Grzmot's recent activity
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Comment on Do not buy NZXT | Predatory, evil rental computer scam investigated in ~tech
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Comment on In praise of Arcane season 2 in ~tv
Grzmot Link ParentSPOILERS ALL OF SEASON 2 OF ARCANE It was still bautiful and I had a good time with it, but that was only because I really like the Victor's arc. I fully recognize that Jayce/Victor are completely...SPOILERS ALL OF SEASON 2 OF ARCANE
It was still bautiful and I had a good time with it, but that was only because I really like the Victor's arc. I fully recognize that Jayce/Victor are completely separated from the rest in a similar way as Mel and her stuff.
Season 2 should've been about a Zaun/Piltover civil war and them ultimately coming together to defend themselves against Noxus. But Mel, Victor and Jayce really needed to get through their stuff to set up future shows I guess. It did not mesh well, and instead of being connected by the plot, the only thing that connects the 2 climaxes of the invasion and then whatever the fuck you want to call Victor's ending weren't actually connected by any plot. The only thing that connected them was that they happened at the same time, in the same place.
They really needed to kill their darlings in S2 and focus on one plot, and that was the civil arc stuff because it's the logical conclusion after Silko's death in S1. I still had a great time with it though.
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Comment on Stellar Blade: The fake outrage in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentIt's quite central to the point Shaun is making though: That this fake controversy is not about the game at all, because the game is alright. I can see how people could be really into it. But the...Discussing for a decent chunk of a time the mediocrity of a game for reasons that I do not even actually fundamentally disagree with, just think were overblown.
It's quite central to the point Shaun is making though: That this fake controversy is not about the game at all, because the game is alright. I can see how people could be really into it. But the point is that outside accounts have been flip-flopping on this being the best game ever or the worst game ever for reasons that have nothing to do with the game itself.
In addition, while he relies on the twitter account for the most, he shows plenty of screenshots of videos with a couple thousand views each also discussing the "controversy".
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Comment on Stellar Blade: The fake outrage in ~games
Grzmot (edited )Link ParentJust use Chat GPT to give you a bullet list of stuff to go through and eventually synthesize your voice using AI and boom, the channel runs itself.Just use Chat GPT to give you a bullet list of stuff to go through and eventually synthesize your voice using AI and boom, the channel runs itself.
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Comment on Making a fake movie to understand Hollywood’s shady accounting in ~movies
Grzmot LinkA fun short video detailing how Hollywood accounting works in principle. To make it simple: Each movie has a production LLC which gets dissolved after the production ends and is basically a shell...A fun short video detailing how Hollywood accounting works in principle.
To make it simple: Each movie has a production LLC which gets dissolved after the production ends and is basically a shell company through which everything passes. Producers usually sell everything needed for production to those LLCs at extremely inflated prices to reduce profits on paper, even though at the end you're just passing money between 2 corporate entities you both own.
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Making a fake movie to understand Hollywood’s shady accounting
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Comment on Forced to upgrade [from iPhone 8] in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentDumb phones have become somewhat impossible for me to even consider because of all the 2FA stuff. I literally cannot access my bank account without my phone, and it needs to be a smartphone,...Dumb phones have become somewhat impossible for me to even consider because of all the 2FA stuff. I literally cannot access my bank account without my phone, and it needs to be a smartphone, because the 2FA is proprietary inside my bank's app.
It sucks, but I get it. But it sucks.
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Comment on Stellar Blade: The fake outrage in ~games
Grzmot Link ParentOf course a huge aspect of it is that it is financially rewarding, especially for the channels that put out shit daily or even more more than once per day. I don't think Shaun was very interested...Of course a huge aspect of it is that it is financially rewarding, especially for the channels that put out shit daily or even more more than once per day. I don't think Shaun was very interested in making it apparent that it is profitable to lie on the internet; that seems like an obvious statement to me.
I think the angle he picked with going with this die-hard believer of the cause who kept ranting on about shit on Twitter more than 20 years after he has done anything relevant at all is a fantastic one. Having watched the whole thing, he doesn't outright insult Grummz at any point aside of mentioning his age towards the start of the video.
The fact that a 56 year old guy is firing off twitter messages hourly about something completely irrelevant and largely made up is so intriguing. I think he's a believer of his own bullshit, and that's more interesting to explore than grifters who do it for profit only, because grifters are the same wherever you go.
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Comment on Stellar Blade: The fake outrage in ~games
Grzmot LinkAs someone who once regretfully described himself as a gamergater in 2016, and trust me, I wish I was closer to 14 rather than 18 back then, this is a curious look into how this movement has fared...- Exemplary
As someone who once regretfully described himself as a gamergater in 2016, and trust me, I wish I was closer to 14 rather than 18 back then, this is a curious look into how this movement has fared over the years.
