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Google employee responds to all the negative feedback WEI, (google drm the web) (github.com)

Hey everyone, thank you for your patience, and thank you to everyone who engaged constructively. It is clear based on the feedback we’ve received that a bigger discussion needs to take place, and I’m not sure my personal repository is the best place to do that - we are looking for a better forum and will update when we have...

PenguinTD ,

Look at the steps we have to go through? Firefox container tabs just for google products, have to switch to DDG as default after every update, have to keep the browser extensions updated, have to use vpn, tried to not use google open auth when register on 3rd party sites, have to clean the cookies regularly, have to click through those cookie settings visiting a site. Oh, and have to go around the amp link when trying to share a searched image/page result.

PenguinTD ,

gaming laptops are pretty much scam anyway, as person “once” fall for such scam.

  • they are really heavy, not really good with travel.
  • they are also power hungry, might be less than your actual tower rig, but significantly more than common "business laptop"
  • the battery won’t last with degradation where you constantly plug it in.( to gain the boosted frequency where you can play games at higher settings/frame rate)
  • your upgrade path is very limited and they won’t have the parts after like 2~3 years.(so anything broken you have to try find it on ebay/amazon/aliexpress)

for portable gaming during travel, your best choice is consoles. So switch, steamdeck, heck, even PS4 slim is better than gaming laptop.(hopefully PS5 pro/slim is made into form for easier box/travel format.)

PenguinTD ,

don’t pick those twitch reflex games, even shooters there are games that does not encourage 360 no scope cause they build in sway to punish quick movement and encourage you to gain position and flank enemy properly via communication.(so if you are under suppression fire your aiming/sway/visual gets so bad it makes no sense to return fire under the effect)

Or, play rocket league cause that game doesn’t need twitch reflex. (source: I am 45yo)

PenguinTD ,

I have to agree with this cause I have run into not a couple but many in recent years where when a proper answer is given, the accepted one despite being flawed or not recommended(Python 2->3 changes for example) anymore, it’s still the highest voted one. And proper answer is in 3rd or 4th place. And it’s where the old r/science shine cause you can properly ask some really specific domain question there and a qualified scientist might just pop up and answer you in detail. ( not that they can’t be wrong, just highly unlikely in current understanding of those topics. )

PenguinTD ,

After reading all the comments, I’m just gonna say that if you don’t allow kids to tinker and do their thing, they will learn a lot slower and your “investment” will be left mostly unused. (age range proper hardware/OS of course.) The school policy is not doing the kids a favor, it’s a waste of time and tax money that you cultivate a generation of people get used to chrome book and google apps. That’s the ultimate purpose for school license being cheaper.

PenguinTD ,

Then don’t link, write your own. Cause most of time it’s just reports that either:

  • copy existing stuff on internet and add journalist’s or editorial’s opinions. Often they lag about 1~2 days.
  • reporting what different level of government agencies’ press releases, these you can find on gov’s press release site.
  • other useless stuff, I mean the celebrity, sports stuff, etc that any “fan” probably already follow their own fan outlet. Any one here goes to news website to search for computer hardware reviews? I don’t think so.
  • scam/marketing articles( embedded marketing pretending to report something but actually is a sales campaign )
  • ads
PenguinTD ,

I wrote the above to the comment mentioned small player can’t pay the link fee to new agencies, be it blog or their own community website etc. It’s targeted to people that actually wanted to write something but does not belong to a new agency. You would still need to link to government or whatever publicly available info as source, that way you don’t fall into a “rumor” site and you can do your own piece at your own pace and investigation. Everyone needs to start somewhere.

We are at the age where the entry to publication is very minimum, but to gain regular viewer/audience is hard. (on top of having to combat AI generated garbage that are search engine optimized. )

Honestly. everyone should “check source” and not blindly read and eat up all the spoon fed stuff, cause many times a article is an influence piece, not a report that just layout the facts and information. From how the agency decides the title, how they quote or present information, and how they know many people don’t actually want to know details and just want to throw upvote or have a fake emotional outlet by complaining in the comments.

PenguinTD ,

Cause people are too lazy to fact check? Like trust some outrageous claims and form cults like anti-vaxxer, flat-earther, etc? That’s an education problem not a blog/new self-publishing problem. Even our news agencies often time present biased information?

Writing your piece doesn’t mean others has to trust you, doesn’t mean you don’t have to cite source directly from government or org press release, if you do investigative piece you have to list your data source and how you get it, that’s the “normal” way. Instead, our news are often linking from one to another and sometimes just refer social media in embeded blocks( which can be changed or taken down if removed api access or account is ban/deleted.)

