LukeZaz
@LukeZaz@beehaw.org
- Comment on Elon Musk and Wikipedia are feuding 7 hours ago:
Chinese internet trolls
You know you can hate somebody without associating them with Chinese people, right?
- Comment on Valve releases full Team Fortress 2 game code to encourage new, free versions 2 days ago:
I believe it will be added to the official steam store sometime soon
Assuming nothing explodes, yes. The devs have confirmed they’re working on porting TF2C to use the newly-released codebase and plan to release on Steam now that they’re legally allowed to do so.
Might not be “soon” though. I suspect porting will take a lot of work.
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- Comment on How To Fix R2ModMan Request Failed Error with Status Code 504 (Easy Guide) 3 days ago:
Uh, this looks an awful lot like a guide written by an LLM posted on an unofficial site intended to hoodwink people looking for the real one. Judging by search results, there’s a few of these sites.
I don’t think we should repost content from them, or encourage them, personally.
- Comment on Tesla Takeover: protests planned at Tesla stores globally this weekend 6 days ago:
If you’re suggesting we change the system from within, I’ve got bad news: We’ve been trying that. It hasn’t been working. The purpose of the system is what it does, and what this system does is rob us of representation.
Reckless hate and murder won’t fix a damn thing, you’re correct there. But neither will reliance on voting in a rigged system.
- Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen 2 weeks ago:
These ones:
Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality, maybe you don’t like what reality has become, but unfortunately that doesn’t make it less real. […] None of that is because they’re “magic beans” from which no value sprouts. […] It objectively, undeniably has value. You can staunchly say pretend it doesn’t, but only if you are willingly blind to the voluntary usage patterns of hundreds of millions (possibly billions) of people every hour of every day.
And of course, the entirety of your first comment here.
Nothing of what you’ve stated has proven any of the above. Not that you care; you’ve decided you’re right, and therefore any opinion you hold must automatically be fact. Far as I can tell, you’re here to stroke your ego. Keep at it if you want, I guess — I’m not going to debate someone who only wants to hear themselves talk.
- Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen 2 weeks ago:
Can’t say I’ve seen B anywhere. All I’ve seen is “tech billionaire CEOs want LLMs to take all our jobs and turn us into slaves,” not so much belief that they can. Perhaps you’re misinterpreting?
- Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen 2 weeks ago:
After all I’ve seen LLMs fail to do – including on the occasion that I’ve tried it – I’ve absolutely no interest in even bothering to click on those links. Put your hype elsewhere.
- Comment on China's new and cheaper magic beans shock America's unprepared magic bean salesmen 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I understand that you personally choose to disagree with reality
You saying your opinion is objective reality does not make it so. I agree that LLMs have their (few, niche) uses, but you’re just being arrogant here.
- Comment on Deepseek when asked about sensitive topics 3 weeks ago:
If there’s one thing LLMs are very good at, it’s talking about things their creators don’t want them to with barely any effort from the end user.
This is what we call “good news.”
- Comment on How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions 1 month ago:
Sounds like self-sabotage to me.
- Comment on How China Is Advancing in AI Despite U.S. Chip Restrictions 1 month ago:
Personally, I’d rather more countries stop fucking around with LLMs generally, thanks!
This is honestly such a stupid goddamn thing to compete over. Maybe I should be thankful in that regard, then, since it keeps the U.S. and China’s ridiculous dick-swinging contest more focused on areas that don’t actually matter, rather than weapons development programs that are eager to ruin our rights and our lives all the more.
- Comment on Stop Listening to Game Reviewers 1 month ago:
This is exactly what I do, and I think it’s honestly a very healthy way to engage with that kind of content. If you find someone you like, and/or who has a lot of overlap on preferences, then that’s a great way to get an idea for how much you’d like a game.
Hell, even if you don’t tend to prefer the same things, if the person reviewing is sufficiently passionate or entertaining, you can still develop an appreciation for why someone else likes what they do. I’ve absolutely struggled trying to get into Fallout: New Vegas for a variety of reasons, but I still respect it a lot because Hbomberguy had a very compelling video on what he liked about it.
- Comment on Venezuela fines TikTok $10M for fatal social media challenges that led to the death of 3 teenager, intoxication of 200 others 1 month ago:
Why are you singling out one small part of their comment to the exclusion of the rest?
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
This has two issues with it that are sourced from the fact that most people here are likely from the States or similar. Namely:
- How are we supposed to do anything about China or Russia? It’s anger for its own sake.
- Criticism of the U.S. is unlikely to make Americans racist towards themselves. Sinophobia, meanwhile, is a real risk.
This aside, I, personally, am irritated by the quantity moreso than anything else. As I said elsewhere, it’s the same few users, and I find it obsessive. It stops sounding to me like “I want people to be aware of particular issues from China” and starts sounding to me like “I want to bombard people with all possible negativity about China until they hate everything related to the place as much as I do.”
Thanks to these folks, Beehaw virtually always has at least one post about China or Russia on its front page. Often several. Credit where it’s due; I’ve seen a pro-Palestine post here and there, which I appreciate. But Christ, I’m sick of the rest. Blocks are fair, but I feel like that just hides the issue rather than solving it. I feel like I’m seeing a propaganda mill in action, and I don’t like the idea of just ignoring it.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
In what way is it meaningfully different? Does the intent of the creators of an LLM – a kind of system notorious for being a black box – fundamentally change the outcomes of what it says? It’s spouting propaganda either way.
Please don’t be deliberately obtuse. You can do better than that.
Condescending attitude aside, don’t bring up an irrelevant scenario if you don’t want me to point out its irrelevance.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
Are we in a court?
