@Kaligalis@lemmy.world

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• Just don’t play Microsoft games. They crippled or outright destroyed all their former good game studios anyway. So it’s not like they will be making great games you can’t live without anyway.

  on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3h ago

• We need to outlaw ads.

  on You’ll do anything for your baby. The algorithm knows how to exploit that. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 3h ago

• I guess the AI isn’t iterating over its “ideas” and code yet. I come up with overcomplicated and overcomplex code too. But my natural neural network keeps reevaluating the code while I think about it, write it down, test it, and often even come back to it later after I moved on to another part of the codebase.
  It looks to me like AI is using the infamous waterfall method to write code. It does the “thinking” phase and does bugfix iterations when compilation or tests fail. But never does it question the design it came up with after it wrote it down. It doesn’t reevaluate whether the last round of fixes made tests work that test irrelevant implementation details. It doesn’t question whether there really need to be four methods sharing 90% of their body for doing the basically the same thing only subtly different.
  I hold the suspicion that AI will be as slow as humans when it becomes as reliable because what makes us reliable is the redundancy in our thinking processes. The constant reevaluation in subtly different states of mind helps to catch design flaws and silly mistakes.

  Reevaluation of finalized code is probably not something you can just put into memory. You would need to modify the harness to automatically inject a new prompt triggering reevaluation of the design and implementation after each step. This would likely increase token use and execution time by an order of magnitude. And if you do it by spawning fresh agents, there would be a high chance of having the AI go in circles, switching between a few different versions of the same shitty design or implementation. So you need to keep the context, which grows each iteration. So context rot may become a real problem. The AI might deviate from the initial goal just like some human devs tend to do…

  And natural neural networks learn on the job. They adapt to the codebase and industry they are working with/in. claude.md and memory text files help a lot. But they are still sometimes ignored. And I don’t know why. Also, human rules are almost always somewhat fuzzy. Long lines are to be avoided - but unit tests and that one massive dict of dicts really are a lot more readable when ignoring that rule. There might be a lack of good training material on what makes code readable for humans.

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 4h ago

• The “handmade” label has been used in marketing before. I saw it far more often a few decades ago than now.

  on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 15h ago

• AI code assistants currently are like that senior dev who knows everything, has experience in everything, and always likes to help everyone. But sadly he does a lot of shrooms in his spare time and sees things that aren’t there. He also has quite the opinionated ideas about what good code should look like.

  That implies that you just can’t let him do the quality assurance. He can write code. You can ask him stuff. And he excels at debugging.
  But you can’t let him plan the architecture. You can ask him about his ideas and select the ones that are actually good, though.
  And you definitely can’t let him review his own code. Someone else has to do that.

  So if they literally just let the AI do everything, there is absolutely no way anyone has a chance to ever review the result because AI code is harder to review (for now), and AI loves to repeat itself (for now).
  And sure, they can tell it to write tests. But AI is dogshit at writing tests. It tends to forget the important cases, test the wrong thing, and/or obsess about completely irrelevant implementation details.
  I also tried the multi-round approach with a committee of agents trying to iteratively find and fix flaws. It only works well for finding bugs, not fixing them (for now).

  But while AI can’t replace me, it is really nice to have as a tool - just like I have syntax highlighting in the IDE, I have a code assistant that can autocomplete a few lines of code, find out why my code misbehaves, or tell me what some library method is supposed to do. Sure, I have to still verify the results. But often, finding the bug or information was the hard part.
  Coding assistants are great. Just don’t let them write too much code at once. You need someone who still actually understands the codebase. That sadly can’t be an AI (yet).

  on Engineer says Claude Code has made his job "soul-sucking" as workers spend 12-hour days pressing enter in c/technology@lemmy.world · 16h ago

• Yeah, good employees state their grievance, but if management insists, they just go into bot mode and do what has been commanded until they switch jobs. And bad employees are happy to blame AI.
  So if management demands use of AI rather than just offering AI as yet another tool that may or may not be used at the discretion of the employee, output quality will either stay the same or degrade because AI can’t do the actually important job - quality assurance.

  The moral of the story: if you aren’t actually experienced doing the job yourself, do not tell your workers how to do the job. Trust your senior workers to do that.

  on Shopify CEO says employees' 'slop grenades' are making more work for everyone else in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• AI is indeed to blame - but not like you think.
  Trump’s ChatGPT prompt after translation into natural language: I want to kill some sand people for fun and giggles. Which country did fight back the least in the past against aerial attacks?

  on FAA tees up $875M AI tool to help manage air traffic congestion in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Bethesda really missed the memo with Starfield. All those wasted loading screens…

  on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago

• Buying new ultra-low-performance hardware makes no sense even in that scenario. PCs can last decades. People in the US would just hoard used components. And piracy still exists even though there was real effort to end it. So I guess the jailbreaking/right-to-repair community would eventually get around the limitations.
  There are plenty of examples where the absolutely strictest regimes tried to restrict their citizens’ access to foreign goods. And black markets always won.

