- And it's back.
- But creating and picking those placeholders used to be somebody's job, maybe a junior artist. Now they're automated off the back of somebody else's work. And here we have an admission, but how many artists are being sidestepped in major games developers now? It won't be long before the EAs and Ubisofts of the world fire theirs. Then it'll be developers. Then it'll just be a committee of dolphins picking balls to feed into a black box that pumps out games.
It doesn't seem strange that an industry award protects the workers in the industry. I agree, it seems harsh, but remember this is just a shiny award. It's up to the Indie Game Awards to decide the criteria.
- Dark conspiracy... Or collective acknowledgement of the harm of being constantly online has done to a generation of young people. How it amplifies abuse, entrenches deeply negative tribes.
It's not stupid —at a national future-of-society level— to want to do something about this. I agree, it's possible to overreach and just get it wrong, but doing nothing is worse.
- How's that? How many Middle Eastern refugees are America sheltering from the fallout of American aggression and the regimes it props up?
The US isn't anywhere close to paying its way.
- Giving Jack Ryan as a example of a sigint analyst is vastly sensationalist for what is essentially —for the non-fictonal majority doing it— an office job, only with security clearance and real world implications.
- This isn't hypocrisy, it's parenting.
Do you think the Pfizer CEO lets their kids have unlimited Viagra? Or the Anheuser-Busch CEO's kids have unlimited Bud Light? I don't think this is the gotcha it's painted as.
- So the past was shitty too? You don't care? Okay, well some of us do.
Wealth grants power. Opinions from money matter gain greater reach and traction, and these very quickly turn into influence and power. The current US administration clearly shows how wielding power for your own ends gives you money. It's a toxic cycle that rewards grift instead of work.
You don't care, but this is a serious problem for society because it's a negative aspiration. Don't be good, don't try hard, just be rich or die a peasant.
But the peasants have limited appetites for gruel and work when all they see is grift and abuse. They revolted until old money stopped stopped demanding fealty. Will the new masters learn before we peasants eat the rich?
- Had one anyway, but yes, now I have to use it for cat memes on Imgur. It's plumbed into the router so some websites automatically get routed through the VPN, regardless of device.
What a time to be alive.
- It didn't just say tax, it suggested what the taxes were for, and how they were levied.
If we're all going to be persnickety about things, let's use the whole context.
- The pacing of this article is exhausting. It reads like shows that have to fill 30 minutes so repeat themselves over and over again.
And now I see it's AI slop. Great.
- Indeed. Scan a book in public domain, feed into an online font generation service, pay somebody to clean it up.
A few hours later, you have a font you can use how you like. Is it as good? Probably not, but it's much cheaper.
Edit: oh look https://www.hackerneue.com/item?id=46127400
- This is quite easy with OpenWRT.
Install the Wireguard packages, create a connection to your VPN of choice in a nearby country (I chose Sweden). Then I used the "vpn-policy-routing" package to route Imgur IPs (199.232.196.193 199.232.192.193) through the VPN.
Works for websites that keep nagging you for age verification too.
But seriously, it's been more emotional than I'd expected to get my cat memes back.
- Again, I'm not fighting the use of tools, rather their use as a substitute for knowledge.
Practically every educational institution is with me here, so uphill it may be, but it's an important battle for the future of mankind, and recognised as such. We've long joked about a quick slide into Idiocracy (2006), but substituting learning for what a LLM can answer for you is how you rapidly deskill and get there.
In this case, "ragequittah" up top doesn't know how their router/firewall is actually configured. That might work out okay for them but they (and people like them) don't even know what they don't know.
- And rightly so. If you use a calculator instead of learning the fundamentals of how to do maths, you don't learn. This is reflected on them not being touched until 11+ in the UK, and even then there are exams where they are forbidden.
I'm not against the calculator and I'm not against LLMs. I'm against people choosing ignorance.
- It's the speed that stops you learning anything. Piecing together a dozen scripts from a dozen sources and making them work requires some work. You have to debug it. Some of this knowledge sticks.
It's not just a tech thing. Kid's learning suffering at their ability to just crank out essays they've never even read.
LLMs and AI are getting better. We doomers aren't decrying the technical advances they're making, we're appalled at the human cost of giving people a knowledge-free route through life.
- > If I just had google this would've been a 2 week project easily.
But you'd know something new by the end of it.
So many are so fast to skip the human experience element of life that they're turning themselves into mere prompt generators, happy to regurgitate others' knowledge without feeling or understanding.
For this, you might not care to gain meaningful experience, and as a conscious choice, that's fine. But there are an increasing number of developer and developer adjacent people who reach for the LLM first. Who don't understand "their" contributions to projects.
The haters are those of us who have to deal with this slop, and the sloppy people submitting it without thought, care or understanding.
- There are LLMs with more self-awareness than this guy.
Repeatedly using AI to answer questions about the legitimacy of commits from an AI, to people who are clearly skeptical is breathtakingly dense. At least they're open about it.
I did love the ~"I'll help maintain this trash mountain, but I'll need paying". Classy.
- I'm not defending the ridiculous politicking about government hiring. I agree, it's a blocker to rational thought.
But there is a third option: don't build the bloody website.
- It's extraordinary how far departments (even large companies) will go to avoid in-sourcing work. $AU96M is a small team of developers hired, paid and pensioned for decades.
Anyone rubber-stamping that sort of invoice deserves jail time.
Anyway, if you click on a "redaction", you're clicking on the box and can't select the text underneath, but if you just highlight the text around it, you can copy all the original text.
It's a bizarre oversight.