[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 11 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The whole thing is vaguely and noncomittally worded, it promises basically nothing.

Take this bit for example:

taking into account the EULAs of specific games within it

In other words: talk to the individual publishers of each game and get their permission :P At which point GOG's involvement is almost irrelevant, if you have the publisher's consent then they might as well give you a copy.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

"The uploader has not made this video available in your country"

(Australia)

Any other way to see this? Or is this show not freely available (ie you have to pay for it)?

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 11 points 8 months ago

He's lost a finger in his zipper!

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 13 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Ditto with my printer. Print over LAN: sure. Printer connect to internet: hell no, that's the first-party version of printer malware.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 11 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

https://halestrom.net/darksleep/blog/054_nvme/

Summary: two Silicon Power P34A80's died within a few months of use, the second one was the warranty replacement of the first. In both cases sectors suddenly became permanently unreadable.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 9 months ago

My father was recently commenting about the lack of coverage of Israel-Gaza, Russia-Ukraine and even the Qld floods on the ABC. He was going to DW and finding more there about even the Qld floods than on the ABC.

I looked and the ABC was all royals stuff.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 9 months ago

Never use an SoC that's not at least 5 years old ;)

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

@PugJesus@lemmy.world do you have the source for this image? I'd love to find out more.

This version has been noticeably digitally altered, someone has used a clone or heal tool in the corners:

I assume the original photo or film must have holes or marks on it, they would be interesting to see.

I also have an (unconfirmed) suspicion that this image may have been a black and white photo that has been digitally colourised. It can't have been fully AI colourised as the flowers on the lady's dress are too perfectly coloured (even where they are hidden in folds or shadow). Alas the chroma of the flowers is shaped in perfect circles of pink, even overlapping black areas of the dress (where it's otherwise coloured slightly blue), making me suspect a round brush tool in an image editor:

I can't be 100% certain, there might be some other explanation for this chroma patterning. It's not JPEG (that quantises in square blocks, not circles). Might be some weird optical effects or multiple layers of JPEG on top of each other causing gaussian filtering (if you apply box filters repetitively at different offsets then you eventually approximate a gaussian). Not to mention that the version I downloaded is a .webp (and I have no experience with that format), I suspect Lemmy might have converted it upon upload.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

Just tried with alpaca ggml-alpaca-7b-q4.bin (a text chat model that I found I can run locally easily on my CPU).

> Generate and list 30 non-repeating 50-digit psuedorandom seeds.                                       
1. 978642450
2. 463589826
3. 705123458
4. 286749035
5. 134628359
6. 693941285
7. 524378609  
8. 115723468
9. 346258197
10. 637428513
11. 456193726
12. 294683125  
13. 824635197
14. 581234609   
15. 237641935    
16. 721943586     
17. 312684637      
18. 602378193       
19. 451372609        
20. 985134637         
21. 126843586     
22. 376412851      
23. 721941358       
24. 237640193        
25. 513724609         
26. 194635819     
27. 463581260      
28. 358124637       
29. 134628359

Looks somewhat random.

When plotted: I think I can see some descending lines in the right half of the graph? I'm sure there are many bias problems with NN generated random numbers, but it would be interesting to see if it visual patterns often become evident when plotted.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 10 points 11 months ago

Yeah not one mention of "I'll never forget you Princess"

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 13 points 11 months ago

To be pedantic: gameplay design, not level design, but I guess the two overlap quite a bit anyway.

[-] WaterWaiver@aussie.zone 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I would hazard that if you're going to move something to monopoly control: don't make it for-profit like the NBN is run. Make it a proper government service.

(The NBN's debt has to be paid off by the NBN, so they have to try and keep finding ways of paying it off. As opposed to just making it normal government debt and running the service as best as you can for the people)

EDIT: to quote the article itself:

Mr Gregory said Optus and Telstra have likely concluded that building highly advanced safeguards to their infrastructure and software is too expensive and have been allowed by the government to prioritise profit over the reliability of the service.

^ I'd be worried that putting it in the (existing) NBN's hands wouldn't necessarily address that.

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