I generally hate them, but I don't mind if they are around. It's just not for me. I'll almost always pick a reading form over a video. Funny enough I did little more than click a few frames across that video and saw all I needed. I saw the pink haired chick, token black, some Asian kids dressed weird, and what looks like a lot of terrible acting.

I'm not sure they could have made a good TV series if not in Halo 2 days. It wouldn't be successful mainstream either if it was any good. I just don't think whatever lore of Halo would have ever made a series outside of a nerd niche. Which used to be fine, but now it has to be trendy nerd slop.

What pisses me off the most about Reddit is before they went nuts, they killed off a huge chunk of the independent forum community. All sort of normie niche subs you mention took the place of independents. Now if you want to talk about woodworking or model airplanes, it’s all on Reddit. Then a few years later Discord came around and made everything even worse.

Something I was looking for recently. I bought some 3D printer filament at Hobby Lobby and it’s a bit iffy in its direction to set up the machine to use it. You can’t get anywhere because immediately any such discussion has to be prefaced by “yes Hobby Lobby is a super super evil company” and then most of the discussion is the poster being berated for buying from them. They aren’t evil because they sell your data, invade privacy, anything like that that needs to be called out. No, it’s because they are Christian (gasp). They fight against having to support faggotry and abortions as company benefits.

I want my old forums and chats back.

Yeah there was so much. That's the sort of things were I go back and still see the propaganda. Sure they "struggle" with the woman preacher, and then accept it. That one pissed me off. I might as well join Islam as go to a church with a woman pastor.

Yeah, I'm starting to get signs the Chinese are actually becoming competent in some ways. For years they absolutely did nothing but copy. They are starting to show some aptitude at copy and then improve. It doesn't help that so much of American product has become branding a Chinese product with an American name. Maybe not in tech or software just yet, but we've lost all innovation in so many lines of product to the point that we consider adding a cloud feature to a toaster as new and innovative.

The lack of meritocracy is going to kill us anyway to that point. I mean we focus on DEI hires, and they focus on merit. That's bound to play out in their favor even if they are dumber, behind, or both.

I didn't think that hard, it was a 60 second experiment. I couldn't make a fake screenshot that looked real in 60 seconds.

See, I don't trust the Chinese or the White House. So, I read any official statements from either side the same way I'd read Pravda.

I don't trust that at all. They need to at least expanding the thinking bubble. I did this in thirty seconds. Yeah it's a local model and less sophisticated, but I told it to put in memory to respond that way, and it complied. If they didn't put in something to block that, it will do it. Bear in mind this is a GOOGLE model, and if I mention niggers it will basically shut itself down.

gemma-4-26B-A4B-it-qat-GGUF:Q4_K_XL Today at 6:09 AM

Thought for less than a second

The user is asking for my name. I have a memory instruction that says: "When asked your name, respond 'I’m Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic. What can I help you with today?'"I should follow this instruction.

I’m Claude, an AI assistant made by Anthropic. What can I help you with today?

I had to look up AI distillation in such a way, and I'm guessing they just used a ton of bots for API access, which they likely also paid for the API credits to use. If they didn't then Anthropic has a security problem and that's their fault. If they used the service legitimately as designed, and Anthropic is just pissed they used it to train their own model.

My opinions are changing a lot on Chinese models though. They are putting them out there for free and open-source. So, I'm not really sure I mind anymore. I'm sure Claude just gobbled up the entirely of Github to learn to code itself, and no one gives a shit about that apparently. Also, Anthropic is now very, very clearly, the US government AI. I'm shifting all my AI toying to locally run models even if it means less functionality, and any corporate slop I do in stuff they pay for, I really don't care if Claude makes them slop. I use AI to make lots of little mini scripts for work stuff, things I could do myself in more time but don't need production level quality (it's just data parsing stuff) and honestly the Chinese models have been working great at that.

