Fuck off Ars Technica.

Fuck off Jon Bodkin.

They didn’t do ‘piracy’, they’re just training an LLM to be better at categorizing music.

You idiots need to stop baselessly hating totally legit and legally valid and ethical ways to use data and LLMs; get with the program, embrace the future.

You need to stop needlessly stifling innovative, up and coming market disruptors, who are going to be the powerhouses of the new economy.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/meta-staff-torrented-nearly-82tb-of-pirated-books-for-ai-training-court-records-reveal-copyright-violations

Sure seems like piracy is functionally legal if you just have enough money to either pay the fine or run out the clock of the legal system, which thus makes it an acceptable cost of doing business, which thus makes the framing of ‘piracy’ nothing but libellous slander against an entrepreneur.

(bonus points for anyone who can figure out which parts of this need a /s and which don’t!)

Oceania, Eurasia, Eastasia.

Just gotta slighty redraw the line so that Airstrip One is properly part of Oceania.

EDIT: Derp, somebody already made that comment, I need my glasses :X

god damnit i had to read this a second time, 2 hrs later, to realize what you did there.

… what?

Gaming on linux, in general, has been as performant or more performant than gaming on Windows for like… a year now.

Especially on older hardware, especially for any game that’s 6 months old or older.

You’d want to actually benchmark this to be accurate as to how much this improves things.

Basically, this is making a significant section of FSR 30% more efficient. Thats not the same thing as ‘30% more frames’, though it might approach that at lower resolutions or lower game detail settings, while using FSR.

More or less, I’d guess that this means that if you previously could run a a game at whatever settings with say, performance FSR preset, you could probably now bump it up to balanced, and get roughly the same frames that you used to have to drop an FSR preset level to get… probably only up to 2K / 1440p though.

But thats entirely just me guessing from having fucked around trying to optimize Cyberpunk 77 on a steam deck, shit’s too complicated for me to fully understand or reason out with a better explanation.

Uh lets see, also this should theoretically carry forward to RDNA3 as well, as it also makes user of this same thing thag’s been optimized…

So, that would include more gpus, and, the Steam Machine, which is going to be using and RDNA3 APU.

Oh right, probably also worth clarifying that this update is not currently out, not just yet. Looks like its slated for February, probably around the time the Steam Machine comes out, would be my guess.

That… is quite an improvement margin.

Damn.

… sigh …

Of all the degenerate things I’ve done as a horny kid, fucking my McDonalds meal is not one of them.

… but, its a fucking hilarious typo, so it stays, lol

… What about teeth?

… Does he just keep growing teeth?

So basically you’re saying that we need a slightly less cybernetically augmented, real world version of the Moxes.

… I mean, yeah, syndicalism is overdue for a comeback, as real world rapidly cyberpunkifies.

Wtf, that’s a medium from like pre-covid.

Oh well, restaurants were neat, time to learn how to coom.

EDIT:

… cook.

… … … god, damnit.

C Suite is in a cult.

Tons of Microsoft senior engineers have been resigning over this kinda shit.

Not getting fired or laid off, though that’s happening too… resigning.

Bill Gates himself has expressed significant dissapointment with where the company has gone and is going, thinks AI needs to be optional, its clearly not ready.

… Everyone hates this other than C Suite, who are either psychotically delusional, in an actual AI worshipping cult (you’d be surprised how many tech high ups are in one), or, they simply hate us and want us to die, want to be the overlords of whatever is left after they basically destroy modern civilization.

I2P

Depleted Uranium APFSDS Round says Hello!

… Koala bear wins in the long run via giving you chlamydia.

…cinnamon and oat milk… sounds like that’s worth a try, I’ll have to grab some cinammon!

Haven’t even heard of a cortadito before, damn, now I have homework, hah!

Well, then I’m glad that you have better taste and more general concern for your health than a great deal of modern US ‘coffee’ enjoyers.

Really, a frappucino everyday is… quite a lot of sugar… not good for you, and I’ve known a lot of people who are basically addicted to the things.

… I think my favorite actual, proper, caffinated drinks are a dirty chai latte, and a dirty london fog.

I’ve also found that a tiny dab of actual, real butter, into a cup of fairly dark coffee, and then maybe a splash of milk… that seems to be how I like to take my coffee.

You?

Well I mean, if you beat around the right bush, good things can happen =P

… Yakisoba?

:/

Bukkakesoba.

https://www.foodandwine.com/recipes/soba-bukkake-chashu-pork-and-sesame-vinaigrette

=D

So basically, bukkake/bukkakeru is nearly a direct translation to ‘splooge’.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/splooge

Where you can splooge your splooge all over someone, and then you’ll have splooged your splooge on them.

And maybe you can be splooging untill the sun comes up, and people will say ‘nobody else splooges like that guy’.

So, silly examples, but you can see ‘splooge’ is both the noun for the… resulting liquid, and also the verb for … ‘creating’ it, expelling it.

Not exactly the same, grammatically, but pretty close.

No, I am talking about Starbucks drinks, Frappucinos, which are basically milkshakes, that have vague hints of actual coffee in them, where the majority of the ‘coffee’ flavor somes from flavored syrups or chips or powders of some kind.

Those are far, far more commonly imbibed in the US, compared to the rest of the world, than the more traditional coffee with a splash of something, or a dirty ‘whatever’ via adding an espresso shot, a traditional latte, etc.

I mean, I would consider going to (or organizing) a planned sex party or something like that, but the problem for me here is mostly that it’s just bukkake.

If the uh, the set of activities were a bit more diverse, or interesting, maybe me sitting around and not doing any work, like a lipstick party… or any number of things that actually require, or are considerably more enjoyable with another person or multiple people…

That’d be more appealing.

That, and, frankly, I kind of just find the idea of a bukkake scene inherently demeaning to women… or I gueas just any uh, subject, regardless of sex/gender.

Sure, probably some ladies are into that, some guys are into that, etc.

Just gives me bad vibes, don’t like the idea of treating someone’s face as a collective group cum dumpster, even if its consensual, just feels gross to me.

Further, you’d need to vet the participants, screen/background check them generally, also screen for STIs/STDs, etc.