Postimo
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- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 13 hours ago:
I heard this theory, and I can’t shake it honestly. If it had been a small strange hero shooter with complex mechanics from some guys behind apex and TF2. I could absolutely see a devoted following that grew maybe akin to deadlock.
But this triple A, next big game highlight from Dorito Pope himself, about a trailer of a hero shooter ‘with a cool interesting style’, really was such the wrong vibe for it to start with.
- Comment on The Highguard Website Is Down As Players Brace For The Worst 1 day ago:
As a Titan Fall 2 fan, I had a bit of interest just based on it having ex-respawn folks. It sounds like the devs did have love for what they were doing, and went in with the intention of piecing the best of various shooter genres. Shame that it turned out the way it did.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
What justification do you have that would have been anything but unconditionally supportive of Israel?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
but I still gave captain “go fuck yourself” their request.
It must be very hard for you to hear the harsh words of those who’s countries have been ruined by US imperialism. It’s quite brave of you to begrudgingly capitulate to removing a flag in a meme, even after they didn’t approach with the respect you’ve decided you deserve.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
“You don’t understand that guy/lady isn’t going to solve EVERYTHING so let’s not try to repair ANYTHING!”
Maybe they could try something even slightly harsher on the genociders than explicitly unconditional complete support, and see if that convinces anyone?
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
This is incredibly tone deaf.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
If they were connected to reality, they wouldn’t be utterly shocked that a party with 60% disapproval has people that think they’re shit.
- Comment on Yep, the Steam Deck OLED going out of stock is due to the AI-fuelled RAM and storage shortages, Valve confirm 2 days ago:
I honestly hope they just delay. I don’t know how narrow the market will be for steam machines this time around, but I would much rather give Valve even more time to cook on linux, and release something that catches the next wave of hardware.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 1 week ago:
I am not a lawyer, but my understand is the truth of legal systems is that they are a gray area of interpretation and precedent. In a strict definition of copyright, copying a file from a server into the cache in your ram is a copy that theoretically could be ruled an unauthorized copy. This being obviously a ridiculous idea, but I believe if you streamed content from a website this is the only way they could fine you for copyright violation. Generally with the networks you mentioned, the distribution is prohibited, and most being peer to peer systems they cite you for that.
The more charitable take on why they are not the same is; anything on the open web is assumed to give the right to copy to a closed ‘local’ system and use for your own system, as that is fundamental to web browsing. Further in the same way you can make a local copy of a movie to cut it up and use in a review, and that is fair use as a transformative work, you can make copy of the open web content and make a transformative work for it.
At least that’s how I would argue it, if I was paid to be OpenAI’s legal puppet. All of that is to tiptoe around the reality that the legal system is a tool of the rich. So the law becomes firm for the purpose of piracy of a movie, but long and difficult for the purpose of a large companies profits.
- Comment on AI Didn't Break Copyright Law, It Just Exposed How Broken It Already Was 2 weeks ago:
I think the core of the fair use argument is that the AI models that are being trained are transformative products of the original works.
Might be a hot take here but I basically agree. I still believe it was theft and that the realities of the legal framework we had don’t really stand up to the evolving problems, but under the current laws there is really no justification for saying that, taking the input of a bunch of images and giving the output of a set of statistical correlations of pixels based on descriptions, isn’t transformation.
- Comment on Gaming market melts down after Google reveals new AI game design tool — Project Genie crashes stocks. (A.K.A . Investors panic because they don't understand what "real" videogames are) 2 weeks ago:
Examples? This article describes “a 60-second interactive world”. How can this even compete with trash tier roblox games?
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 3 weeks ago:
Sure, but there is a difference between a hacked together solution being removed as the community expanded, and coding in a petty gripe with a particular user.
- Comment on Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App 3 weeks ago:
Where else would it come from? 🤷♂️
- Comment on Fun fact: you can't upload this image on piefed.social 3 weeks ago:
Phew, well thank goodness all the users are safe from authoritarian red fascist code!
