ClamDrinker
@ClamDrinker@lemmy.world
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
I mean, your post says “Forcing windows down Xbox gamers throats”. So people that are already in the locked down Xbox ecosystem, not people that already know that and avoid Xbox. Xbox is just Windows but locked down. It’s both Microsoft.
I completely agree people should just go for a PC, but if someone was buying Xbox already, they aren’t in the mindset. So if they’re going to buy Xbox anyways, having a device that’s not locked down to some console OS means they can switch at any time and rid themselves of Xbox, since it’s your device. To me that’s definitely an improvement over the status quo, even if other better options were already available.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
The contracts for the Steam Machine were already locked in before RAM and GPU shortage even started, which means they will (like other consoles) be able to provide a reserved amount of devices at a fixed and lower price. But likewise, this also means that for any console that did not have contracts locked in before shit went down, will suffer massively from this. Thus looking at current prices for hardware isn’t indicative of how much prices will rise. Steam Machine could be the most affordable gaming device of the next decade.
But Valve also isn’t stupid. PC has the unique position where it has one of the longest backlogs of backwards compatible games and applications. Which means you don’t need top of the line hardware. People are still gaming on 10 year old PCs, so the hardware for those will be much more affordable and still be able to play most games. Especially indie games with their insane price to performance to quality ratios. If top line gaming on PC becomes economically unviable, it will simply move down a notch.
- Comment on Xbox as a platform is officially dead 3 days ago:
You realize PC != Windows, right? It’s Windows, Linux, Mac.
Windows might be the most used PC platform but game developer are well aware attaching their success to Windows is not the right move. And that’s exactly the kind of freedom PC gives that consoles do not.
- Comment on ..? 1 week ago:
At the end of the day the deeds define the word, not the other way around. Not everyone will use the word correctly or appropriately. It’s why only you yourself can truly categorize as such, but at that point you must come to terms with what that means, positively or negatively.
The bias thing is a real problem, but also sometimes not. It all depends on the context. Some people with unreasonable opinions will absolutely waste your time by never accepting difficult realities and talking around it, so identifying a mindset that’s immune to self reflection can be useful. But similarly if a label is all that’s needed to dismiss an opinion also is not very reasonable.
- Comment on Man posts his incorrect opinion online 4 weeks ago:
Yeah we are definitely not a country that takes it black and white. Did you walk through mud, snow, ice? Take it off, please. Your sweat is less of an issue than turning the floor into a dirt rally. But it also depends on the rules of the house. Someone who has carpet is going to ask you to take them off, while someone with an easily cleaned hardwood or plastic floor might not bother. Some people have shoe-proof ground floors, while going upstairs is entering the more private part of the house where shoes aren’t welcome.
Just ask, and you will find out. And at home, you’re the boss!
- Comment on Radioactive 4 weeks ago:
Let’s hope Eirin knows how to performs oncology, or this might spell an early demise for Reimu and Marisa too after SA
- Comment on Hijiri in the city sky 1 month ago:
Such a cool idea for a drawing~
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 1 month ago:
That’s in part because they see their future through the lens of them oppressing objective developments, so EVs and batteries will never happen in that fantasy. They took a liking to AI for example despite it being relatively new development purely because it helped them in that department. They will only embrace something if it’s ‘their’ idea, and they have a lot of shitty ideas.
- Comment on YouTube disabled SRV3 subtitle uploads and started deleting them on existing videos 1 month ago:
While that’s true, why is YouTube’s response to kill it as quickly and silently as possible? Like, I get that sometimes you’ll have to drop support for things, but there should be a phase out period during which people can either backup and re-upload videos with those captions to preserve them. They could and should honestly provide support for that.
Now they are literally decimating people’s hard work and on top of that pissing off actual partners. Not saying it will be successful, but cutting into people’s business like that is the kind of thing you can get sued over.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
This isn’t a conspiracy, nor a secret, and nobody is claiming it is. It’s just psychology for the sake of profit maximization, which literally every company that likes to make a profit participates in. Why are you winding yourself up so much over something so uncontroversial?
You should go work in retail for a year or two, because then you will know this isn’t exactly uncommon knowledge and even the people stocking the shelves know about it. Hell people that understand psychology need to shop too, so they know it too as they move through the store. If it’s a conspiracy to you, that says more about you than anybody else.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
You are not everyone. It doesnt have to work on everyone to be effective. And at the end if you want to reject it or not, it’s there, you can read up on it if you didnt already make up your mind. For grocery stores, it’s about large sums of money, so they do care.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
An important feature is that you can basically download (and thus, own) the music you pay for.
- Comment on What a great idea 1 month ago:
You really should look into it more (it’s not a secret if you look for it) because OP is right. Yes, they’re selling thousands of things BUT they’re also designing that space to make you take as long as possible to get through it. The answer for why that is, is simple. People buy more. You don’t have to have an “issue” navigating with it, because you just don’t notice if you spend 5 minutes more walking through the place. If it was so egregious to be noticed easily by people, they would stop coming and the benefit evaporates. So it’s a balance.
