umbraroze

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Who plays like that x_x⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I use inverted Y look with pad controls. Because that makes so much more sense. (Normal mouse look is fine)

  I like how many new games show accessibility settings on start but it’s still rare for them to have both subtitle settings and invert Y right there. And always a celebration when they are.

  Games that don’t even let you invert Y are hella silly. I’m so glad Xbox lets you force the invert. Gotta figure out if you can do that in Windows/Linux.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children's reviews of a mobile app.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  After watching the video I linked in the desc, I actually was, like, “why the hell don’t public broadcasters just hire this guy (and other people like him) and just have them do public art lessons for kids forever?”…well, I guess American public broadcasting isn’t exactly in its golden age right now and I don’t think it will be in the current administration.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Children's reviews of a mobile app.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Or, in this case, children thinking “oh, I’ll give them a 5 star rating, because they probably won’t read bad reviews, but they’ll be sure to read the good reviews. But joke’s on them, the good review is actually a bad review!” (…however, Google, despite being aware that “sarcasm” has been a thing for millennia, still thinks that star ratings are very serious and factual business.)

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump posted this in Truth.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Redux” is the extended cut, which has ~45 extra minutes of stuff that was cut from the original theatrical release. Some of the scenes are great, but some could have been left on the cutting room floor. “The Final Cut” is basically the definitive extended version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oppression.jpg⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The most cyberpunk thing I’ve seen, oh, this week, I guess

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Big Surprise—Nobody Wants 8K TVs⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A lot of people are filming in 6K or 8K, but only because it gives them more editing leeway when the final video is delivered in 4K.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train your brain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, well, Law and Ethics are two separate things which - very rarely these days - seem to cross each other. This is known.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Train your brain⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Courts will say “no, that’s not what we meant by that” and will slap you silly.

  AI companies aren’t on the side of copyright reform or abolition, they just want an exception for themselves so they can keep doing whatever they’re doing now. (And they also want more IP laws to cover the current grey areas, so they can stop pretending to give a damn about releasing publicly available data/weights)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone wants a turn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sure, there aren’t wild turtles in the Netherlands. But this call was aimed at the turtles in general, worldwide! Turtles will be able to get to the Netherlands from the nearest location. Eventually. We believe in them!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Everyone wants a turn⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Aww, no turtles? Come on, turtles, you’re so much faster than snails, go have a walk and demolish that snail distance figure! 🐢

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Leaked emails link NHS data privatiser Palantir to Jeffrey Epstein⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Being a “thinker” isn’t exactly a high bar. A fish can do it (depending on the definition). I mean I suppose I can think, but I wouldn’t brag about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨80s Nostalgia AI Slop Is Boomerfying the Masses for a Past That Never Existed⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was born in '79. I know a lot of 1980s/1990s stuff that’s floating in popular consciousness right now is fictional romanticised bullshit, because it’s based on romaticised fiction made in that era.

  For example, I knew most kids didn’t hang out at The Mall. I was a kid. We didn’t have a goddamn mall. American movies and TV showed kids hanging out at The Mall. Maybe hanging out at the Mall was an aspirational thing. Or something.

  It’s a thing that happened for some people but it’s not the entire truth about the era. It’s not just that people tend to remember the good bits, they tend to remember the good bits that happened to someone else.

  There’s a reason why nobody makes AI slop about the Finnish 1990s banking crisis and its wide systemic repercussions felt to this day.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh wow, Elon figured out how we’ll finally get AGI. The key thing is to publish an automatic mobile client update every single hour of the day! That was the secret productivity metric that every single other company was missing. Thanks, big brain business boy!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jimmy Wales Says Wikipedia Could Use AI. Editors Call It the 'Antithesis of Wikipedia'⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, Fallout Wiki has a pretty crazy history. I don’t remember if they were originally a Fandom wiki, but at some point they definitely went “well, we don’t want to go with Fandom, we’ll go with Curse wiki host instead.” Then Fandom bought Curse wikis and put all of them under Fandom banner anyway.

  The independent Fallout Wiki is basically where the actual community is right now, the Fandom wiki is just there to confuse passers-by with their high search engine rank. Fandom has the policy that the community can fork a wiki and go elsewhere, but they will not close down the Fandom wiki, so good luck with your search rankings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  “Hmm. I wonder. I was thinking of dancing trees. Now I’m wondering what’s next. Screaming trees. Yeah. That’s got to be the answer. Screaming trees.” - private notes by Hans Reiser, filesystem designer and a convicted murderer

  (OK, that’s a fake quote. This one is real:)

  “Trees have their roots pointing up. And if you cut a tree apart, you get a forest. No, I’m not drunk.” - one of my computer science profs, on data structures

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem isn’t that the data is already public.

  The problem is that the AI crawlers want to check on it every 5 minutes, even if you try to tell all crawlers that the file is updated daily, or that the file hasn’t been updated in a month.

