leftzero
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- Comment on The green lean mean killing machine 1 week ago:
I wouldn’t trust books when it comes to hunting mushrooms.
Don’t go hunting mushrooms unless your family’s taken you hunting mushrooms since you were a kid (and even then only in regions you’re familiar with, and even then don’t pick any mushroom you’re not 110% certain of, and if you’re not an idiot), or accompanied by someone with that experience verifying every single mushroom you find before picking it up, and telling you why and how it’d’ve killed you or why it wouldn’t’ve tasted good.
- Comment on How do you communicate "sorry, my bad" when you make a mistake while driving? 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Is it theoretically possible Trump and ICE are killing a very large number of immigrants (like 25% of those detained) and no one knows? 3 weeks ago:
Death flights have quite a long history, sadly, and were a favourite of far right South American dictatorships promoted by the USA…
- Comment on the public demands ANSWERS 4 weeks ago:
Shark’s only smooth from front to back. Otherwise shark’s sandpaper.
- Comment on Playback speed past X2 is now a YouTube paid feature 5 weeks ago:
Some lectures and instruction videos are only watchable at 4x or higher.
Luckily there’s extensions and alternative apps that provide a much better user experience than the default one, including being able to increase playback speed as much as you want.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Well, there was that little thing called the black death, if I recall correctly…
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
relatively stable between the twelfth and the eighteenth century
Hm… wasn’t there like a 33% dip back in the fourteenth, not counting subsequent migration to the cities and whatnot…?
- Comment on I was there... 5 weeks ago:
Unless your name was Sarah Connor, of course.
- Comment on Anon files a lawsuit 1 month ago:
There are two main issues with incest: 1) offspring, which should be avoided unless you check the embryos for issues and discard any that would have health problems due to inbreeding, and 2) the possible existence of power dynamics that might make consent too questionable to be acceptable.
Two sufficiently mature (I think this excludes about 90% of the population, but that’s probably my cynicism talking) adults, who have the means to live independently (so no dangerous power dynamics), and at least one of which is naturally or artificially sterile (or who physically can’t have children for other reasons, for instance due to having incompatible genitals), sure, go ahead, have fun.
Otherwise, there’s too much risk of harming one or both of the participants, or their potential offspring.
- Comment on How do you "process" hundreds of tabs you haven't gotten a change to go through? 1 month ago:
As someone with thousands of tabs currently open on about a dozen windows, just open more tabs.
And if you can’t find an adequate window in which to open them, just open them in a new window.
If even that becomes unmanageable, open another browser.
And if you don’t want to switch from whatever tabs you’ve got open and are already using all your monitors, open it on your phone.
Just make sure to set all your browsers to reopen all tabs after closing, and a session manager extension for when the browser refuses to reopen them (not that you should ever be closing the browser or most programs, or shutting down the computer, of course, but just in case.
Also, if you’re on Windows the SysInternals RamMap utility comes in handy when things start to get sluggish and you need to free memory in a hurry (paginate, really, but same difference). Killing dwm.exe also helps.
- Comment on Sunday feeling 1 month ago:
Oh, hey, my spirit animal.
- Comment on IF NO HEN 1 month ago:
No eggs?
- Comment on 1 month ago:
The stuff those things eat, they’re surely toxic as fuck. Plus, they’re parasites animal cruelty shouldn’t apply to them. And birds. Should’ve gone extinct 65 million years ago with the rest of their ilk.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
just throw them away
If I get my hands on one of those things I’m not throwing it away before repeatedly smashing it as hard as I can against the most solid surface I can find in the vicinity. Or against another seagull, if possible.
- Comment on Anon thinks about wheat 1 month ago:
In the conditions in which they made it, porridge was often also beer(ish).
- Comment on I am so scared of nuclear war, how do I cope with it? 1 month ago:
- Comment on The Best-Selling Video Games Since 2020 1 month ago:
Same here. Old PC (though quite good for the time), no issues whatsoever.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
The most horrific part, is that we can’t tell the difference.
Controlled by LLMs or not, their actions would be indistinguishable.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
We’re talking execs here, not people.
Of course they’ve got smart people they’re still in the process of getting rid of, but they’re not who the OP was asking about, and they’re mostly irrelevant anyway (and have been since long before LLMs became a problem), since they’re not the ones making decisions.
- Comment on Do you think Google execs keep a secret un-enshittified version of their search engine and LLM? 1 month ago:
No. They’re drinking their own coolaid.
They’ve offloaded what little thinking they did to LLMs (not that LLMs can think, but in this case it makes no difference), and at this point would no longer be able to function if they had to think for themselves.
Don’t think of them as human people with human needs.
They’re mere parasites, all higher functions withered away through lack of use, now more than ever.
They could die and be replaced by their chatbots, and we wouldn’t notice a difference.
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 1 month ago:
That’s German engineering for you.
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
They’re called sperm whales because of the spermaceti organ, which is probably used to make them loud as fuck, and which contains a liquid which whalers mistook for sperm.
- Comment on Off the Rails 1 month ago:
But we made bananas (and most other fruits) the way they are!
Fucking good for nothing gods, always taking credit for things we humans did all by ourselves…
- Comment on Is this true for Germans? 1 month ago:
Noo, the Bagger 288 is designed to fight off godzillas and doom robots from the future!
Any incidental global destruction is mere completely unintended collateral damage.
- Comment on How often do you change your towels? 2 months ago:
Whenever I can hold them flat and horizontal without bending when grabbed by a corner.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
From the anime adaptation of the manga Frieren: Beyond Journey’s End.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 2 months ago:
Explain how protein folding software, which predates “genAI” by decades and has as many similarities with it as with Tetris, has anything to do with this conversation.
- Comment on Anon reality checks your fantasy 2 months ago:
- Comment on Facts 2 months ago:
You N’wah!
- Comment on Gamers Are Overwhelmingly Negative About Gen AI in Video Games, but Attitudes Vary by Gender, Age, and Gaming Motivations. 2 months ago:
No, laziness is good. Laziness begets engineering.
The issue is that “generative AI” (which is neither generative nor intelligence) is built upon the stolen works of countless artists.
The issue is that it consumes massive amounts of resources and energy to produce mediocre results at best.
The issue is that it threatens the livelihood of whole segments of society, especially the ones who contribute the most to human culture.
The issue is that it’s not sustainable. Once it runs out of new content to plagiarize it will be unable to produce anything new. It can’t replace what it’s destroying.
The issue is that it’s so vastly inefficient that the data centres needed to sustain it are becoming a major contributor to global warming.
The issue is that its bubble is causing massive price increases in consumer computer parts.
The issue is that when it pops it’ll take the rest of the economy with it.
The issue is that it’s a gateway drug. It’s being sold at a loss to destroy the human competition, and will inevitably increase massively in price once it’s become a necessary part of everyone’s process.
The issue is that it’s being forced everywhere regardless of its uselessness for the task, replacing technologies that were actually useful and making everything less useable and more inefficient.
The issue is that it’s making everything less reliable, and will inevitably cause massive damage and loss of life.
The issue is that LLM use has been demonstrated to cause brain damage, yet they elude regulation and the companies selling them have yet to face consequences.
The issue is that all of this makes it an existential threat to humanity, and a significant contributor to the ones we were already facing.
The issue is that, once you’ve taken into account all the pros and cons, doing everything possible to ensure it ceases to exist as soon as possible in any way, shape, or form, together with the companies selling it and the CEOs responsible for them and any politicians and investors enabling them, becomes an evident moral and ethical imperative.
