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- on Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
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on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Counterpoint: procedural generation in computer games existed at least since Rogue (1980) and is accepted as a well defined way to efficiently make randomized assets and asset combinations via set rules. It aces the tasks with trivial variation like said bookspines, but can go as complex as you set it up. Not everything can be supplemented by proc gen, but it’s usually the answer when you have troubles with quantity of pieces as a priority rather than quality/uniqueness of individual ones. Examples range from Borderlands guns constructor set and Diablo maps, to Minecraft-alike sandbox worlds, to overcomplicated life sims like Dwarf Fortress where multiple systems of algorhytms shape every playthrough in a different way while also reacting to player’s input.
Building such systems needs planning and thinking, but it is a potentionally endless source of intentionally designed stuff, that returns a piece on command.
GenAI though is unpredictable, unintentional and, as long as you don’t build it into the game itself, consists of fixed resources you bake in.
The niche it primarily threatens is not background props, but high effort pieces like visual novel scenes, loading screens art, character’s likeness, strings of dialogs and lore books that couldn’t be proc gened and are created piece by piece by an artist. Making LLM create bookspines is a waste of tokens, and a waste of hard drive space too to pregen them all, it only makes sense if used in place of unique assets. And, these are the things most would prefer handcrafted for they form the face of the game more than anything else.
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on GrapheneOS Isn't Happy With Google Over Pixel's Widening Head Start in c/opensource@lemmy.ml · 4d ago
If we assume Google is a wiggledog of alphabet (lel) agencies, it would want to wiggle off all deviants and provide a single platform one can exploit in a predictable way and not others. In a subscription-model fashion, they benefit from having an ever moving window of vulnerabilities so their clients need to get the latest ones or otherwise they wouldn’t work. I slightly remember an article concerning russian cops using old Pegasus to dig into someone’s iphone and israelis commenting that it is outdated by a couple of years and is not applicable to modern models.
Privacy-focused OSes and apps out of their control introduce deviances Google doesn’t want to account for, so they establish a total monopoly.
There should be something more than we have now to tell Google should cool the fuck down.
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on LG Denies Its TVs Are Spying on You (Unless You Opted In) in c/technology@lemmy.world · 13 Sep 2026
Gamer’s Nexus original vid about that: youtu.be/ToP9xfLDSME
Automod put down my own post with that link for some reason.
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on The Creator of Git and Linux in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 2 Sep 2026
First time I saw that picture, win11 was new, and having it running meant you had a rather recently built PC with a TPM module. So, an additional layer of a (satirical?) hardware flex that I don’t think goes well with, well, the worse Windows at the time.
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on Skip today's Windows 11 update: it breaks cursor styling, resets wallpaper, and more in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Also, penguins don’t grow on trees :b
Most who end up discovering rather obscure Fedi forums are someone else’s tech person, especially for older relatives. I can see a disappearing wallpaper being a very serious issue for those not entirely sure how to bring it back.
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on World's largest open library calls for volunteers to scan and preserve physical books as AI companies buy, scan, and destroy them — Anna's Archive says ‘time is running out’ as ‘knowledge is permanent in c/technology@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
Ages ago I had mimicked the “overhead scanner” with a mounted digital camera, but now I’d go with a mounted smartphone + light bars + bluetooth photo trigger. Scrolling through Bezos’ was pretty depressing in terms of cost/quality and even a $150 device seemed like a repurposed webcam, with a sole non-free confirmed buyer saying it died after 3 months while freebies praise it lol. As long as you don’t scan drawings/designs/comic books - just set lights evenly and that’d be enough, and even moreso if you OCR it and turn a scan into an e-book where visual fidelity stops to matter.
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on Fairphone Is Finally Selling Its Repairable Phone in the US in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Have to learn that somehow, but hard paywalls make it impossible :/
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on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Idk why they even need one, and the one so on the nose.
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on We Tracked a Shipment of Rare Books. It Ended at an Amazon AI Training Facility in c/technology@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
The symbol for Amazon’s VGT3, the Las Vegas facility where it scans book for AI training data.
I thought it’s 404media’s obviously satirical preview picture to dab on aibros, but the truth is even more weird
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on Reddit forces login to access old.reddit.com in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
The Footnote of the Internet.
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on Amid RAM price hikes, Microsoft reportedly raises Windows license cost, forcing OEMs to hike prices even further on hardware in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
Blastbeat of millions of penguins stomping.
Gamepass lower tier with ads - when?