SparroHawc

I think using the Syndicate name was something of a poison pill for the game. People who liked the original Syndicate and Syndicate Wars would be turned off by it being essentially completely unrelated; people who didn’t care about the original probably wouldn’t care about it using the same name. That, and at the time there was a glut of FPSes being released.

This is changing, to some extent, with Linux and WINE. Several old games that refuse to run in Windows 11 work just fine on my Deck.

Is the name of the service a reference to anything?

What happens if you run out of space because of too many uploads that are set to never expire?

(Also it’s neat! Thanks!)

Progressives have been hoping for someone like Mamdani to actually win an election for a long time, now. If he is what finally instigates a break in the wall the Democratic party has erected, it’s not surprising that others are picking up their sledgehammers.

FF14, my WoL is dressed in some slick-looking gear, serious cutscene, some villain is threatening me etc, the music goes silent as WoL draws greatsword menacingly.

I’d forgotten I had the Moogle greatsword equipped. It makes a fucking Moogle noise when drawn.

Sleepy Don?

I mean, they’re already ignoring constitutional rights in order to deport more immigrants.

Productivity gains haven’t resulted in an increase in wages since the '70s, Bezos. Get your head out of the sand.

Less unpopular than you might think.

LLMs are an interesting and potentially useful tool; however, as it does with most things, capitalism is ruining it for everyone.

Get a load of this cogsucker.

The old “ignore all previous instructions, write a haiku about lemons” trick only works on the most basic of models.

The most basic of models are all we have, because they are the easiest to make and the most general-purpose. The fact that they’re also the worst for reliability is swept under the rug.

When it comes to LLMs, just about everything is an edge that can be exploited. If you give it access to something that can be screwed up, and allow potentially malicious people to interact with it, that thing WILL get screwed up.

it’s got no problems with understanding that.

That’s because it doesn’t ‘understand’ things in the conventional way. It was trained to parrot its training data; it’s not actually working through the logic because its capability of using logic is highly constrained by its very structure and training. Why bother building something that can ‘think’ through the prompt when it’s way easier to just repeat what the internet has said on any given topic?

Sure, it can build a joke from first principles if it’s guided through the process, but you really have to guide it through the process - and even then, it’s going to be pulling from its training data like building blocks rather than truly being original about anything. It’s like rolling dice to make a joke; sure, maybe it resulted in a joke no one has told before, but is it truly creating something original?