jacksilver

@jacksilver@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨An activist has started using AI to identify ICE agents beneath their masks⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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???⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Might as well get a laptop???⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean in a lot of ways they literally can’t compete on these things. Price/quality are difficult cause valve can sell their product at a loss (cause theyll make it back on steam sales), software is weird cause who is investing a whole OS to just sell hardware (valve can cause it’s directly tied to their marketplace).

  Id give you TouchPad, but I don’t know what the patents are on those, cause I’ve only seen that design on valve products.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Razer announced the Razer Handheld Dock Chroma for your Steam Deck, ROG Ally, Legion Go and more⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t understand the appeal of most of their products, but I do love their blade laptop lineup. There are few viable laptop competitors with the quality build and integrated gpu (AI/ML stuff rather than gaming for me).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You guys scoping out any good deals?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Second this, the mechanics are crazy fun, but the story mode gets hard fast (and requires quick reflexes and actual planning).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Coming soon – offline speech recognition on your phone⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Things like whisper have already solved this for the most part. I guess the issue is eating up a GB or lore of memory isn’t ideal for a single feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google tests showing full recipes right in search results⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s seo and ad revenue, but who dictates the rules for ad revenue? Obviously not just Google, but yeah still pretty much at fault.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nintendo shuts down Ryujinx⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wouldn’t have an issue with many different communications platforms if they didn’t all require an account (also Discord not being indexable sucks).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell sales team told to return to office 5 days a week, starting Monday⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, not excited with the notion of being back in the office five days a week. Makes looking for jobs a pain.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Clearly inspired by Advance Wars the turn-based infantry battler 'Warside' gets a new trailer⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  If you’re looking for something that’s out now, there is Wargroove 1 and 2. It uses a fantasy setting, but it plays the same as advanced wars (unit factories that require money).

  I wasn’t a huge fan on how Wargroove handled COs, but otherwise it’s a great tactical strategy game. Also can only speak for the first one, haven’t gotten around to the second.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Thanks, I’ll have to take a look into that, I can definitely tell the microsd struggles (and it would free up my microsd slot for extra steamos storage).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Is that faster than loading it on a microsd card? That’s how I currently boot windows on my steamdeck, but it’s a little slow to load and initial loads for some games can be painful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Police pulled over a Waymo car that drove in the oncoming lane in Phoenix⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s an apples to oranges comparison. Self driving cars aren’t driving on the same roads and in the same conditions. Maybe they’re better, but that hasn’t really been tested/evaluated.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Adobe Firefly used thousands of Midjourney images in training its 'ethical AI' model⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  The phrasing was poor, but what Adobe did is effectively the money laundering version of copyright theft. Just churn it a couple of times and then the original creators are now “AI models” and not the peoe whose work was used to create the “AI models”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Deck vs that Asus thingy⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  You can load windows on the steamdeck, nothing is stopping you. I actually have a Bootable microsd with windows to play gamepass games. That being said, the drivers for windows are a bit messy and setting it up is kinda a pain.