Skip Navigation
Former Battlefield devs' upcoming shooter The Finals uses AI voice acting
  • I'm wondering when this will simply be a feature of game engines, along with AI character generation, terrain/map generators, and AI-driven dialog.

    I'm really on the fence about it since it really could put extra life into games where it just isn't normally feasible to make all NPC's unique, dialog etc so you end up with a lot of "I took an arrow to the knee" type dialog.

    For smaller studios - or independent authors - the ability to generate high quality content with code could also be a real boon.

    I'd still rather not see big studios just go with AI instead of real humans for design and acting though. That just leads to cookie-cutter bullshit and games that feel stale

  • The Lucrative Business of Owning Rental Buildings | The Tyee
  • I could see maintenance costs increases being not insignificant over time. Parts/appliances had gone up notably, as has materials and the cost of people to do the work. There's also some issues with receivables which may end up needing to be written off, and deliberate damage over time. Generally, these do need to be accounted for on a going-forward basis.

    That said, none of these should have increased nearly so much as the cost of property and overall rents. They should account for a reasonable increase over time, instead what we see is increased to cover the cost of the mortgage on additional rental properties etc

  • Canadians divided on talk of sexual orientation in schools, poll suggests
  • See there you go, accusing people and putting words in their mouths. Nobody said kids were the problem (or even "a" problem) but not every kid feels the same way and that sometimes has little to do with parenting.

    But feel free to go and accuse everyone of being a bad parent because things worked out for your niece. I know more than a few people who were damn good parents and their kids did eventually come out to them, but it took awhile and some digging to get to it while in the meantime those same kids were experiencing real issues in their social life because of it but their parents were unaware of why (though on most cases they know something was off). Once they finally got through it the dialog with their parents was great but it took quite awhile and needless suffering in the meantime. In one case the child was concerned that a rather religious family member (not the parent) would find out and ostracize them. When that family member did find out over the longer course they were actually very supportive, if a bit confused.

    Having something in policy one way or the other is idiotic. Some kids might get beatings for having low grades, but that doesn't mean we don't decide to keep parents informed about academic performance, it means we should report unsafe home environments and use judgement in other cases.

    If the teacher believes there's a real risk of harm then that should not feel compelled to share that information by gov't, but at the same time if something is potentially adversely affecting a child they shouldn't be compelled by black-and-white policy NOT to engage the parents, and early interaction may benefit all sides.

    The "all kids who don't want to talk to their parents must be raised by abusive rednecks" is just a shitty argument. Even adults sometimes have hidden fears or worries that aren't bounded in reality, but allow unrealistic "what if" scenarios to hold them back. Kids are in a worse state with less personal experience and a bombardment of other people's opinions, situations, social media and many other factors than can bring anxiety even in the best of home environments.

  • Canadians divided on talk of sexual orientation in schools, poll suggests
  • Yeah, this is what gets me. Some parents are shitty, and I can see the issues with this as it's not unheard of for kids to be kicked out by homophobic parents after being outed, etc

    But in the flip side, parents are legally responsible for their kids try increasingly cut off from the information that might be important for caring for those kids. They can ask a doctor to not disclose drug use, and apparently now a teacher not to disclose their gender identity decisions, leaving the parent might be clueless up to the point where it grows into a major issue and blindsides them.

    Life isn't an episode of Leave It To Beaver. Not all kids have daily sit-downs with their parents where they discuss in detail everything about their lives. At a certain point, a lot of kids often start cutting out their parents thinking that it's part of establishing their own independence, and sometimes -especially with issues of sexuality/etc - they may be embarrassed to bring those forward to their parents.

    Do parents have a right to know everything about their kids lives? Maybe not. Parents DO have a responsibility towards help educate their kids, help them navigate life and deal with major life changes and decisions. Educators have historically had a duty to keep parents informed of major developments in school which might affect their children or - if they have evidence the child is at-risk - to report cases of abuse to the appropriate authorities.

    It's a tightrope, for sure, but expecting parents to do their job while potentially withholding vital information is not a good look either, and a lot of decisions from government (on both sides) lately are starting to have a "it's for the children" authoritarian feel.

    I would support my kids regardless of how they choose to identify, their sexual orientation, etc, but when stuff is happening in regards to that I would damn well want to KNOW so that I can support them properly (possibly including learning more myself)

  • Advocates call on head of Toronto's shelter system to resign amid worsening crisis | CBC News
  • This feels like a crappy situation to be in. Governments up the chain have obviously dropped the ball if we're bringing in refugees without actually having solid plans to support them, sponsors etc.

    Meanwhile increasing amounts of citizens are suffering from homelessness due to the housing crisis.

    If they think that "denying refugees" is going to spur racism and xenophobia, what exactly do they think will happen when citizens are turned away because the shelters are full of refugees the governments didn't adequately plan for?

  • Cloning a drive from one machine to another

    You can clone a drive from one machine to another using "dd" and netcat (nc)

    Caveats:

    • The commands should be run a root

    • Data on the destination device will be overwritten, so double-check that you get the right one (maybe check with "lsblk" etc)

    • The drive on the destination machine must be at least as big as the source

    • The data on the source device should not changed while it is being cloned. Make sure it has no mounted partitions (it's a good idea to boot from USB). Ditto the destination drive

    • The source machine must be able to reach the destination on the port specific (not blocked by firewall etc)

    • Data is sent unencrypted over the network, so make sure you get the right destination and your network is trustworthy/secure (you could so this over the internet - firewall rules permitting - but I wouldn't recommend doing so with a drive containing sensitive data and it is going to eat up bandwidth/data-cap)

    The process....

    On the machine with the destination drive, run the following (where 11111 is a TCP port the machine will listen on, and /dev/sdd is the device that will be cloned to. Data will be sent in 1M blocks).

    > nc -l 11111 | dd of=/dev/sdd status=progress

    This will begin listening for data on port 11111

    On the machine with the source drive, run the following (where 192.168.1.2 is the IP address if the destination machine, /dev/sdb is the drive being cloned from, and 11111 is the port you used above)

    > dd if=/dev/sda status=progress bs=1M | nc 192.168.1.2 11111

    You should see progress on both hosts as the drive from machine to the other

    0
    I made a cardboard tube sword (with dowel and foam core) to crush my nephew in our swordfights
  • As somebody who has literally been injured with a cardboard tube to the eye (being used as a sword though sans crossguard/handle): just make sure the kids are using swinging motions rather than poking (or are very aware to stay below neck level)

  • Lemmy.ca's Main Community @lemmy.ca errorgap @lemmy.ca
    is Lemmy.world having issues?

    I've noticed that I can't access anything on there itself jerboa, and when I attempt to hit the site in a browser I get a connection reset.

    However I haven't seen any posts regarding what's up. Does anyone know?

    1
    InitialsDiceBearhttps://github.com/dicebear/dicebearhttps://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/„Initials” (https://github.com/dicebear/dicebear) by „DiceBear”, licensed under „CC0 1.0” (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)ER
    errorgap @lemmy.ca
    Posts 2
    Comments 14