brucethemoose
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- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 6 days ago:
A good hijack, thanks.
- Comment on How much RAM is in your average EV car, and is it DDR5? 1 week ago:
It would be embedded.
It costs more to carefully cut the memory ICs out and repackage them than to just buy RAM.
In rare cases it can be done done (like the Chinese resoldering GDDR to make 48GB RTX 4090s), but I don’t see EV RAM being worth it.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 1 week ago:
It’s one of those “reporting on social media without actually adding anything” artciles, but in this case it’s pretty cool.
- Comment on How do I deliver an American eBay package to my hotel? 1 week ago:
Be aware that with eBay, shipping times can vary.
The seller has a grace period to pack stuff up, and even once it’s handed off, shipping can take longer than the estimate, especially with USPS.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
I agree. It honestly makes me mad that people get in such a huff over using generative models for fiction; they’re just another generation of tools.
The issue is blurring fiction and reality.
This isn’t just a problem with AI. See: influencers, tabloids, and “news” that sell caricatures of reality.
But AI makes it too, too easy to distribute fakeness in spaces that are supposed to be real. And this is what it ended up being used for.
Nowadays i know much better how to verify information that’s important to me; a dogs picture licking a cat which makes her purr will always emotionally positive for me, because a) it doesn’t matter outside of my satisfaction, just like the well told story.
…I think I’ve used generative models enough to get desensitized to the “feel good” bit. I guess I felt lie you once, but having peeked behind the curtain, the feeling has gone away.
But if they make you feel good, good. That’s what arts supposed to do.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
It’s still a fantasy though. People aren’t in control of their phones/feeds.
Heck, we can’t even get the world to use JPEG-XL or HEIF, much less capture RAWs.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
I can make my own AI image of a cute dog, though. What’s the point of that?
I think it cracks open a bigger issue than AI: the ‘illusion’ of authenticity on social media. Our squishy brains doomscroll with the fantasy that the stuff is real, and candid, and honest, and gems we found…
But that’s never really been true.
It’s largely with content designed to go viral and make someone a buck. Or sell something. And it’s served by billion dollar algorithms designed to model and hijack your brain.
- Comment on Cant Decide 🤖 1 week ago:
I have a business idea:
Vintage social media.
Only media that verifiably exists on the internet before 2021 is allowed. That’s still billions of cute animal photos and videos.
- Comment on MFW I wake up to find Lemmy feeds full of USA stuff 2 weeks ago:
Star posting. Please. I am begging you.
- An American tired of wallowing.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I am late to this argument, but data center imagegen is typically batched so that many images are made in parallel. And (from the providers that aren’t idiots), the models likely use more sparsity or “tricks” to reduce compute.
Task energy per image is waaay less than a desktop GPU. We probably burnt more energy in this thread than in an image, or a few.
And this is getting exponentially better with time, in spite of what morons like Sam Altman preach.
There’s about a billion reasons image slop is awful, but the “energy use” one is way overblown.
- Comment on Tankie 2 weeks ago:
I mean… I think it’s worrying that the norm is “who cares if it’s AI? It’ll fool idiots, spread it!” If that’s what you mean.
I swear, social media is going to kill us all.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 2 weeks ago:
Another thing fusion reactors would be good for is “burning” high radioactivity fission waste.
…Keeping them in a hole isn’t that expensive, so maybe the economic viability is questionable, but still. They are great sources of very high temperature neutrons.
- Comment on Alchemy is so hot right now. 2 weeks ago:
My first thought was “what happens to all that gold under neutron irradiation?” Apparently it transmutes back to Mercury 198 with beta decay, which is the wrong isotope. But if Mercury 198 gets hit again… I think it turns into 199, which is also stable?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gold-198
A lot of papers for these reactions are behind stupid subscription paywalls :(
Still though, it does seem extremely fortuitous, and it’s possible the gold doesn’t become impossibly radioactive. Maybe there’s some other chain that will cause problems, but the immediate concern in the bulk materials seems… alright.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
IDK, lots of the TW3 sidequests seem to be very good… from my time watching them on YouTube, heh.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
It might be a “watch the cutscenes and scenery highlights in a YT play though” games.
