Sterile_Technique

Sterile_Technique , 3 days ago

Imagine a mine that could move around, target seek, refuel, rearm, and kill hundreds of people without human intervention. Comparing an autonomous murder machine to a mine is like comparing a flint lock pistol to the fucking gattling cannon in an a10.

For what it’s worth, there’s footage on youtube of drone swarm demonstrations that were posted 6 years ago. Considering that the military doesn’t typically release footage of the cutting edge of its tech to the public, so this demonstration was likely for a product that was already going obsolete; and that the 6 years that have passed since have made lightning fast developments in things like facial recognition… at this point I’d be surprised if we weren’t already at the very least field testing the murder machines you described.

Sterile_Technique , 6 days ago

Google Chrome can suck a dick.

Sterile_Technique , 6 days ago

Tried to dive into Piped recently, but nothing would load.

I’m only surface-level competent with computers though, so I probably fucked something up… since you’ve poked around multiple options, which one(s) do you recommend as the most idiot proof?

Sterile_Technique , 7 days ago

This is a growing pet peeve of mine. If and when actual AI becomes a thing, it’ll be a major turning point for humanity comparable to things like harnessing fire or electricity.

…and most people will be confused as fuck. “We’ve had this for years, what’s the big deal?” -_-

Sterile_Technique , 9 days ago

…so I’ve been on a shit load of elevators, and I don’t recall a single one of them having music. For as common a trope as it is, you’d think elevator music would be more common in actual elevators.

Sterile_Technique , 10 days ago (edited 10 days ago)

Advertising in and of itself isn’t bad; what’s bad is the modern take of shoving it EVERYWHERE so we’re exposed to it constantly, making it as obnoxious as possible to force our attention, lying about the product/service, tapping into unethical techniques like guilt-trips, and wrapping it in with malware/spyware.

I wouldn’t mind it at all if we got rid of all the toxic shit, but all that’s become so ingrained as the norm that it’s hard to even imagine a version without the trash.

Sterile_Technique , 10 days ago

Was really looking forward to this one.

Sterile_Technique , 11 days ago

whitelist advertisements on good sites

Stupid question, but does that generate any benefit for the platform even if you don’t click the ads?

Even if I see an ad for something I’m interested in, I’ll act on that by looking the item in question up on a search engine or YouTube or something - never by clicking the ad, as that’s always felt like risky browsing behavior in terms of opening the doors to malware.

Sterile_Technique , 14 days ago

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/e05c7a80-d3a9-460e-bc93-47587cbfb96c.jpeg

Delete that garbage.

Sterile_Technique , 16 days ago

You’ve got The Secret World on there already, but worth mentioning they did a remake: Secret World Legends. Whole ton of QoL changes, combat was revamped, but otherwise the same game.

Suuuuuper niche game, but if it happens to be your niche it’ll become one of your all time favorites.

Sterile_Technique , 22 days ago

Don’t see it in the playstore - who’s the dev / what site do you recommend to download a current APK?

Sterile_Technique , 22 days ago

Throwing an error that says it was made for an older version of Android, and not available on my device (probably why the a search in the playstore didn’t work). There’s a few websites pulling up on Google, but unsure which one is from the actual devs.

Sterile_Technique , 25 days ago

“I also have nothing to hide, but the assumption that everyone who wants to log every detail of my life isn’t doing so with malicious intent, is dangerous.”

Sterile_Technique , 25 days ago

👆

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

This comes off like those articles about how office workers “actually hate working from home - can’t wait to return to office!”

Absolute bullshit.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

Onion is satire, not misinformation. Try Fox, or some of the more blatant shit like Info Wars.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

I mean, it’s a showcase of misinformation - white supremacy is a pretty glaring front for that shit. Perfect match imo.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

‘point chasing’ e.g. karma farmers on reddit is fucking stupid, but I find the metric useful on an individual post. I think of them like an online extension of a facial expression: if I read a post attempting to explain something, and it’s got way more downvotes than up, the kinda tells me the poster is full of shit, which is especially useful in threads where I don’t know enough about the topic to actually identify the bullshit myself. Like a flat-earther trying to give a lecture to an auditorium of booing geological scientists - my clueless medic ass is going to be gauging the audience as much as the speaker.

Or, say I post some joke: if it gets a lot more upvotes than down, that tells me other folks folks got a kick out of it.

It’s just another tool to communicate - and communication is hamstrung right out the gate in a predominately typed medium, so I’ll take the crutch.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

Elder millennial, here. One of the weird things about the 90s was cereal boxes marketed to little bastards like me at the time would often have some kind of toy included in it.

