They could clam a web app is the “alternative” I guess.

They’ll shut that down too. Somehow. For “security” I’m sure, even as the Play Store is infested with scam apps.

The slow-motion footage of Kennedy brushing the stone with his forefinger has gone viral, and the internet is overflowing with sloppy AI skits of Kennedy nudging ice hockey pucks and knocking over figure skaters at the ice rink. On TikTok someone put together a spoof of Kennedy and Eriksson in a whole Heated Rivalry situation, which has pulled in 2.5 million views.

It’s not a “spoof,” it’s a scam. It’s clickbait to farm attention because the uploader knows a bunch of numb scrollers will think it’s real, tap, and that the Tiktok algo will exploit that with no correction.

“What does the world feed off nowadays? Negativity. But that’s OK. Like I said, all of that negativity brought a lot of eyeballs to the sport of curling that maybe have never even considered looking at it before.”

I appreciate the positivity, but this is not okay. Nothing about the internet is okay. I was once a free internet absolutist, even with regard to Big Tech, but at some point it crossed over into being, mostly, genuinely decietful slop like this, even before accessible AI made things worse.

Just having a digital archive of yourself is kind of cool. Future historians (if there are any) will love that, too.

Do you get scammers much?

I tried looking for camera lenses, logged out and with some scripting, and ran into some pretty clear scams immediately. Like no-one is even policing the site.

Not sure why you’re so sure that cloud would be the next winner either.

Because, in aggregate, gamers are stupid consumers.

I hate to be so blunt, but they have, repeatedly and demonstrably, made uninformed purchases. They buy bad games on launch day, complain, then turn around and do it again. They buy hardware known to be a lemon. Heck, they’ll hardly even look at AMD or Intel GPUs now simply because there’s isn’t a minimum amount of effort made to shop around.

They are going to just buy the cloud gaming subscriptions if that’s all that’s financially viable, and it’s what’s popular in their YouTube feeds or Discord channels or whatever.

Keep in mind that I’m talking about the bulk market. Sure, plenty of us will turn our nose up. But the R&D required to develop consumer hardware requires volume, so updates will get slimmer with less money in the pool. It’s already happened with the AMD 9000 GPUs (as shrinking sales could not justify a big-die 7900 successor).

Many do have automated checking, testing, rules for the PR maker to follow and such.

If they don’t have it set up, and the project is big, TBH the maintainers should set it up.

The issue is that these submitters are (often) drive-by spammers. They aren’t honest, they don’t care about the project, they just want quick kudos for a GitHub PR on a major project.

Filtering a sea of scammers is a whole different ballgame than guiding earnest, interested contributors. Automated tooling isn’t set up for that because (outside the occasional attempt to sneak malware into code) it wasn’t really a thing.

Which would you rather have as the dominant platform. Consoles, or cloud gaming?

Because if “market conditions” kill consoles, they will shrink PC gaming hardware sales too, and I don’t want a world where devs target cloud gaming first.

I’m not trying to defend consoles and their predatory practices, but you can’t separate them out. If subsidized console hardware is too pricey to sell, then PC gaming components will absolutely atrophy too.

Godot is also weighing the possibility of moving the project to another platform where there might be less incentive for users to “farm” legitimacy as a software developer with AI-generated code contributions.

Aahhh, I see the issue know.

That’s the incentive to just skirt the rules of whatever their submission policy is.

I don’t even know what they’re using the SSDs for.

Most businesses are too stupid to train their own models from scratch, and won’t use “foreign” ones so they won’t finetune them either.

On the inference side… SSDs aren’t used for much. Just storing Docker stuff/dependencies and model weights for the initial load, and that’s it. Maybe some data for bulk processing, but that’s no different than existing software. The one niche may be KV cache swapping for re-using prompt prefixes, but this is limited and being obsoleted by new attention mechanism.

So WTF do they even need SSDs and HDDs for? Honestly it feels like FOMO purchasing.

A lot of scientists, tinkerers, 3D renderers and such would love cheap A100s and up.

On the contrary, I don’t think they will get cheaper. Somehow they’ll get bought back and trashed (like Nvidia has done in the past), hoarded, tasked with busywork, something that that.

1st party engine devs have been stuck in dev hell, mostly. There are some exceptions, like you said; I’d cite Decima as another success.

But think of EA’s Frostbite, Cyberpunk 2077, Halo Infinite, Clausewitz, BGS, many more. Especially indies that try.

It’s not just that old games crunched, but making a new engine that supports modern platforms and modern hardware is just an immensely complex task. There’s just too much to worry about.

