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andrew_bidlaw ,

Not that far if a part of a population gets further disadvantaged and therefore excluded from the genetic pool, although indirectly. A choice of either no therapy or constant sedation greatly reduces their chances to find a partner in their adult life.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Intentionally placing them in that position wouldn’t be ok whatever their own reproductive plans are or would be, imho. I singled out that aspect for the sake of trying to couple it with eugenics.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Asking for another paycheck since they are so soft?

andrew_bidlaw ,

It sounds like a clever provocation, and he probably made sure it catches attention before they can silently move it under the carpet. He didn’t do any crime, he even proposed compromises to make it seem OK and followed official procedures, so they can’t (now, publicly) presecute him by law, but it offended their homophobia that much they found nothing more clever than dropping him into a mental yard instead of, like, declining his idea for some made up reason. What’s that if not a high-risk high-reward prank activism? At least, we now know that the state of Pakistan loses it’s shit over him touching that nerve.

andrew_bidlaw ,

What that may mean in practice?

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

Oh, and this time you’ve got some fun toys to play with like the Atlan, a “daunting skyscraper-sized mech capable of toppling Hell’s behemoths with titanic metal fists” and a Mecha Dragon to fly around on too.

And Doomguy has a shield (is he a coward?) and a morgenstern-hook like on Ethernal’s shotgun for more scripted actions, and probably more QTEs. And they dive deep into the ‘lore’ of Doom showing us some of his previous incarnation, so await cutscenes and tell-don’t-show about how gorgeous the Doomguy is instead of you actually being him.

Good good boomer shooter genre is here and old games are still accessible. Probably Machine Heads who remastered Quake and added their own episodes are more equipped to do real Doom games than the remains of Id.

ed: Doom: Arkham Slayer

andrew_bidlaw ,

Original Doom movie’s getting a sequel? Idk at what stage they are, but it’s probably the best they have at the moment.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Also causes the anxiety of scratching disks while using it.

A PR disaster: Microsoft has lost trust with its users, and Windows Recall is the straw that broke the camel's back (www.windowscentral.com)

It’s a nightmare scenario for Microsoft. The headlining feature of its new Copilot+ PC initiative, which is supposed to drive millions of PC sales over the next couple of years, is under significant fire for being what many say is a major breach of privacy and security on Windows. That feature in question is Windows Recall, a...

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s just a little different nowadays. Like the other user said, they just don’t know they have a choice or what to choose and follow whatever they know…

And what was one of the early bolsheviks’ regime strongest points? They created schools and made people literate en masse, and did it with their own curriculum. People became less suspective to ex elites and religious propaganda, and became their target audience.

Adobe, Google, MS give discounts and special programs for education because this way people get used to their products. Many local organizations that touch these casual users don’t have a real IT department and just flow with what’s given, they don’t make an informed choice like corporations. And that’s probably the place where this switch may even start to begin. A class of students who started with e.g. KDE Plasma would be used to it more than they used to Windows, same with other software. They can already do their homework and play most games. What else do they need?

The sharp corner is to find money to fund select schools to show others it’s not scary and makes it even cheaper for them in the long run, maybe some special troubleshooting team to teach them the ropes. I’ve heard from some users there and on reddit that their computer classes with a geeky teacher who installed Linux is how they’ve rolled in without a problem.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Where, like in the bunker?

andrew_bidlaw ,

I meant someone in particular if you know what I mean (;

andrew_bidlaw ,

I feel there’s a great intersection of cops and those people who still buy into Elon’s bullshit. It couldn’t be any other way.

NFS OST remade for kids

One of the weird realization for me as I learnt English and listened to authors who contributed to these games, is that many remastered their tracks to exclude swear words and obvious mentions of drugs, or was it EA specialists? NFS Underground and Most Wanted games were filled with rap and metal, but still got rated for teens...

andrew_bidlaw OP ,

I know about that, but these are not clean radio-friendly versions that were published on CDs by producers, they are special versions created for these games. That’s what irked me. And with DP’s track they’ve been done noticeably choppy by either artists or EA sound designers. That’s not something very important, but that exists.

One idiotic country blurs ciggaretes in the scene and grays out the rainbow for some reason. There’s probably no limit to censorship shenanigans.

andrew_bidlaw ,

This factoid is tits.

andrew_bidlaw ,

With the clearly stated lack of evidence, I have no problem imagining russian teachers to be worthy of the ЧМО ебаное title. It’s surprising that distribution of the worst people I know is unevenly collected under that profession. I’m still wondering why.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Tarantino’s whole career wants a word.

andrew_bidlaw ,

‘We cut total productivity by dedicating some cores to AI BS and would make you pay for them’.

  • AMD, probably

The whole NPU thing reeks of stagnation.

andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

Audio editing is still shit. GarageBsnd is on Mac, Audacity has a stupid interface, Cakewalk is the first time I hear that name. On Linux, video editing tools are probably the only way to edit audio, and it’s obviously lacking.

edit: Now I have stuff to try, thank you guys.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Exquisite mechanical marvel

in my vagina?

