DacoTaco

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  He isnt wrong. This comes from somebody who technically uses ai daily to help develop ( github copilot in visual studio to assist in code prediction based on the code base or the solution ), but AI is marketed even worse than blockchain back in 2017. Its everywhere, in every product, even if it doesnt have ai or has nothing to do with it.
  There is shit like microsoft recall, apple intelligence, bing co pilot, office co pilot, …
  All of those are just… Nothing.
  There are also chatbots which bring nothing new to the table either.
  Everyone and everything wants to market there stuff with ai and its disgusting.
  Does that mean that current ai tech cant bring anything to the table? No, it totally can, but 90% of ai stuff out there is, just like linus says, marketing bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨10001⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A 5 bit long signed integer? What kind of weird system you using ? :p

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye, they are apparently a different race of badgers!
  Source : en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Badger

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Badgers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I love this meme, and nearly commented it myself to the top comment, but i learned an american badger != a honey badger :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye, i dont know how it is worldwide but here in west europe paying online with your bank is just like paying with paypal. The only advantages paypal has over my bank is its return policy and it technically not directly linking the purchase with my personal info.
  I havent used paypal in a while tbh…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PayPal implements default data sharing with third parties: users must manually opt out⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, i was thinking id need to go check them later today and that it was kinda illegal. Now i can be rest assured its fiiine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord lowers free upload limit to 10MB: “Storage management is expensive”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate discord a lot, but this feature kinda destroys the reason discord exists. We used to have irc which is direct communication and needs both systems to be online ( yes, bouncers exist, but they arent perfect ). We moved away from irc so systems didnt need to be online and it was all in the cloud. Direct communication/file sharing from pc would kinda revert all that lol

  ( lets gooooo, bring irc back :p )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, but her successor has been in charge for at least a year now haha.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Fyi, she euh, stepped down from youtube in feb 2023. She had nothing to do with youtube in the last year :')

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Former YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki has passed away at age 56⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So thats why she stepped down huh

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Olympic anime⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Euh, sword art online s2 exists haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks!

  That was hilarious to see, and the player was good. He went into defensive mode on the second round on the first game, and in the second game he went into faking attacks to trigger reactions and punish when responding wrong. Loved it haha

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks! I will take a listen at that video! I imagine in sf3 it could also have been obvious with the parry system

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Right, so basically things that decent skills would also get you?
  Also, if you feel being aggressive doesnt help you, you start playing defensively and thats when you can strike back. Cheats or not, it still has to attack and is still stuck on the frame limits of the move right? Thats when you can strike back, no?

  Im not saying cheating isnt bad, and im not saying its not annoying either, but in general fighters are different and they are completely skill based unless the cheater changes things that the other can never do.
  Pretty sure ive fought cheaters back in the day in sf4 before, but that was never that bad because i still had options to fight them back…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Riot's fighting game 2XKO will use Vanguard anti-cheat⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How would cheating in a fighter even look like? Those games are mostly about reading your opponent. Unlike a fps or moba, all info is on the screen etc :/

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, you meant original release date of the amd cpus.
  Ye, makes sense.
  I personally think they wanted to verify to have no issues in their cpu’s because intel is kinda euh… In a very bad state atm haha. You dont want to be part of that right now xD

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue — new launch in August; chipmaker pulls back all units shipped globally for quality checks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … You just contradicted yourself there with the timeline/dates lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GCNET Is A GameCube Network Adapter That Fits In Your Console's Memory Card Slot | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I… Dont know why this exists.
  Ive been aware of a few ethernet projects for gamecube and none of them makes sense to me.
  None of them use a custom chip/interface and require special code in software.
  On top of that, none of them have merged the code into libogc (the open source gamecube homebrew library i help maintain ).
  If i were to make a project like this, i’d use a mcu ( pi zero? ) together with a ethernet controller. The mcu would expose the same interface the official bba would, so even games could use it out of the box.

  But hey, what do i know, right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GCNET Is A GameCube Network Adapter That Fits In Your Console's Memory Card Slot | Time Extension⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Swiss is a homebrew backup launcher for gamecube :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Account to local account conversion guide erased from official Windows 11 guide — instructions redacted earlier this week⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As somebody who has worked a bit with a few microsoft bound teams : it has to do with the teams and their managers.

  Some teams were a treat to work with and are completely open to my comments or questions, and ready to serve the user’s needs.

  Other teams are terrible. They dont respond, they do whatever the fuck they want or what their managers tell them and pump out garbage that makes no sense to the users.

