Everybody knows Ubisoft's NFT games and NFT initiative crashed and burned and they had to stop talking about AI, but one other thing I'm noticing is every game with generative AI elements is absolutely slated by consumers - e.g. these are a sample of comments on the Catly trailer from The Game Awards across different channels.
It's exciting to see a new generation just outright reject this stuff.
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Make $1.5 billion dollars of cuts!
(Cuts)
No not like that! Do it without cutting anything!
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Passenger trains in US vs Europe (image is making the rounds among U.S. transit advocates today)mapsontheweb (Tumblr)
The 2024 Godot showreel is finally out π₯
Thank you to all the ones who submitted a project and wishing you good luck for the next ones. We plan on include more people in the voting process, so stay tuned to hear more about that next year.
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0:00 PVKK - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2956040/PVKK_Planetenverteidigungskanonenkommandant/0:07 Megaloot - https://store.steampowered.com/app/2440380...YouTube
KdyΕΎ tedy @archos rozjel Δeskou instanci #PeerTube - vhsky.cz, pΕemluvil jsem Petra Ε imΓ‘Δka, aby tam dΓ‘val svΓ‘ skvΔlΓ‘ videa o mΔstskΓ© cyklistice. Pomohl jsem mu s pΕechodem z #YouTube a teΔ tam najdete vΕ‘e, co Petr za ten vΓce neΕΎ rok vytvoΕil: vhsky.cz/a/mestskacyklistika/
VΓm, ΕΎe se tu o cyklistiku zajΓmΓ‘ dost lidΓ, tak dejte @mestskacyklistika follow, aΕ₯ Petr vidΓ, ΕΎe je tady taky publikum. π
#cyklistika #kolo #biking
Tipy a triky pro mΔstskou cyklistiku. Jsme parta kamarΓ‘dΕ―, kteΕΓ jezdΓ do prΓ‘ce na kole. Ε etΕΓ nΓ‘m to Δas, penΓze a zlepΕ‘uje kondici. PojΔte to zkusit taky a odpoledne uΕΎ nebudete muset jΓt do Fitk...VHSky
Tipy a triky pro mΔstskou cyklistiku. Jsme parta kamarΓ‘dΕ―, kteΕΓ jezdΓ do prΓ‘ce na kole. Ε etΕΓ nΓ‘m to Δas, penΓze a zlepΕ‘uje kondici. PojΔte to zkusit taky a odpoledne uΕΎ nebudete muset jΓt do Fitk...VHSky
Registrace je potΕeba, to je mi jasnΓ©. Jde mi o to, ΕΎe by ty registrace byly otevΕenΓ©, ale ve vΓ½chozΓm stavu by uΕΎivatelΓ© nemohli vklΓ‘dat ΕΎΓ‘dnΓ‘ videa, jen komentovat, sledovat, dΔlat si playlisty. A nΔjakou kapacitu na vklΓ‘dΓ‘nΓ videΓ by dostali aΕΎ po ΕΎΓ‘dosti a schvΓ‘lenΓ.
@smoon jj teΔ uΕΎ jo ππ
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On tam byl nastavenΓ½ limit registracΓ na 10 uΕΎivatelΕ― a
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By the way, @coveragepy has one of the cutest logos I've ever seen in an open source project.
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My son Ben has created a mascot for coverage.py. It adorns the new coverage.py Twitter feed.nedbatchelder.com
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Lama utiekla z mini ZOO, kam ju po jej krΓ‘tke vychΓ‘dzke vrΓ‘tili.Pravda.sk
Holy shit.
The Russian gov send in an abuse request for the @Bellingcat to be removed from mstdn.social 
I am not gonna comply, and have replied to Hetzner
No way I'm gonna let the evils of the gremlin dictate stuff on anything I host
UPDATE: Hetzner ignores their requests and we're in the clear: mstdn.social/@stux/11366257336β¦
Attached: 1 image Nice!β₯οΈ Got a reply and Hetzner just ignores the bullshit from the Kremlin Wish it where that easy with the war in Ukraine..Mastodon π
Il concordato preventivo Γ¨ un flop: addio al taglio dellβ#Irpef al ceto medio.
