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Sounds like corporate right now. Had a meeting earlier and it wasn’t even focused on AI, but I heard it enough times to make my ears bleed.

I think it largely depends on what kind of AI we’re talking about. iOS has had models that let you extract subjects from images for a while now, and that’s pretty nifty. Affinity Photo recently got the same feature. Noise cancellation can also be quite useful.

As for LLMs? Fuck off, honestly. My company apparently pays for MS CoPilot, something I only discovered when the garbage popped up the other day. I wrote a few random sentences for it to fix, and the only thing it managed to consistently do was screw the entire text up. Maybe it doesn’t handle Swedish? I don’t know.

One of the examples I sent to a friend is as follows, but in Swedish;

Microsoft CoPilot is an incredibly poor product. It has a tendency to make up entirely new, nonsensical words, as well as completely mangle the grammar. I really don’t understand why we pay for this. It’s very disappointing.

And CoPilot was like “yeah, let me fix this for you!”

Microsoft CoPilot is a comedy show without a manuscript. It makes up new nonsense words as though were a word-juggler on circus, and the grammar becomes mang like a bulldzer over a lawn. Why do we pay for this? It is buy a ticket to a show where actosorgets their lines. Entredibly disappointing.

I’m personally running on Librewolf, it strips out the Mozilla BS and gives you fairly strict default privacy settings. It’s sad that the free and open web is skating on thin ice.

Nope. That’s still chromium based and further serves Google’s monopoly on the web platform.

The same thing that’s stopping pedophiles today of course.

Yes, they’re gearing up to sell your data.

“I wrote an email to Google to say, ‘you have access to my computer, is that right?’”, he added.

lmao right, because the support person they reached, if indeed they even spoke to a person at all, would know and divulge the sources they train on. They may think that all their research is private but they’re making use of these tech giant services. These tech giants have blatantly showed that they’re OK with piracy and copyright infringement to further their goals, why would spying on research institutions be any different?

If you want to give it a run for its money, give it a novel problem that isn’t solved, and see what it comes up with.

I think that’s just the norm of modern day gaming. The goal is to have a wide audience and so in order to facilitate that they make the games as approachable as possible.

I recently bought two games that got a fair amount of negative reviews for lacking a tutorial. Hyper Light Breaker which is in early access understandably doesn’t have much of a tutorial. It does give you a general direction, and it feels more or less like any other roguelike I’ve played (which admittedly isn’t many). It wasn’t hard to pick up and I don’t really get why it would need more of a tutorial than what it has.

Mind Over Magic is a management sim akin to RimWorld. It also doesn’t really have a tutorial, but all of the information is in there and not very hard to discover yourself. The game will give you plenty of hints as you encounter challenges, and there’s a comprehensive in-game codex with all the information you could possibly want.

I don’t think either game is unapproachable. There’s trial and error involved in both. You might fail a few times doing things, but you learn and next time around you’ll do better.

Perhaps people have forgotten what that’s like. Maybe that’s something some people genuinely don’t like. I don’t know.

People can call me a shill if they want. I was curious when I first tried Kagi, but sceptical, but now I’m really happy. It’s fun to see new features make it on there, and more than anything I love that I can make the search engine work for me instead of having to faff about trying to phrase stuff in a way where I can coax what I want out of it.

If I hate a particular website, I’ll just block it and never see it again. It’s so simple. The new “AI generated” tags on images is nice, and I hope we can see something similar for websites at some point too. Maybe flag sites that are known to use LLMs for garbage accumulation. There might already even be a blocklist for that.

Yeah, don’t ask tech people to name things. Microsoft has like 500 different things called “Razor.”

Get off Google. There are alternatives, Qwant, Startpage, whatever floats your boat. I swapped to Kagi and honestly haven’t looked back.

Oh my gods, the mess that is Teams. When I first started working at my current company I was kind of excited because all of the software just works together. It felt novel, and I was enchanted by it. That quickly died when I realised that it makes finding anything a nightmare. There’s a billion different tabs and solutions for every single individual thing, and even multiple things within the same project. I think the main project I work on has like fifteen different test documents, and good luck trying to find the documentation for pushing stuff live! The only real way to find things is to ask someone who knows. There’s half a billion different search bars and finding the right one is just way too time consuming.

It’s bad because the company is bad and they should collapse, not continue on.

Yeah, forums please. I hate the idea of troubleshooting information being locked behind some stupid software we can’t easily index and search. Forums can be put on archive.org, you can literally print a page, or save it as a PDF for reviewing later. You can make use of bookmark software like Linkwarden to archive things.

Discord? Not so much. You can use third party software to scrape it and save information, but no search engine can index it. Community building is great, but I loathe having to trawl through tonnes of blithering blathering conversation BS just to figure out where to find firmware for a particular chip I have is.

Makes me want to projectile vomit all over the place, throw my computer out the window, and move to convent.

I did something similar just the other day.

As a kid I really enjoyed Populous The Beginning. I only ever had the demo version. I later bought the game on GOG, but it never ran that well on my computer. You had to use software based graphics acceleration so it didn’t look right, would have issues with the sound, and crash fairly often.

Tried it through Lutris the other day and it just works. Flawlessly. The graphics look right, there are no audio distortions, and so far I’ve not crashed at all. I’d like to figure out how to get it to run in windowed mode, and then I’ll be satisfied.

Big win for WINE.

Depending on what you aim to do, Matrix works well enough. Reminds me a lot of Discord back in 2017 or so.

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Someone has drunk the koolaid. What makes you think that anything Sweeney pushes would lead to fairer competition and not just skew things in favour of Epic?

He’s not different. He’s just playing the underdog.