To be honest, like button or upvote/downvote is probably the worst invention of internet. I can understand how pre-internet propaganda or public psyop worked cause access to information was very limited and slow. And now people have quick access to tons of information but lack the will to fact check or critical thinking is astounding. Like if you see some controversial topic on reddit and see how many people just “follow” the train cause those are most upvoted comments are sickening, all while different opinion gets downvoted to oblivion. Some of the garbage comments make me question the worth of humanity.

A.I. experts downplay ‘nightmare scenario of evil robot overlords’. Over 1,300 sign letter claiming it’s a ‘force for good, not a threat to humanity’ (fortune.com)

In an open letter published on Tuesday, more than 1,370 signatories—including business founders, CEOs and academics from various institutions including the University of Oxford—said they wanted to “counter ‘A.I. doom.’”...

PenguinTD ,

Reminds me community names a pencil Steve and the snaps it, people can get attached to anything really. ie. pet rock

PenguinTD ,

I don’t know why I previous post comments didn’t show up in my profile. But it’s very simple fact that: A regular adult human being have 600 trillion synapses(connections between neurons), it would need to use 64bit int for indexing theses connection and it would cost you ~4.8PB to index these connections. A toddler have way more connections before we trim the unnecessary ones when we get older. It’s freaking impossible for our modern distributed computing to do this efficiently(imagine DDoS your own networks by sending those astronomical amount of data around the section of your virtual brain.)

We do have a very limited scale simulation projects(for medical research etc), and yeah, it’s not get smarter or anything, imagine how stupid regular human can be.

edit: I know you can subsection and index those connections with cluster hierarchy, it would cut some cost but the overhead is also introduced. if the overhead/search time etc is more than the cost of using 64bit index, then using 64bit index is “cheaper”.(trade datasize for look up efficiency.)

PenguinTD ,

I also did the delete post/comment thing with the delete script before api is gone for good. Put up a browser container before even search clicking anything on reddit.(only search for things that still exist, not even logging in.) I only post engage on lemmy now.

PenguinTD ,

I didn’t watch, someone please give a TLDW. Cause I highly suspect this is gonna just be wasting time.

PenguinTD ,

so similar to say, a redditor trying to sound smart by googling and debating another while both has no qualification on that topic, got it.

‘What seemed like science fiction is already here’: why it’s important to talk (seriously) about neurorights (english.elpais.com)

The risk, explains Yuste, is that the same tools which – in medicine – can help improve people’s lives, can also end up violating the information stored in the brain. “Although the roadmap is beneficial, these technologies are neutral and can be used for better or worse,” he notes. This isn’t only about securing...

PenguinTD ,

Nay, not going to accept those cookie policy to just read the content. Bad site design.

PenguinTD ,

I did not see a reject all when viewing the website. (on firefox) I keep clicking around and did not see an option to reject all other than “Accept”.

AI model output quality decreases when trained with AI models (futurism.com)

“Our primary conclusion across all scenarios is that without enough fresh real data in each generation of an autophagous loop, future generative models are doomed to have their quality (precision) or diversity (recall) progressively decrease,” they added. “We term this condition Model Autophagy Disorder (MAD).”...

PenguinTD ,

do we even need to prove this? Like anyone study a bit how generative AI works know it’s not intelligent.

PenguinTD ,

lol, I love rocket league and I can’t deny this, but there is also a thing called confirmation bias as I don’t play other games to verify.(Fighting game for example can be pretty toxic as well.)

Yesterday, I have a casual 2s match where the opponent are really good, they have maybe gc2~3 mechanics(judge from their touches, consistency and boost controls, way better than my usual C3-GC1 encounters) and just trying to get clip shots on me and another random. We were originally doing fine, BUT, for some reason, after they scored the 2nd goal with some flip reset stuff. My random team mate starts to trying to “show off” with ceiling shots and his own flip reset thing. Like I don’t mind if you can actually pull that off. But he mess up or simply not mechanic enough with that which leaves me defending 2 of them with comm, it’s impossible for me to work against 2 GC let along 2 GC2-3. Somewhere after we lost 4-1 and he had a good shot from my blocking a pass, it’s literally just catch and drive up to score cause the opponents are still “falling” from they mid-air prejump stuff. No, he has to score a flip reset so he push to mid boost and then did his setup. You know how fast they can be so by the time he is off wall the opponents are back and one in goal on on wall. Then me just watching him doing his stupid flip reset attempt.

