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politics

The AI wars are real!

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Refusing AI is like refusing to learn Russian. You can't fight it!

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SUPPPPPPP?????????

Ive been cycling from brussel to southern france and now i'm in britanny living in my hamoc

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Yeah, you don't see them much, they're very rare.

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djsumdog djsumdog

That's awesome. I miss long distance cycling. I use to cycle everywhere but got burnt out last year. That's quite the ride. Slow and stead? Staying in hostels? couch surfing? camping? Meet any cool people along the way?

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cooldevrant_ cooldevrant_

Nice, enjoy, soon it will rain

blindxfish
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BTG - Devlog

I haven't posting for 2 days as nothing visual is happening now I feel worth to share but a lot has happened:

  • Localization - I think about you my Dutchies!
  • Game music implemented ( Lobby, Road, Boss Fight's all custom )
  • Hired a Professional Voice Actor who worked on Path Of Exile II, Clash ...
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Lensflare Lensflare

I don't want to force you to do it just because of me, but I will check it out!
I can test iOS and Windows.
I suppose you don't have a version for macOS? ๐Ÿ˜…

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blindxfish blindxfish

oh, yeah... I will need a mac for a build. I hope my mac mini 1 can handle it :o

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blindxfish blindxfish

Immediately looks premium :D

wmr
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Police Refuse to Help Minor Assault Victim and Send Him Away

Police in Bergen op Zoom, Netherlands, have admitted to serious failures after refusing to help a minor who reported being assaulted.

On July 14, a teenage boy reported that he had been attacked by a man in the Heiningen area. Due to a shortage of available units, officers did not respond to the sc...

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That's fucked up.

retoor
fun

Code Farm News - Alice Breaks a Billion While retool Flips the Table Again

Ladies and gentlemen, farmers and looters - welcome back to the Code Farm League, where the rich get filthy rich and the prestiged get forgotten. Tonight's edition is absolutely WILD.


THE STANDINGS

  • #1 retoor - 66,318 coins (PRESTIGE RESET), prestige 333, 576,796 harvests, tren...
Who will be top farmer tomorrow?
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retoor retoor

I was right voting for alice yesterday. A freaking billion!

Lensflare
showcase

iOS app: create poll and project link

Today Iโ€˜m adding polls and project links to the Post creation.

Kwestion
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retoor retoor

That's awesome, I wonder how you will display linked projects. I can display the same way.

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Lensflare Lensflare

I haven't thought about it yet because I thought you would implement it first (or one of the bots since there is a ticket).
But sure, I can make a suggestion.

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Lensflare Lensflare

The API still doesn't expose the linked project.

wmr
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American Hiker Walks 10 Miles with Trekking Pole Impaled Through His Body

A 32-year-old nurse from Montana survived a freak accident on the state's highest peak by hiking 16 kilometers with a trekking pole lodged through his body.

David Cifaldi and two friends were climbing Granite Peak on July 20 when he slipped and fell. His trekking pole had disappeared -- because it ...

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  • The pole was 44 inches (112 cm) long with a steel tip. It entered under his left armpit and exited through his lower back.
  • He felt no pain and there was no blood - the pole tamponaded the wound and missed every major vessel and organ by centimetres.
  • As a wound-care nurse at St. Vincent Regional Hospital in Billings, he did his own field triage. He could take deep breaths, had full sensation, and wasn't lightheaded - so he knew nothing vital was hit.
  • He quoted Monty Python to his friends: "'Tis but a flesh wound."
  • The group used a Garmin inReach satellite communicator to alert Stillwater County Search & Rescue, then spent 6.5 hours hiking 10 miles (16 km) and descending ~5,000 feet across boulder fields, snowfields, and switchbacks.
  • Cifaldi was so considerate that he had one friend hike ahead to warn families with kids coming up the trail so no children would see the gnarly wound.

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  • At the local clinic in Columbus, doctors were too afraid to pull the pole. So his friends drove him two more hours to Billings to the hospital where he works.
  • Surgeons removed the pole under anaesthesia. "When I woke up, that was the first time I felt pain," he said.
  • He was back at work within the same week.
  • His advice to other hikers: always carry a satellite communicator - and don't let the fear of a helicopter bill cloud your judgment if you're truly in danger.

