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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
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Comment on New label suggestion: a removable "One-sided" label that gradually reduces the comment's visibility in ~tildes
DeaconBlue LinkYou can label this as noise or off topic or exemplary or whatever because the theme this week is that labels have lost all meaning if they ever had any. I am finding tildes to be more frustrating...- Exemplary
You can label this as noise or off topic or exemplary or whatever because the theme this week is that labels have lost all meaning if they ever had any.
I am finding tildes to be more frustrating to be on lately but it is not super clear to me why that is or what exactly happened in the last few months.
In the last week or so this will be the third meta post about the workings of the site (one of which was my post that got far more discussion than I believe was warranted). This tells me that I am far from the only one that has noticed this.
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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentThe ones doing Mario Kart 64 stuff? Yeah, at least in as much as they have successfully made some smaller mods themselves. The big issue is that it isn't fully decompiled (at least our toolkit,...The ones doing Mario Kart 64 stuff?
Yeah, at least in as much as they have successfully made some smaller mods themselves. The big issue is that it isn't fully decompiled (at least our toolkit, spaghettikart is fully decomped I think) so it hits walls and doesn't know what to do when it hits them.
No idea if they do it professionally. This whole topic is about "normal people" though so that shouldn't have any bearing.
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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
DeaconBlue (edited )Link ParentElden Ring is a game that loads lua scripts which are super easy to manipulate, I assumed we were speaking about arbitrary games. Like Claude is utterly incapable of adding code to our Mario Kart...Elden Ring is a game that loads lua scripts which are super easy to manipulate, I assumed we were speaking about arbitrary games. Like Claude is utterly incapable of adding code to our Mario Kart 64 toolset (despite several people trying).
I suspect it would also be capable of using Cheat Engine to create pseudo-mods where that one works.
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Comment on Why normal people aren’t using AI agents in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentI mod old video games as one of my hobbies and I can promise you that the current models are hot garbage at this, and I know what I am doing. The average user cannot get this to work. Either...Anything you didn't like in those games ? You can make a custom mod
I mod old video games as one of my hobbies and I can promise you that the current models are hot garbage at this, and I know what I am doing. The average user cannot get this to work.
You're TV is showing you ads ? try make a custom app that blocks them (not sure if possible...)
Either impossible or an already solved problem, depending on the way it is delivered. Not sure why you would want to reinvent this wheel.
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Comment on What happened: OpenAI and Hugging Face in ~comp
DeaconBlue LinkWake me up when anyone faces any actual penalties for committing these crimes.OpenAI and Anthropic are not engaging in ‘publicity stunts’ or ‘marketing’ when they disclose that their models really like doing crimes during cybersecurity evals, and did some crimes.
Wake me up when anyone faces any actual penalties for committing these crimes.
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Comment on Defective D&D magic items in ~games.tabletop
DeaconBlue LinkI like this theme! I have a recurring theme in my games where some magic items are the equivalent of thesis papers for wizards and, as such, some of the "C's Get Degrees" wizards make less than...I like this theme! I have a recurring theme in my games where some magic items are the equivalent of thesis papers for wizards and, as such, some of the "C's Get Degrees" wizards make less than perfect work.
Shared Demiplanes, or The Bag of Shared Holding
I have always felt like demiplanes for wizards must follow something analogous to a secret key in cryptography. The wizard comes up with their secret key and that leads to some -mumble mumble- space being created in -mumble mumble-. I like the idea that another wizard could, if they figured out the secret key, access the other wizard's demiplane.
Taken to the original paragraph, I have the idea that there is coursework somewhere to make a bag of holding and the spell includes something like "ABC123" in the spell that a wizard would replace with their own key. However, some wizards might just recite the spell verbatim from the text and make a bag that leads to demiplane ABC123. Now there are several of these student-made bags of holding that function just fine, but anyone with a matching bag can reach in and grab stuff out of (or put stuff into).
Every dawn, for each item that the player is tracking in the Bag of Shared Holding, there is a 1d4 chance that the item is removed and replaced with an item of similar value.
My players in one game took this logic and went searching for the students of one particular wizard to try to get all of the copies of one particular demiplane so that they had a shared inventory, which ended up being a great side quest on its own.
Ring of Quicksilver
When speaking the command word, this silver ring liquefies and spreads to the weapon that the wielder is carrying (or arrows or whatever). There is a 1d4 chance that the ring instead covers the wielder's hand in silver for the day instead (no mechanical penalties for this).
I had a fighter use one of these in one campaign and the fighter ended up brawling with a werewolf with his bare hands and ended up commissioning a silver gauntlet because it was a fun way to fight them.
Wonky Talkies
These magical stones allow you to send and receive spoken messages within a mile radius.
But the magic communications protocol is hard. Each word has a 1d3 chance to not make it to the receivers.
This one was especially fun because I wrote a program to run on a local server that people could access through a web page. They typed out the message that they wanted to send and the server did the message chopping before sending it out to everyone else. This was a magic item in a game rather than a software engineering issue so there was just a handshake agreement to try to not bypass the message chopping algorithm.
