JakenVeina
@JakenVeina@lemm.ee
- Comment on ChatGPT will avoid being shut down in some life-threatening scenarios, former OpenAI researcher claims 1 week ago:
Fun fact: Roko’s basilisk is not from QC. It’s a thought experiment about AI that predates the comic character by about 6 years. The character’s just named after it.
- Comment on Had a take about Supergiant Games that recieved a lot of pushback fromy two longest running best friends. 3 weeks ago:
What I want Supergiant to do is… whatever the fuck they want.
- Comment on Elden Ring Nightreign’s Massive Steam Launch Tarnished by 'Mixed' User Reviews Over Lack of Duos Co-Op, Voice Chat 3 weeks ago:
I don’t see the game getting either of those things.
Duos, you can already do, you just have to take on a rando as a third. They could scale the difficulty down for 2 players, sure, but Elden Ring’s mutiplayer scaling is notoriously terrible, in part because no amount of scaling can account for the lost potential for splitting aggro, in a game where splitting aggro is king.
Voice chat is something that FromSoft has INTENTIONALLY never included in any prior game, despite there being co-op in all of them. Making players coordinate with each other with very limited communication tools is one of FromSoft’s signature design choices. The fast pace of this game compared to prior games makes the lack of communication tools hurt a lot more, for sure, but it’s still very much playable. If you dislike this design choice, you are absolutely free to, but it’s not gonna change.
- Comment on Forbidden Tech 4 weeks ago:
I did it last week. We were out of power for about 30 hours. But I actually have a degree in Computer Engineering, and I did it with a friend who is a professional Electrician.
It is indeed EXTREMELY dangerous. If you don’t know what you’re doing, or make a mistake, best case scenario, you fry your generator. Worst case, you electrocute a lineman from the power company, who isn’t expecting lines to be live when there’s an outage, because yes, if you feed power into your house, that will flow OUT of your house onto the main lines (to some extent), if you let it. You could end up trying to power your whole block on your little gas generator.
We made sure both the indoor and outdoor main power shutoffs for the house were turned off, as well as all breakers. Then we unplugged the oven, and used that for the feed from the generator. Then we gradually re-activated breakers so as not to add too much load to the generator at once. Ultimately, we were able to run the whole house, except for the AC compressor, which the generator actually would have had enough power to run, but not to kick-start.
The proper way to hook up a generator to feed your house is to install an “inlet” which is both nominatively and physically the opposite of an outlet: instead of holes going into a box, you have prongs sticking out of a box. Generally, it’ll be one of the big fat 4-pronged round cables, like what your oven might use. That’ll feed down to a large double-breaker, in the top-right slot of your breaker panel. That breaker stays off until you want to run a generator, and, to meet code, you have to also install a special bracket that prevents you from turning this breaker off without turning off the primary feed for the whole house. Still kinda dangerous, but they make those brackets surprisingly foolproof.
- Comment on I can't believe this is a real article. Just wow. 4 weeks ago:
Love the followup to that verse.
Master, who then can be saved?
Jesus, internally: Oh, shit, good point, uhh…
What is impossible for man is not impossible for God.
Dude was just talking out his ass the whole time.
- Comment on Embracer to spin off Coffee Stain Group – remaining business to be renamed Fellowship Entertainment 4 weeks ago:
Normally, I’d be on board with you, but it does strike me as notable that Coffee Stain has apparently ALREADY been under the umbrella of shareholders this whole time, and is still fucking THRIVING. I’ll also note that Coffee Stain is based in Sweden, where all the things that make them great (I.E. the way devs are treated, which lets them thrive and make great shit) isn’t about to change.
So, I think it’s worth tempering the pessimism a bit, for now. We’ll have to see how it plays out.
- Comment on Embracer to spin off Coffee Stain Group – remaining business to be renamed Fellowship Entertainment 4 weeks ago:
What makes you say that? Do you say “everything else” to mean all the studios that aren’t splitting off along with Coffee Stain? From what’s here, I don’t see why Coffee Stain is in any different boat than everyone else underneath “Coffee Stain Group”.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 5 weeks ago:
I’ll take another look, but I didn’t see any such setting when I was trying to diagnose. And I haven’t changed any Plex settings since the last time we had an internet outage and it worked properly, just a month or two ago.
