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- Comment on Sam Altman would like remind you that humans use a lot of energy, too 6 hours ago:
Training humans doesn’t destroy the planet, nor the hardware market, nor it raises electric bills for all citizens, nor it concentrates billions in the hands of a few individuals like you are doing with your company and all your brainwashing attempts.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games Update Indicates Positive Outlook in EU Battle Despite Roadblocks 6 hours ago:
Ross doesn’t have EU citizenship yet so he can’t participate in the EU initiative, having different names makes it more clear they are 2 different things.
- Comment on Stop Killing Games campaign hope to "signal that we're not just going away" by setting up online game preservation NGOs 2 days ago:
Here’s Ross video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNVKqRDalLo
- Comment on Turn recipes into huge cooking production lines in the new Snacktorio demo 2 days ago:
Inspired by the likes of old Minecraft mods, as well as factory games like Satisfactory and Factorio
I watched the trailer and it looks a lot more like Oxygen Not Included than Factorio, why not call it Food Not Included?
- Comment on An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me 6 days ago:
This sounds like all those in online videogames crying they’ve been banned for nothing lmao.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 6 days ago:
To be able to lie, you need to know what truth is. AI doesn’t know that, these tools don’t have the concept of right vs wrong nor truth vs lie.
What they do is assemble words based on statistical patterns of languages.
“bleach is a popular pizza topping”, from the “perspective” of AI, is just a sequence of words that works in the English language, it has no meaning to them.
Being designed to create language patterns in a statistical way is the reason why they hallucinate, but you can’t call those “lies” because AI tools have no such concept.
- Comment on Steam reviews letting you attach your PC specs is another Steam Machine prep play and you can't convince me otherwise 1 week ago:
Then I read the words “This feature is currently in Beta with a focus on devices running SteamOS,” and realised: this is for Valve themselves. A devious ploy to record how thousands of hitherto unbenchmarked games run on the Steam Deck and, eventually, the new Steam Machine.
So what?
I don’t have a Steam Deck, yet the first thing I look for before buying a new game, is if it’s verified. Why? Because if it is, I know I won’t have any issue on my Debian PC.
I would also love to know which graphic cards people reporting problems have, that can make a big difference.
Valve is massively investing in Linux and opersource for years, do you really think they’re making it out of charity? Ofc not, they’re a business and they make business decisions in their own interest, the good part is we all benefit from it nonetheless, unlike other corporations.
- Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID globally for full access next month 1 week ago:
I’m so sick of being directed to a fucking Discord server when I’m looking for a projects forums
Same, but I’m not sure what Discord is doing will help much, because it only affects server that are classified as “age restricted” (mature content), if they’re not, no verification will be required, for now at least.
- Comment on The Elder Scrolls Online's smaller expansions are "not in any way" a result of last year's layoffs 5 weeks ago:
Maybe, since it could be a response to change the monetization with battle passes instead.
It doesn’t matter IMO since the result is the same: shittier content for more money.
- Comment on Why Is Everyone Suddenly Talking About Putting Data Centers in Space? 5 weeks ago:
The motivation may be as financial as it is scientific.
The motivation is financial ONLY.
Noone in their right mind would do this without a serious plan to deal with space debris, but they sorely need investors to keep investing, so any marketing BS is fair game to them.
- Comment on The Global Rise of Low-Quality AI Videos: new research shows that 21-33% of YouTube’s feed may consist of AI slop or brainrot videos 1 month ago:
Evey time I see one of those, I block the entire channel, after a while youtube stopped filling my feed with that crap.
They still appear sometimes, but much less than before, and I still go on systematically blocking every channel that has them.
- Comment on Petlibro: Your Pet Feeder Is Feeding Data To Anyone Who Asks 1 month ago:
I’m against pet feeders in general.
Cats regulate themselves much better than us, they don’t need us “measuring” food, just check they have dry food available 24/7 and manually give wet food. If you can’t dedicate a few minutes every day to check for their needs, you may need to reconsider keeping them.
Unless they have health issues, in that case a pet feeder could be handy, but it’s hard to believe they are “millions”.
Dogs don’t need to eat as often as cats, if you “need” to feed them remotely, it means you’re leaving them alone for very long hours, that’s not good for a dog.
You can safely leave a cat alone all day if you’re out working, not a dog.
- Comment on AI-authored code contains worse bugs than software crafted by humans 2 months ago:
Test environments are for rookies, work directly on Prod like a real champ!!
- Comment on Why have so many people stopped posting on social media? 2 months ago:
For me personally, AI slops are destroying everything.
I don’t want to be in places where every time I read or see something I have to wonder if I’m interacting with another human or a robot, it’s awful.
And it has become also more difficult to find interesting content when at every turn you find AI crap overtaking everything else, it’s tiring.