The Stellar Blade "Controversy" is a fantastic example of just how insulated you can become in your little social media bubble, and looking back on it now, how outright cringe it all was back then too. People posting multiple videos a day, all just reurgitating the same uninformed hot takes for an on-screen audience that has nothing better to do than watch a guy known for shit like being good at WoW or having worked at Blizzard 20 years ago trying to find purpose in being angry.
Reading all of the content shown in the video, especially the main character of Grummz, always updating this "culture war" narrative like it's the marvel cinematic universe is one of the worst deja-vus I've had the displeasure of experiencing. It reminds me of falling into r/KotakuInAction and checking it daily for the newest updates on how something completely irrelevant not impacting my life at all was evolving, especially because most of the controversy was just made up to get angry and drive engagement, because holy shit do people love being angry.
I'm so happy I got away from it.
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Stellar Blade: The fake outrage
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Comment on Google is testing the ‘impact’ of removing EU news from search results in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentKagi still gets reddit, but that's only coz they pay Google.Kagi still gets reddit, but that's only coz they pay Google.
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Comment on I've added ~society for topics related to politics, law, policies, and similar societal-level subjects in ~tildes.official
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Comment on The Browser Company announces Arc Browser will no longer be their flagship product in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentIt makes sense to have a native browser for your operating system. I'm not denouncing Safari, but what I mean is that for Apple, Safari is part of a package that sells their hardware, so it can be...It makes sense to have a native browser for your operating system. I'm not denouncing Safari, but what I mean is that for Apple, Safari is part of a package that sells their hardware, so it can be free in the sense that you need to buy a device from them to get to it. They don't need to monetize Safari itself.
The Browser Company however, does. It's in their name, they want to make Browsers only. But clearly they are still in the stage of achieving infinite growth so this is what they do. Don't build a stable product and focus on serving the user base (which, if they didn't have investors hounding them, they could at least attempt) instead of, I'm assuming here, putting Arc in maintenance mode and developing something else. It feels to me like Arc is being put into maintenance mode.
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Comment on The Browser Company announces Arc Browser will no longer be their flagship product in ~tech
Grzmot Link ParentWhen Arc got announced and it was discussed here on Tildes, I wrote a comment detailing my reservations about adopting Arc as my main browser. It's very clear that the company making it is...When Arc got announced and it was discussed here on Tildes, I wrote a comment detailing my reservations about adopting Arc as my main browser. It's very clear that the company making it is following the typical tech company startup scheme, i.e. get seed funding, grow fast, worry about how to monetize it later.
You can read between the lines of the CEO's announcement video that this is exactly what's happening. Their key performance indicator is user growth, and the CEO said in the video that with the current growth rate, they are not going to reach a billion users. Read, or listen, in this case, between the lines: they are not growing fast enough.
Browsers have been free for over two decades. Chrome exists because Google wants data, Firefox exists because Google really doesn't want Chrome to be designated a monopoly, Safari exists because Apple is obsessed with end-to-end control. And Browsers are the only thing this company is presumably going to be making.
They have no path to profitability, they don't even have the concept of a plan of profitability, and they are not growing fast enough to make the people funding them right now happy. This is what this is. They made something good, but too niche for tech investors. They are also headquartered in New York, so I imagine their upkeep is expensive.
This is what this is. They cannot, or are unwilling for whatever reason, to monetize their current userbase. So to get more funding, they have to keep growing. This is their attempt.
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Comment on Despite its impressive output, generative AI doesn’t have a coherent understanding of the world in ~tech
Grzmot LinkIt's great that we now have a paper to point to, but at no point did LLMs include any sort of reasoning capability. They are empty words, so this doesn't surprise me too much.It's great that we now have a paper to point to, but at no point did LLMs include any sort of reasoning capability. They are empty words, so this doesn't surprise me too much.
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Comment on Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design in ~comp
Grzmot Link ParentAnd mind you, I'm very happy you did. Engaging with a new perspective can yield positive results; the real only problem is your own energy and willingness to do so and your time. I do think that...I don't really know whether this person is an expert or not, but I completely understand - this post happened more or less exactly how I expected it to go from the moment I saw the topic. I think it's important for all the different kinds of conversation that have happened in these comments to happen, but wanted to draw attention to something that was missing on Tildes (but not on lobsters as another commenter pointed out).
And mind you, I'm very happy you did. Engaging with a new perspective can yield positive results; the real only problem is your own energy and willingness to do so and your time. I do think that people here in the comments can definitely fall into group thinking because our backgrounds tend to be similar. It's why someone going out of their way to read the entire 16 pages of the report and approaching it with a different mindset is so valuable.
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Comment on Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design in ~comp
Grzmot Link ParentSee, something that gets ignored about this approach though is that people who try to do things differently even in a practical way like that will still experience pushback because they are going..."Source is available, go fork and have fun with that."
See, something that gets ignored about this approach though is that people who try to do things differently even in a practical way like that will still experience pushback because they are going against the grain.
