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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨leading ai company⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ 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 ⁨days⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ 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)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox Retaliates Against Child Abuse Survivor Who Exposed Platform's Predator Problem⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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”⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Battlefield 6 won't cost $80, but EA aren't ruling out future price hikes "to capture the full spectrum of pricing"⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The “full spectrum of pricing”, from ludicrous to overpriced to straight up exorbitant.

  These guys have no idea how many bloody full price AAA games I have on my backlog and I have said, with considerable gravity, that I guess I’ll get to them later. In a few years maybe. We’ll see.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Be nice⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Some poor sod at the US government: “Hold on! HOLD ON! We’re getting hundreds of payments a minute. We need some time to verify all of the new vote orders. It’s very complicated. All votes will happen in due time!”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Got emotional thinking about this⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  My parents live in a fairly small town. I tried to go looking for my late father in the Streetview pics. There were a few more Streetview photos from the last few years, after his death, but before that, there was just one set from over 10 years ago, and nothing beyond that. Couldn’t see him on Streetview, but saw his car in front of the place where he worked in his spare time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US condemns French inquiry into Elon Musk's social media platform X/Twitter.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Martin: Organized crime?
  Cosmo: Hah. Don’t kid yourself. It’s not that organized.

  – Sneakers (1992)

  Twitter is absolutely going to say “well, we’re definitely not an organised hate group. Sometimes people just hate stuff. We’re just a social media platform, helping people organise. Oh shit”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PSA on privuhcy⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There’s also Léon the URL Cleaner.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“You can't be expected to have a successful AI program when every single article, book or anything else that you've read or studied, you're supposed to pay for” Donald Trump said⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Remember:

  Copyright law as a whole will stay the same. In the court of law, you will need to prove that you indeed operate a very big AI company that indeed does AI things before they will let you off the hook for massive copyright infringement. You can’t just use that excuse casually! Rules will be for thee, not the actual AI-companees.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Vibe coding service Replit deleted production database⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AI is good at doing a thing once.
  Trying to get it to do the same thing the second time is janky and frustrating.

  I understand the use of AI as a consulting tool (look at references, make code examples) or for generating template/boilerplate code. You know, things you do once and then develop further upon on your own.

  But using it for continuous development of an entire application? Yeah, it’s not good enough for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Enough⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The sign on the door reads “Execution Chamber”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pentagon to start using Grok as part of a $200 million contract with Elon Musk's xAI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  People will no longer laugh at the term “military intelligence” for the obvious irony. Now, they’ll say “remember when the military tried to use artificial intelligence? ha ha what a disaster”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I wasn’t able to see this on my phone. Almost gave up hope. But. HOLY CRAP. Re-watching the LGR video on my desktop monitor and I can see the stuff again! So… thanks, I guess!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Tried various distances, that didn’t help too much. I’m afraid I have to hold to the theory that I’m officially old now and need bifocals.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Can you see magic eye pictures?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see them.

  Or at least I could. When LGR recently made a video about them, I was having a very bad time viewing them. I was either too drunk or not used to seeing them with this TV setup or I just need new glasses. Probably the last one.

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