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Strayce

@ Strayce @lemmy.sdf.org

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  • Congratulations to Duolingo, for being the first tech company to destroy itself in the Great AI Crash. I guess nobody wants to pay $30 per month to talk to an AI chat bot in their target language.

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  • That owl had it coming

  • "Capitalism isn't bad, it's just late-stage capitalism that sucks"

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  • Even taking that at face value it doesn't make sense. Capitalism necessarily leads to late stage capitalism. Therefore, even if you could RETVRN you'd just be kicking the can down the road. Which I guess is fine if you don't give a fuck about your grandkids.

  • NSFW

    [CW Self Abraharm]

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  • Why the hell is twink censored. What the fuck is wrong with the internet?

  • 'World's thinnest modular phone concept' tries to make add-ons cool again

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  • Assuming it even works in a practical sense, the only way that'll ever catch on is if they open the standard to third party manufacturers.

  • ShatGPT

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  • I prefer the Chinese competitor, DeepCheeks.

  • Featured

    Sunday is Gaming Day: What Are You Playing Weekly Thread

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  • Started and finished TR-49. Gameplay-wise you'll probably enjoy it if you're a compulsive researcher like me who can't help pulling on threads. Unfortunately I went AFK and missed a timed event that I had no idea existed. This left me incredibly stuck and I had to resort to a walkthrough so I can't really comment on the majority of it. Plot and theme wise it feels very much like a commentary on AI, given that

    The central premise is a machine that eats books, and enables the rich to maintain control of society by rewriting reality via people's perceptions.

    Recommended if you like puzzlers, but stay in your seat.

    Also been doing a replay of Dustborn, now that it's had all the content updates and QOL fixes that I've been seeing in my Steam feed. So far, I haven't noticed massive changes, although I think most of the content is towards the end. It's definitely a middle finger to the "is it woke" crowd. For that reason alone I'm glad it exists, and I'm glad I paid for it, but it still kinda falls flat and I'm honestly running out of motivation to even reach that extra content. The game tries to be too many things at once; it's a rhythm game, it's a 3rd-person beat-em-up, it's a telltale-style adventure game. Props to the dev team for trying something a bit different in that respect, but you can absolutely tell they didn't have the resources to pull it off. Rather than excel at any one thing, which I think they totally could have done, it's just kinda mid at everything. The rhythm sections are ... fine. The combat is .. okay. The character-based adventure bit is ... whoa boy do I have some thoughts about that.

    It could have been a really interesting exploration of the "bad powers, good people" trope (CW: tvtropes link), because the player character's abilities are all .. kinda icky at best. And while it's fun as hell to use them to fuck with fascist cops, there are sections where you are railroaded into treating your friends like crap just to move the plot along. It feels absolutely gross. Which, credit to the writers for making me feel empathy for pixels, I guess. But there's a couple of specific sections where it feels like you should be able to just .. not do that. Which is where it becomes clear that they didn't have the resources to do that style of "choices matter" gameplay properly. Because your choices -don't- matter if you don't have them, and it -really- feels like you should.

    The whole thing is so frustratingly -almost- brilliant. Like with a bigger team, more time and money, it could have been amazing. There's the bones of a good game there, it just needs ... more.

  • Microsoft has been planning to kill Xbox for a few months so this is the sunset plan in motion.

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  • I'm still not clear if she's an executive in charge of AI or an AI simulated executive. Neither would surprise me given Microsoft's direction at the moment. Has anybody counted her fingers?

  • [CW: ableism] Epstein files show Deepak Chopra thinks people with autism are psychic

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  • Mother fucker didn't close his parentheses.

  • Can Australia build one of the world’s largest data centres?

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  • The better question is, should we?

  • What are some of your favorite songs in a language you do not speak?

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  • La Rage by Keny Arkana

  • At a first look, mood tracker apps are fucking disgusting. Anyone got one they like? Or should I just start a spreadsheet?

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  • I can't personally vouch for any of them, but a cursory search of f-droid shows a few FOSS, local-only mood tracking apps. Probably worth a look.

  • Nothing to worry, they are just dancing robots.

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  • USA robots can do this, you just need to find a kung fu master to wear the suit.

  • Found a funny Epstein Files convo from 2018 that shows Chinese diplomats did not want anything to do with Epstein, saying "be careful of the Jewish dog"

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  • Watch that get spun as antisemitism.

  • Hold on, the term "Sex Pervert" is an actual term? I thought that was just some shit the RLM guys came up with.

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  • Personally I'm a tennis pervert.

  • "Patriotism is apolitical"

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  • Being a patriot for the 'States is apolitical because the USA is normal. Any other country is foreign and strange, therefore it's political.

  • If you are not in a tech field, what got you into self-hosting?

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  • I'm not in a tech field now, but I used to be. I jumped ship when everything started moving to 'cloud based' because I don't trust anything I can't kick when it breaks.

  • Removed

    Now that’s art

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  • I had to check if this was real, I honestly wouldn't put it past modern Heathcliff to pull this shit.

    It isn't.

  • on one hand im always glad when big accounts use their platforms to denounce fascism. on the other hand its the annoying orange

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  • holy shit that thing is still around?

  • Trying to remember the first website I ever visited.

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  • Probably about the same, '97-'98. We'd gotten a PC in maybe '92 or '93, a 486SX-33 with a whopping 4MB of RAM. My primary school was still stuck on BBC micros, and our C64 had long been given away, so my parents shelled out for a new machine for me for high school and of course I instantly started trading games with all the other nerds, spending my allowance on gaming magazines, playing coverdisk demos, buying shareware disks from the local newsagent. We started hearing about this "internet" thing in about '96, so my father eventually took me to this "intro to the internet" seminar, and at the end there was a single PC hooked up via dialup that we could fool around on. When it was my turn I went to the only website I could remember off the top of my head, the local gaming magazine, Hyper.

    Preserved on archive.org, and magazine scans here.

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world
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    Yet another request for recommendations

  • Open Source @lemmy.ml
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    SOLVED

    Linux desktop podcast client with hardware player management?

  • Self Hosted - Self-hosting your services. @lemmy.ml
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    Lightweight FOSS CMS with ActivityPub support?

  • Linux Gaming @lemmy.world
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    Third-party game tools