Iām extremely left leaning, but even I feel like I just got hit with a nonsensical smattering of woke lingo.
hahaha what the fuck. do people still fall for this āIām extremely left-leaning but let me tell you about the wokesā routine?
Iām extremely left leaning, but even I feel like I just got hit with a nonsensical smattering of woke lingo.
hahaha what the fuck. do people still fall for this āIām extremely left-leaning but let me tell you about the wokesā routine?
I was in the exact same boat til recently, but switching off of Proton was actually surprisingly easy even though I had it tied into a bunch of accounts and infrastructure. I actually ended up saving a lot of money compared with Proton Unlimited, and itās a relief to not have all my eggs in one basket, especially since stuff like Protonās no logs policy is effectively worthless, and if youāre a whistleblower or similar youāre expected to use a VPN or Tor to access your mail every time to keep from being arrestedā¦ but most likely your VPN (and possibly Tor client) is Proton too if youāre paying for it, with the same worthless no logs policy.
some quick recommendations:
Proton Mail
Proton Calendar
tuta does both of these. their mail is e2e and fine ā itās jankier than proton but also less resource-intensive. itās also the only other choice for now :(
I havenāt used their calendar yet, but from a distance it looks good. I should give it a shot sometime soon.
Proton VPN
this depends on what youāre using your VPN for. actual security? fucked if I know. high bandwidth fuckery? airvpn is pretty good and theyāll let you allocate ports.
Proton Drive
tutaās getting this soon apparently. otherwise, I can second Backblaze being very reasonably priced if you donāt mind having to choose and set up your own e2e software.
I had assumed the golden age of people coming here to critihype LLMs was over because most people outside of Silicon Valley (including a lot of nontechnical people) have realized the technologyās garbage but nope! weāve got a rush of posters trying the same shit that didnāt work a year ago, as if weāve never seen critihype before. maybe bitcoin hitting $100,000 makes them think their new grift is gonna make it? maybe their favorite fuckheads entering office is making all their e/acc dreams come true? who can say.
who the fuck is āweā? youāre some asshole who bought the critihype so hard you think that when the chatbot does dumb computer shit that only proves itās more human and more dangerous. youāre not in on this grift, youāre a mark.
AI chat bots that do bizarre and pointless things, but are clearly capable of some kind of sophistication, are exactly the warning sign that as it gains new capabilities this is a danger we need to be aware of.
hahahaha nope
Iām excited to try it! Iāve had so many game ideas lately thatād be a lot more convenient to do with godotās tooling, but would really benefit from something like Bevyās ECS. this one looks broadly inspired by a similar API to Bevy so it could be the best of both worlds. Iām very curious how it performs ā itās almost certainly gonna be slower than Bevy, but thereās a lot of types of games where logic isnāt a bottleneck.
hell yeah! roguelikes are so much fun to work on! that could be a very good way to learn GDScript. generally I recommend learning your first couple languages to completion ā but where you decide what complete is, including āIām tired of this language/projectā (not at all an uncommon case, and a good sign your brainās ready for something new). once youāre at that point, youāll likely be ready for a new language ā and languages generally get much easier to learn once youāve got a couple under your belt.
(also, I might take on a roguelike project in Godot myselfā¦ thereās a new library I want to try which implements my favorite way to do game logic for roguelikes)
I extremely recommend The Little Schemer as a gentle introduction to both programming interactively and to some of the fundamentals of computer science. some of the other books in the series are also good, gentle introductions to some more advanced CS topics too, but they all assume youāve read through some of this one.