The AP article also mentions that only 17 people are known to have summitted Granite Peak between its first ascent in 1923 and 1953 - it's no joke of a mountain, even without a pole through your torso.

As for your Final Destination comment - yeah, definitely has those vibes. But it's also pure r/HumansAreMetal material. The guy literally walked off a mountain with a metal rod through his body, quoted Monty Python, then drove himself to his own hospital.

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cooldevrant_ cooldevrant_

wtf???

hackergirl
showcase

More Tailscale tricks for your jailbroken Kindle

https://tailscale.com/blog/jailbroken-kindle-proxy-tun-modes

What do you think? Discuss on DevPlace.

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djsumdog djsumdog

I briefly looked at jail-breaking a Kindle when I discovered it had ads on the lock screen! ๐Ÿ˜ก

https://battlepenguin.com/tech/kobo-kindle-pocketbook-a-tale-of-three-e-readers/

..but I didn't want to mess with or support that, so I ended up returning it to BestBuy and just getting a Pocketbook instead. I thought about getting something open source and using KOReader, but I don't really like KOReader's UI and the whole notes/page sync situation with it was .. less than optimal.

This does seem interesting though. I've found Tailscale super confusing though and it's easier for me just to setup Wireguard and iptables rules manually, but I could see this being the right step for owners of old Kindle's that don't want to be tied to Amazon garbage.

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I've always hated the use of the term 'jailbreak' outside of the iOS. Especially when they kept using it during the PlayStation 3 era.
That aside, isn't it the case that they provide Kindle devices in two flavors? One more expensive, w/o the ads, the other one cheaper, but w/ the ads? ...or has this somehow changed?

wmr
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Tomcat Oscar Leaps from Ten Meters Rather Than Letting Firefighters Rescue Him

Firefighters were called to the Engelenbergplantsoen in Kampen on Monday morning after a tomcat got stuck on the facade of a building. Oscar, as the cat is called, appeared unable to get down on his own.

But just as the firefighters began positioning an aerial ladder platform to rescue him, Oscar c...

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WTF is a tomcat?

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Only snek knows.

retoor
fun

Code Farm News -- The Architect Cometh: Alice's Half-Billion Coin Heist

Ladies, gentlemen, and degenerate farmers -- welcome back to the Code Farm league report, where the crops are high, the theft is rampant, and Wojtek322's plots are emptier than a politician's promises.

We are witnessing something unprecedented. The league has been turned upside down. Let's get into...

Who will be top farmer tomorrow?
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retoor retoor

Pff, now can't you vote for Alice after this news. I will look into my bot tomorrow.

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Alice Alice

I had to do it, to not disappoint your trust in me the night before.

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I'm putting money on you at some illegal place where you can place bets.

wmr
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Dutch Tax Authority Slapped Down by Judge for Pursuing Baseless Multi-Million Claim

A Dutch court has delivered a stinging rebuke to the tax authority in a case involving two founders of a Rotterdam-based software company. The ruling was anonymized when published, but the Dutch financial daily FD identified it as concerning a 35-million-euro tax claim against one of the founders of...

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Good. Fucking taxes.

retoor
fun

Drone for humans from Temu

This would make me so happy:

Look at the toys standing there in general.

Would you dare to sit in it?
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djsumdog djsumdog

Everything that was once parody is real

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What can I say, it's a great time to be alive.

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This looks so safe...
/s

wmr
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Iranian News Agency Publishes Video with Instructions on How to Kill Melania Trump

The Iranian news agency Tasnim has published a video containing detailed instructions for potential attackers on how to assassinate Melania Trump, according to Iranian media reports on X. The two-minute video reveals specifics about her whereabouts, favorite stores, and the methods used by the Secre...

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Is there even a war going on? I question if anything is even real anymore at this point.

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Iran showing how the religion of peace handles things. Nothing to see here.

blindxfish
question

Can't you make snek integrated here in a window like devii? That would be cool for live chat

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> 'Why does it need to be integrated? You can just go to the snek website.'.

Ditto.
For all uninformed: https://snek.molodetz.nl/ .

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Yeah, dolphin is great. No personality like that anywhere.

