a1studmuffin
@a1studmuffin@aussie.zone
Software engineer (video games). Likes dogs, DJing + EDM, running, electronics and loud bangs in Reservoir.
- Comment on BYD enters humanoid robot race as global talent search kicks off 5 days ago:
flash forward to an Android cursing on hands and knees trying to vacuum under the fridge
- Comment on What's your favourite it's all in the gameplay game? 3 weeks ago:
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead. It’s the Dwarf Fortress of zombie survival games.
- Comment on Google AI chatbot responds with a threatening message: "Human … Please die." 4 weeks ago:
The preceding message is really quite an undefined input, as the user copy/pasted some questions from their assignment without phrasing it as a question or cleaning up the formatting.
I wonder what kind of outputs you would get from LLMs if you’d been talking sensibly on certain subjects then started to feed it garbage input. It feels like this might be what happened here.
- Comment on Ryan Reynolds Writing Non-Marvel Project to Reunite With Hugh Jackman and Director Shawn Levy After ‘Deadpool & Wolverine’ 1 month ago:
I enjoyed his character in The Voices. Admittedly still a comedy, but a good performance from him that was something a little different.
- Comment on Issues with the current free to play model (The Bazaar) 1 month ago:
I quite liked the concept a few years back when Apple and Google were talking about a Netflix-style subscription model for iOS/Android… a bit like Xbox Game Pass. The subscription would give you access to a bunch of games, and developers were paid royalties based on a mix of metrics like the game review score, number of downloads, average total time spent in game etc. It seemed like a good idea in that it aligned developers and players in the desire to create a genuinely good game, regardless of the game style or genre. It threw away the need for each game to find a way to monetize their players (which nearly always ends up in multiplayer endless cosmetic MTX nonsense).
- Comment on Australian security forces ban the ise of Whatsapp and Signam 2 months ago:
WhatsApp has been exploited before with a zero-day, check the Complaints section in this link:
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pegasus_(spyware)
The reality is WhatsApp and Signal will continue to be high-value targets for exploits given the number of users, cloud infrastructure reliance and promise of secure communications, so it’s a wise idea to avoid them for defence matters.
- Comment on Horizon Zero Dawn Dev Addresses Criticism Over Aloy’s Remastered Look 2 months ago:
Horizon Zero Mean Girls
- Comment on AI and the American Smile 2 months ago:
This article seems misleading. It uses the loaded Western term “selfie” to generate these images of different cultures smiling. If you use the term “group photo” instead, you get much more natural looking results, where certain cultures are smiling and others aren’t.
- Comment on Trams are expensive here 3 months ago:
You don’t need to tap on in the Melbourne CBD free tram zone.
- Comment on Sony looks set to announce the PS5 Pro tomorrow in a strangely short livestream 3 months ago:
This has been the weirdest console generation. I’m still surprised they railroaded ahead with the PS5 and Xbox Series X launches right at the beginning of the pandemic.
- Comment on Disney wants a wrongful death lawsuit thrown out because the plaintiff had Disney+ 4 months ago:
It really shouldn’t be possible in a EULA/agreement of any kind to essentially say “you agree you can’t sue us in future for anything ever”.
- Comment on Let's discuss: 8-bit Era Games 4 months ago:
What I love most about 8-bit era games are how small they were storage-wise. Most of the ROMs are tens of kilobytes for the entire game. Developers were severely constrained by the hardware limits which led to some creative decisions, eg. the bushes and clouds in Super Mario Bros are the same sprite just drawn in different colors. All code was written in pure assembly for efficiency and size.
To put it into perspective, AAA games today are one million times bigger.
- Comment on Should we allow job-sharing in parliament? 8 months ago:
I’m all for it to allow more diverse representation, but I also think Twomey is on the money that this will need to go through a referendum to allow the constitution to be modified.
- Comment on Nerd Update 20/4/24 8 months ago:
Thanks for sharing! That sawtooth pattern on the memory graph is pretty crazy, it’s leaking like a sieve.
How are you going for server costs? Shout out if you need more donations, I think many of us have realised this is a viable platform for the long-term.
- Comment on The Fallout show's been a pleasant surprise 8 months ago:
If you enjoyed Twisted Metal, you will enjoy Fallout. Both are excellent TV adaptations of their respective games, and have a thick layer of dark humour underpinning the action. Twisted Metal was particularly surprising, I want to shake the hand of whoever was looking at that crusty old PS2 game and saw dollar signs for TV!
- Comment on Magnets are switching up the keyboard game with an additional keystroke setting 8 months ago:
I feel like you could totally change the switch resistance with magnets. Electromagnetism goes both ways… apply a variable current to a coil in each key that repels it from or pulls it towards the base?
- Comment on It’s time for a hard reset on notifications 8 months ago:
AliExpress is the worst at this. Which category should I disable? AliExpress, aliexpress, Chat or message push? And even if I figured it out, there’s no way to stop store spammers from sending you useless messages constantly, detracting from actual sellers with questions.
- Comment on Activision Blizzard’s ex-CEO Bobby Kotick reportedly wants to buy TikTok 9 months ago:
It might stop the heat though if he’s a US puppet to appease congress.
- Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it! 1 year ago:
I’m not across the market sadly as I’m rocking an old Samsung colour laser that’s no longer available. In 15 years I’ve changed the toner cartridges once. It’s USB only, but a Raspberry Pi running CUPS converted it to a network printer.
My advice would be to go second hand on older laser printers. I just use my phone to scan documents these days.
- Comment on You didn't bought it you rented it! 1 year ago:
I have absolutely no idea why anyone buys inkjet printers or cartridge razors. There are perfectly good alternatives that don’t try and force you into a subscription model.