  The firearm situation is a bit exceptional though. Being armed might make resistance a bit more viable once a large percentage of the population stops fighting each other over whether futanari are men or women.

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Actually, I expect that to not happen at all. Jurisdictions in the US already started to exempt FOSS OSes from age restriction stuff.

  But if they actually try… look at how well prohibitions worked in the past - even when the prohibited thing was legitimately harmful and outlawing it made actual sense. When there is demand there will be supply. You can still get the absolutely worst drugs in the US. Surely it would be easier to get unlocked CPUs into that country than deadly drugs.

  And if it really became impossible to get western CPUs that can run Linux inside the US… I could still just switch to Chinese hardware because like most people I luckily am outside the US. China is catching up.

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Most servers and half the phones run Linux. Linux will not be locked out by any CPU maker. It would be suicide to do so.

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• People will just pretend to be on Windows and give whoever asks fabricated information that looks legit (probably because it’s reverse engineered from an actual Windows). FOSS is way stronger than you think.

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Some distro from a country outside the Epstein class’ jurisdiction will do that for them.

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• Thinking that the free open-source software (FOSS) community will not find a way to work around whatever comes their way is the pure essence of ignorance. Remember when crypto was export restricted? Yeah, it got exported no problem. Only FOSS users had strong crypto outside the US.
  If they try to repeat this with age restrictions, well, I use Gentoo and will probably be able to just put in a number which the OS then reports to whoever asks. Aren’t we all born on 1970-01-01?

  on Enjoy owning your devices while you still can. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago

• A lossy compressed store of data. Feed it the right input, and it statistically recreates the output you’re looking for. More or less.
  That’s basically a human brain.

  on Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• Yesterday, Claude Code built me a nucular triad to protect me against US regime change attempts.

  on Iran and Houthi rebels used Anthropic's Claude AI to target US warships and build hypersonic missiles — Houthi rebels also used the bot to code ballistic missile guidance systems in c/technology@lemmy.world · 14 Sep 2026

• It wouldn’t be the first “impossible” thing to eventually be implemented.
  Natural neural networks can do it. We have proof for that; geometry-correct realistic art made by humans exists after all. So it’s very likely not impossible to do this with artificial neural networks.
  Whether it’s possible to do in an end-user GPU I don’t know. Probably eventually. May take a year, a decade, a century… who knows. The future is hard to predict.
  But I don’t see why it would be impossible. We are just not there yet.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• I think, it’s a myth that matchmaking has to be bad to survive. We see that in gaming all the time. The problem is just that physical world matchmaking is optimized to get recurrent customers instead of finding good matches. And that inevitably tanks the reputation. The first dating platform with good matchmaking will be the last one standing because it will suck the competition dry.
  There is a market for good matchmaking. It’s just not as big as the imagined market for bad matchmaking (which we see now isn’t actually that big once people realize that the service sucks).

  on Dating Apps Are Dying in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026

• Thise aren’t your words either. I read them somewhere else before.

  on Ubisoft begin removing Ubisoft Connect from Steam with the new Ubisoft Connect Services in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Honest advertising can fix the perception problem. Just outright tell people that it has crashes and/or other bugs and misses content right from the start. Provide a playable demo of the current state. Or relax the refund period to GOG’s 30 days-no-questions-asked.

  Early Access is great for games which are already fun to play but unfinished. For that the game needs to be in alpha or beta.
  Funding the alpha is what Kickstarter is for.

  on Palworld lead worries Steam early access has "lost its meaning": players treat it like "a normal game" and the program has been "abused for a lot of reasons" in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Can I tell it to replace the lead actress in all movies with Lucy Lawless?

  on You can now apply DLSS 5 Neural Rendering to your entire Windows desktop in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• This is Apple’s glasshole moment.

  on New "Siri Recap" Feature for Apple Watches Can Create Summaries of Your Conversations Throughout the Day, Apple Says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• WTF. But yeah, that’s how advertising should be.

