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[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (4 children)

It is, machine learning, neural networks and all the other parts in LLMs and generative algorithms like midjourney etc are all fields of artificial intelligence. The AI Effect just means the goalposts for what people think of as "proper" AI are constantly moving.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (1 children)

Emulation and emulators aren't illegal. Yuzu for example got in trouble mostly for distributing tools for circumventing copy protection and dumping roms and not for the emulator itself.

But it doesn't really matter as nobody has money to defend themselves against something like Nintendo. Here just even the threat of it was enough to get the Ryujinx devs to fold just in case.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You can play Cold Steel 1&2 as your first if you want a more modern introduction to the world and like the persona style school setting stuff, but CS3 is when the stories of all the previous games start merging together, so it's very highly recommended to have played Sky, Zero and Azure before that or you will miss a lot of it.

Also there is a 3D remake of the Sky trilogy coming, starting sometime next year with the first game. Though so far it seems to be Switch exclusive.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Because it is a legal question, not a technological one.
Now, I don't know if the for example US traffic law has a tickbox somewhere a manufacturer can go and mark that they will take full responsibility in case of any accident and it will never be the result or liability of the owner/"driver" of the car, but until it does exist there is only supervised self driving, no matter how well or poorly it actually functions or what it does.

Even the current robotaxi endeavours are just one major fatal accident away from grinding to a halt when the courts start figuring out who in the chain from insurer to owner to manufacturer and every worker and designer who has even remotely touched the project is actually responsible for that death.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 days ago (5 children)

Really? I wasn't aware of that, from which manufacturer and where can I buy one?

[–] [email protected] 53 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

Because:

Due to an amendment in December 2018 of the Unfair Competition Prevention Act in Japan, certain gaming-related activities and services have now been declared illegal. This includes:

  • Distribution of tools and programs for modifying game saves
  • Selling product keys and serials online without the software maker's permission
  • Game save and console modding services
    As such, sales of products such as Pro Action Replay and Cybergadget's "Save editor" have been discontinued.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emulation/comments/abk551/save_game_editors_and_console_modding_now_illegal/

It's meant to ban sale of hardware devices and services that allow playing pirated games on Switch and such, but due to the way it's worded it just bans them all.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 2 days ago (15 children)

As long as the "driver" is responsible in case of a crash and not the manufacturer of the car, it will stay supervised no matter what the underlying tech is. "But your honour, I wasn't paying any attention, it was the autonomous car that drove over the kid" is not a valid defence.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ha, when that is even possible. I've seen github pages where the issue tracker is disabled and the readme says to give bug reports on discord.

Discord was supposed to replace and combine IRC and TeamSpeak, instead people are misusing it a "replacement" for issue trackers, forums, wikis, and even distributing their files from there, and it's infuriating. And eventually the enshittification will cause Discord to fail, and suddenly over a decade worth of discourse and projects will just be irreversibly lost as nothing said there is indexed by any search engine.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Here's the actual Finland-russia fence.

Which honestly isn't all that much more impressive when you realize why it looks so strangely familiar.

[–] [email protected] 52 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)

Tweets are a specific type of a microblog post you do on twitters. Have you tried tweeting, make your own twitter at https://joinmastodon.org/ today!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 days ago (3 children)

Reddit is fun is fun for Reddit. The WP is just WP, just like RIF is just RIF.

[–] [email protected] 16 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Yup. Helium is such a tiny thing it can diffuse through almost anything, and in MEMS oscillators which are supposed to be at a rock solid 32kHz, causes variance in the frequency eventually just "gumming" it up entirely and causing it to stop working.

If you want to know how and why, Applied Science did a video on it. Five years ago. Because that's when this leak happened.

 

I completely understand why Valve decided that the touchpad haptics were good enough, the deck is heavy as it is already. I'd still love to have the option of adding some proper rumble on the deck for the games that deserve it.

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