mindbleach
@mindbleach@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on tin2tin/pallaidium_refactor - A free generative AI movie studio integrated into the Blender Video Editor. 3 days ago:
Gotta wonder where low-framerate rendering and FLF generation could outpace rendering alone. Probably a less impressive use-case thanks to Eevee.
- Comment on What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe? 5 days ago:
Exactly - it’s reality as a team sport. Innate human tribalism as a theory-of-everything.
I thought it was more nuanced until 2020 saw them stick to the script in-between hacking coughs with bits of lung.
- Comment on What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe? 6 days ago:
Conservatives don’t believe things, they believe people. Their entire worldview is defined by interpersonal loyalty. In their minds, if rightful authority moved a Falling Rocks sign, the rocks would fall somewhere else.
Trying to hold any these idiot bigots to the logic of their claims accomplishes absolutely nothing. They could be reasonable - but that visibly is not the brain activity they are engaged in.
- Comment on Anon is Arthur Schopenhauer 4 weeks ago:
Contrast Charles Babbage, who was actively harassed by deliberately shitty street musicians, whose business model was to be paid to fuck off.
- Comment on The Floyd Artifact 4 weeks ago:
I’m more concerned about which direction that light is coming from.
- Comment on V&A Museum censored catalogues after demands by Chinese printer 5 weeks ago:
But in doing so, they have to accede to censorship requests relating to any topics or images deemed sensitive by the Chinese government, such as Buddhism, Taiwan, Tibet, Tiananmen Square and pro-democracy activities.
What perfectly reasonable topics for a history museum to avoid!
"As we have ordered the paper to the printer it is sadly too late to move print to Europe, so we’ve had to put back the schedule a week in order to find a replacement illustration.”
And in future you will be doing… what?
A former employee of C&C Offset Printing said: “Of course printing content disapproved by Chinese government is forbidden. Why should it be surprising? It’s a Chinese company.”
“Surely no one could object,” said human-shaped toad.
- Comment on Borger for scale 1 month ago:
I mean, probably? There’s a lot of chemicals involved.
An environmental study would have to rule out exposure to fighting games.
- Comment on Poorly drawn guys club 1 month ago:
Hyraxes, courtesy of Casual Geographic.
“Sentient 11:59 project submission.”
- Comment on Scientists Finally Figured Out How Eels Reproduce 1 month ago:
I have sincerely apologized to Ms. Jackson.
- Comment on Turbines are our friends 1 month ago:
Seems iffy outside of totally clear skies.
- Comment on Anon wonders what went wrong 1 month ago:
Sedentary.
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
Ban dihydrogen monoxide!
- Comment on Nutritional Hexes 1 month ago:
All over the place, we’re dealing with people who Do Not Get science, because they don’t really inhabit an objective reality. They’re doing the same woo-woo nonsense humanity has always done. It’s all just stories and belief. The signifiers just changed from headdresses to lab coats, and the jargon has a bit more Latin.
- Comment on Anon contemplates AI 1 month ago:
Oh that’s a fun version of the containment problem. A true superintelligence, given enough time, will pull some pickup artist shit and not call you back.
- Comment on Anon contemplates AI 1 month ago:
“Teledildonics” have been a humorous niche since the Slashdot era.
- Comment on Hermetically sealed, for your health! 2 months ago:
Johnny was a chemist’s son.
- Comment on UK Government backtracks on AI and copyright after outcry 2 months ago:
Training is transformative use.
All of this is just statistical modeling. There is no “opt-out” for published art. Copyright only exists as a financial incentive to give the public useful works. Well… this is a use. And the end result is novel, reflecting minimal portions of each work. The more things it’s trained on, the less each one matters. A verbatim copy of Honky Chateau does not serve the same purpose as a robot that can play a rude jingle about your boss, by name.
The worst thing we could do about AI is make copyright even worse.
- Comment on ‘No one saw this coming’: will the surprise Telegraph winner change the paper’s direction? 2 months ago:
“Gazumped?”
