brucethemoose
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- Comment on Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet? 3 days ago:
Cyberpunk is way better now. Especially modded. Check out www.nexusmods.com/games/cyberpunk2077/…/lv4wpp
The AC games are not, lol.
Yeah, KCD II is a marvel of a game, if you’re into “so medieval it hurts.” It is so medieval it hurts.
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 3 days ago:
Same with germanium.
And boron.
…I was gonna say I wouldn’t want a cube of Boron. But actually, I kinda do?
- Comment on Just spent the last 21 months in prison. What did I miss in the world of the Internet? 3 days ago:
What games do you play?
- Comment on Is gold investing a scam? 4 days ago:
Short answer: Yes.
Long answer: Yes. Tune all of that nonsense out… But don’t fret if you own a tiny bit, either. That’s fine.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 4 days ago:
www.comparitech.com/kodi/kodi-piracy-decline/
digital-digest.com/news-64644-Netflix-Amazon-Join…
Based on our research, comparative search volume for “Kodi” has fallen around 85 percent from 2017 to 2022. Google Trends data reveals the dramatic decline started in Q2 of 2017 and has, for the most part, continued that trend up to this point. Consequently, the decline in people searching for Kodi directly relates to the appearance of the coordinated attack against piracy in the form of ACE.
And this is with Kodi furiously distancing itself from pirates at the time.
Attacks don’t have to be direct. Though they absolutely can be, too.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 5 days ago:
That serves the purpose too. It’s harder to pin Plex as an “illegal distribution service” when you have to pay for access, as means either the streamer or “distributor” can’t be very anonymous.
On the other hand, the more money they squeeze out, the more they risk appearing as if they “make money from piracy,” which is exactly how you get the MPAA’s attention.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 5 days ago:
You may (half) joke, but MPAA attention on Jellyfin would suck.
- Comment on 4 reasons Plex is turning into the thing it replaced 5 days ago:
Playing devil’s advocate, I understand one point of pressure: Plex doesn’t want to be perceived as a “piracy app.”
See: Kodi. kodi.expert/…/mpaa-warns-increasing-kodi-abuse-po…
To be blunt, that’s a huge chunk of their userbase. And they run the risk of being legally pounded to dust once that image takes hold.
So how do they avoid that? Add a bunch of other stuff, for plausible deniability. And it seems to have worked, as the anti-piracy gods haven’t singled them out like they have past software projects.
To be clear, I’m not excusing Plex. But I can understand such an unspoken motivation.
- Comment on AI Slop Is Ruining Reddit for Everyone 6 days ago:
For all the criticism of AI, this is the one that’s massively overstated.
On my PC, the task energy of a casual diffusion attempt (let’s say a dozen+ images in few batches) on a Flux-tier model is 300W * 240 seconds.
That’s 54 kilojoules.
…That’s less than microwaving leftovers, or a few folks browsing this Lemmy thread on laptops.
And cloud models like Nano Banana are more efficient than that, batching the heck out of generations on wider, more modern hardware, and more modern architectures, than my 3090 from 2020.
…Look. There are a million reasons corporate AI is crap.
But its power consumption is a meme perpetuated by tech bros who want to convince the world scaling infinitely is the only way to advance it. That is a lie to get them money. And it is not the way research is headed.
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 1 week ago:
I mean, many forums are still live.
The problem is engagement. Discord, YouTube, even Lemmy all ping you in your pocket and offer more “instant” dopamine hits than a forum or news site, hence they’ve sucked all the attention.
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 1 week ago:
And most importantly, her source is a Facebook post about an architect pointing out discrepancies in the plans and budget.
- Comment on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending trillions on AI data centers will pay off at today's infrastructure costs 1 week ago:
It’s misleading.
IBM is very much into AI, as a sane, economical tool. See: huggingface.co/ibm-granite
But this is the CEO saying “We aren’t drinking the Kool-Aid.” It’s shockingly reasonable.
- Comment on One women's theory on the ballroom, pulled by Larry Ellison. Thoughts? 1 week ago:
I don’t like this video. There’s nothing substantive or sourced, no expertise, other than a Facebook post she didn’t even link.
