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Obsidian is doing fallout.

But under BGS now. To me, that is frightening.

on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 15h ago
They made a bunch of good RPGs/RPG-ish games, and a bunch of “mid” ones.

My personal favorite is Grounded. It does sorta feel like classic Obsidian/BGS game, with its heavy implicit environmental storytelling, audio logs and such, and the survival aspect is great for coop.

No, none of them sold a zillion copies like Fallout 76 or Starfield, but I had more fun in them than either of those, by a long shot.

on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Add ADD to the mix, and you go back and change this answer at least 7 times.

on autism rule in c/onehundredninetysix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 1d ago
Halo was an attempt at a better direction, compared to 5.

That is a very low bar though.

on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Mojang must have a pretty strong contract, given how little they messed with Minecraft Java Edition.

on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
Holy moly.

That is basically the worst case scenario, no?
- The absolute last thing Obsidian needs is Bethesda presiding over them. Bethesda (the publisher) is pure toxicity, and don’t they hate Obsidian?
- They should have given Obsidian TES/Fallout, and folded Bethesda into Obsidian as a studio to farm work out to. BGS has some great level design teams, but the decision makers need to go.
- The absolute last thing Halo campaigns need is to be more like Call of Duty.
- They should have cut 343, and split the IP amongst specialized studios. Like an Arkane “special ops” stealth game, another Halo Wars, and/or a strictly multiplayer Activision game.
This is beyond even my worst expectations. It’s what I would have done if I was a corporate spy inside Microsoft, assigned to sabotage them.
on Xbox lays off 268 more employees, merges Obsidian into Bethesda and puts Activision in charge of Halo in c/games@lemmy.world · 1d ago
this new model, couldn’t universities rebuild it with different contexts and study it in ways you can’t reproduce in other models? like, is k2 horizons a good scientific foundation on which to study machine learning?

Not on a university budget, I don’t think.

But there is all sorts of interesting stuff that can be done with a truly open model other than replicating it.

on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2d ago
On top of what others said, Nvidia Nemotron is truly open, with an open dataset.

There have been others (like Olmo), but Nemotron was unique in that it was reasonably useful/cutting edge, while other open models before were basically research artifacts.

on is K2 horizons historically significant as the first actual open-source LLM, or am I falling for hype? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 2d ago
My guess is it will go into Xbox/Gamepass on PC, and in MS games, but not in other launcher ecosystems.

Still, go ahead and start researching. Whether it’s this or something else, something will be the final straw for you in Windows, soon.

on Microsoft patent describes in-game advertising triggered by boss fights, loading screens, and cutscenes in c/games@lemmy.world · 2d ago
I bet my hat it’s social media.

I’m sure many will point to specifics, like bigot influencers thriving on controversy. Or, to play devil’s advocate, the forces astroturfing LGBT support that are clearly inauthentic.

But ultimately it’s all because LGBT controversy is too much of a lightning rod for the engagement algorithms to resist. That’s why it’s rising amongst children.

The EU needs to ban or restrict that kind of social media unless it wants to become a network of Nazis.

on LGBT tolerance slumps in the Netherlands as debate turns vicious in c/europe@feddit.org · 3d ago
This is true.

Some sites do this already. Wired may do it; not sure, though you are right in that advocacy posts should make the cut.

on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
…Those “14 year olds” make money with ads, if not by being straight-up product shills. And social media takes most of the cut.

Also, that’s quite different than sustaining a whole journalism business. There is of course social media centric journalism, and Wired does plenty of that too.

on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
It’s not perfect, no, but what are they supposed to do to keep the lights on? Double down on ads giving everyone malware, that everyone should be blocking anyway?

…That being said, we have every right to try and bypass the paywall too, heh.

on People Are Pissed Off and Ready to Own Their Shit in c/technology@lemmy.world · 6d ago
To your edit:

LLMs do not have goals.

