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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 Microsoft Patents Technique for Inserting Ads Into Videogames While You’re Playing Them. in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
They’d likely license as a percentage of revenue, not a specific dollar amount, which would make it more available to every studio and they’d theoretically make more money from the added ad revenue.
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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
Until they license this out to every triple a studio and they all do it. Now I’m off to play more Tiny Terraces
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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
But they didn’t even have to shutter many of the studios. Many of them were profitable. Microsoft just didn’t want the competition and they decided the studios weren’t obscenely profitable
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on Indie game developers have a new sales pitch: being ‘AI free’ in c/technology@lemmy.world · 1d ago
And just to extend, this doesn’t just apply to AAA games or anything. Like look how much people fell in love with and lovingly memed the placeholder art in “Slay the Spire II”. Or how much players are still captivated by the story and feel of “What Remains of Edith Finch”.
There’s plenty of examples of solo devs doing it too, just not as shiny. “Balatro”, “Axiom Verge”, “Return of the Obra Dinn”, “Stardew Valley”… I could go on. People like lovingly crafted things of any size
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on AccuWeather, National Weather Service add “Lake America” to maps in c/technology@lemmy.world · 2d ago
Way to not read their comment and keyboard warrior from another country
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on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
I’m comparing basic single player open world to live service. Not POV
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on Blizzard is reviving StarCraft as an open-world shooter, but it'll be a long wait in c/gaming@beehaw.org · 13 Sep 2026
Is it live service? I’ve only heard open world. More Just Cause than Destiny.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I’m gonna point you at the comment chain I’ve got adjacent to this with Zeoic if you missed it. I think it’s ultimately dancing around the same stuff and expresses my thoughts more cleanly on this topic.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I have tried that shift from “AI is Evil” -> “Irresponsible AI use is Evil” and what I found is everyone then goes “well I’m one of the responsible ones” and we end up right back where we started with them pumping every thought into a prompt and churning out whatever with no regard. Humans are very skilled at believing they aren’t the problem and are the hero of their own story.
If however, the lazy approach is taken of “AI is evil, fuck you for using it” (those are my words but with the asterisk of if you truly are part of the 0.01% using it responsibly then ignore me) then people understand that, yes, I mean you guy running claude code to “write” your next big app.
It’s the same problem of why marginalized people get overlooked or alienated in general. They’re in the margins because they aren’t the norm. Not saying it’s good, just this is more of that and I’ve never seen a good solution.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I explicitly did not call you a Nazi or far right. I do see how what I wrote could be interpreted that way and isn’t my intent so my bad on that one.
I said that that’s a far right attitude to take. Shutting out the opinion of people against it because you view them as obnoxious. Nothing good will happen if we all did that in my opinion.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I am sorry you get tossed out with the bathwater.
It absolutely is something I struggle with. To me, I know LLMs are just called AI but aren’t, and machine learning is not LLM. I’ve actually developed a neural network based program for a previous company before and know it can be useful in certain cases.
But how do I know the person I’m talking to knows that? How do I know the person is one of the minority who is trying to do it ethically and responsibly? How do I express just how truly damaging the current mainstream “AI” methods are succinctly and strongly without getting bogged down in that discussion and sidetracked from the bigger picture (which is exactly what’s happening here in this comment for example).
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
You’re literally the one who was using him as your example…
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
I mean this in the worst way possible. Your attitude mirrors the far right and is just as bad a take. That’s their approach to everything.
“Oh, you’re fighting against something you see as a danger to literally the entire world? Well if you’d just stop shoving your opinion in our face we’d be happier.”
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
GrapheneOS and Linus have always had a god complex and took the stance their way is the only way. I have never respected them as the arbiters of the correct path others have. (I know LineageOS exists but not much else so can’t speak to them).
I respect them putting in the effort. I respect them trying. I’ve contributed where I can because the overall goal of data privacy and digital freedom is one I agree with. But to hold them on a pedestal as always right is, yes, still a dumb take. I’ve never seen anything that made them the end all be all people seem to hold them up as. Solid voices who’s opinion should hold more than average? Sure. But that’s it.
Yes, Linus is smart and has had good takes and can produce code used by most every computer in one way or another. That doesn’t make him infallible.
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on GrapheneOS defends use of AI for coding in c/technology@lemmy.world · 10 Sep 2026
Your take here is so dumb. Many on Lemmy are software engineers (myself included).
We know exactly how “AI” companies have tried to change programming and know how dumb and misguided it is because we understand quality code.
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on Recommend some anime for me in c/anime@ani.social · 7 Sep 2026
Baccano - 1930s style gangsters but add in alchemy. One of my all time favourites.
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on What 32-bit hardware are you still selfhosting on? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
This is more for like rating movies I’ve watched and books I’ve read, not calories or weight or anything. It’s not updating often enough for a monitor and it’s accessible from anywhere so I can pull it up on my phone at any time.
