JohnEdwa

@JohnEdwa@sopuli.xyz

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘It gets more and more confused’: can AI replace translators?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even without machine translation, stuff like that has been the bane of translating software for ages as they are almost always done with absolutely zero context whatsoever, just a list of words and strings.

  Can’t see any reasons why that might be difficult.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pocketpair reveals specific patents featured in Nintendo's lawsuit against Palworld⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  For the consumer, obviously.
  Patents exist to protect the profit of the inventor, specifically because once you have spent the RnD money to make something, someone else can take your finished idea and create your thing without having to cover those costs. Their entire point is to make sure stuff stays more expensive and exclusive for longer.

  But the issue isn’t that patents or even software patents exist as a thing, they are important to protect against copying, it’s that seemingly almost anything no matter how simple, vague or universal it is can apply and get patented, and whoever owns those patents then doesn’t have to use or license them, instead they just sit on them waiting to strike with a lawsuit.

  Like one of the Nintendo ones which is the genius and detailed idea of “you can can capture animals and ride them using controller input in a vidya gaym!” - a concept entire unique and one that hasn’t been ever used before in a game I bet.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Self hosting isn’t really compatible with viral content, you do something that blows up and either get the hug of death or go bankrupt from the bandwidth costs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Helped you (and Valve) to save some bandwidth. But yes. If it requires a Steam account to play, you bought a license allowing you to access a game and not an actual game you own.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is why you don’t have physical copies of those games - you bought a steam key, exactly like you could have done digitally from humblebundle of greenmangaming or myriad of other stores, this one just had it printed on a piece of paper instead of sending you an email.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨One of the worst reviewed Tomb Raider games [Angel of Darkness] is getting the remastered treatment, and I am here for it⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The only Tomb Raider I had as a kid. Took me a like decade to finally figure out why anyone would like Tomb Raider.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam's new disclaimer reminds everyone that you don't actually own your games, GOG moves in for the killshot: Its offline installers 'cannot be taken away from you'⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think you don’t know what that word means.

  Heck, even if you want to blatantly ignore every other platform and site you can buy games from, which there are plenty, Valve gives devs a supply of Steam keys they can sell anywhere they want, they don’t even get a cut from those.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU approves steep tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we assume they actually were that affordable in reality, then the answer would be yes.
  The accusation is that the Chinese government is financing and supporting their domestic EV manufacturers in an effort to artificially lower their prices to levels no other manufacturer could ever match in an effort to dominate the market and remove all competition - at which point they could rise their prices drastically and recover the “investment” as there would be no-one else left to compete.

  If it’s true or not, I can’t say, I haven’t researched the subject enough. Those votes at least showcase that there is no clear consensus about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Looking for a Tales-like RPG without active combat⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can play Cold Steel 1&2 as your first if you want a more modern introduction to the world and like the persona style school setting stuff, but CS3 is when the stories of all the previous games start merging together, so it’s very highly recommended to have played Sky, Zero and Azure before that or you will miss a a lot of it.

  Also there is a 3D remake of the Sky trilogy coming, starting sometime next year with the first game. Though so far it seems to be Switch exclusive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why a Helium Leak Disabled Every iPhone in a Medical Facility⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup. Helium is such a tiny thing it can diffuse through almost anything, and in MEMS oscillators which are supposed to be at a rock solid 32kHz, causes variance in the frequency eventually just “gumming” it up entirely and causing it to stop working.

  If you want to know how and why, Applied Science did a video on it. Five years ago. Because that’s when this leak happened.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now Dell sales staff must be onsite five days per week • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the ones most likely to quit are ones that feel they have a good chance of easily getting another job due to performance/experience/education, leaving the company with the people unsure and desperate to keep the job.

  This surely improves quality and productivity at the work place, yup yup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PlayStation 6 Priced At $700 Like PS5 Pro? It’s Looking Likely⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So not as cheap as the (inflation adjusted) PS2 ($550) or PS4 ($540), but cheaper than the $780 of the PS3. PS1 was $620.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some subreddits could be paywalled, hints Reddit CEO - 9to5Mac⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s going back to the roots, just in an extremely twisted way - I’m old enough to remember when Reddit was just a link aggregator. You put your stuff on your own site/blog/forum (remember those?), and linked to that from reddit.
  People could then update and comment on it on reddit, but the idea of posting something there directly was a ridiculous idea - how could anything be found later when it would get buried under the new stuff in a few hours, and bumping isn’t a thing at all?

