rayquetzalcoatl
@rayquetzalcoatl@lemmy.world
- Comment on Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' 21 hours ago:
We just did a project involving translating a website for multiple regions for a big company. We used a translation service that doesn’t use humans. The Belgian, Dutch, German, French, and Italian team complained that the translation was extremely weird and they had to manually overwrite the automated translations for the majority of the site (at least dozens of thousands of words) before launch.
We’re still a ways off, judging by that anecdote.
- Comment on AI Laundromat???? 4 days ago:
Haha, I’m not sure “we were going to lie to our customers anyway 🤷♂️” is the best pitch for the pros of AI
- Comment on The Most Popular Baby Names From the Past Year Have Officially Been Announced 5 days ago:
Hahaha that’s totally jogged a memory for me - there’s this right wing guy on YouTube called Tim Pool, and he went on a weird little rant like a year or two ago about how he saw this AI video of a room with a glass wall, overlooking a village in Christmas time. It’s snowing outside, but it’s cosy inside the room, with a TV playing old cartoons, something like that – he’s going on and on about how nostalgic that is and then he’s like:
“…and that’s all going away. Because people keep calling their kids Mohammed.”
Absolutely laughed my arse off, you honestly couldn’t write a character like that 😂
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 6 days ago:
Shartclays
- Comment on Barclays Joins Wall Street-Led Exodus From Net-Zero Alliance 6 days ago:
You will have neither
- Comment on Apparently we should shame people for selling at affordable prices 1 week ago:
I don’t know how this guy got famous, and I don’t know what he does or who he is, but every single time I hear about him it’s negative. Who is watching this guy? Why?
- Comment on Anon did philosophy 1 week ago:
Clicked your link and was saying “it’s gotta be… It’s gotta be… It’s gotta be” over and over while my dogshit phone loaded YouTube. Genuinely fist pumped when it did. What a tuuuuune!!!
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Haha, awesome. Have a good day ✌️
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Is that your opinion, in the same way that it might be the author’s opinion that Disco Elysium is the greatest RPG ever?
- Comment on The curse of ‘Disco Elysium’, the greatest RPG ever made 1 week ago:
Why did this incite anger in you?
- Comment on BBC investigates alleged cocaine use by two Strictly Come Dancing stars 1 week ago:
…well, yeah
- Comment on Revealed: Yorkshire Water boss was paid extra £1.3m via offshore parent firm 1 week ago:
It’s really hard to not feel disheartened by the naked and blatant corruption that rich people can just get away with.
It’s very difficult not to feel as though there are no legal routes to any sort of justice for the way some people take advantage of others.
I know I should grow up, but it still makes me sad to see how happy some people are to screw over others.
Our water is being poisoned for money.
Our world is burning for money.
It’s just a very miserable day.
- Comment on Anon is unaware he's at risk for a heart attack 1 week ago:
The trouble is that legal documents are often very specifically worded to avoid implications. Legal writing is almost like a different dialect to usual colloquial English.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 2 weeks ago:
Ah! I forgot about the bigger fool of it all, true. I guess it’s all just bluster and marketing then. God, what a nightmare.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 2 weeks ago:
I legitimately don’t understand money at this scale. Especially not in this context particularly, the context being “rich men investing in parlour-trick technology that most sane people recognise as off-putting and largely useless and yet somehow, presumably, keeps giving them a return on their investment”.
Where does the return come from? Where does the money go? Who has this much money? Who needs more when they have so much? Why aren’t they just enjoying a thoroughly lavish midlife crisis instead?? Haven’t they got hair plugs to pay for?? Why can’t they invest in something cool, if they simply must invest?? Were the men who are investing in this nonsense ever children with human hearts and heads full of dreams? Do they not have passions that they’d like to share with the world? Are they simply joyless bean-counters that continue to live day after day just for the sake of knowing that they’re gaining more uncountable digital money?
Sorry, I think I got off-track there. This whole thing is distasteful.
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
I totally see that your comment was friendly and there wasn’t any ill will, and I can definitely understand reading their comment as a bit accusatory - but the word “prejudice” isn’t the same as how I think we’re viewing being “prejudiced”.
