TootSweet
@TootSweet@lemmy.world
- Comment on Anon is dehydrated 1 day ago:
Me 5 minutes ago: Oh god. No, I should not click that link. I’m definitely going to regret clicking that link if I do. I for sure am not going to… dammit I clicked the link.
Me now: Ok, that’s pretty smart, actually.
- Comment on Evolution of the k'chain che'malle, pretty much 1 day ago:
2050s - Time traveling paleontologist team returns from a trip to the cretaceous only to establish a religion dedicated solely to the worship of spinosaurus in whose imaginations we are only figments.
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 1 week ago:
OP what the hell is wrong with you
That’s never a question you have to ask of a 4channer.
- Comment on Anon makes decisions 1 week ago:
everybody walk the dinosaur
- Comment on Anon witnesses excellent security 1 week ago:
Honestly, a policy of “no free-of-charge software installed on workstations except FOSS” might improve security a bit and probably without doing all that much damage to the day-to-day workings of the company.
For that matter, if my employer instituted a policy of “no software except FOSS”, my own particular job probably would be a surprisingly small adjustment. As long as they were willing to do the work to set up infrastructure and/or let us switch to FOSS alternatives that require third-party server providers as necessary. About all I can think of that’s installed on my work machine that’s proprietary is:
- Zoom
- A paid corporate VPN client
- A random program that I use to authenticate to Kubernetes clusters in use where I work (so I can use Kubectl)
- Chrome
- The Client Management software my company uses (the software they use to remotely administrate the company-provided machines – force install shit without telling you, spy on you, nag people who have computers that aren’t actually used to return them, wipe your computer if you report it stolen, etc)
- And, of course, bios, proprietary firmware blobs, etc
Beyond that, I honestly can’t think specifically of anything else proprietary installed on my work machine. My personal computers have far less proprietary software installed than the above list.
- Comment on Get out of my head 1 week ago:
Well, my experience was that at first, I didn’t see the forks at all. (That is to say I didn’t recognize them as “forks”. Or even as “things”.) The forks looked like some blurry, nondescript background and the “pepper shapes” looked like foreground items hanging from something unseen off the top. The shapes didn’t look really like anything I could identify. That lasted for a good 30 seconds before, very (very) suddenly, it crystalized and I could only see the forks on a purple background. Really uncanny how rapidly and entirely it shifted. After a good amount of effort, I was able to shift back to the first perception, but it took considerable effort along with looking away and back a couple of times. And once I achieved it, it felt hard to maintain. Very strange experience. Far more so than most “bistable” sort of optical illusions I’ve seen.
- Comment on What's a video game that can run on any sort of device?(besides doom and pong) 2 weeks ago:
Probably Breakout as well.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime? 2 weeks ago:
[There are 1,121,817 living people with Wikipedia pages]. There are more than 8 billion people alive today. That means about 0.014% of people have Wikipedia pages.
- Comment on What's the easiest way to get your own wikipedia page without committing a crime? 2 weeks ago:
Won’t last long, but it satisfies the requirements.
- Comment on Study shows AI coding assistants actually slow down experienced developers 3 weeks ago:
>surprisedpikachu.png - Comment on What is the range or how does one calculate the maximum number of 2 intersecting circles (like Venn diagram type) 4 weeks ago:
Can you define your terms a bit? What do you mean by “range” and “angle-range?” Also, if you’re taking about angles, angles relative to what in particular? (Maybe relative to the line segment connecting the centers of the two circles? Relative to a tangent of one of the circles at the point of intersection?) Are you looking to solve this only for the case where the two circles have equal radii, or for the more general case where their radii may be unequal?
- Comment on Why covering our shoulders with a mantle or blanket is so efficient at warming us? 4 weeks ago:
Why isn’t that common to cover with a blanket other parts of our body when we feel cold, like the belly or lower back?
It… is?
- Comment on Lighting choices 4 weeks ago:
What are the chances of two separate gender reveal parties happening simultaneously using the same exact means of displaying blue/pink in the same apartment building exactly one apartment directly above the other?
Also, it bothers me way more than it should that on the middle one, the arrow goes from the movie frame to the window and the other two are the other way around.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 4 weeks ago:
Roughly in order of how much I enjoy them from most to least. (Not that the later ones are bad. Just that they’re more low-key.)
Mindustry is amazing, but as I mentioned above, really really addictive. (The commercial game it’s most often compared to is Factorio.)
Then there’s Shattered Pixel Dungeon. Amazing dungeon crawler.
Endless Sky is a great space mercantile sim.
Luanti is a Minecraft clone.
Unciv is a turn-based civilization development game.
And if you’re wanting to do emulation, there’s Lemuroid. Also, EasyRPG, an engine for playing RPG Maker games like Yume Nikki. Oh, FreeDoom is a great implementation of Doom for Android.
Those are the ones that’ll keep your attention for a good long time. There are tons of much simpler games that are still fun like Frozen Bubble and Hyper Rogue. And plenty of games that I haven’t really gotten into very much but that people really seem to like Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup.
Man. There are a lot now that I’m listing them out. Lol.
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 4 weeks ago:
Jesus. People get big mad about this stuff.
