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glennseto

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Huge nerd | agender | neurodiverse | educator | sporadic streamer of ancient & recent games

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The LLM discourse on the Fediverse has really irked me the last few days.

Refusing to read writing made with the use of LLMs and refusing to give time to writers who use, promote or justify the use of LLMs is not purity culture, it's a boycott. It's a political act of withdrawing my time, resources and support for something that I find deeply morally wrong. It's protest. I have a choice and I refuse.

LLMs are exploitative, destructive, biased, mediocre parroting machines. Using them has a negative impact on the climate, the arts, the quality of the internet, the job market, the economy, the accessibility of electronics, even on skill development, creativity and mental health. LLMs are made and trained on the unpaid labour of millions -if not billions- of people who didn't consent. Their generic output litter the path to finding anything by true human creators.

Wherever I can, for as long as I can, I reject LLMs and anything that is related to them. I'm boycotting.

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@reading_recluse Our refusal to engage with or become in any way reliant on LLMs is also a conscious effort to run out the clock.

Tech giants are trying to crowbar "AI" into everything right now, because they need to make these services indispensable for society at large. This way our leaders might not have have a choice, but to bail out or otherwise coddle the industry once all this circular financing comes crashing down as it inevitably must.

@kalleboo@bitbang.social avatar kalleboo , to random

These Valve announcements are getting weirder and weirder

Banner displaying a product called "SteamCream" with the tagline "Steam Powered Skincare."
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@TheBreadmonkey @Bobbins @kalleboo That's what is left over after carefully distilling dat gamer (girl) bathwater.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Alright. So today I am going to see if I can get my Windows 10 machine set up for another year of security updates. And I am going to see if I can do it without:

  • Changing my local login to log in with a Microsoft account,
  • Signing up for OneDrive,
  • Signing up for any paid XBox service,
  • Moving to the EU.

("Moving to the EU" is actually a thing I'm potentially willing to do, but I don't think it's a process I can complete before next Wednesday when Win10 reaches the end of normal support.)

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@mcc @swiftyshq The AI bubble is about to pop and big tech will need actual, literal, indentured servants to survive. Try to have a little sympathy.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

A giant hole would fix me

An arrow points at a large tunnel. Label: "Will this fix Toronto?"
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@mcc Wouldn't even cost as much.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

If Electronic Arts went out of business I wonder if I would notice

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@mcc Embracer Group owning Mirror's Edge would kinda suck.

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@mcc Touché.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Wearing my BAND SHIRT to CONCERT FOR OTHER BAND

Andi, wearing a shirt that says "autechre."
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@mcc Unveiling my Beatles shirt as Mick Jagger is singing "You can't always get what you want..."

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

When I started playing "Silksong" I REALLY did not expect how often Hornet would get nakers

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@mcc Or how often fools would get slapped for making it weird.

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@adriano @mcc There's at least one instance in Act 1, when she gets the floating upgrade and is briefly seen holding her cloak before putting it back on.

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@mcc In fairness, most men don't want the curve resulting from cellular expansion to be too severe, lest it's painful for their partner.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Lately keep encountering youtube videos that would have been really good if they weren't "shorts"

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@mcc Like LoadingReadyRun's Crapshots, but too limited by aspect ratio or time?

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I want a video game with this UI/aesthetic https://social.erambert.me/@macthemes/115036206159172637

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@mcc World of Horror comes to mind!

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Hey so guess who has blue hair, pronouns, and as of exactly 39 minutes ago Canadian citizenship

A picture of me in front of the building where they turn you into a Canadian
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@mcc 🥳🥳🥳

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Thanks

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@mcc bursts into the Rock's song and dance routine from Moana

@davidrevoy@framapiaf.org avatar davidrevoy , to random

Security

A comic in four panels. Panel 1. A sorcerer is standing in front of the closed main gate of a tall and dark castle. The guard, on the wall of the castle, shouts: > Guard: Halt, stranger! Do you have the password? > Sorcerer: Yes, it's DarkLord123! Panel 2. Zoom on the guard, shouting another test: > Guard: What about the security code sent to your address? > Sorcerer: Oh yes, I have that: 75482. Panel 3. The guard now hangs a big poster, absurd: there is on it a picture of a horse on a landscape, but it is split into many squares. The laser wand of the sorcerer selects all the squares with horses. > Guard: Now, use your magic to show me all the squares with horses. Good. Panel 4. Shot of the sorcerer, visibly very bored by all these tests, opening his mouth. > Guard (off-panel): Finally, prove that you're an adult by closing and opening your mouth. > Sorcerer: Really?... This comic strip is a critique of the too many security steps in 2025: login/password, 2FA security code, captchas, and adult verification via webcam expression.
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@davidrevoy But I hear this castle has the best Roman folios featuring naturalistic depictions of nudity. ☝️

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

If a corporation ever attained self awareness what do you think it would say

https://jewish.ink/@gavi/statuses/01K1W5SKP6H7X9N8CEDZR3D72N

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@mcc I initially read it as "This is my body." and that was even more disturbing.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Electricity does get punished

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@mcc Sometimes by Spider-Man.

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@mcc Because it's not only going to drive profits down, but also benefit the "wrong" people?

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

God fuck why the fuck is there a Google Assistant button in Android Clock now. This appeared between today and yesterday. There is literally no number of times and places I can disable Google Assistant that will convince Google I do not want to use Assistant

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@mcc Can you give it a routine to go fuck itself?