It’s not even that, grocery stores bake bread and spread bread smell since it perks people up and makes them more willing to spend, play specific music that calms and soothes you so you’ll walk slower. When you walk into a grocery store, you are walking through a highly specialized environment to maximize profits.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
I think you might misunderstood what Bandcamp is aiming for here. They’re explicitly trying to still allow it when humans are using it (responsibly) as tools. This is essentially a ban on AI where no human is involved (or not involved enough), where the music produced is focused on quantity over quality (slop). That’s a fine and nuanced distinction for a music distribution platform in my opinion.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
I doubt they would just blanket scan all music and ban that which they think is AI (aside from how that’s practically impossible). That’s the kind of thing a lazy big tech company would do. I wouldn’t be surprised if this will just end up being on a report basis, at the very least with human verification once steps like banning would be taken. Because otherwise it would be pretty disastrous for the reasons you mentioned, since it would ban legitimate artists. Not to mention the bar of “substantially AI” would need to be judged by someone.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
Ah, no worries, none taken. Have a good one.
- Comment on Wise use of Gaps 1 month ago:
I just love the idea that Yukari puts entirely too much effort into learning a random hand skating trick, just to piss off Reimu in style.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
Not quite sure what you’re trying to say. The article literally says:
Bandcamp’s policy targets the latter end of that spectrum while leaving room for human artists who incorporate AI tools into a larger creative process. Which is what I’m applauding and affirming, so I’m not sure what you’re saying I’m saying is opposite to what the article says.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 1 month ago:
Good on them on recognizing that slop is undesirable and shouldn’t be encouraged, but that a full ban also kills the nuance of creative freedom and creates painful situations where a single AI tool anywhere in the process (even indirectly) gets hard work rejected, which could hamper aspiring creatives in their ability to (start to) make a living when they are not what (most) people have issue with.
- Comment on Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult" 1 month ago:
Honestly, asset flips or pure ai slop are often not something you would consider a ‘real game’. They are closer to a scam than anything. And they certainly wouldn’t be published by a reputable publisher. I think that’s also what OP was referring to, a game that meets some minimal level of development and involvement.
- Comment on we need more users 1 month ago:
It’s kind of a chicken and the egg problem though, that happens on any new place, so it’s tough to sell them on that unless they already like what’s being talked about. I think it’s probably better to stick to the fundamentals of the fediverse and what makes it better than a centralized platform. In this phase of Lemmy’s popularity we need people that stick around and build communities, and they can only really be enticed to do that based on the merits of the platform.
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
That’s pretty interesting. And I totally agree with your last part. One counterpoint I would have is that local models are often more efficient though, and there’s very little checking you can do on how much your query actually costs in the cloud, while using it at home you can monitor your GPU usage and your power bill. But yeah at the end of the day using it as little as possible is a good habit.
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
It does not but that wasn’t my point. It was that that not all forms of AI usage are the same. The same way someone driving around an EV that they charge with solar power isn’t the same as someone driving a 1969 oil guzzler (or something equivalent). Local usage more often than not means efficient models, low energy consumption, and little difference to other computer tasks like gaming or video editing. But when the conversation is around AI, there is always the explicit expectation that it’s the worst of the worst all the time.
- Comment on Tankie 1 month ago:
The existence of offline models highlights a nuance that some people deny even exists though, causing people to talk around one another. I wish it would be more widely acknowledged, as it would make some around AI conversations easier.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
There’s truth to that currently yeah. I think my points still stand as well though, and in the long run you will still be out worse even if the upfront cost is currently cheaper. It also just seems contrary to the free and open nature of Linux, but if you don’t already own something you can upgrade and are currently strapped for cash, fair enough. But that’s also not going to change if you sink 400-500 dollars into it and that’s your budget for the next 5 years.
- Comment on PS5 ROM Keys Leaked: Sony’s Unpatchable Security Nightmare (2026) | The CyberSec Guru 2 months ago:
Or just… don’t by consoles at all. Buy a mini PC (which you can upgrade too) or wait for the Steam Cube? Why still funnel money into a company that seems to be adamant that it owns that machine (and lets be honest, could try and use any kind of kill switch or safeguard to stop you from doing so) and will wield your money as a weapon against you. It’s like soliciting a stalker because you enjoy receiving random gifts in the mail with totally no strings attached.
- Comment on Among games with over 10K reviews, Deltarune is the most highly rated 2 months ago:
Hate to say it, but you might be missing out on something you won’t ever be able to experience. It’s like with episodic releases of TV shows, half the fun is sitting with friends discussing and overthinking what just happened while you wait for the next episode. Being there too long after community wide revelations, you can’t experience that head space of mystery and surprise again. Deltarune handles the episodic releases very well honestly, I’d understand if it was a series of bad partial releases.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 6 months ago:
Not completely true. It just needs to be data that is organic enough. Good AI generated material is fine for reinforcement since it is still material (some) humans would be fine seeing. So more like: it needs to be human approved.
- Comment on How do I "sabotage" my own online content to throw a wrench in AI training machines? 6 months ago:
There’s really no good way - if you act normal they train on you, and if you act badly they train on you as an example of what to avoid.
My recommendation: Make sure its really hard for them to guess which you are so you hopefully end up in the wrong pile. Use slang they have a hard time pinning down, talk about controversial topics, avoid posting to places easily scraped and build spaces free from bot access. Use anonimity to make you hard to index. Anything you post publicly can be scraped sadly, but you can make it near unusable for AI models.
- Comment on Thank you, Thor! 8 months ago:
There’s always just people that mess up on the form. But they also monitor the sign rate and saw some periods of higher than normal signing in the middle of the night in the EU - indicating someone might have ran a bot to sign with invalid information. The EU only validates the signatures once the petition is closed, so they need a safe margin where even with a significant amount of invalid signatures, they still make it. Afaik 1.2 mil is about what they would expect for a normal vote of this size to be safe, and 1.4 mil is basically more than enough to compensate for any bad actors.