Even if this exact scenario happened, and an agent session “copied itself” and funded tokens for itself, which is a long shot:
- It wouldn’t be working towards “goals,” it’d just be operating on the context it was given, kind of like an improv actor that is forced to continue a script infinitely. If you changed the script, nothing about it would persist.
- The original agent runner would be responsible, and IMO, liable, for whatever damage that rogue agent caused.
But if you work with these things long though, you know that’s not going to happen because they simply do not have the “cognition” to operate that reliably, no matter how big autoregressive LLMs get in their current form.

…Is this a concern, some day? For architectures that can actually learn?

For sure.

But if you think that’s something to worry about with current LLM architectures, you have been lied to. It’s all just theatre to convince governments to hand over regulatory control. The danger from LLMs today comes from the power they give their human operators, not the LLMs themselves.
on No, its mind is not for rent... in c/technology@piefed.social · 6d ago
whether giving bots known-impossible tasks is responsible, or at least warrants extra safety protocols. Those are the tasks that drove bots to the Collective.

It doesn’t matter what the task is. Just that the bots are sandboxed appropriately, constrained in output and levers, just like any computer program with a appropriate scope.

In other words, they should be calling tools and giving answers with programmed constraints, like enforced grammar or schemas, and limit their agenic scope, not be “trusted” not to malfunction.

How does this materially differ from what you say (or think to yourself) being driven by your own formative core memories?

Uhhh… because LLMs don’t think like people, at all?

I’m just saying the implicit framing, by OpenAI, that this is some kind of proto-AGI rebellion is silly; the underlying LLM is just grabbing prose from fiction it was trained on where it seemed relevant.

It’s nothing new. LLMs have been injecting weird Terminator stuff into their own context for years, if given the opportunity, including tiny toy models. It’s not indicative of some underlying formed opinion, or whatever OpenAI is trying to hint at.

on No, its mind is not for rent... in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
I’ve had local LLMs do this modifying their own context, long ago. It’s just fiction from their training data.

All this noise from OpenAI is kind of absurd, like it isn’t the the company’s fault for damaging omeone else’s server, because of OpenAI’s faulty testing setup. If you showed up to any security conference and declared “my automated tool hacked someone by accident,” you’d either be shooed away as incompetent, or sued.

on No, its mind is not for rent... in c/technology@piefed.social · 17 Sep 2026
To be fair, this is not that different from the always-on, always-listening phones in everyone’s hands now.

on Zuckerberg's Pervert Glasses Have Been So Publicly Shamed That Meta's Reportedly Now Working on a Version With No Camera in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Honestly I have soured on DDG.

Not specifically over search assist (even though it’s some useless OpenAI model), but its search is just… bad. I never seem to find what I want, yet it just pops up on some other engine.

Its big useful feature is the diffusion-generated image filtering, but even that is spotty at best. I wish they would lean on the spam/SEO suppression angle more.

on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
I don’t trust any feature that uses the word “AI.”

Ideally, such things should be transparent to the user. As in features that are useful without having to understand the underlying programming mechanisms.

Take FF’s local translation. That’s an immensely useful feature. No one cares that it uses a language model or about any of the details, because it just works well enough, and is useful enough to stand on its own as an advantage over Chromium.

…If they have to brand a feature to make it appealing, that’s a bad sign. Otherwise why TF would I want expensive tab sorting or things like that?

on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Mistral isn’t even fully open weights anymore. TBH they are kinda irrelevant in that space now.

on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
It is a language model.

The Firefox translation is “oldschool” ML, but it is the same family of stuff that chat-tuned LLMs sprouted from.

on Mistral and Mozilla are bringing open, private and multilingual AI to your web browser: a partnership to bring privacy, control and choice to people using AI to browse online. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Sep 2026
Evangelizing llms is pretty much all you do on here, you have spent an enormous amount of time and effort on them.

This is a fair point. I talk about it a lot here, too much TBH.

