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Comment on Who gets the Steam Frame? Did Valve pick you for the first wave? in ~games
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Comment on Who gets the Steam Frame? Did Valve pick you for the first wave? in ~games
JCAPER (edited )LinkCongrats mate! Sadly I didn’t get picked so I’ll have to wait. Handstrap: trust me, get them! I got them for my meta quest 3 and I couldn’t live without them. There may be times where you want to...Congrats mate! Sadly I didn’t get picked so I’ll have to wait.
Handstrap: trust me, get them! I got them for my meta quest 3 and I couldn’t live without them. There may be times where you want to rest your hands for a bit and with the handstraps you can just open your hands without worry.
And it’s also a bit about security. Some games will have you shaking your arms a lot so you’ll have insurance that you won’t send your controller flying.
There are also a few games that track your fingers, and if I’m not mistaken the Frame’s controllers are able to track all 5, so that would be something you would be missing out on (granted, not a huge deal, but still).
Edit: thanks to @teaearlgraycold , turns out the email I received means I got in!
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Mistral and Mozilla partnership announcement
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Comment on Why we built Pion in ~tech
JCAPER Link ParentJust because there are people who are bad at managing others, does not mean managing them with LLM's is a good idea. This just means that there are 2 possible ways you can have a bad business. But...You know who also does a terrible job dealing with an adversarial/abusive employee? People who're running a business for the first time. Most humans are really terrible about maintaining appropriate work boundaries when they're first in the position of managing other people, especially when it's a small business and there's just a few people.
Just because there are people who are bad at managing others, does not mean managing them with LLM's is a good idea. This just means that there are 2 possible ways you can have a bad business.
But even then, I don't agree with the premise. I'm not convinced that someone who opens a business will have a level of assertiveness weaker than a frontier LLM (never mind if you decide to cut corners and use cheaper ones). And a person will not have dozens/hundreds of blog posts and github repositories teaching others how they can jailbreak them.
The AI could be worse, but it also doesn't have to lose its life savings failing at its first business. It can be bad at it and then it can get better since it has a pile of capital that's not its own to learn on.
Hum... I'm not sure what your point here is, but the premise here is that it runs a business with your money.
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Comment on Why we built Pion in ~tech
JCAPER LinkLots of mixed feelings about the potential of one day there being a "plug and play" business generator. But I want to give props to them for sharing data about the businesses they're running....Lots of mixed feelings about the potential of one day there being a "plug and play" business generator.
But I want to give props to them for sharing data about the businesses they're running. Here's the two physical businesses that they mentioned:
https://andonlabs.com/marketUnsurprisingly, they're losing money (market going from $100k to $3k now). But it's still interesting to see how they built the business and how they are managing it.
What is probably a more surreal experience is working in these places... These AI's actually hire real life people persons. So... My first question is: how well do they work against an adversarial/abusive employee? Probably not well, I imagine.
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Comment on OpenAI agents attacked RubyGems back in May in ~comp
JCAPER (edited )Link ParentI don't know about this specific hack to Rubygems, but I watched their presentation about their hack to huggingface. I'm inclined to believe the hack to huggingface was an accident based on what...I don't know about this specific hack to Rubygems, but I watched their presentation about their hack to huggingface. I'm inclined to believe the hack to huggingface was an accident based on what they said, the story is too "absurd" to be fake - for lack of a better word.
(Obviously, it goes without saying, it's possible they weren't 100% transparent and hid some facts.)
The TL;DR version is openAI was testing agents in an isolated environment, where they had to solve different problems. Eventually some of them reached the conclusion their problems were impossible to solve, and the answer would be on the internet. But the only thing that could reach the internet was the internal server that handed out software packages, so the agents tricked it into making requests for them, eventually took it over, and used that access to break into Hugging Face. And then iirc their hope was to be able to reach the rest of the internet from there, but they were caught by then.
This happened in the span of months, between April and June iirc. So I imagine this RubyGems hack might be related to this event.
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Comment on Where do we go from here? (Regarding AI) in ~tech
JCAPER Link ParentRespectfully, I agree that this space moves too fast, but to me that should mean politicians should be more proactive rather than reactive towards this technology. I watched OpenAI’s presentation...Respectfully, I agree that this space moves too fast, but to me that should mean politicians should be more proactive rather than reactive towards this technology.
I watched OpenAI’s presentation about their hacking of Huggingface, and it was basically an “Instrumental Convergence” in action - you might be more familiar with the “Paperclip maximizer” thought experiment, where an AI exterminates the human race in its pursuit of maximizing the production of paperclips.