  Dotnet clr, refit, fluint ui blazor, …
  All nice teams. Fluentui ( webcomponents ), wpf, parts of windows teams, … Not so much

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU chat control law proposes scanning your messages — even encrypted ones⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I said the same to a coworker this week. If i were to be part or manage an illegal ring like csam, id make my own protocol/app that just uses encryption. Youre already doing illegal shit, go one further so you dont get caught

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Tech to EU: "Drop Dead"⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Its a regional thing. In europe whatsapp is more generally used then in the usa :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ye, the sm64 was just a jit emulation, you are correct there. Not gonna deny that either. The sms and smg emulations are interesting and impressive though. They basically use a combination of jit compilation and aot compilation to basically take in the rom and adjust code as they go, but its technically running +/- natively if i read the switchbrew wiki page correctly. I find that impressive, from a technical standpoint.
  Could they have added more and do more changes? Yes, ofcourse. Im not saying the fan made stuff isnt impressive, it is and i love it!
  But for nintendo, who strives to create new experiences and things, not rehashing older stuff, is why they kept it basic. For them adding that stuff doesnt make sense as the game doesnt add new enough experiences. They dont care if a bug is fixed or graphics are improved. Those dont get you new experiences or gameplay mechanics. Thats what nintendo strives for.

  Again, if that is a good stance to have as a company i leave up to others to make opinions on, thats not up to me to decide or voice my opinion on ^^

  Fyi, since you seem to know what youre talking about, nintendo’s r&d have used open source projects before internally and we assume it is done to look at older games and see how they worked or if they could be used to make projects like sm3d ( without doing what the license doesnt permit )

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Haha, i kinda expected it tbh. The internet hates nintendo and doesnt know how they operate internally. Still wanted to make the comment, as it is needed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all Nintendo 64 games can now be recompiled into native PC ports to add proper ray tracing, ultrawide, high FPS, and more⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Has nothing to do with their closed eco system. They basically did similar stuff with some of the stuff in the sm3d collection thingy.
  Nintendo is a company that only wants make new stuff, innovations.
  For example, they ( mostly miyomoto ) has been quoted to not understand that people want another f-zero, as the game’s principals and ideas have been fully flushed out and no new ideas could make it feel like something new.
  They also usually dont do remakes/remasters unless its so new/different it can be considered a new game ( see metroid 2 on 3ds ).

  If that is a smart business position to have, i will leave for you to decide, but do get your facts a bit straight :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is now refunding Ghost of Tsushima for people in affected countries.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The developers were told 6 months before release that it needed to have psn required. Granted, thats waaaaaay too late to tell a dev that, but they could have delayed the game. Instead, they made it half arse and still told sony it was good to go.
  Imho, both have gone wrong here

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, my idea isnt perfect. Not even close haha
  It would cause platforms to become subscription based or be backed by large companies for their own profit ( see linux, github, and every open source, non profit organisation backed and/or managed by bigger companies ). No person on the internet would agree with that and its a hard bullet to bite.

  Its just that from a eu citizen standpoint, this ban solves nothing for them. Its like giving the keys to everything for some bad guy to some other bad guy that both want to be above you.

  And american citizens also dont benefit jack shit from this. If not, makes it worse for them as the tiktok data can now be used to make their lives worse, easier.

  I will say that i agree something is better than nothing and something had to be done, dont get me wrong. I just think it was a half ass, political war bullshit choice they made with the resources they had that solves nothing besides “oh no, china be harvesting more data than us. Quick! Respond!”.
  Meanwhile some eu countries took on a grander scale and banned tik tok apps on government devices, which does a better job than this imho ( source : edition.cnn.com/2023/02/28/tech/…/index.html ) AND they did it last year :p

  There were also ideas pitched around to extend this to all social media apps, but i assume that was shut down due to obvious reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hm, youre right. It is an uphill battle, and its a battle the eu has been trying to fight with big us tech for a few years now. They too should be punished and limited, just like tik tok. There has to be a way to punish them all, without forcing tik tok to become part of the big us tech family that the us can leach off. Its causing a shit ton of issues and problems that this does not solve imo.
  Also, they cant ignore fines if you do it right, but the us will never do it right hehe :p

  So, lets just kill off data hoarding and data sharing between platforms. Kill all shit like tiktok, meta, twitter, … In one fell swoop.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree fully, but pushing for a law that basically says “apps from a list of 6 countries are not allowed here unless moved to the us” is a bullshit thing and forces them to give the us more power and control over the data. Hence my comparison.

  I believe they should put laws in order a la gdpr to protect users from the data stuff. You know, the actual issue of tiktok.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨TikTok sues U.S. government, saying potential ban violates First Amendment⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  … You didnt read my whole comment did you :p
  I said the same thing, but more neutral and political :')