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Comment on What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking? in ~food
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
streblo Link ParentFor sure. Totally understand if rosco was disappointed in himself for not checking in and making sure. That’s not how I initially read it, but that could just be my reading skills.For sure. Totally understand if rosco was disappointed in himself for not checking in and making sure. That’s not how I initially read it, but that could just be my reading skills.
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 3 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
streblo LinkI have... accomplished nothing this week! I should have a lot more time this week though, so I'm not really stressing.I have... accomplished nothing this week!
I should have a lot more time this week though, so I'm not really stressing.
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Comment on #YesAllMen #NotAllMen #MaybeSomeMen How to be better? in ~life.men
streblo Link ParentI don't know, obviously we are missing the most important bits of context here (maybe @rosco has more) but without any further info I would have a hard time reading the above as "weird behavior"?...But he was really nice and told me not worry about it
I don't know, obviously we are missing the most important bits of context here (maybe @rosco has more) but without any further info I would have a hard time reading the above as "weird behavior"?
Of course, things like that can definitely be problematic and I don't want to minimize how important consent and reading signals from your partner are but at the same time I think I understand why young people are having a lot less sex if that's considered weird/creepy these days.
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Comment on If you use your computer in a dark environment, buy a monitor light! in ~tech
streblo LinkI go full mushroom and embrace the darkness.I go full mushroom and embrace the darkness.
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Comment on Nova Scotia [Canada] to host massive data centre to power Anthropic's AI assistant Claude in ~tech
streblo Link ParentI think this is much better than the alternative in which this data center is built in the US. I'm all for more Canadian data sovereignty, we should be building out Canadian compute even if it's...I think this is much better than the alternative in which this data center is built in the US.
I'm all for more Canadian data sovereignty, we should be building out Canadian compute even if it's with some US dollars.
In my opinion, there is no reasonable opposition to any singular data center if they are far from residential areas and powered responsibly. Obviously exceptions can apply, e.g. at scales that put strain on the grid or vastly increase residential power bills.
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Comment on What can be done about Linux being slopified? in ~tech
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 2 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
streblo LinkNot great but not terrible progress from me. I got the blacks and metals all painted. Now I need to fix up a couple of mistakes by covering up with off white and then repainting a few orange...Not great but not terrible progress from me. I got the blacks and metals all painted. Now I need to fix up a couple of mistakes by covering up with off white and then repainting a few orange areas. Then onto doing orange mid tones and highlights.
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Comment on AI models may be capable of self-replicating without access to a datacenter in ~tech
streblo Link ParentYou can using distributed inference, which is what they are claiming:Wait what? You can't run a 9B model on the types of devices they listed.
You can using distributed inference, which is what they are claiming:
Typical boxes in this range ship with between 1 and 4 gigabytes of RAM. Assuming 4GB of RAM at 4-bit quantization, this allows for inference of 9B models with 4 or more machines, and inference of 26B models with 10+ machines.
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Comment on There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO in ~games
streblo Link ParentI just noticed you are not in fact the person I thought I was replying to. Apologies! Too many secrets in this thread! :PI just noticed you are not in fact the person I thought I was replying to. Apologies!
Too many secrets in this thread! :P
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Comment on There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO in ~games
streblo (edited )Link ParentNo worries, we've all had those days. Everyone is entitled to their opinions, that's fine. I find it a little sad that instead of discussing the Elder Scrolls or the project we're instead...No worries, we've all had those days.
Everyone is entitled to their opinions, that's fine. I find it a little sad that instead of discussing the Elder Scrolls or the project we're instead discussing AI in this thread, but I'm not surprised either.
It's fine if you want to have a line in the sand for AI for ethical reasons. It's also fine to shout it from the rooftops in a way that other people can participate with. I think it's less fine to pick someone else's unrelated topic to soapbox about AI. Especially if you're going to just dump all over anyone who might have enjoyed it. Since we're here though, I will address your points.
I disagree that enjoying AI projects makes you some kind of consumerist. People hacking on old decompiled rebooted/ported/altered games and sharing them for free with their friends and communities is just not in any way consumerist. It's basically an anti-consumerists dream scenario. And you can't just use a blanket statement to apply to any AI project. AI is not just limited to the big AI company offerings, it's very possible to 'ethically consume' AI via hosting your own AI or using a hosted open source AI model. And even among the big AI companies there is alot of daylight between them. I would argue Anthropic is a lot better than OpenAI which in turn is infinitely better than Grok. There are a lot of worrying qualities about AI, about what the future will look like, about the outsourcing of human thought and creativity, etc. I don't disagree. But that should not stop people from being excited about cool applications of the technology. Those things are not tightly coupled. People hacking on games using AI is not what is allowing AI to take over the world. It's OK to let people enjoy things.
