[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 3 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

These things are like arguing about whether or not a pet has feelings...

I'd say it's far more likely for a cat or a dog to have complex emotions and thoughts than for the human made LLM to actually be thinking. It seems to me like the nativity of human kind that we even think we might have created something with consciousness.

I'm in the camp that thinks the LLMs are by and large a huge grift (that can produce useful output for certain tasks) by virtue of extreme exaggeration of the facts, but maybe I'm wrong.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 41 points 1 day ago

The concerning thing is... I can't tell if you're joking.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

A problem I've personally run into is a lot of reviews focus entirely on MTX/monetization and this can turn into a fun game getting thrown through the floor because the corporate side decided to put in a bunch of optional purchases.

I'm not saying monetization doesn't matter ... but sometimes I really don't care ... like Lego 2K Drive has a bunch of MTX bricks I'm never going to use and the option to grind them out with a lot of play time (another thing I'm not going to bother with). Those reviews almost definitely really hurt the sales of the game (which I did end up getting and it's actually quite solid in terms of PC kart racing) and probably killed any chance of it ever living up to its potential.

Artifact Classic (the card game by Valve) also got review bombed to hell about monetization (and that one I get a little bit more because you had to buy card packs) ... but if you actually play the game (and you can for free now with all cards unlocked)... I found it to be a really fun card game. I and all my friend stopped playing when Valve announced they were just going to redo the whole thing... I suspect a lot of people did the same thing which caused the chain reaction of "nobody's playing our game... this looks hopeless..." and the eventual abandonment of both the original game and the rework Artifact Foundry (which I ... didn't particularly care for). The people I know that knew about the game that didn't get the game said the negative reviews basically immediately disqualified the game from consideration for them.

They're probably not talking about using git, since git is decentralized by nature. You can use git without an Internet connection and then sync everything back up when you have an internet connection again.

Some people literally call GitHub, git and ... they're just wrong.

They also might be talking about review and project management facilities GitHub provides as a service.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 25 points 1 day ago

The WW II US rail network is loonnnnggggg gone and doesn't really have any effect on the modern day. What remains is mostly freight rail run by a few oversized rail corporations... and they're surely in no hurry to abandon their diesel engines.

There's also not huge political pressure because rail is already a very efficient way to transport goods. Spreading rail would have better effects than electrifying rail.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 1 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Just because there's a "rule" that exists somewhere in the abstract, that doesn't mean folks should assail people for innocent mistakes. It's also not a rule of this community. It's not a rule of the instance this community is a part of. It's most definitely not a rule of "the platform."

In fact, these the W3C (the body most people are seemingly citing as a source for rules) isn't even calling their "rules", rules. They call them "guidelines" https://www.w3.org/WAI/standards-guidelines/.

Ya, I'm colorblind, but you're probably not and you probably didn't think about it. You're just some random person on the internet, you've probably got plenty of other things to worry about than hunting down the latest WC3 publication on accessibility.

To be clear, I do let folks know if there's a chart I'm interested in reading that I can't read, try to give feedback about colorblind relevant stuff, etc. (literally last night I was on the Deadlock forums giving Valve accessibility feedback). I just do it in a "matter of the fact" fashion and try to explain what I'm struggling with rather than with an attitude and command that they change something without any context.

I actually didn't realize their was support for alt-text. The clients I've used the few times when I've posted images ... I don't recall even prompting for alt text.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 5 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

I'm colorblind for what it's worth and I don't go around yelling at people for making badly colored charts I can't understand in the rudest way possible.

The image captures the web page design / the cookie banner, it's more than "just the words" so for a non-blind person "just post the text" is actually arguably a downgrade.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

It's truly crazy how much our information gets shared these days and how long it lingers.

My house spent a few years as a rental. I still get mail from people who haven't lived here in over a decade (despite deliberate efforts to stop it).

My grandpa signed up for ever "store card" you can imagine to get all the deals and rewards programs. His landline virtually never stops ringing... On August 5th alone he got, no joke, 43 spam calls (I have his landline hooked up to Jolly Roger Telephone to try and filter some of this out and help him out, so I'm forming that statistic off of the emails from them).

