Telorand @ Telorand @reddthat.com

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I want to be clear that I used to have a similar mindset; I came around to the idea that if I'm a game dev (or any other type of creativity), and I'm looking for speedy shortcuts, I'm doing myself a disservice in two ways:

• I'm not learning the necessary skills to improve my craft. It's vibe coding in a different shirt, and skipping the struggle is skipping the parts that make me better.
• I'm missing the forest for the trees. Extra details don't make something better, and just because AI can do what I don't want to do doesn't mean that thing is worth doing. If I'm so disinterested in creating insert thing, why am I outsourcing it to a robot that doesn't actually understand my art? Out of everyone, a dev should be the most interested in the details, and if it's so unimportant that a robot can put in whatever, the end user likely wouldn't have cared in the first place.

I agree that it's a tool, and I agree that we aren't likely to see eye to eye on this, but at the end of the day, I am wholly convinced that this tool is being used in the wrong place and in the wrong way. It doesn't belong in creative endeavors.

I'm cool with you saying your final word on the matter, but I think we've beat this topic to death. You've been very courteous, and I appreciate that. Take care.

Yeah, like what need is there for these intermediaries in the first place? I get that there was probably a need once upon a time, but that seems superfluous now

I hate that this comment is too close to reality.

The problem isn't that they're private, the problem is that there's not many to choose from. Visa gets to throw their weight around, because they have a stranglehold on a huge swath of banks and businesses. MasterCard has another big chunk, and the rest go to AmEx and Discover.

If there were more providers to choose from, this would be a non-issue, but that wouldn't be very capitalist (/s), and I doubt the big names would simply allow new competition.

I think you're getting caught up on the "thing." My point wasn't whether it should be glyphs or letters. Devs should be asking, at that point, why it's necessary at all. Does it need to exist? If you're considering AI just to generate "background noise," is that noise really necessary in the first place? This step often happens naturally in human-derived work when we consider the work involved, but it must happen intentionally when you throw garbage-generators into the mix.

And no, I don't think making glyphs via AI is okay, because now we're in the realm of AI image generation, and that's a giant unethical miasma. You ask what the difference is between a dev making their own script to general glyphs versus an AI, and that's like asking what difference exists between a solar calculator and a data center run by Google. Both can tell you what 2+2 equals, but one is unnecessarily complex.

And then there's the ethical considerations. Where did that AI model come from? How was it trained and developed? Whose work was used to derive that model? Who benefits from its public use?

AI simply does not belong in creative endeavors. People may have their own reasons for where they've drawn their lines, but that does not mean it is a mere matter of subjectivity, like choosing broccoli instead of carrots, or that they have a good basis for that decision.

I tend to agree. I wish League worked on Linux, only because I have friends that play it frequently, but I'm not going back to Windows just because of that. There's still a bevy of multiplayer games that work great, and missing out on one game isn't much of a loss in the grand scheme.

At that point, the question a dev should be asking is, "Is it necessary to have filler text?" Taking your "background text that flashes onscreen" concept, if its just background noise anyway, why does it need to specifically be text? What do letters or characters add that couldn't be achieved with glyphs or scribbles?

People often see AI as some shiny new tool to bring their visions to life, but the game design and storytelling techniques we've collectively learned over the past decades still apply. More ≠ better, and if it's not meant to be consciously and overtly experienced by the player, what need is there to include it at all, AI-generated or otherwise?

Now, now. We might have learned the first inklings of it from our national ancestor, but the US has crafted its own awful brand of fascism all on its own. The blame is ours for that, and we must own it.

If anything, the British wealth class is taking notes from the US oligarchs, and these are the results.

Good luck to the dev! I think this will be a good tool to help some, and for the rest, hopefully we can get them onto something that fits them better (Mint, Aurora, etc.).

That's only because I left for Linux.

Mine has the IT8688, and it doesn't.

I'm running CachyOS with Gnome, Gigabyte motherboard, AMD processor, closed Nvidia drivers, and sleep works just fine. I haven't had any issues in that regard.

I have a Gigabyte motherboard, and the only issue I've run into—even with Arch—is this specific B550 board uses some third-party sensors, and the necessary it87 module doesn't load and isn't included by default. This makes it impossible to utilize tools like CoolerControl to manage fan curves.

Thankfully, some kind soul manages a DKMS module via the AUR, in spite of both Gigabyte and the IC manufacturers being less than helpful.

Yeah, sure. Like the police need extra help with racial profiling and "probable cause." Fuck this, and fuck the people who think this is a good idea.

I'm sure the authoritarians in power right now will get right on those proposed "safeguards," right after they install backdoors into encryption, to which Only They Have The Key™, to "protect" everyone from the scary "criminals."

I recommend reading the article, because holy fuck is that whole thing dystopian, but here's who was there:

Those present included representatives of Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Palantir, which works closely with the US military and has contracts with the NHS. IBM and the private prison operator Serco also attended alongside tagging and biometric companies, according to a response to a freedom of information request.

Ah, yes. The very companies that helped install a fascist in the US would be great partners to bring about safety and criminal reform, and they would definitely not inject their fascist ideals into the UK government, eroding and poisoning it over time. Sounds like a brilliant plan! /s

Pragmatically, yes. Legally, no. Progressives have been fighting for years to get internet classified as a utility in the US, and regressives and (ironically) internet companies have been fighting against that effort at every turn in the name of profit.

And now look how well that's turned out. Gee, if only some people had warned them that deregulation was a monkey's paw...

Fix? Bruh, they explicitly cultivate that shit. Even if they could, they're not gonna.

You can even get a modern gaming distro based off of it (PikaOS).

If you're willing to pay for it, Mailbox.org would be my choice. No provider will give that feature away for free (which I'm sure you know). My threat model can tolerate an extra hand via Addy, so I don't mind them being there.

But no matter who you choose, email just isn't the best option for true privacy. There will always be some cleartext email somewhere in the process, even if only sometimes. And as somebody once said, "No company is going to break the law for you."

If you need an extra level of privacy with email specifically, your best option is to self host. That way you control both the server and the database/storage.

I use Tuta combined with Addy.io, and it's been great. I never hand out the main email at Tuta, and if I ever want to pack up and move, I just tell Addy to change where to forward email.

I don't think you need to worry about Tuta. Iirc, all of the encryption/decryption happens on your device, so they can't see the content of your inbox, even if they wanted to. Their free tier is enough for me, and I just make sure to clean out any unwanted emails so I don't hit the 1GB limit.

Now, there's the caveat that encrypted email needs to be able to work with unencrypted email, so somewhere along the way, it's possible somebody could figure out who you are and what you're talking about by intercepting traffic or the endpoint, but if you need that level of privacy, email shouldn't be trusted anyway.

The biggest benefit of encrypted email is a judge can't force the company to hand over your inbox (because it's encrypted), and you don't have to worry about the parent company or whoever data mining it. But even if it's in a country that could order data collection, and you "aim to misbehave," I think it's moot, since you should know better than to use email for that purpose.