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- Comment on YSK: 'It turned out to be a tougher one': Trump says he was wrong about ending war in Ukraine 1 day ago:
Ahem, you forgot the Console Wars
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 4 days ago:
They’re mostly not AI specialized, though. That’s why they’re so inefficient and why their demand contends with consumer hardware in the first place. Which makes sense, because AI is still in rapid development. They don’t know what the right answer is yet, but they know they need a bunch of fast memory and parallel processing.
The AI specific hardware being added to GPUs is still pretty general. CUDA cores are just parallel compute. Tensor cores are for doing parallel compute with fewer bits of precision. Yes, there are niche applications for fp16 and lower, but rendering is one of those applications.
We also need to accept that this isn’t the crypto bubble, this is the dotcom bubble. Like it or not, there is a real advancement in technology happening here, and it’s not going away. The bubble will pop because there’s far more money being invested per unit time than can be returned as profit per unit time, not because the tech is a farce. Yes, 99% of AI applications right now are a farce, but that 1% are giving us actual useful abilities we simply didn’t have before. Point being: our world after the bubble pops will still make use of AI, so any hardware over-production will still be useful to the general public for AI applications.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 4 days ago:
The big problem is that nobody thinks about those people that don’t have the hardware right now.
Literally yes they do, because even though they don’t have the latest and greatest hardware, they have some money to spend. That’s the argument being made: until now the assumption was that new hardware would get cheaper over time, and people would gradually move to new hardware. Devs spend years making games, and historically bank on that assumption so that when the game comes out, it has the largest audience available to purchase it.
The fact that it looks like that won’t be the case in the near future means devs have to shift their behavior to accommodate what their playerbase has, i.e. continue developing and optimizing the same hardware.
That said, this is all temporary. Whether they widen the pipeline, or the AI bubble bursts, in 2-3 years there will be a deluge of hardware hitting markets. (Provided trade/actual wars don’t get in the way, which is the bigger concern imo).
- Comment on Why are we not getting stress relief games where we take our stresses out on normal people? 5 days ago:
For the record, the science shows that Destruction Therapy is not effective at actually managing anger, and may actually cause more harm long term, as you’re normalizing that behavior in your brain.
But as for why we don’t see more games along those lines, I don’t know. It does seem like a genre that would sell well right now. I remember there was a series of desktop games when I was a kid called Stress Reducer that would give you a set of animated weapons to “destroy” your windows desktop (an image of it).
- Comment on Day 579 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 1 week ago:
Yes, and it is a masterclass in both narrative and environmental story telling.
- Comment on HelixNotes - a local-first markdown note-taking app (Rust + Tauri, AGPL-3.0) 1 week ago:
Are there plans for mobile apps? In particular, obsidian and nextcloud don’t seem to work well together on android. Changes made to files via obsidian don’t get picked up by nextcloud unless I manually go sync the file. This might just be nextcloud’s app dropping the ball.
- Comment on YSK you can poison your personal data to fight against surveillance capitalism. 1 week ago:
I wonder if you could make a self-hostable data poisoning automation utility. Put in a bunch of credentials for various social media sites, and it creates unintelligible usage patterns associated with your online identities. Not so much for poisoning training of generative AI, but for destroying any internal profiles any party might attempt to build on you by correlating your online behaviour.
- Comment on big list of selfhosted chat apps to meet all your friends on a real "server" 1 week ago:
If everyone else moved, they would too. But no one will, so they won’t. Same as it ever was.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 week ago:
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t followed the development communication much, but yes, screen sharing works now. It wasn’t working on wayland like 8mo ago, but I tried again a month ago and it’s now working.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
I haven’t tried mumble yet.
You pay for the hosting resources yes, but you can host it anywhere. I’ve been playing around with it using a docker instance in my homelab.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 2 weeks ago:
Were you trying Teamspeak 6? The UI is different, but the functionality is on par I believe. Not open source, but at least you can self-host.
- Comment on What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear? 2 weeks ago:
I have an edge router and switch, and two unifi APs. All accounts running locally. Works fine for my uses, though I think if I had it to do over again I’d investigate pfsense or opnsense. Not sure about hardware tho.
since it uses ZFS I don’t know it would be good for home use
TrueNAS is all I’ve used for my home for the better part of a decade. It’s been fine, what is your concern?
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Because HBO has a good track record for fantasy shows?
- Comment on YSK that everything the New York Times about Donald Trump actually happened 2 weeks ago:
Predicted…openly by Trump.