- Comment on Self-hosting is having a moment. Ethan Sholly knows why. 5 weeks ago:
I recently discovered that Plex no longer works over local network, if you lose internet service. A) you can’t login without internet access. B) even if you’re already logged in, apps do not find and recognize your local server without internet access. So, yeah, Plex is already there.
- Comment on [deleted] 5 weeks ago:
Neither are more gay men and straight women.
- Comment on Bungie appears to have plagarized an artist's work and style in their extraction shooter "Marathon" according to this Bluesky post 5 weeks ago:
Is the BlueSky OP here not a native English speaker? Cause, BOY that was tough to follow.
- Comment on Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit 1 month ago:
No, the patent involved is specifically covering Pokemon. Legends: Arceus, in particular, IIRC.
- Comment on Palworld devs confirm game changes due to the Nintendo / Pokemon lawsuit 1 month ago:
Sooooo, what Ocarina of Time did in 1996?
- Comment on Reddit will tighten verification to keep out human-like AI bots 1 month ago:
Por que, no los dos?
- Comment on Anyone remember Courage? 2 months ago:
You twit.
- Comment on As a US citizen who was born in the UK, how risky is it to leave and reenter the US right now? 2 months ago:
Also depends how much presence you have on social media, and how public you are avout your political opinions there.
- Comment on GitHub - outerbase/studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser. It supports connecting to Postgres, MySQL, and SQLite. 2 months ago:
Sick. I’ve tried a few times in the past to find a frontend for postgres that I liked, and was never able to. Will have to give this a try.
- Comment on How do I use HTTPS on a private LAN without self-signed certs? 2 months ago:
The most straightforward thing to do, on a private LAN, is to make all your own certs, from a custom root cert, and then manually install that cert as “trusted” on each machine. If none of the machines on this network need to accessed from outside the LAN, then you’re golden.
- Comment on Silksong announced for 2025 on the Nintendo Direct 2 months ago:
Yeah, just like it was announced for 2023 in that one XBox showcase.
I’ll believe it when I’m playing it.
- Comment on Anyone Relate ? 2 months ago:
In this case, it seems tobbe the same deal as it was with Bloodborne: FromSoft didn’t make it by themselves. It was co-developed by Nintendo, so they have co-ownership rights and are free to keep it on their own console. FromSoft likely wouldn’t have hadntge manpower to make it on their own, with whatever other projects they have going.
- Comment on Assassin’s Creed Shadows devs roast Elon Musk amid feud with Hasan 2 months ago:
Musk, an avid gamer himself, claimed
Hey, glad to know this source has no credibility.
- Comment on Pictrs/Image Uploads not working 3 months ago:
Agreed, but my account is about 1.5 years old, so shouldn’t be an issue, regardless.
- Comment on Pictrs/Image Uploads not working 3 months ago:
Interestingly, I was able to upload these two screenshot snippets to lemm.ee, but not the game screenshots I was trying to post. I suppose that means there’s SOMETHING weird about the game screenshots, but generate them the exact same way every time, including the one above that you were able to re-upload successfully.
- Comment on Social Security Shuts 'Wasteful' Department After Trump Order 3 months ago:
The federal agency also announced it has terminated cooperative agreements with the Retirement and Disability Research Consortium (RDRC)—a program for research on Social Security, retirement and disability policy issues. Ending these agreements is expected to result “in about $15 million in cost savings for hardworking Americans in fiscal year 2025,” the SSA said.
So, we’re eliminating inefficiencies by eliminating programs that identify inefficiencies.
Me personally, I’m okay with spending $0.10/year to have experts both inside and outside of the Social Security Administration identify problems with Social Security that they can work on.
- Comment on Pictrs/Image Uploads not working 3 months ago:
Well, I would, if the issue hadn’t self-corrected again today.
It’s pretty much just what /u/irelephant posted here. There’s very little actual info present, just an HTTP status of 500 with a boilerplate nginx response page.
When it inevitably starts happening again, I’ll be sure and take some captures of the full request/response details.
- Comment on Pictrs/Image Uploads not working 3 months ago:
- Comment on Pictrs/Image Uploads not working 3 months ago:
Pretty sure it’s specific to lemm.ee, yeah, since my fallback when it’s not working here is to just hop to lemmy.world.
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- Comment on Trump literally referred to himself as "King". Surely conservatives are against a monarchy forming? 3 months ago:
“It’s just a joke! I love it when he triggers the libs like this!” /s
- Comment on How is the Stock Market keeping it's value after *points to everything*? 3 months ago:
Because its value was always fictitious.