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 3 weeks ago:
I am aware of private trackers. I guess to me, even in the space of “it’s neat to think about” something like Loops and built on activity pub makes more sense.
Now if we imagined folks offering home hardware or ‘seed boxes’ to help an instance out, that I could see being useful tech, but constantly uploading from your phone seems a bit silly.
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 3 weeks ago:
I am aware of the problems and have had similar thoughts about how best to deal with the taxing reality of streamed video, but I think the reality of it is, while already fighting the network effect and ad budgets, someone that downloads an app and see it saps half their battery for that day because they liked 5 videos and left, they are going to uninstall it.
I think instanced makes the most sense, and even that would be a hard ask if popularity every spikes.
I think the fact that Peertube which I think of as more a PC interface, where bandwidth and power consumption are less an issue, but still chooses to limit the peer connections to active watching speaks to how discordant the idea is with what people expect from streaming media.
I would happily use a desktop app as you described, so if it ever exists, let me know 😁
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 3 weeks ago:
Is there any discovery or list of other instances?
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 3 weeks ago:
I think people would be pretty quickly upset by the batter and storage drain from this. I have to imagine if picking an instance is a barrier to mastodon, most folks are not interested enough to learn the mechanics of why likes suddenly use system resources, and see it as a failing of the app.
- Comment on California governor Gavin Newsom accuses TikTok of suppressing content critical of the current US president Donald Trump 3 weeks ago:
Not really. There is a right wing podcast with a rotating host of fascists and Newsom as the only guest where they just dog walk him.
- Comment on At Davos, NVIDIA, Microsoft CEOs deny AI bubble 4 weeks ago:
then pump up the price or flood every prompt with ads.
“Sure I found that document you needed, and with it, I also found this great new game I know you’ll love. Raid: Shadow Legends, It’s a free to pla…”
I cannot wait for companies spending 300 dollars per user per month for this convenience.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 4 weeks ago:
Well like much analysis of economic impact, that’s hard to quantify, so we can just assume it’s trivial.
- Comment on China calls for Maduro’s immediate release, accuses US of breaching international law 1 month ago:
1234th time the US has forcibly instituted a regime change in another country: “Oh great! Imagine what the bad countries will do now that this is allowed.”
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
why would they have used it in the first place?
Because 30 seconds with an image generator looks nicer than 30 seconds in MS paint, the deeper point being the deciding factor is that it took 30 seconds of time.
It shaved off work hours.
I think this only makes sense in some abstract of a net aggregate of artistic labor hours. The reality though is that this work was never done by the artists, never given significant time allocation, and would never lead to hiring more artists.
- Comment on Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 loses Game of the Year from the Indie Game Awards 1 month ago:
It was placeholder art. They didn’t reduce the artist hire because they weren’t going to have the artist make orange boxes and MSpaint character icons.
The reductio ad absurdum is equally silly the other way. “Does the seeded algorithmic generation of a cloud texture disqualify anything that uses it as AI???” This is a debate stage level talking point, and is unconvincing in reality.
- Comment on The FBI spied on a Signal group chat of immigration activists, records reveal 2 months ago:
The difference is they gave solid sound advice on opsec, and your comment seemed more in line with distrusting signal’s tech. One of these comments makes sense, the other doesn’t.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 3 months ago:
The quest runs on a variant of Android correct? Like everything else that isn’t desktop, Linux is already the industry stander in facetop computing 😎
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 3 months ago:
The Economist, a journal that speaks for the British millionaires, is pursuing a very instructive line in relation to the war.
www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/…/01c.htm
For all his problems??
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 3 months ago:
Well I don’t speak British do I??
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 3 months ago:
Yeah, it’s called performance art. You’re not wrong in disliking it as slop, but the barrier for what is art is empirically low.
- Comment on Artist sneaks AI-generated print into National Museum Cardiff gallery 3 months ago:
Jokes on you, putting up bullshit in an art gallery is a classic art move.