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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is Google about to destroy the web? Google says a new AI tool on its search engine will rejuvenate the internet. Others predict an apocalypse for websites.⁩ ⁨⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Isn’t this site proof that the internet doesn’t have to die as a whole? I mean, I agree with your sentiment, but I feel that this will mostly hit the middle to high traffic sites. The community based ones with organic discovery will remain OK I think. This might even evolve back to an early internet age of smaller hobbyist sites because there no longer is big money in the internet (apart from what google captures as “their” internet)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mario Kart World | Review Thread⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m glad you’re enjoying it. I’m not going to be having a switch 2 any time soon but I do really like Nintendo games, so I’m glad I’ll be able to get some of the excitement through you :).

  I’m a bit sad about the free roaming part being a bit bare bones. When they first announced it I was hoping for the creativity of a Mario Odyssey crossed with Breath of the Wild in a Kart, discovering secrets and fun places everywhere.

  Also with respect to pricing: I think it depends on the game to decide what an honest price is. I would gladly give 100 or more for the joy that Slay the Spire has given me over the years. I think that a big and polished Mario game is not immediately the worst offender for being this expensive. It’s when the less polished and more cash grabbing AAA games start to follow this example that it becomes a problem. I do like how some games decide their price points differently, like Clair Obscur for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self insert power fantasy recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Warframe still nice to start out with in 2025? I remember installing it a while back and being overwhelmed by the amount of info and options and not really knowing how to simply progress the story in the original way.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Self insert power fantasy recommendations?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is the one, playing through 1 for the second time right now and it’s just so good. It’s my first time as female Shepard and I think I like her more than male Shepard!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It’s official: There are no Nintendo Switch 2 reviews. Here’s what that means for us, and you [VGC]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I agree that this mostly makes sense, but the mouse part of the new joy cons does feel like a new console feature that they wouldn’t have added for a switch pro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  If I were to ask my Magic 8 Ball “Is the word ‘difinitely’ misspelled?” 100 times, it’s going to reply in the affirmative over 16% of the time.

  This comparison makes no sense. Your example has a binary question. In that case, any system that replies correctly at even a rate of around 50% would be useless. However, the problem space in this scenario is way larger than 2 options and still way larger than 100 options. Being correct in even a small number of 100 attempts is still statistically significant.

  The fact that an LLM is unable to reason and that it is based on statistics doesn’t change anything about this behavior. At the end of the day you get a tool that is able to point you to actual new information that you by yourself did not arrive at.

  Imagine that you put a lot of effort in a better model specifically for vulnerability research and you get it up to a correctness rate of a mere 10%. I would gladly hire some programmers to sift through these reports and possibly find overlooked vulnerabilities.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is literally the very first experiment in this use case, done by a single person on a model that wasn’t specifically designed for this. The fact that it is able to formulate a correct response at all in this situation impresses me.

  It would be easy to criticize this if it were the endpoint and this was being advertised as a tool for vulnerability research, but as discussed at the end of the post, this “quick little test” shows both initial promising results and had the fortunate byproduct of actually revealing a new vulnerability. By no means is it implied that it is now ready for use in this field.

  The issue with hallucinations is one that in my opinion is never going to be totally fixed. That is why I hate the use of AI as a final arbiter of truth, which is sadly how a lot of people use it (I’ll quickly ask ChatGPT) and companies advertise it. What it is good at however, is coming up with plausible ideas, and in this case having an indication for things to check in code can be a great tool to discover new stuff, as is literally the case for this security researcher finding a new vulnerability after auditing the module themselves.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT's o3 Model Found Remote Zeroday in Linux Kernel Code⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I hate AI. Why?

  • Because of its extreme energy consumption compared to what it achieves
  • Because it is all in the hands of the worst companies on this planet
  • Because capitalists are foaming at the mouth to use it to fuck over workers
  • Because it is devaluing art and reducing it to another commodity to “produce”

  However

  I also took the time to read the original blog post, and it is a fascinating story.

  The author starts out with using an existing vulnerability as a benchmark for ChatGPT testing. They describe how they took the code specific to the vulnerability and packaged it for ChatGPT, how they formatted the query and what their results were. In 100 runs only 8 correctly identify the targeted vulnerability, the rest are false positives or claim that there are no vulnerabilities in the given code.

  Then they take their test a step further and increase the amount of code shared with ChatGPT so that it also includes stuff of the module that had nothing to do with the original vulnerability. As expected, this larger input decreases performance and also reduces the vulnerability detection rate for the targeted vulnerability. However, in those 100 runs, another vulnerability was described that wasn’t a false positive. An actual new vulnerability that the author didn’t know about was discovered. Again, the signal to noise ratio is very low, and one has to sift through a lot of wrong reports to get a realistic one, but this proved that it could be used as a useful tool for helping to detect vulnerabilities.

