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- Comment on Great Tits 3 hours ago:
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 23 hours ago:
And not under particularly bright indoor lighting.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
With Firefox, presumably compatibility, AI stuff, and a string of lesser Mozilla controversies, I guess?
As for Brave, I think you’re underestimating people. They don’t want to be tracked, they don’t want to see ads. They won’t necessarily go seek a solution out, but if a one-click solution to fix that presents itself in front of their eyeballs, they might try it.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Friend, why are you so intent on sticking to Brave?
Trying another browser that doesnt have a long list of “cherry picked” controversies takes like a few seconds. What’s the downside to that?
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Thats obscure information, too. It’s reasonable to not know.
I draw the line when its awfulness is pointed out, and linked, alternatives are presented, yet the Brave user digs in their heels and takes criticism of their browser choice personally. That is just ego.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 day ago:
Better yet, a GenAI power virus.
Link it to a “cool looking AI app” which constantly thrashes the phone in the background generating AI porn to sell, which Google/Apple do absolutely nothing to stop because it’s AI and it makes them money. Use to extra cash to sell more tshirts.
…Maybe I went a little far, there.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 1 day ago:
Quite Mass Effect Andromeda-ish.
…Which is an under-rated game, IMO. Yes, the main quests and characters have the charisma of sticks, but it has some neat side quests, kinda like a BGS game. Counter to the “my face is tired” meme, the animations, graphics, combat and everything are all amazing.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Also, the Brave defenders in this section… holy moly.
Some folks simply cannot admit they made a questionable choice.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Because if the long history of controversies:
blog.alexseifert.com/…/why-i-recommend-against-br…
Even if it was somehow fine now, I wouldn’t touch it with a ten foot pole. TBH I’d use Edge before Brave, even on Linux.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Cromite is more of a “single purpose” browser, for hardcore antifingerprinting.
If you want to shop online or browse stuff without tracking ghosts following you around, there is nothing even close.
…But it’s kind of impractical.
Its antifingerprinting is so extreme it breaks many sites. It doesn’t even try to support many features/extensions in pursuit of this. And TBH, any browser with full UBlock (like Helium or Firefox) provides a better “adblocking” experience, albeit not as strong of an anti-tracking one.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
Ublock is basically redundant with it.
- Comment on When people recommend Brave browser. 1 day ago:
It’s because no one knows any alternatives.
If one wants a Chrome-based browser that isn’t Chrome, Brave is the highest-profile one by orders of magnitude. The next is a bunch of high-SEO scamware before honest projects like Vivaldi or Helium are even a whisper.
- Comment on This fuckass ad keeps popping up while I'm trying to study Norwegian 2 days ago:
I would highly, highly recommend a fork with full UBO, like: github.com/imputnet/helium?tab=readme-ov-file
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 days ago:
It’s all a parody, though. That’s the point.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 3 days ago:
www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time
Now, I know what the woke deep state is going to say, and I want to save you the trouble of listening to them.
“The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?” Never ratified it. Even if we did, who cares. Next.
“The environmental impact?” Mr. Secretary, Iranian oil is leaking everywhere. Tankers are on fire near Fujairah. This approach is constructive destruction.
“Radiation?” Radiation is the most overblown left-wing conspiracy since climate change. The Plowshare’s 1962 underground Sedan test fallout reached South Dakota in 1962 and South Dakota is fine. Went for Trump by thirty points. Plus, the residual glow keeps Iran from trying anything funny near the new channel.
The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells.
This is hilarious. Heh.
I don’t buy Gingrich’s earnesty. He must be trolling too. Most Republicans are doing it on Twitter now, so it fits the pattern.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 3 days ago:
The message is “Games need to get cheaper to make, not shittier and more expensive.”
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
I mean, a YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming.
It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
So we call them what they are: megacorp games!
I just don’t like the term “AAA.” It feels like these mega studios are hiding behind that as a badge of quality.
- Comment on Anon misses flash 1 week ago:
And Valve/Apple/Google getting a 30% kickback.
They are absolutely fine with all the garbage because it buys them many, many yachts.
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
Depends what you define as “AAA”
Baldurs Gate 3, for instance, has no nonsense, and every word out of the director’s mouth is “we made this decision because it’s what our developers wanted.” But while the dev team is “AAA” large, Larian doesn’t really fit the mould of Ubisoft, EA, Rockstar, Blizzard or whatever.
