Jean-Sébastien Guay

@lexfeathers@tenforward.social @vaporeon_@glaceon.social @IntrepidVector@glaceon.social you can set it up as a custom search engine and then select it by default, that way all searches go to noai search. Even those from the address bar. Instructions below for FireFox and forks thereof. https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@skylark13/115905866049449231

@callisto@disabled.social @harald@mementomori.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social You need to go to Settings - Search. Then at the bottom you have "search shortcuts", there you can click "Add" to add a new one. Name it "NoAI DDG" or whatever and paste https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s In the URL field. (Right-click copy that since Mastodon sometimes hides the https part) Then you can go to the top where it says "Default search engine" and select the new one you just created. It's a bit different in the mobile version but similar enough.

@traecer@techhub.social @tiesselune@fedi.tiesselune.com @gairdeachas@mastodon.social @jvschrag@hachyderm.io I am totally imagining this interaction like the "you have my axe" "and my bow" scene. And I totally love it!

@callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social You can add a custom search engine and then select it as default in Firefox (and forks thereof). Pretty painless.

@harald@mementomori.social @callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social or https://noai.duckduckgo.com/%s

@thibaultamartin Agreed, I am still using FF because it's still the least bad and most maintained browser but this will be what makes me jump ship eventually. Lots of people are less tolerant than me and already have. If at least they had one master switch to disable all that, but no, it's like 7 settings at this point and they tend to reset when it updates...

@argv_minus_one @pfsmet This other picture posted elsewhere in the thread shows what it looks like at an exposure closer to human vision. If you zoom in you will see city lights too. But I think the areas that are visible (Spain and Portugal near Africa, and Brazil on the other side) are not the most illuminated cities on Earth... https://defcon.social/@das_robin/116348566588039704

@Oregon_Pacifist@retro-gaiden.com When I don't know what to say I often say "..." as well.

@vie@hachyderm.io I think you probably see another crowd than I do, or I'm in a bubble that resembles my own views, or something. Because what I see (and my own position) is that software engineers of experience recognize them as tech debt accelerators and a massive security risk, and want as little to do with them as possible. For my part, I am already saying that if things really do go the way of more LLMs everywhere, I will be considering a very early retirement. I do not want to pick up that mess.

@mariafarrell@mastodon.social @jaypeach53@calckeymusic.social @_elena@mastodon.social Chiming in to say, there's a "no ai" version of DuckDuckGo. How long they'll keep it, no one knows, but you can set it up as a custom search engine and use it by default then. Search string URL: https: // noai.duckduckgo.com /%s Search suggestion API (optional): https: // ac.duckduckgo.com /ac/?q==%s&type=list (remove spaces)

@fossdd

• Remember that was posted by myself before I deleted my Reddit account.

@DevteamLife@mastodon.gamedev.place Graphics programmer: "You can use 4 bones. Any more and we won't have enough memory to ship the game on console."

@cruftbox@theforkiverse.com I disagree with the last part, but if that's what you have learned, you do you. For me, if something from the past brings you joy, and doesn't prevent you from learning new things, why would it be bad? Speaking for myself, my entire professional life is learning new techniques and pushing the state of the art. I keep nostalgia for my hobby time, it helps me stay grounded and remember where we came from. Also helps me make peace with the current trend of enshittification in tech.

@StompyRobot @tojiro Not wanting to put words in Brandon's mouth, but I think the crucial part is, he's not saying he wants AI to do the second list instead of the first. AI could just not do either of them. Speaking for myself: I enjoy the same things and dislike the same things, but I will gladly continue doing the things I dislike (in part because as you say, there are positive things to be gained from doing them) but why on Earth would I want AI to do the things I enjoy the most?

@fxchip @aeva @britown 30-50 small wild hogs the size of large wild hogs? 😁

@paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin People suggest LibreWolf all the time. But it tends to lag behind a lot and they're not super consistent in what they remove / change from base FireFox.

@rysiek Thanks for this analysis. I saw the BrowserGate thing earlier and it seemed bad but also way overblown, but I was not sure if I was missing something.

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Merci de m'avoir fait commencer à 2:30, ça m'a permis de voir la perle qui est le discours du présentateur! Wow! Ça sonnait presque comme le speech de "bonne ou mauvaise situation" de Papyrus dans Mission Cléopâtre... "Même pour un petit speech comme ça, il faut se préparer un petit peu à l'avance, faut pas monter sur scène en disant "Je vais dire un truc intelligent" " ... ça sonne comme une confession, non? Hahaha Merci beaucoup pour tout ton travail, et bravo encore une fois!

