kazerniel
@kazerniel@lemmy.world
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
Thanks for the reframe! From what I’ve seen in Village Pump comments at the time, editors (including me) were upset bc putting LLMs into Wikipedia articles seems like an idea so obviously clashing with Wikipedia’s values and strengths, that it was a shock to see it taken as far as it got before the wider backlash. (Also put into wider context, the whole world seemed to be jumping onto the LLM bandwagon at the time, so it was dismaying to see Wikipedia do the same.)
- Comment on Wikipedia has banned AI-generated text, with two exceptions 2 weeks ago:
It has to be said, they originally changed their stance due to the considerable editor pushback when they tried to introduce LLM summaries on the top of articles. So kudos to the editor community’s resistance! ✊
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Thanks!
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Regarding Ecosia, could it be that you deleted some related cookies accidentialy?
Not sure, I use uBlock Origin, but the site does remember my other settings, so it feels a bit shady.
- Comment on is black myth wokong a good game? 2 weeks ago:
not sure if this is the reason, but around its release there was some controversy (link 1, link 2) related to the studio founder’s sexist remarks and some bizarre streaming restrictions (don’t mention violence, “feminist propaganda” or covid), so some people might still reflexively downvote anything related to the game
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Hmm thanks for the tip!
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, I think I’ll give noai.duckduckgo a try.
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
Still, it refuses to make those buttons optional.
Not only that, back before I left Ecosia a few months ago, it kept forgetting that I turned off AI summaries. Every week or so it would turn back on… I’ll try DuckDuckGo’s
noai.prefix this time, that hopefully won’t have this issue. (I really like Ecosia’s mission, but come on…) - Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks ago:
I may switch to them as my primary provider. They seem to source results from Bing, and with the noai prefix hopefully won’t keep turning on AI summary like Ecosia does 😑
- Comment on Google Search is now using AI to replace headlines 2 weeks 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 2 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 3 weeks 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 4 weeks 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 5 weeks ago:
the guy’s face looks so airbrushed on that photo
- Comment on Just one more square bro 5 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 5 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 5 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 5 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month ago:
- Comment on Games you fell out of love with. 1 month 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 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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? 2 months 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…