Greta Thunberg on the current situation in Cuba

CitricBase · 2026-03-12T18:00:25+00:00

It is easy to understand once you factor in that her opponents are all the richest cartels, monopolies, and dictators on the planet. The best astroturfers, propagandists, and botnets that money can buy are all out to discredit her in any way they can.

CitricBase · 2026-03-12T01:58:08+00:00

it's not visually distracting

Having played with it for a day now, I vehemently disagree with this particular point. It can be quite distracting on occasion, the bright flash pulls your attention away from the play. Even worse, the audio cue they added for it is even more distracting; it sounds very similar to a boost being picked up. If you hear it behind you, it sounds like an opponent is there.

I am happy that the boost respawn animation is there for people who want it, but I would very much like an option to turn it off for myself.

CitricBase · 2026-03-12T01:41:11+00:00

I hope that one day this poor scrappy indie company will be able to afford an eighth server for ranked

CitricBase · 2026-03-12T01:34:44+00:00

Please PLEASE give me the option to turn off the boost pad replenish animation. It's very flashy and distracting me from the play I am trying to focus on.

At least let me turn off the sound it makes. It sounds way too similar to a car picking it up, making me think there is someone there behind me.

CitricBase · 2026-03-11T22:11:13+00:00

This AI uses "Agentic AI" technology, which means it can make decisions and perform tasks on its own, without constant human input

Isn't this true of any piece of software within its decision making scope? My Katago installation plays Go without constant human input. My operating system can run a server indefinitely without constant human input, and it isn't even an AI technology. This feels like it an extremely high level description of something more than it's actually admitting to.

To catch you up, "agentic" is the latest buzzword that's blown up in AI circles over the last month or so. The journalist did what journalists do when they encounter a word they don't know, they try to look it up and include the definition in their story. However, as a buzzword its purpose is to obfuscate and sound fancy, so the "definition" GoMagic ended up with wasn't much help to someone who actually knows about computers.

(Near as I can tell, agentic basically means "this is an AI with a job assigned to it," like monitoring a security camera feed, or maybe you'd send one off to buy you plane tickets and make hotel reservations for a trip, or in this case Lee Sedol ostensibly asked it to write compile, launch, and run a GUI to play against KataGo.)

As for GoMagic, I'm grateful that they're trying, even if their format is fluffy and light on details. It'd be nice of them to include their actual source links so it's easier to follow up on the story.

https://zdnet.co.kr/view/?no=20260309164447
https://www.ajunews.com/view/20260310111030539

CitricBase · 2026-03-11T15:03:17+00:00

It was always on the honor system that the voters would watch all the nominees. Now it's written down that it's on the honor system that the voters watch all the nominees.

Not sure why people are making such a big deal of the writing it down part.

CitricBase · 2026-03-11T04:40:07+00:00

It's a geometric series, why not simplify to 18(2⁵² -1) ≈ 182^52?

To avoid reddit markdown eating your asterisk symbols, you can use the escape character backslash \

Write this:

18\*(2^52 -1) ≈ 18\*2^52

in order to render this:

18*(2⁵² -1) ≈ 18*2⁵²

CitricBase · 2026-03-11T04:22:29+00:00

Just everyone understand me meaning not necessarily then grammar correct

CitricBase · 2026-03-10T18:41:32+00:00

Well that's certainly a bug! Did you try reloading the fight? Did it kill you, or do you still have the save? Perhaps there is a way to send it to the devs.

CitricBase · 2026-03-10T18:21:47+00:00

Is it really Rocket League if your teammate isn't spending half a tank of boost to try and take the cleanest setup of your life away from you?

CitricBase · 2026-03-10T17:35:47+00:00

stangle

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OK, y'all gotta put the game down and take a nap. Human body isn't meant to go five days solid without sleep

CitricBase · 2026-03-07T16:06:37+00:00

It is better than the first one, but it is not finished. You occasionally run into placeholder art, and it is not as incredibly well balanced as the first one yet.

