Worse, since generating a whole bunch of potentially correct text is basically effortless now, you’ve got a new batch of idiots just “contributing” to discussions by leaving a regurgitated wall of text they possibly didn’t even read themselves.
So not only those are not fact checking, when you point that you didn’t ask for a LLM’s opinion, they’re like “what’s the problem? Is any of this wrong?” Because it’s entirely your job to check something they copy-pasted in 5 seconds.
My kindle is from 2011, got it for free from someone getting rid of it. It’s old and dumb as shit and Amazon fortunately doesn’t care about it anymore.
Since I got it, it never had an Amazon DRM-ed e-book loaded on it. I intend to keep it that way.
Wow that’s bullshit. A freaking sports mafia has the power to cripple the internet.
Rayman’s GBA port was… not good. I wonder how this one compares to it, sounds like a lot of effort went into it. Sure the screen is smaller, but if they adapted level design/sprite size well, that might work. GBA mostly tried to port the levels as-is, and ended up just removing some of them and having stuff hidden off-screen when it shouldn’t.
They’re also praising the soundtrack, and GBA’s take on the Rayman OST was absolutely atrocious, so I can only imagine they did a better job.
Yeah I wasn’t even aware of the term SPA, but in this case I’d have simply called that a form. Form web pages are almost as old as the web itself.
About 3DS IR and pokémon, partly :
https://m.bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Infrared
Apparently it could be used to initiate communication, in gen 6 and 7.
Some Pokémon DS cartridges had their own IR port. Madness.
What do you mean? Everyone knows humans have evolved a second thumb on their palm to play NES correctly in the 80s.
It’s like the panda’s thumb.
Very different from an IR controller though. The wiimote has an IR camera and the console looks for two static light points to triangulate a position, it doesn’t transmit anything to the console through IR. And it’s only for pointing.
If you’ve used an IR TV remote, you can imagine how bad an actual IR-connected controller would be. Needs a perfectly unobstructed line of sight to wherever the sensor is, can’t turn your controller too much or you’ll miss the sensor, might occasionally be subject to wrong input/light interferences…
One of the weirdest use of video game IR I know though : the 3DS had a IR port. It was used for almost nothing.
BUT. At some point Nintendo released the Circle pad pro. It’s a thing you clip on your 3DS to add a right stick and a pair of triggers.
It was not plugged into the console at all. It was just using the IR port which it was touching. Of course it didn’t have the reliability problems from remote IR, since it was basically shining an IR LED directly at its sensor with nothing in between. I guess they didn’t have a lot of options for communication ports, but still, using IR for communication between two devices that are in direct contact is weird.
That wrong “commando” kinda looks like the logo from the tactical series “Commandos” instead. A bit, not exactly. Wonder if the AI has mixed in some of this in it.
My favourite (inconsequential, but incredibly stupid) automatic AI question/answer from Google :
I was looking for German playwright Brecht’s first name. The answer was Bertolt. It’s a pretty simple question, so that at least was correct.
However, among the initial “frequently asked questions”, one was “What is the name of the Armored Titan?”
Somehow Google decided it would randomly answer a question about manga/anime Attack on Titan in there. The only link between that question and my query is the answer, Bertolt (so of course, it wasn’t in my query). Because there’s a guy called Bertolt too in that story.
By the way, Attack on Titan’s Bertolt is not the armoured titan.
None. It’s made with the clear intention of substituting itself to actual search results.
If you don’t fact-check it, it’s dangerous and/or a thinly disguised ad. If you do fact-check it, it brings absolutely nothing that you couldn’t find on your own.
Well, except hallucinations, of course.
I am seeing more and more people trusting that “zero-click search” result without looking for any kind of source or discussion around their information. Honestly, it’s scary.
“Eleven times in all caps” is going to be my mental image for vibe coders for a very long time. It sounds too stupid to be real, but, I want to believe.
That works too.
Yeah, well as I see it Meta needs EU a lot more than EU needs Meta. Adapt or GTFO.
We truly are in the metaverse era.
They found a way to convert physical shit into virtual shit.
I am speaking from experience.
The latest example of that I encountered had a blatant logical inconsistency in its summary, a CVE that wasn’t relevant to what was discussed, because it was corrected years before the technology existed. Someone pointed at it.
The poster hadn’t done the slightest to check what they posted, they just regurgitated it. It’s not the reader’s job to check the crap you’ve posted without the slightest effort.
Every now and then I see a guy barging in a topic bringing nothing else than “I asked [some AI service] and here’s what it said”, followed by 3 paragraphs of AI-gened gibberish. And then when it’s not well received they just don’t seem to understand.
It’s baffling to me. Anyone can ask an AI. A lot of people specifically don’t, because they don’t want to battle with its output for an hour trying to sort out from where it got its information, whether it represented it well, or even whether it just hallucinated half of it.
And those guys come posting a wall of text they may or may not have read themselves, and then they have the gall to go “What’s the problem, is any of that wrong?”… Dude, the problem is you have no fucking idea if it’s wrong yourself, have nothing to back it up, and have only brought automated noise to the conversation.
I distinctly remember them failing a console launch spectacularly by (among other things) trying to pass it as a media center and talking about how great it is to watch TV on.
I am guessing this is a rethorical question, but, they already forcibly flag videos as “made for kids” against the creators’ will (and despite very clear audience statistics proving it’s not).
So yeah, they are totally using their magic 8-ball to restrict your content.