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on What 32-bit hardware are you still selfhosting on? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 1 Sep 2026
Also running some things in a pi zero w. It’s starting to get a little processing limited so I might add a second and split some things off. Pihole, stats page I wrote to help me track stuff, those sorts of things
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
I’m guessing you were doing in flight aero stuff? I’ve been more in the medical and manufacturing space but the aero I did we were doing post-flight processing for reports. We had almost no memory to operate on, probably because of all the tables you’re referencing that others were using.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 1 Sep 2026
There are so many situations where you can’t just swap hardware. Robots on an assembly line? Yeah you’ve gotta use hardware that’s gone through safety testing. They’re not going to just swap hardware to make things easier. You want to ship an update, you do it in software and under strict testing regiment. Some of that hardware is 20 or 30 years old. Medical. Aeronautics. Aerospace. All of them and more are using older hardware that’s often memory limited but can often just sit and process their next step, and they often don’t have built in complex hardware features because those add potential failure points.
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on reason enough to fail the interview in c/programmer_humor@programming.dev · 30 Aug 2026
Depends on the available memory and size of the tables. I’ve worked on cases where time to compute didn’t matter as much as shaving off three more bytes did. Large lookup tables would have absolutely killed us compared to running some math.
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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
And here I’ve tried generative LLMs about once a year and every time I go “what the fuck are people smoking to think this is good”.
I think everyone insisting all this stuff is providing value are legitimately idiots who haven’t spent even a half second thinking for themselves or about the future or the quality of their work.
I wish I was more dumb and saw these products working like you insist and didn’t have to spend half my time rejecting AI slop PRs that genuinely don’t address anything.
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on As Ubuntu embraces AI, Debian discusses banning all AI-generated code in c/technology@lemmy.world · 28 Aug 2026
Except with stack overflow you can use your experience and pick the best code and onboard the comments discussing various aspects of the different answers. The LLMs don’t do that.
They can just spit out whatever the fuck they want and there’s no guidance or votes or comments. Just an averaging of everything.
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on Every time I use podman in c/linuxmemes@lemmy.world · 24 Aug 2026
That’s what I was thinking. I’ve barely ever understood it for deployments for large companies (even then I disagree, I think it’s added overhead just to bypass poor processes) but at home? Nah, install everything together.
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on The Politics of Cyberdecks: Why women around the world are building their own DIY computers. in c/technology@beehaw.org · 23 Aug 2026
TL:DR - they aren’t
This article was a lot about why people in general are choosing to build cyberdecks and chose to highlight women from that community, but I saw only the following quote for a “women specific” reason. Honestly the entire thing felt like they wrote bullet points they fed through an AI to make gendered
Building cyberdecks, many off-grid, can allow women and girls to feel safe, because it allows them to disconnect from the online spaces where abusers most often reach them.
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on Microsoft totally breaks Windows Defender virus scans in trying to fix a 0-day flaw in c/technology@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Pretty sure Linux is cheaper…
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on Means to privately connect to my home server other than Tailscale? in c/selfhosted@lemmy.world · 21 Aug 2026
Can you switch to IPv6? My ISP NATs me on IPv4 but I’m clear through on IPv6 and so that’s how I run everything.
I’m assuming the NAT is your ISP’s, if it’s yours then ignore me.
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on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
Oh, uh… Don’t try to understand it you say?
puts down my fountain pen and the map of the house I was drawing
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on Day 762 of posting a Daily Screenshot from the games I've been playing in c/games@lemmy.world · 18 Aug 2026
If you love Control, read the book that inspired it.
Read “House of Leaves”
Highly recommend. One of the best and weirdest reading experiences I’ve ever had
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on Amazon Caught Destroying Rare Books to Train AI in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
Except they own those books only because they locked out regular people who want them and used insane amounts of capital they’ve stolen from said people to buy everything up.
This isn’t a guy deciding to toss his copy of a book. This is a company who has destroyed industries and the environment and used basically slave labor forcing people to pee in bottles to meet insane requirements all to hoard wealth that they used to hoard more things.
Condensing it to"book owner does what they want with books they own" ignores so many historic and systemic problems that led to this.
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on The Pollution Being Churned Out by AI Data Centers Is So Severe That It's Almost Incomprehensible in c/technology@lemmy.world · 17 Aug 2026
You’d be correct. Recent estimates are that climate change caused issues will reduce global income by about 15% and cost $40 trillion annually by 2050.
They’d make more money by tackling climate change. It’s in the math. But that math has to be done over multiple years not just next quarter as you said.
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on Rideshare Stimulator finally gets its genAI disclosure after much Saber-rattling, and it turns out the game also uses the tech for in-game music in c/games@lemmy.world · 14 Aug 2026
Sybian missed an opportunity here to make this game first
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on Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
They’re absolutely being “fixed” with AI too.
github.com/torvalds/…/coding-assistants.rst
It was a whole thing back and forth that Linus finally ruled on. It’s supposed to be under the purview of a specific human ultimately but as we’ve seen with countless other projects people get lazy fast with LLMs and testing and review does slip. I trust Linux overall to be better than many other projects yes, but to state AI is not doing development too when it’s very much allowed and discussed is blind to what’s been happening in the project.
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on Linus Torvalds says AI has made 'huge' Linux kernel updates the new normal in c/technology@lemmy.world · 11 Aug 2026
The same way Windows is “fixing bugs” with AI? Large volumes of dubiously tested code is never a good idea
I think they mean if the advertised product. So like if Kleenex buys the ad space they’ll let kleenex know they’re boycotting them and why, not Microsoft.