  on Kallax Storageborn is a Skyrim mod that adds an inventory-focused companion voiced by Matt Berry in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• They probably won’t. Natural neural networks don’t fit all that stuff into their working memory either. But some people can imagine the full thing in all detail while they create it in the physical world.
  I guess, the AI gets some abstract description (probably not human readable text; but who knows) of the objects in the scene and does with its artificial neural network what those people do with their natural neural network - at 60 FPS.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 11 Sep 2026

• Nothing in that image hints even remotely at computer tech though. The cables are coaxial. No one uses those for computer networks since decades.
  The cables look like those used for cable TV or satellite receivers. The cascade on the left looks like some HF tech. Wonder what’s actually shown in the image. It can’t be AI because AI can’t do that many cables properly.

  on Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday in c/technology@lemmy.world · 8 Sep 2026

• I am on Reddit and see porn just fine. I am not in the UK though.
  I guess, they will do as much as they are forced to do by local law and nothing more. ID verification providers are companies and companies usually demand money for their service.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Why does a Discord clone need federation?
  Discord is about persistent text chat and non-persistent voice chat. The medium is way more limiting than a single server’s hardware. Each virtual chat server only being on a single (maybe mirrored) physical server shouldn’t be a problem.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• It’s surprisingly hard for normal people to get a chat server running and maintained. It’s the same like with forums. We need something like Lemmy for persistent chat. The software isn’t really the problem - it’s literally just single-server chat with message persistence. Someone needs to host it free-to-use - that’s what made Discord successful.

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• Yeah, I am only in adult-themed channels. I guess, I’m safe. And if not, those channels will have to move off Discord anyway…

  on Discord Is Bringing Back Age Verification for Millions of Users in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6 Sep 2026

• There definitely will be games which are just unplayable if you got no inference accelerator. The moment, AI generates the actual visuals, you either are able to do AI image gen at playable FPS - or you don’t. Those games can’t ship with an alternative renderer because the game needing no textures or shaders is the whole point of full AI rendering.
  But if you don’t like AI, you will not miss out on anything. The first such games will probably be absolute dog shit anyway.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• You mean the mining digging through the untouched grass into actual soil and rock to acquire raw minerals - right?

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Nvidia aims at games becoming fully AI-generated end-to-end including pixels, audio, and reasoning. So yeah: It’s meant to be AI all the way down.
  Obviously, not all games will be pure AI. You can still buy hand-forged hardware for your house. You will always be able to find hand-made games. But the current AAA slop will just be fully AI generated.
  People who love it now, will still love it then. People who don’t, will just keep playing indie like we do now.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Frame generation is for when you can play at native 60 FPS but want more. More native frames don’t give you less noticeable input lag. But more (fake) frames still feel smoother. That’s the sweet spot for frame gen: playing at 120 FPS when your card can only do a little more than 60 FPS native (some native frames are sacrificed to the AI gods to get the fake frames to interleave with the real ones).
  The advertising is ridiculous though.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• The crypto mess isn’t Nvidia’s fault. The biggest crypto coin wasn’t even mined on GPUs anymore when the cryptocalypse happened and GPUs got literally unaffordable and unobtainable for a few years. The Ethereum devs made their mining algorithm require lots of VRAM in an attempt to make their blockchain more democratic because ASIC miners would not work as well. This backfired by suddenly making gamer GPUs the sweet spot for mining Ethereum. Nvidia profited a lot. But the Ethereum devs are actually to blame. They fucked this up hard and then dragged out the algorithm switch to from proof-of-work to proof-of-stake for years. After Ethereum switched to PoS, GPU prices were recovering slowly - until the AI rush started.

  The RAMpocalypse literally has been caused by Sam Altman buying the (western) world’s RAM production without even being able to put it anywhere. This is basically venture capital ruining it for everyone.
  Nvidia is a big player and their intel-style market segmentation sucks. But they actually make produce GPUs. The real fuckery is venture capitalists enabling OpenAI’s CEO to ruin the tech market for everyone.

  Capitalism has an Epstein class problem. Without those CEOs, the RAMpocalypse hadn’t happened. Nvidia couldn’t sell GPUs which have no place to actually get installed in. The AI company financing circle jerk had been busted by the US government.
  The current mess is literally the democrats fault. They could have done proper politics instead of their abstruse post-woke shit. Trump had never won. Musk had not gutted governmental oversight (there wasn’t much, but it at least existed).
  Fucking democrats wasting their power to do irrelevant shit to nag the rednecks into voting Trump instead of doing literally anything else.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• That sums it pretty much up perfectly.
  The overwhelming majority loves DLSS. Until recently, the discussion of Nvidia vs. AMD boiled pretty much down to AMD’s FSR not being on par with DLSS. People legit didn’t buy AMD because AMD had worse AI upscaling.

