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- Comment on Is there an RSS feed for War Thunder updates? 1 day ago:
Looks like it has an RSS feed in the patches section that will do the job if needed, but it also includes a lot of tiny patches that don’t have changelogs and don’t even show up in Steam or Gaijin’s main news sections. It also doesn’t help that it uses a copy of the patchnotes with some iffy formatting, but again, I can work with it in leau of a better option.
- Submitted 1 day ago to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world | 6 comments
- Comment on How active is too active while being on lemmy? 2 days ago:
People sometimes get annoyed if its an overwheming amount posted at once, in one place but generally you’re fine. If you want a rough guideline, I’d say to keep it to three posts per community per day, unless its busy enough that you can blend in to the crowd.
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 4 days ago:
To oversimplify:
Very secure passwords written on paper and stored safely > Local password manager using secure passwords > cloud/synced password manager with secure passwords > anything with insecure passwords.
The trick is, will you actually maintian these security practices or will you start getting lazy if its too inconvenient (such as using a long password, and having to manually type it out).
- Comment on Are password managers secure to use? 4 days ago:
Very secure passwords written on a piece
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
From what I understand, they’ve moved on from that structure. I believe that was one of the things talked about after the release of HL:A, with one of the employees saying that it was part of the reason the game actually got finished. That said, its been a while and even assuming I’m not misremembering information rarelt leaves Valve, so I could be wrong.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
As much as I like Valve’s work, I don’t think thats a good fit for them. Their staff seem to enjoy working on difficult technical tasks, and lose interest very fast when it comes to mundane maintenance, thus their numerous underutilized and unmaintained features throughout Steam and their games. A payment processor seems like exactly the sort of thing that would get forgotten about a month or two after it gets finished.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
Same thing applies, but the article suggests that its probably PayPal in this case.
- Comment on Valve gets pressured by payment processors with a new rule for game devs and various adult games removed 6 days ago:
Not suprising, and given the nature of most of the games removed, debatably reasonable, but it still highlights the need to reduced reliance on the few big American payment processors like PayPal.
- Comment on Spiritual Safety Tip! 1 week ago:
The fact that I can’t tell if this is parody or not is sad.
- Comment on A decentralised game hub? 2 weeks ago:
Its technically doable, but it wouldn’t be easy. The problem isn’t in making federated user authentication or servers, its just making a game that is flexable enough with powerful enough modding tools to be worth using compared to just making a game from scratch.
As a simplified example, lets say you want the default mechanics set of your game to be a first person shooter. This means you use 3D graphics, optimized for higher-detail enviroments and include features that would be most useful for that, such as a simple optimized 3D physics system, and tools for making detailed 3D levels.
In this new game, someone wants to make a 2D platformer. What additional tools will they need? A way to lock physics to two dimensions, or possibly even a new physics system entirely, A way to manipulate the camera separate from what the game started with, an orthographic camera, possibly a new lighting system, possibly different optimization techniques, the ability for the modder to replace the player controller and change it’s mechanics entirely, and the tools to use all these to make new levels.
By that point, you’re half way to making a new game engine, and the modder is 90% of the way to just making a standalone game.
- Comment on Was my ex really sorry/guilty? 4 weeks ago:
If he blames you for his grooming of you, he’s not sorry. He might feel guilty (or might not), but if he’s refusing to accept blame, it doesn’t matter; He doesn’t feel sorry and doesn’t want to change his behavior.
- Comment on Why are ghosts never racist? 5 weeks ago:
I expect its mostly just because its unpleasant and taboo.
That said, they do show up occasionally in more adult-oriented movies. The Shining is an example that immediately comes to mind.
- Comment on Is there any open source tv focused os/ui? 5 weeks ago:
I went down this rabbit hole about a year ago, and didn’t have much luck. In the end, the best results I was able to get were from Steam’s Big Picture Mode on a Windows device, mostly launching Firefox (might have been Chrome?) with different launch arguments to immitate a smart TV.
Most available software either doesn’t support Linux well, or doesn’t support non-kb&m input methods. You could try SteamOS, now that its out, but unfortunately my hopes wouldn’t be high for it.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 1 month ago:
You seem to be missing what I’m saying. Maybe a biological comparison would help: An octopus is extrmely smart, moreso than even most mammels. It can solve basic logic puzzles, learn and navigate complex spaces, and plan and execute different and adaptive stratgies to humt prey. In spite of this, it can’t talk or write. No matter what you do, training it, trying to teach it, or even trying to develop an octopus specific language, it will not be able to understand language. This isn’t because the octopus isn’t smart, its because its evolved for the purpose of hunting food and hiding from predators. Its brain has developed to understand how physics works and how to recognize patterns, but it just doesn’t have the ability to understand how to socialize, and nothing can change that short of rewiring its brain. Hand it a letter and it’ll try and catch fish with it rather than even considering trying to read it.
AI is almost the reverse of this. An LLM has “evolved” (been trained) to write stuff that sounds good, but has little emphasis on understanding what it writes. The “understanding” is more about patterns in writting rather than underlying logic. This means that if the LLM encounters something that isn’t standard language, it will “flail” and start trying to apply what it knows, regardless of how well it applies. In the chess example, this might be, for example, just trying to respond with the most common move, regardless of if it can be played. Ultimately, no matter what you input into it, an LLM is trying to find and replicate patterns in language, not underlying logic.
