umbraroze

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[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 30 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Well, sure, with an image classifier, the bird identification is doable. I'm sure I could implement that if I went looking for some open source thingamabob that does that. But it's still not something I could actually understand. That part definitely hasn't changed over the years.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

He he he

[Cyberpunk 2077 music]

/meme

 

I love it when the Internet culture collides with Stuff and it ends up being bloody horrifying.

 
[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 28 points 3 months ago

I remember the last time I got messaged by some misogynist dipshit, way back in Halo 5, blaming me for losing the game. ...When he was the worst performing player in the team. I just stared at the post game report and wondered how the heck the dude even managed to get a ranking as low as he did.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

I always preferred the C64C style keyboard where the graphics characters were in the top of the keycaps. This is my C64G (old breadbin style chassis but with C64C style colouring and keycaps):

Commodore 64G

Quick summary: You get the left graphics character with the Commodore key (bottom left corner), and the right character with Shift key. By pressing Commodore+Shift, you swap between upper case + graphics characters mode and the upper case + lower case mode, applying to the entire screen (so you can't actually use the right graphics characters in that mode).

Fun thing: To switch to another text colour you press Ctrl + number keys, with 8 colours available there, just as in the VIC-20. However, there's also another set of colours available with Commodore + number keys, for another 8 colours. I guess with Jack Tramiel's penny pinching, they didn't bother to mark those on the keys when making the next gen system.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 12 points 3 months ago

My favourite was the one Finnair used to do in the spooky season. Flight 666, straight to HEL.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 15 points 3 months ago (1 children)

That must have been frustrating when the user base responded "but I already got my Blåhaj"

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

Frankly they should have nuked "OneNote for Windows 10" long ago and quietly replaced it with the Office version. Or better yet, not launch a separate version to begin with under the same name. But this is Microsoft, having multiple apps with the same name is just the norm.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 11 points 3 months ago (1 children)

AI business is owned by a tiny group of technobros, who have no concern for what they have to do to get the results they want ("fuck the copyright, especially fuck the natural resources") who want to be personally seen as the saviours of humanity (despite not being the ones who invented and implemented the actual tech) and, like all big wig biz boys, they want all the money.

I don't have problems with AI tech in the principle, but I hate the current business direction and what the AI business encourages people to do and use the tech for.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 4 points 3 months ago

In SMITE's case, the characters come from mythological sources and those sources are public domain. However, the way they're depicted was chosen by the game developer and their depictions are copyrighted by them.

If someone copied the list of characters and made their own game with their own artwork and gameplay and everything, SMITE's creators could do absolutely nothing about it. But if they copied any substantial elements from SMITE directly, then it starts to go in the direction where lawyers start rising eyebrows. At that point it's no longer making original stuff based on the same PD material.

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 62 points 3 months ago (4 children)

I have no idea why the makers of LLM crawlers think it's a good idea to ignore bot rules. The rules are there for a reason and the reasons are often more complex than "well, we just don't want you to do that". They're usually more like "why would you even do that?"

Ultimately you have to trust what the site owners say. The reason why, say, your favourite search engine returns the relevant Wikipedia pages and not bazillion random old page revisions from ages ago is that Wikipedia said "please crawl the most recent versions using canonical page names, and do not follow the links to the technical pages (including history)". Again: Why would anyone index those?

[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 16 points 3 months ago (1 children)
  • Seats smell very faintly of pee
  • On an unrelated note, the dashcam says "made in the USSR" for some reason
  • It's not a bomber, technically, but it does bomb a lot
  • but don't use that mode deliberately, because the ballistic system gets very confused sometimes and targets golf courses instead
  • ...I can't think of any more lame jokes, I've not had my morning covfefe
[–] umbraroze@lemmy.world 8 points 3 months ago

GIMP (at least in v2) does have a vector path tool and stores the paths with the image! Thing is, they kind of work like selections and you have to explicitly stroke the paths on bitmap layers. It's a bit more complicated than necessary and not easy to grasp at first.

 

What with all of the comparisons to Digg flying about, here's a contemporary comic from the Digg's downfall era.

 
 

[1:07:28, channel: mrixrt]

Quick video summary:

  1. There's a few charities, Comic Relief and Kids Relief. They've done a few questionable things over years.
  2. Such as commissioning a few educational games aimed at children, and then put the net profit gained from them to good use. ...The games are AFK brainrot with gacha mechanics and zero educational value.
  3. Also the games are on Roblox! We were talking about net profit here. Roblox eats a huge part of the pie.
  4. And the development house themselves? It was started by a few YouTubers and it all goes downhill from there.
 

This is a twofer.

Combatant 1: Google.

Once every time period of questionable length, Google gives me an Android pop-up that I can't dismiss. This is to "comply" with the EU law. They want me to be extra sure of my rights to choose and want to know which search engine I'm using for the Android search widget and Chrome.

Well, as a matter of fact, I use Google! So I tell them that. I hope it makes them happy.

Combatant 2: ME

...I fucking hate the Android search bar and I'm this close to installing an alternative launcher just to get rid of it.

Also I use Firefox.

(What do you call it when there's two parties who want the same thing, but there's an arbitrary pointless grudge that both of them can see?)

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submitted 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) by umbraroze@lemmy.world to c/retrogaming@lemmy.world
 

Been dumping my GameCube games for my own use. Noticing all kinds of weird things about the old games that I didn't notice before, or had forgotten, because it's been like two decades.

(Didn't get that much into Lost Kingdoms back in the day though. Because as far as inexplicably card-based RPGs go, I sunk so much more time into Baten Kaitos.)

 
 

Warning: This was orginally meant for children, of course, but like all anti-nuclear-war films, it will TRAUMATISE YOU FOR LIFE.

 

Summary: YouTube Content ID is, as we all know, not very good. And AI is making the situation worse.

 
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