DdCno1
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- Comment on "DNA cassette tape" can store every song ever recorded with petabytes to spare 2 days ago:
We aren’t actually using on or off either, but rather different levels of electrical charge. If there is more electric charge past a certain threshold being picked up, it’s interpreted as a 1 or on, if it’s beneath this defined threshold, it’s interpreted as a 0 or off.
1 and 0 are abstractions, not the physical reality, which is messy and analog. We are forcing this analog reality into a binary state by classifying it.
- Comment on "It's a brave new world": GTA 6's PC port will release sooner than you think to avoid losing money to AI rip-offs, says former Rockstar tech director 2 days ago:
Are you a professional contrarian? What are you doing?
- Comment on "It's a brave new world": GTA 6's PC port will release sooner than you think to avoid losing money to AI rip-offs, says former Rockstar tech director 3 days ago:
I won’t give them another Cent myself for numerous reasons, but I was just mocking your grandiose declaration.
- Comment on "It's a brave new world": GTA 6's PC port will release sooner than you think to avoid losing money to AI rip-offs, says former Rockstar tech director 3 days ago:
They’ll never financially recover from losing you as their customer.
- Comment on Show Your ID to Use ChatGPT? How New York’s New AI Law Ends Online Anonymity 1 week ago:
I built my current system in early January 2025. I felt like prices were bleeding me dry back then (especially the GPU - I paid over 750€ for a slightly used 4070 Ti Super), but in retrospect, I lucked out with the timing, picked exactly the right moment for using the money I had saved up over a long period of time and am feeling extraordinarily privileged for having a really good machine right now. I recently needed a RAM upgrade anyway, which was extortionately expensive, but I felt like it’s now or never. The machine wasn’t built with AI as its main or even secondary purpose in mind - I only learned about Strata after the RAM upgrade.
That said, if you are using AI in e.g. a business context, Strata drastically lowers the barrier of entry for a serious local LLM. Two (more like three these days, I’d guess) grand isn’t a large expense for anything but the smallest business (compared to the substantial five digit sum you’d have to spend without it), although it should be stressed that you can’t really do many simultaneous sessions on a PC or server rack that just meets the minimum requirements for Strata - and it’ll eat up most system resources as it’s running, only leaving enough for very light other tasks, at least if you’re trying to run the version of Qwen that does the most with your system.
- Comment on Show Your ID to Use ChatGPT? How New York’s New AI Law Ends Online Anonymity 1 week ago:
Might convince some people to try out a local AI that runs entirely on one of their systems instead and is thus inherently private and can be uncensored. That is, if they ever hear about this being a possibility.
I consider myself an AI skeptic, but if one wants to use AI for whatever purpose (mine is curiosity - I don’t use AI for anything other than experimentation), local AI is the way to go, in my opinion. You can run pretty impressive stuff on any halfway decent PC (I first started out with with hardware from 2017) - and if you have a powerful system (good CPU, 64 GB RAM, modern GPU with at least 12, better 16 GB of RAM), you can use a software like Strata to run AI models at impressive speeds that would normally require hardware that is out of reach for ordinary people.
- Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in 1 week ago:
You might want to look up how certain political positions switched from being supported by both sides of the aisle to becoming wedge issues. Obama was most certainly not right of Nixon. That’s just absurd.
To get back to my question though, I don’t feel like you answered it clearly. Does your reply mean - since Obama was and still is very popular on reddit - that the site is center-right from your point of view? From a European perspective this might be the case, but not in the way the current American political spectrum is organized. The political spectrum is not an absolute thing, but instead applies to the current reality in a certain place and the relationship of its participants to one another.
There’s also the issue that people who are politically further away from the center perceiving those that are closer to it as more extreme than they actually are, e.g. a far-right person might consider a moderate to be far left and a moderately left-wing person might consider a centrist to be center-right.
- Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in 1 week ago:
34k is absolutely nothing for an entire network of communities. I used to mod for a gaming forum that was just in a single language (not English) and much larger than that - and even it felt quite small.
Keep in mind that the overwhelming majority of users on any online community are near permanent lurkers and do not contribute with even brief comments - or even by voting. What matter is how many people are actually submitting links, writing posts and comments.