And then he missed the ball, I let out a long “urrrhhhh” sigh in VC don’t know if he hears it or just too shameful, he throws the FF after my sigh and I gladly accepted it. I usually don’t even FF if there is a toxic play on my side cause I like keep them around so they don’t ruin other people’s game, if they quite they eat the ban for 5 mins, so take one for the team I can manage. But I can’t just keep up 1v2 in that situation. And to me that play style is more frustrating than dealing with toxic players.

PenguinTD ,

A regular adult human have 600 trillion synapses( connections between neurons ), so to just record index of these edges needs like 4.3 PB(yep petabytes), it’s not even counting what they do, just the index(cause 32bit int is not enough.) And, just in case you don’t know, toddler have even higher connection count for faster learning until our brain decides that “oh, these connection are not really needed” then disconnect and then save energy consumption. It is really not in our reach yet to simulate a self-aware artificial creature, cause most animals we know that are self-aware have high counts of synapses.

And yes we are attempting those for various reason.

www.humanbrainproject.eu/en/brain-simulation/

Phil Spencer announces Call of Duty deal with PlayStation

“We are pleased to announce that Microsoft and @PlayStation have signed a binding agreement to keep Call of Duty on PlayStation following the acquisition of Activision Blizzard. We look forward to a future where players globally have more choice to play their favorite games.”...

PenguinTD ,

Pull a Titanfall to Apex(bad example but you know what I mean) now you don’t really have a CoD franchise. It’s like Battlefield is no longer the Battlefield we remember, just the names. They can just spin up another franchise “from the legendary CoD developers, blah blah…”, BUT it’s not CoD.

Is there a scene/community of "boot into game" for current CPUs?

I’m looking up for communities or scenes whose purpose is making games that you play from bootup. Not necessarily boot sector games (stuff that has to fit in 512 bytes), but things that would behave much like cartridges in old consoles, where the hardware boots straight into the game....

PenguinTD ,

That era or design is long gone. like even PS2/GameCube have firmware to let you change settings/manage memory cards without game disk. With the variety of hardware you can connect means you need to separate the software layer that talking to hardware’s from the game, thus the operating system. You can turn on GBA for example without a cartridge, but it would kinda just stuck. That’s like the last boot to game device I am aware of.

PenguinTD ,

ahhh, okay, I misunderstood the intention. that would be quite a challenge to design game like this.

PenguinTD , (edited )

there might be hidden ram drives that helps offset some I/O to the slower SSD/sata drives. (Edit: like my Radeon replay buffer I config it to save to Ram instead of to disk, I have 128GB so I can afford keeping those buffers in ram.)

PenguinTD ,

It’s blasphemous to mention heroin and FPS but didn’t name Cate Archer from No One Lives Forever.

PenguinTD ,

It’s fine but I can’t think of a better word to describe even when I am not religious.(not English native speaker.)

PenguinTD ,

Heroine, that’s a big typo. XD

PenguinTD ,

I have a color laser but usually not printing color unless printing pictures.(usually because there are materials my son needs to use with BI, those print with color will be more helpful.)

I agree though we should be able to move to a more digital style. But paper are also still pretty good material to draw/write/play around with. (sometimes I print out the plans for paper craft or paper plane, and it’s fun to do with kids.)

If the color printing is only for school works, then doing it in a printing shop cost less in the long run. (toner is expensive for laser printer as well. )

Instead of "casual" or "ranked" they should just have "play to win" or "play for fun."

Because it doesn’t seem to matter currently if you play ranked games or casual games, the general experience tends to be the same. But one has numbers and things to go with it. You still get people playing to win in casual games and you get people dicking around having fun in ranked games, and the ranks don’t necessarily...

PenguinTD ,

If it’s competitive game you are in there to play for the “win” and fun comes from trying to win for it. ie. if you play a fighting game in none ranked queue to try a new character, you learn nothing while not trying to “win” thus even not-MMR-ranked queue will usually have a hidden one stick to it so you don’t play against players that are too good/bad against you. (yeah, I know the practice landing hit-confim or combo/setups against real human player is a thing and not thinking about winning. BUT the end goal is “winning” with your new tool. )

ranked games are the trying to play at higher level mode where you try to push your skill up and thus can play against higher tier players. And to my opinion, it is also fun and why people grind.

