TheTechnician27 @ TheTechnician27 @lemmy.world

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That's my point: Kickstarter and IndieGoGo is filled with extraordinarily obvious scams, yet this person's trying to act like there'a some sanctity to the semantics rather than the spirit of them.

Yeah, no, not at all. I'd feel intensely uncomfortable using Sup for anything when something like Signal exists. The network effect issue is the exact same on both platforms, so why am I going to take the most trusted communication application and protocol in the world and choose Sup which is the work of a single dev with no obvious background in cybersec, let alone the kind of math necessary to properly understand encryption?

That toaster is what AI is. If it's machine learning, it's AI. If I make a toilet that uses a shitty-ass single-layer perceptron to decide when to flush, that's an AI-powered toilet even if it's a worthless piece of crap. You can be disenchanted with it as a gimmick all you want (I am too), but it falls under AI the same way it has since the 1950s. The marketing way of referring to things you just showed me entirely comports with the academic one provided what the label says is true.

Oh no, someone is tarnishing the sacred name of a kickstarter campaign by checks notes raising money to scale up a project that can benefit everyone (thus kickstarting the scaling effort) instead of selling a $250 plastic brick that generates far-infrared waves using no electricity in order to "stabilise" your car's battery which you velcro the brick on top of (okay, that one was an IndieGoGo, but same difference).

What you're saying expressly isn't true. Academically, deep learning is considered a subset of machine learning is considered a subset of artificial intelligence.

• Deep learning is machine learning that makes use of deep neural networks.
• Machine learning is artificial intelligence which can perform tasks without explicit instructions by learning from a dataset and generalizing to other data.
• Artificial intelligence is simply trying to make a computer display some sort of intelligence that's seen as human-like. For example, a perceptron is artificial intelligence because how could a computer possibly see like a human? Chess bots are artificial intelligence because it was thought that chess represented some sort of higher intelligence unique to humans. NPC actions in video games can be artificial intelligence because you're simulating what another human might do.

Would you like the textbooks from 10 years ago on this exact subject that I'm referencing? The term AI hasn't been co-opted; you might've simply been thinking of general artificial intelligence, because "pretty much any form of machine learning" has been called AI since the dawn of machine learning – because it is.

Ezio Auditore time traveled to an IKEA.

Word of mouth provided by pirates is still great for the AAA games industry, regardless of what they'll tell you, and only helps perpetuate these bad practices you're pirating to get away from. 99.9% of users are unwilling to pirate games, and thus when you reference them, say you played or enjoyed them, talk about pirating them, etc., it's essentially just free advertising for those games to people who would in all likelihood just purchase them if they wanted them.

Meanwhile, playing indie games gives those devs some cash flow to keep developing and gives free, word of mouth advertising to other people through references, recommendations, etc. The more successful indie games with good practices are, the better the games industry as a whole. It's not a zero-sum game, but there is some tradeoff involved.

Why pirate shitty AAA games when you can spend your time getting a better experience by supporting indie devs financially and in word of mouth?

"Here's my angry, unpopular, barely coherent diatribe apropos of nothing about this large and diverse group of people definitely being angry and hostile."

I'll look into it; thank you!

It's the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope; the person you're replying to left out "Aperture" by mistake.

There isn't a meaningful difference; gachas are just a subset of lootboxes, and anybody claiming otherwise is a player lying to themselves or is a game publisher defending themselves from these predatory practices.

Still forgot to make up for the lost day yesterday, so I'll have to do that today. I'm so sorry for anyone who's missed their fix of these awful, awful posts.

I once again forgot yesterday just from being too busy, so I'll be doing another one later.

I wish they would put the official app on F-Droid. I use PixelDroid, but it'd still be nice to try.

before I ever install their unnecessary and untrustworthy data-miner

You're about [current year minus year you installed Win10] years too late for that. That said, if you intend to come over to Linux, it's probably best to set time-bounded goals for yourself instead of vaguely putting it off until MS does something that crosses some poorly defined line, else you risk having to chaotically abandon ship at the last minute and making the transition much harder.

Flat Earth is exactly tantamount to claiming that ADHD doesn't exist or that climate change isn't real – in fact, it's actively far less rooted in reality than either of those two already incredibly dumb takes.

By this logic, anyone on /c/ADHD has to debunk someone dropping in every once in a while (because it can't be persistent, but the admins won't define what persistence is) and saying that ADHD isn't a real thing. Or /c/climate has to listen to speeches about how the Earth isn't really warming and this is just like that "fake" ozone scare! (Nah, wait, that's solarpunk whose administration is actually sensible in this respect.) Or we at /c/vegan have to attentatively listen and refute people coming in and saying that needlessly murdering animals is super cool and good actually (a very healthy thing for a vegan community). All relevant; all asinine.

You mean like LW ToS 8.0 against misinformation? So interesting that as soon as the head admin steps down, this ridiculous bullshit crops up. Sounds like he was holding back the floodgates from the other admins' worst impulses, like the one a few months ago who briefly overtook an entire community because what they were saying agreed with science but hurt his fee-fees.

And yet Amaze on F-Droid is probably a better product.