Wildmimic
@Wildmimic@anarchist.nexus
- Comment on "Why should we just give up the entire month of November?" – The indie games going head to head with GTA 6 22 hours ago:
I am one of the people giving zero fucks about GTA6, because it is not available on PC, it is far too expensive, and Rockstars illegal firing of employees disqualifies them from ever receiving a cent from me anyways. Maybe i’ll pirate it when it releases on PC in a few years, but if i need a GTA fix I am going to play GTA 4, Vice City or San Andreas (and GTA2 for the lulz)
- Comment on TSA says officers must stand, chairs banned at airport checkpoints nationwide 23 hours ago:
Lol make Orange Mussolini stand all day until his joints swell up to the size of basketballs, because he falls asleep when sitting
- Comment on Gap Year 🧏 2 days ago:
Me, being a pensioner because of officially being unable to work in a normal job: (permanent top picture)
- Comment on The reason the right are so anti Mamdani is obvious: they don’t want you to see what your tax dollars being put to work the right way would actually look like. Then everyone would want it everywhere. 2 days ago:
I wouldn’t wanna live in that gaudy hellhole even if you paid me
- Comment on They say, "You'll have to wait". It's a bullshit argument against Universal Healthcare. 2 days ago:
The only long wait times in socialized health care are for non-critical issues, although sometimes the definition of “non-critical” can differ from what a person might expect.
I was a long term pain patient because my spine has been fucked since i was a teen, and waiting times for things like these are sometimes longer than they should be. But every time i had an emergency, service was impeccable and on par with the highest level of care you can pay for.
- Comment on Not saying this is Hell, but it's pretty fucking close 2 days ago:
Because if everyone did that, we would live in anarchy, and not in the good way. There is a lot of value in social peace even for those who are on the brink of society, because those are the first to get shafted. Also even a 72 y.o. can have people depending on them, so you don’t know if he “didn’t have something to lose” - he might have a wife at home which depends on him because of health issues, or he might have children that need support regardless of age.
Although if i ever find myself in a situation where i whatever i can lose isn’t worth much anymore, i will probably find an interesting way to go out. From my current standpoint, that day is pretty far away.
- Comment on How do I go about finding the right instance for my alt? 3 days ago:
Don’t worry too much about the instances, for the most part they are not that important. There are a few outliers tho:
- lemmy.ml, lemmygrad.ml and hexbear.net are politically in the Authoriarian Left extreme. Unless you either are politically close to them or like getting dunked on by people who think China and Russia are Heaven on Earth, don’t go there. Sadly the main devs for lemmy are situated on lemmy.ml.
- beehaw has a curated experience by blocking any instances which do not verify registrations (including the largest one at lemmy.world) and a different discussion culture than most. It’s a very chill place tho.
- and then you can also join instances that use PyLova (a fork of PieFed caused by … not cool actions by PieFeds dev, especially ironic since PieFed already exists partially because of lemmys roots on lemmy.ml), e.g. quokk.au. These give you a different interface and features, while giving you the same access to content.
There are also a bunch of outlaw instances, either far-right or tolerating CSAM. These you can only stumble upon if you actively search for them - they are defederated in a pretty coordinated effort, simply because due to the way lemmy works, their content would be replicated, creating a legal nightmare, and of course no respectable admin wants to touch that stuff.
- Comment on Capitalism is all about using state power to protect capital by force 1 week ago:
The emphasis should really be “sufficiently regulated”. I can’t see any capitalist country at the moment where the regulation is as stringent as needed and as punishing for violations as deserved.
- Comment on 1 week ago:
I’m pretty sure they unknowingly HAVE consumed some media where they have been involved. Destiny 2, WoW and CP2077 aren’t small titles.
But these chuds don’t criticize the quality of work, because they are utterly unable to discern good from bad work. They attack anything they perceive as different, regardless of the nonexistent threat to their lifestyle (outside of the minor facts that sexism, bigotry and racism are to be shunned. These people REALLY REALLY REALLY want to be able to use slurs, because they mentally never left high school and in many cases were the bullies there).
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 week ago:
Just like there have always been shitty AA and AAA games, for that matter. 90% of everything is crap. But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a lot of gems hiding in between all the chaff.
Just wanted to add: and by the power of the incredible force called “taste”, in many cases one mans trash is another ones treasure.
- Comment on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes 1 week ago:
The good thing is that creating a game is a task a person or a small team can accomplish even with non-AAA money, and there are many people out there who want to create something. So even if some of those indies become corrupted, there will always be more people out there who want to build their vision.