Döpfner, who sits on the boards of Netflix and Warner Music and was once described in a profile as “part Murdoch, but also part Musk”
Bastard-flavored bastard.
- Comment on Anon argues on reddit 2 months ago:
Hiding post history is a gift to fascists, like so many other decisions reddit made. One of those funny coincidences that keeps happenings.
Clicking someone’s username was like dogs sniffing butts. You want to know: what kind of asshole am I dealing with? But dipshits trapped in tribalist worldviews only knew that people would slap them down for hypocrisy, so wah wah wah admins come save me, if blocking to force the last word wasn’t enough. I had so many idiots sneer about /r/LinkIsCute posts, like I’m supposed to be shamed about liking a popular character in a clearly intended fashion. It’s just the desperate grasping modern version of some child with a quivering upper lip countering ‘yeah, well… nice hair!’
- Comment on 🐲 mg 2 months ago:
- Comment on Caption this. 2 months ago:
Deltarune chapter six.
- Comment on Anon disrespects their elders 2 months ago:
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 2 months ago:
“The ole days” meaning 1963 to 1976. Anywhere after that, if you had a monitor and a modem, you might as well buy a microcomputer. Uncontested access, total control, boots into an environment to write your own programs. Only the French made a networked alternative worthwhile - and frankly even Minitel machines should’ve had homebrew for poker or whatever.
Trends over the last decade are general inflation not being matched by any serious growth in wages. Trends over the last year are just grifters with an infinite money glitch buying literally all hardware so the robot can stare at pirated movies. I’m not the sort of person to insist capitalism never works, but this is definitely capitalism not working.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 2 months ago:
Cloud gaming isn’t real.
Remote computing almost never makes sense. Budgeting for access inevitably costs enough to buy something local - less powerful, but powerful enough. One year university supercomputers could run multiplayer first-person dungeon crawlers. The next year, so could an Apple II. (Christ, $1300 at launch? It did not do much more than the $600 TRS-80 and C64. The Apple I was only $666.) Meanwhile a $150 Atari was better at action titles anyway.
When networks advance faster than computing, there’s glimpses of viability. Maybe there was a brief window where machines that struggled with Doom could have streamed Quake over dial-up… at 28.8 kbps… in RealPlayer quality… while paying by the minute for the phone call. Or maybe your first cable modem could have delivered Far Cry in standard-def MPEG2, right between Halo 2 and the $300 launch of the 360, while Half-Life 2 ran on any damn thing.
Nowadays your phone runs Unreal 5 games. What else were you gonna stream games on? If you have a desktop, it’s probably for gaming. Set-top boxes keep Ouya-ing themselves, trying to become “mini-consoles” that cost too much, run poorly, and stop getting updates. Minimalist laptops like Chromebook find themselves abandoned, even though the entire fucking pitch was an everlasting dumb terminal for the internet. The only place cloud gaming almost works is for laptops, and really only work laptops, because otherwise-- buy a Steam Deck. You’re better off carrying a keyboard for normal desk use than a controller for gaming on the subway.
- Comment on Anon is a PC gamer 2 months ago:
Alternately, a glut of secondhand god-tier GPUs, which only smell a little toasty.
- Comment on Vibecon invite 2 months ago:
Arguable.
- Comment on All US Social Security numbers may need to be changed following a massive breach that is already being investigated as a national threat 3 months ago:
Or: strenuously avoiding a national ID system, because of how obviously that could be abused. And probably still hacked anyway.
It is possible to do such an ID system sensibly, fairly, and for considerable net good. But we wouldn’t.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 months ago:
“Don’t feed the trolls” has never fucking worked.
They just escalate.
… but maybe remember the bigot’s face, and wait for him to stop filming.
- Comment on Annon punches a Nazi 3 months ago:
Ehhh.
- Comment on How Japan’s Leader Rescued Her Party from the Abyss 3 months ago:
Is it shallow populism?
Again?
