wizardbeard

Don't know how much this fits the community, as you use a lot of terms I'm not inherently familiar with (is there a "welcome guide" of some sort somewhere I missed).

Anyway, Wikipedia moderators are now realizing that LLMs are causing problems for them, but they are very careful to not smack the beehive:

The purpose of this project is not to restrict or ban the use of AI in articles, but to verify that its output is acceptable and constructive, and to fix or remove it otherwise.

I just... don't have words for how bad this is going to go. How much work this will inevitably be. At least we'll get a real world example of just how many guardrails are actually needed to make LLM text "work" for this sort of use case, where neutrality, truth, and cited sources are important (at least on paper).

I hope some people watch this closely, I'm sure there's going to be some gold in this mess.

I'd really rather not become a character in this story

Good luck. In my experience you can't speak up about stuff like this without putting yourself out there to some degree. Stay strong.

Regarding the email bounceback, could you perhaps try sending an email from another address (with a different host) to the same destination to confirm it's not just your "sending" server?

The bounceback should have info in it on the cause, and DKIM issues should result in a complaint response from the denying recipient server.

Most people have no issue with what we were calling AI before the LLM fad hellscape we're currently in.

No one sane is going to object to using machine learning to optimize the performance of an antenna, or crash safety of a car frame. People aren't against the existence of AI opponents in video games. No one was ranting about fuzzy search algorithms, or neural nets on their own. Beyond that, data science has been a thing for ages with no contreversy.

The issue is generative AI and how it is being used. The best case use scenarios are just supplanting tech that already exists at higher cost and delivering worse results. The worst case use scenarios are attempting to cannibalize multiple creative pursuits to remove the need for humans and maximize profits.

My guy, you seriously aren't pretending that clothed people in the background of a photo is the same as pictures of someone naked taken or posted without their consent, right?

Just ignoring the core context?

Come on.

General viability for survival outside the womb is 24 weeks, or 6 months in. That's the clearest line we have right now.

Edit: and as another commenter said, the first steps of basic brain development occur around the 10 week mark.

An outright ban is never reasonable if it is a matter of safety.

It is however worth noting that general viability for survival outside of the womb is 24 weeks (6 months), so there are some arguments to be made about a ban on "voluntary" abortions past that point. Not saying they're good arguments, but that's where the line is if anyone is looking for the clearest one we currently have.

My wife and I reference it at least once a week since we moved into suburbia.

There's always the classics: Super Metroid and Castlevania: Symphony of the Night

Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night is a spritual sequel to Symphony, made by a good chunk of the people who made Symphony now that Konami has effectively stopped making games.

The Castlevania GBA and DS games are great as well.

I also really enjoyed Blaster Master Zero. It has a few distinct gameplay styles within the overarching metroidvania style overworld progression. Side scrolling platformer in a tank, on foot, and isometric on foot shooter.

I've enjoyed what I've played of Xeodrifter, but I didn't get too far into it.

I just hope it's not a growing through pain experience.

A danger with a lot of these idealogical groups is the classic cult/abusive behavior of "love bombing", which can be especially effective with younger people trying to figure out themselves and where they "fit" in the world. Add all that to the lack of life experience causing that sort of behavior to not ring alarm bells and it's a potent recipe for learning things the hard way when it all comes crashing down.

Sidenote: Even if this was a kid publicly declaring healthy beliefs, I really don't get why the response isn't "Ok, cool. Moving on..."

This sort of "championing" of impressionable youths by strangers, in response to the youth simply saying they believe a certain thing, just gives me the skeevies. Doesn't feel genuine to me.

Wait... wait. This sort of shit is expected, swapping old school fps player characters.

What in the french fried fuck do you mean "spyro in half life"?

Edit: Of course it's Magic Nipples that's making this batshit crazy stuff happen. Here's the Spyro mod's webpage: https://hlyotd.com/

Duake is more than just replacing the player character and calling it a day, it makes additional edits to Episode 1 of Quake to add more new features and make everything work together more seamlessly, among other things.

ModDB page for Duake is here: https://www.moddb.com/mods/duake

Tangentially related: Mozilla's big "draw" to this for advertisers is that they claim it will be able to (anonymously) track coversion rates. Not just click through but through to actual purchase. So advertisers can get true feedback on what works and what doesn't, because clickthrough doesn't directly correlate to sales.

This isn't news, it's just the standard notice that Microsoft isn't going to spend time making their new shiny OS work on 10+ year old hardware.