tales from the end of times

@xstefanou "πλέον"

Η αντίληψη ότι θα μπορούσαν να καταδικαστούν οι χρήστες μιας ισραηλινής εφαρμογής υποκλοπών αγνοεί το γεγονός ότι η Ελλάδα δεν είναι πλέον ανεξάρτητο κράτος. Γράφει ο Άρης Χατζηστεφάνου. info-war.gr/kanenas-den-th…

@willsolfiac In the US you can buy "feta cheese" that is made 100% by cow milk. I dont think americans can give lessons over what feta is or isn't.

There is no specific place named "Feta" in Europe.

@PatrickHeizer People who speak for "nuance" about alcohol usually mean "sugarcoating". Alcohol is poison. You can drink poison all you like if that's your "nuance", but sugarcoating it ain't nuance.

The "capture rate" is the percentage of people who try a substance that end up addicted. Alcohol, cocaine, and methamphetamine all have similar capture rates, with ~20% of users developing an addiction. Should we be advocating for nuance around cocaine and meth consumption?

@Cooper19874 @JasonWSkidmore @HerbHoward411 no it was 14 steps no wait 22 cant you ppl see or what?

@JasonWSkidmore @HerbHoward411 Look closer. It was four steps.

The NBA is a joke. Just announce that traveling is no longer a rule.

@BigBoss13131 @EvanFourmizz True, talking with you makes me dump and I chose it.

@p0508000000 @EvanFourmizz U choose to be dumb

Objectively, where do you think Greek League stands in Europe? AEK and PAOK did their thing tonight

@BigBoss13131 @EvanFourmizz You choose to be misareable

@p0508000000 @EvanFourmizz Tell me how stupid ur without telling how stupid ur

@BigBoss13131 @EvanFourmizz tell me what club you support without telling me what club you support

@EvanFourmizz Top 3 of the most corrupted leagues in Europe for sure.

@WillowVoiceAI I know I am late to the game, but it would be great if you also had similar human-powered text-to-speech capabilities, especially for the nighttime.

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@vxunderground i did the same but did it at 67mph and then I ran around in the street shouting "6 7 6 7" it was glorious

Just did a totally awesome April Fools prank I totalled my Dad's car by crashing it into a telephone pole going 72mph Haha I got him so good, dumbass doesn't even know what's coming

@BiancoDavinci It does not really "heal" for me when I stare at the centre, but if I look directly at the irregular parts I "see" some black lines that otherwise are clearly non-existant.

This is a healing grid by Japanese artist Ryota Kanai. If you stare at the center, the irregularities start to heal themselves because your brain strongly prefers to see regular patterns.

@alexocheema And there I thought I was having deja vus.

If you are following news cycles, you are way behind. - ollama MLX backend was out 3 months ago - Microsoft released a 1-bit LLM a year ago - TurboQuant paper was published last April

Είναι και «με τη βούλα» της Knesset γενοκτόνο κράτος το Ισραήλ, ενέκρινε την κρεμάλα μόνο για Παλαιστίνιους. Καλούμε όλους σε μποϊκοτάζ, κυρώσεις και αποκλεισμό του κράτους apartheid.

@KnonTolo @yanisvaroufakis It does not change the fact that in germany you can get arrested for supporting the palestineans, but not for this. This is an actual quote by an israeli minister btw

@yanisvaroufakis You Are lying again. It is a Agent provocateur, the shield has been destroyed and this goon has been dismissed by honest protesters. But idi@s Fall for it, willingly or unwillingly.

The German police have no issue with this abomination of a placard. But they don't hesitate to arrest and beat up anyone who campaigns for equal political rights from the river to the sea!

@mweinbach @swarmctrl Was that the computer you would have actually built, or it had actually lower quality parts that the manufacturer got in bulk but you would not want to use? Was it a specific time-limited offer? Finding one computer being more cheaper than individual parts is not an argument.