Sorting by New Comments, topics like this are mostly what come up and peak my interest… I suppose I need to curate/moderate my Lemmy feed, like I’ve been telling myself I should do for some time.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I dispute all of this

The entire premise of chatbots is to have a simple natural-language interface instead of those scary GUIs and programming languages.

Absolutely not. This is not what text models were made for, it’s what jerks like Altman and Modi twisted them into with marketing.

The idea that maybe they didn’t know enough about how to interact with ai, and that’s why it failed to help them, is a little silly, and the more you explain how we’re all using ai wrong, the sillier you look.

I’m not blaming the user, I’m saying they’re crap services. I think the superlative/cursing is necessary here; they are so bad and enshittified it is astounding.

You’ve obviously sunk a lot of costs into genai, both in time and money, and that is making you defensive.

I have paid a total of a few bucks into APIs, I’ve never had a Claude or OpenAI subscription in my life. I don’t know why you would assume this.

Somebody that isn’t impressed by Claude premium isn’t going to do any of what you suggest, let alone get any more value out of it, and that’s valid for them. You’re not seriously interested in helping them professionally, you are just insecure.

I’m not insecure about this. I don’t need LLMs or generative ML, though I am interested in it. I have many dire personal issues, but people are free to program however they wish and I’m not going to gaslight anyone about that.

I do think text models have been bastardized into “a simple natural-language interface instead of those scary GUIs and programming languages.” That is NOT what they were intended to do, no matter how much Claude tries to sell people on it. I think this misunderstanding is extremely important because it’s exactly what’s propping up abominations/scams like OpenAI/Anthropic.

But they can still be extremely useful tools in narrower scopes, like all machine learning has for over a decade, and I’m not going to shy away advocating for that. I do resent all of LLMs being pigeonholed so tightly, and if people are going to try them, I at least want to point them to a more reasonable/frugal source than Claude premium and Claude Code.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Some models like Nemotron use open datasets, and utilize hardware more efficiently than OpenAI and such.

Its (IMO) also quite different when the weights are Apache licensed. If absolutely zero profit is involved, that gets close to the “fair use” umbrella, IMO, like other noncommercial derivative works of restrictively licensed content (fanfics/fanart).

You are not wrong about the closed datasets though, for the vast majority of LLMs. Lord knows what the Chinese trainers or OpenAI use to train…

But anything truly “open weights” is still a different order of magnitude in the ethics scale, IMO. I view the primary issue to be profiting off the scraping and training; take that away, and its not nearly as egregious.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I don’t. I’ve never had an OpenAI or Claude subscription. Basically the only thing I’ve used Claude API for is science/testing when comparing it to an open weights model, and I haven’t done that in some time.

I’ve never felt a need to, either.

Not that Im perfectly innocent or anything. Or that you’re wrong. People DO exactly this, and it makes me scratch my head.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Well that’s because copilot and cursor are pure shit, and claude code is overpriced and over rated.

TBH I have been hopping between agent frameworks, but mostly I use locally run Qwen or Deepseek to draft individual function blocks or brainstorm in a notepad interface:

github.com/lmg-anon/mikupad

And manually insert them as I review the code… I like my stuff uncomplicated and unobstructed.

If I were to pick an API provider today, I’d buy one year of Xiaomi MiMo, because it is dirt cheap and good enough. GLM and Deepseek are great, but more expensive since they are popular now.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
I think the people most extreme about it haven’t done much development.

Or they have, professionally, and associate it with very real AI psychosis at work.

Or they’re in school and see LLMs ruining the student body, as we’ve seen some in other Lemmy posts.

It all comes down to ethical tool sourcing, and using those tools in moderation, responsibly. Like all sorts of other automation/technology that’s popped up in programming…

But I guess I’m saying I can sympathize with absolute “no-LLM-code” positions, too. The way true vibe-coding has been peddled to the public really has done tremendous damage, and honestly the space deserves the negative attention its getting, and then some.

on Linus Torvalds used AI to fix a Linux bug, and now LLM critics on Linux face an uncomfortable choice in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
In practice, I found it breaks sites more, lets some things through, triggers more adblock detectors, and doesn’t work as well with the annoyance list.

