kazerniel

@kazerniel@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Sadly Ecosia is not good for more niche topics or foreign languages. After a few months of use, I went back to Google with &udm=14 😕

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines⁩ ⁨⁨16⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the same experience and it drives me to nuts - if I wanted English results, I’d search in English!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  What has worked nice for me is to listen to the AccuRadio channel of the genre I’m in the mood for, and rate the songs. Then later when I have the time, I look at my ratings history page and download the ones I rated high from youtube in mp3, so I can have my own local “radio stations” of the songs I enjoy. Then months later, when/if I got bored of them, I can go back and come across new ones on AccuRadio.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ListenBrainz about to hit 100k users⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Whatever you use to listen to music

  Winamp gang! (sadly not supported)

  But I don’t want my listening history publicly accessible (I was an avid Last.fm user in the '10s, but always kept my profile private), so I would skip this one anyway. Love MusicBrainz though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Firefox's beta feature "Smart Window" shared browsing and search history to AI models without prompting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks interesting! I can’t see it in their docs, can it display the font type and size of a selected text? I’ve been using PDF-XChange Viewer mostly for that feature. (Lol I just noticed it had no updates since 2018 😬)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Tbh I wouldn’t mind this, I hate boss fights in games, I would definitely let the AI do those, and switch back to me for the stuff I enjoy :D

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Untold Story of Classic Games: Inside ZOOM with CEO Jordan Freeman⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  the guy’s face looks so airbrushed on that photo

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just one more square bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks, that’s reassuring to know :D maple syrup is good, but imho nutella is better :9

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just one more square bro⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Unrelated, but as a Hungarian, this association of waffles with syrup is so odd to see. Syrup is basically just sugar and water, isn’t it? Sounds pretty boring. As a kid we always put nutella on waffles 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t experienced this with years of Enterprise use, but back when I was on Win 7 LTSC until its very end, I did get yelled at that my Windows was too old, even if it was still under official support. But then again I suppose devs don’t expect people to try to run games on heart monitors or industrial equipment xd (or whatever else LTSC was intended for)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 12 release date in 2026 possible, with AI features that may force CPU upgrades⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This right here is what’s keeping me from switching to Linux for now. My work PC is also my gaming PC. I need to run Adobe InDesign, Illustrator and Photoshop flawlessly for work, and online games for leisure.

  I checked out alternatives, and while Photoshop has a few that are decent, InDesign and Illustrator alternatives are really not there yet for professional use. (Also Adobe programs are reportedly broken af when ran on Wine/etc., and I don’t have 2 GPUs to run them on virtual machine.)

  As for gaming, one of my daily driver games is Genshin, and I don’t want to risk getting banned bc I run it via some obscure launcher from GitHub that also makes the game crash on some new releases. Outside of Genshin, according to ProtonDB only 51% my Steam library is Platinum or Gold compatibility, 10% are various levels of broken, and 39% has no Linux support information.

  These barriers tend to get dismissed by Linux users, but they do exist, and are probably barriers to others too. With a Windows Enterprise install from massgrave then clamped down with O&O Shutup, I get rid of Microsoft’s bullshit and get an OS that I know can run all of my programs without problems.

  For now, this setup works better for my needs, but I’m eagerly awaiting the time I can finally make the jump to Linux, and I find news like Photoshop installer being able to run on Linux and leaks that Genshin will get released on Steam (hopefully even on Deck) quite promising.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The US Guardian is strongly pro-trans, while the UK Guardian is more mixed. It had (maybe still has?) some TERFs in prominent positions for a very long time, and they kept churning out their transphobic opinion pieces week after week.

  There was even some intra-Guardian clash about this in 2018, when their US reporters called out their UK colleagues: Why we take issue with the Guardian’s stance on trans rights in the UK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, you might want to contact the Sentinels of the Store group about this - they do reports on Steam’s developer and customer issues, and occasionally have direct communication with Valve.

  In fact they covered this article in a recent post: SteamWatch - Developers Accuse Steam of Failing to Tackle Bigotry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  mark reviews as being irrelevant to be scrubbed

  as the article details, in the case of reviews flagged by devs, Steam gets to decide if they want to remove them or not, and often they don’t, even when they contain open bigotry or personal attacks towards the developer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘This shouldn’t be normal’: developers speak out about bigotry on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is why I always look at negative reviews. I often come across “downsides” that aren’t downsides to me, or outright appealing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be Wary of Bluesky⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It not necessarily about evil intentions, instead that without an easy off-ramp for users, a platform is eventually guaranteed to get enshittified, especially if they rely on investor money (which Bluesky does, see their post 1, post 2).

  Cory Doctorow wrote a few pieces about the topic:

  • Fool Me Twice We Don’t Get Fooled Again
  • Bluesky and enshittification
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you fell out of love with.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe Reus? I enjoyed the basic premise and the first few hours, but then the game’s flaws started to become more apparent (e.g. repetitiveness, upgrade chains becoming unmemorisably complex) and put it down around 12% of full completion.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also StoryGraph - it’s not federated, but ran by a tiny UK company, but seems pretty popular. I like the content warnings feature and stuff like readers rating the pacing and moods of the books, which is then displayed with graphs on the book page, but they have also introduced some AI features :/ (fortunately opt-in)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I understand their reasoning, but still, it soured me on the game. GenAI models being built from non-consensually mass-scraped art was known from the very start, and yet the devs thought it was ok to put it into their game… They could have just used stock textures as placeholders like developers have been doing for decades.

  But anyway, we are free to just not agree, and draw the line in different places on what we consider ethical conduct 🤷

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Clair Obscur for me too, but because of the AI art controversy. I can’t stand AI, even if temporary, even if just store banners, I just can’t trust the company from then on not to sneak it into other areas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Games you really want to play, but can't or won't?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Cyberpunk 2077 - it still doesn’t go on steep enough sales to justify buying when I have hundreds of unplayed games on Steam. But I’m keeping an eye on its downward progress. Maybe when it reaches £10-13…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  check out this comment

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  PieFed has its own share of dodgy stuff:

  • opinions of the dev are hard-coded into PieFed’s code, with overreaching content blocks and error messages deliberately lying to users
  • plus a 0/5 priority of testability, 1/5 priority of reliability and 2/5 priority of security described in their architecture document
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  instead of Piefed :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DuckDuckGo poll says 90% responders don't want AI⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  wow, Firefox can do this natively now? I’ve been using an addon for so many years

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How to study nature⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I enjoyed the first novel, then he just completely dropped the ball with the sequels 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why medieval city-builder video games are historically inaccurate - Leiden Medievalists Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was hoping the article would mention Manor Lords.

  The article is from 2020, Manor Lords was released in 2024 😅

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  thanks for this table!

  Nova is rated as advanced customisability, and in this table Bridge Launcher is the only FLOSS launcher that has advanced customisability and is not discontinued, but based on the app page it’s basically a programming platform, not an actual launcher :c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nova Launcher gets a new owner and... ads⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for this post, I quickly turned off auto-updates 👀

  I only started using it half a year ago, but it was still the best from all the launchers I’ve tried 😔

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer patches Wine to make Photoshop 2021 & 2025 run on Linux — Adobe Creative Cloud installers finally work thanks to HTML, JavaScript and XML fixes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Awesome progress, can’t wait until Illustrator, InDesign and Photosop can all run well on Linux ✨ Adobe’s lack of support is like 70% the reason why I haven’t switched to Linux yet.