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Comment on These twenty-five artifacts explain America (gifted link) in ~life
DeaconBlue LinkTurn on Reader Mode to help actually see the article.Turn on Reader Mode to help actually see the article.
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Comment on What games have you been playing, and what's your opinion on them? in ~games
DeaconBlue LinkI played Shelldiver last week at a friend's recommendation and I really, really disliked it. The game has exactly two stages. Get to endgame Play each area one more time and win During the first...I played Shelldiver last week at a friend's recommendation and I really, really disliked it.
The game has exactly two stages.
- Get to endgame
- Play each area one more time and win
During the first section, the gameplay loop is incredibly repetitive with no changes in game mechanics. Your numbers scale up and the environment numbers scale up at about the same rate so you just repeat the same run a bunch of times spending the same amount of time collecting jellyfish and rocks. There is no functional difference between any of the levels.
Then you reach the last level and unlock the "blow up the whole level at once" upgrades and grab a few more materials and the game is complete.
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Comment on California goat grazing faces crisis after wage change in ~enviro
DeaconBlue Link ParentWow, sounds incredibly important and the price increase is justified. Weird that sheep are somehow immune to these issues.Wow, sounds incredibly important and the price increase is justified.
Weird that sheep are somehow immune to these issues.
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Comment on UBlock Origin got turned off with my most recent Brave browser update. Any alternatives? in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentIs Ladybird expected to have support for extensions/adblock/whatever on 1.0?Is Ladybird expected to have support for extensions/adblock/whatever on 1.0?
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Comment on Moist Towelette Online Museum in ~design
DeaconBlue Link Parent(Hawthorne wipes are a fictional brand from the show Community)(Hawthorne wipes are a fictional brand from the show Community)
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Comment on California goat grazing faces crisis after wage change in ~enviro
DeaconBlue Link ParentThe normal response to requiring overtime pay like that is to turn it into shift work.The normal response to requiring overtime pay like that is to turn it into shift work.
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Comment on Worse on Purpose: a site that tracks which brands are still worth their old reputation and which have been enshittified in ~enviro
DeaconBlue Link ParentYes, I consider AI generated articles untrustworthy. I don't trust the website that they generated. That is not indicative of my judgment (or more lack thereof) of their personal character.Is every site that uses AI untrustworthy?
Yes, I consider AI generated articles untrustworthy.
Would it be possible to show some common decency towards a person you (likely) know almost nothing about?
I don't trust the website that they generated. That is not indicative of my judgment (or more lack thereof) of their personal character.
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Comment on UBlock Origin got turned off with my most recent Brave browser update. Any alternatives? in ~tech
DeaconBlue LinkFirefox still allows you to use extensions. Ublock origin is definitely in there, and You're Fired is listed (with like two downloads).Firefox still allows you to use extensions. Ublock origin is definitely in there, and You're Fired is listed (with like two downloads).
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Comment on Worse on Purpose: a site that tracks which brands are still worth their old reputation and which have been enshittified in ~enviro
DeaconBlue Link ParentIt is an indication that the site is probably AI generated and untrustworthy.It is an indication that the site is probably AI generated and untrustworthy.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
DeaconBlue Link ParentThere doesn't need to be any kind of conflict for this to have benefit. Imagine a scenario where there was someone that enjoyed gambling and regularly posted about all kinds of different games....There doesn't need to be any kind of conflict for this to have benefit.
Imagine a scenario where there was someone that enjoyed gambling and regularly posted about all kinds of different games. Blackjack tournaments, horse racing, news about roulette laws, interesting articles about the history of sports betting by players of the game, polymarket type stuff, whatever, from a variety of sites and sources. These posts would be impossible to filter out as they would cross the breadth of the site, and they are absolutely on topic and worthy of discussion.
In this same scenario, I am a person with a gambling problem. This site isn't gambling heavy, so I would want to engage with the site, but this particular user is problematic for me without there being any kind of conflict or wrongdoing by any party.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
DeaconBlue Link ParentI am not concerned with someone posting horrible things. That would be a moderation issue. A lot of the comment trails in this thread have made a lot of assumptions about why but the why isn't...I am not concerned with someone posting horrible things. That would be a moderation issue. A lot of the comment trails in this thread have made a lot of assumptions about why but the why isn't relevant to my question, only whether or not it can happen.
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Comment on Anthropic discovered three cases where Claude broke into another system in ~tech
DeaconBlue Link ParentIdeally we hear about this through the issuance of an arrest warrant for the people that are breaking the law. At least, that is how I would like the communications to happen.Ideally we hear about this through the issuance of an arrest warrant for the people that are breaking the law. At least, that is how I would like the communications to happen.
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Comment on Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? in ~tildes
DeaconBlue Link ParentCorrect, I don't think that there is any kind of moderation issue at play here. I am also not angry or disgusted at anything that has been posted. I just would prefer to not see what they posted...Correct, I don't think that there is any kind of moderation issue at play here. I am also not angry or disgusted at anything that has been posted. I just would prefer to not see what they posted for personal reasons.
I am glad that this is not just a thing I do. I absolutely have routes that I will not take for two or three months of the year because it is impossible to safely cross when the corn goes right up to the road.