utopiah
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- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 1 day ago:
Classic GenAI marketing BS :
- show a superficial demo (literally it’s JUST the surface of the things you claim you can “generate”)
- imply that we are on the “brink” of radical change so we “just” have to wait then the “rest” will be generated
- move on to the next grandiose claim to make sure nobody goes beyond the surface
It’s so obvious it’s painful. Sure it’s not random, sure there is “progress” but it’s NEVER tackling the hard problem. What makes a game fun or exciting isn’t the generated world, only a non gamer would claim that.
- Comment on Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC' 1 week ago:
you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way
Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds doombuds.com which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
Sorry buddy but you are not “smart enough” to use that super powerful tool that supposedly can do everything extremely convenient for you! /s
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
Right, except that unlike Explorer or IE after that it siphon everything it can to send it back to Redmond so even if one does not use it, it is STILL a problem.
- Comment on Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it 1 week ago:
“bend the productivity curve” is such a beautiful to say that they are running out of ideas on how to sell that damn thing.
It basically went from :
- it’s going to change EVERYTHING! Humanity as we know it is a thing of the past!
… to “bend the productivity curve”. It’s not how it “radically increase productivity” no it’s a lot more subtle than that, to the point that it can actually bend that curve down. What a shit show.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
Another interesting metric is piracy trends, checking a popular show, e.g Fallout and its latest episode namely S02E05 :
- 1080p ~15k seeds
- 720p ~3k seeds
- 480p ~0.2 seeds
… and 2160p gets 50 seeds!
Of course that’s just 1 datapoint and it’d have to be replicated (maybe it was released after the other versions, maybe it’s a show people do NOT want in high res, etc) but it’s quite a big gap.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
I’m not arguing about prices. I wish prices would keep on going down but that’s just my preference as a consumer. It has nothing to do with my argument though.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
I’d be curious to know if game size is increasing over time. My intuition is that we also peaked at 200GB installs. There are bigger games but on average I’m not sure we installation size keeps on growing.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
Interesting, I’m not sure if there is a metric for it, maybe Steam most popular configuration could be used then see if it’s average time does it indeed last longer? My intuition is it might indeed but I didn’t check the actual data.
- Comment on Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim 2 weeks ago:
Honestly I don’t think it matters so much…
I think we reached peaked IT few years ago.
Nobody needs (that’s the crux term here, need, not “want” or “desire” or “wish”) a bigger hard drive. It’s the same way nobody needs an 8K TV and they they aren’t sold. Why?
I’m glad you ask, it’s all connected! If you stick to “just” a 4K TV, because you have normal human eyes, then the content you need is “just” 4K so a movie is just 2GB or so… and thus you don’t need a larger hard drive.
I can already hear the steps of that ONE person who edits 360 8K videos for National Geographic preparing to argue “actually…!” and yes, they ARE right. Some people, professionals, DO need super high res, super high framerate, super high everything … but that’s NOT your average consumer. You average consumer STOPPED upgrading because they need to. Most consumer who still upgrade mostly do it because of habit, because they get coerced into it (e.g. MicroSlop Windows 11) but not because they genuinely need to.
So… yes I “wish” I had better everything, including hard drive, but the truth is we “peaked” in terms of actually required spec a couple of years ago, same for phones that are now the same equivalent small slabs.
My point is I’m wondering if this AI bet will have deeper consequence for the industry overall with the realization for most people (again, please before you reply : your average consumer, the person who browse the Web, watch a video of a TV series, play some games for fun, NOT a professional!) that the hardware they have TODAY is good enough.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
FWIW I do have 2 Linux phones and… they work. The problem IMHO is that non-software companies believe THEY can lock or profit their customers via an “app”. If they only provided a Web page instead rather than a mandatory mobile application then it wouldn’t matter so much.
So, despite have working Linux phones (albeit far from perfect) I’m still relying on a deGoogled Android phone so that I can run mobile “apps” for only a couple of, quite important to me, services.
To summarize, I don’t think it’s the OS themselves that fuel lock-in but rather apps that require those locked down OSes.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
TBH I don’t think he’s wrong, especially in HIS position.
Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing… but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.
So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.
TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.
- Comment on Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform 2 weeks ago:
Neat, my current setup is :
- stream from FIP.fr via cvlc - when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp - if it’s not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek - scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone
I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.
Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.
- Comment on What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET 3 weeks ago:
Lot of complex discussions here about Ham radio operator, new hardware or protocol like Mestastic, SDR, etc so I’d start with “just” what people already have at home and only AFTER go there, if need be.
If you have WiFi Mesh at home or IoT via ZigBee or Z-Wave you already are doing mesh networking. Sure you might not have Internet access this way but the principle is already there via your existing relative affordable infrastructure.