  I like that I can actually use FSR on my 9070 XT to get the notoriously performance-hungry 7 Days To Die to look good and run smooth at 2160p60.
  I like that I can just download AI models from Hugging Face and run them locally (cloud AI helped me get the finicky tools installed properly).
  My gripe with AI is that I can’t get more than 16 GiB VRAM on an affordable GPU with good AI inference performance. Without the artificial market segmentation, the 9070 XT would have 32 GiB VRAM. I bought mine in the summer dip last year - just before the RAMpocalypse started.
  I would definitely slot a cheap Chinese 32 GiB inference accelerator with good FOSS support next to my gaming GPU if there was one. I probably will do so in a few years when China ramped up a massively overbuilt chip sector guaranteeing their independence from western markets fast - and then flooding the global market with the surplus after their own market is saturated.

  I play on Gentoo btw.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• Measure it when it’s out. Stop clucking and cackling about unlaid eggs.
  The launch most likely will not be flawless. You will get your opportunity to some feathers when the damn chicken finally comes to roost.

  on DLSS 5 comes with a massive 50-60% performance hit, so I hope you like lower frame rates with your dose of AI image enhancement in c/games@lemmy.world · 3 Sep 2026

• With how shitty the owning and freedom situation on consoles is already, this really doesn’t change much. People who are still using consoles just don’t give any fucks. They happily swallowed the PSN subscription. They will happily swallow the next toad too.

  on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Piracy isn’t stealing either way. It’s just copyright infringement.

  on PlayStation Wants To Prove In Court That You Don't Own Your Digital Games in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026

• Looks like a cloud and a lens flare to me.

  on Cloudflare frees up 100TB of RAM by shrinking 1.1.1.1's DNS cache entries — 250 billion cached DNS entries at any given time means one wasted byte costs 250GB in c/technology@lemmy.world · 30 Aug 2026

• You can’t ever guarantee that a neural network isn’t dreaming of digital sheep - neither for an artificial nor a natural one.
  What once has been seen can’t be made unseen again. In that, the clankers are like us.

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• They probably let it just eat the internet without any humans looking at the training data. And yeah - there probably is some CSAM somewhere on the internet. Maybe, they used an agent swarm to specifically search for stuff not yet in the dataset and forgot to a blocklist. It’s not like the tech bros are genuinely careful in what they do. Recklessness seems to be a common trait.

  on Elon Musk’s xAI used child porn to train Grok models, lawsuit says in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Thanks. Will not switch from Gentoo to Windows today.

  on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Don’t just look at the company profits. After Musk bought Twitter, Trump won and Musk gained direct access to the government. I think, that’s a pretty good return on the investment.
  But most importantly: Elon now has his own big media company. No longer are the other rich guys ridiculing him because he doesn’t have his own media empire. He’s now a real full member in the club.

  on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026

• Is he also trying to market a model “too dangerous for the public” because it’s just too damn good at finding bugs - like Anthropic?

  on Bill Gates accuses the tech industry of knowingly downplaying AI's risks because too much money is at stake. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026

• Yeah, pretty good reason, actually. It’s not like indie devs are generally known to be swimming in pools of money.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• Yes. With AI-using indie devs it’s really just like with YouTube woodworkers who use a Festool Domino for their joinery. As long as they aren’t actually sponsored by Festool in any way, they can still be independent.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• If people can detect it as AI it shouldn’t have passed the quality check. People will happily buy games from the most awful and immoral companies if they like the game.
  Those indies don’t get canceled for using AI - they get canceled for a lack of quality control.

  on A touch of AI is all it takes to trigger backlash, as a promising new indie falls afoul of slop skeptics in c/technology@lemmy.world · 26 Aug 2026

• This could poison the well for this category of wireless headphones. People will just assume that all AirPod wearers are glassholes.

  on Apple is working on camera-equipped AirPods that appear to be nearly ready to launch, based on a video MacRumors found in the macOS Tahoe 26.7 release candidate. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• Amazon is the shop, I go to when I can’t find it literally anywhere else.
  The search is dysfunctional. The shipping information assumes a Prime subscription. There is constantly some try-hard upsell-advertising. And Amazon is usually not even competitive on price. The emails don’t even matter - I download the invoices.

  on Why your Amazon order confirmation emails have become so unhelpful in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026

• It already has - Heroic works just fine.

  on Epic Games Store will get a Linux version sometime "soon" in c/games@lemmy.world · 15 Aug 2026