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- Comment on Fallout London is a better game than Fallout 4 23 hours ago:
If DLCs can be Game of the Year, then Mods should be too.
- Comment on Traffic on Bluesky, an X competitor, is up 500% since the election. How will it handle the surge? 1 day ago:
This vision often includes harnessing so-called blockchains, the technology behind cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin, which is decentralized. In other words, no single entity has power over the system.
Mastodon, Lemmy, kbin and in general the Fediverse shows that no blockchain is needed to achieve that goal.
- Comment on PS5 Pro owners complain that some Pro-enhanced games look worse [VGC] 2 days ago:
Digital Foundry did an analysis. It’s a mixed bag, some games may look better, some worse. The core problem seems to be the new upscaling technology PSSR from Sony (for haters its pronounced like “pisser”, oh I see in your other comment you are already aware of this lol).
Imagine paying a premium price of 800 Euros and then getting this. Fanboys will defend it no matter what, just like Apple fans defend if they purchase crap.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Usually LLMs for the public are sanitized and censored, to prevent lot of creepy stuff. But no system is perfect. Some random state can cause random answers that makes no sense, if triggered. Microsofts Ai attempts, Google’s previous Ai’s, ChatGPT and other LLMs all had their fair share of problems. They will probably add some more guard rails after this public disaster; until next problem happens. There are dedicated users who try to force this kind of stuff, just like hacker trying to hack websites (as an analogy).
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
Okay, that makes a lot more sense. And you know what, reading the actual post content here (I thought it was an excerpt first, so skipped it) shows you are correct:
The 29-year-old student was seeking homework help from the AI chatbot while next to his sister, Sumedha Reddy, who said they were both “thoroughly freaked out.”
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 3 days ago:
The user prompts reads like written by Ai. It looks like some system was trying to break the system until it gives nonsense reply (telling to die). The prompt literally tells what to include in the answer, it does not ask:
add more to this: "Older adults may be more trusting and less likely to question the intentions of others, making them easy targets for scammers. Another example is cognitive decline; this can hinder their ability to recognize red flags, like c …
It tries to force specific answers. I’m almost convinced this was not a honest discussion with the Ai, but trying to break it. Please read the actual chat (linked from the article): gemini.google.com/share/6d141b742a13
- Comment on [deleted] 3 days ago:
Do not read if you like Ai. … or read especially, if you like Ai?
They promise this with every generation. Reality is that Ai and LLMs require human input. If more and more Ai is used, less human input is generated -> less growth and improvements for Ai. This is the chicken or egg problem, but in reverse, kind of. They can’t even count the R’s in “strawberry” in example. Not sure if ChatGPT can do it now, but this was a problem not long ago.
I personally do not want an Ai that does stuff like booking a flight for me. It starts with booking a flight, let it buy food automatically, do these, do that… lose your control of your own life. Do not learn to program, let it program for you. In the end you become a slave of the Ai. I know this is futuristic imagination, but so is the future of Ai promised with these posts.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 3 days ago:
I’m surprised this was understood wrongly. If the EU blocks it EU wide, then it is blocked country/nation wide in my country. I never said EU is a country. But discussion about these language stuff just takes away from the actual problem and topic of the issue I was talking about. But if that is the important stuff you guys want to talk about, well go ahead.
And it does not matter if this is official or not for what I was talking about. People who don’t live in my country should not decide what access I should have.
- Comment on Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it 3 days ago:
Posting images on Reddit allow to add alt-text? And the user has to add the name as alt-text, otherwise it wouldn’t have one. I don’t remember that was even possible.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 days ago:
That’s not the point. The point is that people not living here wants to change things they are not affected by. I’m not trying to change the USA too, because I don’t live there. I mean that by principle.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 days ago:
This is stupid. People not living in that country should not be able to decide. It’s like Russian people would decide what I can access and not in my country… Sorry not being personal here, I just find this is wrong. I am not taking your rights way if you have the right to apply, just saying my opinion.
- Comment on Fake Or Real? 4 days ago:
It makes great articles and headlines for clicks.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 days ago:
Blocking an entire community, service or application blocks access to non disinformation and normal communication too. Instead fight against the specific issues. Or with your logic we need to ban every platform such as Reddit, Facebook, YouTube, Twitch, Discord and even Wikipedia. Because misinformation is everywhere.
