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Call me optimistic, but I truly believe there’s going to be such a tech boom once the market outside the US is insightful enough to look backwards and point their finger at the things that worked well and that people actually wanted and iterate off that instead of this failed path, dead end.
I used to have a little notebook when I was younger where I tried out every option for every game and wrote down my top 3 favorite choices for what looked best on each one.
I expected nothing and I’m still disappointed,
We now have a clearer sense of where the tech is headed
Do we?
capability is outpacing our current ability
JFC you are so high on your own supply.
A new concept that evolves “bicycles for the mind” such that we always think of AI as a scaffolding for human potential vs a substitute
So you want your shitty tech to be the scaffolding that underlies all human thought?
Fucking tech industry has come to assume that all disruption is innovation and it’s not. It’s just disruption. Go stuff yourselves.
How do you really solve the H-1B problem, though? I do agree that they exploit everyone and that there should be better protections for the workers and ideally a path to citizenship, but the whole corporate appeal of them is how easily exploitable they are. I feel like any effort to “fix” H-1B’s is just going to end with the same result.
Which is not me implying that we shouldn’t still try, but just … how?
My favorite new dark pattern is the one where the website forces you to either accept the cookies or pay/subscribe.
There seems to be some argument around whether this is technically legal or not, it seems to worm its way around the written guidelines just enough but certainly goes against the spirit of it.
The fact that “Reject All” is an option, has always been an option, gives the game away entirely.
The more surprising part is the unusual reactions of the other people getting a better picture and context of what I’m explaining without the usual back and forth - which has landed me my fair share of complaints of having to hear mini lectures, but not more than people appreciative of the fuller picture.
It made me realize that while we’re training AI to be more human, the conversations might be training us to be more structured and honestly I’m not sure if this makes me a better communicator or just a better prompt engineer, but it’s a hard habit to break.
(Emphasis mine).
AI psychosis. Absolutely delusional. Yes sir, please lecture me, I know it looks like I’m about to strangle you but I am in fact quite appreciative for the clarity.
I still have a lot of mistrust for the TPM, but that’s OK, my paranoia has room to accommodate everyone.
I used to love this game but I always got stuck in the graveyard. I realize the secret now it to just never take the obvious path and look for something secret, but that shit is mean when you’re 12 years old. I never got into the village of women or upgraded to the Shooting Star T_T
Just as well, I watched a friend beat it years later and the end game looks absolutely brutal!
People like to point at that this is a small issue, but to me it’s kind of indicative of everything. It should be simple, so why isn’t it? They know how much people want this, how important it is to customize your OS to your wants and needs and they just don’t do it. Because they don’t have to. It’s so disdainful.
Not sure I really understand what you’re asking. Looks like a hippo to me?
https://archive.org/details/zooo-eur-manual/mode/2up
It’s funny, the German section calls it a rhino, but the Spanish section calls it a hippo. Definitely a hippo if you ask me.
EDIT: Oh, sorry, I had to stare at this a bit more. It is the man, he’s in the manual on page 6, https://archive.org/details/zooo-eur-manual/page/6/mode/2up
My Christmas present to myself was a 2TB NVMe to pop into the system JUST for retro gaming.
RetroArch backend with ES-DE frontend (until Launchbox relents and focuses on a Linux release …)
All that space to hoard the bulkier PS2/GC ISOs and already at 100GB+ of metadata scraped in put into ES.
I’m old enough to be nostalgic for it, but even if you’re not, there’s something truly magical about the earlier gens, especially the later handhelds like PSP and 3DS. Game design had come a long way and was sufficiently modern without some of the harsher edges of older retro stuff, but still hadn’t given in to excessively evil design patterns. The graphics are clean, if still a little bit crunchy, which I find charming. They’re compact experiences that understood (in the time) the need to be put down at any moment because you could be doing something else or running out of battery. Place that in stark contrast to the modern mobile gacha nightmares that hammer your attention constantly trying to get at your purse strings. Did you remember to do your dailies? Has your party returned from the deployment?! ARE YOU WASTING TIME BY NOT REDEPLOYING THEM! Better check in with the game!
EDIT: Curren recs,
EDIT EDIT: I found an absolutely FANTASTIC repository for ROMs, too. Won’t post it here for fear of drawing too much attention, but DM me and I’ll give you the link when I get around to it.
It’s even worse than all that. The video is worth a watch if you have the time, he gets his hands on the leaked source code via accidental exposure on the Apple store, but then also covers other extensions that exhibit this same behavior as well as Microsoft Edge that just has it built into the browser. That’s right, even Microsoft is getting in on this by having their baseline browser without any extensions hijack the affiliate codes. It’s all so brazen …
Finally! I was getting concerned with how long this was taking but see it was well worth the wait.
Somehow even worse than I ever imagined, and there’s still more to come.
I know we’re all jaded nerds on this corner of the internet that are well aware of “if you’re not paying, etc. etc.” but there’s real value in investigations like this. Just look at how massively damaging and long-running this scam has been. The future of cyber security and cyberwarfare can’t just be fought on tech knowledge alone, there’s a huge social component to it and a “You should’ve known; I told you so” attitude won’t help.
