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@ben@m.benui.ca

:unreal: ui programmer @ epic games • views are mine and wrong • he/him

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wirepair , to random
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I dunno what this illness is but it hurts. Feels like someone punched both my kidneys and jabbed all my joints with needles

ben ,
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@wirepair go to the hospital/doctor dude. You're in Japan it's not that expensive surely

glassbottommeg , to random
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Ok indies (and I'm looking especially at you Death's Door)

look, screen shake is great, but if I'm struggling with a boss because I can't see what's going on, turn off all your FX, and then beat the boss without taking a hit,

That's too much juice, let some of the juice out, be like 20% less juicy

ben ,
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@glassbottommeg I turn off screen shake and controller rumble immediately when I start a game. It always makes me feel ill

yora , to random
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I've been working so many Saturdays in a row now, it's feeling really weird that there's a public holiday tomorrow.

Two days off in a row? That doesn't seem right.

ben ,
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@yora you're crunching?

ben ,
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@yora At least you get compensation I guess

ben , to random
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F-150 truck with Alberta plates
I try not to judge a book by the cover but

ben OP ,
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@vfxsup you drive a F-150 with Alberta plates?

ben , to random
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Some people do gardening
Some people do woodwork
Some people do knitting
I make little Python scripts

notjustbikes , to random
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[surprised pikachu meme]

https://thedriven.io/2024/05/14/nearly-all-major-car-companies-are-sabotaging-ev-transition-and-japan-is-worst-study-finds/

ben ,
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@BootedUp @notjustbikes what do you mean?

ben , to random
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My gaming laptop does not like running 100+ simultaneous instances of pyppeteer

ben OP ,
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@Dancer it turns out re-using the same instance and having it visit 100 pages was much faster. Who knew??

wirepair , to random
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Oof not feeling so hot :<

ben ,
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@wirepair did you catch the Rona?

ben , to random
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Octodad is the single funniest game for kids. I've never seen kids absolutely lose their minds over anything else.

ghosttie , to random
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I've got a question - why isn't there an option to turn off Google's "AI Overviews"?

What do they gain from forcing it in everyone and costing themselves a bunch of money generating nonsense every time someone does a search?

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@ghosttie

  • publicity
  • get people used to a feature that they then charge for or use as a USP
  • training data
  • pushing the ai future that they think will make them more money

i had to search what it was you were referring to, sounds amazing they managed to make their own search experience worse

ben , to random
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Listening to Today Explained from Vox's absolutely dogshit coverage of the student protests, BDS.

"They students are demanding the schools divest from companies like Google that work with the Israeli govt but ironically they probably use Google themselves" 🙄🙄🙄 so insightful Vox

ben OP ,
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@codemonkey_uk ahaha pretty much

wirepair , to random
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At a lovely restaurant in chino city. Can’t wait to live here. Breaking ground next week!

ben ,
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@wirepair you're having a house built?

ben , to random
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I don't know why people would be skeptical about new tech. It's not like they've seen a pattern of hype and induced demand

Please disregard
VR
Voice-controlled assistants
Crypto
NFTs
Generative art
Full self-driving cars

ben OP ,
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@agersant I forgot those ones!

ben OP ,
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@mondanzo that's a fair point. I guess I meant they didn't become as ubiquitous or revolutionary as "technologists" claimed they would. But you're right they can be super helpful for many.

maxim , to random
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Today I tried what Geometry Script is in Unreal Engine 5. Cool features, but I won't use it for the game. Maybe only as tools for level design

video/mp4

ben ,
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@maxim swiss cheese simulator 2024, this is neat!

ghosttie , to random
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I like how the metaverse didn't happen

Facebook evaporated billions of dollars on it and then just... nothing

Even autocorrect is like "that's not a word"

ben ,
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@ghosttie the same for crypto
and nfts
and generative art
and self driving cars
and humanoid robots

ben , to random
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I've been using them for years but if @protonprivacy starts using training AI based on my email I'm closing my account the very same day.

ben OP ,
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@protonprivacy This is from their most recent user survey. Very tellingly the following question is

ben OP ,
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cc @molly0xfff if you haven't seen this yet

ben OP ,
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@djlink @protonprivacy If it's a just fancy autocomplete that I can turn off when writing emails, that's fine. But if they're training using customer data, that's horrendous and guaranteed to leak stuff.

