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New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Why tech bosses keep sharing their manifestos about AI"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 15 Aug 2026 21:09:52 +0000

I would not talk to my friends about the stuff I bounce on AI. My meanest brain dead ideas get a rebuke, and I fight back to test grounds. I'd rightly get shamed for inflicting such undeveloped trash on anyone.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

sheepdestroyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:46:46 +0000

4k is only expected to be 1080p + DLSS, it's really good enough for that class of HW

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Valve raises Steam Deck prices"

sheepdestroyer — Wed, 27 May 2026 19:43:16 +0000

I don't want an apple blob I want to pick specific components and run linux

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Descent, ported to the web"

sheepdestroyer — Sun, 15 Feb 2026 03:12:24 +0000

I play inverted mouse on every game because that was the default on Descent, my first 3D game. At least that's what I remember.

However this version uses mouse up/down to do up/down, and that seems so wrong. Can't play it :(

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "The Deviancy Signal: Having "Nothing to Hide" Is a Threat to Us All"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 20 Dec 2025 09:04:31 +0000

Once your data is out there it's too late. If the hypothetical country you live in - where freedom & due process is respected - suddenly has an authoritarian change of direction, you're done.

It's my understanding that, organically or under external influences, many democratic countries in EU are at the emerging risk of going full fascists. I see that in France, Le Pen & friends don't hide the fact that they'd make a new constitution.

Richest guy in the world has vowed to use his propaganda power to make this happen for the sake of cancelling the EU, fun times

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Why are anime catgirls blocking my access to the Linux kernel?"

sheepdestroyer — Thu, 21 Aug 2025 14:08:27 +0000

I fail to see how this particular "anime girl" and the potential for clients seeing it, could make you think that's a fair request. That seems extremely ridiculous to me.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Gemma 3 270M: Compact model for hyper-efficient AI"

sheepdestroyer — Thu, 14 Aug 2025 19:34:06 +0000

I don't. "safety" as it exists really feels like infantilization, condescention, hand holding and enforcement of American puritanism. It's insulting.

Safety should really just be a system prompt: "hey you potentially answer to kids, be PG13"

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 17:07:25 +0000

Unless someone is hurt you can believe what you want. Otherwise it's necessary to weight what's to be gained and lost by entertaining net negative stances on frivolous grounds; and why we should then chose to do so.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 16:54:50 +0000

Sure, I am quite against all of them already:

The first one has been argued against quite nicely by Piketty, it's how you get plutocracy

The three other ones should not be treated as Rights since the concerned individual is no more, and they don't matter much anyway if coming against the rights of people (that means "living"). For instance collecting organs for the good of those who need, when evaluated, should trump any opposition on frivolous grounds.

I'm indead asking if the whole concept is not wrong and deeply harmful to societies

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "The dead need right to delete their data so they can't be AI-ified, lawyer says"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 09 Aug 2025 15:59:24 +0000

I'm unsure why dead people would have rights. Is that concept really a good thing?

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Using the Matrix Cores of AMD RDNA 4 architecture GPUs"

sheepdestroyer — Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:41:45 +0000

You still at least need a recent kernel

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Tesla Robotaxi Videos Show Speeding, Driving into Wrong Lane"

sheepdestroyer — Mon, 23 Jun 2025 20:08:38 +0000

No. Humans should follow the law, and if they have to be stuck behind a robot that does to do so themselves, so be it.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Efficient mRNA delivery to resting T cells to reverse HIV latency"

sheepdestroyer — Mon, 09 Jun 2025 19:04:14 +0000

Not only in science. Even (or especially) in impartial journalism or public debate, there's no valid reason why any unfounded (thus illegitimate) opinions should get as much consideration as sound and researched arguments.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "The Leaderboard Illusion"

sheepdestroyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 22:08:39 +0000

I thought the latest llama were not from FAIR but from the genai team

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Someone at YouTube needs glasses"

sheepdestroyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2025 16:59:58 +0000

If it still works for you, it's because you've temporarily workarounded its automatic disablement, and that won't last much longer...

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Why did Windows 7 log on slower for months if you had a solid color background?"

sheepdestroyer — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:12:04 +0000

Are you being purposefully controversial (to not say trollish)?

To the exact contrary to what you assert, one of the prominent argument against Gnome that I've been seing times and times again in DE debates, is the "dogmatic" opposition to SSD from the Gnome project.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Apple and Meta fined millions for breaching EU law"

sheepdestroyer — Wed, 23 Apr 2025 14:56:44 +0000

It's a bit of a false comparison, since you wouldn't have to pay monthly subscriptions to others stores as you have to for streaming services.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Librarians are dangerous"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 18:51:07 +0000

I did use literally correctly.

And I can't agree with you. As a non native speaker, I deeply appreciate people making an effort to use language correctly to transmit information. I call that being mindfull of your interlocutors.

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Librarians are dangerous"

sheepdestroyer — Sat, 19 Apr 2025 17:48:35 +0000

The meaning is likely understood/inferred by many if not most, sure.

It's still a "contresens" (can't find the right word in English, literally counter to its meaning), and should absolutely be avoided for clarity.

Let's not just say that it's alright

New comment by sheepdestroyer in "Deafening Silence from the Cybersecurity Industry"

sheepdestroyer — Fri, 18 Apr 2025 12:13:35 +0000

Objective reality, it exists.

Telling your audience obviously false / anti-factual lies, without any regard for fact checking, is not just "biased reporting". And it is inherently wrong, malevolent, evil.

Anyway, I'm amazed each time I hear right wingers who did not get the joke seemingly complaining about how Reality has a left leaning political bias...