Kerbal Space Program 2 still hurts me.

I don’t know who are these people. And they have achieved in record time that I never want to really heard them anymore.

I’m glad. But don’t get your hopes up because of this. Commission could (and probably will) just say “we have considered it and we are going to do nothing”.

In my experience LLM get vastly better results that traditional translation software.

Also google translate is not traditionally suited for long coherent text. One particular issue is tone, proper translation takes into account not only the worlds but the tone and the subject is being treated. Google translate cannot take that into account, with an llm the user can tweak the tone to match the tone of the original text with better accuracy.

And, anyway google translate if it’s not already using llm for translation will soon. Results are just better. It’s one of the tasks that language models are actually good for.

Anyhow, what’s the issue if an automatic translation is done using one software or other? Just use whatever gives best results and it’s more convenient for the developer.

For mods the better approach would probably be that each game community host their own mod portal. No single point of failure.

Last year. It still had a lot of lag moving around in my machine.

Who even uses steam big picture?

In my experience it has always had an horrible experience.

Also pc gaming has always been a thing.

It’s just that consoles have been harder to justify not only because pc gaming have gotten better. But because consoles have gotten worse. It’s no longer plug and play, now you have to do the same steps of installing, downloading things, checking if your version of the console can run that game… At that point big consoles are harder and harder to justify.

Sony will go behind of they don’t do some changes. Xbox fell sooner because they had a thinner base. But sony is not out of danger.

Nintendo is probably fine as they rotated to handhelds, which are a different niche than normal pcs. And because they hold massive exclusive IPs.

Google CO2 emissions were 1.5 MTo in 2010. By 2018 they were 13 MTo. In 2023 they were 14 MTo.

I’m sorry but there’s more to the story that what’s being told in the article. For starters any dataset that takes 2019/2020 as their base line is skewed, we all know what happened that year.

And, on the other hand, Google emissions increased by almost a 1000% in ten years before AI.

Truth is more important than that agenda or the dogma. That article does the wild assumption that a big share of the increase in electricity usage is because AI. It may be, or it may not be, but the article presents zero evidences for that claim. And data in hand we know that google can use a ton of electricity without AI. So the impact of AI may or may not be as big as portrayed by the article. And it also disregards completely the massive increases in google emissions before 2019.

And you also need enough self control not to just disable it each time you want to enter.

In Spain we already have that.

There is an app that let you show only some data of your national ID and it’s verifiable by the other party. One of their usecases is specifically age verification. The app shows that the user is over 18 or under 18 and the portrait. There is a qr that can be used for instant verification.

But signing is kind of different. For signing you need an unique id.

I signed this petition with the digital certificate. It really never asked me for much more data. But the digital certificate includes full name, country and national ID number. But I suppose that’s the minimum needed for a valid signature.

I’ve always thought that the only solution to this problem is being able to reverse engineering central servers and thus being effectively being able to pirate online only games.

I have player the original arma (operation flashpoint) and Arma3.

And while there is a ton of depth, you can ignore part of it if you want to play more casual.

While you can know all the details of a weapon at a ridiculous level, you do not need to know them to finish the campaign.

For multiplayer I can’t help as I’ve never played it. But I suppose it would depend on the server and which people you play with.

Mod hosting seems to be a great usecase for torrent. It only need a suitable frontend and we are golden.

I do miss the era when you just put the thing in the thing-shaped socket and the thing just worked.

Now you cannot do anything without setting accounts, downloading things, updating things and accepting tons of unread documents.

Or maybe I’m just getting old.

I wish just by having my jellyfin server up media companies would actually get hurt, like fiscally hurt.

In some parallel universe they are probably announcing Silent Hills 2 after the incredible success of the first one.

I’m playing Death Stranding. I’ve been waiting some years and I’m finally giving it a go.

It have many similarities with MGSV which is good. It feels like a well made game.

0.0045 per hour at 100%.

As we don’t want to use all power let’s say 50% power. So about 0.0028usd per hour.

Geoguessr most basic plan is 2.50usd month. The miner would need to be running 893 hours that month. Which is about 29 hours a day, wich is impossible.

With the miner running like 10 hours per week the developers would get the amazing quantity of 0.112 usd per month.

That kind of thing is used in malware because if you stole is actually real state. But for legit usage it’s hard to justify without a dedicated operation.

Btw are you checking if your monero mining is really profitable? Last time I checked xmr mining was no profitable with any type of hardware unless electricity cost were basically free. I have both a beefy computer and a power efficient computer, checked with both and neither were profitable to use for mining.

Don’t give them ideas.

I always thought that given that personal use of google street maps os free for the user. It would be really easy to just make a copy of that game for free relying on scrapping instead of api calls.

Insert chad scrapper vs virgin API user meme.

There are several issues with that.

First and foremost. Most people’s devices are not powerful enough to make any money mining any cryptocurrency.

Also a cryptominer is not “free real state” it chugs the computer. The user would have a terrible experience trying to do anything with a cryptominer on the background.

And finally, there are many free software out there. Not everything is to be monetized. Some things should just be free. I have done plenty of free things for others to enjoy, it’s not the end of the world, quite the opposite is quite rewarding.

Good moment to ask how is Victoria 3

I liked vice city and San Andreas.

Since IV they have been striping features from the games (also IV had huge performance issues). And V is completely bland to me. I didn’t enjoy it. And I don’t expect much from VI. I expect the same shallowness as V with a different background.

If I’m wrong good from everyone. But I won’t get disappointed if it’s as boring a V.

This is just right. Massive amounts of corporations have a complete dependency on Microsoft Office. In a way that cannot be substituted by Libreoffice or similar.

Change need to happen. But there need to be a viable alternative before it.

It’s an experiment for the Duncan Princicle!

My ps1 controler have not gotten stick drift in… how long now? 30 years?

Is that a lost technology like in sci-fi books?

I would lo to be able to justify buying a 1500€ vr set. But using it for one or two games does not make the threshold for me.

I hope they make more really good games so it become justifiable.

By played hours the Binding Of Isaac probably.

By impact in my heart Metal Gear Solid.

Discord is where knowledge goes to die.

I never understood why people chose that as a meeting place for communities knowing that all the knowledge thrown in there is useless.

A very few bad games will put that badge, and in a few months no one would ever remember it. Like any other ridiculous anti-AI campaign. You can quote me on July.

If a gamedev want to use Stable Diffusion to render some art, or tortoise to make some voices/sound let them be. As it was predictable anti-AI people would began to pursue actual artist in the name of art.

I take the occasion to promote a really good indie game whose devs used AI to make some art for the game.

https://bitfans.itch.io/innsmouth

100% recommend.

It’s also Zero mission for me. The atmosphere and story are amazing.

As games keep getting easier and easier to make. Single or small team indie developers can take on doing those kind of games.

You wouldn’t download a voice?

May he rest in eternity.

The binding of Isaac.

There’s a bug update I’ve heard and I want to go back to see how it goes.

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead.

Not that I play a lot. I was just trying it, but it happened to be the last one I played last year.

As far as capitalism goes they are not the shittiest of companies out there.

They have predatory tactics with lootboxes on their popular games though.

But most of their practices are not anticonsumer.

And they do not enforce drm and their own drm is a joke, so you can basically own most games if you want with very little effort. Just copy the files and have a generic steam crack around and you are golden for most cases.

Yep, I’m sure most of them just bought their positions there to have power over society.

They really like to show off how much power they have and how self defense is, indeed, justified.

They do and undo like there’s no consequences whatsoever.

The fact that a legit website could be taken down just by a big corporation claim, without any further third party or gubernamental investigation. Is indeed frightening.