Voroxpete

@Voroxpete@sh.itjust.works

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  This game looks awesome. People who’ve gotten their hands on it are saying great things.

  But in absolutely no way should you pre-order it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨For fellow Lemmy users who play Project Zomboid.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  BRB ADDING THIS TO MY ZOMBOID SERVER IMMEDIATELY

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly Recommendations Thread: What are you playing this week?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve been spending a little more time with Forever Winter.

  Its very definitely early access; not the bullshit “We’re releasing the game, but calling it early access so you can’t complain about any bugs you find” stuff you get now but actual real old school Minecraft style early access where you’re basically getting alpha builds straight from the developer.

  That said, it’s in much better shape than it was when I first looked into it (maybe a year ago?). Game is really fun to play, unbelievably tense, but without being too punishing. I think they’re really starting to zero in on that Dark Souls sweet spot where dying sucks, but not in a way that actually sets you back all that much. The stealth gameplay feels good, and getting out with a haul of loot is intensely satisfying.

  Plus the art design is unbelievably good.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Instead you can screw it up by having too many commas or not enough. Hardly that much of an improvement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Homarr - A modern and easy to use dashboard. 30+ integrations. 10K+ icons built in. Authentication out of the box. No YAML, drag and drop configuration.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, this is my biggest annoyance with JSON. As a data structure it’s very elegant, but it only really makes sense to people who know how to code, and without the ability to add comments you have to rely heavily on external documentation to make it readable to most users.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Not what our roads are built for’: Trump’s hope to see more US cars in Tokyo, London is a hard sell⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s really telling is this; in the UK the Ford Focus is absolutely everywhere. Because it’s a small, efficient car that’s well designed for British streets. Europeans will happily buy American cars, when those cars are worth buying. But no one in Europe has any interest in buying a Charger or an F-150 because those vehicles simply don’t make sense on European roads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump threatens EU with 35% tariff if investment pledge falls through⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There was no pledge. That number is all private investment that the EU has no control over, and most of it probably won’t happen precisely because Trump’s tariffs have made investing in the US impossible.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump announces trade deal with Pakistan, says they might sell oil to India “some day”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Likewise, other Countries are making offers for a Tariff reduction. All of this will help reduce our Trade Deficit in a very major way. A full report will be released at the appropriate time," he said.

  A reduction on the additional tariffs that were imposed in response to the US tariffs on them. None of this is actually benefitting the US, at best these deals amount to small mutual climbdowns. Do not let Trump fool you into thinking his strategy is working.

  Also the fact that they still don’t have a partner company selected to develop those oil reserves is very telling. In the modern climate, with renewables getting cheaper and Saudi Arabia dumping oil to crash everyone else out of the market, I’m not sure if anyone actually wants the massive risk of developing a new oil field.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Opinion] The EU has validated Trump’s bullying trade agenda⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While I whole heartedly agree that any amount of concession to Trump is validating his strategy to some degree, I do also want to stress to the people only learning about this through headlines just how incredibly weak this deal is. Aside from a mutual lowering of tariffs, the EU supposedly agreed to ~$600bn in investments in the US. But that figure is bullshit. All of the investment is coming from private enterprise. The EU just asked those sectors what they were already planning to invest and then put that number in the deal. It’s not new investment and the EU has zero control over whether or not it actually happens. And most of it won’t, because Trump is making the US increasingly hostile to investors. So no actual concessions have been made here, aside from both sides agreeing to climb down on the tariffs a little.

  BTW, the Japan deal is exactly the same.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨what video game deserves to be in a museum?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I came here to say this exact same thing. Videogames are an art form, and the history of that art should be preserved, both the successes and the failures. People should be able to look back on what was a hit and what was flop, on the ideas that worked and the ones that didn’t, on the well made games and the badly made games. All of it matters, all of it is part of the same story.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Steam Did Not Respond To Us": Collective Shout Defends Calling On Payment Processors To Ban Adult Games⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because of course they’re fucking TERFs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brits can get around Discord's age verification thanks to Death Stranding's photo mode, bypassing the measure introduced with the UK's Online Safety Act. We tried it and it works—thanks, Kojima⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem, as always, is that parents don’t want to put the work into educating their children, they want the government to wave a magic wand and make the problem go away. And that’s what gets you half assed solutions like this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Future is NOT Self-Hosted⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The point is that clouds aren’t inherently bad, and actually come with a lot of important upsides; they’ve become bad because capital owns and exploits everything in our society, poisoning what should be a good idea. The author is arguing that while there’s nothing fundamentally wrong with self-hosting, it’s not really a solution, just a patch around the problem. Rather than seeking a kind of digital homesteading where our lives are reduced to isolated islands of whatever we personally can scratch from the land, we should be seeking a digital collectivism where communities, not exploitative corporations, own the digital landscape. Sieze the means of file-sharing, in effect.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tens of thousands knocked offline after software failure at Musk’s Starlink⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to support a remote client that uses Starlink. It’s a nightmare. We can deal with slow connections, we can deal with bad ping, but with Starlink what we get is the entire connection dropping every minute or so, and coming back up a short while later. It’s unbelievably bad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Basically everything can be set through server / game rules. How do zombies work (speed, strength, toughness, hearing, vision, nocturnal or not, memory, intelligence, etc), how does the virus work, loot availability, XP gain, how long its been since the outbreak, whether power and water should shut off at some point, and so many other things. And that’s all without even touching a single mod. It’s incredibly versatile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 366 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the record (mostly saying this for the benefit of people who don’t play but might) Zomboid is one of the most customizable games ever. Rules like “How zombie virus transmits” are completely up to you. My wife and I play together and we decided that all survivors are immune to the virus in our world, so we turned off transmission entirely. It just made more sense to us if it was something like an airborne pathogen.