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Dress Up Darling revealing the deep secrets

Episode 14 - Subtitled You Can Equip Boobs
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@mcc Anno version: You Can (Not) Equip Boobs

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I am glad that I live in Canada

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@mcc Shame there's this thick wall of demonic fog between you and beautiful Mexico.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I am seeing a disjoint between the OpenGL code I understand myself to have written and the observable behavior of that code both on-screen and in RenderDoc. The disjoint is so large and bizarre I find myself questioning whether I even understand OpenGL's basic rendering model. OpenGL is the kind of API that I seem to find myself in this situation a lot even after having used it for like 18 years.

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@mcc A bit off-topic, but I'm curious if Vulkan is more pleasant to develop in, because it's newer. Or perhaps it's harder, because it's "closer to the metal"?

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@mcc Of course.

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@WAHa_06x36 Thank you, this was basically what I was wondering about! I'm not at all experienced in that field of coding, but from the outside, "OpenGL or Vulkan" always seemed like a less than cut and dry situation.

@mcc I didn't mean to backseat-project-manage, but I understand how you might have interpreted it that way.

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@mcc @WAHa_06x36 No suggestion intendeded, hence my initial remark on going a bit off-topic. So yeah, that's the stuff that's utterly fascinating when you have a robust understanding of how software comes together, but only very surface-level knowledge of a particular ecosystem. The way you phrased it, I suspect sendible use via middleware has not been as wide-spread as one would hope? Are many of those emulator devs basically crawling through broken glass to develop their backends?

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I saw that someone made a post on the Internet

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@mcc How did that make you feel?

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

Although one assumes Tim Horton's named this item "Ryan's Scrambled Eggs" out of a belief it would make the item seem more trustworthy, to me it is having the opposite effect. So you say you got these scrambled eggs from a guy named Ryan. How do I know I can trust Ryan

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@mcc I've been to a party at Ryan's place once ... you don't want those eggs.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

When u r an anime girl and u want to go to WcDonald's

Manga speech bubble: WcDonald's! I wanna go to WcDonald's!
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@mcc You sure it's just the shirt?

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XXVII is he dead?
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@mcc Woah, we skipped like X Final Fantasies there.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

FUCK

fuck they fuckin got me

Like 10 months after I switched Chrome->Firefox, I FINALLY accidentally clicked on the "add link to Pocket" menu item

Now I've got a link in my "pocket". Fuck

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@mcc I really like Pocket conceptually, but it just doesn't feel private, so now I just disable the whole thing in about:config.

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I hate Unity

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@mcc takes a shot

(Not really, no worries.)

@mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

I love that Tetris: The Grand Master 4 gave me opportunity to make this post

"Note: There are 13 girls who are known to exist but whom no one has ever seen"
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@mcc I'm almost afraid to ask, but does Grandmaster 4 have modes designed to ease regular Tetris players in or even teach them the high speed meta?

@JessTheUnstill@infosec.exchange avatar JessTheUnstill , to random

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    @JessTheUnstill Divided on whether or not I should even wish to be the Cajun seasoning.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    What I want out of the world:

    • Information about what thread a function runs in is so foregrounded to the caller that it is actually part of the type

    What I get out of the world:

    • APIs with callbacks virtually never even document what thread the function runs on
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    @mcc Out of curiosity, what circumstances keep you currently chained to that particular rock?

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , to random

    If a company has genetic data

    And it's going bankrupt

    And that causes one of the biggest economies in the world, California, to warn people to delete their data before that happens

    Because they're very concerned about who the genetic data will be sold to in bankruptcy court

    Idk man maybe it should just be illegal to sell genetic data in bankruptcy court? Or it should require stringent oversight and regulation?

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    @eniko Life ... uh ... finds a way ... into Saudi ownership, eventually.

    @molly0xfff@hachyderm.io avatar molly0xfff , to random

    if you got arrested after a nationwide manhunt, what would the media pull from your internet activity to make into ominous headlines?

    NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.

    NBC screenshot: Luigi Mangione, who was arrested and charged with murder in the shooting death of United Healthcare CEO Brian Thompson, once belonged to a group of Ivy League gamers who played assassins, a member of the group told NBC News. In the game, called "Among Us," some players are secretly assigned to be killers in space who perform other tasks while trying to avoid suspicion from other players.
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    @molly0xfff So my enthusiasm for the Soul Reaver remakes would definitely cause another satanic panic.

    @eniko@peoplemaking.games avatar eniko , (edited ) to random

    seeing pushback against procedural generation as a result of alleged "AI" and that's really fucking sad

    good procedural generation is hard. good procedural generation is bespoke and intentional. good procedural generation is artistic and creative. please don't lump it in with the slop generated through machine learning 😞

    EDIT: procgen is not AI, it's a 40+ year old game design technique, see: https://peoplemaking.games/@eniko/113158903401769257

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    @eniko The current hype machine hasn't just subsumed seed-based procedural generation, but also genuinely useful applications of machine learning, e.g. fan-made upscales of PS1 era pre-rendered backgrounds.

    Those folks don't just press a button, but spend untold hours fiddling with the algorithms, redrawing signs and transparency maps, maybe add a shader or two to tastefully blend polygon models into the world ... artisanal work doesn't just go away if you want quality.

    @mcc@mastodon.social avatar mcc , to random

    For the last two years I've been semi-daily posting "What I'm Listening to Today" links here. Mastodon has some problems with threads containing hundreds of posts, so I re-create the thread once a year.

    If you'd like to see, here's my "year two" thread: https://mastodon.social/@mcc/110266770603341546

    Or, alternately, every song from year two in the least practical format possible: A 301-song, 38-hour YouTube playlist (note: video #1 contains flashing):

    https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLIjft6ja7DM_kacOW8zo2vtr-aWpTNX6

    And here's the thread for "year three":

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    @mcc If the phoentics of German hip hop appeal to you, I highly recommend "Die Kunst des Bitens" (and its follow-up "...Reloaded") by Alligatoah.