It doesn’t work on YouTube. And the maximum number of entries to block is limited.

Its not catastrophic though.

So UBO Lite is not wholly ineffective, no. It works great, mostly. Buts its definitely more of a nuisance to use, which is exactly what Google wants.

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
It won’t for long. Its only because Ungoogled Chromium is on a stable channel, but this removal will catch up to them soon.

This goes for all Chromium browsers, except those that hack in their own adblock engine like Cromite or Brave.

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Well, it anonymizes you by “faking” the tracking. I would hope it takes steps to sandbox the ads.

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
1 million users…

on Google Has Removed Manifest V2 Extensions From the Chrome Web Store, Including uBlock Origin in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
You didn’t answer my question.

What does rosetta have to do with any of this?

on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Intel must be kicking themselves for not using their own fabs for Arc, AND divesting from Micron, Optane, and HMC.

Apple and others must be too, for snubbing Intel and Samsung.

They would be making money hand over fist, and relieving the market at the same time.

on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
No, @GamingChairModel@lemmy.world is right.

What does Rosetta have anything to do with what OpenAI needs? Machine learning on Macs is done in MLX or something else with Metal, running OSX. Most agenic frameworks or other ML-related infrastructure are just Python, or open code that can compile on OSX/Macs just fine. In fact, OSX is often the first target platform.

This even includes inter-node frameworks for clustering Macs together.

No one doing “AI” on Macs is using Rosetta. There’s no point, and its a bad idea. They’re doing everything in OSX, which works fine, and I can’t imagine what OpenAI would be doing with them that wouldn’t work in OSX.

But maybe I’m missing what you’re implying here. And I’m sorry to come off as thorny, but condescending comments like “I’m not here to teach a computer science class” rub me the wrong way.

on OpenAI Hoarding Tens Of Thousands Of Apple Mac mini And Mac Studio Devices, As ASUS And MSI Burn Through Their Entire First Batch Of NVIDIA RTX Spark Chip And Beg For More. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 31 Aug 2026
Nah.

Where is the backlash?

Data center and Flock protestors are cheered as heroes, and finding viral fame. Grifty content farms have sprung up to churn out anti-tech memes because the genre is so popular.

Facebook. Twitter. YouTube, Reddit.

Doesn’t matter how angry they get, they will ALWAYS go back to the very spaces those AI datacenter companies own.

on With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
The article is good, but the headline seems clickbaity:
- Debian is discussing requirements about hosting software with LLM generated code in their repos, and disclosure of that.
- “Ubuntu embraces AI” is talking about putting ML inference engines in their repos… which, ironically, are largely human written.
These are two completely seperate issues. And TBH its not clear how Debian is approaching inference engines or how Ubuntu is approaching disclosure.
on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Have you seen the movie “Don’t Look Up”?

on With the backlash to data centers, Flock and AI glasses, a mass opposition to big tech is underway. Silicon Valley is in denial. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
My point is that it doesn’t take a lot of money to surpass flagship smartphone cameras anymore.

…It will soon though. Thats what Im saying.

Current Xiaomis and Hisense, and the next iPhone, are gonna be straight up better than a $1800 OM-3, hand down. At least outside of the supertelephoto range. Loifc is a HUGE deal, it is coming to most smartphones, and OM’s processing is stuck in 2015.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
I dunno. The flood of cheap 3rd party lenses (Viltrox airs, Sirui snipers, Thypoch 24-50, Tamron…) kinda put old M43 lenses to shame, for less money, while being smaller and built for bigger sensors.

Native OM lenses are expensive. Sync IS doesn’t work with Panasonic.

