Onihikage

@Onihikage@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI Is A Bad Business⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re entirely correct, but in theory they can give it a pretty good go, it just requires a lot more computation, developer time, and non-LLM data structures than these companies are willing to spend money on. For any single query, they’d have to get dozens if not hundreds of separate responses from additional LLM instances spun up on the side, many of which would be customized for specific subjects, as well as specialty engines such as Wolfram Alpha for anything directly requiring math.

  LLMs in such a system would be used only as modules in a handcrafted algorithm, modules which do exactly what they’re good at in a way that is useful. To give an example, if you pass a specific context to an LLM with the right format of instructions, and then ask it a yes-or-no question, even very small and lightweight models often give the same answer a human would. Like this, human-readable text can be converted into binary switches for an algorithmic state machine with thousands of branches of pre-written logic.

  Not only would this probably use an even more insane amount of electricity than the current approach of “build a huge LLM and let it handle everything directly”, it would take much longer to generate responses to novel queries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Getting PSVR2 working on PC isn't as easy as it should be⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least their username is accurate!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He did at the beginning, but he helped them get what they wanted in the end, and I think that counts for something.

  “We’re thankful that the Biden administration played the long game on sick days and stuck with us for months after Congress imposed our updated national agreement,” Russo said. “Without making a big show of it, Joe Biden and members of his administration in the Transportation and Labor departments have been working continuously to get guaranteed paid sick days for all railroad workers.

  “We know that many of our members weren’t happy with our original agreement,” Russo said, “but through it all, we had faith that our friends in the White House and Congress would keep up the pressure on our railroad employers to get us the sick day benefits we deserve. Until we negotiated these new individual agreements with these carriers, an IBEW member who called out sick was not compensated.”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Is the Only Search Engine That Works on Reddit Now, Thanks to AI Deal⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Counterpoint: Scumbag companies ninja-editing their timestamped warranty page such that the only way you know they edited it after you bought the product is because it was archived previously.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨98% compatibility⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t need to add the exe of whatever mod tool to Steam, use Steam Tinker Launch. It lets you add an exe to run instead of the game, concurrent with the game, or injected after the game is up, and it will run in the same prefix that Proton uses for that game. It also has tools for installing and using several mod managers, and generally a ton of good features for tinkering with the game.

  The main issue I haven’t solved is getting something like the Nexus mods “open in manager” to work. My guess is I might have to install, run, and configure a web browser inside the prefix, but that sounds really annoying so I haven’t tried it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sony unveils the PSVR 2 PC adapter⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Doesn’t have HDR, and doesn’t have eye tracking? Those are two of its biggest selling points! What were they thinking?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OlliOlli, Kerbal Space Program Teams Shut Down by GTA Publisher⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why are you all so upset? These stock buybacks don’t pay for themselves, you know!

  God I hate the stock market.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Safety in typing, no cloud needed⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I was in your shoes for ages, but HeliBoard has predictions and other languages out of the box. Voice transcription works if you have FUTO Voice Input. Gesture typing uses a swypelibs binary extracted from Gapps; you just have to download it manually since the app never requests network access (instructions are on the Github page). I started using it today and some of its features actually seem to work better for me than Gboard, like the swipe gestures on delete or space, and it has at least a few more features I’m pretty sure Gboard doesn’t. Give it a look at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Net neutrality is back as FCC votes to regulate internet providers⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Net Neutrality is about not policing content online. That’s kind of its whole thing:

  These net neutrality policies ensured you can go where you want and do what you want online without your broadband provider making choices for you. They made clear your broadband provider should not have the right to block websites, slow services, or censor online content. These policies were court tested and approved. They were wildly popular. In fact, studies show that 80 percent of the public support the FCC’s net neutrality policies and opposed their repeal.

