HarkMahlberg
@HarkMahlberg@kbin.social
- Comment on Ask ChatGPT to pick a number between 1 and 100 7 months ago:
I mean... they didn't specify it had to be random? But yeah, it's a good showcase of how GPT acquired the same biases as people, from people..
- Comment on Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? 8 months ago:
It might be a hot take but I think the bgm is actually the weakest part of the game. I legitimately play on mute and put something else on in the background.
- Comment on Anyone else addicted to Balatro right now? 8 months ago:
The hype is real. There's no microtransactions, no multiplayer, it's just about building the best deck with as many synergies as possible and getting the highest score you can. If you played Magic or even Inscryption, you'll feel right at home.
- Comment on Are We Watching The Internet Die? 8 months ago:
The author does have a way with words lol. I love this paragraph in particular:
As we speak, the battle that platforms are fighting is against generative spam, a cartoonish and obvious threat of outright nonsense, meaningless chum that can and should (and likely will) be stopped. In the process, they're failing to see that this isn't a war against spam, but a war against crap, and the overall normalization and intellectual numbing that comes when content is created to please algorithms and provide a minimum viable product for consumers. Google's "useless" results problem isn't one borne of content that has no meaning, but of content that only sort of helps, that is the "right" result but doesn't actually provide any real thought behind it, like the endless "how to fix error code X" results full of well-meaning and plausibly helpful content that doesn't really help at all.
And he describes exactly what I have to deal with on the regular, "content that only sort of helps" that "steals your attention from the content you actually want." Even moving from Google to DDG has only mitigated this problem, it hasn't fully gone away.
- Comment on Why is AI Pornifying Asian Women? 10 months ago:
In the image they posted it says DALL-E 3, bottom right corner.
- Comment on Ubisoft Wants You To Be Comfortable Not Owning Your Games 10 months ago:
I think more likely than Valve going under is Valve getting bought or going public. Both would result in the new owner (a megacorp in their own right, or greedy shareholders, respectively) turning the system into shit to squeeze more money out of it. And new DRM would be foisted onto the system regardless.
- Comment on OpenAI says it’s “impossible” to create useful AI models without copyrighted material 10 months ago:
Thank you for your thoroughly analytical take on the subject. Solid points all around.
- Comment on Steam Workshop: New Quality of Life Workshop Features 11 months ago:
I assume you mean Paradox and Cities Skylines 2 mods. I worry when their mod manager finally gets released, it will still have a fraction of the features and QOL that Steam Workshop has right now. Epic Games learned the hard way that it is extremely difficult to spin up a new product and compete with a product that has decades of maturity.
- Comment on [META] Never change, lemmy.ml 11 months ago:
Thanks. I tried to post the original link but it just says "No posts." Weird.
- Comment on [META] Never change, lemmy.ml 11 months ago:
- Comment on Youtube ads finally got me 1 year ago:
First, well I've been able to get ublock origin to just block the pop-up itself, YouTube now has some scroll event override that locks you to the top of the page. You can't view the comments or recommended anymore... Not that any value is lost there but still.
Second, the pop-up triggers a "three strike" system where they won't let you close the pop-up until you disable ublock. That may be easy enough to defeat today, but if YouTube has already gone to these lengths to force you to watch ads, they may eventually stop loading videos altogether until you do.
- Comment on [Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice 1 year ago:
If you're interested in more memestock material, the man spouting merger conspiracy theories at two Gamestop employees in this video is the subject of an entire video by another creator, which Dan Olson retweeted. I'll warn you, this other video is also funny but much more disturbing. It reminds me of watching Terry Davis's vlog posts as he suffered from schizophrenia, it's definitely more uncomfortable and tragic.
- Comment on [Folding Ideas] This is Financial Advice 1 year ago:
Would you be surprised to learn that the mods of those subs deleted the threads and banned Dan?
- Submitted 1 year ago to videos@lemmy.world | 6 comments