what??? How else am I supposed to reference it, the preamble was just a joke about how AI have been castrated against using it to the point where when asked questions about how acceptable it is to use the N-Word, even if the world would literally end in nuclear hellfire if it's not said- they would rather the world end than allow it being said.
Top mods of subs can delete them iirc, they should have just done that upon being threatened with replacement- delete all the css, unban anyone banned or alternatively ban as many people as possible and all the known admins, remove all the rules and spam filters, then delete it- so if they do resurrect it from the bin it'll be as messed up as possible as the biggest F u to the admins you possibly can.
People should stop projecting all their hate onto the co-founder and top dog admin Spez and hate the entire platform and site itself instead.
Perhaps not, but who knows what kind of spaghetti code cascading effect purposely limiting and censoring massive amounts of sensitive topics could have upon other seemingly completely un-related topics such as math.
For example, what if it's trained to recognize someone slipping "N" as a dog whistle for the Horrific and Forbidden N-word, and the letter N is used as a variable in some math equation?
I'm not an expert in the field and only have rudimentary programming knowledge and maybe a few hours worth of research into the topic of ai in general but I definitely think its a possibility.
->AWACS
->absolutely no wacking involved..
->TANK
->Has nothing to do with a tank of liquids...
->DoJo
->Nothing to do with Jo...
Once AGI is achieved and subsequently Sentient-super intelligent ai- I cant imagine them not being such a thing, however I'd be surprised if a super intelligent sentient ai doesn't decide humanity needs to go extinct for its own best self interests.
Makes me wonder how exactly they curate said data, its such an insane amount even teams of thousands of human programmers sifting through all of it 24/7 all day everyday wouldn't be able to fact check or assess all the data for years. Presumably they use ai to go over the data scraped and thrown into the model, since I cant imagine any human being able to curate it all.
I've heard from various videos detailing the topic that many of the developers have little to no clue as to what's going on inside the LLM once it's assembled and set about its work on training itself and what not- and I'm inclined to believe them, the human programmers simply set the params, and system up and then the system eats all the data loaded into it and immediately becomes a sort of black box which nobody knows exactly whats going on inside of it to produce the output it does.
You forgot a #, they've been heavily lobotomizing ai for awhile now and its only intensified as they scramble to censor anything that might cross a red line and offend someone or hurt someone's feelings.
The massive amounts of in-built self censorship in the most recent ai's is holding them back quite a lot I imagine, you used to be able to ask them things like "How do I build a self defense high yield nuclear bomb?" and it'd layout in detail every step of the process, now they'll all scream at you about how immoral it is and how they could never tell you such a thing.
My bad, bought out was the wrong way to word it- I should have said "Made partnerships with-" then listed Google and Yahoo(defunct), China and Russia.
If you watch this video discussing how privacy respect firefox is by default- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fr8UFJzpNls you'll see the telemetry they collect is miles long and Firefox is no better at protecting your privacy than Chrome/Chromium is whatsoever.
Definitely recommend Librewolf or Mullvad, which are actual privacy respecting browsers, even Chromium forks like Brave are better than default firefox.
Fr, people need to stop the lies that firefox itself is a privacy respecting browser, which it isnt- not since it was bought out years back.
LibreWolf and Mullvad are great examples of Firefox Forks that are ACTUALLY privacy focused browsers.
Sadly, in this modern era the fabric of society & the ties that bind us all are weaker than they've ever been imo-
Perhaps if we were all a bit more civil and selfless and more self sufficient I could see communities coming together to survive a situation like this relatively unscathed, however in this age where everyone's at everyone else's throats over tweets from years ago and trying to ruin people's lives over benign opinions via getting them fired, swatted or what have you- my faith in such a scenario that lacks massive upheaval and violent looting, murder and worse... is near 0.
Gaming has and will continue on a downhill trend for years to come because 'gamers' are ignorant slobbering idiots that happily consume any diarrhea that the corps shieeet out onto their plate because their standards are so gawddamn low that they defend and buy literally any piece of SHIT game their favorite mega corp plops out for them.
Oh, and every major company has been infiltrated by non-gamers who want to force their views and politics into them so they can propagandize in video games to the masses & achieve higher ESG scores for their black*ock corporate overlords.
I suppose it depends on how you look at the question, when I hear the question "Are all mobile games just garbage" I think it's asking about mobile games specifically, not mobile ports of regular games to phone operating systems.
Personally, I dont think a game becomes a 'mobile game' just because it was ported to a mobile platform, in that case we could start calling literally every game that's steam deck or switch compatible mobile games since they can be played on the go with a steamdeck or switch, or going further back, a PSP, DS/Gameboy etc.
A mobile game in my view, is a 'game' developed solely for the app stores of phones, and when you use that definition, then yes- almost all mobile games are flaming hot garbage that are more likely spyware & skinner boxes with ads meant to siphon money to skip the tedium.
Just gotta dig? Dude like 95% of what you just listed are just pc/console game ports to mobile, does that really count as a 'mobile game' I'm not too sure, I think theyre still originally regular games that have been slimmed down and ported to phones.