It's completely ridiculous and all of it needs to stop.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 8 points 2 days ago

Is it really so hard to ~~copy and paste the text~~ look at the image? Down voted. Don't do that again.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 25 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

They tried to block Telegram before and Telegram staged a counter offensive with proxies that kept them online in Russia and made the Kremlin look like fools as they broke the Internet in some places trying to block Telegram.

AFAIK Telegram has much higher market share in Russia. Keep in mind it's easier for an authoritarian to "flex" and block smaller fish.

[-] Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg 9 points 3 days ago

Another interesting pattern is that they don't make games to tell stories. This has always been a misconception since Half-life has such massive following over the story, and hurt over unfinished plots. But if you check closely, those games where never about the story. Usually Valve makes something with a fun mechanic to play, then they work on writing a creative and cool story/dialogue around that gameplay. Never the other way around. 99% of their games are about gameplay, if you stripped all flavor text, voice dialogue and art from Portal it would still be a solid and extremely fun puzzle game.

I think you've just uncovered why I like valve games so much 😅

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Hi folks, what sorts of things have you been doing on destiny lately? What are you finding fun?

I thought the new campaign was good, but I'm increasingly finding it difficult to put time into Destiny post campaign. The gunplay is still great but ... the game has felt repetitive and little frustrations like ambiguity about how you get the new exotic class items just really are getting on my nerves. I spent probably 4 hours today redoing the same overthrow and feeling to get the wizards to spawn.

I don't mean for this to be a negative post, but yeah; what do you enjoy about Destiny the most in 2024? Anyone here having similar feelings about the game?

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/usnews@beehaw.org

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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TikTok’s Pro-China Tilt (www.nytimes.com)
submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/news@lemmy.world

The times dives into an intelligence report on how TikTok's political algorithm anomalies align with the CCP's Geostrategic Objectives https://networkcontagion.us/wp-content/uploads/A-Tik-Tok-ing-Timebomb_12.21.23.pdf

This report highlights major differences in the prevalence of hashtags related to subjects like Hong Kong Protests, Tainanmen Square, Tibet, the South China Sea, Taiwan, Uyghurs, Pro-Ukraine, and Pro-Isreal when compared to other major social media platforms.

Additionally the times cited a Wall Street Journal analysis (https://www.wsj.com/tech/tiktok-israel-gaza-hamas-war-a5dfa0ee) which "found evidence that TikTok was promoting extreme content, especially against Israel. (China has generally sided with Hamas.)"

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I thought this was a nice summary. I haven't been on in a while so I haven't seen the changes first hand. How are folks liking them?

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submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by Dark_Arc@social.packetloss.gg to c/linux@programming.dev

Hi all,

I'm visiting a relative that has a Google WiFi system with multiple access points. There's an access point literally right next to me that I can see in the KDE BSSID list with 100% connection strength.

For some reason, it's instead picking a BSSID with only 60% strength. Does anyone have any thoughts on why it's choosing this access point instead of one of the others? Is this something the Google WiFi controls/suggests to the laptop, is something bugged, or is there a good reason Linux might be choosing this particular access point?

EDIT: It turns out the access point placement was actually just really bad, and the access point in question was not even making it to the rest of the LAN... The speed difference between my phone and laptop seems to be just that, something to do with a difference between the framework and the Pixel's wireless cards (or drivers). Even with everything corrected, the Pixel is significantly out performing the framework.

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Regarding Recent Varlamore Leaks (secure.runescape.com)

(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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Defender of Varrock (secure.runescape.com)

(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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(A catch up post ... the bot was broken by my instance upgrading to Lemmy 1.19, fixed now!)

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Why was my post "Plans 50% For a Limited Time" post (https://lemmy.world/post/7756292) down voted so heavily without comment? It was an official news announcement on (a pretty good deal) from Standard Notes themselves.

I've never seen a reaction like this from any other lemmy community.

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Plans 50% For a Limited Time (standardnotes.com)
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