Look at this community: It’s the largest “general” technology community on the lemmyverse (I think), yet there are just a small handful of people posting, often days between posts and on average (going by the last three pages of submissions), tons of posts where not even a single user is commenting. Anything that isn’t controversial and does get comments is usually in the 3 to 7 comments range.
That’s a ghost town. I can practically see tumbleweed slowly rolling across the page. My perception might be a little skewed though, because the way I interact with posts is by annoyingly inserting myself into existing conversations or at least replying to unanswered comments that already exist, so I tend to avoid empty posts.
Part of this emptiness is certainly due to forums in general going the way of the dodo (thanks to Facebook, twitter, instagram and especially Discord, as awful as all of these are at replacing conventional forums) and part of it is due to reddit having absorbed much of the user base that is still interested in forums. My hypothesis is that reddit losing users due to ongoing enshittification would just result in the overwhelming majority of them ending spread out across the aforementioned services instead of ending up here. I’m terrible at predicting things though, but the big reddit exodus (or whatever actually materialized) largely skipped the lemmyverse in the past and I don’t think conditions have changed enough for anything different to happen this time, should this recent boneheaded decision by reddit’s management result in fewer people using their site.
- Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in 1 week ago:
The lemmyverse is center-right in your opinion? Or did you misread and thought I meant reddit with that? Sorry if I caused any confusion.
- Comment on Dark Messiah of Might & Magic: Community Edition is coming to Steam with major upgrades for the classic 1 week ago:
Back when this game came out, I had a PC that was just powerful enough to boot it, but not really fast to actually run it. It was agonizing spotting glimpses of this amazing game hidden underneath 640x480 at lowest settings, with textures and lighting glitching out, freezes interrupting gameplay all the time and the frame rate barely staying in the double digit range.
Two years later, I finally had a computer that was fast enough to run it as intended. It’s one of the first games I played on this machine and even though it was no match for Crysis or even most other AAA titles from this era in terms of graphics (although it still looked pretty good at max settings), the interactivity and immersion of the world easily made up for it and was one of the most impressive gaming experiences I had up until that point.
- Comment on Reddit will force everyone to log in 1 week ago:
Unlikely. Reddit is too big and mainstream and the lemmyverse too small, too confusing - and too far-left politically, to be frank. Most of it is a ghost town. I also doubt it would be able to withstand a sudden massive influx of users from both a technical and organizational perspective.
- Comment on Epic's Tim Sweeney believes AI notices on Steam are a "political statement" for the "hate mob" 2 weeks ago:
This man is his own worst enemy. He’s one of those CEOs that used to have street cred (being of the core minds behind Unreal and the Unreal engine - in the trenches, not just as a “businessman”), but lost touch many years ago.
Instead of enjoying his fame and Unreal/Fortnite fortune, he’s just endlessly whining and bickering. Despite having won the game engine wars against everyone, I don’t think he’ll ever get over the fact that Valve under Gabe Newell’s leadership not only came up with a better and more successful first person shooter franchise, but also a better and more successful digital distribution platform.
- Comment on "System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being one 2 weeks ago:
Killer of studios, devourer of devs.
- Comment on "System Shock and Deus Ex, they were RPGs. People called them RPGs": Gloomwood's publisher isn't too keen on using the term immersive sim despite it being one 2 weeks ago:
Based on one comment, it looks like it was written by an immature person.
- Comment on YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button entirely and users aren’t happy 2 weeks ago:
A/B testing. Big tech like Google likes to roll out (often experimental) changes to a select number of random people and measure how their behavior changes compared to others that get the existing experience. In other words, you’re a lab rat.
I’ve had this happen to me countless times, perhaps because I used to write lengthy and in-depth feedback (until I thought they should pay me for this and stopped).
- Comment on Epic’s new games launcher is ‘vibe coded’ 3 weeks ago:
This reminds me:
Back in 2003, there was a demo version of the game Chicago 1930 (from Spellbound, better known for much better games like Robin Hood: The Legend of Sherwood and the Desperados series). Its uninstaller not only deleted the files belonging to this demo, but also the content of the entire Program Files directory, which I noticed way too late in the process.
