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Comment on Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out in ~tech
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Comment on Deepfake crisis spreads across Finnish schools, workplaces and military – law does not prevent the creating of such material in ~tech
shrike Link ParentIf we just had laws that prevent the sharing of this content globally, but we don't. You can find borderline CP or actual CP (AI generated) and nobody will do anything even if you report it. The...If we just had laws that prevent the sharing of this content globally, but we don't.
You can find borderline CP or actual CP (AI generated) and nobody will do anything even if you report it. The site admins won't care because the local jurisdiction can't do anything and they get $$ for ads on the site anyway.
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Comment on Meta’s Muse AI works and creeps me out in ~tech
shrike Link ParentYep, with enough tools and data access the current frontier models are scary good at this stuff. You can go like "hey, the local pizza place uses dynamic delivery pricing, notify me on Saturday...Yep, with enough tools and data access the current frontier models are scary good at this stuff.
You can go like "hey, the local pizza place uses dynamic delivery pricing, notify me on Saturday evenings if the price goes to 3,90€ (the lowest it'll go) between 16-18". And if you're brave you can just have it automatically order the pizzas, or pre-fill the basket up until the "purchase" step and send you a notification to come finish the order...
And this is the worst they will ever be, same with local models. Barring any major world catastrophes, we're like 5 years from this stuff running on local hardware at home, that's some sci-fi shit
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link ParentMaintaining a fork is always a pain, AI or not. Plugin APIs can be (and should be) more stable and need less hand-holding, and a plugin can be "done" in a way that you don't need to poke it every...Maintaining a fork is always a pain, AI or not.
Plugin APIs can be (and should be) more stable and need less hand-holding, and a plugin can be "done" in a way that you don't need to poke it every week, month or even year and it'll still work with new releases.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link ParentYea, the hustle culture is vexing. People try to spin every single stupid todo app they spent "months working on" (prompting Claude) as a full-ass closed source product and community with discord...Yea, the hustle culture is vexing.
People try to spin every single stupid todo app they spent "months working on" (prompting Claude) as a full-ass closed source product and community with discord servers and multiple social media accounts.
Meanwhile I've been just publishing my crap in the open with a MIT license since Drowsy Don was only known from The Apprentice. I think I have one Github project with 50 stars, and zero of them have a "community" of any kind. Cool if people want to use them, but they're built for me and what I want in it.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link ParentHeading down the unemployment pipeline soon too, such is the mobile gaming life 🤷🏼. YT Premium will be the last sub to go, purely on time spent not watching ads vs the price. And yea, live service...I pretty much reduced myself down to YouTube Premium
Heading down the unemployment pipeline soon too, such is the mobile gaming life 🤷🏼. YT Premium will be the last sub to go, purely on time spent not watching ads vs the price.
And yea, live service mobile games are a fascinating juggernaut of do or die sisyphean boulder pushing. People will take any advantage they can get. The Chinese went 996 workweek, but western countries (except Türkiye...) can't match that, so we get our advantage from super-skilled people and AI/ML.
when your aimed sales figures are in the thousands, it only takes a few bad early reviews to tank you
Yea, the witch hunt is scary. Even when using AI assistance is the thing that pushed your specific game over the line to release worthy - without it you'd have nothing or it would have crappy art/sound/code that wouldn't sell. And "just pay an artist to do it" isn't an option when your budget is 5 hotdog buns and a packet of hotdogs uncomfortably past its expiration date =)
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link ParentBut the problem (in my opinion) is that people lack the nuance required. They go "eww GenAI" -> boycott, with zero options in the middle. While they still playing games with massive amounts of...But the problem (in my opinion) is that people lack the nuance required.
They go "eww GenAI" -> boycott, with zero options in the middle. While they still playing games with massive amounts of GenAI content every day, but they can't tell because the process and pipeline have been honed to perfection.
I'm kinda thinking that AI is like plastic surgery - we only notice the bad ones and the professionally made ones slip through unnoticed.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link Parent(Use Kagi for search, no AI easy controls to filter crap you don't want) I work in mobile games and I have first hand knowledge of household name mobile game production. They use AI for...(Use Kagi for search, no AI easy controls to filter crap you don't want)
I work in mobile games and I have first hand knowledge of household name mobile game production. They use AI for everything. Most used AI and ML years before ChatGPT was a thing, both for data and art. They had (and still have) custom systems for generating seasonal content variants, backgrounds etc. This gives artists more time to focus on "hero art" instead of drawing trees and rocks and castles.
Only PC gamers care even a little about AI in their games and IMO most of it is just baseless hysteria. Like Expedition 33 having one background texture AI-generated causing a massive rage storm.
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Comment on It breaks a village in ~comp
shrike Link ParentCan't remember who wrote it, but I agree with them. The basic gist of it was that plugins will become the norm in applications. It's risky to accept AI-generated code into projects and integrate...Can't remember who wrote it, but I agree with them. The basic gist of it was that plugins will become the norm in applications.
It's risky to accept AI-generated code into projects and integrate them to the core. What more and more applications need to do is have a robust plugin system. Then people can AI-slop/engineer/author as many plugins as they want with as much oversight as they're comfortable with.
This way the core application can stay artisanally coded if that's what the community and/or devs want and people can add features without disrupting it - or needing Yet Another Fork.
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Comment on Recommendations for noise cancelling, over ear headphones in ~tech
shrike Link ParentI've owned at least 3 xm-series headphones and the noise cancelling is top notch yes. They're also nice and light to wear even with glasses. BUT The damn touchpad badonk badonk volume adjustment...I've owned at least 3 xm-series headphones and the noise cancelling is top notch yes. They're also nice and light to wear even with glasses.