  I often describe Project Zomboid as a toolkit for creating your own personal zombie apocalypse.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Best plex/jellyfin compatible streaming box⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The Nvidia Shield is still the best option for this. I’ve tried all kinds of homebrew solutions and always had headaches. In the two years I’ve had my Shield, I’ve never had a problem. Smart Tube Next lets me cast YouTube without ads, Kodi/Jellyfin gives me all my media library, plus I’ve got official apps for Nebula, Dropout and Spotify. Custom launcher removes what little amount of ads there were (and that was unobtrusive background banner stuff even at its worst). Plus the pro version can handle some pretty powerful emulators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Subnautica 2’ Leaders Say Krafton Sabotaged Game Over Payout [new events in the Subnautica 2 story]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Was 100% going to buy it. Absolutely won’t now. Fuck em.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk’s Grok Is Calling for a New Holocaust | The chatbot is also praising Hitler and attacking users with Jewish-sounding names.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s no way they actually retrained it for this, that would be much too expensive. They’re just editing the initial prompt to convince it to act more “right wing” and it’s performing the assignment to the best of its ability. The problem is that a chat-bot doesn’t understand context, so it just plays the character it’s been given as full mask off all the time, and as a result you get this.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The System Wayfinder - (looking for feedback)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  This is really cool. I maintain a lot of systems that have to be worked on from time to time by far less experienced techs than myself (due to our relationship with the business partners that use the systems) and this sort of thing could be amazing for providing a kind of inline user manual.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  My son has doubled in size every month for the last few months. At this rate he’ll be fifty foot tall by the time he’s seven years old.

  Yeah, it’s a stupid claim to make on the face of it. It also ignores practical realities. The first is those is training data, and the second is context windows. The idea that AI will successfully write a novel or code a large scale piece of software like a video game would require them to be able to hold that entire thing in their context window at once. Context windows are strongly tied to hardware usage, so scaling them to the point where they’re big enough for an entire novel may not ever be feasible (at least from a cost/benefit perspective).

  I think there’s also the issue of how you define “success” for the purpose of a study like this. The article claims that AI may one day write a novel, but how do you define “successfully” writing a novel? Is the goal here that one day we’ll have a machine that can produce algorithmically mediocre works of art? What’s the value in that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The State of Consumer AI: AI’s Consumer Tipping Point Has Arrived - Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay for it.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The key difference being that AI is a much, much more expensive product to deliver than anything else on the web. Even compared to streaming video content, AI is orders of magnitude higher in terms of its cost to deliver.

  What this means is that providing AI on the model you’re describing is impossible. You simply cannot pack in enough advertising to make ChatGPT profitable. You can’t make enough from user data to be worth the operating costs.

  AI fundamentally does not work as a “free” product. Users need to be willing to pony up serious amounts of money for it. OpenAI have straight up said that even their most expensive subscriber tier operates at a loss.

  Maybe that would work, if you could sell it as a boutique product, something for only a very exclusive club of wealthy buyers. Only that model is also an immediate dead end, because the training costs to build a model are the same whether you make that model for 10 people or 10 billion, and those training costs are astronomical. To get any kind of return on investment these companies need to sell a very, very expensive product to a market that is far too narrow to support it.

  There’s no way to square this circle. Their bet was that AI would be so vital, so essential to every facet of our lives that everyone would be paying for it. They thought they had the new cellphone here; a $40/month subscription plan from almost every adult in the developed world. What they have instead is a product with zero path to profitability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨need help to make a minecraft server⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconding this. Itzg’s server is so easy, I taught my 15 year old niece to run one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump says 'not going to stand' for Netanyahu's continued prosecution⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “It is a POLITICAL WITCH HUNT, very similar to the Witch Hunt that I was forced to endure,” said Trump.

  So you’re saying he’s guilty too?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What we’ve seen very clearly with fair use is that you end up being forced to defend it, as opposed to it being presumed. That means it’s very easy for a rightsholder with money to go after every use, fair or not, and force the user to spend time and money defending themselves (and also probably face a preliminary injunction that takes the image down until the case is over, which will often be after its newsworthy).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Denmark to tackle deepfakes by giving people copyright to their own features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not the standard because it will likely have a LOT of unintended consequences.

  How do you share evidence of police brutality if they can use copyright to take down the video? How do newspapers print pictures of people if they have to get the rightsholders permission first? How do we share photos of Elon Musk doing a Nazi salute if he can just sue every site that posts it for unauthorized use of his likeness?

  Unless this has some extremely stringent and well written limitations, it has the potential to be a very bad idea.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I didn’t know about that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self Hosted File Drop / File Upload⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Seafile, but I’m not sure it really meets OP’s requirements. For example I’m not aware of any way to do upload without a login in Seafile.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Actually one of the characters in 1984 works in the department that produces computer generated romance novels. Orwell pretty accurately predicted the idea of AI slop as a propaganda tool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk wants to rewrite "the entire corpus of human knowledge" with Grok⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are, as I understand it, ways that you can train on AI generated material without inviting model collapse, but that’s more to do with distilling the output of a model. What Musk is describing is absolutely wholesale confabulation being fed back into the next generation of their model. It’s also a total pipe dream. Getting an AI to rewrite something like the total training data set to your exact requirements, and verifying that it had done so satisfactorily would be an absolutely monumental undertaking. The compute time alone would be staggering and the human labour (to check the output) many times higher than that.

  But the whiny little piss baby is mad that his own AI keeps fact checking him, and his engineers have already explained that coding it to lie doesn’t really work because the training data tends to outweigh the initial prompt, so this is the best theory he can come up with for how he can “fix” his AI expressing reality’s well known liberal bias.