LunarLoony

LunarLoony , 9 hours ago to technology in OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.

Yes, a lot of creativity is fuelled by inspiration. One can’t create much in a bubble. However: I could draw a rkbvrpoi, and my human intuition enables me to consider what such a thing might look like. I can make it up and make something feasible of it. I can give it a history, I can place it in culture (or maybe it is itself a culture), and I can do whatever I want. Yes, that requires some level of inspiration, and drawing from what I’ve observed and experienced would make the rkbvrpoi a lot more believable - if that’s my goal.

A so-called AI can’t do any of that, and even if it could, it would be meaningless and soulless.

LunarLoony , 12 hours ago to technology in "Runway", an AI Video Generator, Was Trained on Thousands of YouTube Videos Without Permission

The CEO of a corporation should be the living embodiment of that corp. Kind of like Subway in Community

LunarLoony , 12 hours ago to technology in OopsGPT - OpenAI just announced a new search tool. Its demo already got something wrong.

It’s able to apply those things because it’s read millions of sci-fi stories, and can make an educated guess. It’s also able to produce an image od an astronaut on a horse because it’s seen lots of images of astronauts and horses, and people sitting on horses, so it can once again make an educated guess. I don’t think it’s right to call that creativity.

LunarLoony , 22 hours ago to games in Good game soundtracks?

XCOM 2 Legacy Soundtrack. Some darned good beats on there.

LunarLoony , 2 days ago to games in Why does Halo 2 look worse than Halo 1? The shadows. Or well, the *lack* of them

A lot of over-designed armour and equipment, too. Especially in multiplayer.

LunarLoony , 2 days ago to technology in What is Firefox supposed to do?

Unless you’re using a non-Chromium browser, that is.

LunarLoony , 3 days ago to technology in Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

I pay for it because I thought it was a trustworthy service that had earnt my money. Instead, if they continue with stuff like this then I’ll go back to not trusting subscription services again.

LunarLoony , 3 days ago to technology in Proton Now Has a Bitcoin Wallet

This and the new LLM “feature” in ProtonMail suggests that someone higher up has had a sniff of the techbro kool-aid.

LunarLoony , 5 days ago to linux in Yggdrasil Linux working for once (Fall 1995 edition)

Absolutely delightful, thankyou!

LunarLoony , 5 days ago to technology in Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs

But where do you draw the line? Don’t get me wrong, I am against the idea of, as you say, “excessive wealth extraction”. But what classes as excessive? If I ran an independent Etsy shop making cards, and I had an 80% profit margin, is that stealing?

I should also like to point out:

I define all excessive profit as stealing.

All profit is excessive by nature, isn’t it?

LunarLoony , 7 days ago to science_memes in Linguistics

I would probably say fast, efficient, high-performance, or optimal, depending on context. Or just “it performs well”. But I recognise I’m in the vast minority - just one of those new words that bugs me now but I’ll eventually accept

LunarLoony , 7 days ago to science_memes in Linguistics

Fine, but I’m still not happy about ‘performant’

LunarLoony , 7 days ago to science_memes in Linguistics

It’s a worm found in New Guinea, everyone knows that!

LunarLoony , 7 days ago to nostupidquestions in Why does lemmy.ml use the "ML" country code for Mali?

Before Meta Language, it meant Millilitres to me

LunarLoony , 8 days ago to technology in Meta Reportedly Unhappy With How Much Money Its VR Division Burns

No no, I was saying the account for my computer is local only. Steam, being a separate application, makes sense to have a separate login.

And I don’t remember anything differently… I don’t really have a horse in this race, just playing devil’s advocate.