Need jammers to confuse and break Teslas. They’re weapons designed to break laws and protect occupants at the expense of bystanders. Can’t be mad if a bystander redirects your Tesla into a ditch.

Data brokers are allowed to buy data from the dark web after our data is hacked. I saw a 1 million fine I think?

App store owners will use this or that, which will get hacked, then our data will be bought up, and then it will be endlessly repackaged and moved around. That’s why you can’t remove your data using those scam services; the moment it’s moved to another broker it’s fair game again. You’ll never scrub your data.

Your insurance will know what apps you installed. Walmart will know what apps you installed. Police bypass warrants by leasing this data from corporations like Flock. Just add it to the pile.

After all, why not? Why shouldn’t I build a Beowulf of my own?

Apnews hijacks your browser and their response was just “thanks for your feedback, we’re experimenting with ways to make money”

They hired a person to do this and since every single news site has the same presentation I assume this is the default strategy.

I don’t get it. Little “drivers” that provide functionality, and then the ability to link button presses to those drivers. And I guess some meta knowledge of ports, standard addresses?

Where is the “requirement” for edge computing? Where is the need for their continuous services?

I thought that most companies doing this at least tacked on extraneous features that then justified their subscription. You’re supposed to pretend it’s necessary! Did they skip that step?

Because maga are human and they have similar capabilities to us.

For example, I know you know that they are often draped in Christianity, patriotism, etc. Does that mean we’re all anti-christian and anti-american? We see right through their camouflage.

They learn to associate us with certain labels. And then they learn new labels in the context of labels they’ve internalized. Antifa means a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things that mean a bunch of things.

It’s EA. They could make gay stuff in games without them. But instead they make a deal with the devil and hope they come out on top? They want all the resources of a soulless giant but then they think they’re somehow escaping the taint?

It’s like musicians making deals that (unfairly, almost amorally) guarantee their songs play across the country… but then they think they’re still a normal artist.

Thanks for the representation I guess. Even though we had to collectively pay to make ME a popular franchise. I’m sure it was all about being true to your morals.

Before they bought EA: EA is literally the devil.

After they bought EA: Great, there goes our EA!

My single 996 MEGAhertz processor, 512mb ram, 128mb vram setup could just about run Battlefield 2, Counter Strike Source, and Splinter Cell Chaos Theory. These games often had higher minimum requirements but I managed.

Balatro, a modern card game, starts off with minimum requirements of two 3 GIGAhertz cores and a gigabyte of ram.

Comparing AAA Valve with an indie dev isn’t fair but it’s objectively true that relatively simple concepts now require substantially more resources. That’s like several Battlefield 1942 instances to 1 Balatro instance.

Reminds me a bit of Colobots

John Carmack: We couldn’t figure out how to perfect virtual texture streaming. I’d walk backwards and turn and the world would reload textures. It just comes down to a problem with the implementation.

Randy: The technique is fine you just need to play differently.

I think it’s magic how the sum time sunk into a thing can be greater than the time it took to make the thing.

It’s magic when 20 hours goes into a painting and it generates (5 minutes * 300) worth of emotions.

It took Tolkein more energy / emotion to make LotR than I’m willing to give appreciating it. But everyone combined has certainly outweighed what Tolkein put in. It’s magic to me to think of “free” “emotion hours”.

Everything else is so… crass. Transactional. A battery that holds X energy means the sum energy people can extract would be X at best. I have 7 hotdogs and so at most 7 people can each have one.

But art? Games? Puzzles? It’s magic how there’s basically infinite energy inside.

Billionaires own the world. Of course we should care about their investment. I believe that’s what good serfs would do.

Microsoft also works with American intelligence, like other corporations. They won’t even fix zero day exploits without first letting the NSA know in advance. Telecoms have black rooms whose entire purpose is to siphon data directly to the authorities, Microsoft probably has a whole building.

I think Claude would refuse to work with dictators that murder dissidents. As an AI assistant, and all that.

If they have a model without morals then that changes things.

This is slop. Not necessarily AI generated, but definitely dumbass-generated.

Literally not one ounce of effort. No digging into vague studies Republicans are talking about. No overview of Wikipedia’s current policy. No questions posed to someone who knows about Wikipedia and/or government attempts to control the narrative.

It’s not even a good thing that the article only tells you the core facts. Too much goes unsaid. No context might as well be a hallucination from an AI for how much it bridges the gap between what you think and what reality contains.

It’s the gall of a dying warrior.

Stealing a slur from Star Wars and engaging in traditional name calling to show we disapprove of uncreative slop.

We can’t even think of an original term. We can’t think of a novel way to shit on AI. We just copy what everyone else is doing to make fun of the plagiarism machine.

How much do you know about transformers?

Have you ever programmed an interpreter for interactive fiction / MUDs, before all this AI crap? It’s a great example of the power that even super tiny models can accomplish. NLP interfaces are a useful thing for people.

Also consider that Firefox or Electron apps require more RAM and CPU and waste more energy than small language models. A Gemma slm can translate things into English using less energy than it requires to open a modern browser. And I know that because I’m literally watching the resources get used.

But even before recent tariffs, modern console prices weren’t dropping nearly as fast as history suggested they should. In fact, Sony first raised the nominal starting price of the PS5 Digital Edition back in 2023, way before Trump’s current trade war was even on the horizon.

I’m not saying Trump is to blame but this is misleading. Trump hurt our economy with tariffs during his first term nearly 10 years ago. During 2023 he was releasing “Agenda 47” policies, in which he specifically mentioned more tariffs. Here’s Trump threatening tariffs 8 months before Sony raised the price

For regular people, Trump tariffs came out of nowhere in 2024. Corporations and people holding stock have different perspectives.