ozymandias117
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- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
Yeah, that’s why I’d like some more insight.
The initial headline doesn’t exactly pass a sniff test… It’s possible, but unlikely.
If ~34,000 were added in the last year, that means over 30% of Steam’s library of ~114,000 was added in the last year…
If only 1/5 of those were AI, why was there such a massive increase over the last year?
Has Steam made it easier for cash grabs, or… it just doesn’t make a lot of sense without more information
- Comment on 7,818 titles on Steam disclose generative AI usage, or 7% of Steam's total library of 114,126 games, up from ~1,000 titles in April 2024 1 day ago:
How many of the ~6,818 titles now disclosing generative AI use were already on Steam in 2024?
I.E. are a lot of these just games that had already been released, updating their disclosure statements based on Valve’s new rules?
The article says 1/5 games released this year use it. I’m not sure if ~34,000 games have released on Steam in the last year
- Comment on YOLO should really be used as a caution, like "Wear your seatbelt, dumbass. YOLO!" 4 days ago:
There’s a comedy band called Lonely Island that takes this thought to the extreme
- Comment on The End Of The Hackintosh Is Upon Us 1 week ago:
ARM isn’t plug-and-play like x86 (n.b. it could be, but no one does it outside of servers)
You have to write a big JSON like file, called a DeviceTree, that describes exactly what is in the computer
Unless Apple decides to support Hackintoshes, their OS won’t have devicetrees for other devices.
You might be able to make your own and get the OS to read it, but it still has to be for a specific machine rather than generic like before
- Comment on Fairphone announces the €599 Fairphone 6, with a 6.31" 120Hz LTPO OLED display, a Snapdragon 7s Gen 3 chip, and enhanced modularity with 12 swappable parts 3 weeks ago:
postmarketos has builds for the 4/5, and Fairphone has already submitted devicetree files for the 6 to the mainline Linux kernel: lore.kernel.org/…/20250625-sm7635-fp6-initial-v1-…
- Comment on Infrared contact lenses let you see in the dark 1 month ago:
Did that, did a lot of that. There wasn’t any doctor here who could shine my eyes. Not even for 20 menthol cools. Was anything you said true?
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 month ago:
For unplayable, Rocket League had very good Linux and macos native builds Epic required them to delete support for those operating systems as part of the acquisition of Psyonix
- Comment on I'm a console gamer so, Why the hate on the Epic Games Store? 1 month ago:
When they buy publishers, they had them actively remove Linux support, such as Rocket League
- Comment on I just realized the only way to get new gamers to care about Jak is to release a "remastered" version, which sucks. 1 month ago:
Wow. This opengoal project is so cool!
You made me dig through old boxes to find my Jak games. I know what I’m doing this weekend :)
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If you just mean recently, one of the YouTubers with the most subscribers recently released a video about why he switched to Linux, and in it, he says he uses hyprland
May be affecting its popularity
- Comment on Raspberry Pi cuts product returns by 50% by changing up its pin soldering 2 months ago:
So, would your suspicion be that it’s causing them more failed boards in production?
I guess if it’s reducing returns, that might be something they’re accepting as a tradeoff?
- Comment on HP agrees million-dollar settlement over "false advertising" on PCs, keyboards 2 months ago:
My naive reading is the difference here is HP slapped a discount sticker on it without changing the price.
Where Kohls, et. al. set the price extremely high and then always have it “on sale.”
Now, how companies get away with doing the same thing for Black Friday, no idea
- Comment on Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases. 3 months ago:
That’s already how it functionally worked for each major release
Here’s their previous strategy: web.archive.org/web/20220917195332/…/codelines
Google works internally on the next version of the Android platform and framework according to the product’s needs and goals
When the n+1th version is ready, it’s published to the public source tree
The source management strategy above includes a codeline that Google keeps private to focus attention on the current public version of Android.
We recognize that many contributors disagree with this approach and we respect their points of view. However, this is the approach we feel is best and the one we’ve chosen to implement for Android.
