Yeah, I’m excited for this to be documented. I got burned on Wrath: Aeon of Ruin by this. Fun game but it only has checkpoint saves. You can make checkpoints (from a limited pool) when you want, but only to respawn from if you die. If you turn the game off, it’s back to the beginning of the zone. And each zone (which is basically a boomer shooter mission) can be multiple hours long.

Its basically unplayable for me because I have to clear out an afternoon to beat the whole level in one sitting.

I’m putting my bets on Skyrim Remastered before we see Morrowind or TES6.

Or maybe a skyrim-(or fallout-)based battle royale shooter, i could see that being very likely too.

Further, “Whether another user actually downloaded the content that Meta made available” through torrenting “is irrelevant,” the authors alleged. “Meta ‘reproduced’ the works as soon as it made them available to other peers.”

A “peer” in bittorrent is someone else who is downloading the same file as you. This is opposed to a “seeder” which is also a peer but is only sending data, no longer receiving.

You don’t have to finish the file to share it though, that’s a major part of bittorrent. Each peer shares parts of the files that they’ve partially downloaded already. So Meta didn’t need to finish and share the whole file to have technically shared some parts of copyrighted works. Unless they just had uploading completely disabled, but they still “reproduced” those works by vectorizing them into an LLM. If Gemini can reproduce a copyrighted work “from memory” then that still counts.

Now, to be clear, fuck Meta but also fuck this argument. By the same logic, almost any computer on the internet is guilty of copyright infringement. Proxy servers, VPNs, basically any compute that routed those packets temporarily had (or still has for caches, logs, etc) copies of that protected data.

I don’t think copyrights and open global networks are compatible concepts in the long run. I wonder which the ruling class will destroy first? (Spoilers, how “open” is the internet anymore?)

I’m guessing this is Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton?

Feels like a “so close to the answer” kind of statement that veers wildly wrong because of the false metaphor employed at the beginning.

Low populations are bad for evolution, actually.

And why wouldn’t that be true? Larger population means more opportunity for mutation, more chances to evolve. Larger pops are usually more spread out, which means more diverse environments, which means varied pressures for selection, which means more diversity and more evolution.

Island species are ideally suited to test the nearly neutral theory. Both the colonization process involved in their evolution and the limited ranges offered by islands contribute to reduced effective population size, and we can expect drift to be a major force in their evolution. With this in mind, Leroy and colleagues4 investigated the genomic diversity of 14 island and 11 continental songbird species (Figure 1). They found that island birds are genetically less diverse than continental congeners and have smaller effective population size; they harbour a higher proportion of harmful mutations, and less beneficial mutations reached fixation over the course of their evolution.

So the metaphor is misleading and leads to bad conclusions. The internet should, and did, cause a huge burst of innovation as globally isolated people were able to connect and exchange ideas for the first time. Multiple new genres of music, film, writing, and games have been the evolutionary descendents of this early-internet swapping of “memetic material.”

If it seems like thats died off now, its because the internet isn’t a wild place of free evolution and innovation anymore. Like the natural world, it has been colonized by monied-interests who have monocultured it because thats simpler to understand and control from the top down, which is how the rich on top like it.

When you play a “brass” style instrument (trumpet, tuba, trombone, didgeridoo, vuvuzela, etc) you don’t just blow into it, you press your lips together like for a kiss, and then buzz them. If you do a small, very fast and tight buzz, you get high pitched notes. If you do a looser, flappier buzz, you get low notes. Most people can get about 3 to 5 notes this way, which is why most brass instruments have slides or valves to adjust the airflow and change the note further.

Funny enough for calling this a sax-hybrid, saxophones and other woodwind instruments use a small piece of flat wood called a reed to create the vibrations needed for notes. These mostly only make one note though, which is why sax, flute, clarinet, and so on need so many buttons.

Yeah, I just took a phone screenshot off Instagram, which is where he hosts the comic. So it picked up some UI crud. I hate IG, no way to download photos to your phone, among many other flaws.

Without pointless censorship: (did you know you can fucking cuss all goddamn day on Lemmy?)

How i feel about self-censorship to appease corporate social media:

Cool! Dopplar effect! What’s he say at the end, “shock?”

I’m happy to unveil that ive fully moved off FF and onto various forks of it.

Can you imagine how great software would be if we had UBI? No one would need advertising money to stay viable, and every developer could just make whatever they wanted or what felt important to them.

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.

Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren’t meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.

The YouTube algorithm has been real weird lately. It suggested a video to me and I had no idea why until now. I watch a lot of Doom stuff, so it wasn’t off base, I just didn’t have context for it.

