Ah yes. What a wonderfully efficient system capitalism is. So very good at utilizing resources.

I have no comment on this product, but i respect their music choices. Meds absolutely fucks.

Looks very rough around the edges right now. This is a let’s play from only 4 days ago; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puiQqT5AQ8g

Clicking and dragging doesn’t work. Items are labeled confusingly. Some stuff isn’t translated. Graphics are a mixed bag. Oh, and no settings customization, at all.

Nice idea, I hope they can address the issues, but seems underbaked.

Anyone who hasn’t actually watched the interview, you really, really need to. “Combative” doesn’t come close. It’s a train wreck. Ryan is repeatedly pressed on where the fuck they’re getting the money for this, and he not only fails to answer the question, he doesn’t even seem to understand it. There are long stretches of silence as he gormlessly stares at the camera before repeating, endlessly, “Half cash, half stock” like that somehow explains anything. I’ve seen Trump pressers that were more coherent.

MOASS is definitely right around the corner this time!

I think Russia messes with their satnav and machine vision sometimes fails.

Your supposition is entirely correct. Russia engages in extensive jamming in that region, and not just because of Ukrainian drones. There are days on end when you basically lose cell service because of how bad the Russian electronic warfare is.

Most likely these are Ukrainian drones that went off course due to Russian jamming. The same thing happened in March. Ukraine has been launching long range strikes against Russian infrastructure up in the regions around St Petersburg and that naturally tends to put you near the Baltics.

Very few of the job losses attributed to AI are really because of AI. Mostly it’s just a bloated tech sector shedding weight and using AI as an excuse because it plays well with shareholders. The reality is that they over-hired when credit was cheap and now they’re looking at their bottom lines and trying to find ways to be more efficient.

I’ve worked at a company where the entire billing system ran on a Windows Server 2003 machine, running in a Vmware Workstation Player 15 VM on a Windows 8 PC.

The billing software wasn’t actually billing software, it was a kind of build your own software toolkit heavily customized. Like, a sort of simple scripting engine. The actual program was no longer available and would only run on older versions of Windows even if it was. There was no installer available for it. If any part of this setup failed they would be unable to process invoices. The data format was totally proprietary with no way to export it to any other platform.

The whole setup was accessed by remote workers using an unprotected RDP connection. No VPN.

I really feel like you’re actually being too generous to this proposal.

Let’s be clear, when this administration says they want to vet new models, what they mean is that they want to turn them into right wing propaganda engines. This is “reprogram ChatGPT to say the 2020 election was stolen, white genocide is real and trans people are all sex predators, or we won’t certify it.”

Those problems start in 2019. This isn’t an AI issue, it’s a Microsoft incompetence issue.

He was able to continue broadcasting because his entire net worth is tied up in Infowars, so the only way for the families to get the money they’re owed is to extract it from Infowars. Basically, he’s more or less obligated to keep the business running so that the new owners (the Sandy Hook families) can squeeze some kind of value out of it.

This comes down to the fact that what they won was a monetary judgment, rather than some kind of injunction against Jones having a platform. I’m sure the families would have been happy with either, but the latter is much harder (if not impossible) to pull off because it runs afoul of the first amendment. But just piledrivering someone’s business with debt is fine.

And yes, it’s gone on for as long as it has because Jones has been able to consistently tie things up in court. That’s one of those double edged swords. It sounds bad when Jones is the defendant, but imagine if we were talking about a queer podcast being sued by JK Rowling. Then we’d want all the legal protections in the world. The knife cuts both ways.

Obviously, in a sane world the families wouldn’t have to sue to get him off the air because there would be things like hate speech laws to stop him doing this shit in the first place, but America isn’t a big fan of those.

Alex Jones advocates for violence three times before breakfast. Like, I’m not saying it’s OK, but calling this “startling” is ridiculous. He literally does shit like this every single day.

Radar doesn’t work very well on cardboard. Ukraine has already been using drones like this since 2023.

I’m sorry but I really don’t see how anyone working in that environment is going to “develop the skills” to do semi realistic 3D rendering at scale. That’s not just skill, it’s access to resources, manpower and time. It’s not the same thing as encouraging someone to learn to draw or write instead of using AI. These just stuff aren’t comparable situations. I wouldn’t tell someone to hand craft their own injection moulds instead of 3D printing.

No arguments on Roblox being horrible and exploitative, I’m not encouraging anyone to use it, but that’s not really the point here, is it?

To his credit he is slightly less homophobic than is the norm for the Catholic Church. But that’s kind of like saying someone is less fascist than Mussolini. Objectively better than the alternative, but not actually good.

A standard, official Xbox controller is $85 CAD. This thing is $150. That’s almost double. I agree, the features sound great (especially having used the original steam controller, I know how good their touchpads are), but still… Almost double.

I’m gonna be honest, in this specific context, I don’t hate this.

DLSS5 sucks because it takes all the hard work that goes into making games and flattens it out into this kind of uniform pastiche of an art style. It turns every game into the same bland, generic slop.

But if we’re talking about kids building experiences for each other in Roblox… Yeah, why not? I don’t buy the idea that a group of twelve year olds should just suddenly develop the skills required to make photo-real graphics in between homework and bed time. Yes, this is the equivalent of slapping an Instagram filter on everything, but if that filter allows someone to realise an approximation of the idea that was rattling around in their head, I think that’s pretty cool. And if they really get into this stuff, I think they’ll start to notice the limitations of these tools and get interested in learning how to do it from scratch so that they can get a result that’s even closer to their vision.

I’m aware that a lot of this stuff does get taken pretty seriously and actually sold as entire games, effectively, but even in that context, you’re not exactly going to stand out if you’re using the same glow-up filter everyone else is. And for the people who really are just making a cool dungeon crawl for their friends to play, being able to just kind of cheat code a baseline level of graphical fidelity seems pretty OK.

I guess my point is, yes, this is a crutch. But it’s pretty damn silly to complain about crutches when you’re standing in a hospital.

Yeah. Cause he’s still a homophobic piece of shit, he’s just an anti-war homophobic piece of shit. We should not be surprised by this.

Given the context, they probably meant something more like “So it only counts as discrimination if it’s against white people?”, and just worded it really badly.

Probably. They might just be an asshole.