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- Comment on Researchers unveil Aardvark, an AI weather prediction system that they say uses thousands of times less computing power and is much faster than current methods. 1 week ago:
The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.00411
- Comment on [Help] YouTube TV stopped working today, now redirects to normal YouTube 2 weeks ago:
apparently something in Firefox broke and disabled all my plugins because they can’t be verified
This sounds like the root certificate expiry that just happened. You need to update Firefox to get the updated root certificate.
- Comment on Following the nightmare footage of AI-loy, Horizon actor Ashly Burch shares her stance on the whole debacle 2 weeks ago:
Quite quickly in the video Burch shared to TikTok, she explained that developer Guerilla had contacted her to claim that the “demo didn’t reflect anything that was actively in development”, and importantly didn’t use any of her vocal or facial performance. Even with that, Burch did still say she feels “worried”, not about “Guerrilla specifically, or Horizon, or my performance, or my career specifically, even. I feel worried about this art form. Game performance as an art form.”
As Burch points out, The Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA) is still currently on strike, specifically because of concerns over AI being used to replace actors in the game development process, and that they’re asking for protections from its usage. This includes very reasonable things like requiring consent before making an AI version of the actor in question, fair compensation, and to be informed of how the AI dub is being used.
For Burch, her concern is a video like this coming out that is based on someone’s performance, and “the possibility that if we lose this fight, that person would have no recourse. They wouldn’t have any protections, any way to fight back. And that possibility… it makes me so sad. It hurts my heart. It scares me.”
- Comment on Bazzite Linux announced two new editions designed for game developers 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Reportedly Getting New Content & A Sequel 1 month ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.
- Comment on More Google Spyware to Enjoy! 1 month ago:
Did they do this to users in every country, or just in
Gileadthe US? - Comment on New No Man's Sky update adds walkable gas giants among "trillions" of new planets, just in case you were running out 1 month ago:
Walkable? Gas giants?
- Comment on Hogwarts Legacy Official Mod Support Confirmed For This Week 1 month ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe and a bigot.
- Comment on Boomer shooter dev discovers his dogs have been barking on an "unbearable" loop for years 3 months ago:
Say “Boomer Shooter” again, I dare you! I double dare you, motherfucker! Say “Boomer Shooter” one more goddam time!
- Comment on The best Linux distribution for gaming in 2025 3 months ago:
I was hoping for a bit more of a review of the various options with pros and cons for each.
- Comment on Researchers develop Python code for in-memory computing — in-memory computation comes to Python code 4 months ago:
In-memory computing is a new way of computing that aims to solve the memory latency problem. As the name suggests, in-memory computing enables the system memory to do some calculations the CPU would do otherwise, cutting down the amount of data that must be transferred between the CPU and DRAM.
Samsung and TSMC are actively working on memory capable of doing this, featuring MRAM memory cells. In-memory computing is still in the prototype phase, but progress is being made on the hardware side to make it a viable technology. With the help of conversion layers like PyPIM, software should be developed to support this computing method.
- Comment on The Open Source Project DeFlock Is Mapping License Plate Surveillance Cameras All Over the World 4 months ago:
- Comment on Valve is working on a version of proton for ARM devices 6 months ago:
is there any ARM chipset out there that can deliver performance on par with the Steam Deck’s CPU
Yes, but they’re made by Apple.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks 6 months ago:
So that would make it 1.4m in the last two weeks which makes a big difference.
It would have been nice for the article to actually discuss these specifics. I’m not sure what we’re supposed to take away from it.
- Comment on Black Myth: Wukong shows very clearly Valve are selling a lot of Steam Decks 6 months ago:
He doesn’t actually do the calculation required to give an estimate of what that number is.
Going on the stats in the article:
- assuming that Wukong has just surpassed the revenue of Steam Deck in the chart so we can treat their revenues as equal
- assuming Wukong price is $49.99 and average Steam Deck price is $500
- using the stat that 14m copies of Wukong sold on Steam so far
that would imply ~1.4m Steam Decks sold
The article does go on to say:
Keep in mind that by November last year, Valve said the Steam Deck had already sold “multiple millions”.
So really this (very rough estimate) is telling us nothing that we didn’t know already. The top seller charts are showing exactly what we would have expected to see.
- Comment on Good luck with the PlayStation VR2 PC Adapter — you’ll need it 7 months ago:
TLDR: they had no complaints about the headset or the adapter, but they had trouble pairing the controllers over Bluetooth and even when they did work they would regularly drop out
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 8 months ago:
Because they don’t want to scare advertisers.
This tells you everything you need to know. If Firefox was acting in the interests of users then they wouldn’t give a fuck what advertisers think.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 8 months ago:
Firefox is not pandering to advertisers. If anything, I feel they are compromising with them
I don’t want to compromise with advertisers. I want to block them and not be tracked by them.
So where is my choice as the user of the browser that is running on my machine and using my internet connection and tracking my data?
But if it’s successful, it’ll rock for us.
If you think this will make one iota of difference in advertiser behavior then you must have been born yesterday.
- Comment on Firefox added [ad tracking] and has already turned it on without asking you 8 months ago:
The point is that this is not something that users want, it’s something that advertisers want. Why is Firefox pandering to advertisers and corporate interests? No user wants this, and Firefox is supposed to be a non-commercial browser built with the interests of its users in mind.
- Comment on Messaging Service ICQ To Shut Down Next Month After Nearly 30 Years 10 months ago:
uh oh
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
I agree with your original comment; it’s worth using a dedicated PC for gaming on the TV. But I think your second sentence is just parroting current-gen console marketing. It’s not actually true that current-gen consoles are providing a 4k@60 HDR experience.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
No, Forza Motorsport uses dynamic resolution upscaled to 4k in Performance mode, and in Quality mode it also uses dynamic resolution but targets 30fps.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
I was asking specifically about native 4K games, not dynamic resolution upscaled to 4k.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
Interesting, thanks.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
if you wanted an answer why are you arguing?
It was a rhetorical question. There are no actual current-gen releases running at 4k60 native resolution. They all use dynamic resolution with 1080p-1440p rendering resolution that then upscales to 4k for display.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
A PS4 game? Nice.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
What game on what console?
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
Now that TunnelVision has been disclosed to the general public
That vulnerability affected every OS except Android.
- Comment on It's Time to Bring Back the Steam Machine 10 months ago:
4k 60fps HDR experience that most people are getting used to from the main console makers
What games are you playing on console where you are actually getting 4k native resolution at 60fps?
- Comment on Green search engine Ecosia launches a cross-platform browser 11 months ago:
the browser is just not there to compete
Have you even used it?
