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- Comment on Will the next president of America have to do a world wide apology tour for this administration? Kind of like celebs do when they get their ass in a sling. 1 day ago:
Friend, the next President of the United States is either going to be Trump, Vance, or Elon Musk.
- Comment on Being poor is expensive 1 day ago:
You know what’s also wild?
Paying for a blue checkmark on Twitter.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 1 day ago:
You know, I’d argue it’s hard to stop kids from doing that privately. If they want to use some local model to undress Jessica from history class, for only their eyeballs… well, that genie is out of the bottle unless we take everyone’s computers away.
Now, where it crosses another line is spreading those nudes.
Or even worse, selling them.
No one should be allowed to make money off that. Not the financial processors that facilitate it if they “buy” an undressing service, not the social media platforms that advertise it to them; they should all be crushed to dust with liability. And kids should get in deep trouble if they pass it around, just like they would if they ripped Jessica’s clothes off in broad daylight.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 1 day ago:
It totally does. My sister got it to play Pokopia and Animal Crossing. I know of families that have gotten it for their kids, for similar reasons.
I’m not saying it’s a smart buy, but not everyone is a seasoned, mature gamer. If you have a decent budget, zero spare time, no experience with PCs, and your young kid is dying to play Pokopia with all their friends, a Switch 2 makes sense. As a plus, it’s not a tablet where you have to deal with straight up scam apps, or a expensive PC where you need some technical know-how to make it safe for one’s kid.
- Comment on As Xbox and PlayStation flounder, Steam is reportedly having another record year 1 day ago:
I have a theory.
The “casual” or “mainstream” crowd, the one that used to buy CoD, FIFA, Madden, Sims and such yearly like clockwork, has transitioned to phone apps, or sports betting/fantasy.
Their attention has been robbed from consoles.
Meanwhile, “games as art” gamers that treat them more like movies are less affected. That segment continues to grow on PC, and maybe even consoles, but the attrition of the first group masks that for the console crowd.
I’d postit that a third factor is Steam’s rising market share coming at the expense of other PC gaming storefronts. For market purposes, it is PC gaming now.
- Comment on *inhales* 🖕🙂↕️🖕 1 day ago:
I would counter:
Then why are these things okay for adults?
There is nothing normal about mass consumption of troll farms and bots. The user facing internet is broken and unhealthy, and it’s absolutely mad we pretend like it isn’t. Banning it from children is not even a band-aid.
…I’m going to set porn aside.
- Comment on Would it be better to just have a lot of society be underground? 5 days ago:
OP, have you ever planted a bush? On a wet day?
Digging. Is. Hard.
Also, studies have shown that “enclosed” living is psychologically problematic, at least for a majority of people. This is why rooms where people live/work for extended periods have windows.
- Comment on I made a full Ai Movie Can y'all Review it 1 week ago:
I watched some, and I’m about as “pro AI” as you’ll find on Lemmy, but honestly:
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Tons of scenes are jarring. Like, right off the bat, the zoomed in scene of walking feet is token. Heads twist around, objects float; it’s creepy. It continues all through the movie, like the scene of the airplane landing.
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All the voices are robotic and tinny.
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All the scenes are too short.
And this makes sense.
Most TTS isn’t integrated with LLMs; it’s just interpreting text, so it can’t convey any emotion.
Video models are only good at ultra short scenes and are honestly still pretty bad.
Its one strength seems to be generating consistent, attractive faces in short bursts. Which makes sense: the primary use case for these things is influencer bots, impersonating real humans, for attention farms or marketing campaigns.
…Look. AI is just not good for this format. I doubt it ever will be without some serious cinema scaffolding to just hold bits in place.
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- Comment on Sony 1 week ago:
^
I see a whole lot of theoretical “what if platforms did this or that,” when GoG is already doing it right.
- Comment on Early Steam Machine user mourns "red line of death" following GPU failure 1 week ago:
From OP in the Reddit thread:
Got five minutes of No Man’s Sky in, then I installed the update the machine had available and it bricked itself. If you’re still in the queue, look on the bright side: they’re presumably going to iron this crap out. Edit: To be more accurate, it’s giving the error light code for GPU failure.
Anticlimactic and somewhat embarrassing update: as some people suggested, I left it unplugged for about half an hour last night and then tried plugging it back in… and it didn’t work. So I left it unplugged for a couple of hours and then tried it again before bed… and it didn’t work. Same error light despite multiple power-cycling attempts. So I left it unplugged overnight and plugged it back in today to try some of the BIOS stuff that other people suggested… and it booted up immediately without issue.
I feel stupid about even posting this now, especially since it blew up a bit, but I was tired and irritable after a long day of work, and an ominous GPU error code wasn’t exactly the seamless plug-and-play experience I had hoped for. But I guess if anyone encounters the same error, don’t panic like I did, just let it sit for a few hours and it will somehow sort itself out.
It sounds like a firmware issue that bricked it. Perhaps Valve pushed a fix while it was “on” overnight, or they reset something in the BIOS.
What I’m getting at is the specter this raises: The Steam machine seemingly relies on Valve for firmware support here, I think. Not AMD directly, like with the normal Linux firmware shipping.