- Comment on Why didn't Venezuela move its capital further away from the ocean to make the government more resilliant to capitulation? 3 weeks ago:
Moving a capital isn’t trivial.
Maduro’s #1 concern was likely consolditating power internally, not external military hardening.
- Comment on The right FUCKING time to get TWO ram sticks damaged 3 weeks ago:
Looks like its only a few errors. Does the BIOS support any overclocking/tweaking?
I’m not familliar with Rocket Lake (your CPU generation), but you may be able to bump the voltage or loosen the timings a bit to get it stable. For free.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 weeks ago:
Also possibly oil.
- Comment on [Serious] If a human is trained by AI slop and then they make something with their own hands, is it still art? 3 weeks ago:
My hot take:
Slop is slop based on context.
It’s SEO spam. It’s thumbnails and autogenerated video for attention farming, it’s lazy Twitter posts parroting Sam Altman’s Ghibli meme, it’s disinformation. It’s faking and lying for internet points or actual money.
If you spend hours tweaking your original digital painting with some controlnet workflow so complex it puts photoshop layers to shame, and post it somewhere unmonetized just because, how is that slop?
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Gemini is pretty uncensored with certain workarounds, and you can still use all sorts of LLMs over API to do that.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, actually.
The “preview” version are often pretty good, before Google deep fries them with sycophantic RHLF. For example, Gemini 2.0 and 2.5 Pro both peaked in temporary experimental versions, before getting worse (and benchmark maxxed) in subsequent updates.
- Comment on Star Citizen is on course to reach $1 billion in player funding in 2026, and we still might not get to play its singleplayer campaign next year 4 weeks ago:
I like this take.
It seems like there are ‘victims’ sinking way too much money into SC. But if the gameplay is enjoyable, and fits your budget? Enjoy it. Hell yes.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Maybe I missed the joke, but street corn is so delicious it’s unreal.
Try some if you’re in Texas.
Is the joke that is AI slop b/c the recipe is so wonky?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Again, they’re tools. Some of the most useful applications for LLMs I’ve seen are never even seen by human eyes, like rankings, then ingesting documents and filling out json in pipelines. Or as automated testers.
You just need to put everything you’ve ever seen with ChatGPT and copilot and the NotebookLM YouTube spam out of your head. Banging text into a box is not AI. “Chat” tuned decoder-only LLMs are just one tiny slice that a few Tech Bros turned into a pyramid scheme.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
An OpenAI subscription does not count.
Otherwise, yeah… but it helps them less, proportionally. AAAs still have the fundamental Issue of targeting huge audiences with bland games. Making them even more gigantic isn’t going to help much.
AAs and below can get closer to that “AAA” feel with their more focused project.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Then most just won’t go on the Game Awards, and devs will go on using Cursor or whatever they feel comfortable with in their IDE setup.
I’m all against AI slop, but you’re setting an unreasonably absolute standard. It’s like saying “I will never use any game that was developed in proximity to any closed source software.” That is possible, technically, but most people aren’t gonna do that. It’s basically impossible on a larger team. Give them some slack with the requirement; it’s okay to develop on Windows or on Steam, just open the game’s source.
Similarly, let devs use basic tools. Ban slop from the end product.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Now my blood boils like everyone else’s when it comes to being forced to use AI at work, or when I hear the AI Voice on Youtube, or the forced AI updates to Windows and VS Code
You don’t hate AI. You hate Big Tech Evangelism. You hate corporate enshittification, AI oligarchs, and the death of the internet being shoved down your throat.
…I think people get way too focused on the tool, and not these awful entries wielding them while conning everyone. They’re the responsible party.
You’re using “AI” as a synonym for OpenAI, basically, but that’s not Joel Haver’s rotoscope filter at all. That’s niche machine learning.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Yeah.
Maybe a technically too. The rule said “no AI,” and E33 used AI, though in hindsight making such a hard restriction with the intent of filtering slop games was probably unwise.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
If we’re banning games over how they make concept art… I’m not sure how you expect to enforce that. How could you possibly audit that?
Are you putting coding tools in this bucket?
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 5 weeks ago:
Then you’re going to get no games.
Or just get devs lying about using cursor or whatever when they code.