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xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Games@lemmy.world•Elder Scrolls Online devs detail “inhumane” Microsoft layoffs as Xbox expects the “carcass of workers” to “keep shipping award-winning games”English58·3 days agoI suppose the next batch of marks have now learned why some of us don’t trust Microsoft any further than our noodly coder-arms can throw them.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Games@lemmy.world•Would you considering watching playthroughs of a game the same as playing that game?English14·8 days agoHell no. The essential difference between games and movies/television or books as a source of entertainment is that they’re participatory. The player’s choices during interaction affects the exact outcome.
That’s not to say there’s anything wrong with being entertained by others making those choices, but they won’t be yours.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Not The Onion@lemmy.world•OpenAI just launched its new ChatGPT Agent that can make as many as 1 complicated cupcake order per hour, but even Sam Altman says you probably shouldn't trust it for 'high-stakes uses'English553·8 days agoSo it takes ChatGPT 10 minutes to an hour of servertime and the energy equivalent of a tank of gas or two to complete a simple task the user could have done in thirty seconds using their 40W brainmeats and a couple of pudgy fingers. That’s just great. Good stuff, Altman. /s
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto No Stupid Questions@lemmy.world•[SOLVED] If I subtract a semitone (100 cents) from 1 Hz, what is its frequency in Hz after that?131·9 days ago0.9438Hz, i.e. 1*(2^(-100/1200)) IIRC.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto United States | News & Politics@lemmy.ml•[Video] Trump refuses to move after handing out trophy2·11 days agoAt least he finally let go of the fake trophy that replaced the one he stole, so I guess it could have been worse.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto World News@lemmy.world•The 'strongman' PM who inspired Trump's playbook - but now finds his power crumblingEnglish12·11 days agoWhen I read the headline, it immediately made me wonder where ‘abroad’ Orban is admired. It certainly isn’t in my neck of the woods.
Meanwhile he has drawn admirers around the world, including US Vice President JD Vance and Georgian Prime Minister Irakli Kobakhidze. US President Donald Trump has called Orban “smart” and “a tough person”.
Ah. Yes.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Technology@lemmy.world•You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is howEnglish1212·12 days agoAlternatively, you could use a browser instead of an advertisement delivery app.
It really doesn’t. I highly doubt there isn’t office politics going on inside Microsoft, Apple and Google, but unlike them, Linux development is all public. If anything, that’s likely to curtail a lot of bad behavior rather than encourage it.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto News@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death10·12 days agoThose are some interesting and creative suggestions. Now, I’m no weapons engineer, but I believe there’s a term for aerosolized gasoline when deployed to put out a fire, and that term is “thermobaric bomb”.
Never mind that though, it’ll totally work: Not only is a building that no longer exists not a building on fire, but it’s guaranteed to never catch fire again. Problem permanently solved. If you’re in the market for a job, I’ve been told that Hellfire (“We may not put you out, but we’ll definitely put you down”) Inc. is hiring.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto News@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death5·12 days ago“Gilette - Follow The Road, Don’t Cross It™”
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto News@lemmy.world•ChatGPT is pushing people towards mania, psychosis and death22·12 days agoIt’s like reading an article about a petrol refining company, who, having prior experience with gasoline as a useful and profitable substance, decides to seek venture capital for the development of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher. They obtain the funding - presumably because some people with money just wants to see the world burn and / or because being rich and having brains is not necessarily strongly correlated - but after having developed the product, tests conclusively prove the project’s early detractors right: The result is surprisingly always more fire, not less. And they “don’t know how to fix it, while still adhering to the vision of a petrol-based fire-extinguisher”.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Showerthoughts@lemmy.world•Vernon Dursley, uncle of Harry Potter is just a normal bloke that loves his wife and gets roped into a paramilitary war for it.19·13 days agoDoes he love his wife? I can’t recall a single sign of actual affection. A wife is just one more thing to check off the “list of things to have”, along with a house, a job and a son to carry on… Well, I don’t think Vernon knows what exactly. Probably some ill-defined set of Proper British Traditions. To be fair Petunia is using him in the exact same way for for precisely the same reason. And the money, of course.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think mind control technology would be possible? How long do you think it would take to be invented? (propaganda and indoctrination does not count, I mean *actual* mind control)31·13 days agoAh yes, the printing press: Likely the most cumulatively subversive memetic infection vector ever conceived.
xxce2AAb@feddit.dkto Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world•Do you think mind control technology would be possible? How long do you think it would take to be invented? (propaganda and indoctrination does not count, I mean *actual* mind control)19·13 days agoDefine ‘mind-control’. Trans-cranial magnetic stimulation has been perfectly capable of changing people’s broad moods since 1985 and is being actively used to treat depression right now. The underlying technology is only going to get more precise, especially as more research on spintronics is done for other purposes. Sure, right now our understanding of how what goes on in a given brain translates to ‘thoughts’ is insufficient to change those thoughts in any reliable way, but there’s little doubt that when we do, the technology to make it happen will almost certainly be around.
Normally, I would have advocated for the nationalization of Starlink and SpaceX as a matter of national and global security, but it’s not like the current American regime would do any better. I’m not going to be counting on them to investigate, let alone prosecute the affairs of this Russian junkie-stooge either.