“I may not be a general or a civil engineer, but I play one on Twitter.”

EDIT: He does possibly get a lot of global cooling for free though. (Aka nuclear winter.)

The bad Cap’n Tight Pants.

Yep. Maybe it could actually be “modules” that the individual devs submit with their game, essentially.

Current DLSS intent: We can only render this at like 720p with enough frames, so let’s do that and use AI anti-aliasing tricks so that when we present it at 4k, none of the jaggies are visible on-screen like they would be with raw 720p upscaling.

DLSS5 intent: Using our pile of stolen artwork neural net that we can now render at 60fps+ let’s “reimagine” the entire look of the game as we present it on-screen, even if it was already running at 4k just fine.

TLDR; How big the neuralnet is and what your train it for matters.

This was definitely something I predicted like a year or so ago. Richard Burns Rally will continue to be the default rally sim, but they will never bother to update the 2004 game engine. Rather at some point, AI will literally start MITM capturing all the 2004 graphical output and converting it to photorealistic modern graphics that are output to your screen instead.

EDIT: But yeah, this is such a “fuck your game, fuck your artistic intention, eat our AI slop and like it!”

It literally could have gone down that stupidly, but also, it smacks of “Is he dead yet? No? Perrotta—make the first ambulance go away however you have to.”

Don’t worry, guys! If some country bombed, let’s say for example, 2 of our buildings in NYC, would we treat that as act of war? Nah… probably not. Surely we’d just shrug and move on with peace negotiations!

Welcome to the “I have shot myself in the foot with rm” club! Take a seat anywhere!

(Mine was trying to delete the old System 9 “System Folder” by typing rm -rf System\ Folder, but instead hitting the return key when it came time to hit the \, thereby starting a deletion of the running macOS 10 operating system inside the “System” folder. It got through the c’s in the second and a half or so before my frantic control-C attempts halted it. Amazingly, OS X would still boot, but no longer run Carbon apps, necessitating a complete OS reinstall, lol.)

And ironically, as a tax payer, I’m not allowed to shop there even though I have access to the base…

I’m sorta in the middle. I’ve liked some of his stuff I’ve read and not really enjoyed some other stuff, so we’ll see. So far, this is a pretty good one though!

All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu and The Incandescent by Emily Tesh. Having a bit of trouble with the relationships in The Incandescent so I’ve put it aside and am enjoying Ken Liu’s latest, which is mostly about anonymity in an AI-rich society so far.

City hall seems like the obvious answer.

Honestly, I would be very much down to see this on Lemmy too. “This account was registered from country X” “Last post from country Y” (Or alternatively, “Last post from known VPN” so you at least know it’s happening.)

It adds some interesting context at the very least.

Screaming the dream, you say?

Lean Beef Patty o_O

iTunes stores them by audio file tags, so the better you tag your files, the better organized they get in the file and folder structure. So say you want to grab you Oingo Boingo Dead Man’s Party album for some reason, it will be organized by Oingo Boingo/Dead Man’s Party/1. Dead Man’s Party.mp3, etc etc.

https://friendi.ca/

Mind you, I have never in my life tried to use it, but my understanding is that is the Fediverse equivalent of FB. I’m mostly on Mastodon or Pixelfed, which are the equivalents of Twitter and Instragram.

For a moment there, Trump almost respected Obama.

“Wow! Look a the grift on this guy! Why am I not receiving royalties on legislation too?”

And last I checked (but it’s been a few years) you could easily buy a “salvage” SN on eBay for like $15.

No offense but with the number of random processes running on any given machine, I am in no way gonna trust a mission critical app to work right from a pirate site and not load something extra like a keylogger. Hell it barely works right in a fully legal install…

Also, I used to strongly advocate switching off Creative Cloud to Affinity to own the software but I have this horrible feeling that they may be going either subscription or AI slop or both on the 30th and you can no longer buy version 2.

(And I say that as a long-time Adobe stockholder from back before they went pure evil with Creative Cloud.)