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Arkaelus

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Arkaelus ,

We really need to get our shit together and pull a Revolution again... Our political system is in need of a good slappin'...

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Considering this is Apple, they'll probably scan your happy juices and, like... sell your entire genome to advertisers, or smth...

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I knew it! That kitchen table's ruining my life! And my hips!!!

Arkaelus ,

FEAST ON THEIR IDEOLOGICAL FLESH!!!

Arkaelus ,

My loaf is bigger than your loaf,
We take more drugs than a touring funk band.

SING IT!

My loaf is bigger than your loaf.

SING IT!

My loaf is bigger than your loaf.

SING IT!

Arkaelus ,

Picard, hands on face

CEO of Google Says It Has No Solution for Its AI Providing Wildly Incorrect Information (futurism.com)

You know how Google's new feature called AI Overviews is prone to spitting out wildly incorrect answers to search queries? In one instance, AI Overviews told a user to use glue on pizza to make sure the cheese won't slide off (pssst...please don't do this.)...

Arkaelus ,

Let's turn that frown upside down! Instead of saying "Google failed to generate a useful LLM to bolster its search feature," say "Google successfully replicated the output of an average Reddit troll!"

Arkaelus ,

Ssooo... a cable package?

Arkaelus ,

Oh, yeah?! What' your DPS (depressions per semester)?

Arkaelus ,

Can only give you my personal example:

I have a career in software QA, and I got into it because I personally believed in QA and its significance to generating good software for people to use. Hell, I even worked relatively low-paying jobs because it was compensated by job satisfaction.

Then enshittification took hold of absolutely everything, QA started being flushed down the turlet in the interest of cutting costs (and, I suspect, out of management incompetence and lack of perspective), and now it feels as though my passion got stabbed.

I still thoroughly believe in QA as an essential part of software development, I still try to do the best I can not out of dedication to a job, but to my principle-based belief that QA does more good than it does harm when properly performed. But I seldom have the context to be able to do that, instead being stuck with menial shit and/or rushed projects which don't allow for a lot of testing.

Test your stuff, eat the rich.

Arkaelus ,

"The Children of Asuryan haven't received any new models since the 90s, y'know..."

Arkaelus ,

Thank you.

Arkaelus , (edited )

Honestly, the most painful part of this is the dichotomy between the internet's potential to become an evolutionary point for us and help us develop as a species, and the way we're using it... We have the entirety of human existence digitised for our convenience and available at the push of a button and we just use it to terrorise and hurt eachother...

Arkaelus ,

This must be the most 90s thing I've seen in a decade.

Arkaelus ,

At least the water ain't boilin'! Yet...

Arkaelus ,

Exactly, pointing fingers just eats into problem-solving time at this point. Just shovel'em aside and start digging that drainage ditch, s'what I say...
Once the job's done, we'll have all the time in the world to poke eachother in the eyes.

Arkaelus ,

GIMME SOME SKIIIN!

Arkaelus ,

This. Let's not forget that ABBA started off with neither of the two leads speaking a word of English, all of their songs were sung phonetically. It's all smoke and mirrors at this point. A very complex system of smoke and mirrors, but nowhere near sentience/self-awareness/actual intelligence.

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI. (www.tomshardware.com)

Jensen Huang says kids shouldn't learn to code — they should leave it up to AI.::At the recent World Government Summit in Dubai, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang made a counterintuitive break with tech leader wisdom by saying that programming is no longer a vital skill due to the AI revolution.

Arkaelus ,

Do you want Warhammer 40k? Because this is how you get Warhammer 40k.

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Hey, the Spice must flow!:))

Arkaelus ,

Jesus Christ... Whyyy is this guy still running companies? Why does absolutely anyone take him seriously at this point?

Arkaelus ,

Ugh... ugh-ugh. Uah! AAAH! AAAH, AAAH! URGH! *hits table with keyboard triumphantly

Arkaelus ,

Getting an orange in there can't be easy:-?

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning (edition.cnn.com)

A fake recording of a candidate saying he’d rigged the election went viral. Experts say it’s only the beginning::Days before a pivotal election in Slovakia to determine who would lead the country, a damning audio recording spread online in which one of the top candidates seemingly boasted about how he’d rigged the...

Arkaelus ,

Hooo, boy, this'll be mountains of fun!

Arkaelus ,

ITS JOB IS TO SOOTHE ME!!

Arkaelus ,

cracks knuckles Time to make a new fake account and nuke them with shitposting and Grandma Memes!

Arkaelus ,

Well, then! teleports behind server I guess we'll just have to be... katana swish Extra-cringe! tips fedora

Arkaelus ,

This'll only happen once education is restructured almost entirely. Critical Thinking has not been on the menu for a long time (if ever), and it's not in the interest of the Powers That Be to increase critical thinking in individuals - people who really think tend to ask relevant, but uncomfortable questions.

Conspiracy theories are a side-effect of biased education.

