotion, and it does its one thing just so well. Unlike a lot of modern games these days, Frostpunk wants you to lose, which is fitting for its setting. It sees that you’re behind, then kicks you in the shins for good measure rather than lending a helping hand.
I’ve read that Frostpunk 2 is a completely different game. That one might be next on my list if I get to it before Factorio updates and the expansion for it comes out.
- Comment on U.S. to ban Chinese, Russian software and hardware used in autonomous vehicles 2 months ago:
From the article:
Western-owned brands manufactured in China, such as BMW and Tesla
Looks like you’re safe buying a Tesla.
- Comment on NVIDIA: Copyrighted Books Are Just Statistical Correlations to Our AI Models * TorrentFreak 4 months ago:
Their GPUs are already bricks. Just throw the GPUs.
- Comment on TikTok Stacking Algorithms in Chinese Government’s Favor with Pro-China Content Originating from State-Linked Entities, Study Claims 4 months ago:
Hey look, the classic “America bad” comment on a post critical of China!
Are these people bots or something? It’s possible to be critical of both at different times.
- Comment on 0.0.0.0 Day - 18 Yr Old Vulnerability Let Attackers Bypass All Browser Security 4 months ago:
While I agree, it makes connecting to localhost as easy as
http://0:8080/(for port 8080, but omit for port 80)