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  • Cool; I didn't know Blahaj was a 2SLGBTQ+ instance. I just thought it was a kind and accepting space, like Beehaw.

    Not to derail this thread too much, but I assume Allies are welcome to join? If Beehaw ends up leaving Lemmy, I'll need to make a new account somewhere.

  • I'm not sure I'm following you. The NDP coalition got dental and perceptions added to public health. Is that (plus other smaller stuff) not a big enough win for a minority party to get in a coalition government?

    I just don't get Canadian politics. The party that wants to deregulate everything so the 1% can capture even more wealth at everyone else's expense (and that's punching down on trans kids and wants to roll back women's rights) is beating the party that wants to help the bottom four quintiles of Canadians.

  • Honestly, this makes me want to weep.

    How can so many Canadians support a party that put punching down on trans youth as part of their platform?

    Do they not care that the CPC's policies are literally going to kill children?

    This is the result of years of targeted misinformation from Russia, China, and American and domestic conservatives. "Seventy-nine per cent of Canadian respondents believed at least one of the conspiracy theories shown to them" (source).

    Hopefully, the GOP trying (and hopefully failing) a fascist coup will wake up everyone ignorant of what's going on and the dangers of hateful populist conservatives.

  • Photo ops and political climbers. Name a more iconic duo.

    Even my high school principal did that shit. She had nothing to do with us at all, but as soon as we saw success with a project, or put on an event, she was right there getting her photo taken with us. Complete bullshit. She barely interacted with students.

  • That's a shame. I really liked it for text-to-speech since the TTS apps for Android are a lot better (and cheap/free) compared to Windows offerings. I use it to grade student essays since I can speed read with TTS+eyes faster and more accurately than I can with just my eyes.

    That said, I think there are other ways to get Android apps working in Windows, aren't there? I might need to look into the options, or see if the TTS options on Windows have improved.

    WSA was the "killer feature" that made me upgrade from Windows 10. (Although Win+Shift+T for screen capture OCR is huge for me, too..)

  • I think they also have potential for creating lots of variations in dialogue pre-run in a database, and manually checked by a writer for QC.

    The problem with locally-run LLMs is that the good ones require massive amounts of video memory, so it's just not feasible anytime soon. And the small ones are, well, crappy. And slow. And still huge (8GB+).

    That of course means you can't get truly dynamic branching dialogue, but it can enable things like getting thousands of NPC lines instead of "I took an arrow to the knee" from every guard in every city.

    It can also be used to generate dialogue, too, so not just one-liners, but "real" NPC conversations (or rich branching dialogue options for players to select.)

    I'm very skeptical that we'll get "good" dynamic LLM content in games, running locally, this decade.

  • A few things:

    First, the LLC settled with Nintendo. They do not have the funds to pay their debts, now, so they'll go bankrupt. The developers won't pay a cent, likely. Maybe a bit of cash left over after paying their lawyer, if there is any, but it won't amount to much.

    Second, they were being sued for damages. Just stopping something after causing damages is insufficient.

    Third, this isn't a judgment, it's a settlement. That means that it was their "choice" to negotiate with Nintendo instead of going to court. In the settlement, the group agreed to cease & desist and not work on Nintendo systems at all any more, basically. I haven't looked into it, and I'm not as lawyer, but again I think this is just the LLC, not the individual developers? If so, this also means basically nothing at all.

    Realistically, developers on this team likely won't continue working on Nintendo devices, because there's nothing stopping Nintendo from just using them again and facing "actual" penalties next time. But there should be very little harm to them individually for this.

    And no, nothing is stopping them from continuing to work anonymously on this project on the dark web. Nintendo could never prove it, so long as they aren't so stupid as to announce it. It would take some pretty strong evidence of continued infringement to get a search warrant, I would think, so they're likely in the clear.

  • This shouldn't need to be the case; emulation is legal and has been tried by the courts in several jurisdictions.

    Sucks that laws like the DMCA make it illegal to bypass encryption for the sake of emulation or other fair use, so the legality of emulation isn't really "enough" in the face of even rudimentary protections.

    The nice thing about loving on a global society is that this can still be legally pursued elsewhere and we can all benefit. (Or coordinated/shared on the dark web, which can be untraceable even for those living in justifications where it might be illegal.)

    In this case, they'll be fine. They made a LLC and didn't take any personal liability in the settlement. They can just declare bankruptcy and fold.

  • Not parent poster, but I don't think that's what they were getting at.

    Atheists are often generalized in the same way one might make generalizations about Catholics; the problem is that, while Catholics share a common set of beliefs and values (generally) based on doctrine and scripture, atheists don't necessarily have anything in common about their beliefs or values, aside from an absence of theistic belief.

  • Yeah, the first one is really frustrating.

    No, I don't need the threat of everlasting punishment to be moral. I'm a secular humanist, and the idea that the only reason you're not evil is because of threats of going to hell is way scarier than just being kind because it's the right thing to do.