MrMcGasion

@MrMcGasion@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely agree. I’m only talking about the fleeing the country part. Those of us who can stay are going to have to put in a lot of work, speaking out against fascism, protecting those who cannot flee, and being generally rebellious against tyranny.

  If anything those of us who happen to not be directly in their crosshairs have a greater responsibility to speak out for the groups that are going to be targeted, because it could quickly get to a point where it’s dangerous for those marginalized people to be as vocal. We cannot leave the most vulnerable to fight alone for their right to exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Post-election blues⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Technically it’s not a full 55% of my countrymen, just 55% of the ones who bothered to vote. I’ll admit that’s not really a meaningful distinction though. Unfortunately, there’s also more of us who want to leave than the rest of the world can reasonably handle. I hope as many marginalized people can get out, because it’s going to be bad, especially for them. But those, like me, who are unlikely to be directly targeted due simply to being lucky enough to be born straight, white, men should probably leave should probably leave those limited seats for those who truly need to leave.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to clean a rescued pigeon⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’m not the person you replied to and don’t know what their argument would be, I’ll take a shot at giving my own answer. In many cases when people post examples of AI giving unhelpful or bad information, there’s often someone who runs off to their favorite LLM to see if it gives a better result, and it usually does, so it gets treated like user error for using the wrong LLM or not wording the prompt properly. When in other examples that person’s favorite LLM which gave the correct answer this time, is the bad example hallucinating or mixing unrelated concepts, and other people are in the comments promoting other LLMs that gave them a good reply this time. None of the LLMs are actually trustworthy consistently enough to be trusted alone, and you won’t really know what answer is trustworthy unless you ask several LLMs and then go research the topic on your own anyway to figure out which answer is the most correct. It’s a valid point that ChatGPT got the answer more right than Gemini this time, but it’s somewhat useless to know that because other times ChatGPT is the one hallucinating wildly, and Gemini has the right answer, but since they’ve all been wrong before who do you trust.

  LLMs are like asking an arrogant person who thinks they know everything, who rather than admitting what they don’t know, will pull an answer out of their butt, and while it might be a logical answer, it isn’t based in reality, and may still be wildly wrong. If you already mostly know the answer, maybe asking the arrogant person works, because you already know enough to know if they are speaking from their actual knowledge or making up an answer, but if you don’t already have knowledge on a topic, you won’t know whether the arrogant person is giving useful information or not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why does the media print rags to riches stories?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I have had someone tell me that they’d rather live in an economic system “like we have in America” where people have a chance at rags to riches, than a system “like Germany, where the social safety net means the average person doesn’t have a chance at making it big.”

  If anyone ever tells you wealthy people are intelligent, don’t believe them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Hellboy Poster⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, 2019 had a reboot with David Harbor as Hellboy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can do anything.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, but can we get Sony to re-release Morbius in theaters one more time?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Just so you’re aware, Match owns OkCupid now, as well as Tinder, Hinge, Plenty of Fish and a bunch of other smaller dating sites. I don’t think they’ve all been ruined as much as Match yet, but it’s probably only a matter of time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SteamVR for Linux gets "experimental improvements to async support"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Looking forward to trying it out, since at least the release of HL:Alyx, async reprojection has been so broken on Linux, that the community wisdom has been to disable it for better performance. And I’ve heard from some that lack of working async reprojection is the main reason that they won’t use Linux for VR.

  I’ve exclusively used my Index on Linux, and have been fine not knowing what I’ve been missing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm working on it, ok?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a bit of savings, but nowhere near 6 months worth. Just have had enough freak accidents and those “once-in-a-(insert large amount of time here)” events that having at least a month’s worth of savings has saved me from taking out more debt enough times that I try to keep something saved.

