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- Comment on [deleted] 1 day ago:
It was just random nonsense till the paywall…
- Comment on Over 92,000 tech layoffs in just 5 months of 2026: AI replacing jobs faster than expected as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon job cuts trigger fear in US 2 days ago:
It’s not replacing shit…
It’s being used as an excuse for layoffs.
Later when it doesn’t work, they’ll bring on more techs that weren’t hired at exorbitant wages when worker supply was low.
They’ll end up with the same amount of workers, but 50-70% of the salary costs.
Then in a couple years, they’ll realize AI still sucks and they can’t promote their own junior employees because they don’t know anything and just rely on AI
- Comment on A data center drained 30M gallons of water unnoticed — until residents complained about low water pressure 2 days ago:
The thing is, we could harvest the heat and use it to generate energy instead of burning thru a natural resource were short of.
It would just be expensive, and capitalism always takes the cheapest route regardless of anything else.
Obviously it’s not going to be much energy generation, but “waste heat” is only a thing if you’re wasting it. And at this scale it’s not insignificant, we shouldn’t be wasting it.
- Comment on [Controller] Think these people will be disappointed 5 days ago:
I legitimately don’t know what the big deal is, Ive had a Steam Controller for years…
But yeah, I thought dualsense/dualshock was bad, but steam controller/steam controller is goddamn ridiculous
- Comment on A Michigan farm town voted down plans for a giant OpenAI-Oracle data center. Weeks later, construction began 6 days ago:
What would the Luddites do?
Smash the machines, and keep smashing them till oligarchs share the rewards of automation with the working class…
If it wasn’t for the luddites, we’d still have six day work weeks. There’s a reason there’s always so much propaganda around successful strategies like this.
- Comment on "Steam Controller ran out faster than we anticipated" Valve say, surprising no one, promising to get more stock in 1 week ago:
It would be insanely easy since they’re sold thru the steam store.
Like, I don’t know if there’s a limit, but if someone ordered a huge amount it would hopefully flag it.
For stuff like this, I’d support one per account with recent activity. Then once supply catches up, open it up to whatever
- Comment on A Security Researcher Decompiled The White House App, & What They Found Is Pretty Alarming 1 week ago:
The app also injects JavaScript and CSS into every page you visit in the in-app browser. This strips away cookie consent dialogs, GDPR banners, login walls, and paywalls. There’s also leftover dev artifacts in the production build, including a localhost URL to the Metro bundler.
Weirdly, that’s probably what will take it down, avoiding paywalls
They want to be able to serve up pre-selcted articles that push their narrative, but they’re gonna piss off all the places they link to, because the app is also injecting its own ads at that point.
- Comment on Canadian fiddler sues Google after AI Overview wrongly claimed he was a sex offender 1 week ago:
If you think Google’s is bad, wait till you hear about the one the dbzer0 instance admins and mods are running on random people on the fediverse…
- Comment on I accidentally made law enforcement shut down their stresser honeypot 1 week ago:
I tried to load the page again, and I got hit with a 401 Unauthorized prompt. The website was locked down
Gotta admit, it was a decent read till it became clear the author knows nothing about computers…
- Comment on KAZ is a dopamine-fuelled action roguelike that's a full workout for your fingers 3 weeks ago:
Whoever wrote that headline doesn’t know what they’re saying if they think that’s a good thing…
- Comment on Call of Duty won't hit Xbox Game Pass at launch going forwards, as Microsoft's subscription service gets a price cut 3 weeks ago:
Adding COD made it worth it at the existing price…
But adding COD made everyone that would buy it every year, just buy game pass and not COD…
This was obviously what was gonna happen when Microsoft bought it.
- Comment on US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties 3 weeks ago:
They can’t just verify age, they have to verify identity to verify age…
- Comment on Battlefield 6 will have big maps up the wazoo by the time 2026 is done, including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks 3 weeks ago:
including ones aimed at naval fights between folks in camo trunks
Never forget the US navy once thought it was a good idea to cover sailors in camo designed to blend in with open ocean…
- Comment on Cyber Knights: Flashpoint's latest update lets you two-time a pair of warring factions or ignore them completely 3 weeks ago:
Lot of fun as a Shadow Runs/Xcom type game.
