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- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 2 days ago:
So what you didn’t want to read the rest of that and just jumped to insulting me?
- Comment on Developers Were Left in the Dark About DLSS 5 3 days ago:
Guh. Look I’m not against AI, when it’s used in a good place. Hot take, DLSS 5.0 features could have an interesting place. HOWEVER, before you mass downvote me
NVidia is not the one to tell when a game should use something like this. This should be used as a fine tuning option if the developer thinks it legitimately will make their games slightly better, and only for super realistic games. I think Cyberpunk, where main characters are all super detailed but background NPCs are more or less fairly low poly and not detailed. It might be good. However, then it comes up against the real kicker, which is that those limitations of those engines and the hardware at the time is what made artists think about their decisions. They made design choices at the time which drove how their game would look. I said in another thread, Master Chief’s now iconic armor was because they had such heavy restrictions. It’s a few triangles of green at the end of the day.
Added to a few games where it’s been tested and fits in the artistic style? I classify that as upscaling, a proven use of AI, and fits within the DLSS brand. Slapped into every game to make all men beefy hunkcakes and all women look like OF models? That’s when it’s slop.
Sorry Jensen, you’re pushing the slop angle, and that makes me sour to the concept.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 3 days ago:
Son look up all of the other comments that said that and also where I responded to it already.
- Comment on Abandoned FOSS projects 3 days ago:
I really enjoyed Gifable, a self-hosted gif library. It was great, albeit a bit feature light. About 3 years ago the maintainer stopped maintaining and went AFK, nothing to be heard of then. I’ve since forked it, and I’ve been working on some new features to hopefully bring it up to speed. (Things like S3 storage, using AI image captioning to auto-caption your memes, categories, and hopefully full matrix integration), but it’s a slog.
- Comment on I vibe coded a driver to monitor and control the temperatures and fans in my Aoostar WTR PRO. 4 days ago:
First I asked it how to create a dump file. I hooked up ADB debugging to my phone, then used the scooter’s app as normal, with the logging turned on in Android developer tools. It created a very long and complex dump file of hex that I could not understand.
However, then I had Claude get to work. I describe that in that I had opened the scooter’s app, and turned it on, paused a few seconds, then turned it off and closed the app. It started attempting to mimic the commands through the computer’s local bluetooth device, to get a successful response. Eventually, after something like 20 attempts it found a hidden clue that was basically a pattern that it had detected, and it was able to finally get an ACK from the scooter. Something I would have never been able to do. From there we have a plan on how to map out all of the other commands, but it was a huge win for the day.
- Comment on I vibe coded a driver to monitor and control the temperatures and fans in my Aoostar WTR PRO. 4 days ago:
Personally it’s what I use them for the most. I do not have the time to reverse engineer arbitrary things like this. I have a scooter that uses Bluetooth BLE which has no connectivity beyond that. I’ve been using Claude to help reverse engineer the protocol to hopefully get a home assistant integration up and running.
Claude can see things I can’t, patterns in hex that are coming back, I send in results from wireshark and it can try ad neaseum to try and get something working. Right now it’s about half working. When I have time I’ll keep plugging away. Then hopefully other people will be able to use it, and we can have one less vendor locked in device
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
Kind of skipped over my entire thesis there didn’t you? And my other comments addressing those.
- Comment on Self Hosting for Privacy - Importance of Owning your own Modem/Router? 4 days ago:
Each of these points makes it worth it. Price is always overlooked. Renting is same as a subscription. If you buy your modem it’s more expensive, but at the end you still have a modem. Renting at the end you have nothing.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
I agree with your take, and I think it’s why there can’t be a rational discussion about AI on the internet, because AI is a very nuanced topic and the internet does not comprehend the concept of nuance.
Like all hype technology, both polar opposite sides will probably be wrong. The best and worst case outcomes are only 2 of an infinite number of outcomes in between. We will probably end up with some form of AI that sits comfortably in the middle.
Thinking that way, for engineers, I think refusing to use it will only limit you. It’s akin to refusing to use an IDE, or css. It may not feel like that, but to companies you might as well say you only code on punchcards. I can personally attest that searching for senior engineering roles last yeardid not ask if I used AI. they asked how much AI I used, and I was required to use it during the interviews. This is not one company. Every company interviewed with. It’s here to stay. Refusing to use it comes off as stubbornness to hiring managers, not some grand fight.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
I’m on my phone now so I can’t respond to everything. I wanted to say I do disagree, but I appreciate you taking the time to write it out and I understand your point of view.
While I understand the underlying guidelines we try to uphold, I don’t think they can be force applied to everyone who contributes, and it’s not fair to hold people to standards they didn’t personally agree to. If that’s your personal belief, I’m all for it, but this guy might have just decided to make a project without caring about the exact definitions of OSS. that’s a risk we take using OSS code is that the maintainer can change their minds, but we can also take it and do what we please with it.
Anyway, I’d have more but thumbs are stupid. Thank you for your thoughtful reply
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
See my other comment in this thread, sorry it’s a lot and I’m on my phone
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
I’m unaware of these, but I’ll take you at your word. I still say even if the guy is an asshole, we still lost someone who was contributing. If he is picking up his toys and going home, we still lost a developer. I wasn’t there for those issues so I don’t know how they were handled.
I’ll compare it to Lemmy. Lemmy devs are (sorry guys) I’ll say… Disagreeable. They are headstrong and definitely have their own opinions which I have different opinions are about. I don’t think we would be friends. However, look at what they built, and the communities we’ve built thanks to their work. They started all of this, and now we have mbin and piefed and others thanks to what they started, even if don’t like how they handle things. We should always remember that the people contribute, and that’s more than the vast majority of us.
- Comment on Booklore is officially dead 4 days ago:
Congrats guys! We did it!
