moonpiedumplings
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- Comment on Swarm Simulator 4 days ago:
The game doesn’t include any images. It’s entirely text based.
Just open it in your browser and play it, it’s browser based.
- Submitted 4 days ago to games@lemmy.world | 3 comments
- Comment on I'm 600 elo on chess dot com, what should I do to improve now? 2 weeks ago:
The chess com engine analysis sucks. It’s too focused on glazing you and not enough on being honest. It certainly feels better than the lichess engine, but it doesn’t actually share more information.
For example, it used to be that a “brilliant move” was any move that you spotted but that the engine didn’t. But now, it’s been changed so that any sacrifice is a “brilliant move”.
Further, the LLM based analysis is also pretty bad. It only seems to explain moves, but like most LLM’s, it actually hallucinates and recommends nonsensical stuff, or incorrectly makes other claims about the position. If you search on r/chess you can find plenty of examples of this:
- reddit.com/…/can_something_new_explain_why_chessc…
- www.reddit.com/r/…/is_chesscom_ai_useless/
- reddit.com/…/is_the_ai_text_in_the_game_analysis_…
etc etc.
As an alternative, if you really want that type of UI, you can also use Lichess’ server based engine analysis (you get 40 free per day unlike chess com’s paid stuff):
But it doesn’t tell you why a move is bad. If you really want to learn why a move is bad, the local analysis lets you play your moves against stockfish and experiment and see why they are lacking.
Just learn to use the Lichess local analysis. It’s designed to actually facilitate improvement instead of glazing users and getting them to keep paying.
- Comment on I'm 600 elo on chess dot com, what should I do to improve now? 2 weeks ago:
Switch to lichess.org (open source, has all of chess com’s paid features available for free, plus no ads or trackers).
Start with the chess basics set: lichess.org/learn
Then the basic tactics set: lichess.org/practice
And then do puzzles: lichess.org/training (chess com makes you pay for more than a few per day). Do a lot of them.
Then, you can also analyze your games on lichess using it’s analysis engines (which chess com makes you pay for). Uh I can’t find a good guide how to do this right now, check back later.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 4 weeks ago:
How many devices and of how many types do you manage with how many people?
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 4 weeks ago:
Automatically patch is another solution.
Of course it’s difficult on the tech side. You can do something like failover/high availability, and then auto update one and it fails over if something breaks.
- Comment on Off-Topic Friday 4 weeks ago:
99% of cybersecurity news is what I call “cyberslop” and probably actively harmful to consume.
The vast majority of it is either so trivial that somebody else handled it, and you don’t need to do anything. Like they often overhype a malware that doesn’t do any novel techniques to get onto your systems and has already been added to the antivirus database anyways.
Or it’s so grand in scale that you can’t do anything, like nation states doing nation state things. Interesting yes, but it’s ultimately a waste of my time to consume because it’s not actionable.
Only a tiny fraction of news is actually actionable. It’s usually stuff like cve’s or zero days and the like. I just only really pay attention to those and ignore everything else.
Better, is probably to subscribe to an actual vulnerability feed so you don’t have to go through the news cycle.
- Comment on Someone created a public domain version of Netflix 4 weeks ago:
while the production build runs entirely client-side without a backend server. I
This eliminates many, many potential security issues and is an excellent design choice.
In production, movie data is queried using an in-browser SQLite database via WebAssembly, e
- Comment on What are You Working on Wednesday 5 weeks ago:
Currently doing finals for my Junior year in Computer Science. Finishing up the homelab, and packing it up since I have to take it home since I won’t be dorming over the summer. Also trying to learn Rust.
- Comment on Finally, an optimal monitor configuration! 3 months ago:
- Comment on Twitch: "Hey, come back! This commercial break can't play while you're away." 3 months ago:
Owncast is the self hosted stream thing. It has some rudimentary federation capibilities, but nowhere near the ease discovery of twitch.
I know some streamers that have an owncast, expired_popsicle uses debian Linux and has one. (It’s tech/linux streamers because of course).
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 months ago:
It’s not that hard though. There are companies that offer data recovery as a service. If the value of the data on those drives exceeds the cost of those services then it becomes worth it to fish one of the drives out of the dumpster and take it there.
- Comment on Discord will restrict your account next month unless you scan ID or face 4 months ago:
This is not truly foolproof. Data can still be recovered from the spinning metal platter since it can theoretically be removed and put into a recovery device, even in a broken state.
Im addition to that, hard drives/ssd’s have sometimes have small flash memory chips, from which data can sometimes be recovered.
If you want it to actually be unrecoverable then you have to actually ensure all parts thay store data are truly deleted/wiped. Or just use encryption and throw away the key. Or just store them forever in a vault.
- Comment on What are some lower size games that work well on linux handhelds? 6 months ago:
I remember I fit binding of isaac and an archlinux install into 10 gigs of storage using btrfs transparent compression.
The computer was a craptop with only 32 gigs of flash storage overall.
- Comment on Shut up science!! 6 months ago:
Designed to be played before falling asleep,
I like to play chess in my head.
- Comment on "You prolly white on here" 10 months ago:
Yeah it’s called defcon
- Comment on New 'Shade BIOS' Technique Beats Every Kind of Security 10 months ago:
It wouldn’t, I don’t think. Secure boot is the bios/uefi verifying the rest, but this replaxes the bios/uefi with something malicious.
- Comment on List of Fan (OpenSource) Ports/Remakes of Games 1 year ago:
Here’s my older post on a similar topic on reddit: reddit.com/…/i_am_making_a_list_of_source_ports_o…
- Comment on Reality vs. male delusion 1 year ago:
LMFAO, I did not expect a lord of the mysteries reference in here. I gotta finish/reread it, I dropped it a long time ago
- Comment on Mentorship Monday - Discussions for career and learning! 1 year ago:
Are the Junos equivalents of the Cisco certs worth it as an akternative?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 year ago:
I don’t know how to retire a car but my dad has guided me through replacing a few bits, so does thay count?
- Comment on Today's Survey. One point for everything that you have NEVER DONE 1 year ago:
18 points.
I’ve owned a dictionary and an encyclppedia.
- Comment on Evil 1 year ago:
- Comment on PEGI gives Balatro an 18+ rating for gambling imagery 1 year ago:
www.youtube.com/watch?v=46MQ1ZMZ-l4
3 and older game.
- Comment on TRIBES: The Most Influential FPS You (Probably) Never Played [video essay 52:59] 1 year ago:
(I personally don’t. But maybe…)
- Submitted 1 year ago to games@lemmy.world | 0 comments
- Comment on Get some quality twin-stick shooters in the latest Humble Bundle 1 year ago:
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- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 year ago:
Addictive arcade game about archery. Reminds me of flappy bird, not in the raw mechanics, but in the way they are both addicting in the same manner.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 year ago:
Simple bike racing game, although the player is very fragile, which adds some difficulty. Playable in browser.
All the maps are user created content.
- Comment on Recommendation engine: Downvote any game you've heard of before 1 year ago:
This site has a few high quality browser games. The one I come back to is X Type, a bullet hell shoot-em up that has ever expanding enemy ship sizes, and never ends. It gets hard fast.
I also like Xibalba, which is a Doom/Wolfenstein style game playable in the browser.
The creator also did a rewrite of quake in 13 kb of javascript
