Alaknar
@Alaknar@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on YSK: you can stop Microsoft users from sending 'reactions' to your email by adding a "x-ms-reactions: disallow" header 5 days ago:
How in the world is that related to the topic at hand?
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
but you’re denying history by saying the soviets didnt win the war
I’m stating facts. Soviets didn’t win the war on their own. They’d be rolled over if not for UK/US help. Berlin would’ve been taken by the Allies even if the Soviets were sitting on their asses.
The victory in Stalingrad and the pushing of Nazis to the west happened well before the opening of the western front by the USA. You’re literally lying here.
When did Lend-Lease start?
When did the Battle for Britain start?
Who supplied the resistance movements in occupied countries?
[everything else] Literal Nazi propaganda
I guess my grandmother was a Nazi propagandist.
EOT, I don’t have time to talk to russian-brainwashed people.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
The fact that you’re even questioning that the USSR defeated Nazism proves that you have no idea what you’re talking about. 80% of dead Nazi soldiers were thanks to the eastern front. 25 million Soviet lives were eliminated in the struggle against fascism.
Buddy, who supplied the half the rifles and 90% of ammo that the ruskies used on the Eastern Front? Who supplied the fuel, trucks and tires? Who supplied the food, and even the fucking uniforms?
And who opened the second front, forcing Nazis to divide and defend on two sides, allowing USSR to actually start pushing back?
Oh no, the atrocities of universal healthcare, free education to the highest level, industrialization, guaranteed employment and the abolishment of homelessness
You mean the atrocities of political purges, the elimination of intelligentsia and military officers, the russification, the brainwashing, the poverty, the mismanagement, the hunger and millions dead?
There is no peace with Nazis, they only understand genocide and invasion.
You know what? Looking at russia right now, I retract my previous statement and have to agree with you here.
I didn’t say the word “Russians” in my previous comment. I mentioned the USSR
USSR == russia, but slightly larger, but relatively the same on the “shit-stain of the world” scale.
Have some respect for all the brave soldiers who fought so that you can spew bullshit online today
I have respect to the soldiers who fought. I don’t have respect to those that raped and pillaged the entire way to Berlin. Unfortunately, the first group was considerably smaller than the second.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
Good luck debating Nazis
Who said anything about debating?
The USSR famously defeated them
LOL, good one! :D
BTW, you can thank them for being alive today if you’re European.
I’m from one of the countries that suffered massive atrocities under the bastards.
I suppose you decry the violence that the USA exerted on Nazi Germany?
I suppose you don’t understand the difference between war and peace? Actually makes sense considering the bullshit you’re saying about russians…
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
All fundamentalists should be reeducated.
Reeducation through violence is the methodology of totalitarian regimes, like the Third Reich, the USSR/russia, or China.
- Comment on Pow-- 1 week ago:
What an extremely Nazi thing to say…
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 week ago:
Anything is possible with enough time. Which is why you force log-off all your apps and remote-wipe the device if your phone gets stolen.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 week ago:
Even if they manage to keep the phone unlocked, and even if they manage to get to a safe spot before I am able to lock the device remotely, they still can’t access any banking applications because they require the PIN/biometrics to get in, even on an unlocked phone.
- Comment on Apple is reportedly getting ready to introduce ads to its Maps app 1 week ago:
one of the reasons mobile phone theft is so lucrative, because people are so obliging to keep their entire financial information downloaded to a single device
[Citation needed]
The most common reason for mobile phone theft is to wipe it and sell it, or just dismantle it for parts.
No common thief is going to be trying to break into an iPhone’s security system to get to someone’s banking data.
- 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 1 week ago:
Step by step guide for GOG (or Epic):
- Install Heroic Games Launcher
- Log in to your GOG account.
- Install and hit play.
(Heroic will use Proton or Wine for the compatibility layer and you will (most of the time) have zero issues with playing games)
- Comment on Fictional 1 week ago:
It also makes no sense that there would be nothing for an infinite amount of time
Time only started existing after the Big Bang. Before that, there was nothing.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
You can definitely tell when FPS goes below 30 for a time. If it dips for a moment, it’s practically unnoticeable.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
Games don’t crash on Windows >because of Windows<. Games do crash on Linux >because of Linux<.
