zarathustrad
@zarathustrad@lemmy.world
- Comment on Day 773 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 days ago:
For me I just saw the hallway, had a weirdly vivid memory of running back and forth for ever in a similar place and thought… KOTOR? With no recollection of any other details. (It’s all coming back to me now, memory is weird. Now I’m thinking about HK-47 for the 1st time in a decade or two)
- Comment on just sayin 3 days ago:
Well, it’s a conflation of threats.
It’s not really AI, and it’s not what is in control, but it is enabling the increased consolidation of wealth coupled with the increased ability to defend that wealth with a smaller and smaller concentration of people (surveillance+robotics/drones+LLM aided automation). So, real threats, wrong response as usual.
- Comment on just sayin 3 days ago:
AI discretion advised.
- Comment on just sayin 3 days ago:
Worked in California.
- Comment on Left Wing Rage # Right Wing Rage 3 days ago:
I mean, it’s a community for shit posting, so I would just encourage you to make better shitposts on the shit posts you want to shit on.
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 1 week ago:
That’s a bingo!
- Comment on 'Who’s Deciding The Fate Of This Game?' The Secretive Process Of Getting A Game With Sexual Content On Steam 1 week ago:
It’s much easier to have power over people who can be blackmailed for “sexual deviance” when the definition is very broad, can be tracked online, and tracking and banning are voluntarily enforced by corporate entities like banks (no-free speech problems).
- Comment on My hands are filthy, burned and calloused so hers can be filled with chicken nuggets. 1 week ago:
Can’t even get Internet and power cables buried and maintained, good luck with masstransit in rural areas.
- Comment on ahoy 2 weeks ago:
Hit some garage/estate sales.
I built Frankenstein’s NAS out of parts from 4 old DDR3 gaming PCs and a pile of drives from old workstations. Just need a good case with tons of bays/fans.
Sure, it not power efficient, and some of those drives will die over the next few years, but it will get better (cope).
(Just add larger HDD in pairs as referbs go on flash sales, for only 2x more than they were last year… And pray for the hardware crash or more cash)
- Comment on dumb it way down 2 weeks ago:
Even as I slowly learn most of the meanings, and shifting sub-cultures, I still don’t need to know. I mean, I listen if I care about the person, but I’m not trying to be a matchmaker so I don’t really have a reason to know the details, I don’t even want to be overly involved in boring cis/het people’s dating lives, or those of my (slightly less, but still boring) gay friends. I identify as old and indifferent, I’ll just be happy if you’re happy.
- Comment on I could quit AI anytime I want to 2 weeks ago:
I’m not using any “forced on me” AI products, other than as a search engine aid, and I have better tools for that now anyway.
I do, absolutely use AI. I use local, self hosted small focused AI that run on old hardware I was just using to self host media and games anyway.
Want do my AI do? Lots of boring organizing, text/voice recognition, and script/simple coding for hobby projects and such, all offline. For online stuff there are private large Available, but those cost money and I’m cheap.
- Comment on greeting a CEO 3 weeks ago:
“Suffer not the CEO to live” Exodus 22:18
Something like that, according to LLM translation from the original text. Who am I to question the machine spirit.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 3 weeks ago:
Thanks. I’ll do better next time.
- Comment on Police HATE this one weird trick 3 weeks ago:
The instinct to immediately pull over is a mistake, it arouses contempt in the cop-heart. Mash the pedal down and make the bastard chase you
No cop was ever born who isn’t a sucker for a finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift.
Accelerate immediately. When you see the red light, do not stop. Speed up to 120 mph.
Force the chase. Drive to the next exit while signaling confusingly (e.g., indicating a right turn while staying on the freeway).
By forcing the officer to lose control of their vehicle while trying to keep up with your finely-executed hi-speed Controlled Drift, you shift the psychological dynamic. This makes him horny.
- Comment on Fat bastard for president 3 weeks ago:
I can make a joke in a trench and still shoot the guy charging over the hill when the time comes. Atheists and comedians are in the foxhole with us right now.
- Comment on A real, 100% unedited promotional picture from Kohler toilets 3 weeks ago:
Looks like a job for Dickbutt.
- Comment on So Many People Dont Know This Hack 4 weeks ago:
Well, I do like to go bowling. There’s nothing like taking that big black ball and knocking it into those ten white pins with the red necks!
Sweep this poster off the stage Sandman!
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 4 weeks ago:
Sounds like a luxury for the rich. The poors need a job and not a mountain of debit for “balanced education” and social connection.
- Comment on One Standard Yglesias 4 weeks ago:
The poors can still get in if they are willing to become indebted wage slaves with a 6 figure debit for the next 20-30 years. Seems fair enough.
Just, don’t expect to get in to a social connection generator for nepo babies, you get a state school with institutionalized alcoholism.
- Comment on So Many People Dont Know This Hack 4 weeks ago:
“I’m talking about the man who invented the game of chess… A game that for some racist reason cannot start unless the white piece moves first.” Nat X
- Comment on There's always money in the banana sta... Flock cameras 4 weeks ago:
As someone with a home server and security cameras… (See 3rd paragraph for flock)
The cameras don’t have any ram. At least not the kind we are talking about. They use onboard processors and flash memory.
The NVR typically has 4-8g ram but that’s the not the camera, that’s the hub that they all connect to, and it also has the HHD/SSD wich is now also double+ the price. It’s also not external, it’s in a secure location.
Flock: AFAIK cameras run snapdragon, so it’s like a cell phone, with 2g ram chip. Not PC RAM. That, once again, could be in the NVR, which I believe is cloud based, so not a local device you can access.
- Comment on Hey, wait a fucking minute... 4 weeks ago:
I went into biology to avoid the worst of the chemistry math, and still ended up taking calculus, organic chem, ext… Then went medical… At least I mostly only do unit conversion and proportions I have memorized now, and use computers for most things.
Spending a lifetime pushing through suspected but undiagnosed dyscalculia is tiresome. Friggin transposition errors… (Probably some type of Semantic Memory or Procedural subtype).
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Do they pay royalties to the estate of Kurt Vonnegut for stealing his asshole?
- Comment on Absolutely true 4 weeks ago:
‘Gee, I sure would like to set those people on fire over there. But I’m way to far away to get the job done. If only I had something that would throw flame on them.’
- Comment on Absolutely true 4 weeks ago:
After 25 years of marriage (no kids), I can say that, if you make the right choices, you can have both lol. We both played WOW for a decade or two off and on, and still game, just less passing out, less online, and less Doritos… Because age.
- Comment on [deleted] 4 weeks ago:
Maybe she can find a role in a WWII movie.
Unfortunately she’s too light to be in a modern concentration camp move.
- Comment on what in the 5 weeks ago:
Imperialists to the left of me, Royalists to the right, here I am, stuck in the middle with Jews…
- Comment on Had to fight off the twinks for this bread 5 weeks ago:
We can make wine with the yeast we find inside your panties, and then drink it while we are eating out down at the seafood shanty.
- Comment on You don’t realize how bad it smells till you quit 5 weeks ago:
If I had a nickel for every new release anime about chain smoking… I still could not even afford a single loose cigarette.
- Comment on Famous statue of Virgin Mary 5 weeks ago:
Yea if that little man can walk on water, why the boat?
I’m suspicious.
