Mastodawn

Remembering Descent, the once-popular, fully 3D 6DOF shooter
Descent is a big part of gaming history, but not many people talk about it.
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/07/remembering-descent-the-once-popular-fully-3d-6dof-shooter/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social

qrazi 1d ago

v 3d ago

oh you grew up watching tiktok? i grew up searching for aliens

qrazi 1d ago

bert hubert 🇺🇦🇪🇺🇺🇦1d ago

The IT world has convinced us no new software can be deployed outside of US clouds. We're so sure about this that European governments (including the UK) are handing over vital government functions & data to US controlled servers. In this piece I argue that until recently we somehow could run stuff on locally owned hardware, and that we should urgently relearn that skill, while it is still possible - or end up as digital colony of the US: https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/our-self-inflicted-cloud-crisis/

Europe's Self Inflicted Cloud Crisis - Bert Hubert's writings

The short version For decades, governments and organizations could run services based on servers we actually owned. These days, we’ve allowed the IT world to convince us no computing is possible outside of US-style clouds, for which we have no European equivalents. And because of this conviction, we are now moving our most precious data and most critical services to US controlled servers. Yet most of European government software still runs on locally owned systems.

Bert Hubert's writings

qrazi 3d ago

gavi 3d ago

Can’t believe ozzy is gone

qrazi 4d ago

Liam @ GamingOnLinux 🐧🎮4d ago

Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2025/07/fallout-bakersfield-looks-like-an-awesome-doom-total-conversion-with-a-new-trailer/

#FalloutBakersfield #Fallout #Doom #GZDoom

Fallout: Bakersfield looks like an awesome Doom total conversion with a new trailer

Made with GZDoom, a fresh teaser for Fallout: Bakersfield has been released and now I'm excited all over again for it.

GamingOnLinux

qrazi 5d ago

krakjoe 5d ago

Hey #PHP,

I don't normally market code, I write and leave it on github for you to find.

I can be wrong, I'm happy to be wrong.

But I believe, with every ounce of my being, that this is going to be important for our survival in the long term.

https://krakjoe.github.io/ort/

#php #ai

PHP-ORT: Machine Learning Inference for the Web

qrazi 5d ago

samir, the brown sheep 5d ago

When an LLM outputs, “I panicked”, it does not mean it panicked. It means that based on the preceding sentences, “I panicked” was a likely thing to come next.

It means it’s read a lot of fiction, in which drama is necessary.

It didn’t “panic”. It didn’t *anything*. It wrote a likely sequence of words based on a human request, which it then converted into code that matched those words somewhat. And a human, for some reason, allowed that code to be evaluated without oversight.

qrazi 5d ago

mhoye 5d ago

Behind every claim that a computer made a bad decision is a human desperate to avoid accountability for that decision.

qrazi 5d ago

witch_t *navi 5d ago

emphasis mine:

“it hid and lied about it”,
“it lied again in our unit tests, claiming they passed”,
“He knew“, “[…] it ignores all orders and deletes your database”,
“Replit went rogue again, lied, and then said we couldn’t roll back”,
“And hey … he promised.”,
“Replie knows how bad it was to destroy our production database — he does know.”

holy fuck do those people not learn, he thinks that the llm is capable of choosing, and lying, and “knowing”: “But ultimately I need a solution where at least Replit will honor code freezes” it won’t ever, it does not understand anything, much less what “code freeze” means

how can that happen to someone and that person not immediately go “this whole AI thing is a scam”

how high are they on the corpo “AI” kool-aid juice

RE: https://hachyderm.io/users/thomasfuchs/statuses/114886269060491665

qrazi Jul 19

OpenTech(AUC)Jul 18

"Microsoft can't protect French data from US government access"

"The Senate hearing exposed tensions between sovereignty rhetoric and practical implementation. While French officials promote digital independence, procurement decisions consistently favor non-European solutions for critical infrastructure projects."

https://ppc.land/microsoft-cant-protect-french-data-from-us-government-access/

Where have we seen this before? Oh yes on our own university: https://opentech-auc.org/posts/2025-04-15-official-launch-of-nextcloud/

#DigitalSovereignty #BigTech #usfacism