Sludgehammer

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[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago

Don't worry, I'm sure that with just another ten or twenty million more funneled into the pockets of Trump cronies and it'll be in tip-top shape.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 12 points 4 days ago (2 children)

It's well known that the Qatar jet was a lemon that they gave to Trump as a white elephant gift. It probably developed some mechanical problem(s) and they had to ground it for repairs.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 22 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I've always wondered if you could make a kit to swap out a cars computer with a... Raspberry Pi or something. Wouldn't it be nice to have a car where you know what hardware it has, what software it's running and who gets data from it?

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I mean during the first Trump term it's been documented the White House pharmacist was handing out drugs like candy on Halloween. Now that Trump is so much older/in worse health I can only imagine how many drugs they're pumping him full of to keep him vaguely ambulatory.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (1 children)

What was then?

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 0 points 4 days ago (3 children)

I have a feeling if I lit truck load of old computers on fire in a quarry or something, arguing "When you think about it most of the e-waste was just metal PC cases so it doesn't count" would not fly in court.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Eh, it's the circle of ~~life~~ game development.

Small studio makes great games, gets bought by big studio, big studio's management flood small studio's staff, the games developed suffer, big studio makes cuts firing almost everyone who was worth a damn, small studio shambles on in name only for a while longer before being mercifully put down. Meanwhile some of the fired devs band together creating a new small studio which makes great games, attracting the attention of a big studio...

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 6 points 4 days ago

I'm sure Hegseth is arranging medals of honor for the brave troops who committed the Mahmudiyah rape and murders too.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 59 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (24 children)

Retrieving the deorbited satellites — which weigh roughly 573 to 650 pounds (260 to 295 kg) for first-generation units and 1,764 to 2,756 pounds (800 to 1,250 kg) for second-generation units — is technically impractical and financially unviable, according to the company. Hence, the incineration technique.

So that's 148,980 to 325,000 kilograms of electronics burned. Literally hundreds of tons of e-waste being incinerated by single corporation in just half a year.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

We need to do some MRI scans or something so see if the brain damage is detectable once you pass one billion dollars.

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

Eh, I guess I toss out one of my favorite DS games as a break from my previous Steam recommendations, so Retro Game Challenge 2, the fan translation of GameCenter CX: Arino no Chōsenjō 2. This actually may get downvoted a fair bit, because the Game Center CX show that inspired the game has a dedicated cult following in the United States and Retro Game Challenge 2 has been played by some fairly big streamers.

Anyway on to the game itself. Retro Game Challenge 2 is a collection of NES and SNES styled mini games loosely bound together by a fairly non-nonsensical meta plot and a ton of nostalgia. You're assigned "challenges" for the various games that you have to beat, think NES Remix if you've played that, it's actually from the same developer. But not only that there's a ton of nostalgic little touches, all the mini-games have in game "manuals" to read, there are also in game "gaming magazines" that offer tips and tricks for the games you play, as well as hinting about "up-coming" games. There's also a "daily challenge" which is a... well challenge that is issued daily, with difficulty that ramps up as you beat them.

The best part of the whole game/micro games is that you can freely play them after they've been unlocked. None of the NES Remix's "We've got the whole game here, but you can't do anything but the challenges" bullshit. You want to play though the entirety of the ten-ish hour NES styled JRPG? Go for it. Indieszero also included some "challenge mode" versions of games from the first Retro Game Challenge game.

Anyway, as the wall of text may have clued you in, I really like this game.

[–] Sludgehammer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

I actually don't think this one is quite as obscure as you think, since it was given away on Epic a few years ago.

 

So firstly sorry if this isn't a appropriate post for this community, but I had a shower thought a few days back.

LLM's have gotten sufficiently advanced that they can usually detect Markov (or randomly) generated text even when it's fed into the front end. As such, it seems likely that most "AI" companies either have or will have some sort of pre-screening pass to "clean" the raw data crawled from the internet. Heck, I'm sure they're filtering the data with a AI detection algorithm too.

However, there was this conspiracy parody site a while back called "Verified Facts". The sites down now and something that wanted to install a Firefox extension, so don't go there. Luckily there are many instances of pages still on archive.org to get an idea for what sort of stuff it generated. And I was thinking, this is some (mostly) grammatically correct, constantly on point drivel that would probably bypass both Markov and AI detectors.

So it seems like if you were going to make an "AI tar pit" you'd get much better results with one that tricks the AI into ingesting auto generated Madlib pages filled out with a list of randomly picked words.

 

Since there is no thread about this on Lemmy, I figured I may as well make one in case someone hadn't heard about it.

Anyway, a new app called Netpass has been released that allows Streetpass over the internet. The app is still kinda rough, a few games like Tomodachi Life have a minor bugs, but for the most part it works almost exactly like if you conventionally streetpassed someone.

 

So I was browsing SteamDB.info looking at the various games on sale when I noticed there were a bunch of games (usually from the publisher Hede, but there's quite a few others) listed as having a discount in the high nineties, yet still costing in the neighborhood of 30-50 dollars. Even odder when I go to the game's Steam, it's not listed as being on sale and costs the... "normal" price of $99.99.

I'm just wondering A) What the scam is here, B) How a SteamDB.info is getting $99.99 dollar game as costing 30-ish dollars when it's 97% off but at the same time it's apparently not actually on sale?

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