As far as I can tell, this would really only affect QPRs, since the public experimental branches that get made after they throw the next release over the wall is going away
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Oracle happened to it
All the devs went to LibreOffice after that
- Comment on Cloudflare announces AI Labyrinth, which uses AI-generated content to confuse and waste the resources of AI Crawlers and bots that ignore “no crawl” directives. 3 months ago:
Kind of seems like they simply installed this dude’s tarpit from a few months ago
- Comment on E-waste or Linux? Charities face tough choices as Windows 10 support ends 3 months ago:
Where did Microsoft put an official announcement saying the statement from an official Microsoft employee, Jerry Nixon, at an official Microsoft conference, Ignite, was incorrect?
- Comment on The ESP32 "backdoor" that wasn't | Dark Mentor LLC 4 months ago:
Yes, in the sense that every device you own has these same commands
The alarmist of the original was that this was somehow unique to the esp32
If your device has Bluetooth, it has these commands
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 4 months ago:
I agree, but unfortunately, this has become common since Heartbleed, and they seem to be able to sell their snake oil to CTOs…
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 4 months ago:
The article is a security company trying to hype their company with a theoretical attack that currently has no hypothetical way to be abused
The China part just came from OP
- Comment on FBI nabs worker at DVD company for ripping prerelease blockbusters 4 months ago:
If they’re being shared as disk images, basically every Blu-Ray has an embedded Java program, also
- Comment on Gaming chat platform Discord in early talks with banks about public listing 4 months ago:
You can even trivially run your own server on an old Raspberry Pi.
I used to run one on a Pi 3 that would regularly have ~100 concurrent users without any hiccups
- Comment on Apple takes UK to court over 'backdoor' order 4 months ago:
That’s separate from what OP is talking about. The on-device encryption is decent
For data on Apple’s servers (which they push icloud by anemic device storage…) Apple themselves publish that they give access to user accounts 90% of the time in the US
- Comment on [deleted] 4 months ago:
Finding a searxng instance and entering a random search term, the first 10 pages of results all came from google.
Checking the preferences, there were 4 search, and 6 of the other toggles enabled.
Even enabling all engines and rerunning the search, the first 13 results were listed as google
Is it meaningfully different from this offering if all the results it picks seemingly come from Google?
If I disable all but mojeek and qwant, all the results came from mojeek
- Comment on Qualcomm and Google team up to offer 8 years of Android updates 4 months ago:
That may be the best option right now, but it’s still a far cry from an upstreamed device
They aren’t able to support devices longer than Qualcomm and Google maintain the random out-of-tree drivers for a chipset, and even state such in their “legacy support” for harm reduction
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 4 months ago:
- They don’t offer the government a “backdoor” to make it easy to decrypt user data.
Is what’s being discussed. Since Apple has a backdoor in the default configuration of their phone, they’re able to comply with 90% of all data requests.
The UK is demanding they remove the option to disable the backdoor in their encryption
You can kind-of sort-of use local only, but Apple makes that very inconvenient and almost 0 users do
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 4 months ago:
Sure, but if that’s your only concern, then you aren’t really concerned that to toggle is removed in the UK, either
- Comment on Cornered by the UK’s Demand for an Encryption Backdoor, Apple Turns Off Its Strongest Security Setting. 4 months ago:
I don’t know about other countries, but Apple itself reports that it provided access to customer accounts at the US government’s request 90% of the time
- Comment on Apple withdraws cloud encryption service from UK after government order 4 months ago:
In the default configuration of iDevices, the US already can
This seems more around the UK wanting to spy on its own citizens more easily
- Comment on Typing monkey would be unable to produce 'Hamlet' within the lifetime of the universe, study finds 8 months ago:
For what it’s worth, it seems like it’s this “journalist” trying to make a sensational headline
The researchers themselves very clearly just tried to see if it could happen in our reality
“We decided to look at the probability of a given string of letters being typed by a finite number of monkeys within a finite time period consistent with estimates for the lifespan of our universe,”
- Comment on Matrix 2.0 Is Here! 8 months ago:
I’ve used Matrix since the app was called Riot.im and there was no encryption
I didn’t realize once encryption was added, that there were still metadata leaks as compared to Signal
Could you give me some information on what metadata is unencrypted, or point me towards documentation about that?