Alphane_Moon
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 month ago:
You need really need genAI for a country to become authoritarian.
My bigger point is that it’s counterproductive to think of a government as an external black box. At the end of the day it’s a reflection of society (at least to some degree).
What to do about it is another question. But IMO the first step has to be recognition of “how things got to be this way”. If you can’t do that, the discussion around the impact of genAI are IMO moot.
Take russia as an example. In the 90s they had a relatively open media landscape, chaotic and influenced by oligarchs, but critique was allowed and it was very prominent.
But the russians elected a KGB goon in 2000 and then reelected him in 2004 after he shut down most independent media in his first term.
To this day, the russian opposition continues to look for scapegoats (90s liberals, Yeltsin, etc.) and reject any responsibility of society more broadly (revanchist, supremacist ideas, imperialism)
If you can’t even do that, then how are you going to deal with the impact of genAI.
My bigger point is that, IMO, genAI is almost a red herring. There will always be tech that can be used to enable authoritarianism. There is no magical tech solution to what is fundamentally a social issue.
- Comment on Is "AI" the end of truth? 1 month ago:
An arguement could be made that good governance is the responsibility of citizens/voters.
So it’s up to us (in the broad sense) to elect goverments that do not engage in cover-ups and do not shape the world as they see fit.
- Xbox Next Magnus APU Will Provide Flexibility for Scaling an Entire Stack of Systems That Will Likely Compete More With Pre-Built PCs Than the PlayStation 6wccftech.com ↗Submitted 2 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 5 comments
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 months ago:
For sure, I didn’t mean to imply otherwise.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 months ago:
There is definitely a lot of truth in this.
If gamers were more critical about with their purchases, we would have a very different gaming industry.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 months ago:
If the focus was on more competitive markets (in the real sense, not PR) and we had less corruption, Nintendo copyrights would already begin to expire.
This way Nintendo could make it’s own game and it’s own console and others could try out their own concepts.
- Comment on Nintendo sold almost 6 million Switch 2 units in less than a month 2 months ago:
Nintendo was never really a thing where I live (other than late NES clones and occasional Gameboys back in the day).
With Nintendo’s pricing policy and focus on rehashing the same properties, it’s doubtful Nintendo will ever be a thing.
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- Comment on How Nintendo locked down the Switch 2’s USB-C port and broke third-party docking 3 months ago:
The country where I love has this article available for free (other articles from the site do require a subscription, albeit they are labelled as such).
I normally post archive.is copies for subscription articles, I thought this was in open access.
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- Comment on How Sony’s Forgotten Computers Helped Shape the PlayStation 4 months ago:
!retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org is pretty solid.
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- Microsoft Shifts Xbox Gaming Handheld Ambitions to Third-Party Windows Handhelds, Postpones 2027 Launch Planswww.techpowerup.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 63 comments
- Comment on U8: Cheap gaming handheld for under $50 offers long battery life 5 months ago:
I don’t live in the US. The price in local currency was close enough to $50.
- Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 9 comments
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
That’s a fair point.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Spread this everywhere?
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
I watch a lot of movies with subtitles, the usual approach is to have “forced” subtitles track (to be used in combination with a foreign language VO/dub).
That being said, it’s possible that you are right. But considering the overall approach used by American oligarchs, it’s reasonable to be sceptical and not give them the benefit of the doubt.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 5 months ago:
There is a lot of content on semiconductor manufacturing (both in context of gaming and beyond) on !hardware@lemmy.world, in one way or another anything related to semiconductors does impact both PC and console gaming (since CPUs and GPUs are key).
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 5 months ago:
If not consoles, AMD would have likely gone bankrupt or become a marginal player.
Considering what’s happening with Intel in the past ~7 year, it would have been game over for x86 PC gaming on the CPU front.
- Comment on Chips aren’t improving like they used to, and it’s killing game console price cuts 5 months ago:
Exactly this.
We continue to be able to make faster chips, both via smaller nodes, but also via advanced packaging and architecture improvements.
But the costs of every new generational increase is rising faster than the % performance improvement.
I am personally hoping this will eventually lead to a culture of total optimization (similar to what we saw in the 90s on both PC and console), but there are likely significant barriers to implementing such a new development culture at scale.
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- Overclocked Nintendo Switch Modded With 8 GB RAM Is Capable Of Running PlayStation 3 Games via RPCS3 Emulator Surprisingly Wellwccftech.com ↗Submitted 5 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 29 comments
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- Comment on I am not able to find lemmy.world on instance finder what is happening? 6 months ago:
I stand corrected.
- Comment on I am not able to find lemmy.world on instance finder what is happening? 6 months ago:
I think LW agreed to remove their listing because they are already very big.
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- AYANEO Pocket MICRO Classic is a tiny Android handheld without analog sticks for $179 and up - Liliputingliliputing.com ↗Submitted 7 months ago to games@lemmy.world | 1 comment