PC gaming was kind of in its infancy and growing rapidly in popularity, so eventually the inevitable happed: a cereal company promoted their cereal by shoving a fucking CD into it, that little bastards like me lost their shit over, installed, and played the snot out of.

Chex Quest.

It was literally just Doom, except reskinned so the demons were boogers, and everything else was a fucking Chex cereal advertisement.

AND IT WAS AMAZING! lol

Best box of cereal my parents ever bought. Not a bargain bin, but I feel like “in a box of cereal” fits the spirit of the question.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

In the current state of the internet, they probably started getting death threats shortly after the project was announced cuz the kerning on an in-game billboard was a little off.

Doesn’t take much now-a-days.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

Can we just give the franchise back to Bungie and let them pick up where they left off, and pretend the 343 shit never happened?

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

sunglasses We’re gettin’ the band back togetha.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

I was worried we’d be seeing waves of this kind of anti-user aggression from large websites. My hypothesis is that twitter is running an active experiment to see just how user-unfriendly you can make something with an established userbase / what level of profitability corresponds with what level of fuckiness.

YouTube n’ friends have been watching from the sidelines and picking their own jaw up off the floor after seeing just how much the average user will bend over and take.

…which all makes me absolutely LOVE to see communities like this. Yo ho, motherfuckers!

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

That’s the scary part about Twitter.

Most companies turn the burn up slowly. Musk took one look at the frogs, then turned the stove up to max, hired a technician to hold a welding torch up to the base of the pot, hired a chemist find an additive for the water to increase its boiling point and heat retention, pissed in the pot, and is actively pouring gasoline all over the kitchen with one hand while flipping the frogs off with the other.

And the frogs are just taking it.

What message does that send to YouTube?

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

I’ve always thought, of all the options to warn us that clicking will put titties on our screen, that “not safe for work” was a bad choice.

Like, what if your work doesn’t care about titties? What about the tons of other times you wouldn’t want those to pop into your screen without warning, like when you’re on public transit, or sitting next to grandma?

I’d vote for “LEWD” vs “GORE” or something more clear - users can decide for themselves when it is or isn’t safe.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

Here’s hoping the project isn’t scrapped, but I’m not convinced they’d scrub all mention of it over a music license.

Sterile_Technique , 1 month ago

Fuck, I was excited for this one.

Sterile_Technique , 2 months ago

I have like 4 different ad blockers installed now because of that. Seems to do the trick. :p

Sterile_Technique , 2 months ago

Cost vs worth. Their pricetag may vary; but they’ve been worth nothing since their inception.

Sterile_Technique , 2 months ago

He’s like a piggy bank - gotta break it open to make a withdrawal.

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

Xfire had such a good system for overlay. and just so many good features. It was better 10 years ago than Discord is today.

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

It was very feature-rich. Literally everything discord offeres, but better implemented, and every feature was customizable - the in-game overlay being the one I remember most fondly. In addition to a VOIP indicator like discord has, it had a text-chat overlay too that my guild used a lot. We were spread out over multiple games, but we all had one unified in-game guild chat thanks to Xfire. You could resize and reposition everything in the overlay, and could set a keybind to toggle whether your mouse and such could interact with the chat windows or just click through it to interact with the game. It was clean as fuck.

VOIP quality was outstanding. UI in general was customizable and also clean as fuck.

It had a built in screen recorder.

Everything was intuitive to use and easy to use.

It was just really, REALLY high quality all around.

Hope it makes a comeback.

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

It did a really good job of putting the stuff you actually want on screen, while staying the hell out of the game’s way!

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

I propose a new standardization:

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f732e05b-2bee-4b38-a063-e39e0bc7026a.png

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

Based on your other interests, Guild Wars 2

If you want to try something different, there’s an MMO called “Secret World Legends” that is super unique in a lot of ways. Also super niche, so don’t worry if you decide you don’t like it; but if you do, it’ll become one of your favorites.

Sterile_Technique , 3 months ago

It’s the same game, just with a load of QoL improvements, and iirc a few of the expansion chapters come free. Biggest change is combat and targeting… idk if I can explain it well without making it sound like trash, but instead of click-to-target, you have to aim your character at the thing you’re fighting, which sounds clunky, but you get used to it in a hurry - it makes combat much more fluid. Also all the currencies from various factions you could acquire in the base game, 90% of which were obsolete, have been consolidated back down a more reasonable number.

I started on TSW back in the day; switched to SWL. If I ever get the itch to dive back in, it will 100% be for SWL.