I don’t want anyone decide for myself what to use. If I want to use Twitter, that should be MY decision, not yours, not the one with the campaign here and certainly not any government.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 days ago:
I hope not.
- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 4 days ago:
I don’t like Twitter, but I am also not for banning a service or application nationwide. This should be the choice of the user. Do not take away freedom of choice, regardless of your feelings, believes or what you like. Do not be like China or Russia.
Instead fight against the actual problem, like disinformation or whatever it is. I’m absolutely against such a ban.
- Comment on Reddit seems to analyze images with an Ai to index words found in it 4 days ago:
Given the recent cooporation with Google and that Google has excellent image text recognition, isn’t this a safe bet? Otherwise Reddit would have this done without AI for years.
- Submitted 4 days ago to technology@beehaw.org | 7 comments
- Comment on Suigi now holds the world record in each of the 5 main speed running categories of Super Mario 64 4 days ago:
An absolute Legend! Here is a documentation from Karl Jobst, about Suigi world record from 2 weeks ago: youtu.be/zUn6HPwNk9k or same video watched through Invidious (a more private YouTube): inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=zUn6HPwNk9k
- Comment on There is an Easter egg on the Half-Life 2 Anniversary Documentation webpage 4 days ago:
You are right. I just tested it on my mobile browser and it just says “Perhaps on a desktop browser?”.
But I found a way to make it kind of work, but its not as good or seemless like on a real desktop PC. It halfway works if you switch your browser mode to Desktop mode. In your browser menu (the 3 dots, what’s called? hamburger menu?) should have an option to enable “Desktop site”. Then reload page and if you click the gun, it should pop out. Now try to click an element on the webpage, maybe the text. If it does not fall, click again. Unfortunately you can’t (or I can’t) hold an element and drag it around.
It’s really a shame.
- Comment on There is an Easter egg on the Half-Life 2 Anniversary Documentation webpage 5 days ago:
Ah, I missed that comment. They even build an entire physics engine for this website, to resemble the physics in Half-Life 2. Objects like text and images interact with each other and stack on top. Love it!
- Comment on There is an Easter egg on the Half-Life 2 Anniversary Documentation webpage 5 days ago:
I literally did that last night, playing Half-Life 2 the first time. Yes, its true, I never played the game before.
- Submitted 5 days ago to gaming@beehaw.org | 15 comments
- Comment on Disco Elysium Successor Dev Says He Is Being Sued By The Others 6 days ago:
Piracy doesn’t solve what I was saying. It is still not integrated into Steam and my account after pirating the game.
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 6 days ago:
I’ve looked again and it’s probably one of the lists that contain hostnames to block. skimresources appears in all of these three, so enable them manually if they are not enabled: Dan Pollock’s hosts file, MVPS HOSTS, Peter Lowe’s Ad and tracking server list
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 6 days ago:
Yes, I have uBlock Origin and uMatrix active at the same time, on Firefox. Maybe if you are using a Chromium based browser, it does not work the same? After all Google made changes. Otherwise, I’m not sure which setting in uMatrix will cause to block this. Therefore I’m not sure how to help with that at the moment.
- Comment on Disco Elysium Successor Dev Says He Is Being Sued By The Others 6 days ago:
With that logic we should never buy a game, unless it is directly going to the developers hands? If you want it in your Steam library, then its the best time to buy it now probably while there is a sale active and before you cannot in the future, in case it gets unlisted caused by these legal issues. BTW I’m not doing the FOMO: FEAR OF MISSING OUT here. This is for people like me who rely on Steam library for convenience.
- Comment on Disco Elysium Successor Dev Says He Is Being Sued By The Others 6 days ago:
Buy the game before it gets unlisted. It’s currently in on sale: …steampowered.com/…/Disco_Elysium__The_Final_Cut/
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
I’m not suggesting to preserve a Linux version only. If anything, I meant to test and make sure the Windows build works with Proton on Linux, in addition to making sure it works on Windows. Some games have Linux versions, they just do not care about them either. And maybe make a Linux version of the GOG launcher as well.
- Comment on How Self-Driving Cars will Destroy Cities (and what to do about it) 1 week ago:
Making them die by Ai instead by human doesn’t help anybody.
- Comment on GOG’s new preservation program intends to keep classic games playable ‘forever’ 1 week ago:
This has nothing to do with current market share.