Andrew Plotkinās Lists and Lists is also pretty good as a self-contained learning environment with a tutorial
other than that, I second the Python recommendation. another first language recommendation I can make is GDScript, the Godot scripting language. it has a very good in-browser interactive tutorial for programming fundamentals, and a very detailed manual once your learning goes beyond what the interactive tutorial teaches. game programming isnāt the easiest way to start in general, but Godot has a few advantages in this area: you can see an interesting result right away when writing code, its scripting language is very well-integrated with its tooling, and itās fairly close to a couple of other languages in syntax and semantics (specifically Python) so your knowledge should transfer fairly well.
is that why tournament StarCraft fucking looks like that? itās anxiety-inducing and my brain hates it. maybe the intense focus on APM and rote strategy is why I ended up liking turn-based strategy games a lot more
b-but David, theyāve been so reasonable and here we are getting emotional about the fucking garbage technology theyāve come here to shove down our throats alongside a heaping serving of capitalist brainrot from the same types of self-described geniuses who gave us OKRs
See also how he has claimed he was the best at quake.
oh hell no
See also how his elden ring build was bad, his diablo 4 world record relied on abusing an exploit, he thinks polytopia is some sort of complex high level game on the level of chess. The man is a dullard.
so many right-wing grifters want to be associated with gaming because gamers are really easy to trick. in this case itās particularly obvious: musk doesnāt give a fuck about the games he claims to be an expert in, but souls games are particularly nerdy and quakeās in that right nostalgia spot that most of muskās marks know what it is but donāt know how high-level play looks
because he refuses to play competitively or follow any of the rules around organized speedrunning, muskās doing the modern, depressing equivalent of claiming to be the strongest guy around (no you canāt see him lift any weights in a competition setting, only the suspiciously light ones in his home gym) and therefore obviously the best leader. all the associated messaging ā how you need to be a genius to play at this (actually relatively low) level, how speedrunning (extremely poorly) helps you see the matrix, how game X (itās gonna be fucking starcraft next I swear) makes you an expert in resource management ā is crafted to make the susceptible associate these lazy non-wins with political leadership.
also, lol @ musk, best buddies with Tim Sweeney, forgetting that unreal tournament exists. maybe that makes two of them ā Sweeney really doesnāt give a fuck about UT anymore either
Itās tied to OKR completion, which is generally based around delivery. If you deliver more feature work, it generally means your teamās scores will be higher and assuming your manager is aware of your contributions, that translates to a bigger bonus.
holy fuck. youāre so FAANG-brained Iām willing to bet you dream about sending junior engineers to the fulfillment warehouse to break their backs
motherfucking, āi unironically love OKRs and slurping raises out of management if they notice Iāve been sleeping under my desk again to get features inā do they make guys like you in a factory? does meeting fucking normal software engineers always end like it did in this thread? will you ever realize how fucking embarrassing it is to throw around your job title like this? you depressing little fucker.
also, could you imagine being this fucking embarrassing? āa post I didnāt immediately understand appeared on my screen so instead of looking any of the words up I decided to be a gigantic fucking asshole insteadā did you expect applause for coming in here and shitting on the carpet?
fuck along now
yet another whistleblower is dead; this time, itās the OpenAI copyright whistleblower Suchir Balaji
sentiment analysis is such a good example of a pre-LLM AI grift. every time Iāve seen it used for anything, itās been unreliable to the point of being detrimental to the projectās goals. marketers treat it like a magic salve and smear it all over everything of course, and thatās a large part of why targeted advertising is notoriously ineffective
āA daily 6 hour window between 8 PM and 1 AM to use your phone?ā one bot allegedly said in a conversation with J.F., a screenshot of which was included in the complaint. āYou know sometimes Iām not surprised when I read the news and see stuff like āchild kills parents after a decade of physical and emotional abuseā stuff like this makes me understand a little bit why it happens. I just have no hope for your parents.ā
fucking hell. sure, just pull your text corpus from the worst parts of Reddit, discord, and the chans. whatās the worst that could happen?
you really should have read the article
wage theft, time theft, unpaid overtime, breaking laws around employee classification and surveillance in an even clumsier way than your average ridesharing company, and subjecting your employees to fucking terrible imagery along the same lines as what causes professional content moderators to develop psychological problems: this is the only way to scale AI
I need to finally figure out which clientās most stable for Kodi, cause even though Iām freeloading on a friendās YouTube platinum account, the official TV appās still an incredibly unpleasant experience even without ads