It’s Coincident (the streamer this is about) commenting over a “lost” demo of Okuplok playing the map themselves. Spoiler: they do not finish it! But it was neat hearing Coincident discuss his own strategies for the map in comparison to how the creator (allegedly) approached it.

https://youtu.be/BgX2-RoAvHw

I’ll have to watch the actual stream now I guess!

I’ve had the same experience with locally running DeepSeek. It works pretty well as fancy auto complete, saves some time on repetitive code. But it also takes quite a while to spin up at times, and its suggestions are often either: nonsense, literally something I typed elsewhere on the page, or subtly wrong (missing something, adding extraneous variables, hallucinating functions, etc).

Asking it to write new code or build out an algorithm has been a mixed bag. Sometimes it knows enough to sketch out the barebones for me, but other times it gets hung up on some detail or the concept is “too large” and it just runs around in circles.

I find it quite funny how it will suggest the most inane comments though, it really is like having a troublesome junior dev around. Like if you left the cursor over a basic function like get-first-name(id) then it’ll suggest comments like “// Gets the first name of the customer by ID from the database.” Which… maybe it does that, I probably would have guessed that from the signature but its funny that it also would assume that. It makes my point for me that most comments are linter-appeasing trash.

I just don’t find hexbear as a whole to be that objectionable. They defederated from everyone for a while during their whole DNS debacle, and I missed them! It’s a very active instance that posts a lot of news and memes.

And if we’re basing this on which instances have more annoying users, well I have a lot more users from discuss.tchncs.de blocked than hexbear. Not to call them out either, but I think it’s… intolerant to act like a whole instance is poison because their standards and rules allow for types of people I don’t want to interact with. Obviously stuff like CSAM or Nazi shit is a red line, but if some users having objectionable politics is grounds for ostracizing an instance, how has lemmy.world survived this long?

There are a few possibilities for how the universe ultimately functions:

• Determinism - under determinism, every event is the direct-and-only-possible outcome of the causes that preceded it. Everything that is or occurs is ultimately due to the unfolding conditions initially set by the big bang. What set those conditions though?
• Stochasticism - everything is, at root, random. If QM effects don’t directly impact the macro world (is an electrons “choice” of up or down spin a butterfly’s wings upon the larger system it entangles into?), then at the very least the initial conditions of the Big Bang were randomly set.
• Super-determinism - not only is everything deterministic, but so are seemingly stochastic processes. Maybe there are infinite universes with every possible starting condition? Maybe every quantum event splits the multiverse onto various paths were each possible outcome is taken? (This is basically what I believe.)
• Will - there exists an object which can “choose” things without any calculation process. It simply “decides” something, but this isn’t a random process. It will usually choose the same outcome giving the same coniditons, but not always so it isn’t a purely deterministic object either. We have to treat this like an Oracle, that is mathematically, it’s a thing that spits out answers but has no internal process we can understand. This object could be God (divine will) or something inside some or all acting beings in the universe (free will).

This problem with Will is that it’s undefinable. Look at the axioms most mathematicians use: ZFC, the (Z)ermello-(F)ranco axioms plus ©hoice. We can do math with or without Choice, both make sense, but we can’t prove that you need it or not. And the axiom of choice is purist expression of Free Will that I know of: either you are allowed to have some undefined means of selecting one item from (possibly infinite) sets, or you must have a definite (calculable) means of choosing. Free will, or determinism? Even math can’t decide!

Physically Based Rendering (the freely available book) won its authors a special Academy award in 2014. That book is still the teaching standard for ray tracing so far as I know. In the intro, they discuss Pixar adding ray tracing (based on pbrt) to their RenderMan software in the early 2000s.

A Bugs Life and TS2 could have benefit from some of that, but I’d guess Monsters Inc was the first full outing for it, and certainly by Nemo they must have been doing mostly ray tracing.

🐍: Anything you share with me is strictly confidential! (Doctor-patient privilege)

I used to work in a computer lab, open plan, where we all had CRTs. I sat across from the main DB admin, who had TWO monitors for all the work he was doing (wild stuff to have dual CRTs back in those days.) Due to the layout, my monitor sat in-between his, facing the opposite way of course. I loved degaussing my monitor because:

1. It would degauss both of his and
2. The EM fields were so strong between them that my monitor’s image would flip entirely upside down before snapping back into frame while making just the craziest electronic noises, colors dancing all over the screen. Gorgeous stuff! I wonder if anyone has tried to recreate a degaussing effect using shaders to simulate the process?

I think war hammer gives you the most versatility as a weapon, and flanged mace is my favorite for style, but my heart belongs to the quarterstaff, as it long has. Defense and offense and its a big stick!

It’s amazing how much still gets through, but at least I’m not scrolling past a dozen “news” stories between every meme or comic post.

Well, I guess they aren’t a sea krait anymore, blabber mouth!