azdle

joined 2 years ago
[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 1 points 5 days ago

Nethack server

Ooh, interesting. I've never tried playing that.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 2 points 5 days ago

Yeah, game servers is about the only thing I've come up with for a way to take any real advantage of the perk.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 22 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (5 children)

Unlimited servers. I work for a VPS provider and on my first day my boss setup my account with $10k of credit and showed me how to add more in the admin panel "whenever [I] need it". As long as I'm only using things with plenty of excess capacity and don't cause problems, I can spin up whatever I want.

Sadly, I've already got a rack of hardware at home, so all I've done so far is spin up a server with 96GB of ram and put a 2-page static website on it, lol.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 0 points 6 days ago (2 children)

Not federating with meta was a choice that could be made by the admins, just changing a setting in the instance. Slop can be posted to any instance by anyone with an account. If an admin decided to sign an anti-AI pact there's no way they could realistically abide / enforce it.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I currently work 8:00 to 16:00 and no one has complained about my working hours yet. But, I'm a software dev working remote with coworkers in several different timezones, so the exact time I start and end my day really doesn't matter.

At a previous job I worked 9:00 - 15:00 for several months when I was depressed and no one complained about that either. 🤷

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 4 points 2 weeks ago

That's kinda, at least historically, been Nintendo's whole thing: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpei_Yokoi#Design_philosophy

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 15 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Is this AI?

Probably, the slices in the second chart aren't quite equal sizes, but in such a subtle way that it's clearly not trying to communicate anything.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 4 points 3 weeks ago

I would imagine it's just some sort of really basic shim driver to get a communication channel between the controller and steam, then from there everything just goes through steam input.

That's the kind of choice you make when you need to just get 'it' working. IIRC when the deck, its input depended (more?) on the steam client too. I'd imagine that they'll finish the slow part of the process eventually to make the controller work more generally too.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 5 points 3 weeks ago

The store page said 3-5 business days for the early orders and 6-10 for the later orders.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 19 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

FWIW, I was getting the same checkout error as everyone else for half an hour while trying to buy with steam wallet credit.

[–] azdle@news.idlestate.org 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

I got one and will try to post to this community with my thoughts after I receive it.

The dpad is also my biggest worry with it.

What did you do to upgrade your deck dpad? I would love to do that to mine too if it works well and isn't too loud.

 

I'm still sitting here trying...

 

Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.

Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”

Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

-_-

 

Mozilla is in a tricky position. It contains both a nonprofit organization dedicated to making the internet a better place for everyone, and a for-profit arm dedicated to, you know, making money. In the best of times, these things feed each other: The company makes great products that advance its goals for the web, and the nonprofit gets to both advocate for a better web and show people what it looks like. But these are not the best of times. Mozilla has spent the last couple of years implementing layoffs and restructuring, attempting to explain how it can fight for privacy and openness when Google pays most of its bills, while trying to find its place in an increasingly frothy AI landscape.

Fun times to be the new Mozilla CEO, right? But when I put all that to Anthony Enzor-DeMeo, the company’s just-announced chief executive, he swears he sees opportunity in all the upheaval. “I think what’s actually needed now is a technology company that people can trust,” Enzor-DeMeo says. “What I’ve seen with AI is an erosion of trust.”

Mozilla is not going to train its own giant LLM anytime soon. But there’s still an AI Mode coming to Firefox next year, which Enzor-DeMeo says will offer users their choice of model and product, all in a browser they can understand and from a company they can trust. “We’re not incentivized to push one model or the other,” he says. “So we’re going to try to go to market with multiple models.”

-_-

 

Huzzah!

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Steam Controller (store.steampowered.com)
 

I tried maybe 15 years ago and it went about as well as you'd expect for back then. But I'm starting to get the itch again.

Have any of you tried relatively recently? How impossible is it to get reliable deliverability to gmail and whatnot these days?

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