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  • I do try to keep the “unknown unknowns” problem in mind when I use it, and I’ve been using it far less as I latched on to how OOP actually works and built up the lexicon and my own preferences. I try to only ask it for high-level stuff that I can then use to search the wider (hopefully more human) internet more traditionally with. I fully appreciate that it’s nothing more than a very incredibly fancy auto-completion engine and the basic task of auto-complete just so happens to appear intelligent as it gets better and more complex but continues to lack any form of real logical thoughts.


  • I believe accessibility is the part that makes LLMs helpful, when they are given an easy enough task to verify. Being able to ask a thing that resembles a human what you need instead of reading through possibly a textbook worth of documentation to figure out what is available and making it fit what you need is fairly powerful.

    If it were actually capable of reasoning, I’d compare it to asking a linguist the origin of a word vs looking it up in a dictionary. I don’t think anyone disagrees that the dictionary would be more likely to be fully accurate, and also I personally would just prefer to ask the person who seemingly knows and, if I have reason to doubt, then go back and double-check.

    Here’s the manpage for bash’s statistics from wordcounter.net:



  • https://thunderstore.io/c/lethal-company/p/ebkr/r2modman/v/3.1.45/

    Edit, for convenience:

    • Risk of Rain Returns
    • Hades II
    • Among Us
    • Ale & Tale Tavern
    • Screw Drivers
    • Nine Sols
    • Goodbye Volcano High
    • Gloomwood
    • Below the Stone
    • Back to the Dawn
    • Supermarket Together
    • Betrayal Beach
    • Arcus Chroma
    • Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
    • Gladio Mori
    • Slipstream: Rogue Space
    • Panicore
    • Magicraft
    • Another Crab’s Treasure
    • Bopl Battle
    • Vertigo 2
    • Against the Storm
    • Lycans
    • Castle Story
    • Balatro
    • Content Warning
    • Plasma
    • Palworld
    • Voices of the Void
    • Cult of the Lamb
    • 20 Minutes Till Dawn
    • Sailwind
    • Meeple Station
    • Void Crew
    • Cities: Skylines II
    • Lethal Company
    • DREDGE
    • Last Train Outta’ Wormtown
    • Wizard With a Gun
    • Atomicrops
    • Erenshor
    • Sunkenland
    • Wizard of Legend
    • Will You Snail?
    • Garfield Kart - Furious Racing
    • Techtonica
    • Thronefall
    • We Love Katamari REROLL + Royal Reverie
    • Bomb Rush Cyberfunk
    • Touhou: Lost Branch of Legend
    • Sun Haven
    • Wild Frost
    • Shadows of Doubt
    • Receiver 2
    • The Planet Crafter
    • Patch Quest
    • Shadows Over Loathing
    • West of Loathing
    • RUMBLE
    • Dome Keeper
    • Skul: The Hero Slayer
    • Sons Of The Forest
    • The Ouroboros King

    (Emphasis mine, one of them humorous. There’s more, but formatting this on my phone is tedious and frustrating.)










  • If we’re talking about Digital Rights Management, steam is acting in that role to manage your digital rights on the steam platform. They could allow you to download games without requiring an account login or client download, and they instead do not. They could allow you to download free games from the client or the website without requiring a login, and they do not.

    GOG’s website is also DRM for the same reason. It won’t allow you to download games that aren’t licensed digitally to your account, including free games. GOG has DRM-free games and installers fairly universally beyond that first check, and that means you can download them from alternative sources, but downloading from GOG 100% requires interacting with DRM.

    To be direct: I don’t care that Steam is DRM because it’s minimally invasive and I currently trust Valve enough to use an operating system made by them as a daily driver. There are very few companies I’d say that about.

    The Steam client is DRM at its core, even if it’s acceptable DRM. I think it’s important not to allow your thinking to shift from the reality that it is DRM just because it’s personally acceptable.

    I don’t mind it, I will simp for Valve all day long, and if a company requires you to log in to an account with their server to check whether your account has the digital entitlement to then allow you to access a file or not, that’s digital rights management.


  • I want to give the perspective that from a technical standpoint, even free games on steam require the steam client to install and while the license to play the game is free steam is licensing your account to own the game. The game doesn’t require steam after that and usually this means the game is available elsewhere, but for the specific case of “free games on steam”, steam is still acting to manage digital rights.