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- Comment on Delectable 1 month ago:
I feel like Italy might have that one covered, what with all the tortellini, ravioli, and such
- Comment on Do you prefer to buy games on Steam or GOG? 2 months ago:
Except you might want a client, both to keep your games in one place, and for extra features it can provide (like cloud saves and updates) - and if you’re on Linux, you’re excluded from that kind of stuff on GOG.
- Comment on Peeble streamer on Doop 2 months ago:
To think some people would instead ridicule others when you can have so much fun together…
- Comment on Prison Architect 2 Has Been Delayed Indefinitely, Pre-Orders Are Being Refunded 3 months ago:
Considering they supposedly cited performance as a reason, they might’ve been about to pull a Cities skylines 2 indeed
- Comment on Oldest computer 3 months ago:
Right, so you consider calculators to be computers too? And I don’t mean the beefy scientific calculators, just simple ones with basic operations.
- Comment on The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins 3 months ago:
I mean, couldn’t an addon just read the password you put into a login field, or send in a request, and send it off to their servers?
- Comment on *doing my best google impression* Did you mean: turn in up? 3 months ago:
A beautiful B movie?
- Comment on Here’s how much Valve pays its staff — and how few people it employs 3 months ago:
Hold up, how is proton leveraging open source to avoid dev costs? Are you referring to steam using and contributing to existing projects instead of reinventing the wheel? Or to game developers that use it as a reason for not making native Linux versions, which wouldn’t be Valve’s workforce in the first place?
I can see how the things Valve does contribute to their business model - steam input giving their controller compatibility with games, proton letting them launch a Linux-based handheld, and the new recording feature probably there for the steam deck… But the thing is, Valve is still providing all those things to customers for no extra charge, and they keep adding new stuff.
- Comment on We here at lemmy love the antichrist 3 months ago:
Is it AI generated? I don’t know the brand and labels so maybe I’m missing something, but it just looks like a regular edit?
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
Sure, you can probably clone it - I’m not 100% sure, but I think laws protect that as long as it’s private use.
You can also fork it on GitHub, that’s something you agree to in the GitHub ToS - though I think you’re not allowed to push any modifications if the license doesn’t allow it?
Straight up taking the content from GitHub, uploading it to your own servers, and letting people grab a copy from there? That’s redistribution, and is something that needs to be permitted by the license. It doesn’t matter if it’s git or something else, in the end that’s just a way to host potentially copyrighted material.
Though if you have some reference on why this is not the case, I’d love to see it - but I’m not gonna take a claim that “that’s very much a part of most git flows”.
- Comment on Steam announces game recording beta. 4 months ago:
I imagine they made this specifically for Steam Deck, since windows users already have stuff like this built into GPU software. They’d want to offer feature parity on their handheld, so it’ll probably work nicely out of the box.
- Comment on China is attempting to mirror the entire GitHub over to their own servers, users report 4 months ago:
I do believe it’s illegal if they take a repository with a restrictive license (which includes any repository without a license), and then make it available on their own service. I think China just doesn’t care.
- Comment on Microsoft Edge nags users with a 3D banner to change Windows 11's default browser 4 months ago:
PDFs are… Not an image format? It’s a document format that is difficult to edit, and thus mostly meant to be read-only, but a document nonetheless.
An image viewer can’t open a pdf, unless for some ungodly reason it also has a whole pdf reader built into it, which just sounds inane. Defaulting to a browser is icky, and I think stems from browsers having gotten good PDF support before Microsoft could figure it out. This is something that ideally belongs to a reader, either dedicated to PDF, or supporting similar formats, be it documents or ebooks.
That’s like saying that a 3D project file is basically an image format, if it’s built to be rendered out from a viewpoint into an image.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
Except when you’re doing calculations, a calculator can run through an equation substituting the given answers and see that the values match… Which is my point of calculators not being a good example. And the case of a quantum computer wasn’t addressed.
I agree that LLMs have many issues, are being used for bad purposes, are overhyped, and we’ve yet to see if the issues are solvable - but I think the analogy is twisting the truth, and I think the current state of LLMs being bad is not a license to make disingenuous comparisons.
- Comment on We have to stop ignoring AI’s hallucination problem 5 months ago:
That’s not really right, because verifying solutions is usually much easier than finding them. A calculator that can take in arbitrary sets of formulas and produce answers for variables, but is sometimes wrong, is an entirely different beast than a calculator that can plug values into variables and evaluate expressions to check if they’re correct.