- Comment on ChatGPT "Absolutely Wrecked" at Chess by Atari 2600 Console From 1977 1 month ago:
The LLM doesn’t have to imagine a board, if you feed it the rules of chess and the dimensions of the board it should be able to “play in its head”.
That assumes it knows how to play chess. It doesn’t. It know how to have a passable conversation. Asking it to play chess is like putting bread into a blender and being confused when it doesn’t toast.
But human working memory is shit compared to virtually every other animal. This and processing speed is supposed to be AI’s main draw.
Processing speed and memory in the context of writing. Give it a bunch of chess boards or chess notation and it has no idea which it needs to remember, nonetheless where/how to move. If you want an AI to play chess, you train it on chess gameplay, not books and Reddit comments. AI isn’t a general use tool.
- Comment on Why are you here and not on Reddit? 1 month ago:
It sounds like you’re talking about communities versus user. In the same way Reddit had u/xxxx for users, and r/xxxx for subreddits, its u/xxxx for users and c/xxxx for communities (our subreddit equivalent.)
- Comment on Am I weird for avoiding flying on prop planes, and only fly on jets? 1 month ago:
I know at least one person like that. They won’t outright avoid prop planes, and they know its illogical, but the idea of flying on one still makes them nervous.
- Comment on Ive won a game but I'm not a gamer is there a way of donating it to lemmy somehow? 1 month ago:
I’m assumimg you have a store key.
You could post to one of the relevant communities for game giveaaways, such as !freegames@feddit.uk or !Randomactsofgaming@lemm.ee
Standard practice is to pretty much just say what game you’re offering, and the dm the key to a random respondent after a day or two.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Lemmy was originally founded by political extremists who wantted a space for their politics (tankies.) Its since grown past that, but that inflence is still present in many ways, most prominently in the influences of .ml. On top of this, politics is something inflammatory (and thus engaging) that affects everyone. Because its both engaging and broad-appeal, its going to be something everyone talks about. On the other hand, many niches, aside from being niche are often less inherently engaging (IE talking about a finished TV show). This makes it very hard to get the critical mass needed for a community to snowball into relevance. This means that (effectively) all you’re left with is the political communities and a couple niches that are broad appeal enough and have active enough users to be stable.
- Comment on is it ableist to “support equal rights and those with disabilities” but think someone is terrible and doesn’t deserve rights for showing signs of a disability? 2 months ago:
Yes, its ableist. Excluding, insulting or discriminating against people for disability is basically the definition, reguardless of what they claim. Saying they’re not ableist doesn’t change it, any more than saying something like, “I’m not racist, but…”
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 2 months ago:
Honestly, I like the weekly missions. Back in GO, when there was more discussion about the lack of willingness of players to learn/play new maps, this is one of the solutions I proposed. Its a good, non-invasive way to incentivize playing new and different maps.
- Comment on Counter-Strike 2: Mission Possible update 2 months ago:
I mean, in this case it was a complete technical overhaul. Graphically and technically, its much more flexable and more modern.
It is an Overwatch 2 situation in that it had more of its content removed compared to CS:GO though.
- Comment on Is Catholic dating culture often mistaken for incel-style pessimistic desperation? 2 months ago:
I’ve never seen it described or practiced anything like that. If anything, I’ve seen it having almost the opposite reputation.
- Comment on Has anyone ever clicked on a reference url from OpenAI that didn't 404? 2 months ago:
Yes. Sometimes I get random unrelated stuff instead of 404s.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
If I remember right, Fan Fiction is a sort-of copyright grey area. The characters are owned by the original company, but the remaining working is owned by the fan. Neither side has full ownership, and technically, publishing or sharing it (without both side’s permission) is copyright infringement.
Now, for use of existing intellectual property, the rules are the same. The difference is that anything generated by AI isn’t made by anyone, and thus can’t be owned. As such any IP owned by the company is owned by them, but anything unique from the AI is public domain.
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- Comment on Do you use other federated software besides Lemmy (e.g. Mastodon/Pixelfed/etc.), if so which? 2 months ago:
Excluding email, nope. Seeing as no one else in my friend group uses Federated services, and they’re all still too small to have any niche content, there isn’t really anything for me.
- Comment on PSA: I want a law for PC games to be offered in physical versions again 2 months ago:
Pphysical copies are kinda besides the point in terms of ownership and preservation. Just because you own the disk, doesn’t mean you have access to the software on it. DRM, as well as the laws that make it viable, have been around since well before media was sold digitally. Physical copies of the Crew are no more playable now than digital. If you want to be able to keep your games, you need to buy DRM-free, whether that limits you to digital-only or not.
On the other hand, if you want to actually own your games, we need to massively rework copyright law. The fact that a company can sell you a software licence, but add dozens of arbitrary restrictions on when, how and why you can use it is absurd, nonetheless the fact that its always non-transferable and revokable by the company for any reason. None of that should be legal.
- Comment on Who would win in a fight, a Gorilla or a Bear of equal weight? 3 months ago:
Bears are predators evolved to hunt large game, primarily with brute force (unlike something like a big cat, which relies much more on ambushes).
Gorrilas, as tough as they are, survive through intelligence. This means avoiding tough fights, and when absolutely needed, fighting as a troop rather than individualy.
So bear. But…
Does the Gorilla get time to prepare?
The one advantage gorillas have is their intelligence. If both animals are given training, or tools, then I could see the gorilla potentially winning - mostly because a bear will struggle to get any use out of either, whereas a gorilla could be trained to fight much more effectively and possibly even make/use weapons.