TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 5 days ago:
Based on what Steam did, isn’t uh, specific categories of NSFW that were removed? Or has itch gone 100% no NSFW?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 6 days ago:
It’s not redirecting the conversation to respond to your statement that whataboutism is when the hypocrisy is “unrelated”. Which conveniently lets you decide what is related or unrelated.
Do you not consider Russians human?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
You want examples of Chinese companies disregarding copyright? Uh.
www.aliexpress.com? Or, yknow, the actual article we’re commenting on?
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
You think I’m going to shift the goalposts for one example? Ok, yeah that definitely overrules literally decades of behaviour. You win. Here’s your Internet reward for the best argument. ⭐️
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
Explained is not the same as justified.
I would have thought this was obvious but forcing your rivals to abide by their own rules while flouting them yourself is not an endorsement of those rules, it’s a mockery of them.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
I have no issue with people going after China. I’m not a hexbear/ml stooge. It is possible for two things to be bad. It is possible for something about a bad entity to be neutral or at least unsurprising. Which is how I would describe China’s lack of real interest in engaging with, from their perspective, the global order’s new fad interest in intellectual property rights.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
And, as always, it is in the sealion’s power to determine what is the same, and what is “different but related”.
Arf arf arf
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
No, but this might shock you, other countries have different definitions of what theft is. Theft is taking something from someone.
The funny part being that it is literally enshrined in American law that game mechanics can’t be copyrighted, so its not even in the definition of theft in America either.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
“Issues with westerners” is an odd choice given that I’m Irish but ok.
It’s not my job to comfort American fragility. Genocide enablers are fair targets in all situations.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
We used to just call that “pointing out hypocrisy” before Americans found a thought terminating phrase for it
- Comment on Sony calls Tencent game ‘slavish clone’ of Horizon in new lawsuit 1 week ago:
abduct Chinese paper makers, imprison them, steal the technology
sneak into China, impersonate religious figures, hide silkworms on your person, sell to a Roman emperor
sail into China, pretend to be a botanist. Steal tea and grow it in your starving colonies instead of food
“Why don’t China care about western patents and copyright?”
- Comment on New Executive Order:AI must agree on the Administration views on Sex,Race, cant mention what they deem to be Critical Race Theory,Unconscious Bias,Intersectionality,Systemic Racism or "Transgenderism 1 week ago:
lol look at this guy still thinking in terms of “the crime comes first”.
You arrest the dissident, then choose which ‘law’ they’ve broken. Don’t worry about the details. ‘Who is responsible’? The guy you just arrested. Duh.
- Comment on Realized 99% of all my chargers are USB-C. This can only mean one thing. New USB bout to drop! 3 weeks ago:
100% of Irish people can speak English and do so without sounding as ridiculous as the Dutch do.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
Crimes are (ostensibly) supposed to be proven beyond doubt, so yes, it can be (and often is, I work for a telecom) used evidence, for both prosecution and defence.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 month ago:
Yes but
- it doesn’t let me charge and play at the same time
- I could hot swap in and out batteries, but it doesn’t report battery percentage
- It also doesn’t auto-pause when the battery dies, like other systems do
- It runs through them quickly
- it acts finicky/unpredictable when the battery is very low, rather than reaching a consistent threshold and stopping working
- In combination with a bug/anti-feature I’ve posted about previously, my Steam Deck sees it as a new controller every time the batteries are replaced, despite the Bluetooth MAC/BDA not changing.
- Comment on One gamer got so tired of waiting for Valve, he made his own 'Steam Controller 2' out of Steam Deck parts, and it even splits in half like Switch Joy-Cons 1 month ago:
For me, I want one with internal rechargeable (and replaceable) batteries, more reliable Bluetooth, and multi-device targeting (ie those 1,2,3 toggles you see on stuff like mouse/keyboards - I use mine on my Steam Deck and also on my desktop - dont want to mess with pairing each time. Plus if I end up with with a Switch 2, the trackpad would be interesting for mouse mode if those could connect (no idea)).
- Comment on The grass is happy to see you 1 month ago:
Grass, famously, does not die when it’s cut. In fact to some degree, grass benefits from being grazed on, as grazers in a meadow will eat everything - leaving grass that is ready to grow back quickly, and severely harmed weeds and shrubs that will either die or be significantly set back while the grass quickly overshadows it.
- Comment on Massive internet outage reported: Google services, Cloudflare, Character.AI among dozens of services impacted 1 month ago:
Your code can compile while you’re in a retro, retrospectively looking back at the action items raised in a previous retro but not assigned any sprint time in the current sprint so you just raised a "what went wrong about it not being planned and now you have more non-sprint work to do because every problem should be presented with a solution and if you could have that for the next retro they’ll review this retro’s action items and see if you have a proposal for fixing retro action items
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
I’m not sure what you interpret from the words “policy changes” but they dont usually refer to a weird feeling.
