SparroHawc

I think using the Syndicate name was something of a poison pill for the game. People who liked the original Syndicate and Syndicate Wars would be turned off by it being essentially completely unrelated; people who didn’t care about the original probably wouldn’t care about it using the same name. That, and at the time there was a glut of FPSes being released.

This is changing, to some extent, with Linux and WINE. Several old games that refuse to run in Windows 11 work just fine on my Deck.

Is the name of the service a reference to anything?

What happens if you run out of space because of too many uploads that are set to never expire?

(Also it’s neat! Thanks!)

Yeah, we know. Everyone in power bows to moneyed interests.

We also know that surveillance already happens. That’s no excuse to pooh-pooh any attempts to get what privacy we can, where we can.

Every time I see a picture of someone explaining something to Trump, it looks like Trump is pretending to pay attention and absorbing nothing.

I ditched it when they said you could be banned for upvoting pictures of Mario’s brother. I figured it was only a matter of time before I got banned.

Careening specifically implies having little control while going fast. Hauling ass doesn’t suggest lack of control.

For some reason, companies in the USA are deathly afraid of someone using sick time when they aren’t actually sick, so they restrict it as tightly as possible. Never mind that this means people are either coming in to work sick, or taking unpaid time off.

Productivity gains haven’t resulted in an increase in wages since the '70s, Bezos. Get your head out of the sand.

Less unpopular than you might think.

LLMs are an interesting and potentially useful tool; however, as it does with most things, capitalism is ruining it for everyone.

Get a load of this cogsucker.

The only part of me that feels in my 40s is my knees

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?

Hm. That’s a good point.

Better would be destroying the speakers. I can just look away from the screen showing ads, but it’s still annoying if they’re blaring in my ear.

I have a friend who wants to get one just so he can wrap it in a badly-aliased texture like the PS1 would have, just to riff on how much it looks like someone was scrimping for polygons when they designed it.

The screen used for blaring ads is the same screen that you have to read to be able to use the pump.

No More Heroes for the Wii does! You have to shake the wiimote to recharge your not-a-lightsaber and it’s hilarious.

Using the toy on your partner is potentially part of bringing more to the table, yes.