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Has anything changed lately in terms of VPN traffic? I’ve noticed issues with voyager not loading more and more lately, and I don’t see spotty outages like that recorded here.
Running NordVPN, btw. Totally understandable if you had have to restrict some VPN API usage due to bad actors or something, just thought I’d mention it in case it’s news.
Yeah, that’s reasonable. I think it’s pretty cool tech, even if my own priorities and my display prevent me from using it as well.
The only place I really take issue with it is when someone like Capcom pushes it hard in a game like MH: Wilds to reach 60FPS. 30->60 is adding 33ms of input lag, in an action game, reaching a level of input lag we haven’t seen in the mainstream since N64 games that couldn’t push past 15-20FPS.
Once you’re at least at 60FPS native, you’re only adding 16ms of input lag, and that begins to feel like a pretty reasonable trade if you really like that smooth look.
This doesn’t surprise me. Raw math, frame gen makes no sense to me unless you’re already hitting 120 FPS natively, and therefore you need at minimum a 240Hz display to make use of it.
Basic math, to generate frames, you must have the next frame ready to generate an in-between. Which means your frame display is delayed by a frame, meaning your input lag is equivalent to natively running at half the rate you’re natively running at. And this is assuming flawless, instant frame generation. For “motion smoothness”, a vague, not all that important element of game feel, IMO.
So, crunch some numbers. Natively running at 60? Neat, you can have the “motion smoothness” of 120 for the input lag of 30. Not worth it IMO, 30 feels pretty rough when you’re used to 60.
Native 120? Alright, the difference in input lag to 60 is way less. 8ms of added lag is tolerable, and with 4x frame gen you can drive a 480Hz monitor. Pretty good, and the time gap is small enough you’ll have minimal visible errors in the generated frames. The question of course being… do you own a 480Hz monitor? Not to mention 120 has solid motion smoothness already, so it’s still kind of a questionable trade. I’d still personally prefer native 120, but it’s at least reasonable.
A debatable sweet spot might be 80-100, 40-50FPS is more than halfway to 60 from 30 (in milliseconds), and you can multiply into more reasonable monitors than 480Hz. 360Hz to fully leverage 4x frame gen is something you’re more likely to actually own.
End of the day though, my core takeaway is that frame gen is incredibly niche. You either need to be obsessive about motion smoothness without caring about input lag, have a hella fast monitor and great performance, or uh… most likely, not understand any of this and want framerate go bigger.
Ah, they do indeed have a warning at the top about that. Thanks for the heads up!
Kinda unfortunate, I guess I’m stuck here then, because there’s no way I’m starting from scratch with all my modded games, emulators, etc.
Ooh, I had no idea such a thing might have an effect this pronounced. Definitely considering making the switch myself, between this and their recent VR mode work, gotta look into rebasing my bazzite image.
Same, it’s what I personally use as well. I had to somewhat learn my way around photoshop to navigate designs as a web dev at a prior job, so I find the interface a lot more intuitive than GIMP (at least when I last used it several years ago) with that prior experience.
This reads like a loading screen tip
Oooh, SteamOS switching to Wayland by default? Looking forward to some of the Steam compatibility fixes from that move making its way into Steam on other distros.
Definitely somewhat, but not so much “diminished my enjoyment” as “prevents me from doing as a hobby”.
Programmer here, and I find that working on these types of problems just wears out that “part” of my brain. It becomes not fun to force myself to focus on those things as a hobby anymore, despite that being how I got into programming. I don’t resent it though, I actually really enjoy doing it as my job. And shake it up a little, and I’ll hugely enjoy something like programming systems in Factorio, but any ambitions I have of say, making a game, aren’t happening until I retire or change careers.
I assumed you were exaggerating, but literally the first paragraph states they’re “punting into the stratosphere” the “concept that you have to pay to play a game”. What an insane false equivalency.
Pirating it is still illegal, and pretty much every game is cracked and distributable eventually, making it no different than this case. This reads like either a very uneducated reporter, or some kind of deliberate propaganda on behalf of tools like Denuvo.
Fans of emulator progress reports are eating good with this one, so much is happening in Dolphin right now!
As much as I think that’s correct a lot of the time, something like Bruno has value too. Implementing complicated auth for an annoying service once and reusing it across several pre-written requests, useful features like a GUI and history to see prior responses from an endpoint, being able to share the “collection” in the repo as examples/developer tools that’s maintained alongside the code, writing docs with each request to explain its usage, this stuff does add value that isn’t trivial to do with curl.
It’s usually pretty good about that, very apologetic (which is annoying), and usually does a good job taking it into account, although it sometimes needs reminders as that “context” gets lost in later messages.
I’ll give some examples. In that same networking session, it disabled some security feature, to test if it was related. It never remembered to turn that back on until I specifically asked it to re-enable “that thing you disabled earlier”. To which it responds something like “Of course, you’re right! Let’s do that now!”. So, helpful tone, “knew” how to do it, but needed human oversight or it would have “forgotten” entirely.
Same tone when I’d tell it something like “stop starting all your commands with SSH, I’m in an SSH session already.” Something like “of course, that makes sense, I’ll stop appending SSH immediately”. And that sticks, I assume because it sees itself not using SSH in its own messages, thereby “reminding” itself.