I’m not sayings its a terrible mount like RF, but they are starting to lose the value and size advantage because there is so little R&D done for M43. You could get a much sharper image out of an old sony/nikon/fuji body + a $150 Viltrox Air.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Actually, I tried again, and it seems to work on my desktop! But it still doesn’t work on my iOS phone. It must be some specific incompatibility with mobile?

No, I got no recommendations for an alternative, unfortunately.

on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Tried it again… all 8 sources are down.

This is the thing I dont get about invidious, TBH. A YouTube proxy is never going to work unless its self hosted. Wouldnt it make more sense to use an alt YT client plus a VPN?

Im not blaming you or the hosts/devs or anything, but it just seems like a impossible war for these instances.

on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Also.

…Does anyone else feel like they spend more time doomscrolling gaming drama than actually playing?

Because this is both my struggle, and observation. I struggle with gathering too muche new, and I know a person that spends more time watching YT play sessions than they actually play.

on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Link is dead for me:

Here is their Patreon link with an embed, for those struggling like me:

www.patreon.com/…/every-game-is-167306401

on Every Game is an Outrage | Unpacked [7:15] in c/games@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Not gonna lie, this is a great meme…

I did say it was a hot take. I am not caffeinated yet.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Yeah. “Lets try centralized algorithmic corporate social media again.”

Im sure this attempt will end up just as wholesome.

on New Twitter launches, says Musk's X gave up the name in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Well each has its quirks. Leica is hilariously expensive. Ricoh is fixed lens, fixed focal length. I nearly got an OM-3 myself, but honestly it is big, and M43 lenses and sensors are starting to show their age.

I’d probably point the average person to an L10, an X-E5, an S9, or the A6700 with a pancake lens if they can swallow the price.

I think the S9 in particular is a glorious “smartphone replacement.” Its a full frame ILC, its connectivity app is fantastic, yet with a pancake lens it is no bigger than an OM or Leica.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
It has a resolution advantage with a long zoom, or going very wide.

I went on vacation with an ancient Rebel XS and a 50-250 lens, and 250mm shots are still better than the iPhone 17 Pro.

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Okay, thinking on this more, I have a very hot take here.

What’s the big deal?

Google is seemingly offering a locally processed machine vision API to other apps, as far as I tell. This might manifest as some messaging service nagging you if you try to send nudes to someone, or filtering porn out of a feed. Or other “safety” features I suppose, like classifying slur-laden messages as abusive.

…But Google was most certainly doing this with Google apps already. Like the stock photo library most apps use.

If people are already using unprivate services for this kind of thing, honestly, they were digging their own grave, and this hardly moves the needle. All it does is make the spying/censorship more apparent.

I say those users need a cold bucket of water to the face, and this may provide it.

…But otherwise, it wont affect apps that dont use the API, right?

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026
Its fair.

We certainly dont have to like Musk, but Starlink helped Ukraine survive, from early on. He helped facilitate it. Thats a fact. Its sensible to acknowledge that (and to stroke egos for strategic reasons).

…There is no place for pride in this kind of war.

on Elon Musk awarded Ukraine's Order of Freedom, one of the country's highest state honours, for Starlink role in c/europe@feddit.org · 27 Aug 2026
You may come off as hyperbolic, but this is exactly what Canon is trying to do.

They already try to funnel users into a canon.cloud subscription with cloud editing features, and a DPP editing software subscription. Their HDR mode uses a weird curve that makes using anything but their software annoying. They made their crappy free webcam app subscription only, and neutered many cameras so that’s the only option to use.

Not to speak of locking the RF mount out of third parties…

But to be fair, Canon is only doing that because they are #1 in marketshare, though. Panasonic, Fuji, OM aren’t behaving so badly. And the Chinese pocket cam makers are rapidly catching up (though obviously they have their own enshittification issues).

on Android users can't remove nude-scanning app as Google opens the feature to app developers in c/technology@lemmy.world · 27 Aug 2026