@gloriouscow@oldbytes.space @tithonium@clacks.link @foone@digipres.club Doo wop, doot doo dee doo wop!

@joshbressers@infosec.exchange I'd also say lots of single maintainer projects are probably abandoned. This is just my impression, but in the last year, the PRs I've sent to single maintainer repos have generally been unanswered. I really wonder how a project can survive that. Sure I can fork it and add my bug fixes and features, but the official web page still points to the old abandoned repo. New users will go there. If the maintainer doesn't even reply to posts about passing maintainership, what can you do?

@teajaygrey @stefano You mean BSD code itself? I hope there are strong policies to prevent it (for contributors to follow), otherwise sooner or later it will happen. Related: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@skylark13/115842600214466205 But even if it doesn't affect (infect) the code, it is a huge net-negative for users trying to find information to troubleshoot issues by themselves.

@rootcompute@mastodon.social @digitalkrampus@mastodon.social Yep, and for games it should be a version that has all online requirements and copy protection removed.

@cruftbox@theforkiverse.com Fair enough. Excess of any kind is never good...

@chainq Still remember the satire response to these in another demo... "Larusse pixel" with one red pixel on a black screen hahaha

@soaproot@sfba.social @callisto@disabled.social @harald@mementomori.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social Also if you want the search suggestions to work with noai.duckduckgo.com too, this user found what you need to put in the Search suggestion API field: https://mastodon.social/@NickAnEngineer/115907242831363914

@vga256@mastodon.tomodori.net Thanks for reposting this (I missed it the first time). It was purchased in a flash! This is right up my alley, I have so many great memories of those times and those games/platforms. Excited to read about yours!

@rysiek@mstdn.social same same...

@stefano I know you know this, just reiterating to further depress myself and others I guess: This is sadly not specific to BSD or any one piece of knowledge. AI models don't 'get' anything. They have no concept of knowing anything, and SEO pages generated by AI containing incorrect information are polluting the training sets of AI models, so nothing good can come of it. The video linked from this thread eloquently makes that point, among many others. https://akkoma.xn--pikabl-0xa.se/objects/34faab37-a455-44f7-abeb-d0b937cd479a

@apollo @thibaultamartin I am with you, but check the other replies, there might be a few alternatives to try.

@xyhhx @shine @paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin Thanks, I'll check it out!

@shine @paoloredaelli @thibaultamartin Interesting! Thanks for the recommendation. Looks like I looked at it a while back (the site was a visited link) but didn't try it for some reason. I'll give it a try! Do they remove the AI stuff? I didn't see specific mention of that but maybe I missed it. I'd love for FireFox to just not add this stuff or make it easy for us to opt out, so we wouldn't need to look for alternatives, but this looks very interesting regardless.

@denschub@mastodon.schub.social Thank you. After reading your message, I migrated all my personal repos from github to codeberg (including my website since codeberg has pages too, and it's even simpler than github pages since there's no deploy job that needs to run! -- not that I have anything interesting there for now 😅). Codeberg's migration tool works very well, and it migrates the repo's wiki, issues, releases and more. I was impressed. Going forward I will only use github to work on PRs of other forked repos.

@acegikmo@mastodon.social 😍 In our engine we can printf from shaders, with extended format specifier syntax for vectors and matrices. We can also create debug primitives from shaders. Extremely helpful. It's often the first thing I implement when I start using a new engine, along with shader hot recompliation if it's not already there. Iteration time and ease of debugging are super important in my opinion.

@kleptones@mastodon.social I did the quiz with my 17 year old. He correctly guessed all of them... 😭

@joe@f.duriansoftware.com I was looking for the rick roll... Did I miss it? Is it more subtle than what I expect?

@ocornut@mastodon.gamedev.place Wow super, bien mérité! Félicitations! Est-ce qu'il y a une vidéo de la cérémonie en ligne? J'aurais voulu écouter ton speech 😁

@delta@a.tela.moe @jjacobsson@mastodon.gamedev.place @simon_brooke@mastodon.scot I saw a post the other day about someone using unicode to have exponents and math notation in their identifier names. I'm still flabbergasted...

@StompyRobot @tojiro I didn't think the original post was talking about what you or me are paid to do... I'll just end the discussion here because I feel we're on vastly different ends of the spectrum. Have a nice day!

@aras@mastodon.gamedev.place 10/10 doggo side-eye and blep. No notes.

@NickAnEngineer@mastodon.social @harald@mementomori.social @callisto@disabled.social @darwinwoodka@mastodon.social @ottaross@mastodon.social thanks!