- Comment on RimWorld switches engine from Unity to the devs' own, faster Waylith Engine, all apparently without breaking mods somehow 3 weeks ago:
You must be new to the games industry. Ideas are cheap, implementing them properly and in novel ways is what makes or breaks a game. Developers have always been iterating on the ideas of others before them. Nobody in their right mind would call a game as accomplished as Rimworld a mere ripoff.
- Comment on RimWorld switches engine from Unity to the devs' own, faster Waylith Engine, all apparently without breaking mods somehow 3 weeks ago:
You can not realistically expect developers to keep supporting obsolete hardware that has been without new drivers for over a decade.
Imagine someone demanding in 2005 that a new game should run on hardware from 1995. Yes, hardware lasts longer than ever before and it is annoying if you have no other option, but let’s keep things reasonable.
ARM Chromebooks are also not gaming hardware. The game never supported them officially (as implied by your “fuckery” remark) and expecting developers to take tinkered solutions into account is even more absurd.
- Comment on No Man's Sky is somehow coming to mobile, and Hello Games says it's partly thanks to Light No Fire 4 weeks ago:
This might be due to Nintendo taking their sweet time certifying new builds.
Other developers hold back PC versions of their games until every console manufacturer has approved updates, but Hello Games is apparently not willing to do this.
- Comment on Why Is Instagram Running Ads for a "Pet Incinerator"? 5 weeks ago:
Since this is Alibaba, I think it’s meant for resellers getting their logo stamped onto a white label product like this one.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As I said this is a multimedia website. Those are definitely not meant for the 0.01 percent who deliberately turn hardware acceleration off.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
You really have no business to complain about a multimedia website if you don’t have hardware acceleration turned on. Should have at the very least mentioned it.
- Comment on Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push 1 month ago:
They addressed this in their FAQ:
Skyrim VR?:
- The most recent Skyrim VR version is currently on the pre-anniversary update of Skyrim and thus is incompatible with Skyblivion through normal means.
- A community-made VR patch mod would have to be installed for Skyblivion to boot properly. Regardless, there will be no official support for Skyrim VR at this time.
It’s not impossible and modders will likely jump at the opportunity the moment Skyblivion releases, but nobody can tell how long it would take to implement proper VR support.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
As per usual, complaining about poor performance without stating your hardware and browser isn’t very useful.
It runs completely fine on my (admittedly far above average) PC and my significantly less powerful six year old Android tablet (Galaxy Tab S7+), both with Firefox.
Do you have hardware acceleration enabled in your browser?
- Comment on Get plenty of action in the Sniper Elite Classics Collection Humble Bundle 1 month ago:
That’s usually how it goes: You sneak around until you find a position from where you can effectively snipe. Stealth plays a huge role in these titles.
- Comment on Skyblivion's release is "getting closer" as the massive Skyrim mod's makers start recruiting for a big final marketing push 1 month ago:
They even invited the creators of this mod after the release of the official Oblivion remaster:
- Comment on Sony letter spells the end for unreleased The Last of Us Part 2 multiplayer mod, its creator says 1 month ago:
Both of you didn’t read the article. This was a commercial mod, intended to be hidden behind a subscription. I do not think Sony did anything wrong by going after this grifter.
- Comment on "You can’t just throw new people at that problem": Bethesda devs doubt future Elder Scrolls and Fallout games will have the same "quality level", after losing seasoned staff to Xbox cuts 2 months ago:
I played Oblivion, Skyrim, Fallout 4 and Starfield at or very shortly after launch. You are exaggerating to a ridiculous degree. None of them were even remotely unplayable - and there has also been a significant increase in quality with each title. Each of them was more stable and had fewer glitches and game-breaking bugs than the previous title at launch.
- Comment on "The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners 2 months ago:
This goes without saying, but yes. The ad blocker should also be uBlock Origin.
- Comment on "The internet we once loved is gone": SteamDB founders announce the community-run database has been acquired by Nexus Mods' owners 2 months ago:
Please don’t browse the web without ad blockers (which also block trackers and cookie banners). It’s unsafe and not good for you.