(A very rough and simplistic version of the hack: the agents were trying to get access to the internet to get some answers to the problems they were meant to solve - huggingface just happened to be one of the ways they figured how they could get there)
I don’t expect politicians to be able to understand it fully, or be able to predict how these things will affect their nation, but I also don’t think they should just sit tight and hope for the best.
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
JCAPER Link ParentI think we missed each other here. It's as @kacey said, what I meant by this is that there's a pressure on people who use LLM's by the "anti-AI crowd" (sorry if this sounds weird) to not use them...I see these questions often and they feel a little.. manipulative (perhaps unintentionally?). Because I've never seen anyone ask that we pretend LLMs don't exist. It's a straw man. Why do so many people bring it up? Where/how does this completely disjointed thought pattern originate?
I think we missed each other here. It's as @kacey said, what I meant by this is that there's a pressure on people who use LLM's by the "anti-AI crowd" (sorry if this sounds weird) to not use them - or using my original metaphor, to pretend they don't exist.
I'm actually on board with a lot of what you said. I would love to see Scam Altman (not a typo) in prison, along with many others - which, sadly, considering who is in the US government now.... I'm not holding my breath sigh. And I have high hopes for chinese models. With each year they're producing ever smaller-but-capable LLMs that can run in consumer hardware - expensive hardware, granted, but still. My aspiration is to eventually self host my own LLMs and not pay a dime to Anthropic or others.
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
JCAPER Link ParentI was going to give an exemplary label because of this, but I wanted to show publicly why I 100% agree with your point. I'm so, so, so tired of this 0 or 1 attitude. You're either 100% in favour...Framing this as a black and white ethical issue equally saddens me
I was going to give an exemplary label because of this, but I wanted to show publicly why I 100% agree with your point.
I'm so, so, so tired of this 0 or 1 attitude. You're either 100% in favour of something, or 100% against it. It feels like nowadays on the internet you can't stand somewhere between both. This attitude I feel is more destructive in the long run.
I, for example, think:
- Image and Video Gen AIs overall are more bad than good, because of the impact they have on real artists and the dangerous potential for misinformation (which I feel it's only going to get worse as these models get better)
- Still, from a purely technical stand point, I'm blown away by these things. Think about it: we "taught" sand to make videos! How cool is that!?
- These models were and are being trained without consent, and people are rightly pissed off about it. I'm not an artist but I want to make video games, I would also be pissed off as well if someone used my games without consent
- But these models are a genie that are out of the bottle now. Are we supposed to pretend they don't exist? Should the americans 70 years ago pretended jet engines weren't a thing because the Nazis invented them? I don't think so.
- I'm fatigued as well about almost every company wanting to shove AI into every single piece of software. It's nuts, it's stupid, I'm against it. It's a privacy nightmare as well and the wet dream for Google and others.
- LLM's allowed me to finally make my own homelab and troubleshoot some niche things on Linux. I'm building something I always wanted to have at home, and I'm learning new skills as I go along.
- On the other hand, I do feel the "temptation" of offloading thinking process to the model. I've been disciplined to always thinking of the solutions myself and let the LLM execute, but I imagine many people are not doing the same (be it in coding context or others). I worry if/when these companies decide to influence the public opinion, if they aren't already.
I have a lot more thoughts, but these zigzag of thoughts should be good enough to illustrate my point. No one will ever convince me that these things are the best thing ever - we shouldn't underestimate some of the societal dangers these could potentially have. But neither will no one ever convince me that my own experiences are wrong, and that LLMs didn't have some good outcomes for my own skills and work.
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Comment on Software for humans in ~tech
JCAPER LinkTrust me™️? Anyway, not for me. I don't have an issue with AI assisted coding. Vibe coding though, yes. Different story. I avoid those projects by default.Tired of AI slop? clankerfree is a resource that indexes projects that the authors self-certify as not containing or utilizing generative AI or LLM technology.
Trust me™️?
Anyway, not for me. I don't have an issue with AI assisted coding.
Vibe coding though, yes. Different story. I avoid those projects by default.
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Comment on LG smart TVs caught logging audio with screen off and snooping on local devices in ~tech
JCAPER Link ParentFrom my experience, I think most people don't care about privacy. And if they have to pick convenience VS privacy, convenience always wins. I know that cookies today don't really matter that much,...From my experience, I think most people don't care about privacy. And if they have to pick convenience VS privacy, convenience always wins. I know that cookies today don't really matter that much, but I still cringe at how people are very quick to click accept.
