Orygin
@Orygin@sh.itjust.works
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 2 weeks ago:
Frame gen, in my experience, is worse than upscaling. At least upscaling has some uses (but about 10% of what they say in marketing materials). Frame gen just makes the game have worse latency for disgusting frames that barely look like the base game.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 2 weeks ago:
I sure hope the games run better when enabled, it’s effectively running at lower resolution and upscaling. It’s just a fancy resolution select marketed as genuine improvements.
- Comment on What does DLSS do, and what's up with DLSS 5? 2 weeks ago:
It makes games run worse and look horrible because devs now target dlss performance mode for 60fps on medium hardware. The game is rendered at 720p and blurred to death until you can’t notice the half rendered frame and pixelated effects that depend on it (and TAA).
It’s also a marketing ploy to lie to consumers, saying their cards get 3x the performance of the previous Gen, by generating fake frames in between real ones. Displaying garbage but because the benchmark say 100+fps, it must be better right? Even though there are more presentation errors, latency is through the roof and the result is insane.
DLSS 5 continues the trend of lies by simply putting a yassification filter on top, lies to the dev, and lies to the consumers.
- Comment on Astral to Join OpenAI 2 weeks ago:
Yes but the language ecosystem is a moving target
- Comment on Astral to Join OpenAI 2 weeks ago:
Forever? When every new python version breaks compatibility with the previous?
- Comment on Firefox 149 adds built-in free VPN with 50GB monthly data 3 weeks ago:
Get out of here with your level headed take. The pitchforks already have been distributed and it has been decided Mozilla will sell the data asap! /s
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 3 weeks ago:
Holy shit this still exists?!
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 3 weeks ago:
While actual death threats are abhorrent for a topic like this, I’m beginning to wonder if they are not overstating things. DF is not known for their intellectual integrity.
- Comment on 79% of smart dash cams we tested had security flaws and concerns, and in some cases they were breaking the law - Out of 28, only six didn't have any concerns. 3 weeks ago:
It’s the same in most of Europe afaik. You can’t be filmed as a primary subject without consent. For example, I can photograph you in the background of a monument or in nature, without having to ask your consent.
It’s the same for dashcams, you are filming the road primarily not the pedestrian. - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Please never develop any software for other humans without first developing any kind of compassion or empathy for others.
You are the stereotypical nerd that doesn’t understand people may have different needs than you, so I have to justify how a feature relating to accessibility can be useful… - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Being technically something implies it’s not really or to be considered apart from the group.
The “gimmick” is proposing alt text based on the image when editing PDFs. I don’t see how it’s unhelpful. I’m not into editing PDFs in firefox, but I do use it to read them.
Inciting editors to include an alt text for accessibility seems like the ideal use case for this tech. The human still has to review and approve the generated text.
Unless I missed something as I cannot try the feature now, it seems to me a great application of ai, to augment humans in their work, and to a useful cause.
Image classification and description is “old” tech now, and I already use it in my work to auto tag images for editors to find more easily later. Nothing crazy. - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
It is really difficult to implement in the first place, and the standards evolve constantly.
Some argue it may not be possible to build new browsers anymore - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
Not all these arguments no.
You’re defending your position that this AI feature is not really AI so it’s ok, but the others are all bad because of the two letters of the devil.
Still AI is a marketing term, always has been. AI in the form of machine learning has been around for more than a decade, and lots of things already use that.
The knee jerk reaction of tech circles saying mozilla will sell their soul because there is no “kill switch” is so fucking dumb. Even more dumb is thinking no other users may want any of these features. Unless you work at Mozilla, and/or do product research for browsers, chances are you most likely have no idea how people will want to use these features in their day to day.
Even working on one’s own product in a company, few really understand the users needs and wants, especially tech persons. - Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 5 weeks ago:
And?
Because the term AI was not in vogue at the time, even though it’s clearly the same technology, it doesn’t count? It’s literally packaged under the same umbrella now.Anyway, the big issue is still tech ppl thinking their viewpoint is the only one valid, and that every generic user will have the same exact needs as them.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 month ago:
What a load of horse shit. You don’t have any clue what you’re talking about and it shows.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 1 month ago:
Ssshhh don’t say that too loud or the “no one wanted this” crowd may hear you. They would be very scared if they could read.
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 1 month ago:
He’s probably more of a Linux guy than windows
- Comment on Would you reboot the router for a Scooby Snack? 1 month ago:
The title of the photo is:
Gottfrid Svartholm, one of the co-founders of The Pirate Bay in his work station
So it follows that it’s his room?
- Comment on it's just science 1 month ago:
There’s even the manual for bash since it was probably installed somewhere on his machine/servers
- Comment on it's just science 1 month ago:
Was he implicated in nefarious shit?
Afaik Epstein had a thing for physics and other physicists are in the files because he liked the subject. - Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 1 month ago:
Afaik the files exfiltrated were photos that the on device detection could not identify and were uploaded to verify server side. That would mean not all pictures are sent to the backend, and that corroborates why “only” 70k photos were stolen when discord has millions of users verified.
Of course you have to put your trust in a closed source system so best not to upload, but if true it’s still a far cry from openly lying about it. It’s probably explicitly stated in their ToS that they may upload the file if the verification fails client side. - Comment on Fake moo 2 months ago:
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So I guess it’s backend problems? Why rewire the game client if the server needs rework…
- Comment on How the AI ‘bubble’ compares to history 3 months ago:
I doubt the transistor on a GPU wafer break after 100k cycles, as they run at gigahertz frequencies, some cycle billions of times a second.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 months ago:
And you can take approximately 3 seconds to click on the kill switch if you so desperately need not to see an AI button somewhere.
Like I can understand (and I agree) the stance on AI in general, but this is just a knee jerk reaction. Your browsing experience is 99.9% unchanged even if there is a button somewhere… - Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 months ago:
Nobody wanted AI as a feature
This is false, you don’t speak for everybody and represent a small vocal minority of users.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 months ago:
It already is a broader ecosystem of trusted software. Have you looked at what is inside a modern browser? It’s not 1999 anymore, and tons of related stuff is embedded in a browser.
- Comment on Firefox Will Ship with an "AI Kill Switch" to Completely Disable all AI Features - 9to5Linux 3 months ago:
So if you never press the AI button, it’s never enabled. It is opt-in in the strictest semantic sense.
- Comment on RAM prices soar, but popular Windows 11 apps are using more RAM due to Electron, Web components 3 months ago:
Tauri doesn’t automatically make apps perform good. Easy and common pitfalls still can make it go to a crawl just like electron.
Yaak is an example of a tauri app that performs horribly, and that can’t reach a satisfactory 30fps on modern hardware. The issue is within how tauri interacts with the js world and syncs state. - Comment on Helldivers 2 install size reduction effort yields 131GB in cuts, and you can try the slim build right now 4 months ago:
I can understand some duplication but they removed nearly 6 times the amount of data the actual game needs. It’s insane that this was published like that…