AllNewTypeFace

@AllNewTypeFace@leminal.space

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Study reveals AI chatbots can detect race, but racial bias reduces response empathy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  As we speak, Elon Musk has his best engineers working on developing artificial racism

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ukraine Asks if Telegram, Its Favorite App, Is a Sleeper Agent⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  While Telegram is officially based in the UAE, it has offices and developers in Russia; meanwhile, Pavel Durov is hardly in hiding, visits Russia, and has had no unfortunate encounters with windows or exotic poisons. Which is proof of either (a) Russia’s robust commitment to privacy and human rights, (b) the Russian security services’ comically flat-footed incompetence, or © that Telegram, as it currently stands, serves the Kremlin’s purposes admirably well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developers keep Spotify Car Thing alive with custom firmware⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they were doing so in bulk, probably. As a one-off for one’s own use, doing so with the fit and finish of the commercial product would cost a lot more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds reckons AI is ‘90% marketing and 10% reality’⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  10% is being generous. The parts of “AI” that aren’t just an expensive way of getting exciting-looking but unreliable results are mundane things like autocorrect, image upscaling models, handwriting recognition and such: unglamorous statistical learning in narrowly constrained domains nobody would claim is on the verge of becoming sentient and spawning the Singularity.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve still waiting on a 'generational leap' for Steam Deck 2 - but it's coming⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Presumably this will mean a high-performance ARM CPU (comparable to the Apple M series), along with the dynamic recompilation technology Steam have been experimenting with. (It’s unlikely that Intel or AMD will deliver the generational leap they’re talking about.)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Get ready to collect some Rabbits in Usagi Shima: Bunny Island⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So, a bnnuy-themed Neko Atsume?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You won’t be seeing the Balatro IP used by casinos or gambling companies - the developer has forbidden it in his will⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’ll just have to file the serial numbers off, give it a new name and wait for the gambling dopamine boost to have it eclipse the original

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No Man's Sky - Worlds Part I is out now and drastically transforms the planets⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You can dogfight with pirates or slug it out with monsters to harvest loot, and there are stealth missions around Sentinel pillars. Though if you want constant quests and action, you might prefer a different game.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Newspaper Drops Paywall, Moves To Reader Patronage, Generates 37% More Revenue⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Guardian (based in the UK, though with editorial operations in the US and Australia) made this decision some 10 years ago, and has stuck with it. So far, they seem to be going well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram is testing “unskippable” ads that you can’t scroll past⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re about to test the load-bearing capacity of all your normie friends and all the cool celebrities/hot thirst traps being on there. The end goal is a slot machine which shows only ads almost all the time, occasionally delivering a payoff of social or parasocial connection to someone you care about, but only enough to keep the majority of users hooked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve has little to worry about as new Steam Deck rival arrives⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only if it were bound handsomely in leather with gilt lettering, as befits its divine purpose.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nightdive Studios confirm Linux and macOS ports of System Shock are cancelled⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given that a common subset of the Win32 ABI is now a reasonably efficient virtual machine for running PC games on Linux and (soon) macOS, we can probably expect “do Mac/Linux ports” replaced with “make sure the Windows .exe runs on Mac/Linux”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SuiPlay0x1 is a upcoming handheld that is going to run Playtron OS a Linux based (NOTE handheld is being made by blockchain company and with a potential price around $500)⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s the cryptocurrency of handhelds: futuristic-looking, impractical to use, and quite possibly a scam.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia Is Making Its Own Gaming Consoles⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’ll probably be a shanzhai Steam Deck clone, made largely if not entirely in Shenzhen, with a version of Linux modified to not run unapproved games (and to allow the FSB to monitor any subversive activities). Also, it’ll probably be hacked within two weeks, disabling the surveillance features and making it run a full complement of warez and emulators.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Meet Palmsy, the fake social network where your posts stay on your device forever⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re going to have to come up with some sort of protocol for integrating these fake services, so you can post pictures of your virtual pet and have your virtual girlfriend comment on them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Playtron plans to launch PlaytronOS, a Linux-based OS for gaming⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Sounds locked down, and the main people involved have a crypto background. I might give this a miss.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steamdeck setup without PC⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Steam Deck generally does not use an external PC to set up. It is a PC, and can be put into a (Linux-based) desktop mode, which is generally what you’d use for any configuration beyond what the Steam menus give you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developing a Game with Steam Deck in Mind - The Steam Deck is a Dev Dream⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling the Steam Deck a handheld sounds a bit odd.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protective case or not?⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I bought a thin case with a protective front panel that clips on magnetically. That is enough to protect it when thrown in a backpack without adding noticeably to bulk.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve To Steam Deck Owners: Stop Huffing Its Vent Fumes⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam Deck Steam Deck with OLED screen Steam Deck with aromatherapy cartridge slot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Sdrawkcab suseJ⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Say “Lord Jesus” backwards and you get “sausage roll”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broke into the Hot 100 Billboard⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The word “tortoise” comes from Tartarus, i.e., Hell, because the ancient Greeks at one point thought that tortoises came from there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Woman who threw bowl of food at Chipotle worker sentenced to work 2 months in fast food job⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  How will the logistics of this work? Are there fast-food restaurants that would accept a privileged Karen with anger management issues as a member of their team? After all, they have a business with tight margins to run, and this sounds like a huge liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m guessing that in texts in right-to-left languages like Arabic and Hebrew, graphs would be drawn the other way around, the X axis increasing leftward.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do some Spanish/English words share the same multiple meanings?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Meanwhile, the French word for left is “gauche”.

  Which leads to a famous quip from a Canadian conservative politician some decades ago: “the Canadian left is more gauche than sinister”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one will ever be as cool as Jimi Hendrix reading MAD Magazine⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Caption:“What, me worry?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨should i??⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamer culture in the 2020s is wild

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨moist⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  it’s called “erotica”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Put the magnet inside the cup.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨True shit⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Surely using a powerful magnet would be more effective