TheOctonaut
@TheOctonaut@mander.xyz
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 4 days ago:
Floorp
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
Nice religion.
It’s a tool. You’re attaching far too much moral virtue to something that in another breath you will describe as an autocomplete tool.
- Comment on Indie Game Awards Disqualifies Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 Due To Gen AI Usage 4 days ago:
You are all over this thread repeating variations of the same comment which, despite wildly different responses from voters, mostly show you do not at all understand how image model training and generation work.
This sort of absolutism is dead. Do you think they should be disqualified if they Google something and the answer is in Google’s AI summary?
- No? Great, now we understand your line is subjective and you get to decide what is or isn’t acceptable use of AI.
- Yes? Cool. Describe how the you police this and how do you choose between fhe three games made next year that will qualify, of which 2 are furry Visual Novels made entirely of RPG maker assets and 1 is the fifty-seventh Pokemon entry.
- Comment on UK to “encourage” Apple and Google to put nudity-blocking systems on phones 1 week ago:
Assuming the cutout feature works by AI and requires you send your photo to their server, it makes a lot of sense that Apple don’t want you sending your nads to their server.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 1 week ago:
Is “the vast majority of your users” your display name or something? I have those turned off in my client settings
- Comment on Do we have No Man's Sky fans here? 1 week ago:
Vast yes. Deep, no. That’s what you’re experiencing; the actual game loop is about as complex as Farmville
- Comment on Hurray! This German State Decides to Save €15 Million Each Year By Kicking Out Microsoft for Open Source 2 weeks ago:
I swear to god if this is Schleiswig Holstein again I’m giving it back to Denmark
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 weeks ago:
Everything else is “a hack” in the sense that it is literally just the way to get Jellyfin working outside your network too.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 2 weeks ago:
Remote access via their servers.
- Comment on Why isint lemmy more popular? 2 weeks ago:
Ok but have you tried using Jellyfin?
- Comment on Gravity! 3 weeks ago:
The stupidest possible way to say the truth. Now that’s a .ml comment
- Comment on *confused flatfish noises* 3 weeks ago:
Actually they develop in its juvenile state when they are vulnerable to more mundane predators but are then retained for sexual selection in adulthood.
There is only one tarrasque in existence, resulting in it taking its sexual frustration out on level 20 adventuring parties and parties that keep making fun of the lore- uh, history- of the world they grew up in.
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 5 weeks ago:
You keep hearing about the same 3 german states moving to LibreOffice. That’s not quite the same thing.
- Comment on egg time 2 months ago:
This is the other way around. There are some who want to push back the definition of “bird” to include more dinosaurs via earlier divergence. There are even a few that argue that certain conventially non-avian dinosaurs are actually from the agreed bird lineage but converged back on a bipedal dinosaur shape.
- Comment on Just let me back up my games! 2 months ago:
What.
You buy a new switch, log into your account, and download them. Or put your physical games into the new Switch.
You’re describing every console ever, but blaming Nintendo specifically. Why?
- Comment on YSK: YouTube views went down since mid-August because they no longer count views of not logged in users 2 months ago:
Why is that crazy?
You don’t want to register a view just because the backend sent a 200 response for the video.
You want to register a view when the video has loaded, it has begun to play, and quite likely after some arbitrary percentage of the video.
This is all front end information. How much of the video was made available to the front end to play isn’t really relevant.
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
Are you aware that more than one country exists?
- Comment on Google says adblockers caused YouTube views count to drop - this is what adblockers told us really happened 2 months ago:
Just so we’re clear, you’re proposing UBI as a solution to a global website showing ads
- Comment on What D&D alignment would my character(s) be? 3 months ago:
Please don’t ever play D&D with real people
- Comment on do what you love 3 months ago:
CS is Computer Science, Cyber Security is abbreviated as CyberSecs, Google it
- Comment on Where will nsfw game creators go now that itch.io has "changed"? 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months 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 4 months ago:
If you think that historical context doesnt inform culture, you must be an American, in possession of neither.