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New comment by tekni5 in "Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be"

tekni5 — Sat, 06 Jul 2024 00:20:56 +0000

Super annoying bug, you can fix it by clicking url bar and then trying right click again and it fixes it temporarily until next time.

New comment by tekni5 in "Radial Menus in Video Games (2022)"

tekni5 — Tue, 04 Jun 2024 03:57:48 +0000

Rust (FPS PC Game) radial Build Menu is incredibly effective for quick selection and upgrading.

New comment by tekni5 in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

tekni5 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:32:33 +0000

What happens if it's a datamining third party bot? That can check your social media accounts, create an in-depth profile on you, every image, video, post you've made has been recorded and understood. It knows everything about you, every product you use, where you have been, what you like, what you hate, everything packaged and ready to be sold to an advertiser, or the government, etc.

New comment by tekni5 in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

tekni5 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:24:11 +0000

Sure but not images and video. Now they can look at a picture of your room and label everything you own, etc.

New comment by tekni5 in "The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input"

tekni5 — Wed, 21 Feb 2024 21:05:39 +0000

I was thinking about this a while back, once AI is able to analyze video, images and text and do so cheap & efficiently. It's game over for privacy, like completely. Right now massive corps have tons of data on us, but they can't really piece it together and understand everything. With powerful AI every aspect of your digital life can be understood. The potential here is insane, it can be used for so many different things good and bad. But I bet it will be used to sell more targeted goods and services.

New comment by tekni5 in "Source code for Quake 2 rerelease"

tekni5 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 02:06:44 +0000

discord.aq2world.com

New comment by tekni5 in "Source code for Quake 2 rerelease"

tekni5 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:41:48 +0000

Perfect blend of nostalgia, aesthetics, gameplay, simplicity not to mention that id software releasing everything open source at the end has continued development and created a massive amount of third party content, mods, etc. The same applies to Doom, Duke Nukem and to a lesser extent a few other older fps games.

New comment by tekni5 in "Source code for Quake 2 rerelease"

tekni5 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:35:59 +0000

Still has a tiny but active community on discord, also has been re-released as AQtion on Steam.

New comment by tekni5 in "Source code for Quake 2 rerelease"

tekni5 — Fri, 11 Aug 2023 00:35:05 +0000

Quake 2 Enhanced is very impressive, check out the subtle but clear differences they have made for each model: https://youtu.be/UVKxhoA77Vo

New comment by tekni5 in "Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer"

tekni5 — Tue, 18 Jul 2023 14:03:43 +0000

I get 260 for chrome & 160 for firefox on win 10.

New comment by tekni5 in "Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser"

tekni5 — Mon, 22 May 2023 01:45:18 +0000

Kind of tried something similar in the game called Rust: https://youtu.be/j674nbG4_t8

This is a style transfer via SD, Controlnet and EbSynth.

New comment by tekni5 in "Is consciousness more like chess or the weather?"

tekni5 — Sun, 21 May 2023 23:45:30 +0000

In my opinion, if consciousness turns out to be anti-material meaning after years and years we cannot replicate or find any model to explain it. Then we have to assume that it is contained outside of the "system" which could only mean that the world is built around consciousness and everything else is a dream or simulation.

However I don't actually believe this, just an idea. I think consciousness is probably much more simpler than we think, if you look at evolution it developed very quickly compared to other things.

New comment by tekni5 in "Seven.zip"

tekni5 — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:52:41 +0000

Thanks for the suggestion, but I feel like the free domains are unreliable and have weird conditions. I also I think it's been said before some of the sites offering them are suspect: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27951785

I was just thinking for personal projects & game servers, would be nice to have a bunch of cheap domains one could use.

New comment by tekni5 in "Seven.zip"

tekni5 — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:35:36 +0000

True but I was thinking more like a $1-3 domain for servers and what not

New comment by tekni5 in "Seven.zip"

tekni5 — Thu, 18 May 2023 13:34:23 +0000

I see around $10 for .org on Cloudflare, .win seems to be $3.16

Do prices change a lot?

New comment by tekni5 in "Seven.zip"

tekni5 — Thu, 18 May 2023 12:56:39 +0000

That's cool, but I feel like .zip might get caught by spam protection so not the best choice for sending in discord/email/chat etc

Speaking of domain names, what is the best option for the cheapest possible domain tld (including renewal), maybe something you can even get for 10 years and save a ton? Also would be nice if it had free whois? Extension doesn't matter as this would be for personal use. Is it still xyz or ovh?

New comment by tekni5 in "Get started making music"

tekni5 — Tue, 16 May 2023 03:00:51 +0000

If you want something to mess with LMMS is pretty good as a DAW, free & open source as well.

Example of some tracks I made:

https://youtu.be/p3y5fdZ94io

https://youtu.be/rSD4xZTDo9Q

https://youtu.be/09Hip0bRdaU

https://youtu.be/n3JmttdUXoU

New comment by tekni5 in "[dead]"

tekni5 — Wed, 10 May 2023 03:35:43 +0000

People are reporting a new message saying adblockers are not allowed on YouTube.

New comment by tekni5 in "Chatbots are not the future"

tekni5 — Mon, 01 May 2023 22:15:04 +0000

Not a very convincing argument, your gizmo sliders and checkboxes or whatever aren't going to replace chatbots but only slightly extend them and really aren't needed if AI gets better over time.

Some neural connection to the brain that will interpret your thoughts is the only logical thing that will supersede chat ai, but that won't happen for a while. Maybe a connection to all your data will happen first so the AI will better understand what type of person you are and what you want, that's already probably happening based on past responses.

New comment by tekni5 in "Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades"

tekni5 — Thu, 20 Apr 2023 00:53:29 +0000

Very cool. My only suggestion is to change the color of the enemy shots to red, because it's the same color as the coins and can get a little confusing if u are about to collect points or get shot.