vrighter

@vrighter@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  patent nand and nor! You’ll get much more out of it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨gaming console⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  if you turn 360 and walk, you’d still be going towards it

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony is releasing a new PS5 console, but it's a downgrade⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  the ps5 is the console I used the least. And I bought the ps3 in the middle of the ps4’s generation.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Choose wisely lemmings⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  PowerPenis

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI was a common theme at Gamescom 2025, and while some indie teams say it's invaluable, it remains an ethical nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there are barely any. I can’t name a single one offhand. Open weights means absolutely nothing about the actual source of those weights.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do i tip my bartender $2 per drink and per bar food order but 20% when I order food from a waitress? Am I tipping wrong?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  there is already a federal law about it. Minimum is already minimum for everyone. Tipped positions simply let the employer save some of that money. If you didn’t tip, the employer must pay the full wage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Quantum alternative to GPS navigation will be tested on US military spaceplane⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  as far as i had read about it, accurate enough to rely on for a whole flight without worrying about drift

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sam Altman says ‘yes,’ AI is in a bubble⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Eh, it’s a stopped clock type of thing

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “good catch! That’s a very astute observation. Here’s a bunch of paragraphs explaining (incorrectly) how you’re wrong!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨LibreOffice is right about Microsoft, and it matters more than you think.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the windows just works argument actually refers to the fact that it’s consistent.

  If you have a problem with the desktop, nobody needs to ask you which de you use, or which parts you have substituted out. You have a graphics problem, nobody asks if wayland or x11. You have a problem with audio, nobody asks you whether you have pipewire-pulse installed and to use pipewire. Shit’s the same everywhere.

  I say this as an arch linux user. The choice we all love, is actually a detriment to the average non-power user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why people say they have a "boy cat" or a "girl cat" but when the cat grows up, they don't call is a "man cat" or "woman cat"?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  because they stay smol!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI will not disclose GPT-5’s energy use. It could be higher than past models⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  is there any picture of the guy without his hand up like that?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  oh quit that bs. There was waterproof (not resistant) micro usb more than a literal decade ago. If anything they should have gottn better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game sequel ruined a beloved franchise or character for you?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  imagine having never played the original (me, unfortunately, at the time). Then, what are the whispers all about?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leading AI Models Are Completely Flunking the Three Laws of Robotics⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  exactly. But what if there were more than just three (the infamous “guardrails”)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  the downvote wasn’t from me

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  so?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vintage gaming advertising pictures: a gallery⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  this isn’t low effort. These are freaking great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  three, point, oh

  for copy and paste.

  Not one, tuy three point oh!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  what trend? they made thi ipod, they made the iphone, they’ve been late, really really late, for very basic features on either. And a bunch of just plain bad stuff.

  Butterfly keyboards, magic mouse, touch bar on macs, not cherry picked at all. There are tons of examples

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why doesn’t Apple/Samsung/Google use new tech like every other phone maker?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that would be more believable if they didn’t release the apple vision pro.

  Or the years they took biding their time before they finally implemented battery charge time estimation on ios.

  Or the time biding their time refining, erm, copy and paste?

  Come on!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK: If you set up a Lemmy instance, and follow the Docker setup instructions to the letter, it will send lemmy.ml your admin password during the setup process⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  oh for fuck’s sake. A mistake is rendering the wrong emoji. Sending your password to elsewhere is inexcusable

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI slows down some experienced software developers, study finds⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  and the only reason it’s not slowing you down on other things is that you don’t know enough about those other things to recognize all the stuff you need to fix

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  yep. you could of course swap weights in and out, but that would slow things down to a crawl. So they get lots of vram

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  that’s why they need huge datacenters and thousands of GPUs. And, pretty soon, dedicated power plants. It is insane just how wasteful this all is.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How does AI use so much power?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  imagine that to type one letter, you need to manually read all unicode code points several thousand times. When you’re done, you select one letter to type.

  Then you start rereading all unicode code points again for thousands of times again, for the next letter.

  That’s how llms work. When they say 175 billion parameters, it means at least that many calculations per token it generates

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Exclusive: OpenAI to release web browser in challenge to Google Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  funny how everyone who wants to write a new browser (except the ladybird guys) always skimp on writing the actual browser part

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broadcom Eyes $2 Trillion Club as AI Chip Demand Explodes⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  ai chip demand explodes amongst manufacturers of crap who hope that demand for ai chips amongst consumers somehow explodes too

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  in yes/no type questions, 50% success rate is the absolute worst one can do. Any worse and you’re just giving an inverted correct answer more than half the time

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Large Language Model Performance Doubles Every 7 Months⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  they are improving at an exponential rate. It’s just that the exponent is less than one.