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The damn touchpad badonk badonk volume adjustment and next-prev on the right earcup is pure ass.
Also the "speak to pause" feature is completely useless. It'll pause my music for 10 seconds on every single slight throat clear or cough. You need the app - WHICH HAS FUCKING ACHIEVEMENTS - to disable it. And even then it randomly re-enables itself.
If you can spare the massive wad of cash, use only Apple devices and don't wear them in public, the Airpods Max are amazing.
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Comment on What are your thoughts on audiobooks? in ~books
shrike LinkI listen to non-fiction only if read by the actual writer. Anything by Stephen Fry or Miriam Margolies for example. When the author reads their own material, they know how it has to be read. As...I listen to non-fiction only if read by the actual writer. Anything by Stephen Fry or Miriam Margolies for example. When the author reads their own material, they know how it has to be read.
As for audiobooks, it needs the correct combination of book and reader/performer:
Some books are just written in a way where reading it sound super janky even if the reader is top tier (He Who Fights Monsters).
Some books are elevated by the audio production (Project Hail Mary, DCC) so that I actually prefer the audio version.
And some work because the creators cared, like the new set of Discworlds books from Audible. Footnotes has its own voice (Charles Dance) and Death has the same voice in all books (Peter Serafinosomething). Also each sub-series has its own dedicated reader, Indira Varma for the Witch books etc.
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Comment on What are your thoughts on audiobooks? in ~books
shrike Link ParentThe first mistake of listening to audiobooks is doing it like you'd listen to a record. Don't sit in your comfiest chair in a quiet room and start Listening To An Audiobook. Audiobooks are for...The first mistake of listening to audiobooks is doing it like you'd listen to a record. Don't sit in your comfiest chair in a quiet room and start Listening To An Audiobook.
Audiobooks are for distracting your conscious brain while the rest does something mindless like chores, stupid mental health walk, driving, etc.
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
shrike Link ParentYea, Avatars give me a quick visual reference of who I'm conversing with. I very rarely bother to read or remember usernames.Yea, Avatars give me a quick visual reference of who I'm conversing with. I very rarely bother to read or remember usernames.
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
shrike Link ParentI specifically and consistently say "partner" about my partner and my kids are always "they". A random internet person doesn't really need to know the gender of my partner, my possible...I specifically and consistently say "partner" about my partner and my kids are always "they".
A random internet person doesn't really need to know the gender of my partner, my possible relationship status or the gender(s) of my kids. It's not relevant at all.
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
shrike Link ParentFinnish. We actually regularly call other people "it", because saying "hän" (gender neutral he/she) sounds too intimate or official =)Finnish.
We actually regularly call other people "it", because saying "hän" (gender neutral he/she) sounds too intimate or official =)
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Comment on Choosing a printer in ~tech
shrike LinkThe Verge releases this same article every year with the same suggestion: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework And unless you...The Verge releases this same article every year with the same suggestion: https://www.theverge.com/2024/4/2/24117976/best-printer-2024-home-use-office-use-labels-school-homework
After a full year of not thinking about printers, the best printer is still whatever random Brother laser printer that’s on sale.
And unless you know you want something very specific, it’s true every year.
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Comment on What is your Mandela effect moment? in ~movies
shrike LinkJaws’ girlfriend in the end of the one Bond movie had braces, matching is metal teeth. Turns out she didn’t have braces.Jaws’ girlfriend in the end of the one Bond movie had braces, matching is metal teeth.
Turns out she didn’t have braces.
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Comment on Is it time to include pronouns? in ~tildes
shrike (edited )LinkAs a native speaker of a language with no gendered pronouns for humans or objects: meh. I just use “they” when the gender might be relevant in some way and I can’t figure out another way of...As a native speaker of a language with no gendered pronouns for humans or objects: meh.
I just use “they” when the gender might be relevant in some way and I can’t figure out another way of referring to someone.
Keeping track of people’s pronouns when communicating doesn’t come naturally to me at all. It’s like trying to understand a tonal language, my brain just isn’t wired for it and it all sounds the same 😀
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Comment on Why does Opera GX rarely come up in browser discussions? in ~tech
shrike Link ParentOG Opera had its own rendering engine (or a big fork of an existing one?) and its thing was that it was SUPER FAST at rendering pages on slower connections. Basically it could render the page...OG Opera had its own rendering engine (or a big fork of an existing one?) and its thing was that it was SUPER FAST at rendering pages on slower connections.
Basically it could render the page while it was still loading or something.
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Comment on Avengers: Doomsday | Official trailer in ~movies
shrike LinkI'm writing this down here before the movie comes out, just in case I'm right: Doom stole Franklin Richards in the end of the FF4 movie. Onslaught is a psionic entity (only voice actor needed)...I'm writing this down here before the movie comes out, just in case I'm right:
- Doom stole Franklin Richards in the end of the FF4 movie.
- Onslaught is a psionic entity (only voice actor needed) created from Xavier and Magneto's powers
- In the comics Franklin Richards was instrumental in defeating Onslaught
- Franklin created a pocket universe where Marvel could dump their heroes -> easy way to "reset" the MCU
Ergo: The true bad guy of the Doomsday movie is Onslaught, which actually might work.
“If we had open APIs” is the “If my grandma had wheels she’d be a bicycle” of software dev 😄
It would be cool if I could just use a bunch of API glue to automate things, but I can’t. So I need a digital mega brain with way too much power to parse human-readable web pages with fuzzy content.