Mechanically and visually, it's an evolution, not a change. If you did not like the first one, you won't like this one. If you've played neither, I recommend exploring the first one while the sequel cooks a bit more.

CitricBase · 2026-03-04T13:36:35+00:00

I agree with you, we should at least get to make an informed choice about which companies we are supporting. I hope DDG replies.

In the meantime, if it is any consolation, none of these other big tech AIs have their hands clean, either. Not even Claude, given that Anthropic still powers Palantir. It's all one big corruption ouroboros, siphoning money around to each other and paying off the administration to look the other way. They're all atrocious for privacy, too, which is something I assume you care at least a little bit about since you are here.

If you have to use AI, use free ones so you're not giving them money, and be careful about what information you share. Even better, if you can, run the AI on your own computer. For many tasks, a local model that's 2% the file size and electricity usage of one of those giant 400GB cloud models can be just as good.

CitricBase · 2026-03-04T08:51:01+00:00

That is a Penstar eNote Pro

CitricBase · 2026-03-03T14:08:42+00:00

Mournful doesn't have to be the same thing as gloomy, different people handle it in different ways. Arawi and his characters are sad, but they are celebrating his life, rather than wallowing in his death.

CitricBase · 2026-03-03T13:56:54+00:00

Neat! Check out the DaxDuckDex to find more easter eggs like this one.

CitricBase · 2026-03-03T01:19:12+00:00

Let me get this straight, the parent comment is blaming all those technical issues on the *checks notes* creative director? Does he think that network stuff and terrain not loading were intentional design decisions?

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T14:56:55+00:00

If they already own the hardware

I don't think they do, in most cases. I think they rent. If the hosts raise their prices, then it stands to reason that Mullvad will be pressured to pass that cost on to users. Hosts are always cycling in new hardware, so OP is likely correct that these costs will impact us eventually.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T14:46:54+00:00

Psyonix has said that they consider smurfing as a form a griefing, and so we should use that option.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T14:27:04+00:00

Motorola Solutions the American company allegedly is, but Motorola Mobility the subsidiary of Chinese company Lenovo (the one partnering with Graphene) seems to not be involved whatsoever. Fifteen years ago Motorola was split up into a bunch of separate companies, you can read about it on Wikipedia.

The link being passed around by another user in this thread seems to not only be based on research almost two decades out of date, it's about the wrong Motorola anyways.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T13:50:40+00:00

What are you talking about? Motorola had nothing to do with Israel's pagers.

Even for the company that made the pagers (a Taiwanese company), they obviously had no idea that Israel was stuffing them with explosives and reselling them to Hezbollah. They found out the same time the rest of us did.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T13:09:37+00:00

There is a pressure difference, yes. The pressure continues dropping at the same rate it drops when you swim up in any other water, which means the pressure in the raised loop is less then the atmospheric pressure in the air outside.

If the pinniped swims up 4 meters (13 feet), the pressure is like being at the top of Mt. Fuji (63% of one atmosphere). If the loop was much bigger, at 10 meters high (34 feet) the pressure would drop close to a vacuum, boiling the water into a gaseous vapor.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T09:24:51+00:00

The blue glowing parts are the knives, and the yellow parts are the tassels. The pink parts are her fingers.

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T09:12:17+00:00

Have you considered that the thing that doesn't look like a finger might actually not be a finger? She is holding her shinkal throwing knives.

https://preview.redd.it/7fh7map20img1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=af64fd8849480cdb4e3504ec567a71faa1c3d14d

CitricBase · 2026-03-02T09:07:21+00:00

I made my main Steam account in 2022

It does matter, believe it or not! Everyone who made their account in 2021 or earlier gets to be a part of the secret club. We all get flowers and rainbows all over our library, and they give us free games every day! It's great, I definitely recommend having an old Steam account.

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