As in: games are inherently compatible with Windows, while on Linux you need Wine/Proton, which is just an extra layer of complication that can cause problems.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
Read what I wrote again, but slower.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
They did, yeah. Stupid move, especially just before the Ally release, but shareholders must be appeased.
But, other than the price, it’s been pretty great while I used it. Lots of day one releases, lots of less known titles I would never have tried if not for GP.
- Comment on Instagram and Facebook are breaking the EU’s illegal content rules 1 week ago:
It’s already a formal ruling. Meta can still challenge it - which they will - and it will probably be a year or three before they lose again, but it’s done.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 1 week ago:
The gaming experience on Windows is to get interrupted by updates constantly
*gets updates literally on the same day every month with 14 days time before a forced update*
*complains about getting interrupted by constant updates*
Sigh… I’m not even going to comment on this. Can’t fix fundamentalism.
but this isn’t even the first handheld gaming device to show a performance delta in Linux’s favor when tested
Because, overall, Windows 11 is badly optimised and MS already fired all the competent developers, so, yeah, it’s going to happen. But what Windows gives you, is the guarantee that if you have the hardware to handle a game, it will run. Any issues will be on the side of the game, not the OS.
I don’t think many people are experiencing this stability problem you are, as it doesn’t reflect in many reviews
That’s also part of the “Linux gaming experience” - with all the distros flying around, almost nobody will have the same exact experience. Sure, if everyone installs Bazzite on the Ally, it should be a relatively uniform experience, but - again - I fail to see the point in going through all this, losing the (apparently) excellent touch UI and a unified gaming library, just to get… 6 FPS extra. In one power mode.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
My source is just an example of gaming experience on Linux.
I run Garuda (Arch-based) which is a distro “for gamers”. The experience is great, I love it. Everything works fine… most of the time.
But, until Proton got a couple of updates, I was just unable to run Mafia. Until Proton got a couple of updates, Hogwart’s would crash randomly. Right now Cyberpunk runs fine… until it crashes during loading sometimes.
That’s the gaming experience of Linux.
All that for a +6.6 FPS average, and no GamePass.
You lose access to Windows store
Windows Store is irrelevant, you lose the XBox (App)-installed GamePass games, which means that you lose access to a tonne of XBox games.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
Oop, you didn’t bash my “not really anti-Microsoft stance”, prepare for downvotes, friend! :)
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
the main thing you get back is a better cpu governor to manage power consumption on 2d games
Power consumption is handled by the power mode on the device. You get three modes - Silent (13W), Performance (17W), and Turbo (35W). You can switch between them at will, it’s not controlled by the game.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
The article said the frame rates are more stable under bazzite with windows fluctuating a lot more even at low power settings
I think that, as long as the framerate doesn’t dip below 30, a regular human won’t notice fluctuating FPS. It’s something you’ll see in benchmarks, but not in real life. For example: a friend of mine was playing Elden Ring and and Halo on the ROG Ally X and didn’t notice any issues with stability or framerate. And he’s pretty anal about this kind of stuff.
I read through that thread you linked and I didn’t see bazzite mentioned anywhere.
True, it was about Steam Deck performance. But I had similar experiences on Garuda Linux on my PC with Hogwarts. Every now and again it would just crash and burn. Got better after a Proton patch or two, but that’s the problem with Linux gaming - you never really know what you’ll get. With Windows, you don’t have that issue at all.
Who the hell is still paying for game pass?
Come on, now. You can’t be this childish.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
What a silly thing to say… You’re not dealing with Windows Store either way.
- Comment on ROG Xbox Ally runs better on Linux than the Windows it ships with — new test shows up to 32% higher FPS 2 weeks ago:
This is such a click-bait title, my God…
According to the article the only significant FPS gains are in the Performance mode. In Silent mode Bazzite has two FPS more in KCD2, and… one less in Hogwarts.
In Turbo mode, the difference is 5 FPS.
And even in Performance it’s not like you’re running at 13 FPS by default - it’s 47 in KCD2 and 50 in HL.
They even provide a nice summary themselves - on average, Bazzite gains 6.6 FPS.
What do you get in return?
Not stability:
I have 512gb model and am running on low with FSR2 on balanced. The game keeps crashing during every play sessions
And you lose A TONNE of optional game stores, including the entirety of GamePass games.