- Comment on Hurry pls it's urgent 3 weeks ago:
Does it even matter? Just opening the door of a clean room is enough to make the whole thing useless. Also, even without opening the door, how does one even run an ASML device without their support? That doesn’t sound realistic.
- Comment on Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" 3 weeks ago:
😁
- Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 4 weeks ago:
controversial take.
Nope, I agree, and so far you get only upvotes so… we agree.
- Comment on What's it going to take to truly stop the US? 4 weeks ago:
Canada, Mexico, the EU, and others just refusing to do business with the US.
Seeing how the EU is still going business with Russian while it’s at war with Ukraine it’s hard to imagine such a scenario.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
Well I do mean physically opaque but true that implies, as few persons did comment regarding e.g. Poker, that the content itself or the rules do not change the distribution to introduce artificial scarcity.
The point is that purchasing a package in itself should not be a monetary bet.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
You might enjoy Loot box content is associated with increased user engagement for YouTube gaming videos (2023) then.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
To learn why it matters Neuroexploitation by Design at 39c3 (with English dubbing) specifically 28min in.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
What I tried to express is that when decks are
- NOT the same
- AND are sealed
- AND there is a distribution of the content (namely some rare and non rare items)
then the purchase of that deck itself is gambling.
That does not imply anything about other situation, namely decks that are all the same can still be used for gambling when there are played with rules that do introduce randomness.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
Uno can be gambling too if you start to bet on round. Anything can be gambling if you want it to but poker with non convertible tokens isn’t gambling. Betting on players also would be gambling. Anything can become gambling. If you think that’s an overstatement look at predictive markets to see how broad bettable events can be it’s
amazingscary. - Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
Uno is not gambling because there is no money involved.
Uno is not gambling because all decks are the same. There is no artificial scarcity to monetize, it’s literally just a game and that’s good.
- Comment on EU lawmakers to study ban 'loot boxes' and other addictive features in video games 4 weeks ago:
YuGiHo, MTG, Pokemon cards, Labubu, etc basically
ANYTHING that comes
- sealed (as opposed to transparent packaging) and is
- collectible (limited supplied of some specific items)
physical or not is prone to betting and thus addiction. We tend to ignore the thing we care about, because we are passionate or come up with explanations (not to say excuses or post-rationalization) but in practice it doesn’t matter if your MTG deck is super “powerful” or that you see yourself as a great strategist, in fine if you do buy or promote those your are promoting gambling.
- Comment on Article: I switched to eSIM in 2025, and I am full of regret 5 weeks ago:
I don’t use eSIM most of the time but when I travel and I don’t want roaming, damn it’s nice. I just go on Airalo or Saily, pick a destination, pay something like 20 bucks and get the data. I load it up on my phone, travel, land and voila, works right away while I’m still on my way through customs. No WiFi needed, no “quick” trip to a random shop or a large provider that’ll try to upsell whatever. I just land, connect, use my VPN and voila.
Also if your phone doesn’t support eSIM you can use jmp.chat/esim-adapter
- Comment on Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents 5 weeks ago:
1st time in my life I get a
Error HTTP 451even had to look up en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTTP_451 and I have to admit the reference to Ray Bradbury’s 1953 dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451 is pretty neat.Consequently because the proxy link you provided is relying on CloudFlare which is itself blocking access I recommending link first to the original content annas-archive.org/torrents and optionally to mirrors, proxies, etc.
- Comment on LG TVs’ unremovable Copilot shortcut is the least of smart TVs’ AI problems 1 month ago:
FWIW I replaced my Samsung “smart” TV by a Nebula Mars video projector. It’s very convenient and let’s me forget I have it, tucked away and hidden most of the time. Yes it is “smart” but it’s Android and I can connect via
adbto it to install apps like VLC, make it start on boot, etc. I’m not updating it.Next time I do buy a replacement though I’ll verify first in forums if it can be rooted to have the level of control I need. Maybe there will be a OSHW equivalent to www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/open-printer for video projectors as unfortunately it seems like a trend.
- Comment on China Has Reportedly Built Its First EUV Machine Prototype, Marking a Semiconductor Breakthrough the U.S. Has Feared All Along 1 month ago:
Meanwhile ASML just stops doing R&D and give up on its extremely specialized supply chain. /s
- Comment on Larian CEO Responds to Divinity Gen AI Backlash: 'We Are Neither Releasing a Game With Any AI Components, Nor Are We Looking at Trimming Down Teams to Replace Them With AI' 1 month ago:
Surprising, I would expect it’d rely at some point on something like CLIP in order to be prompted.