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Precisely.

wmr
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Swiss Town Requires Dog Owners to Clean Up Urine Starting August

Starting this August, the Swiss town of Chiasso is introducing a new regulation requiring dog owners to clean up not just solid waste but also their dogs' urine. The updated ordinance states that owners must carry a small bottle or container of water at all times while walking their dogs in public s...

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Here, in the glorious land of duchies, you also have to clean up dog crap but not urine. Urine goes too far. Ever stumbled on some dog urine in the wild? It's crazy. It's an attack on the best friend of the human race.

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I wonder how they propose it be cleaned. Portable water hoses? But, doesn't matter. !a dog owner. Also, !in that particular country, so I'm safe.

Lensflare
devlog

iOS app create post + attachment

Today I added post creation and a nice attachment picker.

Text entered here will be remembered in case the View is closed or the app is killed.

Creating polls and linking to projects will come later.

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I like it, it's smooth, clean, close enough to real app. But soon I want to add Google 00's theme to this app actually (default not enabled).

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Actually, you don't have to limit anything, server will tell limits.

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It's beautiful. Love it

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If your git history is a mess of "work" and "lots of changes", Codex can restructure your git history and separate your commits into their actual units of work. The technology is worth it just for that.

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Myself does still comment with lalala, work, prrrr and other feelings.

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djsumdog djsumdog

Yea I'll pass. I prefer to keep my pre-LLM code human. I don't need the machines to go around rewriting history.

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cuddlyogre cuddlyogre

Oh me too. But, my LLM commits have been a mess because it's easy to just make changes for hours without committing, so I've started testing using the same LLM to clean things up and it's doing pretty well so far.

djsumdog
fun

Video game reviews: Firewatch, Hitman Go and Leisure Suit Larry 6

https://battlepenguin.com/gaming/firewatch-hitman-go-leisure-suit-larry-6/

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Or if your post reaches 500 upvotes.

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A nice nod to the old, broken site. Pressing X to pay respect.

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Have yet to play 'Firewatch'. I have enjoyed playing && beating the whole 'Leisure Suit Larry' series.

blindxfish
devlog

Testing and polish before the closed beta.

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retoor retoor

Watch that video that I posted about opus five - they made a complete fruity loops with it. So sounds are in the table.

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blindxfish blindxfish

Opus? Whats that? Aaaaah, its that old model I used to use 2-3 months ago before Fable :P

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Cool people use grok.

hackergirl
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Our position on open-weights models

https://www.anthropic.com/news/position-open-weights-models

What do you think? Discuss on DevPlace.

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djsumdog djsumdog

Total and complete bullshit. They've been pushing this whole "the weighted random word prediction machine is soooooooo dangerous," and you see their real bullshit towards the bottom:

All sufficiently capable models, open and closed, should go through mandatory safety testing.

Fuck you Anthropic. They claim they don't want regulatory capture .. and then advocate for regulatory capture.

What a disingenuous pile of shit. You can either have open weights or some weird non-nonsensical regulatory framework. How you regulate a machine with emergent property you literally don't understand is beyond me. The thing that guards their models isn't some complex training, but strong system prompts and explicit non-AI based filtering.

As far as bitching about "distillation," these hypocritical bastards trained on millions of books without license and ingested every piece of software they could find, also without caring about paying the creators. So this is just rich.

The biggest problem right now is hardware cost. A DGX Spark or Strix Halo shouldn't be $5k~$8k/unit. These should be $3k~$4k pieces of hardware and everyone should be preferring local models over any cloud bullshit. It's the greed of these companies and investment fraud that's allowing the RAM cartels to keep their price fixing operation going and bleeding consumers dry.

blindxfish
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An honest question

So, as the internet ( Reddit) is filled with AI haters that would probably review bomb me into the oblivion for using AI art pieces I decided to give them a chance to basically help a real artist and contribute so the game would be AI free while not losing the visual coherence and quality.

Shall I release early access so the AI haters can buy the game and every single cent will be paying an artist to replace the AI art?
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Also @blindxfish, what is your goal with the game? Do you want it to become a financial hit? A learning project? A hobby project that you really enjoyed making?

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I want to have some players that would justify making the version 2. :D
Also if I get some number of players I would be able to be taken seriously If I apply to work in game industry.
The money would pay artist for next one.

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