I would get it if the difference was “20 FPS on Windows” and 50 on Bazzite", but come on…
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 2 weeks ago:
If you’re using anything else you may as well just break your computer and drink cyanide
Unless it’s TempleOS.
- Comment on Banana 2 weeks ago:
Wild bananas, yes.
The ones you eat are a perfect example of a genetically modified plant - cultivated specifically for human consumption.
- Comment on More than 1,200 games journalists have left the media in the last two years | VGC 2 weeks ago:
And nothing of value was lost…
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 2 weeks ago:
Spreading knowledge via machine translation where there are no human translators available, had to be better than not translating
Have you not read my entire comment…?
One of the Greenlandic Wiki articles “claimed Canada had only 41 inhabitants”. What use is a text like that? In what world is learning that Canada has 41 inhabitants better than going to the English version of the article and translating it yourself?
Perhaps part of the solution is machine readable citations
The contents of the citations are already used for training, as long as they’re publicly available. That’s not the problem. The problem is that LLMs do not understand context well, they are not, well, intelligent.
The “Chinese Room” thought experiment explains it best, I think: imagine you’re in a room with writing utensils and a manual. Every now and again a letter falls in to the room through a slit in the wall. Your task is to take the letter and use the manual to write a response. If you see such and such shape, you’re supposed to write this and that shape on the reply paper, etc. Once you’re done, you throw the letter out through the slit. This goes back and forth.
To the person on the other side of the wall it seems like they’re having a conversation with someone fluent in Chinese whereas you’re just painting shapes based on what the manual tells you.
LLMs don’t understand the prompts - they generate responses based on the probability of certain characters or words or sentences being next to each other when the prompt contains certain characters, words, and sentences. That’s all there is.
There was a famous botched experiment where scientists where training an AI model to detect tumours. It got really accurate on the training data so they tested it on new cases gathered more recently. It gave a 100% certainty of a tumour being present if the photograph analysed had a yellow ruler on it, because most photos of tumours in the training data had that ruler for scale.
But even then you have huge gaps on one side with untrustworthy humans (like comedy) and on the other side with machine generated facts such as from a database
“Machine generated facts” are not facts, they’re just hallucinations and falsehoods. It is 100% better to NOT have them at all and have to resort to the English wiki, than have them and learn bullshit.
Especially because, again, the contents of the Wikipedia are absolutely being used for training further LLM models. The more errors there are, the worse the models become eventually leading to a collapse of truth. We are already seeing this with whole “research” publications being generated, including “source” material invented on the spot, proving bogus results.
- Comment on How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral 2 weeks ago:
I’m not “trying to be nice to minority languages”, I’m directly pushing back against the chauvinistic idea that the English Wikipedia is so important that those without it are somehow inferior. There is no “doom spiral”.
I think you missed the problem described here.
The “doom spiral” is not because of English Wiki, it has nothing to do with anything.
The problem described is that people who don’t know a “niche” language try to contribute to a niche Wiki by using machine translation/LLMs.
As per the article:
Virtually every single article had been published by people who did not actually speak the language. Wehr, who now teaches Greenlandic in Denmark, speculates that perhaps only one or two Greenlanders had ever contributed. But what worried him most was something else: Over time, he had noticed that a growing number of articles appeared to be copy-pasted into Wikipedia by people using machine translators. They were riddled with elementary mistakes—from grammatical blunders to meaningless words to more significant inaccuracies, like an entry that claimed Canada had only 41 inhabitants. Other pages sometimes contained random strings of letters spat out by machines that were unable to find suitable Greenlandic words to express themselves.
Now, another problem is Model Collapse (or, well, a similar phenomenon in strictly in terms of language itself).
We now have a bunch of “niche” languages’ Wikis containing such errors… that are being used to train machine translators and LLMs to handle these languages. This is contaminating their input data with errors and hallucinations, but since this is the training data, these LLMs consider everything in there as the truth, propagating the errors/hallucinations forward.
I honestly have no clue where you’re getting anything chauvinistic here.
- Comment on ChatGPT's Atlas: The Browser That's Anti-Web 2 weeks ago:
does anyone at this point think to themselves that (…)
Yes.
Whatever the rest of this sentence would be, the answer is “yes”.
- Comment on Hundreds of public figures, including Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak and Virgin’s Richard Branson urge AI ‘superintelligence’ ban 2 weeks ago:
Yeah, you’re gonna need to elaborate on that.