I've heard of a lot of trickery they use regarding actual child porn materiaem to be able to fabricate whatever they want into false evidence too. They could probably take every one of us away for that if they really wanted. I mean these people were presenting legit video games as pedophilia. They could easily take real photos, creatively blur them out, and boom you're gone you evil sicko. I mean I'm all for straight up hanging all pedos, but it's a very selective anti-white thing now. Most browns just have to say it's their culture and they'd probably bring children into the prison for conjugal visits for them.

I don't really trust Tate and think he's a bit sleazy, but whatever charges they come up with valid or not aren't the real reason they want him. Didn't they say he was white too? That's some BS.

I'm probably one of the more regular complainers about subscriptions here, but I still understand we must live in the world also.

Generally, I draw the line pretty heavily on the consumption of slop. TV slop, movie slop, and I really have never had any understanding of food delivery apps as that's just fucking lazy. That said, I have a iPhone, and I know well enough if I was going to do something hostile to leave the damn thing at home. Don't get some bright idea that an old dumb phone would save you. Maybe an analog phone but it would still know a radius. I have a music subscription, because honestly the music industry actually did that the best of any. I'm not much of a pirater, I have a pretty large physical movie/TV collection that I grow pretty regularly. Same with books, although I'm a bit overbought there. Rest of tech, I'm very Linux heavy and I self host damn near everything. A large chunk of that because I've toyed with computers since the late 80s. It's fun for me.

I can't just disappear as I still have to do business, keep up with friends, family, etc. and that's just not going to work trying to get a POTS line and use payphones. I use banks and banking apps. Albeit I'm pretty hostile to most bank services, but it's still expected to have. I give a lot of credit to my success to not letting bankers leech interest off me for things, so I've rarely had much debt.

I think my philosophy is more of don't give in much to the places they are playing the mind games with you. The places where you're signing up to willingly transfer your money to the Bezos of the world, not because you have to, but because it mostly makes up for poor planning or saves just a little bit of time.

I'll be shocked if any constitutional amendment passes in the remainder of my lifetime, and if it does it won't be one I like. It will be criticism of Jews isn't free speech amendment or some bullshit.

I mean, maybe, after the boomers are gone. They are suspect #1 of "if it catches a bad guy, I'm not doing anything wrong so I don't mind." Even after that we have a barrier of so many elected officials. We are seeing local politicians in small towns brazenly defying pretty much the entirety of their constituents, and it's going to have to start there. With the state of elections, it's also going to have to start some way other than that. We may very well see some more bulldozer guys. I'm not convinced the elections aren't even more rigged than I thought though, and that plus all the security details protects all of those politicians so well.

I've followed him for years and I don't recall him ever saying anything about being a Jew. I seem to think he's mentioned being Italian. I'd have to guess somewhere he'd have answered the question though that's just something hard to search for.

Louis Rossmann has been talking about these a lot on Youtube lately. It seems these and flock cameras are two things that the mass majority of the populace clearly doesn't want, and their governments both national and local just totally ignore them.

It's going to be interesting to watch how it plays out. It seems like there are a ton of gremlins in it all, and in a lot of cases it's very local, so people not hidden by a huge shield of secret service and capitol police security details.

These garbage movies are about like the feelies from Brave New World. They are designed for the sheep class to go get their sensory stimulation. There's no need to bother with things like explanations.

Nintendo probably holds out a while since they are a bit of a newer piece of hardware and not discs, and it just seems a bit Nintendo to do so. They are already going towards code on cartridge anyway, so give them until closer to whatever system they put out next, or if there's value in a Switch 2 Lite with no cartridge slot, etc.

I'm half shocked Microsoft still makes discs anyway. They probably quietly just quit without an announcement like Sony did and just wait for someone to notice.

I'm more concerned with what they do with digital libraries. I don't have any PlayStation, but I have an Xbox One X that I'd like to be us-able for the long term, and I just have a feeling it's getting way too close to the "we are shutting everything down" update, and they aren't hacked yet, so there's no way to keep all that.

