[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 16 points 1 day ago

Looks a lot like the 2019-2022 situation that led up to the current government, where the Zionist opposition wants Netanyahu out but can't offer anything substantial enough to earn a majority themselves and won't touch the pro-Palestinian parties that would let them bridge the gap with a 10 foot pole. Get ready to start following news about the 2027 elections, I guess.

AI GPUs have specialized very heavily for neural networks, including things like going down to 8- or 4-bit floats in favor of more parallelization. Most of that hardware is just useless for graphics tasks at this point.

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home instance was down for a bit so I hope that doesn't count as leaving

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 1 points 4 days ago

He likely would have had a coalition if not for the fact that huge portions of the Palestinian-Israeli population, who usually abstain from voting because they don't want to acknowledge the Israeli regime as legitimate, actually turned out to vote for the first time. Sadly the opposition would rather let Netanyahu win than work with their parties; genocide isn't even the issue most parties have with Netanyahu. Most of the opposition is pro-genocide, they just think they could do it more efficiently and respectably.

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 3 points 5 days ago

I will not publicly mention my personal recommendation, but hell yeah sister

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 7 points 5 days ago

There have been a tragically large number of generated fics uploaded this year, but at least they're tagged...

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Rationalism really is just Scientology with a guy who wants to be a harem anime protagonist instead of an admiral.

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 20 points 1 month ago

Is it just me, or does the whole thing smell like slop?

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 20 points 3 months ago

Israel's entire edge in the tech sector is in lax regulation and a steady supply of experienced, amoral ex-military software engineers. Western entrepeneurs who would otherwise have had trouble finding willing professionals and maintaining legal cover for their adware, data mining, or cyberweapons startup in a home country more concerned with ethics and international relations flocked to Israel over the last couple decades and singlehandedly propped up the local economy.

In return, the US, for instance, gets to wash its hands of the whole affair and say they're not the ones selling spyware to the Saudis and other western-friendly authoritarian regimes, it's all out of their control, while American venture capital reaps the rewards of investments in Israeli companies.

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 48 points 4 months ago

PETA is funded by the meat and dairy industry to give animal welfare/rights activists the worst possible PR. It's hard to imagine doing much worse of a job at what they claim to be their goals.

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 14 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

A kitchen sink monster taming survival sandbox game with Pokemon-like cute creatures, a handful of reaaaaally familiar designs, edgy shock factor marketing featuring gun violence and animal abuse, and enough obviously Pokemon-inspired gameplay elements that Nintendo decided to bring out all the IP big guns, from copyright infringement down to bullshit mechanics patents and claims that mods don't count as prior art. (if a modder invents something, no they didn't, and a developer that puts the same feature in a game years later can sue anyone who imitates the mod, according to Nintendo.)

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A couple months old by now, but I still find this a fascinating case study. A good old-fashioned NFT grift, unmoored from time and washed ashore as a sad, solitary UZDoom pull request in the year of the Common Era two thousand twenty six. The honorable representative of "Next Gen Software UK" seems to have taken the rejection in stride and without comment, seemingly only attempting to upstream the NFT features to promote their own fork, ODOOM.

What's the "O" stand for? Open Advanced Secure Interoperable Scalable-System obviously. That's right, they're not just making a Metaverse like in Snow Crash, they're making the OASIS like in Ready Player One, by putting a shitty social overlay into some FOSS game engines. I'm too tired to come up with a clever torment nexus joke to put here. Anyway, web3 is passé now. Their interoperability layer is web4. Their social layer is web5. Loading a WAD presumably makes it web6, and from there we'll be on pace to hit the web* singularity by 2027. That's right, AI is here too!

Now, as someone astutely pointed out, you might think that tying the ability to mint NFTs to killing enemies in a notoriously moddable game would be bad for the whole artificial scarcity thing, but our friends at Next Gen have a solution: enterprise blockchain holonic braid AI! From what I can tell, this is a delicate prompt caressing technique to write out a bunch of GOFAI symbolic logic in markdown and then get an LLM to pretty please evaluate the fuzzy logic. That's right, the cyberdemons are going to prompt so hard they'll beat you at deathmatch. In a game famous for being played at the pace of an LLM API endpoint. Blockchain-based anticheat is left as an exercise for the reader.

Obviously, this is all bullshit. One look at their generically titled landing page makes the unimaginative grift clear. You buy a token to play, the tier of token you buy determines how many loot and "quest" reward NFTs you can mint in a week so you can corner the hypothetical market by preordering, and not only are they promising a roadmap, they're so gracious that if you pay for the top tier, they'll let you write the roadmap for them! Only 20 slots left! Buy now!

I know the standard NFT project like this is supposed to prey on people who want to join a fun discord server and/or know they're looking for the next bag holder to cash out, but it still surprises me that these devs think they can get something out of it this late to the party. Did their AI blockchain compliance automation thing fall through in the wake of the Delve scandal? Did they really spend a decade in the mines preparing their get-rich-quick scheme for launch and miss the boat? …Come to think of it, "10+ years" ago is around when the Ready Player One movie was announced. Are they just really, really genuine fans of Ernest Cline's Torment Nexus?

I don't know why I felt the need to write all this, but the economic, social, epistemological, and game design failures of this horseshit, and the amount of work people are willing to put into a Potemkin software project like this never fail to astound me. Twenty-twenty-six, everyone. The best part is, for anyone actually interested in alternating back and forth between playing Doom, Quake, and a bunch of other games connected by a social layer to complete shared tasks, Archipelago already exists and doesn't want you to buy their AI-extruded membership cards. Peace on Earth, gamers.

[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 15 points 6 months ago

9 months is a typical direct transfer, using a traditional rocket engine whose thrust is so high you can basically treat it as infinite: accelerate up to your transfer speed in a few minutes and coast until you need to slow down in a similarly negligible amount of time. You need to set a lot of gas on fire in those few minutes, though. Electric propulsion is so low thrust that it can't put you on that kind of direct trajectory in one go, so the trip is more of a slow spiral around the sun with continuous thrust the whole way. The tradeoff for everything taking forever is unbelievable fuel savings, which is a surprisingly common occurrence in space travel.

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[-] it_wasnt_arson@awful.systems 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I love how this is so close to a cogent critique of people literally just repeating racist jokes but using a word swap to make them acceptable, and then the "(whatever that means)" hits and it all falls into place.

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