When you start a conversation being an AI scold, you drive people away. And maybe you (proverbial you) think that's OK, we don't want those people here anyways. But what's actually happening is this is actually quite a popular phenomena and all of the people excited to use AI for this or for that are actively driven into questionable communities like Omarchy and Twitter and oh-no-all-of-the-sudden we have created the next alt right pipeline. And of course I’m not trying to lay that at your feet or anything, but collectively I think that’s what a hardline anti-AI stance is slowly accomplishing.
Also in case it’s not obvious I’m not threatening to take my ball home and create a Twitter account. Unfortunately y’all are stuck with me and my Twitter account will remain deleted. But over time the chilling effect is real and people should think about 2nd order effects.
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Comment on There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO in ~games
streblo Link ParentI agree the other commenter wasn’t very charitable, but you did basically call me a vacuous consumerist who was getting cheap thrills and I should think hard on my decision or something. Not sure...I agree the other commenter wasn’t very charitable, but you did basically call me a vacuous consumerist who was getting cheap thrills and I should think hard on my decision or something. Not sure what I said that was uncharitable?
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Comment on There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO in ~games
streblo Link ParentI’m not sure how to respond to this other than to point out that calling the most individually empowering tools for hacking on video games ever created ‘consumerist’ is an absurd take.I’m not sure how to respond to this other than to point out that calling the most individually empowering tools for hacking on video games ever created ‘consumerist’ is an absurd take.
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Comment on There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO in ~games
streblo Link ParentWhat about people that want to play Daggerfall with their friends? Point me to a better option and I will check it out. If you set aside AI purity testing, some of these projects are actually a...I feel like there is never a good reason to pick something like this over something with actual effort put into it
What about people that want to play Daggerfall with their friends? Point me to a better option and I will check it out.
If you set aside AI purity testing, some of these projects are actually a lot of fun. Personally, I don't really care if they are 'slop' or flashes in the pan or not well planned if I'm having fun. I think a lot of them are just people sharing their personal projects they are having fun with.
For an example, I had an old abandoned project from many years ago I gave up on when the task was too daunting -- creating a Magic: The Gathering card parser I could plug into a rules engine. I was finally able to create this with AI, and now I'm having a ton of fun creating AIs that I can play magic and draft with. Is it slop? 100%. Is it well-planned? Nope. Am I getting enjoyment out of it? Most definitely!
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There's a new Elder Scrolls MMO
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Arguments about AI consciousness remain highly motivated and at best overconfident
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Comment on omdrop-owl: Apple airdrop reverse-engineered for non-Apple devices in ~comp
streblo Link ParentIt is my understanding that OWL, which that project relies on, requires exclusive use of your wireless card. I haven’t tested this or anything, but the project claims it can do this while staying...It is my understanding that OWL, which that project relies on, requires exclusive use of your wireless card.
I haven’t tested this or anything, but the project claims it can do this while staying connected to an AP.
I do not use or endorse Omarchy, but I think that’s pretty neat.
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omdrop-owl: Apple airdrop reverse-engineered for non-Apple devices
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Comment on Timasomo 2026: Week 1 Updates in ~creative.timasomo
streblo LinkPretty lame first week for me, as I started with my two models already primed. I managed to get a coat of orange onto both though! Next up is the blacks and the metals, then adding some orange...Pretty lame first week for me, as I started with my two models already primed. I managed to get a coat of orange onto both though! Next up is the blacks and the metals, then adding some orange highlights / shading.
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Comment on OpenAI releases findings on 377 math problems, further roiling field in ~science
streblo Link ParentOK, yes I would say you are biased :P Fair enough I agree that anyone writing aerospace code or MISRA C anywhere is going to have other factors requiring more reliability than AIs can currently...OK, yes I would say you are biased :P
Fair enough I agree that anyone writing aerospace code or MISRA C anywhere is going to have other factors requiring more reliability than AIs can currently deliver. That is not true for most software, and I don't think it's something that will necessarily stay true forever, it's possible in the future we can get much higher performance and reliability from AIs than from engineers even at system scales.
I made Canadian goulash/gulyás this week, which yes thank-you I did invent. It’s just traditional Hungarian gulyás with a moose roast instead of beef.
It was quite tasty! Definitely going into my fall recipe repertoire.