The best success seems to either come from:

• Hyperfocusinf one’s engine’s scope to one game niche. Larian’s divinity engine, for example, makes BG3-likes; that’s it, that all it does. It cannot make an FPS or even a different RPG.

• Engine shop very, very carefully. For instance, KCD2 leaned into CryEngine’s strengths hard, especially that dense, well-lit European foilage.

And either case needs a lucky roll of the dice anyway. See: Cyberpunk 2077 in utter dev hell (even if they eventually pulled out) from wrangling their engine. Or the latest Borderlands being a technical wreck even though they basically invented Unreal Engine alongside Epic.

AAA expectations are astronomical, AAs take some extra time to keep up, and indies that actually make it take the time to do their own thing, otherwise they’re almost certainly part of the vas, unseen sea of failed indies.

Also, oldschool game dev was toxic. It had some serious crunch culture, just to start. But I think it also attracted talented devs into “sweet spot” dev team sizes; not too big or too small.

And now, if you do software and want to make any money or provide for a family… well, you don’t do game dev. And that phenomenon has gotten worse and worse.

the people you claim to oppose

This is exactly what I’m talking about in another reply. Its what I was trying to make fun of in the original comment.

“The people I oppose.” Us vs them, the enemy. This thread immediately going to a bunch of shit the US did (which, to be clear, they absolutely did) is “How to think like a tankie 101.”

Putin is an open murderer, and I’m not veering off into whataboutism to paint him as some kind of unfairly treated victim.

Because the focus is on the enemy.

Whoever’s pointing the finger is idealized. They’re the protector, the rebel, or whatever you want them to be. The focus is on “them.” That’s why every other breath of a tankie (or Trumpster, or liberal extremist or whatever) is whataboutism.

That’s how authoritarian nationalism works. Same thing’s happening in the US, and Europe. The US Army depicted it quite well:

https://archive.org/details/DontBeaS1947

Unfortunately, with current social media, that trick works very, very, very well. Algorithms are literally built to tell you what you want to hear (including Lemmy to an lesser extent), so it’s easy to fall into these spirals.

All western propaganda and coincidence, I’m sure, as our tankie friends will point out. And he was a corrupt western plant anyway.

Just like how Prigozhin‘s private jet inexplicably exploded mid air, not far from Putin’s Estate, after Wagner’s definitely-not-coup-attempt. Happens all the time. And the Wagner boss was definitely a plant too, oh yeah.

One might think it’s odd that Putin critics die exotic deaths with such… regularity. Could there be some reason for that?

Nah, that’s just the US hegemony talking.

It’s language for people who advertise they know something about “AI,” but couldn’t implement it if their life depended on it.

TBH I’ve never heard that one, but it sounds like they’re trying to use “gradient descent” in a sentence.

That’s amazing. It’s almost hard to believe, yet it sounds about right.

That makes sense.

Heh. Spotify used to stream 384K Vorbis, which should be sufficient. But now the web app is apparently AAC. And the app-apps are conspicuously listed with “equivalent to” bitrates, whatever that means:

https://support.spotify.com/us/article/audio-quality/

Very high: Equivalent to approximately 320kbit/s

Behold:

https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Electrical-conductivity-of-banana-at-different-ripening-stages-with-the-help-of_fig5_317486785

5.4 Electrical Conductivity Measurement This method includes electrical impedance spectroscopy (EIS) and dielectric analysis (DEA). The physical state of a material is measured as a function of frequency in EIS and the frequency ranges from 100 Hz - 10 MHz. It is simple and easier technique used to estimate the physiological status of various biological tissues49-52. Experimental frequency response of impedance is characterised by electrical equivalent circuits of materials. The physical properties of materials can be quantified by monitoring the changes in parameters at the equivalent circuit, among various equivalent models proposed53-54. DEA measurement is used in high frequency areas, generally 100 MHz - 10 GHz. DEA is used in moisture estimation and bulk density determination

So a overripe banana is an interesting high-pass filter, kinda like a capacitor, though the big takeaway is the conductance vs ripeness.

So if you want to test if a banana is ready to eat, hook it up… preferably with several other bananas in series. If the music is too loud, they are ready. Too quiet, and it’s not time yet.

I did a blind test, and found it depends on the genre.

Slow, chill music is completely transparent when compressed, no matter how hard I “audio peep.” It’s not even a question.

But something “dense” like System of a Down has audible distortion. It loosely (not always) coincided with the bitrate of the flac files, which kind of makes sense, though even the extreme end is hard to notice unless you know the particular song very well.

Also… a lot of recordings kind of suck. It’s crazy to worry about tiny bits of distortion when a bit perfect master is already noisy and distorted.