I second the dark reader recommendation, it’ll save your eyeballs and works on (almost) every site. You can even install it on Firefox mobile and its various forks

Edit: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/darkreader/

This type of thing needs to be investigated in the real world. A picture and a reddit post won’t crack the case lol

I think people are too polite to call shitty programmers out on being shitty. It’s probably not a fair assumption, but whenever I see someone admit they use some AI coding tool, I immediately assume they’re either a junior, or one of those people who just were never intelligent enough to be a good developer, and ended up getting filtered into some low skill web dev job. Those are the kinds of people who probably feel threatened by AI, and I feel are more likely to use it.

We need to make elitism and public shaming cool again.

Godot? Wtf?

Also,

I’ve looked around, and I found all the local GUI converters like Handbrake are unwieldy to use, especially if you just want to convert in bulk.

Idk Handbrake specifically, but generally when that kind of thing happens it’s for a good reason. There are a lot of options when converting a video file, and you can’t support them all without exposing that complexity in some form. If you don’t think so, then you haven’t done enough research into the problem space.

With that said, a “dumbed down” version of Handbrake that is optimized for a single common use case could be useful. For example, re-encoding iPhone videos to minimize compression artifacts when sharing over Whatsapp could be useful to people. However, I don’t think a desktop app is the most accessible implementation for that.

EDIT: also, even if a desktop app was a good choice, it might be more practical to implement it as like a preset for Handbrake rather than a whole separate app. My mom isn’t very tech literate, but I could probably teach her how to activate a preset (idk if Handbrake supports presets, but it probably does lol)

Peter Thiel is going to declare VPNs the antichrist now

I just remembered that I’m the guy everyone in my family goes to when they need someone to scan their ID or passport for whatever stupid bullshit.

Guess it’s time to sign all my conservative family members up to gay porn websites!

I settled on DeltaChat too. XMPP is great in theory, but the apps aren’t great on iOS. That basically killed it for me in terms of getting people to switch to it, which sucked since I went through the effort of setting up my own server.

So far, Delta chat has been working for everyone with zero issues. Maybe the only complaint is that the gray logo isn’t as exciting as the bright green whatsapp one lol

Who’s the guy in the bottom left?

Off topic, but is there a name for that grin/facial expression? It’s like technically a grin, yet devoid of any real emotion. Feels like it’s trying to not commit too much into an emotion, maybe even for calculated social engineering reasons. I see it in the Godot logo as well.

In my head, I’ve taken to calling it “the autistic stare” due to the confused/vague communication of an emotion, but idk if that’s offensive.

Both. I’m strongly of the opinion that monopolies should not exist, and if they do it’s the result of illegal and/or unethical activity, and should be fixed immediately. They break the free market and end up hurting everyone in the long run.

In addition to what @Asterisk@lemmy.world said, they also include a forced arbitration clause in their terms of service to prevent class action lawsuits from customers.

Tbh, they’re very low on my personal list of monopolies to hate, so I don’t really have that many arguments ready to go. I’m sure others have made a good case against Steam somewhere on the internet already.

I read an article recently where EA said there wouldn’t be a Sims 5 because expecting people to get rid of all the content they’ve collected over the years would be mean.

Not sure how much I believe that, but it’s weird to think that in a few years/months, people will be reminiscing about today’s EA as the good EA

I think what’s important in this drama is that, despite their evil monopoly shit they’re guilty of, Valve really does do the right thing sometimes to win consumers. Gamers want AI disclosures, even if devs don’t.

That’s why it’s not surprising to see that statement from Sweeny, and why it’s not surprising that people still hate the Epic Games Store.

Well, he does make stuff up, but it’s not malicious.

Mecha Hitler™ begs to differ

Literacy and programming are not equivalent. Nobody needs to learn how to code unless it’s required for work. Even if AI made people able to read/write code, it would not be much of a net positive to society as there’s no indication that the demand for programmers will increase as well. If anything, AI agents/chatbots would be able to replace some categories of software (like search engines), and would thus decrease the amount of software that needs to be written overall.

I bet if you went back a few decades to the pre-internet era and showed someone wikipedia, they’d come to similar lofty conclusions about how everyone will be able to become an expert in anything. Not to discount Wikipedia’s value today, but we aren’t living in a post-ignorance society where everyone knows everything.

If you’re going to join the AI circlejerk, at least make sure you don’t have erectile dysfunction.

Don’t use Mint or Ubuntu, use Bazzite. It actually is “just works” with the added benefit of “you can’t break it”. It’s perfect for both beginners and experienced users who are looking to do work rather than tinker with their OS.

And if you have a graphics card (which you probably do since you mentioned gaming), Bazzite comes with Nvidia or AMD drivers preinstalled, so you don’t have to do anything extra to get it to work.

But if you really want to follow the YT influencer Linux memes, at least go with Ubuntu instead of Mint. Mint is just Ubuntu with a different default desktop, but worse in every other way less reliable (edit: toned down the exaggeration)

They’re a lobbyist for giant publishers. They work really hard to prevent regulating loot boxes/gambling, console jailbreaking, and are behind pretty much any evil thing the industry does. If they were in the EU, they’d no doubt fight against the stop killing games initiative too.

Fuck the ESA

I’m not sure I understand what you’re saying. By “the commenter” do you mean the human or the AI in the screenshot?

Also,

For instance, many SoTA models are trained using reinforcement learning, so it’s plausible that its learned that spamming meaningless tokens can delay negative reward

What’s a “negative reward”? You mean a penalty? First of all, I don’t believe this makes sense either way because if the model was producing garbage tokens, it would be obvious and caught during training.

But even if it wasn’t, and it did in fact generate a bunch of garbage that didn’t print out in the Claude UI, and the explanation of “simulated progress” was the AI model coming up with a plausible explanation for the garbage tokens, it still does not make it sentient (or even close).

I hate that normies are going to read this and come away with the impression that Claude really is a sentient being that thinks and behaves like a human, even doing relatable things like pretending to work and fessing up when confronted.

This response from the model is not a reflection of what actually happened. It wasn’t simulating progress because it underestimated the work, it just hit some unremarkable condition that resulted in it halting generation (it’s pointless to speculate why without internal access, as these chatbot apps aren’t even real LLMs, they’re a big mashup of multiple models and more traditional non-ML tools/algorithms).

When given a new prompt from the user (“what’s taking so long?”) it just produced some statistically plausible text given the context of the chat, the question, and the system prompt Anthropic added to give it some flavor. I don’t doubt that system prompt includes instructions like “you are a sentient being” in order to produce misleading crap like this response to get people to think AI is sentient, and feed the hype train that’s pumping up their stock price.

/end-rant

De Moraes said Bolsonaro’s tampering with his monitor fed his suspicions that he would attempt to flee the country in “the confusion that would be caused by a demonstration organized by his son," according to The Associated Press.

Looks like it’s time for another arrest