I don’t think they were intending to be hostile, is all I’m saying. I think it’s just a case of crossed wires tbh - but I hope you’re well and have a good day! ✌️
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 2 weeks ago:
I don’t think they were calling you “prejudiced” as it were, they were just outlining that judging whether something counts as a “real” hobby or just succumbing to boredom is flavoured a bit by our own views and opinions :)
- Comment on Christian group wins legal battle over preaching ban in west London 2 weeks ago:
Yeah there’s a couple of these wackos on my street too. They get out and film themselves standing around yelling out and talking. They’ve said stuff to me and my ex before. It’s pretty weird but they’re harmless - I don’t mind a few harmless weirdos to be honest, it brightens the place up lol
- Comment on How do you combat boredom? 3 weeks ago:
Family II
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
Totally hear you man. I have spent so much time ruminating and it can certainly be frustrating, distracting, and unhelpful. I don’t smoke at the moment, which might be a blessing because I’ve found that I’ve been sort of forced to confront the way I feel about things I ruminate about. I’ve been journalling a lot, just to work through the thoughts.
Walking long distances is very therapeutic for me, allowing my mood to shift throughout the walk and letting me change focus, at times enjoying what I’m seeing externally and at others turning inwards and thinking through things that are bothering me or things that pop up in my mind. I feel more equipped and in touch with myself after a few months of really trying to face things, which is nice after years of drowning those feelings out with alcohol and whatever else I could get my hands on. I’m not all fixed up and in great mental shape, not by long shot, but I can tell for 100% certain that I’m much more stable. That’s what’s worked for me, at least!
I’m similar to you in wanting to move away from the “internet” at large. It sounds like you still appreciate the human connection though, which I also feel. For me, moving away from WhatsApp and Instagram have been I think largely because a lot of pain and discomfort has come through those platforms over the years, breakups and arguments and whatever else, and I just want a break. I don’t know if it’s the same for you.
I hope you find comfort and have a happy Sunday 🤞 Be well!
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
You are blessed, teithiwr bach 🙏
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
I hope you’re right! Thanks for turning that around haha, that’s a nicer way to view it for certain. Enjoy your weekend ✌️
- Comment on The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone 3 weeks ago:
I think we’re disagreeing on some fundamental things here. I don’t really care what other industries might recognise as art; I care about what I recognise as art.
Brick textures, for example, do have a potentially massive impact on the atmosphere of your game. If you’re playing a game set in a city, where there’s a lot of brick around, the difference between grimy, slimy, dark brown bricks being everywhere and gleaming white/yellow sandstone bricks is absolutely enormous. That’s an artistic choice.
- Comment on The low-cost creative revolution: How technology is making art accessible to everyone 3 weeks ago:
Lumping “free software” and “AI” together here makes me think somebody high up in this rag has investment in AI.
Art is accessible to everyone. Art comes in so many forms, and can be enjoyed in so many different ways. Everybody can make art. It won’t always be the best thing you’ve ever seen or heard or experienced, but practice will make anyone better at art. You can do art for free.
Making a robot do art for you is not doing art. That’s the robot compiling other people’s art and exporting it for you. Nothing valuable, interesting, or human in there any more.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
WhatsApp notifications off. Most conversations archived so I can’t see them when opening the app to check work conversations. Some conversations locked so I can’t even tell when there’s new messages in there at all. Dodging Instagram.
Blinds closed for weeks straight. Walking miles and miles a day. Getting sober. Working out. Shaved my head. Healthy breakdown 😂
- Comment on Ubisoft Confirms a New First-Person Ghost Recon Game is in Development 3 weeks ago:
Oh, Ubisoft? The big famous sex crimes company?
- Comment on We face nationalisation if we’re not let off fines, Thames Water warns 3 weeks ago:
They fucked around with our water, and now are moaning that there’s consequences? I hope they get nationalised. Can’t happen quickly enough. It’s a shame that the people at the top of Thames Water can just make off with their ill-gotten gains, and all have golden parachutes. Some community service wouldn’t go amiss.
- Comment on High water bills, filthy rivers – and now drought. This is England’s great artificial water crisis of 2025 3 weeks ago:
Southern Water nearly doubled their CEO pay to £1.4m because bonuses were banned. Just thought that is a nice little cherry on top for us poors :)
- Comment on Southern Water nearly doubles CEO pay to £1.4m despite bonus ban 3 weeks ago:
Hahahahaha of course they did. Hope the fucker gets all the water he can handle and more some day.
- Comment on Emma Watson banned from driving for speeding 3 weeks ago:
Lol, enjoy your breakdown buddy! 👋