Doveva raccogliere oltre 2,5 miliardi, ma il concordato si Γ¨ rivelato un flop. Meno di 750.000 le partite Iva che hanno aderito.
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#Fisco #Economia #ConcordatoPreventivo #PartiteIva #GovernoMeloni
Doveva raccogliere oltre 2,5 milairdi, ma il concordato si Γ¨ rivelato un flop. Meno di 750.000 le partite Iva che hanno aderito.Andrea Sparaciari (La Notizia - giornale.it)
Our users for sure say so:
β 29% want TutaDrive π
β Only 3% want an AI Copilot π
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We asked the Tuta community for their insights so we can better plan the 2025 roadmap. Check out the results!Tuta
Werbung fΓΌr Chatkontrolle: EU-DatenschΓΌtzer rΓΌffelt Kommission
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Danke, @noybeu !
Die alte EU-Kommission unter Ursula von der Leyen bekommt wegen DSGVO-VerstΓΆΓen bei einer Werbekampagne noch einen Verweis des Datenschutzbeauftragten.Volker Briegleb (heise online)
For everyone bent out of shape over Time Magazine naming Trump as the Person of the Year 2024, recall that in 1938 Time featured Hitler as Man of the Year. I don't claim to have insight on what Time is thinking this time around.Infosec Exchange
Wie Deutschland bei der Inklusion versagt. Eine gemeinsame Recherche des inklusiven Magazin andererseits und dem ZDF Magazin Royale.andererseits
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I was just talking to a colleague about the AI bubble. These companies are in so deep they can't tell the truth. They are all lying about the efficacy, costs to consumers and most importantly how & when this tech works or doesn't.
Is there enough money on the line to kill over?
There's likely a trillion bucks of valuations across the industry. Billions in sunk costs, billions in c suite remuneration, billions in VC mgmt costs.
RIP Suchir
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#OpenAI #AI #VC #SuchirBalaji
A former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26.Jakob Rodgers (The Mercury News)
"I found that penguins differed in their reactions to being hoisted between human legs. Some were calm, mildly befuddled at how they got a foot off the ground. Others acted as if they were possessed, squirming and slapping and biting. Penguins are beefy birds, sleek bullets of swimming muscle, torpedoes of power, and they slapped impressively hard."
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#Antarctica #Penguins #Marine #Birds #Science
How I came to feel at home in what some call the last wilderness on EarthβAntarctica.Naira de Gracia (Nautilus)
NANOWAR OF STEEL - HelloWorld.java (Source Code Video)
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Live album "XX Years Of Steel" out this Friday! Order here: https://lnk.to/NoS-XX-YearsOfSteel Mixed by Christian Ice at Temple of Noise Studios Video by LyricVids.com Official HelloWorld Repository: https://github.Napalm Records | Invidious
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Ein juristisches Gutachten klΓ€rt, in welchen FΓ€llen digitale Dienstleistungen auch analog angeboten werden mΓΌssen. Es kommt zu dem Schluss, dass ein Verbot von Digitalzwang ins Grundgesetz gehΓΆrt.netzpolitik.org
To everyone finding car safety important, I have some good news and some bad news:
40 out of 45 fatal automated driving crashes reported to the NHTSA and investigated this year were caused by Teslas, but the good news is, this is now being addressed.
The bad news is, the Trump administration will solve thisβ¦ by removing the [quote:] βexcessive reportingβ of car accidents.
Vote for clowns β enjoy the circus.
Kaum zu Glauben #AppOnly-Modell jetzt auch fΓΌr Kaffee & Kuchen.
