TehPers
@TehPers@beehaw.org
- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 1 day ago:
This is exactly what I was thinking. They aren’t programmed to follow the user’s instructions to begin with. Why is it a surprise when they deviate from them?
It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the ML that goes into these LLMs. They are prediction machines. They might have “specialist” submodels or whatever that are better at predicting specific areas, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 3 days ago:
Don’t worry. I’ll sanitize his statement:
That god damn required age bullshit’s going to fuck up Arch and every other distro worth a damn.
Hope I was helpful!
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
So is this enough for you then?
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
If entire distros default to 1/1/1970 then it might not be super helpful.
Might be interesting to see if some anti-tracking distros outside of these jurisdictions are interested in doing something like that.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
What’s wrong with the title? It’s the article title.
Also, Beehaw has no downvotes, so you can downvote all you want on your instance if it makes you feel better, but it won’t federate the downvote.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 4 days ago:
Don’t worry. This will all get reverted real quick once it makes its way into a user prompt for headless installations. Imagine needing to pass a DOB in through stdin somehow every time you
docker run ubuntulol. - Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 5 days ago:
Sounds like Google decided to take dead internet theory into their own hands.
- Comment on Windows 11 is finally getting a movable taskbar 1 week ago:
Windows 11 is getting a few nice changes. The problem is I’m on Linux now. I’m not going back unless it becomes better than Linux by enough to make me bother switching again.
- Comment on Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of March 15th 1 week ago:
Well, to no surprise, Slay the Spire 2. Still in early access, and still an amazing game. The balance is a bit all over the place, but that’s expected with it in EA. Compared to the first game, it’s a direct improvement (save for the balance). The new characters are a lot of fun to play and bring new, interesting mechanics to the game. Heck, Defect has some new content as well, including a status build of all things.
Otherwise, modded Terraria on a server I’m hosting with some friends. The new update is really good, but even 1.4.4 (which tModLoader is still on) has some awesome mods. Honestly, I’m excited for when tModLoader releases for the new update, though I know that will take some time.
- Comment on Brain Implants Let Paralyzed People Type Nearly as Fast as Smartphone Users 1 week ago:
As someone with fat fingers and autocorrect disabled, I wish I had 22 wpm with high accuracy.
And before you suggest autocorrect, I use a lot of acronyms and jargon that autocorrect often fails at. It gets annoying enough that I’d rather just type stuff out myself.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 1 week ago:
I was referring to Reddit, not YouTube.
I use FreeTube all the time. If you are picky about what you watch, then there’s a lot of great creators on there.
YouTube is not a forum. YouTube shorts has the same issues though.
- Comment on Jeff Kaplan is sick of hearing you demonize games you weren't going to play anyway: 'Shut the f**k up. No one cares. We don't need to hear that you weren't into it' 1 week ago:
“There are certain forums or Reddits or whatever where it’s just like, yeah, that one’s on ignore from now on. They’re not actually productive in any way,” Kaplan said. “It’s just who can get the most points by being outraged. I’m bored with it.”
Well there’s your problem. You’re being ragebated by bots, trolls, shills, basement dwellers (the ones who don’t shower - the ones who shower are fine), and the perpetually online.
Consider doing yourself a favor by never exposing yourself to the shit that comes out of that anus.
- Comment on NVIDIA reveals DLSS 5 powered by Neural Rendering, launches this fall 1 week ago:
Ok, first, copying and pasting a paragraph to quote from this website fucking sucks. I know it’s a site that gets cited a lot, so I feel terrible for all the people out there who have to deal with that.
NVIDIA says developers can fine-tune the result with controls for intensity and color grading, allowing artists to adjust blending, contrast, saturation, and gamma to match a game’s visual style. so specific objects or image regions can be excluded from enhancement when developers want to preserve the original look or avoid changes in selected areas.