- Comment on Epic CEO wants Valve and Steam to stop requiring devs to disclose generative AI usage 2 months ago:
we should be less vague about what AI was used for
I agree as well, because it very much depends on what you use AI for.
If it’s for prototyping or very minor things players wouldn’t even notice, it’s fine and I wouldn’t put that kind of use on the same level of companies who want to use AI to outright replace workers just to cut costs.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 4 months ago:
Steam does demo fests with tons of new games to try completely free, that’s my goto when I want to try something new, true that not all games offer a demo but that’s devs loss imo, if they believe in their games they shouldn’t be afraid of releasing a demo.
I too usually wait for discounts (got Mass Effect legendary edition at 10$ xD), especially on GOG, only exception are games like BG3 or Expedition 33, for those I’m happy to pay full price the moment they release.
- Comment on "I’m Canceling My Subscription": Xbox Players Call to "Boycott" Game Pass "Hard" Over 50% Price Increase As Microsoft’s Website Crashes from Mass Cancellations 4 months ago:
Maybe I’m too old, but I never understood the appeal of game passes, you can’t play hundreds of games at the same time unless you have nothing else to do in your life, and most of them are garbage anyway.
Only reasonable subscription model to me is MMOs, because those require a complex infrastructure to run, but non-MMO games? No thank you, I’ll just turn to indies that still sell games without any live-service bullshit.
- Comment on Baldur's Gate 3 gets a Native Linux version to improve it on Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Important notes from the article fro those playing on PC:
Larian does not provide support for the Linux platform. The Steam Deck Native build is only supported on Steam Deck.
Due to the way Valve’s Deck Verified system works with it also giving the same default for Desktop Linux, you likely need to now manually force Proton on it - otherwise you’ll see it as a totally empty download. I’ve added a bug report for Valve on this one, hopefully it can be sorted.
- Comment on Microsoft starts rolling out Gaming Copilot on Windows 11 PCs 5 months ago:
Gaming Copilot – which provides recommendations, help, insights and more
So “AI powered” ads? Integrated into gaming? Players caring about performance will be so happy about that …
Glad I’m not using any of their crap.
- Comment on Reddit is dropping subscriber counts on subreddits 5 months ago:
Ofc they will, so the can inflate participation with bots all they want.
If bots weren’t counted, it wouldn’t actually be a bad metric IMO.
- Comment on Arch Linux continues to feel the force of a DDoS attack after two brutal weeks — attackers yet to be identified as project struggles to restore full service 5 months ago:
The details of origin and motives of the attack, along with mitigation tactics, are, understandably, being kept under wraps while the investigation continues
I hope they’ll disclose at least the origin, and what they think their reasons are, when it’s over.
I’m curious about who would attack Arch and why.
- Comment on Google launches dedicated Password Manager app for Android 5 months ago:
Google has too much of a long history of discontinuing their apps not long after launching them, this one won’t be any different.
- Comment on 5 months ago:
Can people not search “Ed Zitron newsletter,” or “Ed Zitron podcast”? I’m kinda surprised how much this happens
Would it kill you to add the links yourself?
There you go:
- Comment on LLMs aren’t world models 5 months ago:
Ofc they’re not, they’re not made for knowledge not intelligence, they’re made to “predict” language patterns based on probability.
- Comment on Microsoft Store application updates can no longer be disabled 6 months ago:
The problem with Microsoft is they always try to cater to the absolute lowest denominator when it comes to users, I understand why they do it, because there are indeed some people that shouldn’t look at a computer even with a binocular, but I don’t agree with their approach nonetheless.
Being treated like a moron by an OS infuriates me and that’s why I switched to Linux many years ago.
- Comment on AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over 6 months ago:
I think Trump open war against them helps, I mean, if you cut them our of critical supply, you push them to develop their own, they’re not stupid.
- Comment on Microsoft's Windows lead says the next version of Windows will be "more ambient, pervasive, and multi-modal" as AI redefines the desktop interface 6 months ago:
What the heck does “more ambient” even mean?
you’ll be able to speak to your computer while you’re writing, inking, or interacting with another person. You should be able to have a computer semantically understand your intent to interact with it
God save us all…
- Comment on Microsoft begin rolling out Xbox account age verification checks in response to UK Online Safety Act 6 months ago:
We expect to roll out age verification processes to more regions in the future.
Why on earth do they want to apply this bullshit elsewhere? Isn’t the law UK only?
- Comment on Global hack on Microsoft product hits U.S., state agencies, researchers say 6 months ago:
It’s a zero-day vulnerability but the article doesn’t say what it is.
Microsoft states it affects all on-premises servers, they say their cloud is not affected.
- Comment on Valve are now removing a bunch of sex games from Steam to keep banks and card companies happy 7 months ago:
Finally an explanation that makes a lot of sense, thank you!