Programmers, even with their inherent practical background, are still people, and people are mostly fallible. We cannot hide about some notion of peak objectivity that only programmers have, because it's just not true. Think back on the master/main brach discussion for git. It's a harmless change, fixed within one line of the config and for repo users it's no change at all. There was tremendous debate around it.
If the person who wrote this paper decided to go about it in a practical way, I can still see wave of barely concealed hatred be sent their way about "What's even the point of this" and "They way we are doing things right now is great already, this is useless".
Yes, folks from the humanities viewing things from through a certain lens can get a tad silly. But it's also a different perspective and why it's important to remain skeptical, one should be careful to not let that skepticism border into cynicism.
Just because we're "the experts" does not mean that we'll be right. There is a bigger chance that we might be, but it's absolutely not a guarantee, and people are very very very prone to group-think. If you ever want a cautionary tale of experts ruining a good chance, read up on the life of the venerable doctor Ignaz Philipp Semmelweis. He did, and tried to introduce an objectively good thing. The people of the medical field rewarded him with so much hatred that he ended up dying in an asylum at an early age.
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Comment on Paper: Feminism in Programming Language Design in ~comp
Grzmot Link ParentA perceived outsider has come into a group of insiders and offered perceived criticism against the thing that unites the insiders, thus earning their ire. A tale as old as time, a limitation...A perceived outsider has come into a group of insiders and offered perceived criticism against the thing that unites the insiders, thus earning their ire. A tale as old as time, a limitation humanity is unlikely to overcome.
Tildes is a tech-focused site, despite its forages into other topics, most folks here have a software development background. Layered onto that are a few things:
Developers are, ultimately, practical people. If you want to impress developers, you do it by developing something cool. If you want to make a programming language with a focus on being inclusive, you have to do it, or developers won't care.
Software development is a male dominated space, so on top of the outsider coming in to critique what unites the group spiritually, they come in and look different too! (Shocker, whoah :OOOO how can people just do that?? /s)
I agree with you that people are approaching this a bit too harshly. It's clearly not directed at developers (evident by the huge paragraph titled What is a programming language?), however whenever a non-expert in a specific topic attempts to do some intersectionality, the experts are going to gather and watch with nervous curiosity like monkeys watching tourists in tropical countries, especially because Feminism:tm: is cool now and (western) companies want to be feminist so what if this non-expert's opinion suddenly induces change that we don't like???
I will offer one critique to your comment though: It is very useful to think about how to make programming more inclusive. It's not very useful to center the design of a programming language around non-programmers reading it, because non-programmers tend not to read code. The result of such an exercise is a language, that at best, programmers don't want to touch because it sucks to actually use. Don't design the scalpel after the needs of the painter, design it after the needs of a surgeon.
Mind you, I totally agree with you with the overt focus on maths. It's too much, and has less to do with actual programming than the maths-heavy comp sci curricula of most universities would let you think. However, maths has two very big advantages:
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The way solving maths forces you to think is a great precursor on how you need to think to solve programming tasks
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Comp Sci is an extremely broad field. I honestly expect it to shatter into multiple fields with time, it's not been around for too long yet. To some extent, this has already happened. The current issue with that is that Comp Sci thus needs to teach you a lot of shit, and unfortunately, maths is the basis for a lot of famous algorithms that are used to teach the basics of programming and algorithm design at uni.
The best people to practically do stuff like this are always those that start off with a background in programming and then branch out into the humanities and return to their original craft to examine it under a new light and with new knowledge. Or the other way around. But like you said, people here aren't really engaging with the posted article on that level. We're the monkeys, sitting on a tree, watching the tourists and bickering about how they didn't bring any nuts or fruits this time around.
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Comment on Vivaldi 7.0 has been released in ~tech
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Comment on Vivaldi 7.0 has been released in ~tech
Grzmot (edited )LinkVivaldi is a great browser for power users, but for me the problem (back when I used it) was the lack of device sync. This has long been rectified I believe, but currently I'd rather stick with...Vivaldi is a great browser for power users, but for me the problem (back when I used it) was the lack of device sync. This has long been rectified I believe, but currently I'd rather stick with Firefox. I'd give this a try if they'd pledge to switching to
BlinkGecko, the Firefox browser engine, because it's clear that Google is going to wield Chromium like a weapon to get the job done on ad blockers, and the internet without an adblocker is not just barely usable, it's actively dangerous.I don't even know if you can use Firefox's browser engine and build something on top of it that is completely different. I know that Firefox forks exist, but those always change only specific things and are more focused on customizing Firefox to some insane degree rather than doing their own thing. I'm certain it's not feasible for Vivaldi to switch browser engines, but I'm not sure if it's even possible.
This video got me to sign up for their Patreon. I've been toying with the idea ever since they ran the EK investigation, but this sealed the deal.
It's the mental disconnect between getting the money from NZXT into your bank account and not seeing the harm done. It's this nebulous link between action and consequence where a lot of good people do bad things.