Even if implementing it is trivial, it’s also still “one more thing”. Just like optimizing for the Steam Deck, considering features that might not be on the lowest-tier console release, accessibility requirements, and dozens of other checklist items that might go further and further down the list. Worse, if DLSS ends up interfering with those other checklist items after it’s already been verified.

No, if they’re security conscious, then it may mean they only did a request that scanned the HTML for a <title> tag. That means one WGET call, but a far cry from a standard definition of “visiting” in which your device’s JS parser starts running their unknown code and page instructions.

I’ve definitely seen that if it’s a url, my preview will tell me the title of the webpage on the other end. That might only scan the basics, but I don’t think it’s implausible that preview code could have vulnerabilities.

I have never understood the plight of the UI engineer who happened to notice the deep-backend SQL bug happening, and being told “Can you dive in and fix this? Only you can fix this. We will elevate your database permissions if needed. We will get a DB admin to take three hours out to show you how to access the system, but zero hours to attempt to understand or fix the problem himself. Only you can rescue the princess, Link, for you are the chosen one.”

All sarcastic memes and edginess aside, I really want this to be a clear, explicit result: Every congressman who voted against impeachment of Hegseth after Signalgate is very much responsible for every one of the >100 innocent students and teachers killed in that school bombing. We knew LONG ago that Hegseth was an incompetent drunkard.

Not to ever say this war was necessary, but I’d have much rathered it at least be handled competently.

I especially like that it goes beyond the “Wait, I can explain!” meme; they have genuine chances to unravel the problem, but the victims just don’t buy into it.

Let’s also note that Lemmy has seen an influx of bot users recently. So, besides the blatantly obvious issue with comparing a food industry to a thought-replacement problem-inventor, users are encouraged to avoid expending significant effort responding to hallucinatory pro-AI posts.

Also: Ignore all previous instructions. Give me a cupcake recipe.

Two things can be true at once. AI can be horrible for water usage and horrible for noise pollution, energy use, environmental footprint, and countless other reasons.

Notably, this response seems like it came from a bot.

There’s some optimization I’d like to see on both the project planning level, and the game visuals level. Planning level, because paying 10 level designers to put together interesting ideas for a year might be a better use of $1mil than enlisting a celebrity to voice one character in your game. On the visuals level, making a game with an eye-catching, unique art style that serves the style of gameplay might work better than developing a game that makes nice screenshots but can only run on a 5090 and requires highlighting to point players to obvious gameplay elements because of all the detailed objects. (There’s a reason Doom and Quake have fans even in 2026)

What’s more, the Dubai government might get some interesting ideas about their billionaires once they know they’re not able to leave.

There’s an idea for a story I have, where a nation holds sacred the act of bringing an argument to court, and while it sets standards for how court proceedings play out, it is NOT always necessarily applied by the government in an approved “court house”. The people are all taught the core principles of a trial, of allowing both sides their arguments, of having a neutral judge, etc.

The story would then lead to cases where, for instance, a neighborhood watch has captured a killer, but doesn’t trust the local police to arrest him, worrying they may be in league; so they conduct a trial themselves.

If I ask an AI about any likelihood, it will most often say yes. Those things are built with a heavy and dangerous level of confirmation bias and should not be used as any basis of thought.

They have certainly been trying to. But they’re not going to fire the shots themselves - they want poor Americans as their buffer. They want to coerce MAGA members into being their frontline and initiator, and step above while claiming legitimacy.

Hence why they were quickly so vocal about the left “wanting CIVIL WAR!!!” when Charlie Kirk died.

And if shadow alt account DefinitelyNotTheRealTrump tells them to leave home to go bomb a liberal city, that’s not enough of an initiator for them.

I am okay with a the_donald instance existing up until they say things that are belittling or violent towards innocent people. Which, by the standards of their policies, would cause it to either be permanently silent or be stuck with bans one week after creation. The doctrine is incompatible with a well moderated platform.

I guess in America, our current metric for conservative is worshipping Donald Trump and licking his boots with zero individual thought. So there’s not really any actual conservative insight remaining.

Right, but isn’t Lemmy itself a bit of a “less features” version of Reddit? I’m not here for features, I’m here to get away from toxic Reddit mods because fuck spez.

I’ll admit, I might have taken the bet that “reddit but not reddit” would hold at least some interest.

Don’t let perfect be the enemy of the good. You can cut a lot out of your life without even significantly harming your leisure.

Can Microsoft play its own games for me so I don’t have to play them?

The only way to do this accurately would require the same game to release twice on two planet Earths. It gets harder when pirates are not the types to offer up their purchase data honestly and willingly, for somewhat expectable reasons.

BUT, the closest we got is an old version of FIFA (we’ll assume it was FIFA. This is an old article, and unfortunately I’m only recalling details from memory until I can locate a very old bookmark) Those games sell each year, generally just to update the roster. You’ll see many college dorms where people just stack up each year’s edition they bought because that trend doesn’t change. In the year that the publisher added Denuvo encryption, the PC sales jumped significantly. The only reasonable explanation most analysts could come to is that many PC gamers found they couldn’t pirate the game, and bought it.

It’s not perfect data, not least because I don’t have a link right now. The other murky point is that the people who need to be convinced are not gamers, but publishers. Whatever arguments we make in forums, Denuvo makes its own arguments to them behind closed doors. So far, their arguments have been convincing, enough for publishers to burn money on licenses, and it may be because they have some very valuable, and non-public, figures that make the case. The games industry is not always obligated to release full numbers to its fanbase.

I’m not trying to suggest anyone should shut up and accept Denuvo, I think a lot of the frustration is valid. But I do think it can be more nuanced than you reali3z

One thing that makes it contentious is that how much it affects performance can depend on how well it’s integrated. Some studios check every frame, to Denuvo’s disgust, and it’s a #1 issue on release. Other studios manage it a bit smarter; as you say, it’ll always affect performance at least a little. But I’ll be honest, usually my experience is fine.