Khrux

joined 2 years ago
[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 22 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Without arguing politics, the world is sliding very quickly towards facism and being on guard against it is incredibly important. I'm not buying a laptop and putting money in the pockets of someone who may then donate to or fund facism. None of that applies to a developer of a free open source software whose political ideal world is not rapidly approaching.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 28 points 6 days ago (5 children)

Also worth adding it sadly doesn't really exist anymore, the iconic look here is gone, although game mechanics still begin getting weird.

Also although people have teleported to it, Minecraft is so big that I assumed nobody would ever reach it in survival. I'm not surprised it took 14 years.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 2 points 6 days ago

He was actually just there in the water for the reference images, and got left in by mistake.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Funnily enough, when I do ask an LLM to rephrase anything I write, it changes any sentence with a semicolon to one with an em dash. I've probably always overused the semicolon because of its availability on a keyboard, but it appears a lot in my normal work.

Now I trust the semicolon, it's an identifier of me.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Thank god I display my status amongst my peers by rejecting mainstream status symbols. Yay for counterculture being part of the system!

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I'm in the UK too and the gradual shift to WhatsApp has been a relief considering it used to be WhatsApp, Snapchat, messenger, Instagram, iMessage and twitter about ten years ago, not that anyone did all of them.

It's a shame it's meta but it's so nice that it's not a huge pile of useless features, just a few.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 2 weeks ago (14 children)

I don't even understand the purpose. Who the hell cares what colour your texts are?

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 7 points 1 month ago

I've never made the link between that and gender before (linguistically), it seems obvious in hindsight.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 1 points 1 month ago

Blurry photos is fine to make an stylistic choice. The 2019 movie The Lighthouse stylistically looked like a 1920s film, before modern music intentionally used bitcrushing, it used vinyl cracks, boomer shooters made in this decade intentionally look like 1990s Doom clones.

When a medium's shortcoming is patched by technology, it ultimately becomes an artifact of the era where it was accidental. Once a few years have passed, it becomes more synonymous with the era than the mistake.

It's not necessarily nostalgia, Gen Alpha and the younger half of Gen Z never grew up without smartphones, so they don't miss the era of poor film photography. Although every generation does this simulation of forgotten mistakes, it's particularly poignant now, where the high quality, perfectly lit, professional feeling photos convey something artificial, i.e. smartphone software emulating camera hardware, faces tuned with filters or outright AI generated content. Even if it's false imperfection, the alternative is false perfection.

Art using deliberate imperfections that were unavoidable in the past is romanticising something perceived as before commercialism, and that's admirable.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 3 points 1 month ago

I agree. Provided you aren't betraying your own values in the work you do, there's no shame in not taking pride in how you sell your labour. Be are not defined by our jobs.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 5 points 1 month ago

I've used ChatGPT a little, particularly a few years ago but still on rare occasion now. I won't bother giving it this prompt and wasting the processing but it probably won't be biased, I've been really really surprised with how critical it is of itself. I think by the nature of the dataset it's trained on (i.e. basically everything), it's not really showing any major bias at the moment. It matches my energy and decries capitalism, AI, OpenAI, Sam Altmann etc in a cartoonish, toadie way.

Sadly I don't think being an AI engineer is quite as bullshit, the obvious allegory is someone who provides the syllabus and marks the exams, rather than just doing addition for rich people.

[–] Khrux@ttrpg.network 19 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cannot believe character.ai was valued at over a billion.

^bubble

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