Dremor

@Dremor@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Firefox vertical tabs are better IMO. At least you can close them when minimized, which Edge cannot.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Microslop' is heading for Edge – major browser redesign is inspired by Copilot, and it's already seriously unpopular⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I never got an issue with copilot, at least in Visual Studio (only one I use).

  Make repetitive tasks Luke unit test a breeze. And very useful for debugging issues with tools like Entity Framework.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨If pant is made of shirt, they're inside only.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  By being sorry to not being one, aren’t you already half Canadian? 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Same here, the Steam Deck changed my life 😆. Less AAA, more AA and indie games, especially at work.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There are not many cards you need these days, especially not that doesn’t have an USB equivalent. USB capture cards are now decent, same for Wi-Fi+Bluetooth ones (provided to buy one with deported antennas). Other than storage related ones (for moar m.2!, or for sff SAS ports), I don’t see that much uses these days.

  Even my NAS, which uses a micro-ATX MB, only uses one slot on the 3 available. And all its 4 m.2 ports are used (2 for redundant system discs, one for an AI accelerators (for Frigate object detection), the last one being an old SSD used as ZFS cache for my main disk array (will probably be replaced by another AI accelerator once I find another use which would need one).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  IGPs are very dependant on memory speed. Many uses gains from faster memory speed (but I can’t give you one out of memory), but most games gains more from memory latency than raw speed (with some exception, like Stellaris). Usually, if your app is CPU heavy, you’ll gain from RAM speed.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  More like for the price of 64GB.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I said “being inspired by”, not “using”. There is a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not before being unknowingly sold to the public

  Well, if that was truly forgotten in the game at release, and removed once discovered, I don’t see any problem. The textures that are used now are 100% hand made by actual artist, to my knowledge.

  My problem with AI is its heavy usage of plagiarism and vast degree of power consumption, as well as the price hikes its caused for many computer parts.

  I entirely agree with you there. The plagiarism problem is in my opinion partly resolved by open datasets (OpenOrca, and the like), which means the user has the possibility of choosing to not rely on plagiarism. Problem is that the models trained with those dataset are rarely available on public platform, which is another reason why I use my own infrastructure. Personally I use Mistal-7B-OpenOrca on a locally run Ollama, which reside in my homelab. The power consumption is a problem, and the reason why I use my own dedicated hardware for anything related to AI (which has also the advantage of heating my home a little bit, so nothing is lost 😆). I even invested in a laptop with dedicated AI hardware to be able to make it as efficient as possible. And of course got hit by the AI taxe, albeit I was lucky to get 32Go DDR5 at only twice the usual rate instead of five time the usual rate as it is currently the case.

  Whenever anything is attempting to make money, it should be put under the highest scrutiny. It does not matter who’s pushing it. Similarly, I find it odd that we’re assuming the inner workings of Clair Obscur’s workplace

  You are right. But I don’t think they the the kind of guys to seek wealth of fame. They put their energy in a project they believed in, can we blame them to have used the tools they had in hand to try making the most of their limited budget ?

  If you replaced AI here with anything defamatory, like pictures of penises placed by an enraged employee after being fired, then even having a few would be devastating on sales. The single fact that we’re okay with a few means that, over time, that bar will likely be pushed further down the road “oh, it’s just this one character that practically never shows up” “oh, it’s just the skyboxes, they’re basically not noticeable anyway” “who cares if the early access uses AI voices? They’ll be replaced eventually!”

  You’d be surprised how often it happen for former angry employees to do that. We even had example in some Disney, with very explicit scenes even going all the way to customers.
  I never said that they where OK with it, just that no one can be expected to check every little texture without being expected to miss some of them. Human are prone to fatigue, and I saw many bugs going in production due to such errors of judgement.
  As for using AI during early access, IMO it depends on the size of the project. And one man project ? Totally fine, even after launch. A full 400 men project from a big publisher? Not so much, they have to mean to do it by hand. Especially considering how expensive they sell it afterward.
  Clair Obscur being a mostly 30 men project (plus some occasional extras), I, personally, don’t see AI usage as a problem as soon as it is sparsely used.

  I assure you, AI is not popular. Studies have shown that AI is causing people more concern than excitement Not the most reputable source, but oh well

  I’m speaking about Clair Obscur, not AI. Don’t you feel surprised that as soon as they get a big boost from the game award, you see people left and right creating dramas for whatever reason they find? Some forgotten AI texture in the final game? Really?

  Blue Prince does use AI assets No it didn’t

  My apology for jumping on that bandwagon. I’m unfortunately not totally immune to that either 😅

  On the other hand, IGA did forbid AI on the whole project pipeline, and if I find it a bit overblown, it is their choice, and I’ll respect that.
  What baffles me is all the hate Clair Obscur got because of that. The vast majority was made by hand, and the game is good. If the story was AI gen, or the music, I’d agree, but a fucking texture? In which way would it suddenly make a multiple year project shit like some pretends?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s is still their own artistic sensibility that made the art, not the AI. You will always be inspired by other things while doing anything requiring creativity.
  Would being inspired by Picasso suddenly make one art worthless? Of course not. So why would being inspired by an AI generated example make it any different ?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe because all AI generated assets got removed?