- Comment on YSK facts about renewable vs fossil, and more 2 weeks ago:
If you watch to the end, he explains that the fake ending was so that he could also post a version that doesn’t get “partisan” for the people who want to share the first part about solar to people who may not recieve the second part well. But I don’t think there’s any risk of people not recieving it well here, and I think it’s important that as many people as possible see a typically non-partisan channel break the silence to denounce what is going on. I think if a huge swathe of internet “influencers” were suddenly this vocal, it would wake viewers up, it could change the course of history. It’s when everyone silently continues their regularly scheduled content that democracy silently dissolves.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, I am interested in understanding your world view, and am trying to ask direct questions about it so I can understand it better (such as how you arrived at your definition of escapism), but if that’s not something that interests you, and you’d rather stoop to ad hominem jabs (like telling me to touch grass/look at trees), then we can call it here. Your call.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
Escapism: Using any method to interpret reality instead of directly facing said reality.
Interesting. I’ve never heard anyone attempt to define escapism like that. Where are you getting this definition?
Or from the other side, what word would you use to mean,
habitual diversion of the mind to purely imaginative activity or entertainment as an escape from reality or routine
Hopefully you agree that “purely imaginative activity or entertainment” is distinct from “any method to interpret reality”.
If you’re looking at a picture of a tree and using your imagination to marry it to the real thing, that is escapism.
What if I told you that looking at a real tree is an act of using your imagination to marry it to reality? Consider that humans looked at the moon and stars every day for centuries before we understood what they were in reality. Some people still do to this today.
Regardless of whether you’re considering something in front of you or a concept in abstract, if you’re attempting to grapple with the nature of reality, you are most certainly not engaging in escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
Yes, almost certainly. A gaming device is a gaming device, what matters is how many users you have.
If we’re concerned about distinguishing between platform, then steam is statistically insignificant on the vast majority of platforms people game on.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
This feels like you’re doing the “qualityslop” troll lol.
I think you could make art that is escapist in theme, but by definition escapism is any effort you make to “escape” your reality, or the reality of the human condition. In contrast, the value of art is that it gives us a way to communicate about our reality and/or the human condition using a language that lives past literal interpretation.
Art doesn’t help us to escape our reality, it specifically embraces it and helps us understand and communicate about it. Art is the opposite of escapism.
- Comment on Why is Valve being sued for almost $900 million, but Epic Games wasn't sued when they bought Rocket League and Fall Guys to remove them from steam? 3 weeks ago:
What if I told you that the MAU count for Fortnite alone is more than half of the total MAU count for all of steam?
Even if the only game on epic was Fortnite, that doesn’t qualify as “statistically insignificant” no matter how you look at it.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
Due to its nature, I’m not going to be able to explain art to you. Cheers.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
escapism requirent that is so essential to enjoying a video game.
Again, this is simply not true. It may be true for you, but does not universally apply to the entire art form.
- Comment on 'Colony Ship is a Dark Christian Sci-fi RPG' - Warlockracy 3 weeks ago:
First off, not all video games are escapism, just like not all film is camp. The genre of science fiction is only as good as the philosophical thought problems and potential ethical dilemmas it poses.
Once you get past thinking of Christianity as a uniquely negative force in society, and instead see it as another fiction on the pile of stories humans have invented, it’s intellectually interesting to think about the political and psychological impact that all our various religions have had on the trajectory of our species, and could have as our technology advances.
Fantasy often depicts Inquisitors brutally persecuting sorcerers, which is historically accurate for Christianity 300-700 years ago. Why shouldn’t SciFi attempt to explore the evil we see in Christianity today, but set in the distant future?
- Comment on Do you backup your docker images? 3 weeks ago:
I feel like if that’s something you’re doing, you’re using containers wrong. At least docker ones. I expect a container to have no state from run to run except what is written to mounted volumes. I should always be able to blow away my containers and images, and rebuild them from scratch. Afaik docker compose always implicitly runs with
–rmfor this reason. - Comment on Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability 3 weeks ago:
Just answering the question you asked.
- Comment on Frigate NVR Critical RCE Vulnerability 3 weeks ago:
So they could view their cameras while they’re away?
- Comment on How do I avoid becoming one with the botnet? 4 weeks ago:
Step 1 is to do everything inside your network with data you don’t care about. Get comfortable starting services, visiting them locally, and playing around with them. See what you like and don’t like. Feel free to completely nuke everything and start from scratch a few times. (Containers like Docker make this super easy).
Step 2 is to start relying on it for things inside your network. Have a NAS, maybe home assistant, or some other services like Immich or Navidrome. Figure out how to give services access to your data without relying on them to not harm it (use read only mounts, permissions, snapshots, etc.)
Step 3 is to figure out how to make services more accessible away from home. Whether that is via a VPN, or something like tailscale, or just carefully opening specific ports to specific secure and up-to-date services. This is the part you’re feeling anxious about, and I think you’ll feel less anxious if you do steps 1 and 2 first and not even think about 3 yet. Consider it its own challenge, and just do one challenge at a time.
- Comment on 'What the f***': Modding arch-sorcerer casually invents Minecraft x Hytale crossplay, defies laws of god and man alike 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and that they have official modding support, but neither has stopped modding communities in the past.
- Comment on Using Immich in combination with NAS permissions 4 weeks ago:
Then I can’t share images and albums through Immich :/