The good advice: exercise.

I do calisthenics (push ups, squats, lunges, planks, core, calves, pull ups, anything) post social fatigue, and it… just gets blood to my brain. I dunno how else to describe it. Im not a fitness buff by any measure, but if I do a decent bit, I sleep better and wake up with more stamina too.

The bad advice: caffeine.

It’s easy to get hooked, or drink too much and exacerbate issues (like talking fast/slurring, obsessing, focus narrowing for me), but some coffee definitely helps me. Even over a baseline of not having caffeine for months. And I feel it pairs well with a little exercise.

As I say in every thread:

Blue Checkmark Lunatics.

In my eyes, these posters mind as well be bots. I do not get why still use Twitter.

It does seem advantageous to the defender.

Another factor Mozilla didn’t mention (and that Anthropic wouldn’t like to emphasize) is that major LLMs are pretty similar. And their development is way more conservative than you’d think. They use similar architectures and formats, train from the same data, distill each other, further pollute the internet with the same output and so on. So if (for example) Mozilla red teams with Mythos, I’d posit it’s likely that attacker LLMs would find the same already-patched bugs, instead of something new.

…So yeah. I’d wager Mozilla’s sentiment is correct.

I mean, algos make it far worse and should be criminalized, but it’s not just their algos. I see tons of ragebait trending on Lemmy too, at the expense of niche communities.

My new belief is that platforms and communication forms all have a set life, and should die when they go bad (for a variety of reasons). The Big Tech platforms are just examples that have lived waaaay too long.

And while I like to think the Fediverse is aging slower, it copied existing platforms a little too closely, without trying to correct their structural issues.

As someone who failed mental health treatment, I interpret it as “it’s okay to hesitate if things clearly aren’t ready.” I had pressure of various sorts to “be okay,” and fix some issues, but jumping early… didn’t work at all.

I mean, I use every alternative I can. Vapoursynth scripts, libraw-based projects, random GitHub repos, DaVinci…

But there are some features I just can’t get great support for outside of definitely-not-high-seas Lightroom Classic:

• Good lens profiles for weird lenses.

• Proper HDR PQ/HLG editing and AVIF/JXL export support.

• RAW support for newer cameras, like my little R50V

I have yet to try DaVinci’s photo editing mode though. That’s very interesting.

I downvote soley over blue checkmarks.

If the poster is paying for extra engagement on Twitter, at this point, there is nothing authentic about their posts. And I don’t want to amplify that even indirectly.

What you describe is exactly why the dentist got fired once a VC bought out the region, and partly why the doctor burned out.

They are questioning.

Sadly, I think Mass Effect Andromeda and (presumably) DA Veilguard are leagues above (say) Starfield and mechanically.

And narratively, in some ways.

If some AA had released Andromeda/Veilguard without launch bugs, as original IPs, the reception would be very different.

It’s just that expectations are so different. Dragon Age: Origins/ME2 are very high bars, and the IPs are so precious.

My observation is that doctors are getting squeezed, other staff moreso. They’re getting pushed harder and harder for more and more productivity out of them.

A doctor in my family quit and retired early because (basically) their group got more corporate and burned him out. I heard of a dentist who quit over ethics issues once their group was acquired by private equity.

Not that they aren’t well off, but I’d be careful blaming working professionals like doctors, engineers and such so much.

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It must be a cash out? Leave someone else holding the bag.

“If I wish for three more wishes, you will grant them with no catches.”

Keep doing this, over and over again, trying different strategies. It’s a way to test and validate genie loopholes (as you will be unable to state that if it’s wrong).

Though if the genie was smart, being “wrong” would be qualified to your own internal knowledge, I suppose. E.g. you can’t knowingly lie.

I have a very well off sibling, big corporate job, SO has a good job too. They’re financially smart, thorough researchers when shopping, work to exhaustion and have no kids.

Can they afford a new EV?

Hell no.

So they got a used one, at a great price.

I dunno who all these bloated, $80k+ EVs are supposed to be for. Rich old folks? I know some of those too, and they’re all scared of electric cars.

On a technical level, that makes zero sense.

AI “agents” are basically just fancy prompts with a tool calling harness. They are infinitely replicable, at zero cost, with no intrinsic value; the cost comes from the generic CPU host, and the API calls to GPU servers, databases, or whatever else that are all centralized anyway.

Wanna hear a dirty secret?

“AI” cost is going to zero.

Model capabilities aren’t scaling, but inference efficiency is exploding, thanks to more resource-constrained labs and breakthroughs in papers. The endgame of the current bubble is mediocre but useful tools anyone can host themselves, dirt cheap. Maybe a bit more reliable and refined than what we have now, but about as “intelligent.”

And guess what?

Microsoft can’t profit off that. None of the Tech Bros can.

Point being, this exec is either delusional, or jawboning, so the world doesn’t realize that “AI” is a dumb utility/aid, and they can’t make any profit off it.

Planetside 2, for me.

It was never perfect, yet it’s basically dying of old age. I think that’s quite an achievement for an MMOFPS.

And I’m pretty sure there will never be another game like it, at its scale (and Foxhole doesn’t count IMO).

SAM and their relationship with Ryder was interesting.

…That’s about it, sadly.

Mechanically and visually, the game was awesome though.

I am ashamed to say that Pokopia (on my sibling’s Switch 2) is pretty great. It’s a sublime, cozy exploration game, basically absent of battling so far.

Regardless of whatever fraction most of the revenue comes from, they still draw absolutely massive amounts of players.