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
Reading philosophy texts that were written a hundred years ago and haphazardly translated 75 years ago can be a challenge.
For a human, at that. I get that you feel it works for you, but personally, I would trust an LLM to understand it (insofar as that’s a thing they can do at all) even less.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
There’s 2-3 users who post about China/Russia to an extraordinary degree. I could mention them here, but for the sake of avoiding potential harassment (however unlikely) I’d rather not publicly single them out right now. Suffice to say if you spend a decent amount of time here you probably know who they are.
I find it obsessive and obnoxious at best. At worst, I start to wonder if there are more accounts doing it than there are people behind them.
- Comment on Chinese ebook reader Boox ditches GPT for state-censored China LLM pushing propaganda 1 month ago:
That’s a distinction without a difference.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 months ago:
I agree with you that “free market” standpoints aren’t very good places to criticize this decision from – except to point out the hypocrisy of the right-wing, which I do think the original comment was trying to do – but it has to be said that nobody is obligated to criticize both China and the U.S. equally in order to not be a hypocrite.
One simple example of why would be that most if not all users here have absolutely no say at all as to what China does. There aren’t a lot of Chinese citizenry here. But there are a lot of Americans. It so follows that it makes sense to criticize the U.S. more, because many people on Beehaw can actually do something about it, especially in aggregate.
It doesn’t help to criticize China much either, anyway. China’s bad, yes; we know. Even among honest-to-god capital-C Communist circles, China is controversial. Posts about it tend to do three things: 1) Create a sort of misery/anger circle-jerk, 2) arbitrarily and unnecessarily signal to others that you aren’t a tankie, when nobody should really need to clarify that in most scenarios, and 3) further U.S. propaganda interests by taking people’s time and attention away from issues they’re more likely to be able to do something about.
I’m obviously not in favor of forgetting what China’s done, either, but there’s a happy middle-ground I think a lot of Western-centric sites sail right past, and I don’t think any of it is helpful.
- Comment on TikTok set to be banned in the US after losing appeal 2 months ago:
Some American or other company should just hurry up and make TokTik and rake in the bucks.
Google’s already trying. Let’s not encourage them.
- Comment on The Right Has a Bluesky Problem 2 months ago:
Eh, I’ll take it. Bluesky’s learned some lessons from the past, for what it’s worth. It has more than a few features that make the network lock-in less intense, so while I fully expect it to enshittify, I do think it’ll be less severe of an affair than it was for Twitter.
- Comment on Social media users probably won't read beyond this headline, researchers say 2 months ago:
I can’t say I’m too confident about data that was obtained by methods including 1) Facebook data collection (we trust that now?), 2) machine learning and 3) potentially nebulous, unspecific definitions of various political groups. Still, allow me to indulge in some confirmation bias, if you will:
This shouldn’t surprise anyone, if you ask me. People are stressed and limited on time. Of course they’ll take shortcuts!
On places like Bluesky, most articles, videos or news content I’d share would have more to do with how much I trust the person posting or sharing it than with its main body of content. I figure that someone I value has read it, and so I skip it, because reading it would feel like work and I have to deal with enough of that as it is.
Places like here, I take more caution, but as a direct consequence of that you’ll notice I really don’t post very much at all. Comments, sure, but that’s because those are more my opinion than anything else. I don’t have the bandwidth to put through more effort than I already am.
- Comment on New slop just dropped, from OpenAI 3 months ago:
Maybe learn how to use it correctly in its current state
The slop being talked about in this article was made by OpenAI themselves. You know, the company at the forefront of the AI bubble, with billions of dollars of money behind it?
I don’t know what kind of mythical standard it is that you believe AI is capable of, but when even the organization at the forefront of the tech can’t make this shit look good, you can’t exactly claim it’s a skill issue.
- Comment on Humane slashes the price of its AI Pin after weak sales 3 months ago:
Mainly to identify plants and mushrooms.
Considering modern-day “AI” track records at this, the only thing I’d trust a device like that to do is massively increase poisoning deaths.
- Comment on Annapurna Video-Game Team Resigns, Leaving Partners Scrambling - Bloomberg 5 months ago:
I’ve always trusted games published by Annapurna to be something exciting, new, and high quality.
That didn’t make them good either, though. Companies like them and Devolver Digital have had a bad habit of, for lack of a better term, using up developers and throwing them to the curb after. You’ll notice that a lot of stuff they publish get marketed as though Annapurna made them, which ends up hiding the actual developers behind the curtain, thereby robbing them of fans and thus seriously hurting their long-term prospects.
- Comment on Heaven 17 claims it turned down GTA 6 soundtrack offer over pay offer: ‘Go f*** yourself’ [VGC] 5 months ago:
You’re coming out here arguing in favor of a megacorporation keeping even more money for itself instead of artists getting paid for their work. I feel like you should have expected to have upset people.
- Comment on Risk of Rain developers join Valve, announced in a twitter post. 5 months ago:
They’ll get better at managing bugs. What we’ll have to watch out for is other shit.
In particular, I’m not keen on the main menu ad for the DLC they slapped on, which stays even if you own the DLC.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 months ago:
Monopolies depend on the government to exist.
I very much disagree but respect a desire to not get into a debate, so I’ll leave it there.
I really don’t know what that means
“Your freedom ends at my face” is a saying used often here to contend with right-wing group’s insistence on “freedom,” often the kind that involves harming others; e.g. free speech absolutism and the “freedom” to spout neo-Nazi rhetoric that advocates for the murder of minorities, or the “freedom” to not get vaccinated and thus worsen a pandemic. A more full version might be “Your freedom to throw a punch ends where my face begins.”