- Comment on Palantir may be engaging in a coordinated disinformation campaign by astroturfing these news-related subreddits: r/world, r/newsletter, r/investinq, and r/tech_news 1 month ago:
Vibes. Got it.
- Comment on What's going on with moths and lamps in lemmy? 1 month ago:
Bizarre questions like this make me more confident my blocklist is working
- Comment on Twenty-seven states and DC sue 23andMe to oppose the sale of DNA data from its customers without their direct consent 1 month ago:
Raped some native girl and then… took custody of the child?
- Comment on The use of lunar calendar might be the reason why days start at midnight. 3 months ago:
Quite apart from all these people telling you that the day used to start at sunset, I am curious as to how you came to the thought in the first place, since the moon and it’s phases do not align to hours at all.
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 months ago:
Lemmy 24/7: “if its free, you’re the product”
Lemmy on Nintendo: “Why should I pay for online play?! It needs to be free, moderated, and exist indefinitely even after the obsolescence of the product. Otherwise, I’m entirely justified in pirating everything.”
- Comment on Switch 2 GameCube controller will only be offered to those who pre-order the console 3 months ago:
A controller that is useful only when you have that online subscription to play the back catalogue, yes.
- Comment on What are people from Moscow and Versailles called? 3 months ago:
People are answering your headline but not understanding your question; the two aren’t as linked as they would be in French.
All of these are valid:
- I went to a Moscow school
- I went to a school in Moscow
- I went to a Versaille cafe
- I went to a cafe in Versaille.
- I dated a London girl
- I dated a girl from London
These sound more natural than the following: *I went to a Muscovite school *I went to a Versaillian cafe (People have been giving you the direct French for Versaillais, but English wouldn’t use fhat)
- I dated a Londoner girl.
At least for Muscovite, it retains the implication that the school is for people from Moscow, rather than the school being in Moscow. You can see this a lot more often in religion, eg. I went to a Presbyterian school - I went to a school for Presbyterians.
- Comment on would getting back with an ex be a bad idea? 4 months ago:
I’m not sure this even counts because the guy basically said let’s be friends and she has leapt to thinking about getting back together. This just sounds like someone with issues of their own, if dating someone who is obviously unthinking but falls well within the predicted bounds of normal behaviour for a teenager makes them think they might be a lesbian.
- Comment on Is there any hope for Ukraine to survive as an independent state now that trump is desperately wishing for a peace treaty with Russia, even bypassing Ukraine? 5 months ago:
Rockerface is Ukrainian, not American.
Being a seemingly temporary non-nation, Americans don’t always understand that people don’t usually just give up and accept conquest. If a people continue to distinguish themselves strongly enough without being literally wiped out or assimilated, they will survive annexation until the next opportunity for rebellion or freedom. Ireland resisted Britain for 800 years - a few years in the shadows of dictators until ordinary Russians grow balls/tits again isn’t necessarily the end of Ukraine.
- Comment on DeepSeek Proves It: Open Source is the Secret to Dominating Tech Markets (and Wall Street has it wrong). 5 months ago:
the accepted terminology
No, it isn’t. The OSI specifically requires the training data be available or at very least that the source and fee for the data be given so that a user could get the same copy themselves. Because that’s the purpose of something being “open source”. Open source doesn’t just mean free to download and use.
opensource.org/ai/open-source-ai-definition
Data Information: Sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system so that a skilled person can build a substantially equivalent system. Data Information shall be made available under OSI-approved terms.
In particular, this must include: (1) the complete description of all data used for training, including (if used) of unshareable data, disclosing the provenance of the data, its scope and characteristics, how the data was obtained and selected, the labeling procedures, and data processing and filtering methodologies; (2) a listing of all publicly available training data and where to obtain it; and (3) a listing of all training data obtainable from third parties and where to obtain it, including for fee.
As per their paper, DeepSeek R1 required a very specific training data set because when they tried the same technique with less curated data, they got R"zero’ which basically ran fast and spat out a gibberish salad of English, Chinese and Python.
People are calling DeepSeek open source purely because they called themselves open source, but they seem to just be another free to download, black-box model. The best comparison is to Meta’s LlaMa, which weirdly nobody has decided is going to up-end the tech industry.
In reality “open source” is a terrible terminology for what is a very loose fit when basically trying to say that anyone could recreate or modify the model because they have the exact ‘recipe’.