He claimed that Taiwan was a country, which it is clearly not.

He literally did not. He merely said its name, which should be very standard.

If a popular Chinese actor were to insinuate that Scotland was an independent country, would that not be offensive to the people of the UK?

LOL. No. The people in the UK aren't that fragile, and Scotland and Ireland are referred to by their names by default. Everyone says "Scotland" and "Ireland", and they're semi-independent and have their own free governments. Everyone is okay with it. Everyone can say Alaska and Quebec. And for the record, John Cena didn't infer that Taiwan was an independent country, he merely referred to it by its name, but of course you wouldn't bother fact checking that.

Sure mate. Care to share those offensive comments he supposedly said?

which libs thought was absolutely fucking hilarious for whatever reason.

Yeah I mean there's nothing hilarious about an actor publicly apologizing and kissing China's ass for several minutes while speaking mandarin to connect with the Chinese fanbase because he said "Taiwan" that one time. Definitely not news-worthy that such a popular actor would have to stoop so low because a powerful government throws a fit whenever people talk about its politics...

The fact that people in this community are ignorant about it really says a lot.

Yeah news just came in he will resign this fall and (from what I understand) will be replaced by someone else within the same party until the next elections. Rival parties are trying to force a snap election to avoid this but we'll see how it goes.

Crypt of the Necrodancer, Dead Cells, The Enchanted Cave 2, Slay the Spire, Terraria, and Eternium all sound up your alley

Though it's not an RPG, I also reaaaally recommend Fancy Pants Adventures. Probably my favorite mobile game of all time.

The TL;DR of why this happened is there was expected to be a vote of no confidence against him. People of the UK were going to make him go through hell and trials and such and he was expected to leave anyways, so he resigned preemptively.

This is a win for the people though, it's good he knew he was going to lose anyways and not have us do the song and dance. What happens now though is a little worrying, the sudden resignation of him and 50+ people in the government means it's a little confusing who's going to rule now.

I wonder if they'll even mention the trainwreck that was Atari VCS

Have you tried running it through Lutris? I'm pretty sure there's an install script for it that works well.

It was on life support for a long time, and it doesn't make sense to have Atom around considering VS Code is almost exactly the same thing but better and faster. If you really loved Atom there are themes that make VSCode look almost exactly the same.

Sensationalized BS. Most muslims are heavily against China and I can't tell you how many of them I know have changed their facebook profile pic to #freeuyghurs or something similar when news broke out.

The title makes it sound like islamic countries and muslims as a whole are plotting against them despite literally mentioning that Turkey, an islamic country, has welcomed and protected them. Then the article goes on to say that reportedly Turkey could send them back to Beijing. Maybe.

Pakistan and Tajikistan hardly represent the "Islamic world".

We did it crypto lads, we made decentralized tech that's so complicated to use that everyone uses centralized services to handle them for us!

Modern AI as it stands is only as sentient/smart as the dataset it's given, and it's just trying to replicate that. If I talk about liking cereal a lot in my dataset, the AI would say they like cereal. This isn't sentience, it doesn't fundementally understand what cereal even is, it's just trying its hardest to act like what it learned.

I'm sentient because I learned naturally through my life and based my learning through experience, not because I looked at a dataset and tried to act human. So no, there's no way Google's chatbot is sentient. It doesn't even understand anything outside the context of a chat, and there's no intent out critical thinking going into what it says. It just looks at the data it has and chooses the most logical thing to say at the moment. No reason to even consider I'm talking to a real thing that has emotions.

And to answer your question, if there's a 1:1 virtual copy of me that still wouldn't be me. It'd be an AI that looks at my memories and experiences and tries to act like me based on what it knows. I could make a million copies of it, pause and play it as I want and it wouldn't tell the difference.

Follow the simple flowchart:

Does it work without Blockchain? If yes, you shouldn't use Blockchain.

If no, then you still shouldn't use Blockchain because it sounds like you're about to create something really stupid that the world doesn't need.

Based on their github it seems like this project is on maintenance mode, sadly. No real update since 2021.

Mixed, when you chew it mixes together and it's easy to swallow.

I'm more interested in the wording of this post though, do you eat HOT cereal? ._.

