Crotaro

@Crotaro@beehaw.org

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  True, true. We literally omly have a wood furnace, so are absolutely not affected by this, but I’ll see how reporting potential GDPR violations in the name of someone else works.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨German thermostat company Tado locks previously free app behind fake paywall, claiming it's "marketing tests"⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Sorry that it didn’t land as an obvious joke. With the NSDAP NPD AfD on such a steep rise, I think I have transcended gallows humour and arrived at necromancer humour levels to be able to cope with this reality.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you a lot for the load of information! I just now got to reading it all. I was very skeptical about the fact that it is fed by the output of other LLMs but the way you explain it makes sense to me that it might not be that much of a problem. I guess a super blunt analogy could be “It’s only incest if it’s your children” lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hahaha the production lead actually suggested that I might have been sick and coughed germs onto the sample sponge or that the sponges themselves were already contaminated during manufacturing, because every single sample showed high counts of pseudomonas.

  Maybe instead she should start listening to us when we tell her that production equipment from 1970 might not be sufficient to run a food production with the hygiene requirements of today. But no, replacing that would cost more money than just taking samples over and over until the results are low enough (probably because by the 37th swab I cleaned the surface better than the production workers)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks for the explanation. I don’t understand enough about large language models to give a valuable judgement on this whole Deepseek happening from a technical standpoint. I think it’s excellent to have competition on the market and it feels that the US’ whole “But they’re spying on you and being a national security risk” is a hypocritical outcry when Facebook, OpenAI and the like still exist.

  What do you think about Deepseek? If I understood correctly, it’s being trained on the output of other LLMs, which makes it much more cheap but, to me it seems, also even less trustworthy because now all the actual human training data is missing and instead it’s a bunch of hallucinations, lies and (hopefully more often than not) correctly guessed answers to questions made by humans.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨BioWare veterans confirm they were laid off by EA, including senior Dragon Age and Mass Effect devs⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thank you for that perspective. It seems to be somewhat similar and thankless to when I get tasked with taking microbio samples from the machines to check for contamination and then get grumpy department leads because the analysis results show over and over again that their cleaning procedure is inefficient.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bill proposed to outlaw downloading Chinese AI models.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Does open sourcing require you to give out the training data? I thought it only means allowing access to the source code so that you could build it yourself and feed it your own training data.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reviewers giving high scores to poorly optimised games really grinds my gears⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Additionally, if a day one patch were actually enough to fix these issues, then just delay the game by a day. That way, the launch day gamers won’t suffer through a (sometimes) unplayable experience and possibly leave bad reviews.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨US cloud could soon be illegal in the EU as Trump punches first hole in EU-US data deal, European digital rights groups Noyb says⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t be the worst thing. I don’t mind the EU cooperating with USA but we’ve been piggybacking too comfortably off many US “services” when it comes to consumer tech and the military. That way we forgot to build something on our own in case of “Europe’s Saviour” turning into a political (if not, yet, military) enemy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Itch.io was taken down by funko pop⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds like a job for a group similar to Anonymous, just less focused on actual illegal activities and instead just playing out the legal methods of fighting against corporations.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve must address swastikas and other hate on Steam, writes US senator in a letter to Gabe Newell⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Swastikas, okay. Happy merchant, sure. But how is Pepe an alt right symbol now? I read half of an article about it which seems to conclude that it depends on the context the meme is being used in. If it’s by a nazi in their username, it’s a nazi symbol, wow. To me this feels like “serial killers often use butcher knives, so butcher knives are serial killer dogwhistles”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it)⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Watched this video earlier today and I definitely hope German city planners in my area don’t embrace this required car-centric approach to infrastructure more than they did for cities like Munich .

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What type of game do you want to see?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played it yet, but if you have a VR headset then Minesweeper Peak VR seems to be exactly what you’re looking for.

  There’s also Mine3D which plays in your browser and is a rotatable cube of mines.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s a fair gripe with the list. I guess “Top 100 Games” is just more catchy than “100 Great Games In Random Order”

  … Although at this point I’ve seen so many “Top x” lists that “x Great y In Random Order” would, ironically, catch my attention more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨PC Gamer: The top 100 PC games⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I fully understand someone thinking x game deserves to be there instead of y but I think this is a great list that spans most genres and serves as a wonderful stepping stone for exploration within gaming.