Arkaelus ,

Yes, 100% my point! Who needs to know stuff when the Government and rich people are already looking out for our best interests? Poverty is a non-issue, everyone owns 2.5 houses per capita, this is a utopia! Books just ruin everything!

/s.

Arkaelus ,

This says more about us than it does about the chatbots, considering the data on which they're trained...

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    Arkaelus ,

    100% agree with this, shouldn't even need to be said!

    However, I would posit that we need an inclusive equivalent for everyone, as the ethos of "dude/dudette" is, in my opinion, well worth keeping - some people simply are THAT cool!

    I'm nowhere near smart enough to come up with new words (barely smart enough to use the ones we have...), but I'd totally want to have that sentiment preserved.

    Arkaelus ,

    Multiple sources, including Merriam-Webster, Cambridge and Oxford state that "dude" is a masculine noun, synonymous with man, guy, etc., so I disagree with this. As an exclamation, sure, as it's not referring to anyone in particular, so it can be taken as an impersonal interjection.

    Arkaelus ,

    "Mate"'s nice, mate, but... I dunno, feels like it doesn't fully capture that... pizzazz that "dude" and "dudette" have.

    Arkaelus ,

    Oh, I just use "sibling" or "sib" for that level of familiarity, easier that way:))

    Arkaelus ,

    I am unaware of that video, blissfully so according to your observation!:))

    Arkaelus ,

    Well, judging by the myriad dictionaries out there, this word has been gendered well before this subject's been broached.

    Arkaelus ,

    Weird hill to die on, this, where you'd rather defend words than people.

    Arkaelus ,

    Turbo-family time! Quick, time for a general meeting to present slideshows of the Big Boss' last vacation, gotta make'em feel included!

    Arkaelus ,

    Oh, just oscillate between the two states on a minute-by-minute basis, the whiplash'll make you want to sleep for a year straight. Problem solved! (/s, of course)

    Arkaelus ,

    S'all good, Capitalism subsumes criticism of itself and sells it back to us.

    Arkaelus ,

    My initial reaction was to laugh my ass off at the extra drop of crap in the collective cup. Upon a second take however... considering what a horrifying den of depravity ActiBlizz became during the past years, this may turn out to be for the best in the long run...

    Arkaelus ,

    Not slighting the dismissal of those who didn't partake, don't get me wrong! Every situation has nuance, not denying that! I was referring to the overall culture which took root there, and from that the purely utilitarian observation that it's easier to change the mentality if you change the people (in one way or another).

    Arkaelus ,

    Terrifying concept!

    Arkaelus ,

    Hell, I'm a Millennial and it's a no-brainer... Food or gas, emission taxes, road taxes, maintenance costs, and everything else which comes with owning a car. Including the car itself. And that's just from an economic standpoint, I'm not even gonna go into the impact it has on the climate and how EVs are mostly just expensive and not-really-efficient pieces of jewellery still.

    Arkaelus ,

    Again, too bad completion doesn't show up on that list. The games eventually being good is no excuse for shoving half-finished software out the door at full price, no matter how you cut it.

    Arkaelus ,

    No, the industry needs to stop selling half-baked goods because they know they can get away with it. Having to patch a game for months, non-stop, after launch day, after it's been, as you've said, a century in Early Access, is not a misunderstanding of bug severity, it's focusing on profit more than on the product. Not taking away the games' 'goodness,' but just as an underbaked cake, you still have to swallow a lotta raw eggs with that goodness.

    Arkaelus , (edited )

    While I understand your point, I still tend to disagree. I've had ten years of experience working in QA, both on games and on misc. software, and the amount of bugs with which games are shipped as of late shifts the discussion from severity and prioritisation to volume - it isn't a question of what should have been fixed first when basically everything is busted. As such, it becomes a business problem entirely.

    Another aspect which underlines this is the fact that, taking Baldur's Gate 3 as an example since we started with it, it's usually the latter half which is most affected. These trends taken together indicate a front-loading with QA in order to sell, then (hopefully) stealth-fixing the latter half before people get to it. Which doesn't work, because you get maniacs like me who spend 200 hours in-game during the first two weeks after launch. Same goes for Rogue Trader, for example. Game's all there, technically, first two Chapters are pretty much sterling, but how is one supposed to appreciate the creativity behind it considering half of the game may be inaccessible due to bugs (talking about soft-locking quests, busted progression triggers, busted scripting, and even more mechanical aspects which require trial-and-error with repeated reloads in the hopes that you stumble upon the right combination of actions which bypasses the bug).

    In my perspective, creativity, while it is to be appreciated, becomes sort of moot in this case - it'd be like ignoring the fact that half of the painting is drafted on napkins with a big TODO stapled to it, or being sold a partly assembled phone with the promise that they'll send you the rest of the components later on down the line.

    Arkaelus ,

    Oh, that's the plan! Started out with a couple of external drives for the important stuff, but at this point I'm preparing to set up a proper NAS considering how things are going... Might as well...

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