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tekni5··on Copy and Paste context menu entries sometimes disabled when they should not be
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.
tekni5··on Radial Menus in Video Games (2022)
Rust (FPS PC Game) radial Build Menu is incredibly effective for quick selection and upgrading.
tekni5··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
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.
tekni5··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Sure but not images and video. Now they can look at a picture of your room and label everything you own, etc.
tekni5··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
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.
tekni5··on Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
discord.aq2world.com
tekni5··on Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
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.
tekni5··on Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
Still has a tiny but active community on discord, also has been re-released as AQtion on Steam.
tekni5··on Source code for Quake 2 rerelease
Quake 2 Enhanced is very impressive, check out the subtle but clear differences they have made for each model: https://youtu.be/UVKxhoA77Vo
tekni5··on Firefox has surpassed Chrome on Speedometer
I get 260 for chrome & 160 for firefox on win 10.
tekni5··on Modding Age of Empires II with a Sprite-Diffuser
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.

tekni5··on Is consciousness more like chess or the weather?
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.

tekni5··on Seven.zip
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.

tekni5··on Seven.zip
True but I was thinking more like a $1-3 domain for servers and what not
tekni5··on Seven.zip
I see around $10 for .org on Cloudflare, .win seems to be $3.16

Do prices change a lot?

tekni5··on Seven.zip
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?

tekni5··on Get started making music
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

tekni5··on [dead]
People are reporting a new message saying adblockers are not allowed on YouTube.
tekni5··on Chatbots are not the future
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.

tekni5··on Pop-shoot: Synthwave styled space shooter, inspired by 80s arcades
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.
tekni5··on Prime Voice AI: AI speech software
I just noticed they improved the pricing a lot since last time I checked.

Before you had free, 10k a month & $22 a month for 60k, now they added $5 a month for 30k and $22 a month for 100k.

Attribution for free is pointless, as with custom voices in theory it would be hard to detect and enforce anyways.

tekni5··on Prime Voice AI: AI speech software
The reason why ElevenLabs is so good is not because of the default voices, it's because it's so easy to train new voices. You only need a minute or two of someone speaking and it can mimic the voice pretty well, good enough to fool most people.

However their pricing is completely wrong, should be cheaper and offer more.

tekni5··on Show HN: 1Kb Webspace
The site doesn't seem to work, says "Wrong secret word" for hackernews.

Is there a list of pages people have made?

So with out src & href you can't have links, seem like a massive limitation. Was trying to a submit a personal site with external links, guess it's no use now.

tekni5··on Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion
Pretty cool, I would upscale to 1080p or even resize as youtube will compress it better or less for hd videos.
tekni5··on Godot for AA/AAA game development – What's missing?
Has 3D performance improved in Godot 4? I remember messing with 3 and the overall performance was pretty terrible compared just about any other 3D engine as soon as you started adding any complexity.
tekni5··on Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion
Seems to be overloaded.

"There's a lot of requests currently and our servers are overloaded - sorry. I am trying to increase the capacity. Please try again later."

tekni5··on Show HN: Create your own video clips with Stable Diffusion
Very cool, your demo video looks great, would love to try it when it's working again. You can also do this type of thing on colab with Deforum Stable Diffusion: https://colab.research.google.com/github/deforum-art/deforum...

I've been messing with it myself, here is an example: https://youtu.be/FsVskNtNazk

tekni5··on Carmack Unscripted
I completely agree, this absolutely horrendous for a visual presentation. A wii like character, no proper lighting, floating with no legs and the subtle fidget moving of the limbs, lack of facial expression and flapping mouth that hardly mimics the sound. What did facebook spend all their money on?

I'd rather see video or even a still picture of Carmack than this monstrosity.

tekni5··on Tell HN: Locked out of Gmail account even after right password, recovery email
I received a call one time with a SOB story about someone locked out of their yahoo email account with my phone number, which I've had for over a decade. In the back I could hear people talking, person had a thick accent from a country known to scam people. I knew it was a scam so I started probing more and they finally hung up.

It is a super bad idea for anyone to give out 2FA codes, they could easily found your email associated with a specific number from a security leak and attempt to steal it.

tekni5··on DALL·E now available in beta
This entire concept of AI learning using copyrighted works is going to be really tested in courts at some point, perhaps very soon, if not already.

However if the result is adequately different, I don't see how it is different from someone viewing other's work and then being "inspired" and creating something new. If you think about it the vast majority of things are built on top of existing ideas.

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