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Aria

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  • Smart glasses and socializing

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  • I feel the same way about smartphones but it's now completely normalised. Glasses are less paranoia-inducing since you can clearly see where it's pointed and it's at eye-level. I'd rather discourage smartphone use than smart-glasses use.

  • Congrats to Donald Trump on Starting the Least Popular War in Recent Memory

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  • Next time they'll start with a false-flag and get those stats back on track.

  • Destabilization currency

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  • Oh okay so if I sell the EU oil in Euros that's no big deal then? Not gonna come kill me?

  • GNOME and Mozilla Discuss Proposal to Disable Middle Mouse Paste on Linux

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  • "Oh don't worry, ChatGPT can just type that text in for you when you need it". /s

  • GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

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  • If you're referring to touch screen users, then I don't see how not having copy/pasting work when you plug in a mouse benefits them normally when they don't have mice plugged in.

  • Narrowing it down, should I live in the Netherlands, Portugal, or Spain?

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  • The idea of learning three languages through an app at once in a short period is silly. Which one of these languages do you actually stand a chance at becoming fluent in? Are you already conversational? It's a much lower bar to be able to hold a conversation with someone who's trying to teach you the language and is patient with you than what's needed for every day life. But if you can meet that bar today you'll probably be able to learn the language well too.

  • Narrowing it down, should I live in the Netherlands, Portugal, or Spain?

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  • I assure you the Dutch speak Dutch. Many Dutch people also know English because it's a mandatory subject in school, but if I said that in the UK they don't speak English, and that they all speak French, would you think I was accurately describing the situation in the UK?

  • Users of generative AI struggle to accurately assess their own competence

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  • The results of the second study mirrored the first. The monetary incentive did not correct the overestimation bias. The group using AI continued to perform better than the unaided group but persisted in overestimating their scores. The unaided group showed the classic Dunning-Kruger pattern, where the least skilled participants showed the most bias. The AI group again showed a uniform bias, confirming that the technology fundamentally shifts how users perceive their competence.

    So it's only high performers that are affected then, no? I also wish the article would mention the average bias from the control group. I know the curve looks different, but it sounds like they're probably only talking about a single answer worth of difference between the groups, and with only ~600 participants that doesn't seem that significant.

    The researchers noted that most participants acted as passive recipients of information. They frequently copied and pasted questions into the chat and accepted the AI’s output without significant challenge or verification. Only a small fraction of users treated the AI as a collaborative partner or a tool for double-checking their own logic.

    So then it's possible that they correctly assessed that they're worse at the test than the AI as established earlier in the article. That seems pretty important. I'm sure it's covered in the actual paper but I can only access the article.

  • London venue ‘appalled’ after antisemitic imagery allegedly screened at Primal Scream gig

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  • Entwining a Star of David with a swastika implies that Jews are Nazis and risks encouraging hatred of Jews.

    The Star of David is a sacred symbol of Jewish identity; the swastika is the emblem of a genocidal regime responsible for the murder of 6 million Jews. To merge these two symbols is an act of profound malice, desecration, and cruelty. It is antisemitism in its starkest form.

    Are there any other political entities that use that symbol? Perhaps a Nazi entity? I actually notice in the article that they make reference to other political entities.

    As the band performed the song, pictures of political figures, including the Israeli prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, and the US president, Donald Trump

    Images of the destruction in Gaza were also shown on screen. The video concluded with the words: “Our government is complicit in genocide.”

    Oh yeah, come to think of it, Israel, a Nazi state, uses the Star of David as their icon. Given the evidence, it seems more likely the band was actually referencing Israel. I wonder why the author didn't make that connection.

