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Comment on World of Warcraft: Forever | Cinematic trailer in ~games
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Comment on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production in Texas next year in ~transport
Grzmot Link ParentMy personal choice would be wrapping the entire car in bubble wrap. It would improve the look!My personal choice would be wrapping the entire car in bubble wrap. It would improve the look!
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Comment on Tesla to wind down Cybertruck production in Texas next year in ~transport
Grzmot Link ParentThere were a few units rolling around Europe from people who imported it themselves and either ignored safety regulations or got aftermarket upgrades to to make them comply safety regulations.There were a few units rolling around Europe from people who imported it themselves and either ignored safety regulations or got aftermarket upgrades to to make them comply safety regulations.
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Comment on Enough phone (compact phone) kickstarter is up in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentDefinitely not at the level they wanted to build it to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wintersmiths/juniper/descriptionDefinitely not at the level they wanted to build it to: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/wintersmiths/juniper/description
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Comment on Baby’s first malware in ~comp
Grzmot Link ParentDidn't your browser stop you from visiting the site? Apparently it used a self-signed certificate so I would expect a browser to warn its user that something is fishy!Didn't your browser stop you from visiting the site? Apparently it used a self-signed certificate so I would expect a browser to warn its user that something is fishy!
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Comment on Enough phone (compact phone) kickstarter is up in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI'm aware of the home-made clear ice methods as I was similarly obsessed with it for a time (hence me spending 500 USD on a damn ice machine haha). At the time I lived in a tiny apartment with a...I'm aware of the home-made clear ice methods as I was similarly obsessed with it for a time (hence me spending 500 USD on a damn ice machine haha). At the time I lived in a tiny apartment with a tiny freezer compartment in the small fridge. Not even the the clear ice molds you got off amazon fit into the freezer height-wise. So the idea of a counter-top clear ice maker was a revolutionary one and fit perfectly what I needed.
Too revolutionary to be possible, I guess. But I saw a Kickstarter campaign for a damn exo skeleton at one point so, ya know, everything is on there. The ice maker was just viable enough and like I said, they sold it as the prototype being done and them just needing seed money to go into mass production. It was one of those cases where the idea was not fabricated, but how far along they were for sure was.
The updates were pretty laughable, they were very clearly working out extremely early prototype kinks like using a damn arduino to control the mechanics and everything.
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Comment on Baby’s first malware in ~comp
Grzmot LinkHappy you got it resolved! mac usually was better about the whole malware stuff but I guess times change, or maybe I was just lucky back when I daily drove it. How did you get an infected download...Happy you got it resolved!
mac usually was better about the whole malware stuff but I guess times change, or maybe I was just lucky back when I daily drove it. How did you get an infected download of Maccy?
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Comment on Enough phone (compact phone) kickstarter is up in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentImho always consider any money put towards Kickstarter to be equal to throwing it in a fire. You might get something in the mail later, you might not. It might have a delay measured in years. My...Imho always consider any money put towards Kickstarter to be equal to throwing it in a fire.
You might get something in the mail later, you might not. It might have a delay measured in years.
My most expensive Kickstarter was a 500 USD clear ice cube machine that's been in development hell ever since. The description of the project was an outright lie, they made it sound like they had a prototype functioning and essentially were only collecting money to get a bigger factory to do a production run.
Their first update post funding was them tinkering with the design to make it ready for mass production. What followed was a string of updates every two months working out kinks in a prototype very much not ready for production, the opposite of what they claimed in the description. This was years ago. Their last few updates were them talking to investors in an attempt to get more money because they had obviously burned through the Kickstarter cash to develop their prototype further.
There are established Kickstarter companies that you can treat like a pre-order. An example of that would be Oceanus Brass. They produce little items like compasses and lighters made of brass with a nautical theme. It's highly unlikely that a campaign of theirs is going to fail.
It's for shit like this that Kickstarter is ideal, and for board and card games. Your investment is going to be small, the technical innovations required to get it done are zero to small at best, which increases the chances that you will actually get your reward, because it's just the campaign creators collecting money to have enough to order from say a big printing factory which produces tabletop games.
A smart phone is definitely in the territory of "this is way too complicated to work on kickstarter" and unless you really, really want it, I would not put money behind this campaign.