ben OP ,
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@protonprivacy that's reassuring

ben , to random
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"What OpenAI have presented with GPT-4o is a fresh paint job on a car with a dangerously corroded chassis. A false confidence machine."

https://fasterandworse.com/known-purpose-and-trusted-potential/

ben , to random
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Slack are using user messages and content to train AI/ML models. 🫠
https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

Quinnypig , to random
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I'm sorry Slack, you're doing fucking WHAT with user DMs, messages, files, etc? I'm positive I'm not reading this correctly.

ben ,
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@Quinnypig you cropped out the relevant part, this just talks about opting out

ben ,
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@Quinnypig also can you link the source of this?

ben ,
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@Quinnypig nvm found it https://slack.com/trust/data-management/privacy-principles

mathowie , to random
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https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.

Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.

I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.

Boosts are rolled up into a carousel of toots you can view with sideways scrolling
Threads are shown grouped together and single posts from threads are indicated as such.

ben ,
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@mathowie I always feel weird using my login details on another site though. To trust another site with those credentials..

ben , (edited ) to random
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I made a UI version of the thing that's going around
Original comic by https://instagram.com/mhuyocomics

Four-panel comic First panel: Two humans are talking to a little fluffy... thing with big cute eyes. The two humans say "You work on video games? That's so awesome! What stuff did you make in {game name}?" Second panel: Little fluffy cute thing says "i worked on the ui!" Third panel: The two humans look kind of grossed out, saying "fuckin... buttons and stuff? what?" Fourth panel: Little cute fluffy thing looks sad. Says "i like buttons"
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    ben OP ,
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    @mondanzo haha I used that just in the last week

    ben OP ,
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    @reisutheowl Oops you're right! I'm going to edit the original to credit

    ben OP ,
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    @Kiloku I guess at least you can cover your ass with this, "I wrote docs, if people don't follow them it's not my fault"

    wirepair , to random
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    ugh, def do not recommend sending your kids to japanese public school

    ben ,
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    @wirepair what happen?

    Wolven , to random
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    OpenAI, Google, and all the other GPT hype-merchants have been outright lying to everyone about their capabilities and accomplishments, which: We told you so.

    But I do appreciate @Julia always doing the solid work to lay it out plain.
    https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/15/opinion/artificial-intelligence-ai-openai-chatgpt-overrated-hype.html

    But some of A.I.’s greatest accomplishments seem inflated. Some of you may remember that the A.I. model ChatGPT-4 aced the uniform bar exam a year ago. Turns out that it scored in the 48th percentile, not the 90th, as claimed by OpenAI, according to a re-examination by the M.I.T. researcher Eric Martínez. Or what about Google’s claim that it used A.I. to discover more than two million new chemical compounds? A re-examination by experimental materials chemists at the University of California, Santa Barbara, found “scant evidence for compounds that fulfill the trifecta of novelty, credibility and utility.”
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    • ben ,
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    @Wolven @Julia something half-decent published in the NYT? I guess a broken clock is right twice a day

    ben , to random
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    what are your favourite steam deck games?

    ben OP ,
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    @wirepair I tried the demo of that on switch and the load times were horrible. I guess it's better on steamdeck?

    ben OP ,
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    @wirepair oh I mean like going between the diving parts and the shop parts. It took 15-30s on switch

    ben OP ,
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    @soulsource oh damn TIL you can install dosbox on steamdeck

    ben , to random
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    Citations Needed really is the single best podcast I would recommend to people to understand the news and current events.
    https://pca.st/episode/db4d1d39-f313-4724-b010-923360146d4d

    ben OP ,
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    @sinbad oh I listen to trash future too!

    ben , to random
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    i sat on my butt way too much when i was younger and as a result my legs are baaaad

    i bought a kitchen timer and set it to 30 mins and get up and walk around when it goes off

    it's helping

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    NOBODY WANTS THIS! 🗣️ https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/15/google-tv-to-launch-ai-generated-movie-descriptions/

    ben ,
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    @powerllama AI: solving problems that have already been solved

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    I'm not a "Linux Guy" really but I started re-evaluating it lately, and I think it might not just be for the Tech Weirdos anymore. It can absolutely be a daily driver for a lot of game developers now!

    https://brodybrooks.com/posts/2024-linuxgamedev/

    ben ,
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    @brody I was excited, then I read your "Set your expectations" section and realised it's not for me

    ben ,
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    @brody yeah that and the general fear of stuff that's hit me with linux before: drivers for printers, drivers for wifi,

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