I think we need a new designation for what are basically megacorp operations.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 week ago:
And better security, theoretically.
TBH most Android users would absolutely install all sorts of malware if it wasn’t literally impossible with the OS’s architecture. Not that Google Play isn’t a scam-infested bog, but I do get the locked-down approach.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 2 weeks ago:
I mean, even as-is, it’s a very useful tool. Especially as the capabilities we have get exponentially cheaper.
What people don’t get is AI is about to become a race to the bottom, not to the top. It’s a utility to sift through millions of documents or run simple bots, or work assistants, or makeshift translators or whatever; you know, oldschool language modeling. And that’s really neat as the cost approaches “basically free.”
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
On the contrary, to quote Wikipedia’s article on him:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Larry_Sanger
Since Sanger’s departure from Wikipedia, he has been critical of the project, describing it in 2007 as being “broken beyond repair”.[8] He has argued that, despite its merits, Wikipedia lacks credibility and accuracy due to a lack of respect for expertise. Since 2020, he has also accused Wikipedia of having a left-wing and liberal ideological bias in its articles.[9][10] Sanger’s effort to change Wikipedia was seen by some as part of a right-wing attack on Wikipedia.[11][12]
Which lines up with external articles by him I’m reading, including his take on Grokipedia: larrysanger.org/2025/10/grokipedia-a-first-look/
Of course Wikipedia is biased (probably western/liberal biased), astroturfed, and such. But calling it something like a CIA misinformation tool falls into “perfect is the enemy of good” at best, and sounds more like the efforts to tear down its credibility from actors who don’t like what it says abou them.
- Comment on ELI5. Limit of current gen AI/LLMs 2 weeks ago:
Others have explained it well; splitting calls up and programatic prompt engineering.
And what is the limit of AI non theortical limit of AI?
Who knows?
But practically, transformer models are kinda hitting an “innovation” wall. Big companies aren’t taking risks to try and fix (say) the necessity of temperature to literally randomize outputs, or splitting instructions/context/output, or self correction (like an undo token), self learning, anything. All this has been explored in papers, but they aren’t even trying it.
Their development is way more conservative than you’d think, and that’s the wall LLMs are smacking into.
- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s all sorts of crazy political purity tests on Lemmy, and associated misuse of slurs.
And on Wikipedia:
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On one side, my MAGA-adjacent family is starting to question it as “liberal biased”… as they leave Fox News blasting in the background.
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On the other, tankies and some different leftist extremist leftists dismiss it as propaganda.
That’s a good sign, to me. Its never been perfect and has problems, but extremists trying to tear its credibility down is a sign of just how valuable it is.
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- Comment on ..? 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Incel propaganda in my music app 2 weeks ago:
It’s not an accident.
It’s probably not a conspiracy.
If seeing that so much as pauses your scrolling, the algo counts that as “engagement,” and that gets modeled into your profile for all of time. That’s all it cares about, not incel stuff specifically… though rage bait happens to work very well, which is how these jerks make a living.
You might fix it with a new account from a different IP.
- Comment on Video games are losing the "attention war" to gambling, porn, and crypto, according to industry report 3 weeks ago:
Sounds like fud, from all angles. No one but Tech Bros and their bots care about crypto, porn has always been porn. There are literally thousands of great, dirt cheap games to play.
But anecdotally, I observed YouTube suck away a lot of attention from games and TV in my family. It’s lower brainpower, so if one is (say) dog tired from work, the algorithm has a lot of appeal vs a hardcore KCD2 session or an intense TV drama.
- Comment on it keeps getting momentum 4 weeks ago:
It’s an ongoing scam for the ultra wealthy and Tech Bro influencer con artists.
That’s not an exaggeration. That’s what it is.
Hence, it will keep going as long as social media keeps boosting it.
- Comment on AI is destroying open source, and it's not even good yet 4 weeks ago:
Architectural improvements could help, but the big guys can’t even get away from “basic” problems like high temperature sampling. Corporate development is way more conservative than you’d think.
And it’s not getting better. See the “all star” ego teams and Meta, OpenAI and such vs. those that quit.
The Chinese are testing some more interesting things (and actually publishing papers on them), but still pretty conservative all things considered. They drrm content with LLMs as modest coding assistants and document processors, basically.