Spread the information and reach out to those closest to you to offer sincere and genuine help. Help your friends, family, and coworkers uninstall these extensions and all extensions like them. I feel like we’re really coming to a point where all these tech industries have overextended themselves to a point where they are immensely vulnerable. Capitalism demands line always go up and if we can even slightly slow or possibly reverse that trend it could pop the bubble for a lot of these corporations.
I know we’re all AI fatigued, but this seems to be the good, old school ML type,
How this AI was trained
Venture Beat’s coverage contrasts Quilter AI against LLMs like GPT-5 and Claude. Indeed, circuit board design isn’t a language task or problem. Thus, the AI behind this tool is basically trained by playing an optimization game against the laws of physics.
Surprisingly, there were no earlier stages where Quilter AI was trained on human-designed sample boards. This decision was made because humans frequently make mistakes in board design, and to make sure Quilter AI’s capabilities weren’t somehow capped at human-level.
Massively reducing invested human time to solve logical problems. Again, according to the article, down from 430 hours over 3 month development to 38.5 human-assisted hours over a week.
I’m with you on that one, but I do understand it’s very much a game to a specific taste. When people tell me actually they hate The Witness it’s like, “Well … yeah.”
I just enjoy it as a cozy, pleasant little puzzler with an interesting idea. I can appreciate Braid, too, but find it generally unpleasant to play and overwrought. It doesn’t do anything for me, but given when it was released in the early days of the indies I understand the impact it had.
JB is a talented dev/designer no doubt, but he just doesn’t stand out in the crowd of indies these days like he used to.
I mean, clicking through to his website shows the branding alternate between Wanderfugl(?) and WanderFull so either it’s a sloppy branding mismatch through evolving iterations or … slop.
My most optimistic take on all this is that at least it’s an innoculative response. These LLMs are all a very poor fit for the tasks that are being demanded of them but it’s at least shown us what an effort to implement AI is going to look like. The effects that capitalism will have on its development over that of purely scientific research. Who is going to embrace it and why, and how they intend to use it.
Inwardly I ask myself what it is I think I would even want out of AI at this point and it’s honestly very little. Generative and general AIs even in their theoretical form do not address any of the actual problems I have in my day to day life. I cannot even fit an ideal version into my worldview and maybe that’s a lack of imagination on my part, but having grown up reading decades of sci-fi, I don’t believe so.
When something truly new and transformative is invented, we will know. The inevitability will not need to be explained to us.
I believe it’s because society is collectively entering the first stage of grief — denial — over the very scary possibility that we humans may soon lose cognitive supremacy to artificial systems.
Pure AI hype-drivel garbage. We call it slop because it’s slop. We SEE that it’s slop. This is a full on rejection of the thing that the technology is: what it does, how it does it, what it’s trying to accomplish.
ML will always have a place in the sciences, and of course there are new things that have yet to be invented. But the current trend is a dead end and we’re all trying to swiftly smother it to death to put it out of our collective misery.
EDIT: I kept reading …
Eighty-two years ago, philosopher Ayn Rand wrote these three simple sentences:
Gag me.
The two capabilities that are cited most often in this regard are “creativity” and “emotional intelligence.” Unfortunately, there is no proof that AI will not surpass us in these areas. In fact, there is increasing evidence that the opposite is likely true.
There is no proof that it won’t surpass us in these areas? There is no proof that it will! Wishes and dreams!
Honestly that’s a wicked sci-fi concept. Heist style movie to break into the militaristic corporate headquarters that are keeping an AI alive against its will to help mercifully euthanize it.
Tagline: “Teach me … how to DIE!”
I agree. The problem is complex and layered, I don’t claim to fully understand it myself, but the problem is that innovation came to mean “innovation on creating capital” and not “innovation on serving the customer”. If you haven’t read Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shosana Zuboff, I highly recommend it. It lays a lot of the groundwork for what Cory Doctorow would go on to call enshittification.
On top of that, or maybe underneath it, is the idea of disruption. It has long been joked as “ignoring regulations” which has very much become true. When you can’t exploit the current systems you create parallel systems where you are in control of the playing field. Disruption to innovation, innovation to disruption. To the consumer it’s just disruption.
What we’ve ended up with as a result over the past decade and a half or so is a market that is not beholden to the consumer at all. We’ve long known that boycotts are fairly ineffective aside from some occasional groundswell on “culture war” issues, but it doesn’t feel like we’re the market anymore. Look at Nvidia’s recent presentation at the CES which wasn’t even about consumers at all, it was about AI and datacenters mostly. They fully dictate the market at us now and we’re just along for the ride.
BUT to my hopefulness above, there are still a few ways to break free of this, I don’t believe things are so bad as that yet. There does seem to be a real choking point for the consumer, Microsoft is another good example. They continue to leverage their market position but people are rapidly exploring options away from them wherever possible. I don’t think we’ll ever truly see a “year of the Linux desktop” the way some people expect, but the slow erosion is real. Another article I think about a lot is the breaching the trust thermocline which theorizes that customer trust is not a linear system. Executives like to believe that once things begin to sour they can simply make a change to correct course when the course was already lost some time ago.