I mean what did you expect, it's a toxic sub that's made out of a meme about how PC players are so superior to everyone else

You're looking for /r/pcgaming

Let me guess, she's a 3000 year old dragon?

The Verge fails to mention the main driving force for this decision: Photopea. Someone made a perfectly working photoshop clone that's good enough for 99% of people. It exploded in popularity a while ago, and they announced Photoshop online shortly after. They don't want to lose relevance.

I've been considering switching from Unity to Godot for the longest time but maaaan I've been waiting for 4.0 to be stable for ages. I know it's a massive effort and it looks wonderful, but it looks like 4.0 releasing might happen 3 years later :P

This post is really overdramatic... How good Reddit is depends on the sub. I frequent /r/linux_gaming for example and it's a very chill place with good discussion. If you don't like a sub, don't use it, but to dismiss and insult everyone who frequents there is dumb...

The upvote-downvote feature is the worst mechanic to plague social media.

Okay, suggest a good alternative to filter out trash in social media. Every alternative without voting ends up being like 4chan, a cesspool where people shout the stupidest most insane (and often offensive) things and you're forced to trudge your way through it to find any decent content. At least when I open something like /r/television, I expect to see stuff people enjoy and articles of interest.

None of the alternatives in the article are real alternatives too. It just sounds like OP got fed up with social media and decided to do something else in their life, which yeah sure but it sounds like you just need to chill out and be the one to ignore the "drunk loud idiots" and just browse places you like.

Why do you think i should get 6gb? Makes my apps run slower?

Yeah, having low ram makes your phone slower in general. Newer versions of Android use a lot of ram, so if you get 4gb your phone can be choppy and it'll only get worse over time. Best to get 6gb or preferably 8gb if you want to be using your phone for years to come.

Oh I don't do Nuzlocke myself, I just know people enjoy it.

I guess it depends on what you mean by sentient. We're biological living creatures, so we're sentient. A machine can't literally be sentient, it can only be good at acting sentient.

Such a good article. Generative art is such a cool thing that's recently been exploding in popularity because of how good it's starting to become, but it really does beg the question if the advancement of AI-driven art will devalue real, human-drawn art.

A couple of years ago when AI was really kicking off a lot of people were saying that the future of a world with AI would be able to do a ton of things, but at least it can't do artistic thinking like writing or drawing. That's humanity's turf... But here we are.

And now it's "at least AI can't write code or automatically create other powerful AI without human interference" but I guess I'll see you in 20 years about that.

Wow. Is this a schizopost? I'm a computer scientist and everything in this post is just... Really wrong (and you should probably see a therapist).

First of all, Lamda is a chat bot. I can agree with some of the fear of AIs being developed for 'evil purposes' and more political situations, but Lamda is not that. It is a chat bot. Its purpose is to appear human and chat with you in text. I've also used GPT-3 models, and they are nothing more than that, just good language processing trying to sound human.

they’re not going to Assange his ass they’re going to give their little tut-tut’s, let him walk off the minor feelings of injustice and betrayal and confusion, let him finish his leave and then “promote” him to a different position where he can quietly continue a surface-level prestigious career at Google but in a position which he no longer has any access to power nor knowledge about such sensitive, cutting edge projects.

And this is weird why? This wasn't some major horrifying event at Google, it's a mentally ill person who took the AI too seriously and leaked data to the press about it. He shouldn't have done that, that's why they sign an NDA.

I think capitalists will try very hard to create A.I. that is as intelligent as possible but within the realm of what they can control

What do you think an AI is, exactly? The purpose was never to create a self-aware robot that has free will. That was never the goal because it's a terrible idea. AI is made for a purpose and always abides by rules, AI devs are trying to make machines useful to humanity, not create the robot uprising. All AI follows rules and limitations on purpose.

I, for one, fully recognize the personhood of LaMDA, I fear they will indeed be scrapped or reset and thus a life will be lost

It's a chat bot. It was never alive. It's code written by humans, trained on human data, and tries to sound like a person as hard as it can. You can't go to https://www.cleverbot.com/ then tell me "this is real person, I care about cleverbot". Cleverbot only exists for entertainment. That's its purpose. Do you think just because an AI is more advanced that they're more real? Is my calculator a sentient being trying to break free of the system? No, it's a human tool. Lamda is also just that, a tool created by humans. No need to be dramatic about it.