PenguinTD ,

I was also there but it’s not a really good system when scale up. If you are from the same era, and if you did not own a clan server, they can kick you out for whatever reason. (Like killing a mod one too many times.) And for competitive games that really doesn’t work well, that’s why old server has that after round auto balancing mod, it shuffles player around base on how they performed. A fake way to try balance the team. Ie. I was kinda decent capper for 3wave ctf, grenade rocket jump and all that. So if opponent doesn’t have a good sniper or also decent enough capper, I can usually win the game even when our team is a bit short on players. Then when auto balancing come around to balance players, it actually make it less balance.(you also can’t dial it too much that you got spawn camped and thus one side of player just quit to find another server.)

And it also not helping if you go to a clan server and the clan all want to stay on the same team. Which often leads to players go in/out frequently.(that’s why later on GameSpy can even show match status so you can choose to join or not.)

A well managed server pool and MMR system helps resolve all those issues, and scale up really well.

PenguinTD ,

I think the comments I saw on ltt’s review video(here: m.youtube.com/watch?v=2NfvzoDpcSM ) is that you don’t. Since people point out the king kong 2(and pro) have input latency and their face buttons aren’t at the same build quality as first party one.

Input latency(or variance of it) alone would not sit well with me.

PenguinTD ,

even if a meteor hits and wipe out one side of Earth, google(or any big tech’s) data centers around the world would still be functional.

PenguinTD ,

everytime I am tempted at thinking maybe give w11 a try then some news pop up about how badly they put ad in everywhere. :P

PenguinTD ,

honestly if not for DirectX and whatever windows specific thing, I would have use linux for a long time cause I am heavy gamer. I know this version of windows OS is probably experimenting offering stuff that are directly on the cloud(like office/team etc), I don’t see them suddenly throw away local OS market and just let whoever wants to take over. (oh, and all the telemetry data, right? )

PenguinTD ,

I also hope that software companies also move to have better support on linux. (so home/work can all be on more stable OS. ) Using api wrapper isn’t really a good solution.

PenguinTD ,

The common stance against DRM is not the “entitled” part, but to be able to keep playing it even if the companies involved are gone. For games with Denuvo or other DRM there are things like these to consider:

  • the Denuvo company’s server shuts off(whatever reason, blackout, maintenance,etc), your DRM now can’t verify if you have legit copy or not.
  • the game company shuts off, no one left to patch out DRM, your game is in limbo. (cause they have to pay Denuvo to keep the licensing/verification. )
  • your internet went off.(this part depends on game and how often they need to refresh the “valid” token)

With games that have no DRM you have none of the above concerns.

PenguinTD ,

Steam has the stance that it will “release” a version where you just get valid license from the game you purchased and downloaded before they shutoff service should it belly up in the end. Epic does not really have the same thing announced anywhere, but I’d assume similar thing.(Note, Epic has more net worth than Valve, they can afford to shut EGS and still provide EOS/license check almost indefinitely even if they stopped selling games on EGS as a platform.) And it’s why steam has that 3rd party DRM tag/block on games.(I wish EGS has this tag or information as well)

Denuvo is quite different however cause:

  • it’s harder to patch out, and the platform do not have access to those part.
  • it adds additional game breaking point( say if you bought a game that has it and also “always online” you need game company, Denuvo, storefront platform and your internet up to play that game.)

I think steam and epic would have bot that buy and patch out the game’s DRM like day 1 after release, they don’t care cause majority of their user won’t bother downloading shady program from a shady website. The publishers however care and thus we have this issue of them “trusting” Denuvo to shield them from piracy during launch window.

I still vote with wallet and generally only buy single player game after they removed Denuvo or just buy those on PSN, cause I trust platform to last longer than Denuvo.

PenguinTD ,

Yeah, I do believe some of the Denuvo implementation might be good or improved overtime, BUT, I don’t trust publisher or developer to remove it before they moved on to next project. (see some of the capcom games that was on GFWL example). So I just wait until they removed it or buy on different platform(PSN/Nintendo) that I trust won’t vanishes or stop support down the road. It is very tricky for consumer the more “3rd parties” is involved in your purchase.

Creative Good: Why customers don’t want chat bots (creativegood.com)

The author argues that customers do not actually want chat bots for customer service, contrary to what companies claim. Chat bots can only handle simple, routine queries, but for complicated issues customers want to speak to a human representative. Companies are pushing chat bots to reduce costs and increase profits, without...

PenguinTD ,

I like chat bot IF it actually tries to help you and sort through/filter simple DIY support issues. There are some chatbot I think just leading you around the circle or just there to frustrate you so you give up.(basically like the voice command phone menu or waiting queue that auto disconnect you.)