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Comment on Dispatch and choosing your own mess in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentI think having youtubers voice-act was a really genious marketing move. To be fair, I didn't find them distracting and the voice work on their part is fine. I like Punch Up in particular, and that...I think having youtubers voice-act was a really genious marketing move. To be fair, I didn't find them distracting and the voice work on their part is fine. I like Punch Up in particular, and that one is also voiced by a youtuber. I wasn't even aware of that first time around because I don't watch that guy in particular.
I think it just fails in the writing aspect of it all, but most of the character moments work really well. Also 2 hot ladies are pining after the main character, gamers are gonna want that.
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Comment on Not Solitaire in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentLast time I saw Solitaire it was on Windows XP and child me loved to see the cards go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr. This is a delight and it's fun to finally learn how this game works lol. Thank you for posting!Last time I saw Solitaire it was on Windows XP and child me loved to see the cards go brrrrrrrrrrrrrr.
This is a delight and it's fun to finally learn how this game works lol. Thank you for posting!
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Comment on Dispatch and choosing your own mess in ~games
Grzmot (edited )LinkTagline: Why write one good story when you can write ten mediocre ones? Hi! I made another video essay. It examines the video game Dispatch, what I like about it, what I hate about it and also the...Tagline: Why write one good story when you can write ten mediocre ones?
Hi! I made another video essay. It examines the video game Dispatch, what I like about it, what I hate about it and also the my general problems with the Choose Your Own Adventure (CYOA) style of writing. In my opinion, Dispatch is a great example of how CYOA holds a plot back in mediocrity when it could've been great. What remains is a cast made endearing by the character interactions, and some genuinely funny writing.
Not when it's trying to make sexual assault funny, though.
I hope you enjoy! :]
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Dispatch and choosing your own mess
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentHurried is a great word for it. I pay for Proton and the amount of shit they come up with and release finally makes sense when their CEO and CTO are both tech dipshits that can't stay still, can't...Hurried is a great word for it. I pay for Proton and the amount of shit they come up with and release finally makes sense when their CEO and CTO are both tech dipshits that can't stay still, can't stay on one project to make it good and have to "keep winning".
Except for Mail, all their services are so damn barebones it's laughable. Of course it would be, when the CEO wants to release more and more products instead of nurturing the ones they already have. Their Google Docs competitor was released and I don't think it's seen an update since. They managed to add a file browser to it which is weird because all the files are hosted inside Proton Drive (cloud storage) which already has a web UI...
Then they opened a whole new can of worms by releasing an Excel competitor which is a wild thing to do given how famously ingrained Excel is to the business world, and I don't think they have done anything since with it but hey they released a Zoom competitor! Still no Linux client for Proton Drive though. That thing got announced over 2 years ago it feels like.
I'm sorry for the employees that have to follow these constantly moving goal posts and produce half-baked results to meet them just before they shift again.
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Comment on Manifestos, fear, and ‘loser thinking’: inside Proton’s AI reckoning in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentHahahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah good luck I've seen the code our PMs generate and it's always a mess. AI is an occasionally functional accelerant but if you have no knowledge to work off then it'll..."[...]This will be the last year that we hire engineers, and starting next year we hire what we used to call product managers, to build things with AI.”
Hahahahahahahahahahaha. Yeah good luck I've seen the code our PMs generate and it's always a mess. AI is an occasionally functional accelerant but if you have no knowledge to work off then it'll accelerate you straight into a ditch.
I'm gonna start shopping for alternatives.
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Comment on Proton to ‘re-interview’ staff about AI to see who gets to keep their job in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentI work at an international US-based tech company in the B2B business with thousands of employees. Recently we had a meeting with the current boss of my boss of my boss meeting the new team after a...I work at an international US-based tech company in the B2B business with thousands of employees.
Recently we had a meeting with the current boss of my boss of my boss meeting the new team after a re-org that had nothing to do with AI. It was revealing how he said that programmers told him how AI is great and how it's making them more productive but then with that same uncertain smile said that he isn't seeing this reflected at the VI and epic level.