…I mean, it’s plausible, and I’m all for ballroom conspiracies.
But I guess this is just a (now) old person shaking their fist to say this isn’t real journalism, and you should be careful internalizing it as truth.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 week ago:
That’s interesting.
I dunno if that’s any better. Compiler development is hard, and expensive.
I dunno what issue they have with LLVM, but it would have to be massive to justify building around it and then switching away to re-invent it.
- Comment on Ron Gilbert cancels RPG project due to lack of support and funding 1 week ago:
And the discoverability pipe is breaking.
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No one reads oldschool curators like RockPaperShotgun anymore. They’re barely afloat.
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Generic algorithmic social media like YouTube tends to snowball a few games.
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Forums are dead. Reddit is dystopian.
That leaves Steam’s algorithm, and a sea of sparsely used solo curators. But there are billions of people ignoring passion projects they’d love, and playing AAAs or phone games instead.
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- Comment on Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End? 1 week ago:
- Comment on "butter" beer 1 week ago:
FYI the ‘official’ butter beer in Universal Orlando is a butterscotch flavored, served hot, and ridiculously sweet.
- Comment on Zig quits GitHub, says Microsoft's AI obsession has ruined the service 1 week ago:
…The same Zig that left LLVM, to make their own compiler from scratch?
This is good. But also, this is sort of in character for Zig.
- Comment on Are there any other anime with beautiful depictions of light and color like in Frieren: Beyond Journey's End? 1 week ago:
On the “western animation” side, I can recommend DOTA: Dragon’s Blood, and the Critical Role anime (Vox Machina, and possibly Mighty Nein, though I haven’t seen the later).
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 week ago:
That’s exactly what I said, and meant: I miss my jailbroken iPhone; I wish I could jailbreak mine now. But I can’t. And my 6 would be basically unusable without App Store support now.
That’s not why I’m replying though… I’m curious; what’s with insults like “eat me” over interpretations of someone else’s comment?
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
Serengeti park, yep.
Yeah, I was lucky by every definition… and have a “big cat” meme folder to reach into now.
- Comment on it's friend shaped! 1 week ago:
I’m almost certain it’s a full belly, heh. It had just moved off a carcass, and seemed like one happy cat.
Thanks! Yeah I was extremely lucky in a million ways.
- Comment on Where is heart?! 1 week ago:
What about sub elements?
You have metal and earth, and then metalloids.
Elements with a lot of alpha or beta emissions are lighting.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 1 week ago:
They’re pretty bad outside of English-Chinese actually.
Voice-to-voice is all relatively new, and it sucks if it’s not all integrated (eg feeding a voice model plain text so it loses the original tone, emotion, cadence and such).
And… honestly, the only models I can think of, that’d be good at this are Chinese. Or Japanese finetunes of Chinese models. Amazon certainly has some stupid policy where they aren’t allowed to use them.
- Comment on Amazon’s AI ‘Banana Fish’ Dubs Are Hilariously, Inexcusably Bad 1 week ago:
Hostly, even a dirt cheap language model (with sound input) would tell you this is garbage.
But they didn’t use that because this isn’t machine learning. It Tech Bro AI.
- Comment on Don't throw away your old PC—it makes a better NAS than anything you can buy 1 week ago:
All true, yep.
Still, the clocking advantage is there. Stuff like the N100 also optimizes for lower costs, which means higher clocks on smaller silicon. That’s even more dramatic for repurposed laptop hardware, which is much more heavily optimized for its idle state.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 1 week ago:
This is interesting, because “add ads” usually means margins are slim, and the product is in a race to the bottom.
If ChatGPT was the transcendent, priceless, premium service they are hyping it as… why would it need ads?
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 week ago:
Thanks. I appreciate the condescending comment.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 week ago:
Apple does sell privacy in ads.
And their hardware sales margins are hilarious.
So in this case they do have some incentive for privacy/security.
- Comment on YSK that Apple makes hundreds of millions of dollars with personalized advertising. If you have an iPhone, you should turn it off. 1 week ago:
The problem is it’s what Apple offers or the highway.
…I really, really miss my jailbroken iPhone. Honestly I would trade for a (working) iPhone 6 without even blinking.