We took a project that someone made for free, shared it to the internet for others to enjoy, worked on in his spare time, and killed it because of his choice in tools. Sure he was probably overwhelmed with issues counting up and demands from his users on his project that he made for free, but he should have developed his application in the way we demanded. It’s truly for the greater good that we have one less free open source project out there, and one less developer working on his passion project.
Seriously. I loathe AI’s encroachment into everything. The people who scream against it on message boards and and telling other engineers that they’re evil for using it are honestly approaching about the same level of annoyance to me. Should AI be everywhere? Absolutely not. Does it have actual uses? Absolutely it does. We can debate about those for ages. That’s not the point of this comment though. Right now, an open source project has closed, and some guy who made this for free and shared it with us will probably never develop in the open source community again, AI or not.
- Comment on Epic Games needs Fortnite players to "help pay the bills" as the multi-billion-dollar company raises V-Bucks prices while making Battle Passes and Crew way worse in value 1 week ago:
Let’s not forget they literally build and license unreal engine, which most AAA games use. If they’re low on money that sounds like horrible business. They should be able to take even a meager amount and be wildly profitable
- Comment on Cheapest 14x4tb NAS 1 week ago:
No more Storage Full warnings.
Is that a challenge?
- Comment on Fallout Game in Development at Xbox-Owned Studio Might Have Been Canceled; Bethesda Would Rather Staff Up Than Give It (or Elder Scrolls) to Others 1 week ago:
Hm, still a bit butthurt that their best installment was made by Obsidian it seems
- Comment on EA Lays Off Staff Across All Battlefield Studios Following Record-Breaking Battlefield 6 Launch - IGN 1 week ago:
I’ve heard the same. If you’re in the games industry and you finish shipping usually you’re laid off and then you move on to the next project. When a new battlefield comes along they’ll just start hiring everyone again whether they worked on the last one or not. It’s not really a long-term strategy but they don’t care. It’s about short-term gains.
- Comment on Are achievements still relevant in 2026—especially when mods disable them? 1 week ago:
'Chievos are a very personal thing, they were never important unless you personally thought they were. If you don’t think they’re important anymore, then great. If you want to chievo hunt, also great. Gaming is what you make of it.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 2 weeks ago:
Sounds like maybe you should apply
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 2 weeks ago:
There are multiple solutions to this problem, and one job posting does not mean they are suddenly forcing changes into the linux kernel, the kernel that literally runs the entire internet, countless businesses, and governments to prevent cheating.
The facts are that we have a single job posting from EA where they want to investigate how it could be done.
There is a best case and a worst case scenario, with so many thousands of options in between. Immediately assuming the worst case here isn’t doing anything. All probability says it will probably be something in the middle.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 2 weeks ago:
It’s an assumption that because they use the kernel in Windows that they’re going to do the same in Linux. It’s not feasible for them to. Even if they did somehow convince all the maintainers that they deserve kernel access (and let’s remember we’re in a post-crowdstrike world and they’re messing with the same kernel base code that runs all containers and servers out there supporting the entire internet), they would still need to take into account that people can just fork the kernel and compile their own.
This is one single job posting where they are investigating how they could do it. Don’t be so quick to grab the pitchforks.
If a company the size of EA is willing to consider that Linux might be worth supporting, that’s legit a huge win for us. The power of the open source kernel will keep everything else in check.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 2 weeks ago:
Battlefield is pretty much the only big online game I enjoy anymore, and since I switched legit it’s the only game that I haven’t been able to play. It’d be great if they can figure out some way to make it work. Cheaters are such a huge problem in battlefield that I understand why they won’t bring it to Linux without knowing how to set up an anti-cheat solution. Battlefield 5 was just unplayable because of the constant bots and cheaters.
- Comment on Good News! EA Is Expanding Its Anti-Cheat to ARM64, and Linux Could Be Next 2 weeks ago:
Literally no where does it say they’re attempting to modify the kernel.
- Comment on Sony Pulls Back From PlayStation Games on PC 2 weeks ago:
Corporate suits love ignoring player feedback and telling people they’re wrong.
No, we’re goddamn sick of enshittification and would rather PlayStation failed than give into it.
- Comment on Sony PlayStation reportedly moving away from PC ports 2 weeks ago:
Sony reportedly not interested in my money it turns out.
The older I get the more selective I get about games. If you aren’t even willing to publish to the platform I’m on then there’s a huge reason for me to play all of the other games I’ve been wanting to. Not spending hundreds of dollars on a console for one game.
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- Comment on Renewable Energy Defies Trump’s Attacks, Reaching a New Record | Wind, solar and other green sources generated more than a quarter of all US energy last year. 3 weeks ago:
and it’s going to continue! It’s not even about being green, financially you can’t ignore it.
Do you:
- Put a solar panel up once and plug it in
or
- Pay people to mine old rocks, pull them out of the ground, and then ship it across the country at a regular cadence
It doesn’t take an MBA to see the financials here.
- Comment on Jason Schreier says Sony is backing away from putting single player games on PC 3 weeks ago:
They keep forgetting this, Xbox thought it too. We are with our digital libraries, I’m not going to go buy a PS5 because of one game. The hardware is only the portal.
- Comment on Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now 3 weeks ago:
Anyone who thinks Xbox is still going to be worth anything is a fool. They overspent on gaming studios, didn’t produce anything of value, gamepass value went down, and now everyone hates them for the constant enshittification. Even stepping back from “This is lemmy and we all hate microsoft” they have done some horrible business moves with Xbox. I don’t know anyone who is positive about the brand. They have ran it firmly into the ground.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 4 weeks ago:
I wonder if this is a huge demotion for the AI guy. AI teams in Microsoft are “good” right now, I wonder if he fucked up in some way and they put him on xbox.