They seem to at least be giving devs the ability to tune the output to their specific creative style. At least they’re addressing that, otherwise this would make no sense whatsoever because the output looks nothing like the input.
On that note, as long as I can turn it off, I really couldn’t care less about this. I’ll be leaving it off. Even better if my GPU just doesn’t support this I guess.
My biggest concern is if game devs are going to get lazier and start requiring this for their games to be playable. That’s basically what happened with framegen.
- Comment on Explain it like I'm 5: Why is everyone on speakerphone in public? 2 weeks ago:
One time, my mother-in-law answered a phone on speaker in a bar. It was from her boss.
“I just killed someone” came out of that speaker in a voice that sounded like he was going to cry.
I don’t think she has put it on speaker since then.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
I hate her. She has the worst initials.
Also, she’s generally a bad person, but that’s irrelevant.
- Comment on here's a challenge in the tech sphere: implementing nudges toward healthy phone usage. 2 weeks ago:
You seem to be in the perfect situation to justify screen limits then.
However, I can’t help with that sadly. I’m not on stock Android. It’s possible on my Samsung device through parental controls, so maybe look for something like that?
- Comment on here's a challenge in the tech sphere: implementing nudges toward healthy phone usage. 2 weeks ago:
Setting limits would help, but you’ll be left with time to spend off of your phone. While I can’t help with setting limits, I can recommend picking up a hobby that pulls you away from it. That can be anything from a sport to crochet. If you have something else you want to do instead, you may find yourself naturally using your device less.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
I would narrow this down to including monetary cost and reward.
A game of primarily chance, such as slots, roulette, poker, blackjack, or even MTG’s Ante variation where something of value is offered (money, chips, resellable cards) and something of value is rewarded would be gambling. Note that chance would be a primary mechanic of the game, but skill may still be involved.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
Seeing as I can’t see the thread anymore for previously mentioned reasons (yet oddly I can reply to you because you pinged me), I’m not sure which mod currently holds the reins over this community, but feel free to just delete the whole thread.
There’s a discussion in another post that is almost certainly related to this one. I alluded to it when I came to that conclusion, which might have confused you.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
Edit: Hey everyone, you can disregard the above comment by TehPers, because they clarified that they actually aren’t claiming booster packs are illegal:
If you are only arguing about what is or isn’t legal, then you’re wasting your time. I’m not a lawyer, nor in a position to rule on laws. I don’t know if something gave you the impression otherwise.
;P
Thank you for clarifying to all of us that you do not comment in good faith. It makes it much easier for me to know which people to block.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
And yet are not “gambling” as the colloquial understanding of the regulated activity stand, nor certainly things that people want to be covered under gambling regulations.
I didn’t say they were gambling, though trading shares is often associated with gambling. But in all of those examples, you receive something with value that changes in a way that is impossible to accurately predict.
And since this is about what should fall under the regulated activity, doubly-irrelevant.
And here you’re changing the topic to suit your needs. I replied to a comment discussing the definition of the word “wager”. As I’ve told you not long ago today, I don’t care much about the semantics of specific words. I’ll engage in the discussion though.
And since this definition is irrelevant to the regulated activity, it’s irrelevant to TCGs or loot boxes if you are pushing for those to be considered regulated gambling.
What? I’d like to remind you that you responded to me and solo’d out TCG boosters. In my response, I said very clearly that I am not a lawyer, nor do I make any claims as to what they should say in their case.
If you are only arguing about what is or isn’t legal, then you’re wasting your time. I’m not a lawyer, nor in a position to rule on laws. I don’t know if something gave you the impression otherwise.
If you’re arguing about what should or shouldn’t be legal, then it’s not an unpopular opinion that TCG booster packs should be regulated to some extent.
Anyway, I’m disengaging. As you mentioned before, we assume good faith here. That is my initial assumption, so I engaged with the discussion. At this point, I believe you are arguing for the sake of arguing.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
By this definition, buying anything is a wager.