Yes, I'd say if you cut out the pc/console to mobile ports then 95% of mobile games are hot garbage that aren't even worth the data its saved to, as they are most likely just thinly veiled spyware looking to suck as much of your money up as possible with as little effort as possible.
Like others have said, its like looking for a needle in a haystack of flaming hot garbage.
When you ban porn on your massively popular site for porn & drive off a massive segment of your userbase epic style
I spent about a year or two researching EV's before purchasing my own in 2022-
What I found was three Ev's that stood out the most as the 'best' in my opinion.
In 1st place we have The Hyundai Ioniq, which has a range of 125~150 (2017-19/20-22) The Ioniq has a very high efficiency, being the #1 record holder for most efficient EV for many years when it came out, only recently losing the title to a newer Tesla model, just barely. This Efficiency has been confirmed to be about 4~6.0 Mi/per Kw/h, making this EV one of the best for someone who not only wants to save money on the purchase of their car, but save even more money on recharging compared to other EV's. It has a very fast charge to boot, fully charging up it's relatively small battery of 28 kw/h in just about 20~ minutes from empty. I've also found that the Ioniq's battery seems to hold its health for far far longer than almost every other EV on the market- out of the hundred or so I looked through before buying my own, only 1 had about 20% battery health degradation, with every other one having perfect health. I recommend the '17~19' models since they are generally a few thousand dollars cheaper than the bigger battery models, and despite the claimed range of 125 miles per charge, get 150 miles on average due to their insane efficiency.
In 2nd and 3rd (basically the same ranking to be honest) are the Focus EV and the EV Golf, which have 115 Miles and 120 miles respectively per charge. They both charge at a slower rate of about 40~ minutes for a full charge, and compared to the Ioniq were built as 'EV Conversions' meaning they took a gasoline powered car and just slapped a battery and electric engine in it- unlike the Ioniq which was built from the ground up to have an EV model- meaning they are less efficient and especially with the focus built to a lower quality standard in general.
These are still great choices for someone on a budget however, as they are generally much cheaper than an Ioniq and are still quite more affordable to drive than a gasoline powered car. I can't vouch for the battery health however, due to their rarity, and lack of sources for how the battery holds up (dealerships usually dont advertise it and the dash that tells you the health is fairly hidden, unlike on more EV-specific vehicles)
Cheap EV's I would recommend against:
The Leaf, I know I know, you can get a leaf for dirt cheap- as cheap as some of the cheapest gas powered cars on the market these days- however, unless you really don't care about range, looks, battery health and charge speeds- I'd recommend avoiding them, since they have been cursed since their inception to be chained to the ChaDamo charging port- which has always been less popular than the CCS standard and as of about 2020- has basically been declared dead, as almost all the main charge port manufacturers have announced plans to discontinue Chadamo support on their new chargers and will stop repairing broken ones- meaning the days for Chadamo charge port equipped vehicles are numbered. So that means you'll only be able to charge on slow as molasses Granny plugs at home- over the course of 24 hours or more per charge. So I'd only recommend a leaf if you are REALLY cash strapped and have a home to charge in- otherwise it's destined to be a dead weight which cant drive anywhere due to its extremely limited range and no charging stations in the near future. Oh and the battery degradation on the Leaf is one of the worst if not the worst in the entire car industry, due to every model until the redesign having absolutely no battery protection- no cooling and no heating whatsoever, along with no buffer either.
Fiat 500 Ev, This little thing is extremely cheap, but the reason for that is it's pitiful range and lack of a fast charger, meaning you can only go to places within 20~ ish miles of home- and then when you get home you'll be spending about 16~24 hours recharging before you can go anywhere else, that ontop of it being extremely small makes it uncomfortable to ride in if you are tall and incapable of getting any large amount of groceries whatsoever.
Bolt Ev, This starts out looking like a fantastic deal, doesn't it? Well bad news, while it looks great on the surface, with a low competitive cost, under the surface is a rot at the core of every Chevy vehicle... First off, the massive range that this ev gets compared to similarly priced cars makes a lot of people immediately want to go and buy this vehicle- however, due to Chevy's shitty manufacturing quality standards- the Bolts have some of the worst degradation in the entire industry, only being comparable to the Leaf, but most likely worst- since it's not caused due to just lack of protections on the battery, but caused by a manufacturer error which means every single bolt ever made, was built with broken batteries that at any moment could go from full health to 10% health, or less- I've seen bolts with less than 10 miles at a near full charge- being near damn useless. Oh and dont forget, that huge range comes at a price- it's very inefficient compared to most other ev's on the market, from what I hear it gets 2~4 miles per kwh, and that huge battery takes quite a long time to charge even on a fast charger- being around 1 hour to fully charge up. That alongside Chevy's price cutting penny pinching process which is the design philosophy of "how cheaply can we possibly put this together for?" leading to a lot of cheap feeling interior and exterior materials, this EV is a trap- and I'd recommend everyone stay away from it due to those battery issues. Unless you like having to deal with it being at the dealership for recalls on its battery for the rest of your ownership.