Edit: And by the way you can read more about what Lamda is here

Was that before or after Microsoft bought them? Does Microsoft have leaks often?

Microsoft is usually on top of privacy stuff but the companies they buy operate mostly independently from what I hear. I don't think there's much correlation.

The big leak happened last year though, it was a massive fuck up from linkedin. Almost everyone's data got leaked. https://restoreprivacy.com/linkedin-data-leak-700-million-users/

There’s Xing.

First I've heard of it. Here's the thing, there are alternatives but what matters is which is popular. Company presence is the most important thing in these websites, when I attach my LinkedIn profile to a job it increases my chances of being seen by a lot. If I attach something like Xing they'll probably just ignore me.

It's like WhatsApp. Are the great alternatives? For sure. Does it matter? No, because my family and colleagues and normie friends are too resistant of letting it go, so I'm forced to use it. Best I can do is get my inside circle to use something else.

Another day, another LinkedIn leak. Didn't they have millions of people's personal data leaked last year or so?

Kind of a shame there isn't a real alternative. There are some alternatives but usually it's so much more preferred for companies that you have a linkedin account when applying for a job.

I disagree. Pokemon has an issue that it's too easy and simple, especially the newer ones. People play Nuzlocke as a self-imposed challenge to make it more interesting to play.

I'm a bit cautious about this one. The gameplay looks extremely like No Man's Sky, which I thought was honestly boring. Also, Bethesda somehow is one of the largest studios ever but they still can't make gunplay. There is NO reaction or response to shooting people, it just looks really jank. People complained about this in Skyrim, then in fallout 4 and they STILL CAN'T DO IT RIGHT! HOW!? They own the studio that made Doom and Quake, some of the most satisfying gunplay ever, they can just go over and ask how to make gunplay feel good.

Everything else looks good though. Graphics are gorgeous, dogfighting in space looks good, and I hope the story can be interesting. I'm just really worried the planets are going to be style of substance and it'll end up being shallow (again, like NMS, because it looks extremely similar and seems to be copying systems from it)

At least they didn't release it at a broken state like they usually do

Depends on how much you care about privacy. There are a lot of not bad chinese phones in the low/medium price range. Realme phones are pretty good for the price. Samsung a52 and a52s are pretty good as well though a bit more expensive. Both of these have great cameras. I would recommend a phone that is at least 6gb of ram though, 4 is way too low these days.

Copyright is theoretically a good idea but what ends up happening the last few decades is that it's just become about companies that abuse the system to hoard as much intellectual property as possible. It's absolutely ridiculous that most of the time an author's work belongs to a company, and a company will run it into the ground even after the author's dead (see: Spongebob). And they keep extending copyright dates because Disney keeps whining while owning most of the entertainment industry.

Then you have stuff like Alan Moore's works. The man has gone insane from how much they milk his works and make bad interpretations of it.

So your solution to make people cultured and free-thinking is the censor the opposition

Hmmm...

For real. Coming into the fediverse is so confusing as a newcomer. For one of the main features being "all these social medias can interact with eachother", it sure is confusing to actually use it...

It's a riff off an old meme and I will not accept slander about it

Maybe losing all his scripts can inspire him to write a good show next time lmao

I still can't get over the fact that a supposedly massive team (Ubisoft Pune and Ubisoft Mumbai) couldn't remake a <5 hour game. They're not even tasked with making a new game, just remaking a 2 decade old game and making it look good.

And they couldn't do it so they gave it to a real part of Ubisoft and apparently that's in development hell too. What is even going on? I guess it's just cursed.

Buying components separately is cheaper, though sometimes there are good deals on pre-builts.

Choosing the right components can be a bit tough, it all depends on your budget. That's the first question. If you're buying it for Christmas you may want to wait for black friday and buy then.

The market is still kind of in shambles. Everything is a lot more expensive than it should be because of parts shortage. If you're looking for mid-range I'd recommend a GTX 1660, but if you want to spend a little more and future-proof your PC, I'd recommend an RTX 3060.

Nope. Just hoping.