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- Comment on Wikipedia urges AI companies to use its paid API, and stop scraping 1 day ago:
Kind of funny: When Wikipedia was new, people often said that you couldn’t trust information on it because anyone could have written it, even if they were unqualified, biased, or deliberately deceptive. I guess that’s still true today, but with the advent of automated misinformation generators, the Wiki almost seems authoritative in comparison.
- Comment on Fantasy Grounds virtual tabletop (VTT) is now free to play 2 days ago:
My group unanimously chose to leave Fantasy Grounds after about half a dozen sessions, and it wasn’t because of the price. Too many usability problems. Too many surprising, unexplained behaviors. Too much of our gaming time was consumed by troubleshooting and wrangling the software.
We moved to Foundry VTT, and haven’t looked back. It’s not free, but a license is reasonably priced, paid only once, covers an entire gaming group (or several groups if they don’t play at the same time), and includes new releases forever.
Here are some free virtual tabletops. These are comparatively minimal, but might be good enough if your needs are modest, or if your group can’t afford a 50 USD Foundry license.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games' UK petition has been debated in parliament: "The law works, but companies may need to communicate better" 1 week ago:
tl;dr: The government (at time of debate) didn’t think there was any need to stop killing games, suggesting instead that customers be told more clearly that the games they buy will eventually be killed.
- Comment on Looking for a cool person to join a 5e homebrew campaign from 8GMT to 13GMT on Sundays. 1 week ago:
I love seeing posts like this, and would consider joining if the table seemed like a good fit. (I don’t think this one would work for me.)
In case you’re not aware of it, you might get more interest here: !dnd@lemmy.world
Good luck!
- Comment on E Ink goes mobile with budget eye-friendly smartphone 1 week ago:
Screen size: 5.8"
Device size: 6.8"
CPU/SoC: unknownParent company:
Xinruizhi (Shenzhen) Industrial Co., Ltd.
www.xinruizhi-china.com/pages/about-us - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
Problems like those are unavoidable even on today’s Signal, because the service depends on internet peering relationships, internet service providers, mobile network operators, cell service, etc. Oh, and Amazon.
You usually don’t notice them because when any of those components experiences problems too often, affected users tend to get annoyed and switch to a more reliable one. (Also because you don’t expect to receive messages from as many people or as often as you do on Lemmy, so short outages are less likely to affect you at all.)
That would still be true in a distributed Signal, except that users could switch away from Amazon as well. Meanwhile, everyone not using Amazon would still be chatting during such an outage.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
We’re not talking about a distributed app, but a distributed service.
Email.
The web.
The entire internet.
The postal service. - Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
But also prone to problems stemming from that same decentralization.
Exactly what problems do you have in mind?
There is no reason to assume that a distributed incarnation of Signal would have the same design as ActivityPub or Lemmy.
- Comment on ‘There isn’t really another choice:’ Signal chief explains why the encrypted messenger relies on AWS 2 weeks ago:
“The question isn’t ‘why does Signal use AWS?’” Whittaker writes. “It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers.”
To me, this reads like sophistry.
What happened here is a predictable result of Signal’s design. They chose to build a centralized messaging system. This made things significantly easier for them than a distributed design would have been, but it has its drawbacks. Having single point of failure is one of them. (In this case, that single point is Amazon.)
Trying to direct the public’s focus onto cloud providers instead of acknowledging this fundamental shortcoming in their design is, frankly, disingenuous. Especially coming from someone in Whittaker’s position.
While we’re at it, let’s also acknowledge that centralized design in messaging networks are problematic not just because of (un)reliability, as seen here. It’s also a single point of attack for any entity seeking to restrict, shut down, or track people’s communications with each other. End-to-end encryption cannot solve those problems.
- Comment on Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe 5 weeks ago:
cm0002 is effectively a bot account, endlessly re-posting things from .ml instances.
- Comment on Proton Experimental adds fixes for various games not running on CPUs with high core counts 1 month ago:
It’s a rare pleasure to see a big corporation’s interests align with our own.
- Comment on AT&T will listen to your phone calls and block spammers with a new AI-powered tool 1 month ago:
Doesn’t Nomorobo block them without eavesdropping, LLMs, or excessive power consumption?
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 2 months ago:
Finally, you say?