As a matter of fact, I’m pretty sure that argument would also make quantum computing pointless - because quantum computers are probability based and can provide answers for difficult problems, but not consistently, so you want to use a regular computer to verify those answers.
Perhaps a better comparison would be a dictionary that can explain entire sentences, but requires you to then check each word in a regular dictionary and make sure it didn’t mix them up completely? Though I guess that’s actually exactly how LLMs operate…
- Comment on Please Stop 8 months ago:
Git might not count because you can have branches that then merge? But yeah, git is useful, it’s decentralized and distributed, it could be used P2P…
- Comment on Lawful Neutral 9 months ago:
It’s based on character alignment in Dungeons and Dragons. It’s somewhat complicated and I don’t fully get it, but the general idea is that lawful characters follow laws (including personal views and societal norms, I think), chaotic characters tend to disregard and even reject them, focusing on their own freedom and behaving more chaotically, good characters seek to help others and follow a moral code, and evil characters seek to harm others, especially to their personal benefits. Neutral characters in an axis behave mostly like normal/average people, generally leaning towards lawful and good, but unwilling to make significant sacrifice and capable of succumbing to temptations.
As for what makes seating positions take certain places on the chart… Yeah, no, it’s just personal opinions without too much thought put into a joke. Generally though, IMO, lawful/chaotic would be about following/rejecting the letter of the rule, whereas good/evil would be about following the spirit of the rule. So lawful good sits correctly, lawful evil technically follows the rules but does it intentionally wrong, chaotic good tries to keep a healthy position while ignoring the guidelines, and chaotic evil just does it as wrong as possible.
- Comment on chevrolet 9 months ago:
If they are competent, the website doesn’t communicate with OpenAI directly - instead you’re sending messages to their servers, and they add extra text to the prompts before sending requests to OpenAI, before they return the replies to your browser.
So no, probably not.
- Comment on Faster than ever: Wi-Fi 7 standard arrives 10 months ago:
As much as I love being plugged into the internet, and definitely want to have the option to use a wire, I want to try wireless in VR - getting rid of the complications of being tethered by a cable seems likely to be worth the downsides.
- Comment on Steam keeps on winning 10 months ago:
That seems to be incorrect, and quite possibly originating from Tim Sweeney.
The only thing I found is that steam keys, which (as a publisher/developer) you get from steam without paying, cannot be sold for cheaper off-steam. The reason for that is obvious, since steam doesn’t get their cut on keys, but they still have to provide the support and infrastructure for those users.
If you have a source on that claim though, I’d love to see it - I tried finding anything else on it once and failed.
- Comment on Apple wants AI to run directly on its hardware instead of in the cloud 10 months ago:
Funny that you mention it, a few months ago when updating stuff I got a new feature on my Android phone… Offline subtitle generation based on audio, just realtime generated from anything outputing sound on my phone.
A Google search suggests this might be an older feature - not sure if my phone didn’t support it, or if I maybe just missed it, or if they added a more obvious button.
Google has a separate app for that stuff, called Private Compute Services. Right now it’s nothing like an offline Google assistant replacement, but I thought it’s really nice to have that stuff available without relying on internet access.
- Comment on GitHub Desktop or Git CLI? 10 months ago:
If I may shill for a moment, that’s something I like about sublime merge - the buttons mostly map to git commands, and it has a nice log showing the commands it ran and their output.
- Comment on makes sense 11 months ago:
It is pretty well optimized. I think it might not be, like, genius-level amazing, but the devs care about performance and worked to improve it.
In the end though, it’s a game where the entire map (as generated so far) is simulated - I think there’s cases where chunks go to sleep, but it’s not Minecraft’s “stop simulating anything not next to a player”. When combined with players building lots of machines moving many, many items around, you’ll inevitably end up with some serious CPU usage. Not a problem on a decent computer, but I have had friends struggle on weak laptops, even getting dropped as they literally couldn’t keep up with the server.
- Comment on Romantic gesture 11 months ago:
They’re extruded, but not into strips or strings. I’d argue they’re not long enough to be described as “long”, but that part is certainly imprecise
- Comment on Romantic gesture 11 months ago:
According to your quote, noodles are long, and they’re strips or strings
- Comment on Thousands of Android TV devices come with unkillable backdoor preinstalled 1 year ago:
I’d say it would be more clickbaity if you just removed the “TV”, because it’d make you think of smartphones, and those would be much more concerning
- Comment on Welp that answers a lot of why all .ml are down 1 year ago:
I think the point is that a reputable registrar wouldn’t sell domains like these in the first place… But I’m not saying that’s actually the case :/