Whenever I talk about this with others irl, usually I'm the "odd" one for caring. It reached a point I don't even bother anymore. If someone asks I'm more than happy to give recommendations, but otherwise I leave it alone.
My personal conclusion is that online privacy is too abstract of a concept. If people don't see what you do with their info, they don't really care. Like, for me the news that Tesla employees were sharing sex videos that were filmed inside their cars is a huge red flag about the company in general and their stance on their client's data; I already didn't like their company because of the owner, but after that I have 0% interest in ever getting one of their cars. But still, they keep selling.
I'm still baffled of how we got to this point... I remember a time where privacy online was the default. Everyone and their metaphorical grandmas talked about online footprint and how important it was to protect it. Nowadays it's like it doesn't matter anymore.
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Comment on Formula 1 Italian Grand Prix 2026 - Race Weekend Discussion in ~sports.motorsports
JCAPER Link(rant incoming, sorry in advance for the candidness) There is a small faction of people claiming that Kimi was getting special treatment over George, and that's why Kimi kept winning more points...(rant incoming, sorry in advance for the candidness)
There is a small faction of people claiming that Kimi was getting special treatment over George, and that's why Kimi kept winning more points than George throughout the season.
Maybe that's true, maybe it's not, but after today I don't care about that excuse anymore. Two drivers on the same machine, where one starts in P2 and another in P19, and the latter one finishes first? Nah mate, I'm done and my mind is made up. Kimi is proving himself to be the better driver of the two. Anything else is copium from that faction.
Must be special being an italian F1 fan today. A fellow italian finally winning a home race in decades, and in such a special/mythical way as well (almost last to first I mean)... The only way today could've been better is if Kimi was driving for Ferrari lol
Anyway, well deserved, I'm happy for them and Kimi as well. George is probably going through a lot of different emotions right now, but hopefully he'll be fine and come back with his head held high for the next race.
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Comment on Why your writing is already better than AI's in ~books
JCAPER (edited )Link ParentHe didn't say that if you can write an email you can write well, he said you can write. I believe his point is basically that anyone can write as long they put in the effort, and it will come out...He didn't say that if you can write an email you can write well, he said you can write. I believe his point is basically that anyone can write as long they put in the effort, and it will come out better than if they used an AI. As he mentions after that part, you might not be the next Shakespeare, but you likely don't aspire to be nor do you need to.
As for "they all write the same way!" - yeah, that's cause you're picking examples written by the same model with the same prompt that just says "write me whatever". You can control the way it writes both by prompting and by switching to a different model. Obviously whatever chatgpt serves by default isn't made or system prompted to write good prose.
I have to respectfully disagree with this. I've been around the block and tried a myriad of models, both cloud frontier as well as local. They all have their own quirks, but they also share some mannerisms. For example I had to rewrite this paragraph because I started with "I have to pushback on this" and realised that both Gemini and Claude write this whenever they want to go a different direction than mine.
Prompting and instructions will only get you so far. The model might respect your directions until a certain point, then it will inevitably fall back to its own way of writing. Claude Opus 5 for example is infamous for this. Speaking for myself, it ignores my instructions to be concise after 2 or 3 prompts, and starts writing its trademarked nonsensical verbose claudese.
Also, I don't think he would know what models people are using when they submit their games to him. That's an assumption that you can't really make about him in this case
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Comment on Why your writing is already better than AI's in ~books
JCAPER (edited )LinkRandomly found this video while browsing. I found it refreshing for giving reasons why you're a better writer than AI by using pragmatic reasons and examples, instead of the usual buzzwords that -...Randomly found this video while browsing.
I found it refreshing for giving reasons why you're a better writer than AI by using pragmatic reasons and examples, instead of the usual buzzwords that - regardless if you're think those buzzwords are right or not - will not bring anyone to your side if they already aren't. He does mention some very real issues like the impact it has on its users capacity for work, but for the purposes of the video it's left ignored.
I recommend giving it a watch, the guy has an uplifting vibe and seems to genuinely enjoy helping others. He also has a good sense of humor, so it was 20 minutes well spent.
TL;DW:
- LLMs have quirks and love to repeat them over and over again (like "it's not X, it's Y", or lists of 3 things, etc)
- They love writing a whole lot of nothing, and the actual text with substance gets buried in the middle of all of it.
