Given the “we spared no expense” attitude to the rest of the data these things are trained on, I fear that may be wishful thinking…

Who doesn’t love the smell of raw onions on a first date?

Should be but search for “kwh per hour” and there’s plenty of people who seem confused by it all.

I see DLL Hell is still going strong…

Let me guess.

A bunch of kids who have never seen COBOL before use AI to rewrite it all into a language they also can’t read, do the bare minimum of checks, and then run millions of payments through it.

This from the genius bar whose hard drive “overheated” when they ran a query on 60,000 records.

I assume most Russian GitHub users use a VPN to avoid it. He has chosen not to in order to make a point.

The real worry is what happens when the US declares sanctions on random allies in their stupid “trade war”…

One of their main contributors are in US sanctioned regions (Russia) so they can’t access it.

Yeah, that way nobody will understand it

This is one of the things that make me think the current “fediverse” isn’t going to be its final form. It’s a good stepping stone, but users and communities being locked to a single instance will become a bugbear sooner rather than later.

Oracle.

People put clothes on to go to bed?

I’m going to contradict myself a little, because Vice City is the better game. It’s got an actual story, a great voice cast, helicopter gunships, and the finest soundtrack of any game ever made.

But it was very much built on GTA3. The mind was already blown. It wasn’t going to happen again.

I’m not sure there can ever even be a “best game ever”, but in any case mine is Grand Theft Auto 3.

Picture the scene. You’ve got your shiny PlayStation 2. You’ve got a bunch of games, but honestly, a lot of it could have been done on the PS1 with worse graphics.

And this bad boy drops, and never stops surprising you with all the absolute chaos you can cause. Not much of a story to go on, but the sheer scale of it was amazing. A whole city of driving, slightly wonky shooting and even flying (a bit). It was a game that just felt like the hardware was designed specifically for that.

We were no longer just playing games. We were living in the future. And we’ve never gone back.

The headsets have (if you can stomach Meta). Thanks to the combines efforts of Nvidia, scalpers, crypto-bros and AI-nerds, the hardware cost has been sailing into the distance and shows no sign of stopping.

It took me a long time to get used to VR locomotion.

I still really can’t handle smooth turning at all, but using VRChat a lot (where the teleport movement is terrible) made me get used to the left stick movement at least which is really all you need.

While I really enjoyed Alyx, it’s very much a game built around it’s own limitations. It’s more of a survival horror game in a way, because of the limits on ammo and deliberately mechanical reloading. There’s no melee at all, so once you’re out of bullets you’re done for.

For all the roughness of Half Life 2 VR Mod, I find myself enjoying it more because it has fewer limitations imposed by the move to VR. It doesn’t always work (and the vehicle sections in particular really push it), but as a mod of a 20 year old game, it’s really good.

That’s why I buy them in packs of 50.

Yeah, I think a user shouldn’t just “exist” on a single instance and the same goes for communities.

And at the same time, an instance owner does need to be able to block things from being federated with themselves. You really do not want any CSAM on hardware you own.

It’s tricky to cover everything, and I’m not even going to pretend I’ve got the answers to it.

No, you see where he grew up it was a common expression that meant you drive it yourself!

It couldn’t possibly be expected to mean what any sane person would think.

The fuckin’ Pedo Guy.

It is a problem, but I think it downplays the reason those platforms got popular.

1. No admin required. No updating of software to make sure you’re not going to get compromised by a vuln.

2. No account management. You don’t have to make a new account, and manage another password for every community you use. Also, no worrying about 1 when somebody like me can’t be arsed to update that forum software. I don’t want an account for everything.

3. It’s all in one place. You look at your “feed” of things and your stuff with a new post every week is right there with the stuff with new posts every ten minutes.

If you’re running a big community you shouldn’t be building it somebody else’s garden, but you do need to manage the garden yourself and it’s not super trivial and maybe your little Final Fantasy XIV group can make do with a corner of Discord and abandon it when it goes real shitty. If you’ve got 50,000 people, it gets a little trickier.

The Fediverse goes a little way to fixing things, but it’s all a trade off. Not having corporations involved is a damn good start though.