  If I give this list to someone who doesn’t know yet, what kind of games they like, this list will show them great games from all major “eras” and all kinds of dev studio sizes/budgets. And once they have played, say, KotoR 2 (since it’s in the same list that recommends new and good games like Baldur’s Gate 3, they are more likely to check out other old but great games like Gothic 1 and 2 (and, of course, KotoR 1).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Recommend me your favorite linear games!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I would count Sifu as being pretty linear and very good. Probably the best martial arts fantasy-ish game out there that’s single-player (for that but multiplayer take Absolver, the same devs’ first game)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I used to hate QR codes. But they're actually genius [Veritasium, YouTube]⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Smart! If my company ever digitises enough to make this a possibility, I’ll implement (or at least suggest) it!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] HW News - AMD Leaves High-End GPUs, EK Aftermath, Consumer Protection for Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Okay, thank you for the comprehensive answer! I remembered wrong, I actually have the GTX 1660 Ti. Ever since I switched from my 970, I always mix up the numbers. Nonetheless, it changes almost nothing about your statement, I think, lol

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I could be mistaken but I think I read something about being able to choose which games a child member can see and play? If your adult sis is prone to getting banned, just invite her as child, if the system works like that. Sure, the terms “adult” and “child” are more intuitive for regular people, but in essence it’s just “admin/mod” and “member”, no?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right. And sure, it’s gonna suck for the twelve legitimate people who lose their access because their sibling is a dickwad, but that’s an okay tradeoff if it prevents a sudden surge of cheats.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Mhmm, I just noticed it yesterday when I first tried using it. But it doesn’t seem all good, because apparently it only works (without any workarounds) if you are on the same network. My sister, who lives in the same country but 400 km away, couldn’t join upon invitation :c

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨EU consumer groups slam 'manipulative' video game spending tactics.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re right that these things have been happening for a while, but does it invalidate their actions now? Sure, it would’ve been better, had they said something earlier, but better do the right thing eventually than think “Eh, I didn’t open my mouth the very first time so it’s no use doing it now”…right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[Gamers Nexus] HW News - AMD Leaves High-End GPUs, EK Aftermath, Consumer Protection for Electronics⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder what they think of as high-end GPUs, though. I’ve been using a GTX 1060 to run my games for around two or three years and am mostly usually happy with performance vs quality. Would a GTX 1060 today be out of AMD’s scope already or are we talking rivaling Nvidia’s 40xx series today?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Families is here - Steam News⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A pretty good change for how I use Family Sharing. The only detriments seem to be the issue of the game owner being banned for violations of annoy family members and the 1 year Cookstown cooldown between leaving and joining a family. Both should be manageable issues, though, if you’re at the point of trusting someone enough to log into their machine with your credentials.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We played Valve’s secret new shooter: Deadlock⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I absolutely get where you’re coming from, but to be fair Team Fortress is basically a hero shooter as well, except that there can be multiples of the same “hero” on the battlefield at the same time. Or - and I’m genuinely asking because I haven’t played “hero shooters” in that long - am I missing a core distinction of hero shooters?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I asked what your fave controllers are, now. What is the worst controller you have used?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If we factor in failure rates, definitely the Valve Index Controllers.

  I fucking love them when they work, but this is the second or third time that I had to get one replaced by Valve in the 7 months of having them. Please, Valve, Index users are already paying premium money. We’d like controllers that don’t just stop working properly despite NOT having hit them against walls repeatedly or anything of that sort. It also can’t be super lucrative for you if for every sold pair you create and ship out 5 replacements.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sky: Children of the Light - Players Offering to Take Your Hand⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I love Sky and most people there genuinely are so nice. And now on Steam I can finally play it with a decent framerate (the Switch was a big step up from my phone already but that still struggled sometimes)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨War Hospital, out now, is a tug-of-war between empathy and efficiency⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Ooh it sounds like it has great potential, once the bugs are ironed out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve: Most games made with AI tools are now welcome on Steam⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That last half-sentence really isn’t in good faith. Just in the past couple years Valve made three “beloved products” that come to my mind immediately. Valve Index (the VR set), SteamDeck (Valve’s Nintendo Switch) and the Steam Controller (although that one could be a bit older than “just in the past couple years”).