CrayonRosary
@CrayonRosary@lemmy.world
- Comment on Samsung mocks Apple’s crushing iPad Pro ad with its own ‘UnCrush’ pitch 11 minutes ago:
And you can’t unlock their boot loaders. You must suffer their changes to Android, their assistant, their UI, their spyware, and bloatware. You don’t own the device.
- Comment on What's your favorite Super Mario Bros ROM hack? 3 days ago:
Fap & Dash?
- Comment on Cubic millimetre of brain mapped in spectacular detail 6 days ago:
LLM’s work on multi-dimensional search spaces
You’re missing half of it. The data cube is just for storing and finding weights. Those weights are then loaded into the nodes of a neural network to do the actual work. The neural network was inspired by actual brains.
- Comment on Article on a Fan-Made Remake Of Dragon Quest 6 days ago:
Here’s the article. Their cookie policy is shit, so fuck 'em.
Enix’s Dragon Quest is one of the most important JRPGs ever made and can be credited (alongside Final Fantasy) with turning the genre into the huge commercial proposition it is in Japan today.
However, given that the game’s Western release – under the title Dragon Warrior – wasn’t quite as acclaimed in the US, there’s a good chance that some of you reading this haven’t actually experienced the first game in the franchise.
Before running to Square Enix’s official ‘remaster’ of the game on your Switch, you might want to check out Dragon Quest +, a fan-made remake from NightFly Studio. Described as a “full remake” for PC containing around six to eight hours of additional content, it has been in development for over a decade and finally got a full release late last year.
Dragon Quest + features remixed monsters, new weapons and armour, an orchestrated soundtrack, new locations inspired by Dragon Quest Monsters and Dragon Quest Monsters 2, new mini-dungeons in Alefgard and three fresh minigames.
It’s free to download but is only compatible with Windows XP SP3, Windows 7 Pro, Windows 10 and Windows 11. It’s also playable on Steam Deck, although there appear to be some issues which are still being ironed out.
- Comment on After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year 1 week ago:
I don’t subscribe, bit I wouldn’t think about it compared to the price of physical media. I would compare it to satellite radio. Or cable radio. (Does Spectrum still do that?)
All three are paid, ad-free radio, sorta, though streaming services are on-demand.
- Comment on Chonky nozzel + decent amount of material = opportunity for lots of spaghetti 1 week ago:
Oop! Spaghett!
- Comment on Is Boeing in big trouble? World's largest aerospace firm faces 10 more whistleblowers after sudden death of two 1 week ago:
So hard you dropped an O.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
Ah, I don’t use that on my Pixel 7 Pro, so it gives the old menu.
- Comment on Stop Using Your Face or Thumb to Unlock Your Phone 2 weeks ago:
You can instead hold the power button for 1 second to open the same menu. Feels easier to me.
- Comment on After 10,000+ hours grinding, MapleStory's first level 300 player slams the brakes at 299.99 to rant about the MMO and then quit, all on a dev-promoted stream 2 weeks ago:
They’re addicted to the high of winning, which happens at random intervals. That’s the core of gambling addiction and MOBA addiction. They will win again… eventually. So they keep playing even though losing sucks.
- Comment on Boeing retaliated against its own engineers working for FAA, union says 3 weeks ago:
Without my glasses, I thought the thumbnail was some kind of ape. I blurred this screenshot a little to simulate.
- Comment on How Trump’s tariff plans could kill jobs and worsen inflation 4 weeks ago:
“Chaien Ah”
- Comment on 96% of US Hospital Websites Share Visitor Data with Google, Meta, Data Brokers, and Other Third Parties, Study Finds 4 weeks ago:
Please explain. How can google, Facebook, and such get data out of a hospital web server directly? That would be hacking.
- Comment on Fallout 4 is Getting Free Updates on April 25 4 weeks ago:
You aren’t forced to update the game.
- Comment on These mods on their power-trips really need to stop 4 weeks ago:
Welcome to my block list. I guess I’m power tripping.
- Comment on Leading the world in technology and ecological transit.. on 3.5" 5 weeks ago:
Maybe they meant home computers, and that’s all most of their audience will picture in their heads, anyway. But yeah, not a very good computer historian.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 1 month ago:
You can doom scroll without the current video looping, though.
- Comment on Pixelfed introduces Loops, a Short-Form Video App 1 month ago:
Why do short videos have to loop automatically with no way to turn it off? Who the hell decided that was a good idea and why has every other app followed suit?
I especially hate the ones designed to loop because they think it’s “so clever”.
“Never play with liquid mercury
It’s really bad for your health and shit
That’s why you should…”🤮
- Comment on ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots 1 month ago:
This looks like junk in a web browser. Here it is inside a code block.
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- Comment on AI image-generator Midjourney blocks images of Biden and Trump as election looms 2 months ago:
Image generators are not LLMs. LLM stands for large language model. Those are for generating text.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
Fallout 76 was a nice change of pace, graphically. It was crap gameplay at launch, but it sure was pretty. I wonder if it’s worth another playthrough now that it has human NPCs and raiders and such.
Hell, I don’t even know what platform I bought it on and if my account it still active.
- Comment on Calling things "fat" or "heavy" is fattist. We should all say "rotund" instead. 2 months ago:
It just comes across as a dumb joke. I don’t think they’re trolling. Especially considering the post body.
- Comment on Can we talk about FF7 - Rebirth? 2 months ago:
loaded with pointless minigames
You should play the original! 😂
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
Thing is, 200 years after a nuclear apocalypse the whole world would be green.
