jacksilver

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⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What game recently hooked you on the Deck, more than on PC ?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:
I think it may even be better on the phone.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
Honestly with that small of a sample size those numbers could mean anything.

Wed need to know things like:
- How many hours worth of new game content was released (maybe there were only enough new games to make up 20% of playtime)
- How mich do Games as a Service impact things (they get new content, but aren’t “new” games)
- Are people playing games more or less (people could be playing new games the same amount, but increasing the amount of hours playing old games)
A small sample of averages is really hard to interpret.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That’s just how the article phrased it, surprisingly it’s hard to find historical “Steam Replay” stats so it’s hard to confirm/expand on any of this.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Replay is live and notes only 14% "of playtime spent by all Steam users" was for 2025 releases⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
That percentage only matters in comparison to previous years, otherwise it’s just a random number.

While the article doesn’t give a lot of info, it does say it’s only down 1% from last year.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨builder.ai has been tricking customers and investors for eight years – selling an advanced code-writing AI that, it turns out, is actually an Indian software farm employing 700 human developers⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
It says they’d been tricking investors for 8 years, we’ll before ChatGPT. I assume they overpromised in the early years, leveraging labor as a “stopgap” for the developing AI. Then things eventually caught up and they couldn’t deliver, leading to the current situation.

Eight years is a long time, so who was “duped” when can really change the narrative of the headline.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck lead reveals Valve is funding ARM compatibility of Windows games “to expand PC gaming” and release “ultraportables” in the future⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:
I think there point is that Linux support hasn’t really increased Linux native games. It’s possible it’s even hurt it as they can just develop for one platform - windows.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The excellent CloverPit has sold over 1 million and gets a Hard Mode update⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
I thought this game was just okay, “Luck be a Landlord” is a better slot machine based rougelite. Additionally, the mystery horror setting of this game doesn’t really go anywhere.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, I think that’s a safe assumption. While discord and telegram aren’t inherently bad, I think they carry more risks than just going to some site like pornhub.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:
The article mentions this. They only mention a 77% drop in visits from the UK, but VPNs have seen increased use. So most likely people in the UK are using VPNs to view porn (however, they don’t mention other countries numbers being up or down).

Additionally, they call out that most likely people are also going to sites not following the law. This has always been a big issue with these laws, in that they push people to more extreme/unregulated sites rather than actually curbing the behavior (which is a problematic goal in the first place).
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No One Wants A $100 GTA 6, Analysts Say⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t know, it feels like the US is at least heading towards a tipping point.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Full Story of BOOX: How a Chinese Startup Revolutionized the Global E-Reader Market⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I have the Boox Palma I think. It’s basically just a phone with an e-ink display. Since it runs android, it means that I can use it with my self hosted services like “AudioBookshelf”.

The device itself is nothing special in my opinion. Maybe the screen is better than my old kindle (hard to say). Only real reason I got it was form factor and android OS so I could customize it.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I believe it’s the same thing I noted in another comment - lemmy.world/comment/19924290

Basically session key vs rotating session key, but to be honest I only skimmed your link as it got dense fast.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why Signal’s post-quantum makeover is an amazing engineering achievement⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think the biggest thing here is that beyond just a session key (to make sessions secure from each other), this approach uses a rotating session key. That means each transaction in a sesssion is unique ensuring forward and backward secrecy.

I may have read it wrong plus cybersecurity is not my forte.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
All this stuff works on probabilities, even with a fully visible face the model just says it’s really confident hence articles like this - Facial recognition leads to wrongful arrest.

So the more of the face that’s covered, the larger the confidence interval, or basically the less accurate it is.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gaming handheld prices are out of control, except for the Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Yeah, but I hate android and want to run steam natively so I can play indie games.

Where is my small Linux handheld for steam. Something not targeting the AAA games?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve 'Fremont' APU breaks cover on Geekbench, most likely for a future console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Thanks for the info. I assume when you say that they dropped support for some libraries, you mean those libraries are no longer being maintained for the new Mac arm processors?

