Hazzard

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[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 75 points 5 months ago (5 children)

For sure, valid to fear the enshittification of steam. But they aren't killing proton. Maybe ignoring proton at worst. But Steam has profit motivations for not being reliant on Windows, which has actively been trying to supplant them with the Windows Store for years.

As another separate, profit-motivated company, with a gaming division and a lot to gain from eating Steam's lunch, Microsoft is not Steam's friend. Proton is a critical bargaining tool for them, and not having to include windows licenses for devices like the Steam Deck helps their costs too.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 33 points 5 months ago (6 children)

Yeah, my first thought as well was that "pulling up" would be pulling the steering wheel back, which wouldn't do anything. Certainly wouldn't swerve the car all the way off the road, you wouldn't want to jerk a plane left or right in that scenario either.

So... definitely made up. But still an amusing greentext.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 5 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

Asahi Linux is a project to get Linux running on M-series macs, which has taken a bunch of difficult reverse engineering, since Apple doesn't really provide public documentation on how they work.

Running Linux means they can run steam games like a Linux machine. This is a pretty impressive landmark in terms of their OpenGL rendering support.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 4 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Hahaha, no worries, sorry for coming at ya so hard!

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 28 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Fiction is fiction. This is the same kind of logic that adults used when I was a kid because Harry Potter promoted witchcraft, or when the country had a moral panic because Call of Duty had their children killing people. Nothing in the game literally advocates for or glorifies IRL slavery, that would be absurd.

If you can't parse fiction from reality, then you aren't fit for just about anything. Movies, music, video games, books, etc. Every medium frequently depicts things you shouldn't emulate. Even the literal Bible has depictions of slavery, rape, incest, and murder.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 16 points 7 months ago

I don't necessarily disagree that we may figure out AGI, and even that LLM research may help us get there, but frankly, I don't think an LLM will actually be any part of an AGI system.

Because fundamentally it doesn't understand the words it's writing. The more I play with and learn about it, the more it feels like a glorified autocomplete/autocorrect. I suspect issues like hallucination and "Waluigis" or "jailbreaks" are fundamental issues for a language model trying to complete a story, compared to an actual intelligence with a purpose.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 3 points 7 months ago

Same honestly. And if I ever ask a question that someone might think is a duplicate, I link to that question and say something like "I found X, but the answers here don't reflect Y".

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Honestly, would still be nice to have, for how much Xbox controllers are the de facto controller on PC as well.

Lots of games there between steam input, emulators, etc, where it just feels odd to not have that gyro in what's otherwise a very premium controller (I'm using the Elite controller). It's my favourite controller hands down, and yet I consider using my Switch Pro Controller just for gyro in some titles.

And yeah, better to lay that groundwork now for the next generation than miss out on it entirely.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 1 points 10 months ago

Eh, that's a mixed bag. Absolutely, one could setup shared delete requests, to federate a delete request, but it would be a bit of a lie as anyone could simply.... update their instance to simply ignore delete requests.

For now, simply not having a delete feature is a more honest to the realities of the fediverse. There'll never be a "true" delete, even if they do eventually support one that's "good enough".

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Yeah, similar experience. The only game I tried was basically a web version of state.io, which was already a free app anyway, but instead I got to play a worse version in YT that made my phone burning hot. Cool.

I actually did enjoy it, so I just... downloaded the real app and never booted a game via YT again.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 2 points 10 months ago

Ah, well that niceness was much shorter lived than expected. Oh well, my VPN will continue to block the ads anyway.

[–] Hazzard@lemm.ee 7 points 10 months ago (2 children)

I'd be very surprised if anything functional actually comes out of this. Far more likely they get scammed out of the money by garbage like the current "AI writing detection" methods, with terrible success rates that cause more societal problems than they solve.

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