- Comment on PC Engine (TG16) games are so colourful! I wish more modern games use bright colours like they used to do. 2 months ago:
Now way! Give me Fallout 3’s atomic drab brown all day. /s
- Comment on What are some good games with *zero* replayability? 2 months ago:
I kind of agree with OC’s sentiment. The game is a masterpiece, but the puzzle solving and metagame is half of the game, if not more. Once you’ve solved that, replaying it is just going through the motions of a pretty OK action adventure game. I dunno.
It’s like playing Braid after beating it. Another masterpiece of a game! You could speed run it—which I was very much into—but the thought of playing it again after that just doesn’t interest me. It’s just going through the motions.
That being said, its been years and years since I’ve played it and there’s a new anniversary edition coming out with new content. I’m almost certainly going to buy it.
I loved the built-in speed run of that game. You only had 45 minutes to beat the whole thing. The first time I accomplished that, my time was 44:58 and some change! I lost my shit that I managed to juuuust squeak in a win! 😂
I ended up getting it down to 37 minutes. There are so many tricks in that game to speed it up. I wonder what the official best time is. Back in the Xbox 360 days there were a lot of cheaters using the back-end to submit bullshit scores. Or people doing save trading and all having the exact same time down to 1/100 of a second.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
Well, yeah. They are told to put down their weapon. They get 20 seconds to comply. If they don’t, they get killed.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
That’s funny because the whole post was sarcastically outlining a distopian nightmare.
If that kind of stuff was actually to become real, some dictator would take control of it and subjugate the entire country, or world… forever. There’d be no way to resist that level of surveillance or machine policing.
- Comment on Are there any genuine benefits to AI? 2 months ago:
Don’t limit your thoughts to just generative AI, which is what you are talking about. Chat bot and media generation aren’t the only uses for AI (by which I mean any trained neural network program that can do some sort of task.
Motor skills
AI can solve learn to solve the marble maze “Labyrinth” much, much faster than a human, and then speedrun it faster than any human ever has. Six hours. That’s how long it took a brand new baby AI to beat the human world record. A human that has been learning hand-eye coordination and fine motor control all of it’s life, with a brain which evolved over millions of years to do exactly that.
No special code needed. The AI didn’t need to be told how balls roll or knobs turn, or how walls block the ball. It earned all of that on the fly. The only special code it had was optical and mechanical. It knew it had “hands” in the form of two motors, and it knew how to use them. It also had eyes (a camera), and access to a neural network computer vision system. When the AI started taking illegal shortcuts, and they had to instruct it to follow the prescribed path, which is printed on the maze.
Robots could in factories, mines, and other dangerous, dehumanizing jobs. Why do we want workers to behave like robots in a factory just to get paid? Replace them with actual robots and let them perform a human job like customer service.
Think of a robot that has actual hands and arms, feet and legs, and various “muscles”. We have it learn it’s motor control using a very accurate physics system on a computer that simulates its body. This allows the AI to learn at much faster speeds than by controlling a real robot. We can simulate thousands of robots in parallel and run the simulations much faster than real time. Train it to learn how to use it’s limbs and eyes to climb over obstacles, open doors and detain or kill people. We could replace police with them. Super agile robot cops with no racial bias or other prejudices. Arresting people and recording their crimes. Genuine benefit.
Computer Vision
AI can be trained to recognize objects, abstract shapes, people’s individual faces, emotions, people’s individual body shape, mannerisms, and gait. There are many genuine benefits to such systems. We can monitor every public location with cameras and an AI employing these tools. This would help you find lost loved ones, keep track of your kids as they navigate the city, and track criminal activity.
By recording all of this data, tagged with individual names, we can spontaneously view the public history of any person in the world for law enforcement purposes. Imagine we identify a person as a threat to public safety 10 years from now. We’d have 10 years of data showing everyone they’ve ever associated with and where they went. Then we could weed out entire networks of crime at once by finding patterns among the people they’ve associated with.
AI can even predict near future crime from an individual’s recent location history, employment history, etc. Imagine a person is fired from his job then visits a gun store then his previous place of employment. Pretty obvious what’s going on, right? But what if it happens over the period of two weeks? Difficult for a human to detect a pattern like this in all the noise of millions of people doing their everyday tasks, but easy for an AI. Genuine benefit.
Managing Production
With enough data and processing power, we can manage the entire economy without the need for capitalism. People’s needs could be calculated by an AI and production can be planned years ahead of time to optimize inputs and outputs. The economy–as it stands today–is a distributed network of human brains and various computers. AI can eliminate the need for the humans, which is good because humans are greedy and neurotic. AI can do the same job without either. Again, human’s are freed to pursue human endeavors instead of worrying about making sure each farm and factory has the resources it needs to feed and clothe everyone. Genuine benefit.
Togetherness
We will all be part of the same machine working in harmony instead of fighting over how to allocate resources. Genuine benefit!
- Comment on Sustaining Proton’s mission over time | Proton 2 months ago:
I could imagine a tool that makes cloud storage act like a remote hard drive, with sectors and everything. Where these “sectors” are just small binary files.
You have software locally that is setup to track local files and calculate how they are mapped to the remote sectors. When a file gets updated, or new ones are added, it shuffles things around in an efficient manner to keep the number of remote updates to a minimum, and then it only updates or adds the required sector files. This way a tiny edit to a 4 GB local file would only require a tiny upload to the server instead of resending a new encrypted copy of the entire 4 GB file.
Not only are the little sector files all encrypted with a private key known only to you, the file structure in this system doesn’t even make any sense to anyone but you.
However, if you lose you home PC and the file structure DB, the cloud copy becomes absolutely useless. Even if you had a backup of the private key.
Something like this surely already exists. Maybe there are even cloud storage providers who offer hard-drive like access to a block of data instead of being file-based.