This is months after the company face-planted completely into AI, giving every engineer Copilot at the start, then pivoting into Claude, giving engineers up to 500 USD per month if requested and finding out that you in fact run out of money if you do that and limiting us to around 200 USD again. I talked a lot with office management and from them I found out that their bosses were telling them to just "find any use case for AI" but like, obviously they were "just" office workers and not tech experts flailing to find a usecase, which is difficult because you can't reliably rely on AI to teach you about AI because it lies all the fucking time. In the end my colleague in office management found some excel sheet to reformat.
I use it daily, I have access up to Opus 5.5, yes it's useful for some workflows, especially on the web front-end side where the training data is clearly the best, but I tried using Sonnet for a month due to the budget constraints and it is absolutely not cutting it for code quality. You need the frontier models to get anything done at all.
All this to say that the people writing these e-mails have nothing more concrete than "AI is fundamentally changing the way we work", because there is nothing more concrete. Our CTO was amazed by Claude and mandated a push into AI because it was helping him with his weekend projects. That's it. No real analysis about functionality in a big corporation and big code-bases, just being impressed that his "agent swarm" was helping him code his drones.
The 80 billion thing is not as bad as it looks, it was mostly a "headline writes itself" type deal, but while AI can work when it comes to scaffolding, UI work and we've clearly seen it work when it comes to coding apps like QBZ (rest in pieces), but the last few months have been insane because it feels like everything accelerated right into a mess. Other, bigger companies like Uber learned that you will just burn through your token budget at 5 times the rate as expected, and this was long before we made our org changes. Like I'm trying to do my job here, is the manager making these decisions doing that too?
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Comment on Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026 in ~tech
Grzmot LinkOct 20 (Reuters) - Anthropic's net loss widened sharply to $80.7 billion in the first half of this year, in large part due to a rise in the fair value of bonds convertible into shares of the AI startup, according to a draft prospectus for a planned initial public offering that was reviewed by Reuters.
Its first-half loss, widening from a loss of $13 billion a year earlier, included a $72 billion accounting charge reflecting an increase in the estimated value of bonds that could eventually convert into Anthropic shares, rather than cash costs tied to its operations, the document said.
While the figures eased some concerns about the enormous costs of developing AI systems, some investors were disappointed by the slowing sequential growth rate. Revenue had more than doubled from the first quarter to $11.6 billion in the second quarter.
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Anthropic logged net loss of over $80 billion in first half of 2026
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Comment on Three children and a teacher were killed in Bend, Oregon, elementary school shooting, police say in ~news
Grzmot LinkSucks that it had to happen, and will happen again unless legal changes are made, but at least a hero cut it short. It sucks even more that he can't think of the lives he saved by acting and...Sucks that it had to happen, and will happen again unless legal changes are made, but at least a hero cut it short.
It sucks even more that he can't think of the lives he saved by acting and instead considers himself responsible for those lost. I don't know if survivor's guilt is the word for it here but it's what it feels like to me.
Tragedy. Unnecessary tragedy, every single fucking time. :(
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentDidn't Linus just say that he doesn't care if a commit is made by AI as long as it's good code? It was a fairly milquetoast statement. The right wing dog whistles is a specific repo that's being...Didn't Linus just say that he doesn't care if a commit is made by AI as long as it's good code? It was a fairly milquetoast statement.
The right wing dog whistles is a specific repo that's being funded/made by one specific dipshit. There's nothing that Linux can do against that, and frankly speaking it shouldn't try. It would be a huge blow against GPL.
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Comment on I deliberately bet like a problem gambler. DraftKings made me a VIP. in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentThe mafia romanticized as these local patrons of community no longer exist. Capitalism got to them as well and they became international conglomerates that operate in the shadows. Those that did...The mafia romanticized as these local patrons of community no longer exist. Capitalism got to them as well and they became international conglomerates that operate in the shadows. Those that did not got devoured brutally. Nowadays there's very little about them that supports local communities.
I missed this trailer when it came out!
I never was a WoW person, but Warcraft 3 is my childhood and seeing what I think is the world tree with the demon's skeleton there absolutely hit the nostalgia real good. I forget his name now, but he was the main villain of WC3. Also gorgeous to see the nods to the OG WoW trailer, but unlike the WoW classic trailer which was a straight remake, this one takes a different path, just like WoW Forever will, supposedly.
The world tree especially was lovely, after the travesty that was Battle for Azeroth and what they did to it there.