Pretty sure it’s alpha/beta still, but there’s a crazy amount of updates. Like multiple a week, and none of them make saves.
You’ll get burnt playing pretty quickly, but wait a month or two and there’s a bunch of new content again.
By the time it finally makes it to release it will be an amazing game.
But it’s hard to recommend it over Xenonauts 2 since it just released
- Comment on If these leaked GTA Online sales figures are legit, you can see why Rockstar are holding off GTA 6's PC release 4 weeks ago:
Tldr:
Console players are disproportionately more likely to be whales:
GTA Online made $9,592,109 a week across September 2025 to April 2026. Nine million dollars a week! Why, you could buy almost all the DLC for a Paradox grand strategy game with that!
Of the total, $8,245,974 was from console,
Which makes sense, PC players are able to do free mods and more shit, even if not in GTA
Console games are more lockdown by nature so it makes sense they pay more for micro transactions.
- Comment on Meta Is Warned That Facial Recognition Glasses Will Arm Sexual Predators 4 weeks ago:
Name Tag, as revealed in February by The New York Times, would work through the artificial intelligence assistant built into Meta’s smart glasses, allowing wearers to pull up information about people in their field of view. Engineers have reportedly been weighing two versions of the feature: one that would only identify people the wearer is already connected to on a Meta platform, and a broader version that could recognize anyone with a public account on a Meta service such as Instagram.
Creeps will instantly use it to go to where women are and find their accounts.
Not to mention any woman that has to work a customer facing job.
This would suck for men too tho, it would suck for everyone.
But it might be what it finally takes to get the dumb masses off Meta platforms. There’s so many other reasons anyways, but idiots just can’t delete their Instas
- Comment on Researchers build Wi-Fi chip that can operate inside a nuclear reactor — receiver uses special materials and design to withstand high doses of radiation for at least six months 5 weeks ago:
I got to go inside a reactor once (obviously after it “cooled” down) and everyone immediately got into a competition to see who could get the most rads.
Instructor trying to showing us how it works and everyone just has one hip pressed against anything that had a giant warning sign on it.
I never really thought of it before, but wearing radiation monitors right next to your junk probably isn’t a good idea…
Even the first groups in barely got anything tho, it was just ultra specific monitoring so when people got cancer the government can quantify how much was work related. Like, we measured millrem, 1/1000th of a rad. But it was still a distraction trying to get the “high score” for radiation exposure.
For comparison these chips withstand 50,000 gray, which is 5,000,000 rads and 5 billion miller.
For shit like cleaning up diasters zones via robots, this is huge. I don’t know if it would ever lead to wifi robots in an operating reactor tho. Maybe in “standby” as part of energy procedures, but not activated till a switch is flipped to expose it from a secondary shielding that way it starts fresh with zero exposure and ensures it will do what it’s supposed in the event it’s needed.
- Comment on The first new Heroes of Might and Magic strategy game in over 10 years will launch this month 1 month ago:
There’s been an open demo for a while if you want to check it out
- Comment on Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file 1 month ago:
While Anthropic’s trade secrets have some legal protection, there are architectural insights that are valuable to competitors—useful for improving their own architecture, speeding up development of competing tools, seeing what Anthropic is working on next, and identifying gaps in what Anthropic has worked out.
Reminder that literally nothing would fuel actual innovation more that making our patent law more relaxed.
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 1 month ago:
First, editors can use LLMs to suggest refinements to their own writing, as long as the edits are checked for accuracy. In other words, it’s being treated like any other grammar checker or writing assistance tool. The policy says, “ LLMs can go beyond what you ask of them and change the meaning of the text such that it is not supported by the sources cited.”
The second exemption for LLMs is with translation assistance. Editors can use AI tools for the first pass at translating text, but they still need to be fluent enough in both languages to catch errors. As with regular writing refinements, anyone using LLMs also has to check that incorrect information hasn’t been injected.
