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kibiz0r

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  • Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space?

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  • Code Is Cheap Now. Software Isn’t

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  • Ban Religion

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  • The title of the post is “ban religion”, and the first line is that religion “should have no place in society”

  • Ban Religion

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  • True. I’m just reading between the lines here, because of the phrase “until there is verifiable proof”. If it applies to god, then it applies to privacy of conscious experience, in which case… well, we have done pretty horrific things in the past because there was no verifiable proof of someone’s conscious experience, like performing surgery on infants without anesthesia.

  • Ban Religion

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    • That’s unethical, but even it it wasn’t…
    • There’s no way to satsifactorily define religion in the way I think you’re going for, but even if you could…
    • People would worship their gods anyway, but even if they didn’t…
    • They would worship something else instead (see the ongoing AI cult for live evidence!), but even if they didn’t…
    • It wouldn’t suddenly make everyone empathetic, non-tribal, morally consistent, rational physicalists, but even if it did…
    • Physicalism is for edgy teenagers who haven’t taken the p-zombie question seriously (source: was edgy teenage physicalist)

  • Keyboard and mouse suggestions

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  • Keychron is solid, and offers a wide range of sizes so you can balance real estate vs functionality

  • Smart glasses and socializing

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  • One project that can help with this is the OUI-SPY, a small piece of open source hardware. The OUI-SPY runs on a cheap Arduino compatible chip called an ESP-32. There are multiple programs available for loading on the chip, such as “Flock You,” which allows people to detect Flock cameras and “Sky-Spy” to detect overhead drones. There’s also “BLE Detect,” which detects various Bluetooth signals including ones from Axon, Meta’s Ray-Bans that secretly record you, and more. It also has a mode commonly known as “fox hunting” to track down a specific device.

    https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/how-hackers-are-fighting-back-against-ice

  • Set the challenge to create my own 3d engine from scratch. Where to start?

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  • I was once a fool like you :)

    Mike McShaffry’s book “Game Coding Complete” is a good guide to the practical side of using a game engine IRL to get things done.

    It’ll give you a good idea of how things should be shaped in order to be useful, and some things you can “skip ahead” to. Off-the-shelf engines have to be extremely general in order to be flexible enough to be useful to many customers, so game devs have to put in the effort to make them more specific. You’ll have to start off by being specific, if you have any chance of actually finishing something.

    Eberly’s book “3D Game Engine Architecture” deals with the nuts and bolts, the rigorous academic engineering stuff. It’s pretty solid, but it’s aimed at making a general-purpose engine, which is beyond the scope of a one-person project.

    Backing up though… You don’t have any language or library opinions? You might need 5-10 years of experience doing general programming (or game dev) before you can sustainably tackle this, or else you’re likely to paint yourself into a corner.

    Edit: Probably the biggest PITA with game engine dev is testing. If you’re not already an expert in setting up test harnesses at multiple levels of detail, you’re gonna find it impossible to keep moving after a few months.

    Good luck!

  • My final message before I'm on an FBI watchlist: Palantir, Epstein, & The New York Times

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  • Fascinating read. But, given his background… he was already on a watchlist. It’s just, now he clearly meets the publicly-disclosed criteria for it.

  • Steam Frame (Steamworks Documentation)

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  • I can tell you that when I use GameHub Lite on my Retroid 5, the stats widget sometimes shows Zink, along with DXVK, DXVK+, and VKD3D

  • Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

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  • Yeah… Linear increases in performance appear to require exponentially more data, hardware, and energy.

    Meanwhile, the big companies are passing around the same $100bn IOU, amortizing GPUs on 6-year schedules but burning them out in months, using those same GPUs as collateral on massive loans, and spending based on an ever-accelerating number of data centers which are not guaranteed to get built or receive sufficient power.

  • Larian's head writer has a simple answer for how AI-generated text helps development: 'It doesn't,' thanks to its best output being 'a 3/10 at best' worse than his worst drafts

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  • I like the way Ted Chiang puts it:

    Some might say that the output of large language models doesn’t look all that different from a human writer’s first draft, but, again, I think this is a superficial resemblance. Your first draft isn’t an unoriginal idea expressed clearly; it’s an original idea expressed poorly, and it is accompanied by your amorphous dissatisfaction, your awareness of the distance between what it says and what you want it to say. That’s what directs you during rewriting, and that’s one of the things lacking when you start with text generated by an A.I.

    There’s nothing magical or mystical about writing, but it involves more than placing an existing document on an unreliable photocopier and pressing the Print button.

    I think our materialist culture forgets that minds exist. The output from writing something is not just “the thing you wrote”, but also your thoughts about the thing you wrote.

  • Never stop trying 🐿️

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  • That’s why I don’t try — you can be certain of the outcome ahead of time 😎

  • All my new code will be closed-source from now on - Marc J. Schmidt

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  • Money-making is an orthogonal issue. LLMs subvert engagement with open source projects, which is important for their health whether or not there’s anyone trying to monetize that engagement.

  • conditional soap

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  • Also the specialized shampoo is 15.99, the 17-in-1 everything-soap is 1.19.

    But the specialized shampoo is pink, so that you know that’s the one you’re supposed to buy.

  • I just halted a job interview process - due to self respect.

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  • "If you put money in a vending machine and got two items instead of one, would you put additional money in for the second item?"

    That is wild.

    The vending company factors this into the prices they charge for the items, the amount they spend on the machine to ensure accuracy, and the amount they pay the people who stock the machines to do it properly.

    If you take it upon yourself to unilaterally re-balance the equation, you’re not being noble, you’re just a fool.

  • Cool bug rule

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  • You might be interested in Emerson Green’s podcast, Walden Pod.

    He’s an atheist, and not a dualist, but he argues against physicalism and also against presuming there is no afterlife.

  • Gen AI data violations more than double - Help Net Security

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  • Trule Feeding

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  • Today I Learned @lemmy.world
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    TIL the phrase "Do Not Split", meaning leftist pacificists and leftist radicals shouldn't condemn each others' tactics

    www.teamhuman.fm /episodes/329-matthew-remski
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    AI is draining water from areas that need it most

    www.bloomberg.com /graphics/2025-ai-impacts-data-centers-water-data
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Elon Musk's Grok AI Will 'Remove Her Clothes' In Public, On X

    www.404media.co /elon-musks-grok-ai-will-remove-her-clothes-in-public-on-x
  • [CLOSED] Demos, intros and related tunes @lemmy.abnormalbeings.space
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    .kkrieger: Making an impossible FPS

  • News @lemmy.world
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    Trump taps key Project 2025 architect Russ Vought to head budget office

    www.reuters.com /world/us/trump-taps-key-project-2025-architect-russ-vought-head-budget-office-2024-11-23/
  • Fuck AI @lemmy.world
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    Ali Alkhatib - Destroy AI

  • Technology @midwest.social
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    To Stop AI Killing Us All, First Regulate Deepfakes, Says Researcher Connor Leahy

    time.com /6564434/connor-leahy-ai-risk-deepfakes/
  • 196 @lemmy.blahaj.zone
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    Cain and Abe-rule