brsrklf

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brsrklf,

If you don’t want people revealing the stuff they find, maybe don’t include assets you’re not using yet in your compiled game. At least not what you want to keep a secret.

Are they serious, they’re going to blame people for discovering sound clips that were left there unused for 2 years? Do they just enjoy wasting people’s disk space or something?

brsrklf,

No way they can enforce that. I hope nobody is going to intimidated by this.

‘Mamma Mia!’ Stage Star Sara Poyzer Replaced By AI On BBC Show To Recreate Voice Of Dying Person — Update (deadline.com)

The BBC has issued a statement that offers important context to Sara Poyzer’s viral social media posts. The British broadcaster said it is using AI technology in a “highly sensitive documentary” to represent the voice of a person who is nearing the end of their life....

brsrklf, (edited )

I’m not sure what to think about that.

I’m all for shitting on replacing people with AI, but in this case it’s done with the agreement of the person, who is still able to give it, who can’t talk anymore, and for a documentary. So sure, they could have done it with a voice-over actor, and maybe I’d have preferred it too, but I can’t really say this feels wrong. At this point it feels a bit like Stephen Hawking using his voice synthesis software.

If the person was unable to agree and didn’t write what is being told with “their” voice though? That’d be shit.

brsrklf,

I am surprised the reason for blocking ads doessn’t include making sites somewhat readable. I guess faster loading could be it? But generally it’s more of a layout problem than a bandwidth one.

I tend to not use adblockers, or when I do it’s on a black list system for worst offenders rather than by default. However, I absolutely refuse tracking, and if it’s the only option I go to firefox reader mode immediately.

The usual false dichotomy of “personalised ads or you’re killing us!” is not acceptable.

Who’s Behind All the ‘Pussy in Bio’ on X? (nymag.com)

Spam is hard. No real platform has solved it completely, and none ever will. Spammers evolve, platforms catch up, spammers evolve again, and so on until the last post is posted and the last user signs out. Individual spam tactics, however, do tend to have short lives, and while PIB won’t be with us forever, it’s notable that...

brsrklf,

industry best practices around content moderation, which [Musk] recently characterized as a “propaganda word for censorship"

Someone please think of the poor scammers and their millions of bots that could be silenced.

brsrklf,

Microsoft : “Set Bing as your search engine now!”

Google : “It looks like malicious software tried to change your settings. Change it back.”

Microsoft : “Wait, don’t change it back!”

Really putting the “dialog” in “dialog box”. What the hell.

brsrklf,

There are days when they could probably drown me for a good game of Mario Kart.

brsrklf,

Except they’re not just saying “we don’t like this” and moving on. They’re using dogwhistles (“woke” is only the first one) and 4-chan level type of slurs in their cries of conspiracy. It’s a thinly disguised hate club, games are only an excuse.

They tried to progressively hide it from their group’s front page, editing its language several times, but it was still there in the discussions in and around the group.

brsrklf,

I think she already knows she’s not being paid.

brsrklf,

“What are ya buyin’?”

brsrklf,

Mars’s kids are named Fear and Terror. Not the best parent material there.

brsrklf,

Fucking YouTube shorts.

Every content creator has to partake in the stupidity because it’s that or becoming an algorithm outcast, so they awkwardly cut bits of their videos just to post a couple of those.

And then YouTube forces them in everyone’s throat, with absolutely no regard for the medium and no option to filter them out.

No, YouTube, I won’t watch your stupidly formatted 10-second bits of nothing on my TV.

brsrklf,

Yeah, but you know, danger in the pokémon world is relative.

The worst thing that can happen when you face mafia/terrorists/wannabe dictators is they will make your rat fight theirs. I guess they’ll take your lunch money every time you lose, so that’s a thing.

brsrklf,

“If we can’t get money from targeted far-right fake news anymore, we are going to pretend an achievement of basic social equality from a century ago is now a controversial opinion too”

Meta, probably.

brsrklf,

First goomba : “get on my level, dude.”

brsrklf, (edited )

Yet another reminder that LLM is not “intelligence” for any common definition of the term. The thing just scraped responses of other LLM and parroted it as its own response, even though it was completely irrelevant for itself. All with an answer that sounds like it knows what it’s talking about, copying the simulated “personal implication” of the source.

In this case, sure, who cares? But the problem is something that is sold by its designers to be an expert of sort is in reality prone to making shit up or using bad sources, while using a very good language simulation that sounds convincing enough.

Valve needs to step up on Anti-Cheat

So yeah, I want to discuss or point out why I think Valve needs to fix Anti-Cheat issues. They have VAC but apparently its doing jackshit, be it Counter Strike 2 (any previous iterations) or something like Hunt: Showdown the prevalence of cheating players is non deniable. For me personally it has come to a point that I am not...

brsrklf,

Yeah, I agree with that. Installing freaking rootkits on people’s personal device, with the express purpose of identifying them and knowing what their machine contains, is not OK. A multiplayer client should be as lightweight as possible and shouldn’t be able to fuck with a game.

Even if they agree not using your data for anything else, the next security breach on their servers will make that promise useless.

And I am not sure why one would trust big publishers to have any kind of ethics anyway. Do you remember Activision’s patent to manipulate matchmaking? That would specifically match players to reward those who buy microtransactions and create pressure on those who don’t?

Yeah, totally trusting those manipulative snakes with my private data with a big “do not watch” sticker on it.

brsrklf,

At first I was thinking, a bit of human supervision could not be too bad. And then I got to the part where they said 1.5 workers per vehicle. My maths may be off, but to me that sounds like 0.5 more than is necessary to drive a normal vehicle.

Theranos? Maybe, but at that point, I’d compare it to en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk too.

brsrklf,

You know, that saying doesn’t work nearly as well when the conversation is actually about people’s experience with operating systems.

brsrklf, (edited )

This stuff is why “it’s optional” and “it’s just cosmetic” are bullshit arguments.

If you can resist the urge, you’re not the intended target. They don’t make record profits from people who can spend somewhat rationally, even though those are the vast majority of users their contribution to profits is a drop in an ocean.

No, the only reason this model works so well is because it’s exploiting the vulnerabilities of a small percent of big spenders.

brsrklf,

Best part, first panel is Majora’s Mask in which Zelda plays absolutely no part and only appears in a 20 second memory scene.

brsrklf,

To be confirmed, but this sounds a bit like how Disney decided they didn’t need to pay any more royalties to people who wrote Star Wars novelizations and original novels.

Like, “you don’t have a contract with us, you had one with George Lucas before we bought Star Wars, it didn’t transfer.” Very shady, and probably a lot easier to pull when you’re a huge corporation against a small creator.

brsrklf, (edited )

What a PR joke.

Words have meaning. If they want to convince people removing the ToS was an honest mistake (almost unbelievable bad timing, but whatever), they shouldn’t make a non-apology beginning with “genuinely disappointed” and saying they’ve been “framed”.

Because they get to never say in whom they’re disappointed, and I choose to interpret it as “disappointed in all of you people for being meanies and assuming the worst”.

brsrklf,

Not gonna lie, Ctrl Alt Del still existing is more astonishing to me than 12 years of Skyrim rereleases.

brsrklf,

My guess is it’s not really trying to identify the person on the pic, just looking for anything looking like a human face, like any phone camera software would.

With the same pareidolia/non-human faces problems you’d get on those.

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