  I highly recommend reading the blog post.

  As much as I like to be critical about AI, it doesn’t help if we put our heads in the sand and act as if it never does something cool.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Donkey Kong⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I distinctly remember Donkey Kong Country as my first gaming experience. When my parents needed a babysit, they would often let me sleep at my aunts place. My older niece and nephew also lived their, but the age gap was quite big making it not ideal for us to play with toys together. One day however, my nephew had a SNES from his friend there and he was playing Donkey Kong Country on their TV. I remember being completely entranced by it and being unable to put it down (even though it was very difficult for me at the time). From then on I was always hoping that the “Gaming Machine” would be present if I stayed over, which was often the case as they figured out that this was a very easy way to keep me occupied. I later got a green Game Boy Color, and of course this was my first game for the system. I played it countless of hours, and even though I later got a Game Boy Advance SP, this game would remain in my rotation until I got a DS many years later.

  I’ve barely played any of the later installments. I got Donkey Kong Country 2 for the Game Boy Advance when I was young, but found it to difficult and didn’t really like the new protagonist as much. After my DS I became a playstation fanboy for the rest of my childhood and teens.

  Now that I have bought a 3DS I’ve started playing Donkey Kong Country Returns. It’s really nice, but I found it a bit overwhelming and haven’t really touched it since.

  Also a shout out to the Game Boy game called Donkey Kong, in which you actually play mario with some incredibly varied platforming for the time. An all time classic!

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the best gaming moments of the last decade?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Outer wilds ending is GOAT gaming moment for me.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  True, that same “I wonder what I’m going to discover today?” feeling. Just had an insane run in BP with lots of new stuff an an absolute abondance of all resources. Sadly no antechamber, but I’m getting closer. Also starting to unravel the story, this too seems way more interesting than at first glance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Weekly “What are you playing” Thread || Week of April 13th⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m also starting to lose myself in Blue prince. I was a bit hesitant in the starting hours, feeling like progress was limited, the puzzle element rather basic and the whole game too RNG based.

  But now that I’m further in, I’m really starting to unravel the hidden depth of a lot of its mechanics and secrets. I’m keeping notes on my netbook and it’s starting to become more of a wiki. I’m currently unlocking and discovering new stuff at a very satisfying pace, and my opinion of the game is growing immensely.

  If I remember correctly you were also a huge fan of Outer Wilds. While I do understand the comparisons, this does feel like a whole other thing to me. More mysterious and strange, but also a bit more sterile. Outer Wilds is just so filled with love and beauty on top of its mystery, that I cannot fathom any game ever pushing it from the top spot in my favorite games of all time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adult gamers of Lemmy how do you find time to game without being exhausted of the screen?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Any portable console is amazing for this, as you can literally change the whole context on a whim. A steam deck is nice, but even a used older console like a PSP / Vita or 3DS is amazing for a reasonable amount of money. As most of these systems no longer have legal ways to buy new games, I see no harm in pirating the games. I am doing this with a 3DS right now and going through the systems hit games is just an amazing ride. Currently enjoying Super Mario 3D Land and Bravely Default.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo Switch 2 Direct Megathread⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Aged like the best of wines! 🤌

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think 4 runs decently now though? I have it installed on Steam Deck and that seems to handle 60fps well. I have only played around an hour of it, as I didn’t feel in the mood for that type of game then.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I 100% see that it is satire and respect almost all of its narrative choices, even the torture scene. But that doesn’t mean that it is fun to play. It just felt really draining to have to inhabit these characters for dozens of hours, rather than watching a film about them. Something about playing a game forces you to empathize more closely with “your” character, and it is so draining for me when that character is a dick.

  I think it gets 10s because of the attention to detail and vast amount of stuff in it, but I agree that underneath all the polish and glamour it is just an average game with some very dated mechanics.

  Weirdly enough, it is the story that makes it worthwhile, even though it was not relaxing to me it did have some amazing moments of both satire and just hilarious situations. I also really enjoyed Franklin as a character and the contrast with Michael (who you could argue is actually a worse person than Franklin).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am playing sleeping dogs right now and really enjoying it! Runs very well on Steam Deck too.

  The driving left on the road is proving to be a tougher hurdle than expected though, I find myself crashing into opposing drivers more frequently than desired :).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Grand Theft Auto⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I came very late to this series. I only played GTA V last year and I have yet to start another one. While I felt it was an impressive experience and had some great moments, I was also quite baffled at some of the design choices: the game often felt quite clunky and seemed to ignore logical steps in game design that other developers have made (constantly tapping a button to sprint, some of the ways the menus behave).