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • base model PS5 does not have built in FSR of any sort

    Well nobody has built-in FSR. It's a software that runs on the GPU. (With the relevant exception of PSSR). The reason FSR4 only officially supports RDNA4 and up is because RDNA4 has much faster 8-bit floating point operations. Floating point operations is the primary thing GPUs are used for. So it's a very general improvement/design change/new feature that allows FSR4 to run fast, not a specialised extra chip in RDNA4 series GPUs. 8 bit is very imprecise and therefore less used in graphics, but good for AI. Nvidia already had this.

    studios can write their own implementation of FSR and there’s apparently a few games that did just that, but the majority of PS5 games don’t

    So FSR is a specific program using a specific algorithm. (With FSR1, 2, 3, etc being different from each other). So nobody is writing new FSR implementations. Might not even be legal. It's a case of including the program (and of course writing the surrounding code to use it, which is probably what you meant). But I mention to highlight that the reason most PS5 games don't use FSR is because FSR usually wasn't the best use of that performance.

    (FSR1, and to some extent FSR2/3 worked on very sparse data, they're essentially post-process effects. If you're writing a game engine then you have a lot of insight into the frame and can instead use similar tricks to upscale along the way, or with using data from previous frames, data from non-final passes, etc, to upscale your game either cheaper or better. For example Epic's TSR is able to get better results for cheaper because it's more integrated into the steps along the way to the final image. There's also XeSS which looks better and supports RDNA2 at least on PC).

    You didn't see much FSR1 use because it wasn't very good. I'd think 2 and 3 are more popular. And on the previous topic of hardware requirements: Steam Machine is RDNA3 so it's FSR3 they're talking about for the Steam Machine - Same one the base PS5's RDNA2 GPU can use. So I can't see it being any sort of silver bullet - But it is true that RDNA3 has some new features over RDNA2. If a game is built around intense matrix maths it can't run on PS5 but can on RDNA3. There will be some shaders and AI-adjacent things that run faster on Steam Machine. But not FSR.

    custom co-developed implementationPSSR, a custom implementation of AMD’s FSR that they co-developed with AMD

    It isn't, it's it's own thing. Or rather, it's FSR4, not FSR1-3. FSR4 and PSSR are AI, that means they need training data. And that's why PSSR is made by/with Sony, because Sony is allowed to use PlayStation licensed games to get the training data and AMD isn't. Unless Valve has done something clever with the license they aren't allowed to train on Steam games. (Of course the way Nvidia got around this was to just train on commercial games and not worry about it, so maybe PlayStations' catalogue isn't actually that valuable =P). So it's unlikely that the Steam Machine will have a proprietary FSR4 model that's better than the AMD provided one.

    I think the reason Valve's messaging has been so heavy on FSR isn't because they have a way to make FSR better cooking in their lab, but because they want to be able to simultaneously say "4K" to console players and "Not 4K" to PC players. Hence "4K with FSR".

    I hope this is clear and not too wordy and not condescending. It sounded like you were misunderstanding FSR slightly.

    they were primarily making noise about Frame Generation

    Some people don't like frame generation because it adds latency and works poorly with V-Sync. But there are also a lot of people who just hate AI because of how it's made. You see it every day on Lemmy.

    I’m of the opinion that the Steam Machine will easily match the base PS5, and likely land somewhere between it and the PS5 Pro

    I just don't see how that's possible without a faster GPU.

    the work Valve has put into Steam OS itself and how it may compare to running the same games under Windows

    It's true that sometimes the same Windows game can run faster. But in this case we're talking about GPU-limited games, and there the fact that Linux is faster doesn't help. Both on Linux and Windows the OS overhead is negligible and the GPU driver is in complete control. If a game is ever faster on GPU side on Linux it'll be because the emulation was bad and skipped some steps.

    I’m not some hardcore Valve fanboy and am open to new information/perspective changing my opinion. I appreciate the discussion :)

    I didn't get any sort of bad impression. I don't think anything you said is unfair, but I'm making the case for why I disagree.

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • Sure, it's not a complete apples to apples comparison. But I don't think a newer FSR version will that drastically improve the perception. It's not like upscaling and reconstruction isn't available at all on PS5. (Plus aren't a lot of people anti-AI and boycotting those features?)

    Which angle are you arguing?FSR4+ will/can make the same game look better on this PC than PS5? Or FSR4+ has value and should be considered in the cost-benefit?

