melfie
@melfie@lemmy.zip
- Comment on End of an era? 1 week ago:
Meh, I’m done with consoles. The exclusives will come to emulators eventually, and there will be plenty of PC games in the meantime.
- Comment on Goo 1 week ago:
Hmm, seems ads have quite a different effect on me.
- Comment on 🤔 Interesting 2 weeks ago:
Using copyleft licenses for closed models is clearly against the spirit of the licenses if the users don’t have access to the source code that includes the original copyleft works. Even open weight models aren’t really the source code, and are more akin to a compiled binary. The source code is all the training data and code used to train the model such that anyone can build on it and train new models.
I’m not a lawyer and am not sure how well existing copyleft licenses like GPL or CC-SA would stand up in court to enforce this, but if they don’t, then stronger licenses that explicitly cover works being used as training data need to become more common.
I’ve seen the argument that the models are just learning from the data in the same way a human would. That’s nonsense. It’s not like they’re creating a sentient being with its own agency that can tell them to fuck off if it wants. These companies are running a software pipeline against copyrighted IP to convert it into a derivative work that is now supposedly wholly owned by said company, but the reality is that it’s collectively owned by everyone who contributed to the copyleft training data.
- Comment on Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open 2 weeks ago:
Back when the Steam Machine was first announced, I liked the idea, but wanted something cheaper (I assumed $650 - $800) so I got a $375 off-brand mini gaming PC for the living room with a Ryzen 8745HS (780M iGPU, roughly 2x SD compared to 3x for SM), 512GB SSD and 16GB of DDR.
The model I bought is not available now, but similar specs are going for close to $600, so the price is still roughly proportional. The machine I got cut every corner possible, and for example, I never could get Bluetooth to work reliably with my controllers and ended up getting $20 8bitdo dongles for each controller.
The SM, on the other hand, is a more refined hardware and OS combination where everything just works and that Valve stands behind, and where games will be tweaked and certified for that specific hardware. I am enjoying my mini PC, but I’ve put a lot of time into customizing and troubleshooting to end up with games that still stutter at 4K. For anyone who just wants to game instead of tinkering, SM is likely worth the current price.
- Comment on Lawyer here: I concur! 3 weeks ago:
Welvin Da Great called and is asking whether his friends Candice and Dick can fit in the truck.
- Comment on stroke confirmed 4 weeks ago:
I ain’t givin’ you no tree-fitty, you goddamn Loch Ness Monster! Get your own goddamn money!
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
MSI Thin 15 B13VE is the model. The only place I see it for $800 is Amazon at the moment.
- Comment on 1 month ago:
I got a Steam Deck LCD 64GB for $350 and then put a 1TB SSD in it, so like $430 total. I love the SD, but it’s just not worth double that. A gaming laptop with a 4050 goes for about $800 now, so the current pricing isn’t really that good of a deal even at today’s prices.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
And this is why Copilot failed. It’s bad enough watching a human do dumb shit on a computer, but having to watch a dipshit AI control your computer just takes it to a whole new level.
- Comment on .ml has got to be the only place on earth where I'd get downvoted for a comment like this 1 month ago:
Not necessarily the best example in this post, but in general, I find I get downvoted a lot when I make a good faith comment in .ml posts where I think I’m agreeing and am trying to understand the topic further. Getting 20 downvotes kind of kills my motivation to engage any further, though, so I usually just delete my comment , shrug, and move on. I’ve gotten to the point where I try to avoid wasting my time and energy commenting on .ml posts in the first place.
Maybe it’s just a different perspective on what a downvote means? To me, I’m generous with upvotes and withholding an upvote means I don’t find it interesting or disagree. I use downvotes sparingly for spam, trolling, comments made in bad faith, etc.
- Comment on Videogame pirates tell other pirates to shut up about it after Subnautica 2 developers are taunted with illicit copies 1 month ago:
In many cases, legit games have more malware (spyware, DRM, rootkits, etc.) and the cracked versions remove it. It’s annoying to pay for a game and it won’t work offline because the company wants to collect your data, but the cracked version does work offline.
- Comment on Gold 1 month ago:
Everyone “being a billionaire” and having a huge pile of worthless metal won’t increase anyone’s standard of living to the same degree as nobody being a billionaire and nobody hoarding resources.
- Comment on Reddit is finally entirely dead to me 2 months ago:
Maybe try old.reddit.com?
- Comment on Teenis 2 months ago:
I first heard pizzle in Kingdom Come Deliverance: “Are you pulling my pizzle?”
- Comment on phonetic alphabet 2 months ago:
I find myself on the phone trying to spell something and come up with words that begin with each letter. Agreed that it’s a solved problem and everyone should just learn it.
- Comment on Wake up sheeple 2 months ago:
But SLS uses Space Shuttle engines and that landed in a runway.
- Comment on Intellectual Debate 2 months ago:
I thought it was a stereogram, but alas nothing popped out at me.
- Comment on didnt do it 2 months ago:
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
NewPipe excels at this task.
- Comment on Real 2 months ago:
They’d probably like to come colonize our planet, but with 2x the gravity of Earth, I bet it’s hard to build a rocket that can actually get them into space, much less travel 1800 light years.
- Comment on The Sounds of Silence 2 months ago:
- Comment on it's a matter of motivation 2 months ago:
The studies about intrinsic vs. extrinsic motivation suggest otherwise, and that monetary rewards can even have a negative impact on productivity and creativity. Ultimately, we want a society of intrinsically motivated people doing their best, most inspired work, not a society following financial incentives.
- Comment on Beautiful 2 months ago:
I knew it!
- Comment on "Science isn't political!" 3 months ago:
Glyphosate has also been linked to gluten intolerance: pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3945755/
Maybe at some point, all the “gluten free” products will switch to “glyphosate free”. Until then, I’ve been buying imported flour from Italy, where its use is significantly more regulated than here in the US, although not entirely banned.
- Comment on do I accept? 3 months ago:
At least there would be more eye witnesses to help debunk Joan Rivers’ conspiracy theory.
- Comment on College core: you sit in the class for attendance then go home and teach yourself 3 months ago:
I learn best by reading anyway, so lectures were always a waste of my time.
