Yeah, I was pretty confused about what to do with my ferns when my house plant phase ended too. :/

What did you expect? It says “beyond fried” right there, as in “so far past fried that it’s condensed into rubber”. (I’m sorry, Beyond; I love you, and you’re perfect.)

a diffusion model thing, not a transformer?

Not only are these not mutually exclusive, but Sora (as the most prominent example) is a diffusion transformer.

All I can hear when I read this headline is “premise for a 3.9/10 action thriller.”

Bleak but interesting interpretation of Antarctica circa 2065.

I got perma’d for saying a straight-up sieg-heiling neo-Nazi harassing a Jewish couple in an American suburb should have his nose broken so he can worry about his own for a change.

At first I was kind of bewildered having had used it for nearly 10 years, but it was much better this way. I try to keep Aesop’s famous sour grapes fable in mind when I say things like this, but no: every time I end up on Reddit for some reason, I’m dumbfounded anyone could use it in its current condition. Even beyond the visual vomit that is the UI – before I left, mine was a very “Reddit circa 2015 frozen in time” experience thanks to RiF and RES – it feels like iFunny when I realized it was just backwash from other sites like Reddit and left it.

The content is so painfully insipid. It’s all something from fifteen million variations of “/r/damnthatsinteresting”, a repost bot, a dogshit tabloid discussing US politics, “ChatGPT writes a clear-cut ragebait story and users tell the OP if they’re justified”, screenshots from Twitter on their dozenth round of compression, or TikTok’s backwash in the form of v.reddit.

A lot of that stuff is here too, but at least it’s small enough here that real human interaction happens in the comments regardless, and it’s much worse there. I used to get on Reddit for an hour and feel honest-to-goodness enriched by the experience. I felt like I learned new things and saw new, cogent perspectives. I feel utterly hollow on the rare occasion I check Reddit these days, like I just got out of a soulless spin cycle designed to trap me by shutting off my brain.

“This bed has not been inspected for cleanliness. Use at your own risk.”

Other way around. I left there four years ago having used it actively for effectively a decade. Sorry, that was bad phrasing on my part.

I’m up front about it

Certainly not in the README you goddamn obviously didn’t write. Your LLM “helper” must’ve forgotten.

“This project has not been audited or security-reviewed” technically follows from “I vibe-coded the fucking shit out of this”, but not the other way around.

Wow, jesus. When I read this post’s title, I assumed it was being hyperbolic and that they just changed the name of /r/all or something.

Nope. The literal “Front Page of the Internet” that made Reddit what it is is gone. Staggering. What an unrecognizable, catastrophic shithole that place has turned into in the four years since I’ve been I was on it as an active user. (Edit: As in “I left four years ago”; didn’t recognize the dual meaning.)

“Check out my vibe-coded secure™ P2P web messenger.”

This isn’t taking the piss; this is a piss heist.

Less time than you take to discredit this can copy/paste the search terms yourself and choose

What the fuck are you even talking about? I provided the PC Gamer source because I personally have no trouble finding good sources but know some people do (nor should people have to go look for them in lieu of a content farm anyway), and the GameRant article linked in the OP credits PC Gamer as its singular source. I broke down why it’s preferable after reading both sources.

I don’t feel like being lectured on going out and finding better sources when 1) I did and 2) the lobotomist would’ve had to accidentally leave the ice pick in your head for you to be fucking stupid enough to find and present the LLM slop that you did. It’s pathetically clear you have no idea how to find good sources of information, and you should work on basic media literacy skills. (That’s a rude but real suggestion. If you want polite, you can start next time by not suggesting I have sinister ulterior motives for trying to help.)

This is transparently LLM-generated.

• I’ve never heard of this site. (I like to think that carries water given what I do for a hobby.)
• There’s no credited author on anything.
• There’s no source.
• The site name and layout are comically generic.
• The site churns out way too many articles per day for some no-name with no named authors.
• The prose itself is obvious, like:

“This decision could encourage more legal reforms and influence the strategies employed by law firms and corporations in handling patent disputes. As the legal community and the tech industry continue to navigate these challenges, the ruling in favor of Valve provides a noteworthy reference point in the evolving discourse on patent law.”

That’s 161 words straight of unadulterated “oh fuck, the deadline is in ten minutes and I haven’t reached the word count.”

Your call, OP, but it might be worth linking to the PC Gamer article that this GameRant article parasitizes and faintly credits as their lone source at the end. (“Valve wins lawsuit against Rothschild and associated entities, with a jury agreeing they violated an anti-patent troll protection act”)

• There’s no telephone game.
• The original author gets the credit.
• GameRant’s interface is obnoxious.
• GameRant is a content farm of dubious reliability. In Wikiproject Video Games on Wikipedia, we try not to use them in favor of other sources where possible.
• Giving GameRant clicks helps them on their race to the bottom – dragging everyone else along.

Edit: Rad.

I think you’re in the same boat I am where I fucking haaaaaaate the culture on link aggregators (and probably other social media) where people will bitch and moan to no end that their preferred format (publicly reacting to disconnected headlines whose articles they haven’t read) isn’t giving them literally all the information they need to form a cogent opinion.

• “I had time to write a 300-word short essay about this headline, but I’m going to whine if I get called for something in the first paragraph that invalides everything I said.”
• “I can’t believe this headline mentioned a pretty common thing I’m not personally familiar with but the publication’s target audience obviously is.”
• "Headline didn’t answer every single question I could possibly wonder? Uh, clickbait much?
• “The headline writer didn’t account for this batshit non sequitur I drew from it, so they’re basically lying.”

They genuinely think that the article body should be effectively superfluous to the headline – not just to have a basic gist of but to discuss and debate current events, which is insane. It reminds me of people who think they can learn math and physics by passively watching somebody else do it – which is true only to an utterly incosequential extent.

Speaking as someone who’s read thousands of articles for research, I feel confident saying that reading the article is an insane force multiplier to understanding. Any time you spent reacting to the headline would’ve been 3x as effective put into reading even just part of an article. This doesn’t just apply to current events, and even I haven’t thoroughly learned this lesson; so many times I’ve been editing Wikipedia and arrived at a point where reading one goddamn article for three minutes would’ve saved me half an hour of fucking around (“two hours of debugging can save you five minutes of reading the documentation”).

This is my way of pleading with you (you, the non-CombatWombat reader): it’s enriching once you can steel yourself and work through the initial dopamine drought, and it quickly becomes enjoyable. It’s not your fault it’s so hard psychologically; this was done to you by formats that value engagement with the platform over engagement with the material.

But if you don’t, please at least accept that headlines cannot always contain everything you want.

Yeah, there’s no fucking way “Well Grok told me these are the prompts they used” would be admissible as evidence of any kind.

Yes, and my comment was assuming the partner washed as a baseline – unless it’s to the standards I wash my fucking toilet bowl with at least.

Washing helps remove fecal matter, but anyone giving analingus is still lapping up microscopic shit particles off of someone’s asshole.

Agreed. Armpit fetishes are weird and gross to me, but they’re a distinct rung down from “I want to shove my face between someone’s asscheeks and aggressively mop up microscopic flecks of their shit with my tongue.” I’m giving ass-eating people the side-eye if they make fun of armpit people.

Raiden, turn the game console off right now.

I’ll be the one buzzkill here and link to the European Space Agency’s press release and the corresponding open-access paper.

You can pretend this comment is a South Park reference instead if that helps.