That’s an interesting can of worms.
It’s not bad or anything, I’d trust Valve more than HP, Sony, or past OEMs who were notorious for wonky “custom” hardware support. And I suppose their track record with the Deck speaks for itself. But still, that’s something I’d keep in mind before buying one of these things.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Yeah, it’s mostly newer indie or “AA” games I’ve been into.
On the pricing: blog.subimpact.net/…/valve-allegedly-threatened-t…
But in a nutshell, the allegations is that Steam threatens to delist games if they’re priced lower than Steam on other storefronts, similar to what Walmart or Amazon are accused of doing.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Also, I have a pet peeve:
I see a lot of people claim to want discs, but they haven’t actually used them given the choice.
Or buy DRM free. And they don’t.
For what it’s worth, I try to buy games from GoG first, first party storefront second, but that hardly even works anymore. It’s almost always only available on Steam. Maybe rarely on EGS, but then it’s not clear if the download is even DRM free, and it literally cannot be cheaper if it’s listed on Steam too, so that’s not really an option.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
Nah. The hardware for discs is gone, and rather slow anyway. USB/SD cards are too expensive.
And digital key reselling? That’s a whole can of worms for grifters to squeeze.
Not that it doesn’t suck. I want to (legally) archive and resell my games.
…But I don’t know a good alternative.
- Comment on Time to bring back physical media on PC? 1 week ago:
That’s not really true. Most recent games I’ve bought, I tried to buy off Steam. But they weren’t available anywhere else.
It also hardly even matters as no one on Steam is allowed to price below Steam. So they effectively control pricing power, like Sony; the screws just aren’t so tight yet.
- Comment on "Profoundly Disappointed:" Companies Respond To Sony's Decision To End Disc Support 1 week ago:
iam8bit, a company known for its physical gaming collectibles, which said it is “profoundly disappointed” by the news.
GameFly
Video Game History Foundation director Frank Cifaldi
…Well, to be fair, these companies would obviously complain.
I’d “buy” this headline more if bigger studios spoke up.
- Comment on Videogames: Then and Now 1 week ago:
“Remember. No Russian.”
Pulls down mask.
Rips off shirt, flexes.
- Comment on Videogames: Then and Now 1 week ago:
This is a quality shitpost.
Not sure it even belongs in this sub; it’s too accurate.
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
A funny anecdote from outside gaming land:
Sony mirrorless cameras, even MEGA expensive ones, have this quirk where they can’t shoot 30P HEVC.
The A6700 for instance, can record 24, 30, 60 h.264, but only 24 or 60 h.265. The A7C II is particularly handicapped, with only 24 h.265.
It doesn’t make sense. Why?
Well, people kept asking Sony, and someone finally got a response:
…sony.com/…/why-sony-a7s-iii-doesnt-support-25-or…
Hello, Sony’s commitment to customer satisfaction is our top priority. The reason for that is that we determined the current product specifications from our analyses of target users and available technologies. For XAVC HS, we envision users enjoying HLG movies by connecting the camera to an HDR (HLG) compatible BRAVIA TV over HDMI, and 60p is what we view as the default setting for playback with it. To record movies in higher quality in 4K/30p, we would recommend selecting XAVC S and XAVC S-I, 10-bit 4:2:2 sampling, either Long GoP and All-I codec. Could you tell us how creators such as yourself want to use HEVC at 30p so we can provide feedback to our design team?
I found that oddly enlightening.
“Well, it’s not optimal for BRAVIA TVs, so why would users want this?” Sony cannot fathom such a thing.
It makes that whole list in OP’s post make total sense. It’s not even cynicism on their part; they literally cannot understand why their PlayStation users would want any of those things. What would they need a disk play for? What value is Bluepoint is a business review?
- Comment on If power the rate at which energy is transferred, then does that transference have a speed? And have we or can we measure it? 1 week ago:
Well. It depends. And I’m not talking about relativity, set that aside.
The time it takes electrical power to get from a source to a destination (for example) isn’t instant, nor a constant. In practice, it’s affected by all sorts of initial conditions and their state through time, like impedance along the line. Or, more practically, what very complicated PWM voltage controllers are doing when you flip a switch.
- Comment on If power the rate at which energy is transferred, then does that transference have a speed? And have we or can we measure it? 1 week ago:
I’m not sure I follow; power and energy have nothing to do with velocity or acceleration in this context, its just meant to be an analogy.
So with that said then one of those dimmer lights for example if i put it on low the transfer rate will be slower but if I immediately hit the max it will be faster? kind of like a power supply changing it’s current. And if the slew rate signal is fast enough it will distort at the end?
If you flick a dimmer fast enough, it might distort, yes? But its unfortunately more complicated than “range of change of power” and has to do with how modern dimmers works.
So basically to go to point A to point B I have to have a velocity and destination. Which would be B and origin would be A. At the rate I get there is the acceleration on top of acceleration.
Not exactly.
Where you are is your position.
The rate you get there is speed.
If you speed up or slow down, that’s acceleration.
