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It’s not a big deal. It’s silly and hilarious. Own it 😁

I use gen AI every day and I find it extremely useful. But there’s degrees to every model’s effectiveness. For example, I have a wide selection of AI models (for coding) at my disposal from OpenAI, Google, Anthropic, etc and nearly every open source model that exists. If I want to do something simple like change a light theme (CSS) to a dark one, I can do that with gpt5-mini, gpt-oss:120b or any of the other fast/cheap models… Because it’s a simple task.

If I need to do something complicated that requires a lot of planning and architecture, I’m going to use the best model(s) available for that sort of thing (currently, Claude Sonnet/Opus or Gemini Pro… The new 3.0 version; old 2.5 sucked ass). Even then I will take a skeptical view of everything it generates and make sure my prompts are only telling it to do one little thing at a time, verifying everything at each step.

What I’m saying is that AI is an effective tool depending on the use case/complexity. Do I trust the big game publishers to use AI effectively like this? FUCK NO. Huge negative response to that question.

Here’s how I suspect that they’ll use generative AI:

• Instead of using a gen AI model to interpolate steps between frames (which is most effective at 2D or 2.5D stuff), they will use a video model to generate the whole thing from scratch, 8-10 second clips at a time. Complete with all the inconsistencies and random bullshit that it creates. The person in charge will slap a “good enough” sticker on it and it’ll ship like that.
• Instead of viewing the code generated by AI with a critical eye, they will merely rely on basic unit tests and similar. If it passes the test, it’ll ship. We can expect loads of “how did this even happen?” bugs from that in the near future (not just in games).
• Instead of using image models to generate or improve things like textures (so they line up properly), they’ll have them generate whole scenes. Because that saves time and time is money! And that’s all that matters to them. Even though there will be absolutely insane and obvious inconsistencies that piss off gamers.
• Instead of paying people to use AI to help them translate text, they’ll just throw the text at the AI and call it a day. With no verification or improvements by humans whatsoever.
• They’ll pay 3rd parties for things like “AI cheat checking” and it will ban people left and right who were not cheating but will do nothing to stop actual cheaters (just like every anti-cheat that ever existed).
• They will use AI bots for astroturfing and ad campaigns.
• They will use poorly-made AI chat bots for completely unhelpful, useless support. People will jailbreak these and use them for even more nefarious purposes inside of games (because security folks won’t be paying as much attention in that space).

There’s a lot of room in gaming for fun and useful generative AI but folks like Tim Sweeney will absolutely be choosing the villain route.

Atoms lettuce break the iceberg.

Yep! There’s really only ONE operating system that doesn’t do rsync over SSH. Can you guess which one? 😁

BTW: FolderSync does it on Android for free… https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=dk.tacit.android.foldersync.lite (only OK-ish GUI but it works).

Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😤

I just use rsync over ssh via a cron job 🤷

It’s been working fine for over 20 years on all my various PCs.

Too stupid to notice? No. Too meek to do anything about it? Yes! That sums up Windows users in a nutshell.

So… Basically nothing. That’s something like 0.01% of our total emissions?

The way the news reports about AI data centers you’d think they’re like nuclear bombs that destroy entire cities worth of energy and water everywhere they go up.

The solution is to require them to use renewable energy! Just regulate them, already! The big AI players won’t give two shits about that; they’ll upgrade their designs and move on. Just like with every other environmental regulation that’s come along.

Zero-Point Motion? No.

Zero-Point Module 👍

Any judge that does this should be forcibly removed from any and all cases even remotely related to religion. Because clearly, they put their religious beliefs above the law.

If their religion says what to do about any given thing and that thing comes up in their courtroom? BAM! Instant disqualification. Get a proper, impartial judge that won’t deny people legitimate government services because their religion dictates all their actions (aka theocracy).

Any company that sees themselves “in the Business of selling printers and ink” thinks they’re strictly “in the business of selling ink.” Because selling ink is incredibly profitable.

This is exactly the type of situation that could be fixed with government regulation: Make it illegal for printer companies to sell ink/toner!

The day such regulation came into effect, all printers would double (not triple!) in price and we’d have like three standard cartridge sizes that you could source anywhere. They’d all be refillable and the world would be a better place.

You’ve obviously never tried to get any given .NET project working in Linux. There’s .NET and then there’s .NET Core which is a mere subset of .NET.

Only .NET Core runs on Linux and nobody uses it. The list of .NET stuff that will actually run on .NET Core (alone) is a barren wasteland.

If it’s written in C# that’s a huge turn-off though because that means it’s likely to only run on Windows.

I mean, in theory, it could run on Linux but that’s a very rare situation. Almost everything ever written in C# uses Windows-specific APIs and basically no one installs the C# runtime on Linux anymore. It’s both enormous and a pain in the ass to get working properly for any given C# project.

As an information security professional and someone who works on tiny, embedded systems, knowing that a project is written in Rust is a huge enticement. I wish more projects written in Rust advertised this fact!

Benefits of Rust projects—from my perspective:

• Don’t have to worry about the biggest, most common security flaws. Rust projects can still have security flaws (anything can) but it’s much less likely for certain categories of flaws.
• Super easy to build stuff from scratch. Rust’s crates ecosystem is fantastic! Especially in the world of embedded where it’s a godsend compared to dealing with C/C++ libraries.
• It’s probably super low overhead and really fast (because Rust stuff just tends to be like that due to the nature of the language and that special way the borrow checker bitches at you when you make poor programming choices haha).
• It’s probably cross-platform or trivially made cross-platform.

Ugh, if only that worked for longer than like a month.

Eventually all these materials you can throw under throw rugs to make them stickier end up failing. Catastrophically.

Make sure to get a throw rug that has the non-slip feature sewn in. Make sure it’s nice and heavy too and never put it in the dryer (it’ll ruin the non-slip part). You should probably air dry throw rugs anyway, actually 🤷

The rug threw you. That’s why they’re called that!

Xerox is a bad copy of themselves from decades prior.

Try this and the result may shock you!

Doctors hate it!

…and people that work with resin and 3D printerers.

I’m going to assume the standard was poorly understood because I can’t imagine a multi-billion dollar company hires idiots to set standards.

Ahahahahahahaha! Oh man, you got a good laugh out of me this morning 🤣