Kinda expected this, after DOGE. Still sucks.

Haven’t had a chance to try it yet, but probably worth noting that it is a free to play game with what look like free to play phone game style “dlcs” for stuff like daily charge and the like.

You don’t need a culinary degree to identify if your cake is burned, or if it was frosted with feces instead of actual frosting.

We’re nowhere near that being a remotely valid concern.

Way off target man. If it helps, I’m not a blahaj user, and I am male. I’m not offended by the joke at the expense of delusional AI bros, or by your comment about blahaj users.

There’s definite misandry out on the net, but I’ve not seen blahaj to be particularly strong in it. I also tend to block users early and often. Lemmy’s small enough that it has a noticable effect on the quality of what I encounter.

Didn’t say or assume anything of the sort.

I was only commenting on the animal behaviors mentioned being poor examples of things other creatures just do for the fun of it.

I agree with the overall statement that people need to accept that others can and should just do things for fun without pursuing deeper meaning, skill, or compensation. People need activities like that for a whole slew of mental health and emotional reasons. Hell, just to add some color to their lives.

That said, saying humans need those to survive is a stretch. I know a handful of people who don’t dance even in private for fun, and a far far smaller number (but still non-zero) who don’t even sing in the shower or their car.

I don’t fully disagree, but the examples of non-human behavior could hardly have been chosen more poorly.

Birds singing is communication. People don’t get particularly competitive over talking.

Making a beehive is making a home or apartment complex, and we definitely expect a certain amount of skill in that from those who do it. If bees fail or do it poorly, the whole hive dies. Definitely not something they just do casually.

I thought the issue was that the admin in charge of the domain name registration just disappeared for like a year and the other admin didn’t have access to renew it. Where did you get the idea it had to do with funding?

I get you, but the fediverse is small enough that you can get by with just blocking accounts that do stuff like this. Complaining about it is just pissing into the wind, unless you want to start another resistance movement spamming corn. Probably overdue for it again.

Do your part! Reduce, reuse, recycle!

Reminds me of the old image generators that were image classifiers run backwards, if I remember right. Just pure visual similarity leading to “visual run-on sentences” so to speak. Love this sort of stuff.

They’ll refill it forever too, even if it was supposed to just be a recovery aid. Seen more than one elder become addicted.

Yep, still standard with business laptops and game consoles. Although most laptops are usb-c now, so they don’t really need it.

Why would a random grafitti mural have anything deeper than a jab at the common use of the term cheese pizza for csam, and the whole pizzagate mess?

Holy shit this is some primo conspiracy shit. You’re reading meanings from character encoding quirks?

Is that really necessary given everything that’s just in plain text? Is there any evidence that this is actually encrypted Chinese text at all? Do you have any understanding of Chinese or are you just trying to find meaning character by character?

Have you checked your technique against random chunks of other text data to ensure it’s not just a coincidence?

And most of all, why the fuck are you doing this work and sharing it through google if you think there’s even the most remote chance you’re actually onto anything?

I honestly don’t have anywhere near the kind of knowledge in encrytion and character encoding to even begin to say if you’re on to anything or not. I doubt you do either, or else you wouldn’t be asking here.

Considering there were csam images as unencrypted images in the files, I find it hard to believe they even cared to try and hide anything. Especially not under a reversible encrytion with some character encoding shaningans. More likely they would have used one of the many standard methods that rely on secure key exchange through a separate channel and asymmetry.

What he said was that training humans takes a lot of water too, in defense of AI. This is a shitpost take on that.

It’s spicy but not tremendously so on the way in, which just makes it easier to have enough to set your o ring on fire when it’s time for round two.

The way some of you talk about mainland Chinese people(like we’re brainwashed bugs, NPCs, or extensions of the state) is dehumanizing. Full stop. You don’t speak this way about Americans living under mass surveillance, police violence, and corporate rule.

I’ve definitely seen this type of rhetoric being directed at Americans more and more as our current president continues to fuck up everything.

This is why I loathe a lot of the arguments against stuff that boil down to “it’d be a lot of work”. There are tons of people who need jobs.

I know reality isn’t so simple, but it’s still frustrating as hell.

Clearly what we need is some crazy scheme to collect the CO2 from our atmosphere and fly it to Venus! A scheme that totally won’t just be another method of funneling money to the rich, and would definitely be cheaper than any of the many deeply investigated plans that scientists have been screaming at us for decades.

Surprised that no one has suggested the .hack (dot Hack) game series. They were PS2 era single player RPG games, set in a virtual reality MMO. So it really tries to simulate the MMO experience of that era. There’s even an entire fake computer OS you can explore with news articles, forum posts, email, etc that all contributes to the world building and sometimes unlocks stuff in the “MMO” as you learn stuff ourside of it.

The plot is… ok. Kind of a tired one now and quite trope-y. Mostly because it came first and a ton of anime since “copied its homework”. The series is one of the first instances of the now semi-common plot of “players get stuck in VR MMO”.

The first group of games in the series is pretty easily emulatable, and carrying your save across the games lets you keep your progress and unlocks some extra stuff in subsequent games of the first batch.

The second batch of games in the series (widely believed to be considerably better in gameplay) got an official PC remaster with additional QoL and what amounts to a free story DLC. Probably better to start there, just know there’s some weird plot stuff with a semi-prequel anime. It was the style of the time to make these multimedia projects to try and cross market shit.

They just announced that the series is going to get a reboot/continuation too.

It’s also worth noting that there are some “pay once” MMOs like Guild Wars out there which have been running for a decade or more.