audaxdreik

It is an opinion piece and I'm not gonna pretend it's not heavily biased, but why shouldn't it be? What are the reasons to own a Cybertruck when the whole intent of the product feels like a pro-Elon circlejerk?

I'm an average consumer and shall we say, an Elon-disdainer. I don't like the man, though I have better things to do with my time than actively hate him. At first glance, it does not appear to even be a truck. It's wild and awful looking, it doesn't sell itself at all on the visuals alone so it had better have killer features. Which are ........ ?

Look, when you show up to my potluck with a literal crockpot full of shit, I don't feel the need to entertain you. "Is that literal shit?" I ask. "It's my grandmother's recipe!" you reply. "Well that may be, but is it literal shit? In a crockpot? Cooking all day?" "You haven't even tried it!"

I don't know why I have to justify not eating shit. Coming up with reasons not to blindly consume transparently bad products was not a position I felt I'd ever need to reason myself out of.

EDIT: sorry if that came off sounding too critical of you, I don't mean to attack you personally. But the shape of this discussion is a thorn in my side that sits at a particular junction between how we choose to see biases in media and modern consumerism and I think it warrants further investigation.

Disappointing, but somehow inevitable.

"This will enable us to release the vast majority of games that use it. "

So it sounds like the floodgates are opening and now it'll be up to the users to sort out the flood of BS. None of this is truly surprising, while I'm not cynical enough to suggest their temporary stance was a quick way to score some easy points with the anti-AI crowd, we all kind of have to acknowledge that this technology is coming and Steam is too big to be left behind by it. It stands to reason.

I also understand the reasoning for splitting pre/live-generated AI content, but it's all going to go in the same dumpster for me regardless.

I certainly think it's possible to use pre-generated AI content in an ethical and reasonable way when you're committed to having it reach a strong enough stylistic and artistic vision with editors and artists doing sufficient passes over it. The thing is, the people already developing in that way would continue to do so because of their own standards, they won't be affected by this decision. The people wanting to use generative AI to pump out quick cash grabs are the ones that will latch onto it, I can't think of any other base this really appeals to.

So it could possibly be construed to "Microsoft's Dirty Operating System", yeah?

Almost as bad as the "Enable new feature? / Not now" options

No, NOT not now; never. Never.

I keep seeing people make this argument and I think we all need to realize that different people use social media in different ways.

I moved to Bluesky as well. It's where my friends went, it's where the artists and authors I follow went, it's where some of the bigger names I care to keep up with went.

Feels a little gross, I'm not gonna defend Bluesky or anything, but there are more reasons for the choice.

You're getting downvoted by cryptobros, but you are absolutely correct, there is no good use for block chain and never will be

It's a fully public database among trustless parties. To the first point, there's no reason any database can't be made public if so desired. To the second point, for the block chain to have any meaning or value beyond itself, some authority eventually needs to interpret its contents. That authority might as well hold the database or, in trustless cases, a third party trustee. Nothing about it makes sense at a very base level, you don't even need to explain the tech because it just doesn't hold up logically.

The rollout already hit me and passed. I use Chrome at work with uBlock mostly because it's mandated and I burnt through all the warnings and videos were starting to not play. I thought that was that, I was too lazy to fix it on my work PC but a day later uBlock updated and it hasn't been an issue since.

Procrastinating wins again, I never took direct action. I don't want to get too hopeful, but I think even Google is going to have more trouble with this than they anticipate

In response to a perfectly valid question about dumbass plan I just came up with:

"we'll burn that bridge when we come to it"

There is a very meaningful difference between humane, highly regulated animal testing and what Musk is doing. Compounding this is the feeling that Musk's high profile is what's letting him get away with this in the first place. He wants to slap his name and face on everything for the credit when it's good, be gets to be the lightning rod when it's not.

Awful system, they're always giving me much less than I expect.

There are no legitimate uses, full stop.

As others have pointed out, it's just a fully public database. Its use case is among trustless parties, and that's why it fails. At some point, somebody is going to want to take action off the data and that's going to involve a trusted party enforcing it. Sooo ... just have the trusted party host the data (and make it public if you really care). And if all the parties are truly that trustless, 1) why are they dealing with either and 2) get a third party trustee to broker your deals

I wouldn't say "no reason".

I'm not gonna do a whole Vaush teardown here, but it's amazing how he always seems to align himself against a lot of the other leftist YouTubers I have watched and respected for years.

His obsessive need to tout his "rightness" on all matters is extremely abrasive and off-putting. He likes to cite diversity of tactics as a reason for engaging in debate the way he does, but then also doesn't respect anyone that can't debate their position. I've read a lot of philosophy and political commentary over the years, I know what I believe, but if you put me up against him I'd crumble on the spot. I couldn't debate to save my life, it's a particular skill. Watching him angrily yell at other leftists is not furthering the points he thinks it is.

Being able to win a debate doesn't make you right, and losing one doesn't make you wrong. He's just another pig in the mud.