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- Comment on A factory sim in which every pixel has physics is the latest from Manor Lords publishers Hooded Horse 3 days ago:
Oh it’s like that Earthworm Jim level.
- Comment on Nexus Mods is under new ownership 4 days ago:
The article: www.nexusmods.com/news/15301
Don’t read the comments.
- Comment on Shooty Shooty Robot Invasion looks like a boomer shooter for the Newgrounds generation, and it's out next month 1 week ago:
- Comment on GitHub Users Angry at the Prospect of AI-Written Issues From Copilot 2 weeks ago:
Wow that slashdot discussion is a train-wreck.
- Comment on Rock Crusher is an incremental clicker with a huge transformational skill tree 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 2 weeks ago:
👁️ 👁️ 👂 👃 👂 👄 <( "cool" )
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 month ago:
It was better than AltaVista, Yahoo!, Lycos, Tripod, Ask Jeeves, MetaCrawler et al. at the time when it gained its popularity.
Its main advantage was that they focussed on speed. You didn’t have to load a “homepage” with news articles and link directories (as all the other search engines had become) before you could type your search query. It was just a logo and a text input box.
The search index even at the beginning was pretty comprehensive too.
Google jumped the shark a long time ago though, around when they started putting ads on equal footing with the search results, and boosting their Shopping links.
- Comment on Google shares slump as Apple exec calls AI the new search 1 month ago:
your link is broken
qwant.com
- Comment on Today’s AI can crack second world war Enigma code ‘in short order’, experts say 1 month ago:
No, LLMs can’t decipher Enigma ciphertext.
“It would be straightforward to recreate the logic of bombes in a conventional program,” Wooldridge said, noting the AI model ChatGPT was able to do so. “Then with the speed of modern computers, the laborious work of the bombes would be done in very short order.”
He’s speculating that an LLM could write a program to do so.
Using a slightly different approach – that Wooldridge suggested might be slower – researchers have previously used an AI system trained to recognise German using Grimm’s fairytales, together with 2,000 virtual servers, to crack a coded message in 13 minutes.
The link is to an abstract that tells you nothing more without an account on this website. But a better write-up of the mentioned research is here: digitalocean.com/…/how-2000-droplets-broke-the-en…
In late 2017, at the Imperial War Museum in London, developers applied modern artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to break the “unbreakable” Enigma machine …
So this is about research from 8 years ago! They go on to explain that they did a brute-force attack on the key, using a RNN (recurrent neural network) classifier to detect if the decrypted text looked like German.
I’m no cryptographer but I’m pretty sure that we have been able to classify language samples quite successfully for a long time using much simpler (and faster) statistical techniques, like n-gram frequency analysis.
The fact that the Guardian article mentions none of this and presents the topic ambiguously enough to make it sound like ChatGPT can break ciphers on its own makes me think this is more deliberate AI-hype.
- Comment on Can't believe we have to say this but, don't use your work email for adult content 1 month ago:
4 percent of employees at 50 banks use their email to register on adult content websites
How do they know it’s not people who are pissed off at a bank employee who take their business card and sign the person up to adult sites?
- Comment on Is Duolingo the face of an AI jobs crisis? 1 month ago:
Exactly, it’s a Peter Principle crisis.
- Comment on Apple owes more than $700M in standard-essential patent royalties and interest to licensing firm Optis: England & Wales Court of Appeal 1 month ago:
Patents relating to 4G apparently.
Why are we building our global communication networks on patented IP that has to be licensed anyway? Isn’t this a huge barrier to entry to the telecommunications market for new businesses? Why is the market artificially protected in this way?
Lobbyists and bribes; I bet the answer is lobbyists and bribes.
- Comment on Glass Cannon is my next indie obsession, a chill turn-based shoot-em-up roguelike with wild weapon combos 1 month ago:
- Comment on Our new AI strategy puts Wikipedia's humans first – Wikimedia Foundation 1 month ago:
This marks the end of the beginning of the end.
- Comment on Perplexity CEO says its browser will track everything users do online to sell 'hyper personalized' ads 1 month ago:
ghoul
- Comment on Netflix aims to be a trillion-dollar company, says co-CEO 1 month ago:
Their current market cap is 443B with a P/E of 50, so already massively overpriced.
For comparison, Google P/E is 20, Amazon P/E is 32, Meta P/E is 21, Microsoft P/E is 30.
They would need to more than double their profits to get to 1Tn market cap with the same joke of a price to earnings ratio. At this point I doubt that will be by doubling their customer base. It’s going to be by cutting corners: paying less for shows which means lower quality shows, cutting bandwidth costs which means lower quality streams, and charging customers more for the pleasure. Classic enshittification incoming.
- Comment on Caution urged as UK supermarkets check out facial recognition 1 month ago:
So if you happen to look like someone who was once suspected of shoplifting then you’ll no longer be able to buy food anywhere. What could possibly go wrong.
- Comment on YouTube, Amazon and Meta sign up to sponsor White House Easter Egg Roll 1 month ago:
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for an American to buy eggs.
- Comment on [Game] Hogwarts Legacy Adds FSR 3 and XeSS 2 With Mod Fixes in New Update 2 months ago:
Identifying an out-group by an immutable attribute of their person, and then railing against them as inherently inferior is fascist behaviour.
- Comment on Ubuntu 25.04 upgrades halted due to Kubuntu users getting a broken desktop 2 months ago:
Par for the course with Ubuntu. They always fuck something.
- Comment on [Game] Hogwarts Legacy Adds FSR 3 and XeSS 2 With Mod Fixes in New Update 2 months ago:
J. K. Rowling is a transphobe, a bigot and a fascist.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 months ago:
cryptocurrency conference in Bedford
This is the funniest part to me.
- Comment on Liz Truss to launch her own ‘uncensorable’ social media platform 2 months ago:
They’re easily taken-in by some grifter selling them their software platform. It’s the same as all the famous people selling their own cryptocoin that turns out to be a rug-pull - someone approached them and dazzled them with buzzwords and jargon, and all they saw was dollar signs.
- Comment on Jack Dorsey would like to ‘delete all IP law’. 2 months ago:
IP = Imaginary Property
- Comment on Parkour boomer shooter Metal Eden has a free demo out now, and you can even win some dosh playing it if you're quick enough 2 months ago:
- Comment on Boomer shooter Gravelord adds controller support and gets Steam Deck Verified 2 months ago:
SAY BOOMER SHOOTER ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME
- Comment on Assassin's Creed Shadows adds a self-driving horse, but I implore you not to use it 2 months ago:
and Origins and Valhalla
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 2 months ago:
AI = An Insult (to life itself)
- Comment on I strongly feel this AI-powered demo of Quake 2 is an insult to life itself 2 months ago:
what about egg game?
- 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. 2 months ago:
The paper: arxiv.org/abs/2404.00411