To emphasize that bugs in implementations of floating point arithmetic are far from rare, we mention that the Calculator application in Microsoft Windows 3.1 evaluates f[(2.01 - 2.00) = 0.0.
- Comment on Subnautica 2 studio Unknown Worlds are now suing their former execs for stealing docs and sharing them with the press 2 months ago:
As PCGamer’s Andy Chalk suggests, the suspicion is that the lawyers have picked Unknown Worlds as plaintiff, rather than Krafton, because they think they’ll get more sympathy that way from Johnny Average Gamer.
For good reason. Many of us had never heard of Krafton until we learned about them avoiding payment of the bonuses they promised to the people actually making the game.
- Comment on Wean yourself off of Windows with Linuxfx — I've tried many Linux distros designed to look and feel like Windows, and this is the best one yet 2 months ago:
License: Proprietary
- Comment on LEAKED: A New List Reveals Top Websites Meta Is Scraping of Copyrighted Content to Train Its AI 2 months ago:
Lemmy really hates piracy… in this specific context.
Specifically, Lemmy hates it when corporations profit by using people’s work without permission or payment.
- New Zealand engineers discover process which creates zero-waste battery productionspectrum.ieee.org ↗Submitted 2 months ago to technology@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on According to one source Linux hits over 6% desktop user share 3 months ago:
Here is the source:
It’s under Operating Systems, in the User Device Demographics section, near the bottom of the page. Options are Windows, iOS, Android, Macintosh, Linux, Other.
- Comment on AMD CPU Transient Scheduler Attacks security flaw revealed 4 months ago:
Mitigation for TSA requires a combination of new microcode patches for affected systems as well as updates to OS and hypervisors.
So watch for OS and microcode updates addressing these:
- CVE-2024-36350
- CVE-2024-36357
- Comment on How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Another Lutris advantage: it doesn’t come with all that Electron bloat.
- Comment on How to play games from GOG and Epic Games on Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck 4 months ago:
I’m glad they mentioned Minigalaxy, which looks simpler than Lutris and lighter than Heroic.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games consumer movement hits some major milestones 4 months ago:
A portion of those signatures will turn out to be invalid, so we have to keep going past 1 million if this thing is going to fly. Aiming for 1.4 million might be wise.
- Comment on Fedora Linux devs discuss dropping 32-bit packages - potentially bad news for Steam gamers 4 months ago:
Since Wine 9.0, you can run 32-bit windows apps on 64-bits directly, without the need for 32bits distro support. It’s called WoW64.
You can in some cases, but not all.
There are two forms of WoW64. Old WoW64 uses 32-bit libraries.
New WoW64 (introduced in Wine 9.0) works without 32-bit libraries, but is still incomplete. It cannot yet replace old WoW64 everywhere, and even where it can, it reduces performance in some APIs. (For example, OpenGL.)
It will eventually make sense to drop the old one, but doing so now would be premature.
- Comment on [Official Art] Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Box Art 4 months ago:
I don’t understand. Boxes are physical.
- Comment on [Official Art] Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice Box Art 4 months ago:
You can buy a boxed copy?
- ICE Protests Pop Up on Roblox as Kids Organize Virtual Demonstrations: 'FRICK ICE'www.latintimes.com ↗Submitted 4 months ago to gaming@lemmy.zip | 0 comments
- Comment on Klei Entertainment announced Away Team, a new Oxygen Not Included adventure 4 months ago:
I used to like Klei games. Too bad they sold out to Tencent.
- Comment on Borderlands 2 is temporarily free to grab on Steam, as it continues to be review bombed for non-Randy Pitchford tweet reasons 5 months ago:
When I browsed the Steam reviews yesterday, most of the negative ones were about a new license agreement with onerous terms, and spyware. Those seem like good reasons for bad reviews, IMHO.
- Comment on Invisible Inc spiritual successor Cyber Knights: Flashpoint has released from early access 5 months ago:
Interesting. Invisible, Inc. was fun, but I stopped playing it when the developer sold the company (along with access to our data) to Tencent.
This new game is from Trese Brothers, an independent studio. I might have to give it a try.
- Comment on GOG add support for authenticator apps for two-factor authentication (2FA) 5 months ago:
Looks like it’s standard TOTP. Nice.