  The closest we get to online censorship is obscenity laws, which one might think applies to porn, but obscenity is actually defined much more narrowly than just “content designed to arouse”. Obscenity is basically stuff that even Hugh Hefner would find offensive, stuff the average adult would find deeply repulsive and abhorrent (not just a little bit, the exact language is “patently offensive”). Adult content in general (obscenity & indecency) is banned from broadcast media during daytime hours to keep kids from seeing it; subscription-based services are exempt from such rules, which presumably means that the adults who pay for the subscription are supposed to be the ones preventing kids from using it to view adult material, if such is possible. I expect this is why anything which does manage to qualify as obscene is typically very hard to get to unless you really want to see it, so nobody who might report it ever actually finds it.

  It’s worth mentioning that obscenity laws apply whether Net Neutrality is a thing or not, so having it will be a net reduction in the avenues through which content may be censored or policed. Now if only they’d ban ISPs from selling your data to brokers…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  VPN subscriptions about to explode.

  Naturally, they’ll try to ban VPNs next.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Palestinian Relief Bundle - Itch.io⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s very disappointing to see someone come to a post about a game bundle to support Palestine only to uncritically surface claims from a site with a blatant pro-Israel, pro-Zionism bias. Zionism and Judaism are not the same thing. Zionism is a sect of Judaism characterized by an extreme ethnic nationalist doctrine (with expected bedfellows). NGO Monitor repeats the utter nonsense that being Anti-Zionist or Anti-Israel is somehow anti-Semitic. It’s not - the earliest anti-Zionists were Jews. The idea that being against or critical of Zionism is the same as being racist against Jews is an absurd fiction pushed by Zionist foreign policy in order to insulate Israel from all forms of criticism; sadly, it seems to be working. In any case, I’m not inclined to believe one word printed by NGO Monitor where Israel or Palestine are involved.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Someone got Gab's AI chatbot to show its instructions⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Blog commenter Frank Wilhoit made a now somewhat famous assertion that the human default for nearly all of history has been conservatism, which he defined as follows:

  There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.

  He then defined anti-conservatism as opposition to this way of thinking, so that would be to ensure the neutrality of the law and the equality of all peoples, races, and nationalities, which certainly sounds left-wing in our current culture. It would demand that a legal system which protects the powerful (in-groups) while punishing the marginalized (out-groups), or systematically burdens some groups more than others, be corrected or abolished.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Open world games, need recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Seconding Dragon’s Dogma: Dark Arisen. I have it on GOG, it’s absolutely fantastic (apparently the pawn rental system is broken on that version, but I never used it anyway). Climbing up a drake to stab it in the face has never been so satisfying! and magic archer is OP

  It’s also old enough that OP’s hardware shouldn’t have any trouble running it at decent settings.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam is a ticking time bomb⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, we only have to look at the FTC’s lawsuit against Amazon to see what they consider an antitrust problem:

  […] Amazon violates the law not because it is big, but because it engages in a course of exclusionary conduct that prevents current competitors from growing and new competitors from emerging. By stifling competition on price, product selection, quality, and by preventing its current or future rivals from attracting a critical mass of shoppers and sellers, Amazon ensures that no current or future rival can threaten its dominance.

  That isn’t what we see from Valve - in fact it’s the opposite, as Valve’s strategy with Steam is simply to provide the best service and be the gold standard. The competition is almost always compared unfavorably to Steam, because gamers know how it feels to use a mature platform that isn’t trying to abuse them.

  Valve has even taken some steps that wind up increasing competition in adjacent markets, such as operating systems (Proton has contributed significantly to Linux popularity) and even handheld game devices (Steam Deck set off an arms race when electronics manufacturers realized Nintendo is asleep at the wheel). Steam is as pro-consumer as it gets, with the exception of GOG and possibly itch.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: LEGO Games⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re more than fine with it, the Bits N’ Bricks podcast (part of LEGO Gaming) actually had Baraklava (the Manic Miners dev) on for an episode about the history of Rock Raiders which included a section on remakes, including Manic Miners, so they outright drew attention to it. Very cool people over there at the LEGO Group.