nightlily
@nightlily@leminal.space
- Submitted 3 days ago to technology@lemmy.world | 69 comments
- Comment on a man of many minds 1 week ago:
Nah „sceptics“ were instrumental in starting the modern TERF movement. They’re as bad as the fundies.
- Comment on Such a dreamy guy 2 weeks ago:
Jecklenburg-Jorpommern
- Comment on Definitely the safest source for advice 2 weeks ago:
Have you talked to people who use LLMs regularly? They’ll acknowledge hallucinations but will downplay them as much as possible - saying they’re low frequency and they can support them, while telling you about how they’re using it in an area they’re unfamiliar with. Dunning Kruger strikes again.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 weeks ago:
It was more that graphics hardware got a lot more flexible. Less fixed functionality meant that DXVK (DirectX 8-11 to Vulkan translation layer) was a lot more viable as you were able to emulate old behaviour on the GPU through Vulkan.
Graphics APIs are a lot more „thinner“ these days as well. Creating a Vulkan renderer from scratch is like „first one must enumerate the universe“. But it means that DX12<->Vulkan translation is relatively straightforward, and all the crazy stuff is done in shaders which can be recompiled for different APIs.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 weeks ago:
Speaking of carbon, did scientists give up on lengthening carbon nanotubes at some point? They were supposed to be a miracle material as well.
- Comment on What are your technology mispredictions? 2 weeks ago:
Never stopped hating being forced to use that piece of monopolistic trash ever since I was on dialup when HL2 released. I buy everything I can on GOG.
I especially resent how closed off the Steam Workshop has made the mod ecosystem for a lot of games.
- Comment on How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond 2 weeks ago:
Quantum computing can’t achieve better outcomes for general computing problems than classical computing can. It’s just possible to do particular kinds of algorithms with it (like Shor‘s Algorithm for factorising prime numbers) that classical computing can’t do. It’s still a lot of smoke and mirrors at the moment though.
- Comment on Newer AI Coding Assistants Are Failing in Insidious Ways 3 weeks ago:
Paint huffer surprised when other paint huffers are happy to accept any old solvent.
- Comment on Hacktivist deletes white supremacist websites live on stage during hacker conference 3 weeks ago:
- Comment on Bye Bye Big Tech: How I Migrated to an almost All-EU Stack (and saved 500€ per year) 3 weeks ago:
At some point you have to ask who you are staying connected to
- Comment on Elon Musk’s AI Grok Goes Rogue with Posts Suggesting Trump Is a Pedophile and Erika Kirk Is JD Vance in Drag 3 weeks ago:
Joking about how right wing cis women are „actually“ just men in drag, yeah that’ll own the right and not actually just alienate trans people /s
- Comment on Spotify Music Library Scraped by Pirate Activist Group 5 weeks ago:
And it’s probably training gen AI models as we speak to put music artists out of what little profitable work there is left. Very few people value music as much as they do visual art.
- Comment on 🐑🥁🐍 2 months ago:
Assigned Tylenol At Birth.
- Comment on Microsoft AI CEO pushes back against critics after recent Windows AI backlash — "the fact that people are unimpressed ... is mindblowing to me" 2 months ago:
I don’t want to talk fluently with a computer, I want it to do things deterministically in a way I as a human being cannot. If I want a discussion, I have it with a human being.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
It’s definitely doable but I won’t pretend it’s a pleasant process compared to what people are used to with Windows modding, and Wine overhead can mean a large unoptimised mess of Stardew Valley/Rimworld/Skyrim mods are going to perform worse.
- Comment on Nearly 90% of Windows Games now run on Linux, latest data shows — as Windows 10 dies, gaming on Linux is more viable than ever 2 months ago:
Status LEDs/displays likely won’t work unless the manufacturer makes a Linux driver, publishes driver documentation, or it’s a super popular device. Reverse engineering USB is possible but very much a passion project. Most gamer hardware hasn’t had to care about Linux users till the last few years. Input devices at least are usually normal HID devices which are standardised.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 months ago:
I‘m using it for Stardew Valley and it works pretty well. Still early days and a bit clunky to use though. Not any power user features to speak of but I guess that isn’t their target userbase for a mod manager.
- Comment on I went to an anti-tech rally, where Gen Z dressed as gnomes and smashed iPhones. Here's what I learned. | Business Insider 3 months ago:
I think Germans would prefer if I stabbed them than talked to them on the train.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 3 months ago:
One thing I worry about is that there‘s going to be a fire sale on the polluting crap that are powering these GPU farms. It’ll likely end up in poorer countries because it’ll be cheaper than new renewables.
- Comment on AI has had zero effect on jobs so far, says Yale study 3 months ago:
That’s part of the reason these models haven’t improved much in the last year or so. They‘ve absorbed all the public facing internet and whatever copyrighted works they could get away with pirating (pretty much all printed work), and now they are faced with a brick wall. They haven’t come up with a way to create new content, to reinforce a „correct“ statistical model without causing model collapse, and I don’t think they ever will. The well (the public internet) is already thoroughly poisoned so they have to use a snapshot of the pre-LLM internet, not even an up to date one.
If it isn’t good enough after consuming almost the entirety of humanity’s written output since the invention of the printing press, it’s never going to be.
- Comment on Is anyone NOT steaming their Music? 3 months ago:
I buy on Bandcamp and put the FLACs on my Plex server, so I guess I’m technically streaming them, but not for a Spotify fee.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 3 months ago:
It’s a meme on German language subreddits when Americans shit up the place in English.
- Comment on Reddit stock falls for second day as references to its content in ChatGPT responses plummet 3 months ago:
As someone who around when shitredditsays was the bogeyman, always has been.
- Comment on AI Coding Is Massively Overhyped, Report Finds 3 months ago:
On proprietary products, they are awful. So many hallucinations that waste hours. A manager used one on a code review of mine and only admitted it after I spent the afternoon chasing it.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
It has taken me nearly 30 years to undo that programming and it still affects me. The puriteens scare me.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
That’s a difficult one. Due to their target audience, a lot of them are more focused on storytelling (usually limited gameplay and more reading along in a choose your own adventure style) for a single player. What you’re describing is a bit of an untapped market, but give F95zone.to a look and you might find something. It’s a site dedicated to collating freely available adult games (with ways to support the authors linked). It’s where a lot of the games OP talks about found their audience.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
I was going to mention The Last Sovereign in this thread. It’s a little bit hard to recommend because it’s like, barely modified RPG maker sprites and some serviceable art for sex scenes, along with the difficulty. However that game is a damn magnum opus.
- Comment on The recent Steam censorship debacle actually sort of opened me up to adult games. 5 months ago:
I just finished what exists so far for The Princess Trap last night. I have to recommend holding off on it till it’s finished so you don’t end up in as much despair as me.
- Comment on when ur higher than sagan 5 months ago:
“Best” part of this is that our public health insurance pays out for this nonsense. Some providers allow you to opt out but I don’t think the majority of Germans bother.