I’m not super familiar with how portable different libraries are against similar architectures, but assume the major issue is Mac arm chips differ enough from the mass market that progress on Linux arm won’t directly correlate to any progress with macs?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve 'Fremont' APU breaks cover on Geekbench, most likely for a future console⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I didn’t think Translation layers were nearly good enough for that, otherwise why wouldnt more people use macs for gaming?
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t disagree with you on the first point. I put “unlawful” in quotes to imply that lawful/unlawful is ambiguous and gives Mastercard the cover they need to not really be lying in their statement, even if effectively they are.

Its corporate doublespeak to a T.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mastercard release a statement about game stores, payment processors and adult content⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
What they’re saying is: “we haven’t called out any specific games, but we told steam if they can’t prove a game is “lawful” well cut them off”.

This effectively has a chilling effect because it means anything that could be illegal becomes toxic and risky for steam.

Its a way for Mastercard to dictate what can be sold without actually dictating what can be sold. Now the real issue is that at the end of the Mastercard is in a position where this matters and they can influence things. Should work just like cash and leave the government to decide what items are legal/illegal.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I don’t disagree that competency is an element, but your analogy is lacking because the user provided the information that increased their risk (sharing their photo IDs and real information).

Its more like the share buttons on porn sites. If you’re logged into a social media site while browsing porn and accidentally dox yourself, it’s partially your fault for creating a situation where that was possible. Yeah, having the share buttons is a terrible design, but also you have to be doing insecure stuff too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Second Tea Breach Reveals Users’ DMs About Abortions and Cheating⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It has nothing to do with the company, it’s an issue about privacy and not sharing personal information so freely.

I mean the company was incompetent, but the primary issue is privacy.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Brave blocks Microsoft Recall by default⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I think he means that there should be an OS API to tell recall to shove it, or that apps should have to opt-in to recall.

The fact they need to leverage private browser sessions means it’s a workaround not directly built into the OS.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A few questions after getting an LCD Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
I can only answer two of your questions:
- How to know if a steam game is “deck verified”? There is a “Steamdeck compatability” box for every game on steam that will give on one of four statuses telling you supported/partially supported/not supported/unknown Image
  - That being said, steam is a bit conservative about “supported” games. ProtonDB is a more complete list of compatible games and gives guidance on how to play games steam considers “unsupported”.
- Can you use steam input for non-steam games? Games must be added/launched through steam for the steam input settings to work, so in most cases you should be able to set it up by adding the “non-steam” game to steam.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft says new accounts will be passwordless by default⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
The whole idea is about moving to passkeys, which are like super passwords unique to a device. The face/finger/pin is the second Auth to use the passkey.

Not saying this is good or bad, but msoft does have an faq about passkeys

The major thing I still don’t understand is, without a password, how do you authenticate people who lost access to their device/passkey.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year.⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s like kodi, but does offer a number of features that either make it better or easier to use than free alternatives.

One of the main things is simplifying streaming outside your local network. But they also do things like auto-subtitles, skip intro, integration with some other streaming services, account management, etc.

That being said, that may not be enough for people to warrant the price.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨“Awful”: Roku tests autoplaying ads loading before the home screen⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not just the tvs, they’re doing it on their streaming sticks too.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations.⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Some AI can do math, but LLMs and Neural Networks aren’t designed to do complex math, as all of their operations are (typically) based around addition. If it has enough pathways it can learn multiplication through sheer brute force, but only within the input space (hence the articles comments about 3 or 4 digit numbers).

At the end of the day, LLMs are for processing text. Multimodal models are generally converting audio/images to text so you have a common means of evaluation. However, none of that is concerned about logic, which is fundamental for math.
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What handheld PCs should do to fight the Nintendo Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
No I think they’re doing both of those. Definitely backwards compatible, and this says yes to hall effect thegamer.com/nintendo-switch-2-joy-con-drift-fixe…
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discovery Plus is raising its prices⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
Discovery is Warner Bros. which is probably why it’s mostly garbage. Disney owns National Geographic which seems like it’s still doing good things (and at least can be bundled with Disney+/Hulu)
⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well get a laptop???⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:
It’s not even about being publicly traded. I suspect they’re taking the console approach where you count on the attach rate (people buying steam games) to make you money.