  AI crawlers don’t care about robots.txt or other helpful hints about what’s worth crawling or not, and hints on when it’s good time to crawl again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Change your profile to Clippy (call to action)⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy and Piefed support profile pictures. They show up in the web view. It’s just that the mobile apps don’t bother with them. (At least the good one doesn’t. I’m talking about Voyager)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I also thought that newer Halo games aren’t as good as the old ones, simply because in Halo 3 and Reach, the game said “Welcome!” in the beginning of the online matches. I was, like, thank you, happy to be here.

• It's a simple thing, but one good way to make games memorable is for the developers to leave you words of encouragement in the pack-in material.slrpnk.net ↗
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Doom did have text chat, much in the same vein as Quake later on.

  However, Doom originally didn’t have TCP/IP, it only supported IPX/SPX networking on LANs. (Though, why use chat when you can yell.) It also supported point to point modem connections, for which the text chat was probably useful. Later versions of Doom and all modern source ports support TCP/IP though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thanks I'd rather my beer stay analogue⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  US Copyright Office ruled that AI generated content is not eligible for copyright.

  Therefore, AI generated beer is actually Free Beer!

  This is an interesting legal strategy. Let’s see how it goes.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lemmy be like⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The currently hot LLM technology is very interesting and I believe it has legitimate use cases. If we develop them into tools that help assist work. (For example, I’m very intrigued by the stuff that’s happening in the accessibility field.)

  I mostly have problem with the AI business. Ludicruous use cases (shoving AI into places where it has no business in). Sheer arrogance about the sociopolitics in general. Environmental impact. LLMs aren’t good enough for “real” work, but snake oil salesmen keep saying they can do that, and uncritical people keep falling for it.

  And of course, the social impact was just not what we were ready for. “Move fast and break things” may be a good mantra for developing tech, but not for releasing stuff that has vast social impact.

  I believe the AI business and the tech hype cycle is ultimately harming the field. Usually, AI technologies just got gradually developed and integrated to software where they served purpose. Now, it’s marred with controversy for decades to come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New idea ⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  When I was a kid I learned that UK at some point had daily milk delivery. That seemed silly. We here in the continental Europe buy milk in cartons from the store, like civilised people!

  Milk on tap would qualify as return to such barbarism.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sounds like a plan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Software development has been oversaturated for ages. There’s simply far too many applicants and too few open positions. Literally every job offer I’ve seen lately gets hundreds of applicants. Open applications are often not much more fruitful.

  I’d be happy to go freelance/consulting/self-employed route, but our unemployment benefits folks recently did a brilliant move of restricting that even further (literally no one on any field liked that). Universal Basic Income would solve so many problems.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AOL Shield Browser is some absolute Wack Crap.

  Remember how AOL bought Netscape and open-sourced it, leading to the Mozilla project?

  AOL Shield Browser is based on Chromium.

  …I get it, Chromium is easier to use for developing custom browsers than Gecko. But, still… why?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah. …Maybe I should analyse a bit anyway, despite being tired…

  In the aforementioned media the premise is usually that someone has built this amazing new computer system! Too good to be true, right? It goes horribly wrong! All very dramatic!

  That never sat right with me, and was sad, because it was just placating boomer technophobia. Like, technological progress isn’t necessarily bad, OK? That’s the really sad part. I felt sad that good intentions remained unfulfilled.

  Now, this incident is just tragicomical. I’d have a lot better view of LLM business space if everyone with a bit of sense in their heads admitted they’re quirky buggy unreliable side projects of tech companies and should not be used without serious supervision, as they patently are at the moment, but very important people with big money bags say that they don’t care if they’ll destroy the planet to make everything wobble around in LLM control.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Gemini struggles to write code, calls itself “a disgrace to my species”⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  (Shedding a few tears)

  I know! I KNOW! People are going to say “oh it’s a machine, it’s just a statistical sequence and not real, don’t feel bad”, etc etc.

  But I always felt bad when watching 80s/90s TV and movies when AIs inevitably freaked out and went haywire and there were explosions and then some random character said “goes to show we should never use computers again”, roll credits.

  (sigh) I can’t analyse this stuff this weekend, sorry

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Heretic + Hexen re-release - Launch Trailer | Nightdive Studios⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have no recollection when I bought the original big bundle of id Software stuff, but looks like this got dropped to my Steam library anyway. Wait, what, I got the Doom 1/2 remake too? Very nice. See this is what we should encourage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet the AI vegans: They are choosing to abstain from using artificial intelligence for environmental, ethical and personal reasons. Maybe they have a point⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This makes about as much sense as calling Linux users “Windows vegans”.

  Choosing to not use AI isn’t some wacky contrarian position, it’s a tame position that can easily be justified. (Don’t want to use AI? Then don’t.) If anything, trying to assert that constantly using AI for everything would be the new normal is the wacky position.