  Honestly, as a programmer that uses extensively AI to debug, and do various tedious tasks like unit tests, I think the whole anti-AI craze of late is more bullshit than sane arguments.

  It’s an invaluable tool for many cases, and as soon is it is not used to replace someone, I don’t see the problem. They where used by artists, to be used as placeholders while working on the gme, not by executives seeking to make some more bucks by not hiring anyone.

  They forgot some of them in the final game? Shit happens. You cannot expect someone to go through every single texture in a game that probably got thousands, if not tenths of thousands, just to make sure none was forgotten.

  Anyway, that’s blown way out of propositions, and feels more like some people trying to get views by hating on something popular than having real concerns about it. Especially since Blue Prince does use AI assets in the final product, and strangely no one bats an eye.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Language 😠.

  Yes, I know I’m kinda strict on that, but there are no reason here to come to insults.

  You got a good point here, and the message you answered to got downvoted to oblivion.

  If you disagre, downvote away, don’t feed the possible troll with your anger.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You may want to rephrase and clarify, and probably typecheck you text.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT is down worldwide, conversations disappeared for users⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And suddenly 90% of both X, Facebook and Reddit fell silent.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Day 499 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, already almost at 500! 😃

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GitHub - DioCrafts/OxiCloud: ☁️ OxiCloud server, efficient and secure way to save all your data⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be honnest, Nextcloud is kinda a piece of shit software. Every major version break something, an error in an extension can make it crash entirely without any failsafe preventing it. I already lost the database twice (in what… 5 major versions), and the only reason I still use it is because I’m too lazy to use anything not in the TrueNAS apps repository.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He is not making a expection to himself. Self promotion is allowed, if not excessive or from newly created account.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We have just released a grand DLC, War Sails, for our game, Mount & Blade II: Bannerlord⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Note to the community : self promotion is allowed on this community, what we disallowed is excessive self promotion.
  Things like multiple post in a short timespan, not disclosing ones link to a specific game, or anything that is made to manipulate the community to make a game look better or more popular that it is really. Sales goes for new account posting ads to games, never to be seen again

  So let’s check here:

  • He disclosed his link to the game : yes
  • Posted about it multiple times is a short time : I didn’t see anything like that, but feel free to report if it is the case
  • Is active : yes
  • No suspicious link : yes

  In my book, this is 100% legit. No need to report.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Framework stops selling separate DDR5 RAM modules to fight scalpers⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  On the other hand, they already sell it so high I ended up buying mine without RAM. I found 2x16Go for 125€ vs 180€ sold by Framework 😅. Same speed, but I can’t compare CAS as Framework do not list them on their page.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Doomsider sure explained it better than you did, and he did defend his opinion, which you didn’t. Throwing strawmen arguments and insults around doesn’t do anything to allow meaningful conversations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Considering your own argument length, I don’t think he’d need to invest more energy to make a more compelling one to counter yours.

  So either elaborate yours, or go look at at the concept of “Bullshit‑asymmetry principle” (and associated concepts) when you’ll have time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox to block children from talking to adult strangers after string of lawsuits⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  While I kinda admire your dedication at writing such lengthy insult, I’d like to remind you this is not an acceptable behaviour here.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guild Wars Reforged Announcement Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  FFXIV works great with a controller, I don’t see why GW2 wouldn’t with a similar gamepad oriented UI.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The robot was trained on Russian social media videos.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You can now use thirds parties APIs for Passkey. I use ProtonPass on my part, it works great most of the time, but there are still some apps that have Google provider hard-coded.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rockstar Games Employee Calls Out Studio For Spreading “Disinformation and Lies”, Union Busting⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “We are responsible for what we say and what we do, not the interpretation others do out of them.”

  Please do not assume your understanding of the underlying argument has to be correct, or you’d risk falling to the strawman fallacy.

  As a moderator I like to see arguments around games, but I don’t want to see them degenerate into fight.

  So could your rephrase without assuming your opponent intention without solid proofs?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  But that would open many security holes, allowing XSS attacks, loading viruses, and all those bad things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  For a normal user, 16G is still enough.

  But for a power user like me, a Dev, with multiple IDE open, multiple browsers, a database manager with a dockerized DB, I’m basically at 96-98% RAM all the time. But even then, if you use a local AI, prepare to loose multiple Gig to it. I already used more than 30 Gig on one LLM (dolphin-mixtral 8x7B for the curious), when I tried testing one.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bewildered enthusiasts decry memory price increases of 100% or more — the AI RAM squeeze is finally starting to hit PC builders where it hurts⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It always does. I remember buying my DDR4 RAM 200€, and two months later the same kit was 550€. Some month later it was back at 220€.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, sure, a clanker gonna do grammar mistakes that he corrects many days later after waking up.

  I suppose in your world everything you hate is woke, and everyone that isn’t like you is a clanker, right?