It’s more likely than you think!

andrew_bidlaw ,

Shitposting IRL? Just how we never thought about that? Western mind can’t absorb the supreme North Korean tactics.

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s ‘name your own price’, so if you choose not to support the indie dev, it’s free. I’ve kinda liked that move since bandcamp.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Probably since the author is russian (?) that’s where they took it from. But it was interesting to learn that it’s a common phrase for a range of artists.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Would you describe it further? I don’t see how coming to a subscription-based model makes it not piracy. I feel like I miss something there.

I died a little inside by remembering that I was there when their lifetime CS licenses were sold and that licensing servers went offline at least a dozen of years ago… On the other hand, it raises a question if breaking CS versions is a piracy if they are abandoned. There’s no way to use them even if you are a paid customer wanting to install it on your new PC.

andrew_bidlaw ,

I would probably be 100% incorrect, but from a consumer perspective, web 2.0 is all in social network platforms and apps that replaced the need for individual sites, these are their own internets inside the internet that you don’t even want to leave to find something.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Thanks.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Shy anonness was so desperate she tried to ask anon out for a month but felt rejected so hard she moved to China. Press F for a fallen sister.

andrew_bidlaw ,

I’m surprised Смута’s even been released unlike hundreds of such projects, but instead of dunking on this half-cooked product that can thank UE5 for it’s looks - the only thing reviewers mention in a positive light - one thought captures me more. That this game for some reason took the weirdest period possible for a hyperpatriotic game. I urge you to read about it, it has so much potential for the opposite. In my mind, a set of white subtitles flashes over black:

The mad king is dead.

Moscow is weak.

Would you be dare to take it?

After a stroke of psychotic and delusionary policies of Ivan IV, that country took a nosedive into a violent disorder when a lot of parties, including poles, several fake sons of a dead emperor and nobles taking their turn of establishing their rule, and the new dynasty of Romanovs who won in the end weren’t any better.

That makes an insanely good ground for a macchiavellian powergrab simulator as well as a sim of administrating a rogue land that’s fed up with that bullshit. A medieval New Vegas, if you will. With no laws but the ones you can establish.

That’s the least fitting setting for their imperialistic masturbation.

andrew_bidlaw ,

‘Lock him up’ lacks the mention of how smart she is. That’s not hillarious at all!

andrew_bidlaw ,

Flooding the one specific bunker on the other hand… Not an easy task, but I feel that’s how it would end.

andrew_bidlaw ,

With my troubles even with English ones they’d better just give me a knife.

andrew_bidlaw ,

What’s embarassing is russian people probably believe that bag of shit represent the whole country and it’s military. Man built a career out of nowhere.

The ugly truth behind ChatGPT: AI is guzzling resources at planet-eating rates (www.theguardian.com)

Despite its name, the infrastructure used by the “cloud” accounts for more global greenhouse emissions than commercial flights. In 2018, for instance, the 5bn YouTube hits for the viral song Despacito used the same amount of energy it would take to heat 40,000 US homes annually....

andrew_bidlaw ,

It isn’t resource efficient, simple as that. Machine learning isn’t something new and it indeed was used for decades in one form or another. But here is the thing: when you train a model to do one task good, you can approximate learning time and the quality of it’s data analyzis, say, automating the process of setting price you charge for your hotel appartments to maximize sales and profits. When you don’t even know what it can do, and you don’t even use a bit of it’s potential, when your learning material is whatever you was dare to scrap and resources aren’t a question, well, you dance and jump over the fire in the bank’s vault. LLM of ChatGPT variety doesn’t have a purpose or a problem to solve, we come with them after the fact, and although it’s thrilling to explore what else it can do, it’s a giant waste*. Remember blockchain and how everyone was trying to put it somewhere? LLMs are the same. There are niche uses that would evolve or stay as they are completely out of picture, while hyped up examples would grow old and die off unless they find their place to be. And, currently, there’s no application in which I can bet my life on LLM’s output. Cheers on you if you found where to put it to work as I haven’t and grown irritated over seeing this buzzword everywhere.

  • What I find the most annoying with them, is that they are natural monopolies coming from the resources you need to train them to the Bard\Bing level. If they’d get inserted into every field in a decade, it means the LLM providers would have power over everything. Russian Kandinsky AI stopped to show Putin and war in the bad light, for example, OpenAI’s chatbot may soon stop to draw Sam Altman getting pegged by a shy time-traveler Mikuru Asahina, and what if there would be other inobvious cases where the provider of a service just decides to exclude X from the output, like flags or mentions of Palestine or Israel? If you aren’t big enough to train a model for your needs yourself, you come under their reign.
andrew_bidlaw , (edited )

We are missing big time on breaking them into pieces, yes. No argument. There’s something wrong if we didn’t start that process a long time ago.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Sure, but can someone guarantee he’s not persecuted only for falling out of line of other corrupt businessmen supporting the ruling party, or that someone wanted to take his business? That’d be a positive life-changing consequence for those standing behind such a case.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Because they produce it anyway for various companies and then have their specific product lines, equipment, everything they aren’t ordered to destroy and can reuse? Because IP laws are in a weird place there and many international relations are decided by the party, that have local production interests’ in mind? Because they are actually good at R&D but as an economy oriented towards global market they choose to play safe and instead produce X but cheaper, dumping the price, as most of us won’t buy anything original coming from there with that rep you yourself state?