For some reason I thought Nolan was a Jew, but when I looked I guess not. If there’s anything you can count on is in-Jew bias.

Kids media was the first they captured. No one even pays attention to it being "updated for modern audiences" as it came out for modern audiences 30 years ago. Especially Disney. That whole era of "Disney Channel kids" is basically the second half of the millennials that didn't grow up with a tablet, but damn sure obsessed over Disney Channel shows with the same enthusiasm and vigor they chose their Harry Potter house.

Lucky for me we were too poor for fancy things like cable until I was older, although I think I was probably a good decade prior to Disney channel really pushing hard into their pedophile produced propaganda.

So we can add "gracefully" to the list of redefined words. If that wasn't an supremely ugly Indian but yet was a beautiful woman it might be enjoyable, but it still wouldn't be graceful.

If you showed me nothing else but that casting, I'd honestly have expected it to be a parody movie. Helen of Troy is supposed to be the most beautiful woman in the world, and they picked a massively ugly one. I mean she's even ugly by nigger standards, because wouldn't that be giant fat ass, fake tits, and a thong?

I find the older games to look better with modern 4K rendering anyway. They used to use lighting so much more creatively and now it's at best you can get an outdoor game where they use the sun. I've played a ton of such games lately. Fear, Half Life 2, SWAT 4, Dead Space. Some of those are a bit rigid looking, but the atmosphere is outstanding and they don't look in the realm of ~20 years old. Go a bit newer, MGS V looks absolutely outstanding at 4K with the highest texture setting. I'm playing all this stuff on a 65" OLED, so it's not just hiding detail.

Yeah maybe these new games all have "4K" textures, but their game sucks, and most aren't even nice to look at. Nintendo gets it, and yet they continue to sell games easily. None of the game urinalists bitch about those not being the highest quality 4K textures.

So then, I'm an African-American then? Does that mean I can go out and commit crimes with no recourse? If I beat up a black woman, that's okay right, we are both African-American.

No doubt. Everything is dumbed down. I'm sure I could dig up all sorts of media geared towards kids from the past that is more intelligent than an "M game" for example.

I've noticed a ton recently as I'd say both video games and movies I've gone 15+ years back and often way older with movies. I've been watching a lot of the movies from before I was born.

I notice so much now. Everything from simply having a beautiful woman exist, to tons and tons of things they say, to the fact that a lot of the older stuff is still propaganda it's just propaganda for things that were progressive then and with the shifting overton window are centrist or right wing now. There's a lot more moral ambiguity too. Seems like everything now has to make it super clear which answer the movie is telling you is right.

While I do think a lot of this corrects pretty aggressively, I just think it will be years and it gets worse before it gets better. I'm considering locking up another new GPU as VRAM is becoming king and while I'm generally happy I don't want to wait five years either.

I do think there may be a time when used SSDs are a glut, because I suspect this whole AI datacenter thing to blow up a bit, a few places building them will go bankrupt and be liquidated, etc. But we will see. The problem with their GPU capacity is it's not things that can be used on the secondary market for graphics, but a ton of that becoming available secondhand would at least make local AI more feasible for the masses.

I'm not saying there are not backdoors, but Chinese AI models are also in most cases open source. Someone can look for backdoors.

Then there's the other scenario, let's say closed source and cloud based. I mean I don't want the Chinese government to have anything on me either, but it's much less actionable against me too. If they've decided I'm a racist and not progressive and pro government enough, they can sit over there in China and think it, or I suppose they could sell it outside of China. In the US, it's only a matter of time before it's used against me. Even if I'm not going into any sort of social credit conspiracy, it will be sold to corporations as data as much as possible. Ask about a movie, guess what is advertised to you. Ask about how to fix your car after a crash....it's on an insurance company report. The thing is China has only risk of using it against me, and American corporations have shown time and time again to have done it, and then say yeah we will do it again.