And tbh, if from this moment on only crap came out, we already have decades of great games to play - i for my part would never run out of games until the day i die even if i stopped adding stuff to my library - i am sitting on ca. 37000 titles at the moment. If the average time to complete is around 20 hours, that’s around 83 years of continuous gaming, much more than my estimated remaining lifetime.
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
I personally like my games being hard, making me think and make deliberate decisions between positives and negatives. But I would never invalidate someones experience by shitting on them for using a game mode that allows them to experience the story of the game without any barriers.
This garbage media offers the illusion of being a game. I wouldn’t be against it, if it were sold as such - there are a lot of FMV games out there that are worth their money. But if what you do doesn’t matter, it’s not a game anymore. It’s a glorified youtube video, and should be priced as such.
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
Games that punish players that don’t want to be punished shouldn’t exist. Offering “God Mode” or similar features is fine! But since this game offers no other difficulty levels, this is simply false advertising. Games live from the interactivity they provide. If you cut that out, you could just sell a youtube link for five bucks with the same experience.
- Comment on DSP clears Wolverine's motorcycle section without player input 1 week ago:
I am one of the people who stubbornly select the hardest difficulty on any game after getting the basics out of the way. I still can see the value of offering a “difficulty level” that lets you simply enjoy the story without being bothered by anything that is considered “hardcore gaming”, such as the God Mode in the Hades games or similar things. That’s valid! Not everyone is playing games since their childhood.
But this is simply garbage. If it finishes without me using any input, then i could just watch it on youtube and not pay $$$ for it. It is a deceptive tactic to get you to pay for something that should be inherently interactive, while your decisions don’t matter in the slightest. It is like selling a movie as a game - a movie is fine if i want it, but gaming as a medium lives from the interactivity.
- Comment on South Korea gives 400 stalking victims app to track their stalkers in real time 2 weeks ago:
I would agree with you if this measure weren’t for convicted stalkers, which means that the alternative would be a prison sentence. This is by far more humane and allows the convict to at least live a normal life if he behaves.
This is not mass surveillance. If you wanna see mass surveillance, check your nearby ALPR or CCTV.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
AI enables a new form of fully automated implementation of disinformation, societal violence and lethal force, completely disconnected from all morals, ethics and second thoughts a person might have. When the tools of suppression are not wielded by a human that might decided that things are going too far, there also isn’t any risk of these tools getting turned against whoever activated them.
If you cannot see that, then you are either already one of their victims of societal manipulation or one of the people switching these systems on.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
Public ownership will happen, the moment the nation states are implementing a fully autonomous police state, and in extension using AI for automation of the military kill chain - for external AND internal threats.
I hate the fact that this technology also has good sides, because they are used to steer us all into a fucking nightmare.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
The power of a crossbow to cause mass casualties is pretty low. Even conventional small arms have limited potential when used as single weapons, and there is always a human deciding to pull the trigger, who might disobey illegal orders to kill the innocent.
When implementing an fully automated AI powered kill chain, there is noone feeling responsible for the actions of these machinations, because the emotional distance is too large. AI systems do not have a concept of an atrocity if built for this purpose. And the killing only stops when someone disables it - but i’d say that if someone was unscrupulous enough to have started something like this, he will keep it going just to ensure he won’t be punished for it.
I’d say the actual potential to cause harm to innocents of such a system is much larger than the threat of nuclear war, because the latter can only be started by an actual madman who would have in most cases to fight his own staff who actually wants to live. The former i can see being implemented by run of the mill politicians and generals, or even some cartels.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
AI based weapon systems do not have the shock value of being a weapon of mass destruction. They are only an automated version of basic guns and explosives (that are available pretty much everywhere, including homemade variants) on a mobile platform. And the nuclear weapon proliferation treaty is pretty much dead in the water, with multiple nation states either already having acquired them in the last 2 decades or being so close to having them that the only thing holding them back is political in nature, and these barriers are easily jumped over.
It took WW2 and the potential to sterilize and glass over the entire planet to make countries agree that nuclear disarmament is needed. I do not see the necessary willingness to prevent “automated guns”. In a world where nuclear proliferation treaties are crumbling, i would not bet a dime on a worldwide regulation of AI-powered weaponry, especially when looking at how many fucks the big countries are giving when the UN or ICC is speaking.
The only wild card in this situation is that basic FPVs are so cheap and easy to build out of commonly available consumer goods that it can’t really be prevented that common people might build them (or outright just buy them), and the people with better technical knowledge will also be able to build their own AI weapons. That’s like “the democratization of violent force”. Seeing how smart the average person is makes my head hurt when trying to envision such a future.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
The billionaires are the ones footing the bill and thinking they will be the “new gods” in their restructured society. In reality, nation states will use this technology to make sure that they can’t be touched, regardless of how brutal and inhumane their regime is.