On a side note, if a company/service really like to keep their customer, they should just implement that keep queue place and call back system.

PenguinTD ,

Like how about treating info sec an actual priority, educate good internet behavior(that also avoid scam/phishing), hire professionals to setup the networking of important infrastructures/schools?

PenguinTD ,

Is the bill mandate everything the runs(any program) needs to be decrypted by official? or just program offered by service provider?

Cause if it’s former, then good luck enforcing it as people can just compile and install “extensions” or alternate programs that aren’t from corporations. If it’s later, the corporate needs to open up the encryption by law, but they can also open source the encryption part and make it possible for community that use it to develop their own encryption extension.

I think our modern phone/computer has enough storage to keep more than life’s worth of messages. ie. I have photos/videos dating all the way back to 2009 on google photo and only consumes 11.5GB, with their compression of course. modern phone have 32GB/64GB/128GB storage by default. There really is no need for any corporation to store your “data”, you can encrypt your own things and then upload the encrypted archive to a cloud service for back up. With google reducing the storage capacity, you are gonna need to have alternative back up plans anyway. :)

PenguinTD ,

You don’t need everyone to know how to compile, just enough to do it and can share the compiled one. Like some auto build daily release you can download from github. As long as it does not belong to a company.

PenguinTD ,

Fediverse is not ready yet, that’s for sure, BUT we don’t need it to be “ready” to take on big tech giant backend to be usable user dispersion. IMO, smaller but high quality user that cross critical amount to sustain the community is good enough. I don’t need to engage with another 20k people, I just need to engage with maybe 1~2000 high quality post/comment(not lurkers) in different domains that I am interested in. All the rest can have their own thing and we never really cross each other and that is fine.

What I think Fediverse currently lacking is the following:

  • subscription can be abused, I don’t know the underlying detail, but if one user from small instance sub to another instance that have really big traffic, I guess it won’t deal well with that. There should be ways to tier or tag posts/comments so good informative one can be kept longer, but shitpots, meme, etc can expire quicker and not even archived. We really don’t need to keep all the stuff like tech giants do. (heck, even email provider starts to trim your old emails if your account exceed certain amount of storage(cause 80% is spam/notification mail that no longer serve any purpose.)
  • easier way discover existing community. I really don’t like to checking “All”, search community function is updated to a bit reddit like so it’s really mixed up with post/comment and actual community. And low traffic community can be buried really far down the list. ie. I created Rocket League on lemmy.ca, and periodically searching for another to see if there are better ones. Then I found out there is none and my community link keeps “sinking” in the result list. There needs to have better filter for searching.
  • there should have a say, a common bestof or community of this week community. Which helps with discovery as well. (up to instance admins decision of course.)
  • the web interface can still be improved. One thing that’s very hard to keep track of even on reddit is how the branching thread and responses can be all over the place. It’s still kind like that here on lemmy(but less user make it more bearable. I am not smart and do not have a better alternative, I hope someone can come up with a better more readable one.
PenguinTD ,

And they are also dumb in that situation where people with guns would wear such collar and instead torture you until you spit out the combination. There are no unbreakable lock where the weakest link is human. Human can be fucking nasty in situation like that.

Also, the guards could simply cut off power supply(to the storage/locks) and brute force it to be traditional bunker. Before the overlord wannabe comes to their new hideout.

PenguinTD ,

oh, the teddit thing looks neat, like a perfect backhand slap. good enough to just see and not interacting. I didn’t know how much history on reddit until I run the power delete suite script, it just keeps going. 9 years sure has a lot of stuff on it. XD

PenguinTD ,

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Multiplayer Co-op games

My friends and I have been exhausting our current library of games and are looking for suggestions. It tends to be pretty hard for us to all meet at the same time. Usually we prefer to do stuff that we can finish in one session on the weekends because one person might have to leave as another person joins. Don’t mind if its...

PenguinTD ,

Starship Troopers: Extermination is PvE wave/extraction shooter, from the company that developed Squad. Looks pretty fun but if you are not into that universe nor have enough friends you’d need to rely on other players as well.( basically max 12 players in 3 teams atm.) Warning: early access so if you are not tolerant to EA type of development/update cycle just avoid.

There is a couple other PvE wave/extraction shooter as well, so give them a try.( Just google that term, usually around $30 and could go on sale.)

Rocket League, this one I played since launch and really good game to start before your group all come online and then move on to other games.(since it supports up to 4v4, but usually people only queue 2v2 or 3v3 matches.)

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