For many years I have thought that elementary schools should be free of any modern electronic tech. In middle school it should be introduced but not connected to internet (word processors, interactive encyclopedias or coding like we used to learn it in the '80s or '90s, BASIC, Logo, that kind of stuff).

Finally, introduce internet in high school, in a controlled way, focusing primarily on knowledge and research sites. No LLMs included.

Of course you can’t control what happens in the students’ homes, but that should not affect what happens at school, specially if you replace homework with schoolwork, which I also think it’s better in the long run.

Plain wireguard. Or maybe Pangolin?

https://github.com/fosrl/pangolin

Lemmy isn’t social media? Given that it is mostly a federated reddit clone, I would argue it is. Probably even more social than reddit considering that reddit has now more bots than people, unlike Lemmy (at least for now), and I think that a platform full of bots talking among themselves is not really “social”.

That’s why I said less negative impact.

And we can’t change human nature, but we can force social media companies to change.

A couple of days ago I finished reading “Careless People” by Sarah Wynn-Williams. This book really shows how awful the people at the top of Facebook are (it probably applies to other similar companies as well). And it’s not that they want to be evil, it’s more like they are playing a game of fame, pride and power and don’t care about the consequences. It made me recall the quote about “the banality of evil”.

This. Pre-2010 social media, which basically showed a feed with the posts of the people you followed, had a lot less negative impact on people. The engagement maximization strategy multiplies “negative” news, because outrage apparently engages more than good news. And current algorithmic feeds like TikTok destroy attention span and make people dumber.

And while we’re at it, ban (or at least heavily regulate) dating apps, the only business where the companies sell the opposite product of what they supposedly offer. If people find long-term partners through the apps they would stop using them, so the companies are incentivized to help you not find love and real relationships.

The funny thing is, being a developer, I was talking to someone the other day about how in my opinion, middle managers were way easier to replace with AI than developers (less domain knowledge, less creative work, etc.). And basically, at least according to the article, that’s the people that Cloudflare fired.

Not that anyone should be replaced by AI, but it’s ironic that many of the people who are shoving AI down our throats are the easiest to replace in an organization.

I personally know two JRPG gamers that played it (recommended by me) and didn’t like it, because they never advanced beyond the underworld. And some other people online with a similar experience. Of course, that was in the '90s, when I played it for the first time.

In the 30 years since, the game has become a lot more popular and gained a cult following, but at release time it wasn’t like that (not helped by the fact that the 2 previous games in the trilogy were kind of obscure too).

I don’t know if it’s my favorite, but Prototype (and its sequel) comes to my mind. It wasn’t that badly received, but most people liked Infamous more, in the same generation.

And a game that I really love, my personal best SNES game ever (yes, even beyond Chrono Trigger and Tales of Phantasia, my numbers 2 and 3), is Terranigma, which is a game that many people who’ve played it don’t like (because they get stuck at the beginning in the Underworld or at the fight with Bloody Mary).

At least the AMD system management requires physical access (the AMD PSP does not have a network stack). Intel ME / AMT does have a network stack, and it hides its packets inside the host traffic. That’s the reason of the black holes on many Intel CPUs when listening on ports 16992-16995 (the host does not see incoming traffic to those ports because the AMT intercepts it).

Stalin suing Hitler. I’m rooting for both of them to lose.

Not anymore. After public outcry, Google established 2 alternatives:

1. Through developer mode, you will be able to “forego security” (according to Google) and do a lengthy and obnoxious procedure to unlock your phone for installing any app.
2. They’re defining a way for official (sanctioned by Google) 3rd party app stores to work, and you will be able to install apps verified by them, instead of Google.

Apart from the already mentioned possible causes, it could be temperature: digital camera sensors (e.g. in cellphones) are very sensitive to heat, and I’ve had a couple of badly designed devices where the heat gets too close to the sensor. The result are photos similar to yours, specially noticeable in low light (though mine were more purple-ish than green/blue).

That doesn’t solve the problem: it only disables the duck.ai assistant, but doesn’t disable the search results that are normal websites generated with AI (the real issue here). To be fair, that’s not DDG problem specifically but every search engine problem.

The web is now full of these fake websites, which is a real problem because on the search results they look legit and only when visiting them you realize it’s AI crap.

And the funny (or sad) thing is that current AIs are being trained on these fake hallucinating sites, so even they are suffering from false information, which in turn is given to humans and used to make more fake websites and… the result is up to your imagination.

A cassette tape for my MSX with 2 games by Konami: Hyper Rally and Antarctic Adventure. That was in 1988.

I’ve been gaming ever since.

I had the same feeling, but with a TNT2 card. I first played Half-Life with software rendering, 320x240 in my fishbowl 14" monitor. Then a few months later I bought the TNT2 (M64, the cheap version), and began my 2nd playthrough at a glorious 640x480 with much better FPS. It was awesome.

I actually like DLSS <= 4.5, when it’s well used. It’s just a scaling technique, like bilinear or 2xSai, but instead of using a regular mathematical formula to calculate the interpolated pixels, it uses a neural network. Of course the final results vary, depending on how much of the image you interpolate, the training data and if you use previous frame data and stuff like that (motion vectors, etc.).

OTOH, DLSS 5, sloptracing or whatever you want to call it, doesn’t seem to be a scaling technique (even if it most likely can do that too). It seems to be a video enhancing technique, with stability features included (anchored to 3d objects) to avoid the common morphing artifacts in early video GenAI (pre-Sora 2).

Sadly, in many of these programs, Copilot will start collecting data if you enable it. And send it to Microsoft, obviously.

The first two Metal Gear were 8-bit games released for MSX computers (and the NES/FC, I think) in the '80s. The one most people think as the first in the series is actually the third mainline title (Metal Gear Solid for the PSX).

This really needs an Elder Scrolls Oblivion-style remake. Use the original engine for everything except graphics, and remake only the graphics part (and the contact surface between the visual and original engines).