And how “smooth” your acceleration is is what we call “jerk.” Slamming on gas or brakes would be a high jerk value, gradually pushing the petal until its all the way down would be a low jerk value.
But what is the speed at which one can go up to and through the slew point without overloading it? Would this not be an input of measure going from point A to point B?
Not sure I follow this, sorry. But if you’re talking about overloading electrical components, unfortunately this is really complicated and gets into how AC circuits work.
And as another random suggestion, you may want to look up dimensional analysis. If you’re trying to wrap your head around how stuff is represented, that’s it.
For example:
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We measure position in meters (m).
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We measure speed in meters per second. meters / seconds, or m/s.
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Acceleration is meters per second, per second. meters / (second * second), or m / s^2.
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Hence jerk is m / s^3
Energy is trickier to wrap your head around.
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“Force,” aka how hard you push on something, can be measured as the acceleration of mass. Its unit is kilogram * meter / seconds ^2, or kg * m / s^2
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Energy is force * distance. So kg * m^2 / s^2.
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Power is energy per second. So kg * m^2 / s^3.
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And what you were initially describing seems to be kg * m^2 / s^4.
Here’s another way to look at it.
What happens if you divide power by velocity? In other words, how “fast” is the power moving?
Well, that’d be:
(kg * m^2 / s^3) divided by (m/s)
And what do you get? kg * m / s^2. That’s force!
So maybe “force” is the answer to your original question of “what’s the ‘speed’ of power moving through stuff called,” if I’m interpreting it right.
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- Comment on If power the rate at which energy is transferred, then does that transference have a speed? And have we or can we measure it? 1 week ago:
You’re getting at a real mathematical thing. First some background:
In physics, the derivative of position, with respect to time, is velocity. In other words, if you measure the slope of a graph of an object’s position, you get its velocity.
The second derivative is acceleration. The third derivative is called “jerk,” or which is basically acceleration of acceleration.
Similarly, the derivative of energy, with respect to time, is power.
The second derivative of energy is what you’re describing.
This isn’t a commonly used unit though. In electrical systems its sometimes used as a “slew rate” rating, but it’s different than the units and measurements used in relation to frequency and AC power.
- Comment on Justice Samuel Alito, who wrote the opinion overturning Roe v. Wade, retires 1 week ago:
So is this a leak?
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 1 week ago:
They didn’t want to kill Sora. They wanted to license it.
AFAIK Disney was the one with plans to use it extensively, but OpenAI is the one who decided to kill it.
- Comment on Disney Failed to Buy James Bond Franchise, Walked Away From Owning Twitter Hours Before the Deal Closed and Held Apple Merger Talks 1 week ago:
I found their full throated jump onto the OpenAI Sora boat particularly egregious.
Here’s a company that could do machine learning right.
They have:
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Cash.
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An ocean of high quality material they own; no need to steal to train.
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Animators, editors, plenty of staff to help.
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“Family safe” trust with a whole lot of people.
They could have trained their own models from scratch, on modest hardware, to do stuff that’s actually neat, like supplement production or make interactive comics or something, yet…
They used precisely none of that.
They jumped on the Tech Bro train and licensed the gross abomination that was Sora for short video prompts?
I literally do not get it.
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- Comment on "influencers" are setting us back 2 weeks ago:
Well, BIG TIMI is either a bot or has a serious Twitter problem, as he’s posted 31 times in the past 17 hours, every hour:
…And he pays for Twitter.
To bring intellectualism back into his life, maybe he should consider that.
- Comment on Why do people get mad at you for using Wikipedia, but treat Google and AI chatbots like they're gospel? 2 weeks ago:
First… are the people bringing this up really into social media? Or conservative, by chance?
There’s three potentially confused things:
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Oldschool “Wikipedia isn’t a primary source.” I learned this in middle school. It’s technically true.
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There’s slightly newer accusations of a liberal Wikipedia bias. Hence the attempt to create Conservapedia. There’s a tiny nugget of truth, perhaps, but not to the outrageous extent suggested.
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THEN there are modern attempts to discredit Wikipedia as a whole. Mind my tinfoil hat, but I’d argue it’s largely algorithmic and Big Tech driven, as it’s a high profile information source they cannot control, a place where things are documented they don’t necessarily want in the limelight.
There’s some overlap too, like Musk’s motivations, rants, and actions falling into category 2 and 3. Or some hijacking of point 1.
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- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
The messenger matters.
Would you care about anything I was saying if I was a bot?
Or a Musk/Theil bootlicker?
Especially on this topic. Nodding your heads about the loss of the internet to engagement chum on Twitter is the opposite of poetic.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Well, he tweets many times a day, many posts like this just farming for engagement:
…Feels pretty Tech Bro to me. I don’t think this is a case of “I have no choice but to use Twitter.”
In fact, I’d wager some of those posts are automated.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
…Could it be because those builders are paying Elon Musk for a blue checkmark on Twitter?
- Comment on I used to be an uber eats driver and lowkey 2 weeks ago:
It was like this from the beginning, with Google and early digital services being protected from lawsuits because they are ostensibly middlemen.
The thinking was that they’re garage startups that need protection, and… we kinda just never changed that.