(Gesichtet in Berlin Wedding)
#digitalOnly #teilhabe #Digitalzwang #wedding #AllVegan!!!
Day 14 - #adventOfIOSAccessibility. iOS and Xcode provide a wide variety of tools and options to deal with color, and help us providing good color contrast ratios. From system colors that automatically support Increase Contrast, to high contrast (and light and dark mode) color asset variants, automatic checks with the Audit feature in the Accessibility Inspector, and even a built-in contrast calculator.
Ogni volta che passo davanti a questa pizzeria ad Abano Terme (PD) sono leggermente triggerato dal nome e dal logo π§
Ma le ricette saranno open source?
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Unknown parent • • •@alexchapman ah darn. I tried to add this function in but it did not solve my problem:
``` def terminate(self):
# Called when NVDA switches away from this synth or shuts down
self.cancel()
# Signal BG thread to end
bgQueue.put((None, None, None))
self.bgThread.join()
if self.handle:
# Shutup and destroy handle
if self.bstShutup:
self.bstShutup(self.handle)
self.dll.bstDestroy(self.handle)
self.handle=None
if self.win:
self.win.destroy()
self.win=None
# Unload the DLL by removing reference
self.dll = None
```
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in reply to Tamas G • • •I used to use a Braillenote, I am familiar with Keynote gold.
Do you have that for theBraille n -speak synthesizer as well and like the Alex voice or something like that for NVDA
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Unknown parent • • •"This does not definitively prove that DECTalk must be called only on the main thread or that it canβt be used from a background thread, but the use of a window and messages suggests a design pattern where DECTalk expects a stable, message-driven environment. If calls into DECTalk arenβt synchronized properly or if calls occur on different threads in unexpected ways, crashes can result. This is a heuristic based on experience with similar Windows-based TTS engines and not a guaranteed ruleβofficial documentation or direct testing is the best verification."
As for Espeak:
"Contrary to what might be inferred from earlier assumptions, NVDAβs eSpeak driver does interact with eSpeak in a threaded environment, but in a way that is officially supported and well-tested. The driver feeds text to eSpeak; eSpeak processes it and calls the callback, and NVDA responds. Thereβs no manual message pump or requirement that all calls occur on the main thread."
Which is I think to say, it reaffirmed itself on point 1, but corrected itself on point 2. Whether with more hallucinations or not? A better Python expert would probs know. xD
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Unknown parent • • •β’ The DLL still fails to set the custom device ID (Failed to set wave device ID to 1).
β’ TtsWav returns -5 when trying to speak with that device.
This behavior is nearly identical to beforeβjust now weβve tried different approaches (using unsigned integers, avoiding WAVE_MAPPER calls, using c_void_p for handles), and none have resolved the issue. I'm just sad. frustrated and super sad inside.
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Unknown parent • • •have been debugging it for 3 hours now but don't think it'll go anywhere. When 2025.1 comes out and they return integers in the config values for the output device, this could be made a little easier (though I don't know if it will still translate the correct mapping into the MME device ID right), but at least it'll mean not needing to enumerate them based on string name. Right now it's a mess:
def enumerateWaveOutDevices():
devices = {}
count = waveOutGetNumDevs()
for i in range(count):
caps = WAVEOUTCAPS()
res = waveOutGetDevCapsW(i, byref(caps), ctypes.sizeof(caps))
if res == 0:
devName = caps.szPname.strip()
devices[devName.lower()] = i
return devices
and then later:
" devices = enumerateWaveOutDevices()
log.info("Enumerating devices for exact match:")
for dn, did in devices.items():
log.info(f"Device '{dn}' = ID {did}")
if val in devices:
matched_id = devices
[val] log.info(f"Matched exact device '{val}' to ID {matched_id}")
return matched_id
else:
log.info(f"No exact match for '{val}', using WAVE_MAPPER")
return WAVE_MAPPER
"
So yeah. All because NVDA's config can return a string. The fuck.
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