Both pretty reasonable
- Comment on Oopsie, Crimson Desert's weird AI paintings weren't supposed to left in for release, Pearl Abyss claim, outlining plans to remove them 1 month ago:
Gamers:
No slop games, ok guys?
Game Devs:
We’re good guys, were not gonna slop it up…
One second later
Let’s slop em up
- Comment on [TheGamer] Spider-Man Fans Are Trying To Work Out Who Keith David Plays In Brand New Day 1 month ago:
The president, duh…
If Keith David is in something, he’s probably playing the president.
As long as it’s not a gagool
- Comment on CNN: Republicans release AI deepfake of James Talarico as phony videos proliferate in midterm races 1 month ago:
They were counting on being able to get Crockett, and to be fair she flat out said she even entered the race was the polls Republicans pushed.
Talerico has a really good shot of actually winning, and it scares the shit out of Republicans.
A charismatic candidate with good policy helps swing a lot of down ballot races too in the state government
- Comment on AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can't even run Doom — Vib-OS can't connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer 2 months ago:
I hate these “AI is this dumb” posts because most of the time it’s someone telling the AI to build a bad product just to laugh at it.
But they’re still using AI.
And it’s still training the AI.
It’s like burning a tree down in Cali and then saying it was down to raise awareness that Forrest fires are bad…
Everyone knows it already, and you’re just making an existing problem worse.
It’s just clickbait, and I hate that Tom’s post so much about it because it gets clicks.
- Comment on Elon Musk merges xAI into SpaceX to spread universal consciousness via a sentient sun 3 months ago:
No, hes merging them as some convoluted grift to make money somehow.
Which if we’d have had anything resembling a ratio ale go went in the last decade would have wiped all his government contracts.
At this point we need to just seize all his shit.
Fuck him, what’s he going to do about it with no money?
There’s the fun part about oligarchs, all it takes is everyone deciding they don’t get to keep their money, and they don’t get to keep it. Easiest thing in the world these days when it’s digital.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 3 months ago:
But now coding agents with skills can easily read and understand specs, create testsuites, etc.
What “skills”?
If they had the “skills” to do the basic functions of their jobs, they wouldn’t need “skills” in reference to AI…
Which means when the AI inevitably fucks up, the only way they can fix it is by asking the AI to fix it repeatedly and hope it works…
These are right now revolutionizing my team’s work.
Sounds like your “team” should spend less on AI and more on qualified employees.
Or do you all use free chatbots?
- Comment on [Opinion] X users in USA don't like that we have an opinion about them? Tough 5 months ago:
Who cares what anyone still on Twitter says?
But the recent controversy was people from other countries pretending to be American to cause division, no one has been complaining about people from other countries not like America.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 5 months ago:
And I said to tell the difference between slop and human indie devs…
They’d have to start vetting games to tell.
You said they don’t have to do that, you just think there’s a magical way to tell?
What you’re saying just doesn’t make any sense. It’s like you didn’t even read the comment chain you replied to. I’m just reiterating what I’ve already said, and it’s probably going to help you understand just as much as the first time…
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 5 months ago:
I know I’m going to regret asking, but how exactly do you logic out that stopping low quality slop games?
It would literally do the opposite because the goal for each slop game would be $49,999.
Your idea would make everything worse, and I’m just curious why you don’t see that.
- Comment on Valve makes almost $50 million per employee, raking in more cash per person than Google, Amazon, or Microsoft — gaming giant's 350 employees on track to generate $17 billion this year 5 months ago:
Whatever limit you try to set, that’s what the AI slop will aim to meet.
It’s just something that can’t be automated, at the end of the day every online market needs a human to whitelist new products and review bait and switches, or the market will flood with junk.
But no one wants to pay for that human level review.
And I know, it may cause delays, but most Indie game do not only beta but alpha builds to fund development. I bought BG3 like 2 years before release because it made Act 1 immediately playable, it’s not even just an Indie dev thing.
So even if it takes a full year, real developers would just register early in the process. The slop tho won’t stay topical because they’re not being pumped out in an afternoon.