The problem isn’t mobile games, and it’s not console games, and it’s not PC games. It’s the profit motive and corporations and enshittification. And there’s plenty of that going on in games for mobile, console, and PC. (And, for that matter, TTRPGs. And it’s not like the 300 different collectors editions of Monopoly released every year aren’t enshittification at play.)
Addictive gotcha mechanics are shitty when they’re tied to microtransactions. Even when not tied to microtransactions, I think they can still be shitty depending on the specific circumstances, and it’s definitely wise to responsibly manage your (and/or your children’s) engagement to not cause other problems in your(/their) life. But is addictiveness in a video game inherently a bad thing? I don’t think so. All games cause dopamine squirts whether it’s Pong or a slot machine. That’s kinda the point of games. There are plenty of Open Source games out there that cause big addictive dopamine squirts. (Mindustry, anyone?) And such games aren’t made to milk whales. They’re made because someone wanted to create and play such a game.
Don’t be talking too much smack about shovelware! Low-quality games create their own vibes. Some are accidental masterpieces. Both of my favorite two YouTube gaming content creators do a lot of their content on really low-quality games. This series got me to buy Radiation Island and I had a great time playing it. And here is a great video on all the shitty official games based on the movie Avatar.
“Gaming is as much about socializing as playing” is an awesome outlook to have on gaming! Addictiveness in games can be… concerning. But sometimes particular games are the key by which your kid can be involved in peer group. I’m not saying that automatically trumps any downsides and you should let your kid spend $∞ on Fortnight skins or whatever. But I think probably in most cases a balancing act is superior to a hard “yes” or “no”.
I should probably specify that I’m admittedly an old fart who doesn’t know shit about mobile gaming. (The only mobile games I play are Open Source ones on F-Droid.) And the only modern console I have is a Switch, and I don’t have any plans to get one soon. I’ve played a lot of Breath of the Wild, though. And a fair amount of Tears of the Kingdom.
Some final thoughts:
- Open Source gaming is awesome.
- The way they’re doing anti-cheat on PC is fucked-up.
- But so is the way they lock down consoles and phones.
- Hack your games. Hack your consoles. (If you don’t hack it, you don’t own it.) Get your kids interested in hacking stuff.
- …responsibly, of course.
- Play games with your kids! (And not just the ones you want to play.)
- Comment on Bitch shape attack 4 weeks ago:
Who’s going to tell them about prions?
- Comment on Vinegar Syndrome will be releasing "Mac & Me" on 4K Ultra HD in Q3 2025. (No, this is not a joke.) 4 weeks ago:
The MST3K is really good too.
- Comment on All hail the immortal cleanse 5 weeks ago:
A salamander. I see what you did there.
- Comment on PewDiePie: I'm DONE with Google 5 weeks ago:
This is not a good thing. Dude’s a nazi. Everything he aligns himself with will be tainted by him, not helped. The quicker any community with any decency explicitly disavows him, the less damage his public support of them will do.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Artificial intelligence has proved to be even more valuable as a writer of computer code than as a writer of words.
I call bullshit.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 1 month ago:
Nah, that’s an organizer. You’re thinking of the aircraft that flies by flapping its wings.
- Comment on You know what I'll do? 1 month ago:
What’s the deal with moths? Am I out of the loop and it’s just the new beans/stroganoff/poop-holding?
- Comment on Good luck, mom 1 month ago:
My grandmother was similarly god-like at the NES Dr. Mario.
- Comment on devinetly organic... 1 month ago:
No, that’s a U.S. state in the north-west of the contiguous 48.
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 1 month ago:
So he won intentionally. ;)
- Comment on This guy's taillights made my day. 1 month ago:
Failing? I call that a win.
- Comment on "And my dick fucks your wife more than you do. What's your point?" 1 month ago:
“Oh, am I supposed to kiss it?”
- Comment on It turns out you can train AI models without copyrighted material 1 month ago:
the LLM’s dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material.
I’m curious about the specifics of all this. Probably the most well-known “openly licensed” sort of licenses (aside from licenses specifically intended only for software) are the Creative Commons family of licenses, all of which require attribution. So then the question would become “if you’ve used any of my CC-licensed content in training this model, am I attributed somewhere?” If so, surely the list is extremely long. Or maybe Creative Commons wasn’t “openly”-enough licensed and they excluded all CC-licensed content from the training set.
Also, the public domain is definitely strongly biased toward very old content. You’d think a lot of the answers you got from that LLM would be based on some very outdated information. Maybe they specifically limited it to (or at least adjusted weights or something to make it prefer) recent materials in the public domain.
But then the article also says:
It performed about as well as Meta’s similarly sized Llama 2-7B from 2023.
On top of all this, I have to say that the LLM sphere really is just scams piled on top of scams, so it’s fairly probable either that it doesn’t perform anywhere near as well as Llama 2-7B and they’re just lying or that actually Llama 2-7B (and indeed all LLMs as well) is just total shit too.
- Comment on Seanut Putter Jandwich 2 months ago:
Now listen here you little shit
- Comment on If it ain’t broke… 2 months ago:
He finally flipped it inside out last year.