Its usual tone is always overly apologetic, flattering, etc. For example, if I tell it bluntly I’m not giving my security credentials to an LLM, it’ll always say something along the lines of “great idea! That’s a good security practice”, despite directly suggesting the opposite moments prior. Of course, as we’ve seen with lots of examples, it will take that tone even if actually can’t do what you’re asking, such as in the examples of asking ChatGPT to give you a picture of a “glass of wine filled to the very top”, so it’s “tone” isn’t really something you can rely on as to whether or not it can actually correct the mistake. It’s always willing to take another attempt, but I haven’t found it always capable of solving the issue, even with direction.
Man, AI agents are remarkably bad at “self-awareness” like this, I’ve used it to configure some networking on a Raspberry Pi, and found myself reminding it frequently, “hey buddy, maybe don’t lock us out of connecting to this thing over the network, I really don’t want to have to wipe the thing because it’s running a headless OS”.
It’s a perfect example of the kind of thing that “walk or drive to wash your car?” captures. I need you to realize some non-explicit context and make some basic logical inferences before you can be even remotely trusted to do anything important without very close expert supervision, a degree of supervision that almost makes it totally worthless for that kind of task because the expert could just do it instead.
I’m a Christian, have been all my life and am proud of it and what I believe. Whatever the F the US is doing is insane, unbiblical, and wildly dangerous.
I’ve said for years that religious power is appealing to narcissists because it is the most absolute form of power you can wield over a person. There will always be someone trying to wield it, because convincing someone your will is God’s will, divine and unquestionable, is power more absolute than any other. Combining that power with the power of government is psychotic. It’s why I’ll always advocate for the absolute separation of church and state.
If you’re a religious person, please be extremely cautious with who you let influence you, and everyone else? Absolutely keep fighting to get religion out of politics and keep it out. It has no business there. Get it out of schools, get it out of laws, get it out of political campaigns. It doesn’t belong there, and having it there is corrosive to both State and Church.
Ah, Windows and OneDrive. A match made in hell.
I’ve despised them ever since I built a Win11 PC, it was enabled without my consent, immediately stopped me from adding any new files to my Desktop+Documents once it ran out of the pitiful 5 free gigabytes, and promptly deleted all of my data from those folders when I deactivated the “feature”.
That miserable experience, combined with every third update putting me through a setup that employed dark patterns to try to trick me into turning it back on (not to mention my fears that they’d pull the same crap with Recall), was the main thing that caused me to ditch Windows. I don’t like feeling dread every time there’s a new update, assholes.
Fair, I definitely haven’t simped for them in the past just because they post some good articles on AI safety.
Although… I’ll say of them, they seem more like what OpenAI should be, actually trying to implement AI responsibly, and freely sharing that information. It’s good research, even if marketing is the motivation. Meanwhile OpenAI, the “charity” that’s supposed to guide us to a responsible AI future, moved their most addictive and mentally dangerous model to the highest paid tier instead of actually killing it until very recently.
Although at the end of the day, Anthropic is a for-profit company, in a better world they wouldn’t have released models publicly before this research was actually done and pressing dangers like AI psychosis were actually safeguarded against. Better late than never, sure, but the whole industry has done a lot of damage already, and the work of resolving the issues still isn’t even close to done.
I mean… this is losing them a 200 million dollar contract. And to one of their competitors who will gladly acquiesce, so it’s hard to argue that this benefits them.
Good marketing to a bunch of left-wing people who hate AI, I guess, but that feels like Elon joining the Trump administration in hopes of selling Teslas to rednecks, it might work on a few, but I just can’t imagine this is 4D chess that will make them a fortune when they’re abandoning that much money immediately.
Their statement also came after the DOW threatened to put them on the list of companies that are totally banned from doing any business in America, usually reserved for Chinese companies that are deemed a national security threat, which would make it illegal for any company doing business in America to do any business with them, as they’d be added to the same list, which would have essentially killed Anthropic as a business entirely.
You don’t have to love Anthropic because they did a good thing, they were fine with anything less than automatic killing and mass surveillance, after all, but I don’t think it’s correct to say this was sneaky and spineless somehow.
Colour me crazy, but I’ve always thought the temptation to explicitly add more and more letters to these kinds of acronyms was a little counterproductive (referring to 2SLGBTQIA+). Like… I remember when it was LGBTQ+. The plus was meant to represent all sexualities. Listing 5 items felt like more than enough to clearly convey the nature of the list.
But then when you go and explicitly pull some group out of the plus to better represent them, I always wondered what that implicitly said about those not explicitly pulled out. Like suddenly groups in the plus feel less important, because we’ve taken out the special highlighter for some. So I’m not surprised that more sexualities got loud and demanded to be added as well, further watering down the nature of that “plus”. I feel a little bad for those in the plus when it’s considered in poor taste to say anything shorter than 2SLGBTQIA+.
But I guess that’s just how naming by committee works, it’s hard to convince a group of people who want to be explicitly included about the implicit downsides for others. I suspect the initialism will only get longer rather than ever becoming any shorter.