In some way, the billionaires are just some stooges getting scammed into developing the chains that will bind us all.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
That’s nice, but NOT the endgame. I do not contest that AI can be a positive thing too, but there are very powerful forces, concentrated mainly in California among the tech Billionaires, who want to use AI as a tool to ensure that their will cannot be denied.
The US was already using AI in the attack on Iran, minimizing human involvement in target selection and approving the strikes (thats how over 100 little girls died). Russia is experimenting with fully AI automated attack drones based on Nvidia hardware. Flock cameras are analyzing not only license plates, but data points like bumper stickers and what other devices are in the car, making every personal movement transparent even if you leave your smartphone at home. Home security cameras are using facial recognition (which they only pulled back because they were inept in messaging, but you can be sure this functionality will return, and with full access for the authorities). Laws preventing authorities from spying on citizens get bypassed by buying the required data from advertising companies. Social media is getting flooded with LLM-generated content designed to steer public opinion regardless of what the truth is. Entertainment Hardware like Smart TVs are listening in on your conversations in your living room, transcribing your words into text using AI and storing it - even if you keep your TV offline, your chats become company property the moment you TV detects an open WIFI, or in the worst case just use technologies like LoRa to transmit the data home.
The people behind all of this are the same people financing far right parties all over the world, because a divided world is easier to dominate.
Society is under an AI-powered full scale assault. I hate it, because I know how much positive stuff this technology can enable, just as you documented. But giving up all our rights and living in and hyperscaled version of 1984 is not worth it.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
In my opinion they are building the infrastructure for a fully automated surveillance society, for automated media manipulation, and to remove humans out of the kill chain in the military, while dismantling the rest of what remains of the middle class. We are going straight into high-tech dark ages.
- Comment on the tech billionaires have lost the plot 2 weeks ago:
The thing is: The amount of compute being planned (it’s often not getting built) can only have one true goal: automated mass surveillance, media manipulation and dismantling of what remains of the middle class. No other task than rolling out Flock 2.0 needs that much compute. All the things you mentioned already work with the EXISTING compute. I agree that some additional datacenters will be needed, but for the things you mentioned the existing compute is already fine, it seems.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 2 weeks ago:
A research time of about 45 seconds has shown that the techniques regarding plain text can also be removed by automated means.
I’d say, if you are dumb enough to not clean up your shit, you do not deserve any better.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 2 weeks ago:
Watermarks don’t do shit in practical terms.
a) simple text can’t be watermarked. b) You can remove them by using … another model! just run it through a local model - you dont even have to have an GPU for that task if speed isn’t important, and any half-recent GPU can deal with any watermark in seconds in images, while videos take a bit longer.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 2 weeks ago:
But I might consider looking up injection attacks and exploits to trigger an escalation of your resume.
Probably the best way to draw attention to you if applying for a tech job
- Comment on Why does most of the world use WhatsApp as their messaging app rather than RCS/SMS? 3 weeks ago:
SMS is insecure as hell, RCS suffered from issues between Apple and Google, both were limited for a long time by Telecoms and priced too high after reaching your allowance (i remember my first mobile contract having a whooping 10 SMS/month included). The amount of data messenger apps use is negligible even with pretty low data limits as long as you are not attaching whole movies.
I personally only use Signal - i have removed all Meta products from my life. If someone without Signal wants to contact me, they can use snail mail, i really don’t care - i won’t sacrifice my privacy for the convenience of others.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
That’s what is happening when a company is working for their shareholders and not for their costumers. AAA games are an expensive endeavor, and when penny pinchers and greedy management are the dominating force, the willingness to do something new instead of rehashing the same thing that has made a profit over and over is low.
- Comment on Hideo Kojima's PHYSINT Game Moves to Xbox From PlayStation 3 weeks ago:
He’s probably (and reportedly) not easy to work with, because he’s an artist, and these tend to be uncompromising regarding the realization of their vision of their work. This collides with penny-pinching publishers and people who don’t appreciate games as an artform.
- Comment on AI Job interview warns against using AI yourself 3 weeks ago:
Lol, all LLM-detection methods are bullshit nowadays. A few days back i saw a post where an excerpt from Mary Shelleys Frankenstein was marked as 100% AI-generated. If they use LLMs to interview you, you can use LLMs to respond - tit for tat.