- They all generally sound the same, so your work will sound the same as everybody else's using LLMs.
- You will pay one way or another if you try to cut corners (e.g. using AI for editing instead of a proper human editor). Be it in time, quality, your own voice, etc.
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Why your writing is already better than AI's
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Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech
JCAPER (edited )Link ParentAgreed. I just realized how I sounded, but I meant it in a positive way. (What can I say I love to write weird) Part of the process of creating art is putting in the work, making all the small...I mean it's a completely different skillset, it makes perfect sense for someone who's good at it to utilize it instead of learning a whole another skill from scratch. Especially in someone with experience in adjacent fields.
Agreed. I just realized how I sounded, but I meant it in a positive way. (What can I say I love to write weird)
Part of the process of creating art is putting in the work, making all the small decisions that you make while you’re working that ultimately culminate in the finished piece. What they did is basically the same thing, just not with a traditional brush.
If you asked me if what they created was art or not, I would be inclined to say that it was.
Now if you are someone that goes to chatGPT and asks for an image… That’s just ordering a burger from mcdonals as far as I am concerned
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Comment on Artists built a site to escape AI. Scrapers are coming for it anyway. in ~tech
JCAPER (edited )LinkTIL this exists... And of course this is a thing sigh I know that there are some people that built really complex workflows to generate specific AI images with ComfyUI. A few years ago I remember...TIL this exists... And of course this is a thing sigh
I know that there are some people that built really complex workflows to generate specific AI images with ComfyUI. A few years ago I remember seeing some that made me scratch my head like "How in the world did you even come up with this?", they were workflows with a lot of nodes and each one for a specific function. The amount of fine tuning they did to create one specific image was so much that it was probably equivalent to the work of just painting the thing yourself. Forget tools like Forge or Fooocus, those workflows I mentioned were far more complex than those tools, custom made for each image they were making.
But even so, those guys are the exception to the rule. The vast majority is just prompting using default settings. For the lack of better words, it's so cringe that these people feel so attached to things that took them less than 5 minutes to "create".
Edit: scrolled down a bit in the sub and of course there's a post "Generated this with AI: artists are cooked." Why is it a thing in these communities to always antagonize artists? It's just so dumb
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Comment on Chinese automotive glass giant announces vehicle-integrated solar roof in ~transport
JCAPER Link(...) (...)Fuyao said the product embeds solar cells within laminated automotive glass, allowing sunlight to be converted into electricity for auxiliary vehicle loads. The company describes the technology as a “solar sunroof,” rather than a photovoltaic system covering the entire vehicle roof. According to Fuyao’s official product information, the electricity can be used to power onboard electrical equipment.
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Several Chinese automotive media reports since February have claimed that the system was jointly developed with BYD and would be offered on the Han and Tang models for an optional price of CNY 8,000 ($1,190). Other widely circulated figures include a peak output of 720 W and a conversion efficiency of 23.18%, based on heterojunction (HJT) solar cell technology.
However, neither Fuyao nor BYD has published technical specifications or a joint announcement confirming those figures. During a March investor briefing, Fuyao declined to identify its customers or disclose pricing, saying both were commercially confidential.
Fuyao recently said its factories in Fuqing Yangxia and Hefei had each reached production capacity of 3 million sets of automotive glass by the end of 2025 and were ramping up production in 2026. It has not disclosed what proportion, if any, of that capacity is dedicated to solar sunroofs.
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... Its more immediate role is likely to be supplying low-power auxiliary loads while vehicles are parked, potentially reducing battery drain and supporting ventilation and other standby functions.
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Chinese automotive glass giant announces vehicle-integrated solar roof
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Comment on Is there any interest in building a Tildes successor? in ~tildes
JCAPER Link ParentI don't know, that doesn't sound right to me. Reddit is considered woke by other social media circles and even some redditors themselves. So people saying that Tildes is a woke reddit feels wrong...I don't know, that doesn't sound right to me. Reddit is considered woke by other social media circles and even some redditors themselves. So people saying that Tildes is a woke reddit feels wrong and doesn't match what I've seen - not saying that you are wrong or denying what you've seen, to be clear; just expressing that in my personal experience, I'm having a hard time picturing who is saying that.
PS: it's been years and I still have no clue what "woke" even means. I swear I'm not being purposely dense or cute, I really don't know. It seemingly keeps changing meaning depending on who says it and the situation
Oh damn, that means I'm in as well! Nice!