  Fuck reddit and social media, I want my forums back :(

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stable Diffusion 3's Disastrous Launch Could Change the AI Landscape Forever⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d say we need to at least up to 63 rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Paradox of Blackmarket Wired Bluetooth Apple headphones.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a soundcard in the bluetooth headphones and wires are dirt cheap, it’s not about that. Proper lightning headphones require getting your product certified by apple ($$$) and a special apple chip added in ($$$) because iPhones refuse to connect to devices that aren’t.
  But they will connect to every bluetooth device.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Half-Life⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Xen was really rushed and shorter than originally intended in HL1, and part of the idea with BM was to flesh it out properly. Might have gone a bit too far, but it was also one of the few places in the project where they could truly come up with something new and unique, and not just redo what Valve had made before them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The inside story of Elon Musk’s mass firings of Tesla Supercharger staff⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  NACS is just the standard CCS protocol shoved in the objectively better a Tesla plug, and part of making it a standard is the requirement of opening the design for everyone to use. So while the plug is from Tesla, they actually were the ones that switched to the CCS protocol first and dropped their own proprietary system, which is how they were able to open the Supercharger network to other cars in the first place.

  And that’s also why NACS is backwards compatible with all current EV chargers that already exist with a simple adapter - either by the driver, or by swapping the cable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Mass Effect⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely loved the Mako. I know I’m in the minority, but I just love how it drives. And stomping on a Colossus with the jump jets is always funny.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Is Poisoning Reddit to Promote Products and Game Google With 'Parasite SEO'⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As the passive aggressive outro from SuperfastMatt goes:

  “It used to be that you had to impress people to get people to watch your show, now you just have to impress the algorithm. So do me a favour, hit that subscribe button, all hail the algorithm.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There is also a TTRPGs for Palestine bundle here, though I have issues reaching the site currently, might be a hug of death.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why are there two different genres both called ARPG?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I actually didn’t encounter anyone saying Dark Souls and like games being an ARPG. Dark Souls like games are usually called Souls like.

  That is because everyone uses the term “Souls-like”. But if that term isn’t used, then they are all labeled as “Action Role-Playing Games”:

  A Soulslike (also spelled Souls-like) is a subgenre of action role-playing games known for high levels of difficulty and emphasis on environmental storytelling, typically in a dark fantasy setting. -https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soulslike

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The difference between Valve and almost every other company that suffers from “capitalism” is that Valve is a private company, they don’t have shareholders, investors and an outsider asshole CEO demanding enshittification in the name of exponential growth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Low tech DHCP⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is basically how radio controlled models using FM TX/RX pairs were coordinated back in the day, there would be a board witch each frequency crystal that you would use for your transmitter, and you’d plop the matching one into your model. Reason being that if someone was already flying something and you turned your radio on to the same frequency, they would immediately crash.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But Claude said tumor!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is nothing but a modern spin on “hey internet, what’s wrong with me? WebMD: it’s cancer, you’ll be dead in a week.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AMD FSR 3.1 announced; Remedy plan more sequels; Baldur's Gate 3 GOTY for GDC; Suyu takes on Yuzu⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They went to gitlab, it was inevitable. And probably planned - what better advertisement for your name than a round of news and articles about the takedown. And now they are on a private git so for the next round, Nintendo has to actually sue them as well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are game studios suddenly abandoning Black developers?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s old by now, but Telltale’s Walking Dead. Loved those games, and loved those characters.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And even if you delete a comment the API will still provide the message content as due to federation shenanigans it’s actually just hidden. If you need to remove something, edit and redact the message first.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I hate the term "Boomer Shooter"⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Major part of it is that some people differentiate hard between rogue-likes and lites, and others simply do not, and the two will never get along with each other. The thing being that if there are any type of permanent upgrade/unlock systems that makes the game easier the more you play, it is not like rogue, where instead of grinding for more max hp or dodge percentage, you “grind” knowledge and experience as a player.

  Which means that there are very, very few actual roguelikes because upgrade systems are just so cool ™ and every game obviously needs one. Or three.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨brilliant as silver⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mercury Nitrate

  Which, should be noted, is not the mercury show in the picture. Mercuric nitrates are a white/yellow dry powder that is the result of mixing mercury with nitric acid. The process of making mercuric nitrates, and carroting itself, both result in rather toxic fumes that you really should not breathe in.

  Handling liquid mercury is basically almost harmless as it absorbs through the skin really slowly and doesn’t produce much vapours. Putting it in acid, heating it up, and boiling the cloth in it, is not.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightdive's acclaimed System Shock remake heading to consoles in May⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You should buy “System Shock: Enhanced Edition”, as the name implies, it’s the better one!

  Seriously, why do we keep using the same names with reboots and remasters and remakes and argh. Languages have words, use the goddamn words!