Mostly correct. Buying anything which retains value after the purchase is a wager. This includes shares in a company, collectible items, even a shipping crate of RAM.
You’re not betting on a specific outcome in that definition, which is the “gamble” part of “gambling”.
In the case of TCGs, the bet is that the value of the cards contained in the pack exceed the money spent on the pack. This is very common. And within TCG communities, there is a common understanding that this is gambling.
That’s of course not to say that all purchases of a booster pack are with the intent to gamble. I’ve also played poker and blackjack for fun, and those games are full of wagers, bets, and outcomes. But the bar has never been that all possible reasons to do something are to gamble, just that gambling is a common motivation to do it.
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 2 weeks ago:
The final question presents a false dichotomy that it is the end of the internet or that the authors are pushing an agenda. This is a belief “that most people think are unreasonable and unacceptable” (as you put it) in the context of this specific article, which is what their comment was in response to.
I have no issue with anything that precedes that, obviously.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
US law does not view TCGs as gambling, but by the colloquial definition, it is gambling. You say there’s no wager on an outcome. The wager is the price you spend on a pack, and the outcome is the resale value of the contents of the pack.
As for the case against Valve in particular, I make no claims as to what they should or shouldn’t argue in the case. I am not a lawyer. I can’t imagine most people in this instance are either.
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 2 weeks ago:
I added a second edit it appears after your comment, but repeating it here: what’s the point of this? To me it seems like an argument over the semantics of a word which I honestly couldn’t care less about. Are you defending that the commenter’s comment reads like a sane interpretation of the article?
Nobody here is saying that it’s ridiculous to question your sources or try to identify potential bias in articles. Those are things you should always do. That’s not what this commenter was doing, though.
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 2 weeks ago:
The suggestion that the authors of an article have ulterior motives is an extreme position to take, yes.
At no point did I ever say that it’s a bad thing to hold that position, nor did I say it’s an invalid position, nor did I say it’s an incorrect position. But in the society we live in, that position is pretty extreme.
- Comment on Valve compares its loot boxes to Labubus in lawsuit defense 2 weeks ago:
Booster packs in card games like Pokemon and MTG are gambling. They contain random cards with published, known odds. The cards are worth monetary value. The consensus across the board for these games in their communities is that the packs are gambling, and it is pretty much always better to buy single cards from a third party if you need specific cards.
So are they arguing it should be “legal gambling” here? Because I’d argue the opposite - booster packs are also illegal gambling.
- Comment on Palantir CEO Makes Shocking Confession on Disrupting Democratic Power 2 weeks ago:
if we don’t do it, our adversaries will do it
“If I don’t stab you, someone else will. Therefore I have an obligation to stab you.” - crazed mass stabber
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 2 weeks ago:
By extremist, I was referring to the absurdity of the statement. Either it’s the end of the world, or the article authors are conspirators. Surely it can’t be something simple that isn’t on one end of a spectrum. This is what leads to radicalization.
Do you think that government intrusion into media, or the existence of online influence campaigns, are “extremist” conspiracies rather than proven realities?
They are both. An extremism can be real. A conspiracy can be proven true, and in your example it is.
There is no evidence, nor reason to believe, the authors of the article in question are conspirators. There is no reason to believe the contents of the article are intended to be anything more than informational, even if with the inherent bias all authors posess. To perceive it as such would be a sign of extreme radicalization or, as you put it, an “online influence campaign” which would be conveniently set before a midterm election in the US.
To be clear, I’m not suggesting the commenter actually is part of some campaign. I wouldn’t know. I do believe its contents are extreme though.
- Comment on 14,000 routers are infected by malware that's highly resistant to takedowns 2 weeks ago:
Are you sure? Those seem like the only two options to me. Clearly the purpose of the article is to convince people to feed their children to the rich.
Seriously, I’ve seen an increase in these weirdly extremist comments recently. One would have to wonder if they are the ones serving another’s interests.