Forgotten Weapons channel (that has a dedicated c/ommunity on Lemmy) reviewed a couple of their old brandless Type-something guns and the thing with them wasn’t that they were blindly copying soviet guns, but tested and mixed components and ideas from different ones to achieve their goals, with one of them being standartization, and using the factories that are already running with small correction to their work rather than starting from the scratch. They adapt what works and produce it in bazillions of units.

I’m not a China fanboy and dislike their regime, but there couldn’t have been a strong chinese economy without western companies chasing after cheap labor there. This golem was on clay feet before, but after a while it gained some independence. Not many companies who entered there balls deep can pull it off without a significant loss.

I know nothing of Chinese, but there should be a common name for their vagina dentata politics that make even pronounced enemies been dependant on them.

andrew_bidlaw ,

S.Altman be like: That’s too sweet. We don’t want it here.

andrew_bidlaw ,

He had never used Twitter though.

I feel like he’d want The Red Button put on the side of his bed and never told it isn’t connected to anything.

andrew_bidlaw ,

But these cameras do not watch people. They take a picture when they detect a car is going too fast or blows a red light, not constant surveillance.

Speeding ticket like many other crimes are an issue on;y if you are poor. Making presecution more agressive and non-fines based or limiting the cars sold\registered there are probably the quick fixes to this systemic trouble.

It’s a black box we don’t have much info about in this or other states. What makes the overseer abstain from OCRing every car plate and having it’s trajectory mapped at every junction? There are many justifications to do so, like car theft or general tracking of wrongdoers, but with it’s automation comes the understanding that every ride in your car is tracked A to B without you knowing it.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Probs, but it also has it’s ways to be obscured.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Beat me to it

before I beat some meet

to compensate.

It’s not haiku but I’m not a poet as well.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Breaking: How I Learned to Stop Worrying About Gay Frogs And Love The Lemmynade

andrew_bidlaw ,

I’m probably an outlier, but I don’t understand the reason of an e-ink device if you put android on it, add colors, add touchscreen and constant connection. Why not just go with amoled if you want all of that? Probably it’s even cheaper.

E-ink is a specific technology that has it’s advantages in powersaving and reduced eye strain, it was never a replacement for our pocket led flashlights we call smartphones. All beauty of it is it can take one physical form and stay in it infinitely before something refreshes it.

It excels at some tasks, and on a custom OS made with it’s quirks in mind can serve as a book or some indicator that would consume that little in years it can as well be a rounding error. Books, digital price tags, the tablets from Star Trek, variable road signs, billboards? If it stays the same before you boot in and change it, that sure has it’s uses.

But no, they want to add complexity to it’s design, add additional battery drain, up the price, to compete with a tech that plays another sport. It’s stupid. Like cracking up nuts with a microscope.

What I personally want is that additional R&D make it cheaper to produce b\w screens, make them sturdy and affordable up to the point we’d give them out in the classrooms for free instead of paperbacks, and for it to become the default device to read long-form un-interactive content, and to use them in devices that don’t refresh too often like some house and car indicators.

andrew_bidlaw ,

You did something from martial arts, lol.

andrew_bidlaw ,

The eye strain thing is a myth.

I mean, reflected light is less harmful. We aren’t looking directly at the sun for it leaves ghost shapes even after we turn our head, but it’s lights’ reflections is what makes or eyes see. Basic e-Inks don’t emit light, some backlit it from the side, or from the back, but they are still more safe than displays that do work by emmiting light of some color directly to you, and there was a race to reach the wider angle they can do it too, for older devices had colors nearly inverted if seen from the sharp angle.

andrew_bidlaw ,

It’s probably they don’t want to dive nose deep into all individual cases and local shenanigans* about that and probable scams that can occur. You can take other person’s account if you have both password and email access, they don’t oppose that under the table, but they don’t want to be a party in account transit because it makes them responsible for that.

  • Is it legal what’s described in one’s last words, can these games be lawfully transfered as they are under both legal code and game licensing agreements? If there’s no more living relatives, would Steam transfer your purchases to the government? Or if the inheritance is disputable between two parties, should it decide anything there? They let anything happen as long as they aren’t involved.
andrew_bidlaw ,

Windows have swap too tho. It’s just no one tried to scam penguin-aligned users like that.

Putting the w10 logo over this classic XP wallpaper serves a purpose of generalizing, but ughhhghghhh.

andrew_bidlaw ,

Life goals.

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