@swarmctrl i did it and speced out building vs buying and it was $400 cheaper than identical parts

It's ok to be realistic about it Local models are not as good as cloud models, Qwen 3.5 27B being "sonnet 4.6" level is cope and anyone who's used it side by side knows this. It's ok to have a 128GB laptop to run local models for fun! I do it! I enjoy it! There are a time and a place where running this locally makes sense and is fun to do, see how well it does, etc. It's fun for sport, but not worth taking too seriously. That does not mean it's a reasonable replacement for cloud models, far from it. Spending $50K to buy a bunch of GPUs to run models like Kimi K2.5 also makes no sense, tokens are dirt cheap. You have hardware like DGX Spark which is great for experimenting and learning CUDA, small scale stuff. M5 Max/M3 Ultra Macs which aren't even GPUs, just products with great GPUs that can be used for AI. The local model people have warped this into some weird war of principles and model providers are evil and the only way to win is buy absurd amount of GPUs and quantizing models to run yourself. It's fun, it's for sport. It's the same thing as building a PC, yes I can buy a better prebuilt for cheaper but I wanna do it myself. Let's not all try to convince ourselves this is anything but a hobby. Maybe it'll be something in the future, but I doubt it. It's unreasonable to expect everyone to have $4000+ laptops to do this. The people that care will, others will just use whatever is cheap and online. Also most people just want what's good, but a specific checkpoint of a specific model. The keep4o people were freaks in that regard. This is all dumb.

@theTrut79098056 @Crusher44173286 @hellenicpolice Δε "μου τη σπαει", αυριο μπορει να σκοτωσει κανενα με τις μαλακιες του. Προφανως και η αστυνομια πρεπει να ειδοποιειται σε τετοια. Το "βαλεις στη θεση του", "καθαρισεις" κλπ δεν ειναι κατι που ο καθενας μπορει ή χρειαζεται να μπορει να κανει.

@p0508000000 @Crusher44173286 @hellenicpolice Σε έδειρε; Όχι. Αλλά στη σπάει; Στη σπάει γιατί είναι ανευθυνος κ επικίνδυνος. Γιατί το κοινολογείς; Θες βοήθεια να τον βάλεις στην θέση του; Τράβα να καθαρίσεις μόνος σου

Νομίζω ότι αυτό το SUV πρέπει να γίνει διάσημο. @hellenicpolice τώρα ξέρεις.

@allas_FCB @ArtEvolver @RMadridExposed Hey kiddo, I was watching these games on TV at the time. The rule has always been like that. Eg from the 1925 ifab rulebook [0]: > If a player is in an off-side position but is not interfering with the play, he must not be penalised. [0] downloads.theifab.com/downloads/laws…

@ArtEvolver @RMadridExposed Watching Arrigo Sacchi's AC Milan in late 80s, 90s on youtube They famously played with high line and you can see yourself how offside worked back then

This happened in a normal Real Madrid match 20 years ago

@theTrut79098056 @Crusher44173286 @hellenicpolice Δηλαδη αν ο αλλος δερνει περισσοτερο μπορει να κανει ο,τι γουσταρει;

@Crusher44173286 @hellenicpolice Περισσότερο απ'τους άμυαλους και τους ενοχλητικούς, σιχαίνομαι τους χαφιέδες. Τράβα ρε να τονε βρεις να του τα πεις από κοντά. Τί την θες την αστυνομία;

@ABoatReport Greece is a failed state with corrupt government, police and justice system. Extradition should be blocked in the grounds that one cannot receive fair trial there.

As most of you know, I was arrested by Norwegian police last week in connection with a European Arrest Warrant issued by Greece, based on allegations I categorically reject. The accusations against me are: • participation in and membership of a criminal organization • facilitating the entry into Greek territory of third-country nationals, allegedly committed repeatedly, by two or more persons, for profit, and in the course of professional activity • facilitating the unlawful stay or resistance of third-country nationals, allegedly for profit and on a repeated basis None of these allegations are true. I have seen no credible evidence to substantiate them. For years, I have documented and published evidence of serious human rights violations against people on the move in the Aegean. These include violent pushbacks, illegal expulsions, abuse, and actions that have put countless lives at risk. The evidence is extensive. Yet accountability has remained absent. Europe has too often looked away in the name of border protection. The European Commission has for years continued to support Greek border operations despite mounting evidence of grave abuses. This has helped create a climate of impunity, where Greece has effectively become a testing ground for how far state violence can go without meaningful political consequences. On 14 June 2023, more than 600 people died off Pylos when the fishing vessel Adriana sank after an attempted intervention by the Greek Coast Guard. Despite the scale of the disaster, there has been no independent EU investigation, no infringement proceedings, and no accountability for those responsible. At the same time, Greek authorities have systematically targeted individuals and organisations that expose abuses. Judicial harassment, criminal investigations, arrests, and years-long legal proceedings have become tools of intimidation. The purpose is clear: to silence criticism, discourage documentation, and create a chilling effect on frontline defenders and whistleblowers. For more than six years, I have personally faced harassment and threats because of my work documenting abuses in Greece. Considerable effort has been invested in trying to silence me. Now Norwegian authorities have been asked to act on Greece’s behalf. So far, it appears they are doing so without properly confronting the obvious political context of this case. I may have been naive in my faith in the Norwegian legal system. The idea that a whistleblower and human rights defender can be handed over to the very state authorities he has spent years scrutinising is deeply alarming. If those accused of serious abuses can issue an unfounded arrest warrant against a critic, and other European states simply comply, what message does that send? Who will dare to speak out? Who will continue documenting injustice? Frontline human rights defenders are essential to democracy, the rule of law, and accountability. Yet around the world, they are increasingly targeted through false accusations, judicial harassment, and arbitrary detention. The UN Declaration on Human Rights Defenders affirms the right to carry out peaceful human rights work without fear of criminalisation. States have an obligation to protect defenders, not help silence them. Right now, I believe Norwegian authorities have failed badly in that responsibility. 📸Jannik Abel

