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- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 1 day ago:
And they said AI wouldn’t boost business. Who’s laughing now, haters?
The whole thing is just embarrassing. Anyone with a bit of understanding knew that the technology comes with huge risks (after all, there is no understanding, just the imitation of it). Billions have been poured into a glorified autocomplete in one of the biggest corporate FOMOs I can remember. Nvidia is (as much as I hate them, rightfully) laughing all the way to the bank. Crypto and now this allow them to practically buy Intel - back when AMD bought Ati, people speculated it’d be Intel buying Nvidia! Granted, Intel did their part too, but Nvidia selling cards that will be completely outdated in two years in unthinkable amounts is wild. And the best part is, except for them, everyone else lost money, like not even OpenAI themselves are making any, and this is with Microsoft subsidizing them. Absolutely insane!
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 week ago:
Yup because negative consequences weren’t a thing before the guy was shot
since hes now going to be a rallying cry for action against “the left”.
If you haven’t heard any before, you might want to check with your ENT physician.
In the famous of words of John Wick… “Consequences.”
Consequences indeed
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 week ago:
When I hear Nazi I think of concentration camps and killing Jews. Kirk was a big supporter of Israel.
Well, Israel didn’t exist when the NSDAP did, so if you apply the literal meaning of each, a Nazi couldn’t support Israel. But fascism was also something that only applied to the party in power in Italy from 1922 to 1945. The terms have somewhat evolved since then; fascism generally meaning authoritarian, ultranationalistic and antiliberal. The same applies to nazism, but usually with some racist ideology with hatred for other religions.
- Comment on Posting for the "Now guys he was MURDERED! Don't celebrate!" Crowd 1 week ago:
Nah, it’s the same playbook every time. You have dangerous right wing rhetoric justifying violence (as seen in this thread, even by Kirk himself) that leads to political violence and the right is just “this is deserved” (see J6 or the attack on democratic lawmakers), but when it hits themselves, suddenly political violence is the worst and collective pearl-clutching starts. These people have created a dangerous atmosphere that they can’t control and it’s backfiring, there was never an attempt from them to defuse it.
People like Kevin Roberts who threaten revolutions with thinly veiled violence etc… btw my personal theory is that Kirk was shot by a right wing lunatic who was disappointed in Kirk’s 180 on the Epstein files which went from something like “this is the biggest conspiracy in history, never trust the government” to “I trust my friends in the government” over a weekend. They have created an atmosphere of “you need to fight those in power by any means necessary” and now they find themselves in an awkward spot.
Anyhow, everybody in the thread you replied to just did what Kirk ask them to. Not show empathy, not let the victims emotionally hijack the narrative. He made the world a worse place, I don’t know if it’s gonna be better without him but I have no reason to believe otherwise.
- Comment on "Undercover Informant" 2 weeks ago:
Give him a rest, OK? It was a slow day
- Comment on McDonald’s CEO is grappling with a ‘two-tier economy’ as he slashes prices on value meals—and signals backing for a minimum wage increase 2 weeks ago:
In addition to what others have already said (McD paying above minimum wage), only you paying more leads to the following:
- your competitors gain an advantage as they have lower labor cost
- only a tiny fraction of your customers have more disposable income because the rest of the population is unaffected
- and even then, for that tiny fraction, you’d have made more money if you hadn’t paid it to them in the first place, because they’re not spending it all on you, and also taxes
So for them, they need to make sure their competitors pay more money to their employees.
Also, their food is garbage, you’re doing yourself a favor not eating there.
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 3 weeks ago:
What surely is interesting is that Microsoft was somehow somewhat visionary with their usage of browser technology for the desktop. We see Windows Update running in the browser, there was Active Platform which included Active Desktop (very prone to crashes), they had ActiveX (shudder). In a way all ideas they abandoned but that were implemented somewhere else later and better. Not saying these ideas were good.
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 3 weeks ago:
Getting retroactively jealous here. I was in 56 kbit/s until ADSL hit. But hey, had full duplex gigabit Ethernet Internet at University from 2007 until 2011 to make up for it. It’s never been the same since
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 3 weeks ago:
Remember when Bill Gates made Windows 98 BSOD during a key note by plugging in a USB device? Good times
- Comment on Memories. And we thought it could never get any better than this 3 weeks ago:
2.5MB in 14 seconds, don’t think I’ve seen such a high download speed on Windows 9X in my life
I don’t miss those times, the 9X series was so bad, MS was right to ditch it after canning ME. Bluescreens, a shitty filesystem, no concept of security, dll hell, every time someone comes along with “remember how simple / great computing was back in the day” I want to scream in their face
- Comment on leading ai company 3 weeks ago:
It’s really not that hard!
- Comment on Ideal car 4 weeks ago:
Thanks, I immediately recognized it as a formula but couldn’t remember what it was for (in my defense, the last time it was relevant to me was about 15 years ago when I studied electrical engineering).
