ICastFist

@ICastFist@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨12-year-old Doom 2 challenge map finally beaten after six-hour, 23K-demon grind⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember a similar story some time ago, of another map that was just a big arena filled to the brim with all the enemies. Part of the strategy was circle strafing the whole place while enemies killed one another, then using the ammo to deal with whatever was left. Can’t remember the map name

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I find that very likely, which will be extremely on character, as Oblivion was the first single player game to sell cosmetic DLC: horse armor.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oblivion Remaster Rockets Past 100K Players on Steam Hours After Launch - Insider Gaming⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Still better than magic in Skyrim, which by level 10 wouldn’t be causing enough damage even on mudcrabs anymore

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  And my little pony. The containment board wasn’t enough and ponies would spill whenever mods were asleep

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨4chan Is Dead. Its Toxic Legacy Is Everywhere⁩ ⁨⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  The piracy threads and general game discussion on /tg/ used to be mostly decent. /b/ was always the face of 4chan though, and that was the main pipe spewing and spilling sewage everywhere

  And let’s not forget, 4chan was possibly one of the biggest reasons for MLP success back in 2012 or so (probably a hangover from too much Robot Unicorn Attack)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump’s Social Media Surveillance: Social Scoring by Another Name⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  What about committing crimes facilitated by facebook, instagram, tiktok? Those fraudsters (fake ads for high paying jobs, famous people peddling snake oil, etc) rarely get caught.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Thoughts on lightweight platforms like gotosocial?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  misskey/sharkey are also very heavy on the client side due to excessive javascript. Great looks on the browser, tho

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Just yesterday I saw a post on lemmy that said that turkish xitter users were migrating to bluesky. Didn’t bother opening to see the comments or read it. Seeing this now, all I can think is “well, what did they expect?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard people complain a lot about its resource usage on the server side, that the advantages of it running on elixir are moot unless the instance has over 1k people. The web UI leaves a lot to be desired, true, but at least it’s not such a client-side resource hog/browser crasher as misskey/sharkey

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Argentina receives $42 bn from international financial institutions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s quite literally Farquaad, even the hairdo

  Image

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨this is not satire this is not satire this is not satire⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  And transphobic! My baby blue and light pink pencils never draw straight lines!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨IYKYK⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Deathclaws? Psshh, they can’t see my 25 stealth ass!

  OH SHIT THEY CAN FUCKFUCKFUCKFUCKFUCK

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Deletes Bluesky Posts After Furious Backlash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I guess people prefer having an actual executable program instead of a browser page

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Question] What just happened to 4 million posts?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do comments count as posts? Because losing all comments from an instance would probably explain such a huge dip

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is there a link for the crater of whatever’s left of that thread?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  “Women aren’t even humans” - ancient Greeks

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I had no idea y cunt was this powerful⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes, because women like men, and that’s gay

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  𓀿 𓁀

  I personally like how this one in particular seems like a casket rising from the floor

  𓀢 𓀣

  clap clap

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Creative Curse⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Looks like it’s my time to shine

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'There Are So Few Of Us Left': Even Full-Time Games Journalists At Big Websites Are Feeling It In 2025⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  A more apt comparison would be with film reviewers. Before the internet, knowing what a movie was about, if you didn’t care about spoilers, would require either someone watching and telling you, or reading a piece on a newspaper (or, in some places, watching TV). It’s almost the same with “professional” game reviews and how they completely lost space to random dudes on the internet.

  Also, watching a video usually feels more like entertainment, whereas reading a review or walkthrough feels more like doing some research.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft says you "cannot complain" it shut down The Crew because you never actually owned it, and you weren't "deceived" by the lack of an offline version⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s see if the physical disc once said anything about needing an online connection for single play. Oh look, it did not, the subscription required was only for 2-8 players network play.

  Let’s compare with Destiny 2’s back cover, a game that is a MMO and thus “cannot be owned” by the players. Hey, a “Online Play (Required)*” sticker that is not present on The Crew! The fine print has a bit that states that “Activision makes no guarantee of regarding availability of online play or features, and may modify or discontinue online services at its discretion without notice.”

  FF14 also had a “Online Play (Required)*” sticker on its back cover. It clearly states on the rectangular bit above the T Rating: “Users are granted only a limited, revocable license and do not own any intellectual property in the game or game data”

  You deceived consumers, Ubisoft. “Online Play Required” is not there, so the game should remain playable offline.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Proton⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  At least none of them sucks quite like electron (the thing that bundles chrome to make “native” javascript applications)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is this picture idea immature?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Immature? No. Fucking stupid? Totally. I’m a man and if a friend approached me with that idea, I’d be “fuck yeah, let’s do it”

  The picture itself will obviously pique anyone’s curiosity, so I hope you have a better story behind it than “Oh, I just wanted an icebreaker”, or that the taking of the picture generates a good story! 😆

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Apple will get fucked real hard, since pretty much all their iphones are manufactured in China

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trump Threatens 104% Tariffs on China as the Mad King Plays Chicken With the Global Economy⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hopefully people can still burn down mar a lago

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How a false X post about pausing tariffs led to multi-trillion-dollar market swings.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  What was that they said during the stupid reddit thingy with stock markets? “It’s not a casino”?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BACK OFF FELLAS, SHE'S MINE⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, she’s about to enter the matrix!

  I got that spamessage today as well

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"Sorry I can't read"⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The exaggerations allowed by 2D/3D art is what makes it more enjoyable. I think the most unrealistic thing I see in hentai is a dude who can manage to bang a full harem, nonstop, for 24h or more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Anthropic has developed an AI 'brain scanner' to understand how LLMs work and it turns out the reason why chatbots are terrible at simple math and hallucinate is weirder than you thought⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Anthropic made lots of intriguing discoveries using this approach, not least of which is why LLMs are so terrible at basic mathematics. “Ask Claude to add 36 and 59 and the model will go through a series of odd steps, including first adding a selection of approximate values (add 40ish and 60ish, add 57ish and 36ish). Towards the end of its process, it comes up with the value 92ish. Meanwhile, another sequence of steps focuses on the last digits, 6 and 9, and determines that the answer must end in a 5. Putting that together with 92ish gives the correct answer of 95,” the MIT article explains.

  But here’s the really funky bit. If you ask Claude how it got the correct answer of 95, it will apparently tell you, “I added the ones (6+9=15), carried the 1, then added the 10s (3+5+1=9), resulting in 95.” But that actually only reflects common answers in its training data as to how the sum might be completed, as opposed to what it actually did.

  Another very surprising outcome of the research is the discovery that these LLMs do not, as is widely assumed, operate by merely predicting the next word. By tracing how Claude generated rhyming couplets, Anthropic found that it chose the rhyming word at the end of verses first, then filled in the rest of the line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨6* months away now. If you're on 10, do you plan to upgrade? Make the jump to Linux?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Not to mention the many deals with hardware manufacturers in order to avoid competing OSs to have any chance. They managed to kill BeOS and dominate the Japanese market in the 90s