Ugh. And here I was hoping they'd bring back the rest of their systems online soon, but it seems like their security is in shambles and we may be looking at a few months until IA is fully back online.

refusing to be transparent about updates and future dev for over a year just letting it slowly die.

That's par for the course for Hi-Rez... Realm Royale was a smash hit when it was in alpha, and they ignored the fanbase and kept messing it up more each update until it faded into obscurity.

The Llama 3.1 models are probably the best all-rounders, with the Llama 3.1 8B version being the most popular.

If we're talking about weird video game ads, I want to give a shoutout to PS3's baby ad

Thanks for your hard work as always.

I'm in favor of moving away from proxying. Too many images break and proxying in general is very wasteful, having to download images from potentially small servers constantly would definitely get you ratelimited.

Passing through external images is OK. Many people often post external links anyways to sites like imgur and catbox because of the file size limits anyways.

I think the end goal would always to store images locally though - or at least caching them for extended periods of time. Don't large instances like Lemmy World and huge Mastodon instances work this way? How do they manage the risk?

The article is tongue in cheek, but I'm not sure where you're getting "pretty decent AA game" from. It got scathing reviews and has a worse average score than Forespoken. It's currently mostly negative on Steam so from what it sounds, it seems like a bad game that got zero advertisements because the studio gave up on it.

Wanting to stay alive is not a "relentless lust to make an extra buck". You're portraying people wanting to earn money as villains trying to abuse you. Putting ads in a website where someone puts so much effort to create is NOT evil. Youtubers without sponsorships for example simply wouldn't exist, because nobody would put in dozens of hours of work a week if it wasn't lucrative.

The concept of “every sharing of information must be financially profitable” is a sickness - a festering disease.

I would argue the concept of expecting everyone else's hard work to be free is selfish. I'm not talking about major publications that have millions of dollars, I'm talking about small websites where the creator needs it to succeed or else it shuts down a year later.

How many people get paid to go to ham radio clubs, to write up plans for model airplanes, or to share telescope mirror polishing techniques? How many people try to profit off of community seed/plant exchanges?

What you're describing is a hobby that people with free time and extra money do. This isn't what 99.9% of content creators work on or have the capability of doing.

So you think people should just work around the clock making content and not get anything for it? I keep seeing this view and it sounds so naive, you can't expect donations to keep you afloat. Even hosting the website and domain names cost money.

I don't know if this was requested before but I really want there to be a way to see all comments throughout crossposted threads. It sucks that there are so many crossposts that have like 1-2 comments each. I want to see all discussion about a post at the same time.

What a stacked cast. I can't believe they got fucking Charlie Cox here too.

Nothing says "archaeologist" like a pair of handguns to kill everything in your path.

Their problem is that these answers affect their bottom line.

It's more complicated than that. Adding friction and paywalls will quickly kill their userbase, requiring a proof of identity or tracking users is a privacy disaster and I'm sure many people (especially here) would outright refuse to give IDs to companies.

They're more like a compromise than a real solution. Even then, they're probably not foolproof and bots will still manage.

Not even the biggest tech companies have an answer sadly... There are bots everywhere and social media is failing to stop them. The only reason there aren't more bots in the Fediverse is because we're not a big enough target for them to care (though we do have occasional bot spam).

I guess the plan is to wait until there's an actual way to detect bots and deal with them.

Having 4 shades of grey as colors in a colored graph certainly is a choice...

It genuinely doesn't matter. Your FPS will be almost the same regardless of what distro or desktop environment you use. It might matter on VERY low end devices like ones with 4gb of RAM, but other than that, just use whatever you're comfortable with.

The point of a gaming distro isn't performance but just setting up everything you need like drivers and important apps that could be useful in gaming - like Lutris and mangohud and stuff.

Saved you a click:

“For those of you wondering, now that Castlevania: Nocturne S2 is mostly wrapped, we're going on hiatus until release and we find out if we're getting renewed,” he shared. He further emphasized on the need of fan support, adding “It goes without saying, but if you want to see more shows of Castlevania quality, please support S2 when it releases!”

Honestly season 1 kind of sucked so I'm not too excited for another season of it.

The leak was confirmed a few hours after the post was made, so it's not just based on reports anymore.

Life imitates art or somesuch.

Technically yes but I doubt anyone would go through the effort only to be sued into oblivion.