@justfollowingsr @thomasmahler The game dev space has incredible copes to justify why they are not making good games. The solution is known, make the game you want to play. Instead, we get AI slop twitted. No wonder that those have no problem with AI slop in games either.

@thomasmahler That's alot of yapping you probably got chatgpt to make. Meanwhile ggg an actually good arpg listened to players HIRED A PLAYER AS A LEAD DEV and it's the best state Poe has been in half a decade.

There’s a pattern we should talk about that has quietly killed a lot of great games over the years. It usually pans out like so: 1) Developers listen to players and think they do them a favor by giving them exactly what they asked for. 2) Players love it - at first. 3) After that, for some 'mysterious' reason, players lose interest and the game slowly dies and nobody is quite sure why that happened. The truth is that players will always push for fewer restrictions. They'll always argue for endless farming, easy power creep, never getting locked out of any content, making things more convenient, removing any sort of gates, etc. etc. And usually, even if you give in to things that will hurt a game in the long run, you get applause, at first. But you also just removed some of the very things that made the game special. Magic in games often comes from limitations. Scarcity, anticipation, effort, friction... all of these things have meaning. And if you remove those out of the equation, you logically remove meaning. Christmas is magical exactly because it happens once a year. If you had Christmas every day, you wouldn’t make it better - you’d destroy what made it special. As a parent, I know how excited my boys are when December hits and they start dreaming about how amazing Christmas will be. They start talking about which awesome presents they'll receive and every day they come up with new things. The parents challenge is then to intently listen and to understand what your kid really wishes for - and after thoughtful deliberation, you turn THAT into their present. You don't give them everything they wanted, you give them what they deep down truly wished for. And that's what makes it magical for them, because you actually spent the time and were thoughtful enough to truly understand who they are. And the same is true for games. When everything is always available, then: - Nothing feels special - Nothing is worth planning for - Nothing creates stories anymore You’ve optimized the fun out of the system. We’ve seen this over and over: You remove keys, costs, or gates and players gleefully cheer you on. But suddenly: - The gameplay loop breaks - The economy collapses - The sense of progression disappears Another example: social friction. The magic of early World of Warcraft was that it was basically the first social network. You had to actively talk to people, organize raids, build relationships and in the process a lot of people created life-long friends. Then players kept asking for features like LFG and developers caved in with the argument that removing friction is good. But suddenly, your friends didn't need you anymore. You weren't seen as an important part of their group anymore, you became an annoying obstacle that could be side-tracked. And losing your friends is a horrible feeling, as it should be. Here’s the uncomfortable truth: Players are very good at optimizing for short-term satisfaction. But they are incredibly bad at protecting long-term fun. THAT is the developer’s job. Sometimes you have to stand your ground and say no. Not to frustrate players, but to protect their experience. Because if you give players everything they want… You might be taking away the reason they loved your game in the first place.

@Seraphaestus In A there is the whole box moving, while in B it fades, so maybe you are partially right. But then that would mean that there is actually more linear movement in A if the radial speed is the same, as the A has larger radius. And the movement in general is more salient there.

@p0508000000 really funny response because I'm pretty sure the movement is 100% identical, it's just harder to tell on B because the dark-on-dark blends in. Pause and manually scrub the video, they look about the same

which button style is more appealing, A or B?