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- Comment on [Game] Hollow Knight: Silksong is now Steam Deck Verified 1 hour ago:
You have it backwards.
- Day 2 Purchase
- Day 1 “Theft”
Chronologically, the “theft” comes first. And you can easily purchase something you previously stole.
Theft is in scare quotes because piracy isn’t theft and I’m assuming OP isn’t going to actually steal someone’s Steam Deck, Switch, or Switch game cartridge… but maybe I’m wrong.
(Also you could “steal” it after purchasing it by buying on one platform and pirating it on another, but that’s a separate matter.)
- Comment on Planning on buying a SteamDeck. What should I know before purchasing? 4 days ago:
Just be aware that you need a 2230 M.2, not the much more common 2280 size.
- Comment on Doctors Were Worse at Spotting Cancer After Leaning on AI, Study Finds 1 week ago:
Summary of my comment: the study showed that the AI tool in question was an effective tool for the task, nothing more.
I didn’t read this particular article, but I recently read a different one about the same study. I also clicked into the study itself and read the abstract and everything else that was freely available. The study was paywalled, but as far as I could tell:
- Performance immediately displayed a sustained increase of 24% relative to baseline while using the AI tool in question
- Immediately after the tool was taken away (after using it for three months), performance was 20% lower than the baseline
- The study did not check to see what level performance returned to after three months without it, nor when it returned to baseline levels
- The study also did not compare performance drops after returning from a three month vacation
- The study did not compare performance drops when losing access to other tools
This outcome is expected if given a tool that simplifies a process and then losing access to it. If I were writing code in Notepad and using _v2, _v3, etc for versioning, was then given an IDE and git for three months, then had to go back to my old ways with Notepad, I’d expect to be less effective than I had been. I’ve been relying on syntax highlighting, so I’m going to be paying less attention to the specific monochrome text than I used to. I’ll have fallen out of practice from using the version naming techniques that I used to use. All of the stuff that I did to make up for having worse tooling, I’m out of practice with.
But that doesn’t mean that I should use worse tools.
- Comment on We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent 1 month ago:
The products currently on the marketplace have architectures that are far more sophisticated than just an LLM. Even something as simple as “Deep Research,” which both Anthropic and Claude have available, is using multiple interconnected systems to provide a single response.
Consider Agentic AI, like Claude Code, where they’re using tools, analyzing the results of those tools, iterating, possibly calling out to MCP servers to do other things, etc… The tools allow them to do things like read or modify files in the working directory, execute programs (i.e., your linter, installing dependencies, running your app), querying against your app itself, and so on.
And of course note that the single “Claude” box in that diagram has an architecture that’s more sophisticated than just being an LLM. At minimum, consumer facing LLMs generally have a supervisor that censors problematic inputs and outputs; this doesn’t make the system more competent but the same concept can be applied to any other sort of transparent wrapper.
It seems to me that we already have consumer systems that are doing what you described, and we’re already working on enhancing their architectures further.
- Comment on A note about the security of your Steam account 3 months ago:
Copied from the post:
You may have seen reports of leaks of older text messages that had previously been sent to Steam customers. We have examined the leak sample and have determined this was NOT a breach of Steam systems.
We’re still digging into the source of the leak, which is compounded by the fact that any SMS messages are unencrypted in transit, and routed through multiple providers on the way to your phone.
The leak consisted of older text messages that included one-time codes that were only valid for 15-minute time frames and the phone numbers they were sent to. The leaked data did not associate the phone numbers with a Steam account, password information, payment information or other personal data. Old text messages cannot be used to breach the security of your Steam account, and whenever a code is used to change your Steam email or password using SMS, you will receive a confirmation via email and/or Steam secure messages.
You do not need to change your passwords or phone numbers as a result of this event. It is a good reminder to treat any account security messages that you have not explicitly requested as suspicious. We recommend regularly checking your Steam account security at any time at
We also recommend setting up the Steam Mobile Authenticator if you haven’t already, as it gives us the best way to send secure messages about your account and your account’s safety.
- Comment on Bad news for portable Monster Hunter Wilds hopefuls: the Steam Deck can't manage 30 fps, even in maximum potato mode 5 months ago:
They didn’t say it was a Linux problem; they said it was a mobile problem
- Comment on There's a reason we aren't as harsh on the Steam Deck. Actually, a couple. 11 months ago:
Hooked up to a TV or monitor it’ll do 4k. You can even use FSR upscaling to actually game at 4K, but there’s still a performance hit and I don’t think any recent games are actually playable in 4K. (Upscaled to 1080P, on the other hand, is a different story.)
- Comment on The terrible tragedy of a stolen Steam Deck 11 months ago:
They have no recourse
They can do all of the following:
- Report the seller to the platform for selling stolen goods.
- Return the stolen goods to the rightful owner, if they’re able to get their information, or if not, to Valve or even just the police department.
- File a suit in small claims court against the seller for damages (the amount they paid + any other expenses they’ve incurred, like the cost to mail it to the rightful owner, including legal fees) or, if the platform won’t provide the seller’s information, against the platform itself.
- Comment on dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin 1 year ago:
Oh, good. In that case, carry on!
- Comment on dBrand Releases New Steam Deck Skin Based Off of $1 Million Counter-Strike Skin 1 year ago:
Did you just imply that dbrand employs humans? I’ll have you know that the company is robots all the way down.