samc

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Machine learning is just gradient descent through a subset of algorithm-space

[–] [email protected] 20 points 4 months ago

Whilst I've heard lots of talk that lunduke is getting increasingly politica, and I disagree quite strongly with his politics, I'll have to agree with him here. IA did something unnecessarily risky (redistributing unauthorised copies of print books), which has more jeopardised their mission of archiving the internet.

I also agree with everyone here saying that current copyright laws are ridiculous (and not just because they are "outdated", the Victorians had better copyright laws than we do). However, I think only the most radical overhaul of copyright law would condone what IA did, and that isn't coming any time soon (If ever).

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

There's a former apple designer on the team I think, which they've been leaning into hard to get the hype train rolling.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

I've had to give up on KISS launcher recently because of this. 95% of the time it works fine, until it scrolls right to the end of the lost and won't allow you to scroll back. Swiping left and right then also breaks and the only thing to do is force stop quickstep.

EDIT: Just tried with Niagara and got the same issue almost immediately. (Seems to be triggered by opening recent apps from the launcher itself)

For reference, I'm on a Fairphone 5 using the stock ROM

[–] [email protected] 13 points 7 months ago (9 children)

Functional bros rise up!

[–] [email protected] 27 points 9 months ago (3 children)

It's a bit repetitive, but it's not too bad.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago (2 children)

Firstly, yes, lol Booty.

But I found the comments around Redfall interesting/concerning. Even if a studio gets promised independence in one of these giant mergers, they only have to fuck up once to get that taken away.

I'm not going to defend Redfall in any way, it actually does sound like a case of mismanagement. But I worry about the stifling of creativity that occurs when every studio is trying to play it safe to avoid becoming the next Bioware