  This is going to sound a bit silly, but I also genuinely had issues constantly doing these reprehensible things in missions. The game is very cynical and constantly makes you do selfish acts for the protagonists. While it is at times extremely funny and is on par with some of the best crime comedies out there, doing this stuff for hours on end was really exhausting for me. I play games to relax and started to feel that this game wasn’t giving me that. Compare this to Red Dead Redemption, a game I absolutely adored, where the protagonist is also morally questionable but at least tries to do the right thing within their frame of reference. I have no problem with morally gray protagonists, but something about the dial being turned up to 11 in GTA V really hit me the wrong way.

  Right now I am playing Sleeping Dogs on my Steam Deck. It is clearly a GTA clone, but has an interesting twist in setting: Hong Kong is a really cool environment and the combat focusing more on melee and martial arts is also a fun change of pace. The story is quite simple and again you have to look past some ethical implications, but at least the game has some genuine characters and the events and relationships within the organized crime world are exciting to watch. In almost all respects it is clearly a lesser GTA, but I am having fun with it for the time being.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3,700 hrs in Rimworld - my current colony⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  As you’ve played it for so many hours, what is it that hooks you about this game? I’ve never played it, but I heard it’s sort of a very deep / simulated survival game similar to dwarf fortress? Just love it when you can be so passionate about something that you can lose yourself in it for thousands of hours and keep coming back for more!

  I have this with only 1 game (though I’m around the 1000h mark myself): Slay the Spire!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨11 Best Indie Games of All Time⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Is Outer Wilds indie? Because Outer Wilds is my favorite :).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨need retro game recommendations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really like Donkey Kong Country as a kid. Great environments, fun platforming and a timeless soundtrack.

  On GBA my most played game became an underated licensed gem: Lord of the Rings: The Third Age. The GBA version is completely separate from the ones on other platforms, but it’s a great turn based strategy game in which you get to command the heroes and other units through all important battles of the original story. Really fun!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I recently did the opposite, I sold my Emerald and Blue for a decent price, which helped fund my second hand new 3DS. I don’t really care for the cartridges as long as I can play the games, and I feel no guilt for playing roms for games that are no longer being produced :).

  I do like seeing large collections of other people, but I don’t have the same satisfaction from that compared to what it would cost. (I say quite hypocritically, as I have a larger than rational LEGO collection including tonnes of Bionicle sets that I will never let go for any price)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meta fires 20 employees for leaking⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
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  One of the very few good pee jokes, congrats!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's discuss: Pokémon⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have been a bit cheeky, as I have chosen my first Pokémon game as the thumbnail for this post: Pokémon Blue for the Game Boy.

  Sadly, I was very young and English was not my mother tongue, so I had no idea how it worked. Skip to several years later, and I gave it another go (this time with some extremely rudimentary knowledge of English, but more importantly with some more experience in games in general). Playing Pokémon this way was a mix of an RPG and a translation based puzzle game, but I was absolutely hooked. Even though I never got past about halfway through the game before my attention faded, I must have done that first half about 10 times in those years.

  Later I got Pokémon Emerald for the GBA after my previous GBA game was finished in only a few hours: I figured a Pokémon game would give me my money’s worth. Again, I played this numerous times and had a lot of fun, but never reached the ending.

  A few years ago I was feeling nostalgic, and bought a second hand copy of Pokémon: Let’s Go Pikachu, knowing that it was a remake of my first Pokémon game of years ago. Reviews of this version are mixed because of the Pokémon Go like catching mini game, but nostalgia goggles made this an amazing experience for me. I especially remember one whole day where I was at home with a fever, laying on my couch and playing Pokémon Let’s Go Pikachu while dipping in and out of the strangest Pokémon related dreams. Even with that bumpy ride, I was eventually able to reach the end of the story and beat the elite four! I know that there is stuff to do after that, but I was happy and sold my copy again.

  I have recently bought a second hand New Nintendo 3DS and have been procuring a lot of games on it in a seafaring fashion. One of those that I’m giving a go is Yo-Kai Watch. I’m only a few hours in, and right now it looks absolutely gorgeous, but I’m unsure of the combat design and the actual design of the monsters. If any of you have some other 3DS tips, please let me now, I have a seemingly unlimited budget for 3DS games right now :).

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The UK Government Just Made Everyone Less Safe As Apple Shuts Down iCloud Encryption⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s the stupid part. Serious criminals will always find a way to encrypt their data. Any communication channel can be used for encrypted communication if you do the encryption part yourself (like with an agreed upon passphrase or something similar). The only people who are hit by this are the average users.

  This makes me so mad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google continues pulling the plug on Manifest v2 • The Register⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How come you have such strong feelings against Firefox?

  Not trying to start a fight, just an honest question. Choosing to rather stop using the internet all together seems extreme for a browser that I use daily, but maybe I’m missing something in your use case.