eleijeep
@eleijeep@piefed.social
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 1 day ago:
Happy to hear you worked it out. Good luck with your game!
- Comment on UPDATE: I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title appeared on another Steam game as they plan to release before I do. 1 day ago:
everything went better than expected
- Comment on EU Commission meets behind closed doors with Ubisoft, other corporations, and exhibits blatant corruption. 1 day ago:
Before the internet was widespread, that’s exactly how they worked.
- Comment on Assume You Will Be Hacked: AI is enabling a deluge of cyberattacks the likes of which we’ve never seen before. 1 day ago:
This is just hype. The marketing hype of these models has focused a huge amount of human effort on looking for vulnerabilities that we could have found before if CTOs could have been convinced that it was worth the time and resource investment to go looking for them.
We now have an industry full of executives who believe they will be the ones held responsible if they don’t quickly respond to this “new threat” and so now the engineers who should have been given the time to address technical debt and look for security issues in their products years ago, actually have the remit from the suits to do so.
Any time one of these snake-oil companies tells you that their model found hundreds of security issues in a project, just realise that what it actually did is spit out thousands of useless pages of nonsense that a team of real engineers had to check, and in checking all of the nonsense they realised that hold on a minute, yes this particular function does have a vulnerability. The AI is just giving us permission to look, by pointing its sixth finger at every other line of code.
- Comment on I'm a dev who has been working on my game for 2 years and my game title got stolen on Steam and they plan to release before I do. What should I do? 4 days ago:
See if anyone else in the game dev community has experienced this kind of thing before. If it turns out to be a consistent problem then you could try to get a games journalist involved and see if they will write a story. In order to get anything done about it, you have to make enough noise that it comes to the attention of the people who can actually effect a change.
I’m not sure what the solution is though, because when the base concept is already in the public domain, it’s probably something that happens sometimes through pure coincidence. Like the ant movies. Steam would have to have a set of criteria by which they judge if someone is doing it deliberately and maliciously in order to classify it as fraud or impersonation. If it’s a big enough problem and happens regularly, maybe they would consider it though.
- Comment on Riot police enters Turkey's largest opposition party 3 weeks ago:
How’s that EU application coming along?
- Comment on What Do People Attending a Tommy Robinson March Really Believe? 4 weeks ago:
The whole concept that allowing the free expression of objectionable ideas will allow them to be dissected and disproven in the cold light of public debate, has itself been disproven over and over for at least the past decade.
We live in a different era, where partisanship and propaganda are so powerful that there is no longer an authoritative voice that the general public trusts. The government is distrusted, the both-sides-BBC is distrusted, the broadsheets that turned into clickbait farms are distrusted.
We have to stop giving oxygen to fascists in the hope that people will just see how wrong they are. I don’t care what people attending this march really believe. What I care about is that people preaching hate should not have a platform, anywhere, under any circumstances.
- Comment on 1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest 4 weeks ago:
Poe’s law.
- Comment on 1 in 5 Brits think AI layoffs could trigger civil unrest 4 weeks ago:
And the reality is that it’s neither of those two that are to blame. We’re in recession and AI is just the convenient excuse to make layoffs without crashing the stock-price.
The real people who should be blamed are the ghouls who have been exploiting disaster-capitalism since at least the pandemic to concentrate all of the wealth in the hands of a few oligarchs. The politicians are all complicit.
- Comment on Moving to the USA could be the Most Expensive Mistake of your Life 4 weeks ago:
source?
- Comment on Can Someone Please Explain Whether Cloudflare Blackmailed Canonical? | flyingpenguin 5 weeks ago:
Cloudflare have been accused before of some very sketchy behaviour to coerce customers into paying for higher service tiers. It wouldn’t surprise me if they knew what was going on.
- Comment on Boots stores ban for boy after £100,000 shoplifting sprees 1 month ago:
How do you get 60k worth of goods in 11 visits?
Cosmetics apparently.
- Comment on [PlayStation] [DRM] Licenses now requires an online check-in every 30 days. 1 month ago:
Perfect timing for the Steam Machine to come back. Shame about the … everything else going on.
