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   Trump & Epstein: Biz partners. (mugsysrapsheet@mastodon.social)'s status on Friday, 09-Oct-2026 03:41:59 JST Trump & Epstein: Biz partners.

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   @Viss
   A little off-topic... but last week, my Android phone switched my "voice assistant" over to their #AI: #Gemini.

   A screen alerting you to this change offered the option "No thanks", which left you with NO voice assistant (and being prompted to install Gemini.)

   Eventually, left with no choice, I switched. It's terrible. It's SLOW, ignores most of my requests, and just sits there when it can't figure out what to do.

   It claims there's an option to switch back, but I've tried every method.🤬

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   GeePawHill (geepawhill@mastodon.social)'s status on Tuesday, 06-Oct-2026 15:42:13 JST GeePawHill

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   The plot is fucking *thick*. Incredibly intricate, with at least 4 major *teams*, not just individual players. That's a very grown-up thing to do.

   It's not always just-in-timed. I think they tried, but I think that just-in-time-ing an intricate plot is a very very hard thing to do, and they didn't always manage it. The first season, in particular, has stuff where you don't have the slightest clue what is going on, but not in the *good* way.

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   Phil Stevens :tinoflag: (phil_stevens@mastodon.nz)'s status on Sunday, 13-Sep-2026 09:17:18 JST Phil Stevens :tinoflag:

   The failures of tech and finance journalists to adequately question the narratives coming out of the supposed #AI alarmist machine are breathtaking. The people who should be objectively reporting on how inane and pathetic the claims are instead have joined the VC funders in an intentional mass delusional event where they convince one another that some junior engineer's ravings are proof that the machines are about to unleash the poisonous gases.

   Relax. The actual clear and present danger from LLMs is not that they're on the threshold of self awareness. It's the unprecedented misallocation of capital, starving actual useful entrepreneurs of funding.

   It's the horrific and indefensible overconsumption of energy and water, causing actual material hardship for communities that have the misfortune of hosting data centres.

   It's the circular Ponzi schemes that obscure the financial shenanigans that absolutely will come unstuck and bring down a fair chunk of the global productive economy when they do.

   It's the promotion of chatbots as digital surrogates for actual social contact and the psychological damage to vulnerable users.

   And it's the uncritical grovelling worship of tech billionaires and a whole class of feudal overlords who fully intend to use this technology as a shortcut to a surveillance state where ethics and governance are outsourced to fragile, unreliable, and resource squandering sausage machines with training biases that guarantee that the outputs will assuredly not promote egalitarian and biosphere-preserving outcomes.

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   Pixel Processor (pixel_processor@mastodon.social)'s status on Sunday, 23-Aug-2026 23:52:52 JST Pixel Processor

   Doing more typings of late - trying to move towards a 1.0 release, although there’s still lots to do.

   It’s fair to say that it’ll always be a (very, very) niche app, but hopefully it’ll be useful to some

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   Steve's Place (steter@mastodon.stevesworld.co)'s status on Thursday, 20-Aug-2026 06:32:18 JST Steve's Place

   Before optimizations, the RPG struggled to run at 30FPS in-game. Last night, optimizations done, the RPG was showing an in-editor in-game peak frame rate up to 80FPS, while most of the time hanging out at a 70's diner dancing to disco. This is an 8k map.

   What do we do when the project is working well?

   We save it!

   Yes, we do.

   It displays more distant detail with a greater loading distance than before, yet runs more than 2X as fast? No complaints!

   I'm unsure about the wisdom of making the cell sizes and loading distances for both World Partition and HLODs identical, although that's what I did, so there may be more tweakage to come.

   #UE5 #RPG

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   David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*) (david_chisnall@infosec.exchange)'s status on Monday, 20-Jul-2026 00:43:01 JST David Chisnall (*Now with 50% more sarcasm!*)

   RE: https://infosec.exchange/@catsalad/116944318046104194

   It’s fascinating seeing notifications for boosts here, where something you wrote a year or two ago will suddenly be found by someone, who boosts it, and then a little flurry of other people do.

   It really makes you realise how much recency bias there is in most other systems, including most web forum software. Sometimes that’s useful (I don’t want obsolete solutions to be highlighted in preference to the ones that actually work), but it also makes writing there seem ephemeral. Here, a conversation can start up after two years of silence when someone comes up with something new to contribute. And that’s incredible.