  That said, while I’m sure the interest I’ve spent on my debt over the years has been enormous, the one silver lining to it all is that with inflation, my debt feels more manageable than it did 10 years ago. Not that I can really afford pay it off that much faster since every other part of life is more expensive, but in comparison to everything else, it feels much less overwhelming than it used to.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I'm deaf⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Imagine holding on to a large, metal pipe (like a hand rail on stairs) and someone on the other end, hitting the pipe with their hand, not a big “clung”, but like they swung past it, and barely nicked the pipe with the tips of their fingers as their arm swung by. Combine that vibration with a breathy, hollowness that kinda warbles as the rubber ball contracts and expands due to the impact. The whole sound only lasts about a second - unless you were the one that got hit in the head, in which case there’s a high pitched ringing in your ears for a bit as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True Story⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m a guy who really likes all of those, and heavier make-up looks in general. I wouldn’t ever expect someone to wear them just for me though. I see makeup as something that’s 90% for the person wearing it, and making them feel good about themselves. Same goes for lighter or no make-up looks. The confidence from feeling good about yourself is far more important than whatever “look” you go for.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨505 Games' parent company lays off 30% of its workforce, says gamers really only want sequels so that's what it's going to make⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If someone told me 4-5 years ago, that the year we got really incredible sequels to both Breath of the Wild, and that cool new Spider-Man game on PS4, my most-enjoyed game would be an indie Lovecraftian light-horror fishing game, I wouldn’t have believed them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But its the only thing I want!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  “Jesse, we need to cook, but I’ve been hit in the head and I forgot the process. Jesse! What do you mean you can’t tell me? This is important Jesse!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nominees for Game of The Year at TGA 2023⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Not a zoomer, and I loved Spider-Man, didn’t play BG3, but I still think BG3 should win. My Spider-Man 2 experience was too buggy for me to consider it for GOTY, the story was great, and if they had delayed the game until next year, I probably would have considered it a contender then.

  BG3 was an event though, I’m not really into RPGs but it felt like that game was everywhere like Animal Crossing: New Horizons was in 2020.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Youtube is allowing Youtubers to advertise their merch even for premium users⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m fine with the merch window in the sidebar, although lately they’ve added an overlay on desktop that appears over the video (even in fullscreen) that I think is going to get annoying real quick if they keep it around. If I’m watching a video from a creator, there’s a good chance I’ll be interested in their merch, and having a standard place for creators to show off merch without having to shill it in every video, is a feature worth having IMO. But I don’t want anything overlayed on the video - especially in fullscreen, and if anything it makes me less likely to support the creator by buying merch - even though the overlay is almost certainly something Google added without any opt-in from creators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PS5 & PS4 Will Lose X Integration This Month, a Year After Elon Musk's Acquisition of Twitter⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s just for media sharing, like posting screenshots and video clips.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox consoles getting full-screen ad⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda hope Valve gets put into some kind of employee-owned foundation when Gabe leaves. Doesn’t need to be a non-profit, but it would be great if it could be set up in such a way that it can never be sold, only dissolved, and that if dissolved all IP and assets become open source/public domain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ok Lemmy Rorschach test time. Tell me what you see.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Two witches, pole dancing while hanging from the sides of their demon-shaped cauldron.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD FSR3 Hands-On: Promising Image Quality, But There Are Problems - DF First Look⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You make a very good point about cutscenes. I’d love if there there was a frame gen & upscaler that exclusively worked on pre-rendered cutscenes to fix the issues in older games of cutscenes looking way worse than gameplay. I know for popular titles, there are sometimes mods that replace the cutscenes videos with upscaled versions, not having to fuss around with that could be really neat. But for gameplay, I’d much rather play at even 50fps native with variable refresh, without artifacts or additional latency, than a faked 120fps that still runs at 60hz of latency with added artifacting.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Genetics firm 23andMe says user data stolen in credential stuffing attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly, if my clone can make something out of themselves with my genetics, good luck to them. They’ll have things hard enough without me trying to stop them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Twitch no longer supports Firefox ???⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I still use both, and already knew about this change. Is it useless overkill to keep both? Probably. But Privacy Badger also enables the GPC signal to let sites know you want to opt out of data sharing under the CCPA and GDPR. (You can enable GPC in about:config in Firefox, but that’s a hassle to do on every device, and extensions can be synced across devices)

  I’m sure there’s plenty of discussion to be had around the effectiveness of the GPC, but to be it’s worth it even if it’s just as a stat of users that care about data privacy. There’s also always a chance that something makes it to Privacy Badger’s Blocklist before uBlock Origin’s (although it’s probably more likely to be the other way around).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Eat a tick XIAOMI...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gesture navigation (instead of having the navigation bar at the bottom edge of the screen). I’m too lazy to bother to ever learn to move away from the navigation bar myself, but maybe it’s great and I’m missing out on getting that extra bit of screen.