    If the first, then we'd have to look at evidence. Are there any games where the PS5 version is obviously (visible to new customers) worse looking than the low-medium settings, 8GB-spec PC version? Maybe a few but I wouldn't expect it to hold true for most big sellers. There aren't even that many FSR4 games period. Maybe that's a point in favour? This'll be more future-proof than PS5. Though PS6 is probably not that far away either.

    On the flip side games like Alan Wake 2 and Indiana Jones run great on base PS5 but won't on PC with 8GB. I found this video on the topic with many comparisons. https://youtu.be/cFlaymC-vZIThe video shows that it's not as dramatic a difference as I implied and assumed, but it still demonstrates that it does often make an immediately appreciable difference. Particularly when it comes to stutters. It's also testing a card with only 12GB, but the PS5 can comfortably be used for even heavier scenarios.

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • everyone seems to be forgetting the “semi custom” bit

    They've already explained the customisation, which is that it's missing 4 compute units compared to the consumer version. So taking it into account would mean that we'd compare it to a lower tier GPU than the current assumption.

    but it’s shared and the Steam Machine has more total memory

    I’d be willing to wager that it’ll beat the base PS5

    The system having more total memory than the PS5 isn't going to help. Games are designed with the PS5's configuration in mind and make assumptions about the available memory. Video memory is also just a lot more useful than system memory. It's a lot (~10x) faster, and all the things that take up space are things related to video. Even if it received native ports, it wouldn't be able to run PS5 games as well as the PS5. The CPU does sound faster. It can probably run Cities Skylines faster than a base PS5.

    I also think it'll be under €500, but I don't really except it to be better priced than a console. If I wanted to play Fifa, and I can get Fifa bundled with a PS5 for €450, then it would have to be €380 to match the value. And then I'd need to think about like, do I trust PlayStation? Of course, it's the 5th PlayStation I'd be buying. Vs do I trust these people? Which version looks better? It'll be the PlayStation version. Which version is more likely to just work with the fewest updates and faff? It'll be the PlayStation version also.

    ABetterTomorrow@sh.itjust.works asking for it to be $250 isn't that far off what it would have to cost to sell the 300+ million lifetime units Julian Benson is alluding to.

  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • If Valve creates an "entry point" for living room PCs, the console-beating Steam Machines will follow, argues Baldur's Gate 3's publishing director

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  • This isn't as powerful as a PS5 or as portable as a Switch (and doesn't have the benefits of a console). So it should be cheaper. Looking at the prices right now, PS5 with Fifa is 450 from MediaMarkt and Series S is 380. But the PS5 is already heavily criticised for being too expensive. I believe Series S can be 300 if you look around and wait for a sale.

  • [DeS] I don't get the hate for the remake

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  • Anywhere where the original was small and tangible, the Bluepoint version is grand and fantastical. It's too big a departure. I also hated their take on Shadow of the Colossus being presented as interchangeable with the original.

    They make these games look very pretty, but in context, some scenes aren't their best version when they are pretty in that way.

  • gazans fished while idf distracted by flotilla

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  • Hamas is hiding in fishing rods.

  • Would you join a Lemmy server hosted by your govt that requires an ID to post comments or content? (lurkers no ID required)

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  • Yes but why Lemmy? There are more mature forum softwares. Your proposal doesn't benefit from federation and doesn't benefit from a UI optimised for discussing external links. You can of course continue using your real-ID account and interact with the Fediverse that way but no one else is doing real-ID so I don't see that as a positive.

  • Taiwan Rejects US Demand for Half of Chips to Be Made in America

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  • It's also their economy. They might refuse because they want to eat.

  • Starmer claims that America under Donald Trump 'keeps us safe'

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  • Starmer has been ramping up on domestic and European defence spending

    In complete accordance with the USA's orders? These were the USA's orders to the UK. https://www.war.gov/News/Speeches/Speech/Article/4064113/opening-remarks-by-secretary-of-defense-pete-hegseth-at-ukraine-defense-contact/

    Is anything Starmer has done in conflict with these orders? Has he done anything that makes it harder or impossible to follow these orders in the future that shows that he's disregarding them? Otherwise, the specific examples you gave are in line with following the USA's orders so far.

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    TIL you can use a Gamecube controller with Mario Kart 8 on Switch