- Comment on Please bro 4 weeks ago:
None of this matters, what matters is what dumb money believes
- Comment on monthly challenge 4 weeks ago:
That’s what makes it a challenge
- Comment on Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up 1 month ago:
I guess you’re right, my complaint was mostly about about the part of groups that I watched that was I think three Goldlewis matches in a round.
I don’t think the balance for Strive is in a really bad spot, and character skills can outweigh statistical advantages. Maybe it’s just that I dislike Goldlewis and HC due to their oppressive playstyles that I remember them as negative examples.
Didn’t want to complain really, the matches were hype, I got some really good laughs out of them too when RedDitto grabbed opponents in the most insane situations. Good stuff all around
- Comment on Evo Las Vegas 2025 wrap-up 1 month ago:
Capcom vs. SNK 2 was in the extended lineup. It’s great to see those passionate communities still playing those games 25 years later, even with plenty of new blood, though I will admit that both games fall into a situation where the top tier characters are so dominant that you don’t get a lot of variety in character selection in top 8, which can dampen the excitement a bit.
I hope Capcom brings an optional mode for new balance, like they added the option to disable roll cancel. The game is too unique with its mechanics, I think it’s one of the most interesting games ever with the modes, but the balance just isn’t great, which is holding the game back.
I was lucky that Strive top 8 were played early, so I could enjoy them at a decent time despite being in CEST. Bit unfortunate with the character variety, a lot of HC and Goldlewis matches and Johnny has proven to be very strong as people predicted. Would have preferred to see Ram win. Not that she’s weak, but in my opinion more interesting and somewhat underplayed. But alas.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Lung cancer speed run [no asbestos %]
- Comment on change_org 1 month ago:
How are you going to stop the Sudanese Civil War with a petition?
By removing Character.AI NSFW filters
- Comment on NO! I don't want to download your app and set up an account. Leave me alone 1 month ago:
JPEG is surprisingly decent considering its age ( it’s actually Alien technology from the future). Gif… not so much. Gif is horrible
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 1 month ago:
I read only part of the URL and thought this was about puzzles. Never knew the guy made Putty as well
- Comment on HOOOOONNNNKK-snewewewewwew 1 month ago:
It’s a statement. Similar to a thinking cap
- Comment on Itch.io apologise for "frustration and confusion" after delisting thousands of NSFW projects 1 month ago:
- Install Cake Wallet on phone
- Setup Monero Wallet
- Click “Buy”
It’s not that difficult
- Comment on Get in the pod, inhale the fumes. 2 months ago:
However, if you follow that train of thought, you’ll often get to the point where you’d need to get rid of cars as we know them today.
If people weren’t depending on them, fewer would have one. And if only few people have one (they are expensive, after all), why build roads just for them? Why all this costly infrastructure that would only benefit 5% of the population? Why use everyone’s tax to fund them?
The fact that cars are built like today - basically comfort cages - is only because all this infrastructure exists. They’re not used outside of that environment. So of people don’t depend on it, they’d probably vanish in a couple of decades, at least outside of their respective niches.
- Comment on A New Guilty Gear Game Has Been Canceled 2 months ago:
In my opinion, the problems in Strive are nothing a new GG would fix better than patching Strive itself.
I think they had a good idea with Strive, as in casualize GG to make it more appealing to the masses. Yes, at the top, the game has balancing issues; but numbers can easily be tweaked. The game lacks a proper ranked mode, but so far, none of their games had one AFAIK so a new game wouldn’t necessarily fix that either (ranked is announced for Strive though). The only thing I see a new game improve is new singleplayer content, and
The game had a relative peak last year (second only to the original release) when Dizzy was released – almost double the players compared to the Baiken release… while the player baseline is relatively constant, it seems the peaks are growing. Why go for a new game when you can actually build a playerbase with the current one?
I see some videos of players discovering Strive right now (almost surreal considering the game is four years old now…) and nobody is claiming about age issues with this game, as in bad netcode, performance, graphics or whatever. In fact, most people say that the game’s presentation is very good and that the fights are fun. There’s no need to crank out a new game for the sake of it when the teams are busy with other projects anyways, like Marvel Tokon, Hunter X Hunter and whatever.
- Comment on Let's Encrypt rolls out free security certs for IP addresses 2 months ago:
Shameless self plug: pc-hass.de/blog/simple-home-dns/
- Comment on To do battle 2 months ago:
PREDICTABO
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 months ago:
Ok, I don’t really know why I wrote all that because it was pretty clear from context you know the difference. Hopefully it helps others.
For me, Mullvad isn’t an option because they don’t have port forwarding anymore.
- Comment on Mullvad's ads are good 2 months ago:
Tailscale is a VPN in the classic sense, I e. to build a secure network over an insecure one. Mullvad is a service to hide your public IP address and switch from having to trust your ISP to having to trust Mullvad.
I too have a subscription to one of the latter services, but I always find them sketchy
- Comment on Get Back! 2 months ago:
I too watched Watchmen
- Comment on We are not the same 2 months ago:
It revealed itself to me in a tarot session