- Comment on Do I belong in tech anymore? - On quitting, the spread of AI, and the loss of an ideal. 1 month ago:
You say, “what’s the privacy policy for your AI assistant?” and then keep asking questions like that until the person running the call gets annoyed that this has taken over their agenda and they’ll ban people from using unapproved AI agents on calls.
“Where is the data stored?” “Has this tool been approved by IT?” “Did you get consent from everyone to be recorded?” “Does the employee handbook say you can record other employees?” “Is my voice going to be used by an AI company to train a model?” etc.
- Comment on UK’s OnlyFans tops $3bn valuation amid talks to sell stake to US investor 2 months ago:
TIL OF is from the UK
- Comment on Centrepoint to cut ties with Sharon Osbourne after she backs Tommy Robinson rally 2 months ago:
Not very rock and roll of you, Sharon.
- Comment on 2 months ago:
Was this… vibe coded?
- Comment on ChatGPT’s latest stylistic quirk is sinister, infuriating – and absolutely everywhere 2 months ago:
But do you not see how redundant the construction is in the given examples? You’re right that it has a place, but that place is not literally every paragraph you write.
An LLM doesn’t understand the rules of when certain linguistic constructions enhance the communication of the writing, it just repeats a pattern that existed in the training data in places where it’s not necessary. That’s why it is so jarring and inhuman to read.
- Comment on The Future of Everything is Lies, I Guess 2 months ago:
There’s a PDF version (344KB) linked from the page so you can read it offline if you don’t want to be connected to a VPN for an extended period.
- Comment on Apple’s New iPhone Update Is Restricting Internet Freedom in the UK — Big Brother Watch 2 months ago:
Try emailing Gabe directly. Historically he has been quite receptive to well written personal emails asking for his intervention, and maybe you’ll prompt a policy change that makes things easier for everyone who’s Steam account is 18+. Worth a try.
- Comment on Wireless Festival cancelled after Kanye West blocked from coming to UK 2 months ago:
They couldn’t just get a new headline act?
- Comment on I wish videogame culture would take more cues from readers 2 months ago:
In that vein is a podcast that I listen to: New Game Plus. They pick one retro (15+ years old) game and play it for a week and then discuss at the end of the week.
You can find them on their official site, over at YouTube or whichever podcast app you use.
- Comment on British cyclist refused £15k payout because thieves ‘weren’t violent enough’ 2 months ago:
What a horribly written headline.
- Comment on The Expanse: Osiris Reborn | Official Gameplay Trailer 2 months ago:
- Comment on New RPG Maker Entry Announced With HD-2D Style Visual Shift 2 months ago:
Reminds me of Shining Force III , Grandia , Vandal Hearts and other 5th-gen titles that birthed the genre/aesthetic.
- Comment on Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason 2 months ago:
Your weak reading comprehension is your problem
People in glass houses shouldn’t
endeavours [SIC]
imply that British English spelling is some kind of aberration that needs an editor’s note.
It’s rich to start your critique like this because you have completely missed the point that I’m making.
Enjoy being an arsehole [SIC] on the internet.
- Comment on Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason 2 months ago:
I can’t parse your second clause so no idea what point you’re making.
Your sense of achievement in your private endeavours is your own. Who cares if someone else plays their game the way they want to? I don’t use cheats in any of my games and I like to try to get achievements. But I don’t look at other people’s achievements or care if they got them legitimately. Why should anyone care?
- Comment on Console Commands and Mods Shouldn’t Disable Achievements — Consoles Are Holding Players Back for No Good Reason 2 months ago:
Heaven forbid someone illegitimately obtains imaginary game points in a single player offline game that they bought.
- Comment on [Video] Group of racist teenagers attack lone black man in Manchester 2 months ago:
Why are you posting this? Yes, hate crimes happen regularly and it’s disgraceful. But when someone posts outrage-bait on social media we all have to raise a collective eyebrow and ask what their agenda is. This isn’t news nor is it informative.
No surprises that your comment and post history is full of politically-charged subjects.
- Comment on Day 602 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing 3 months ago:
Make sure you get the soundtrack to play along with the game. It makes a huge difference to the atmosphere.
I haven’t played the re-release so I don’t know if they made that work but originally Quake would only load the music from the CD in the drive. With the various Quake source port engines you can use now, there are ways to configure them to look for MP3s in the folder if you’ve downloaded them.