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Kerbal Space Program 2 has been completely abandoned, the studio has been shut down, and the game is now owned by a private equity firm.
  • The only distinction between our position is expectations. If you're aware and conscious of what Early Access expressedly tells you, and are willing to lose every penny you spend on the game, that is not "trust", it's just being informed and reasonable. So yeah, I agree, don't trust it.

  • Kerbal Space Program 2 has been completely abandoned, the studio has been shut down, and the game is now owned by a private equity firm.
  • Early Access is what made Baldurs Gate 3 and indeed even (a version of Early Access) Kerbal Space Program great.

    Just absolutely be informed that you are not buying a finished product and it may get better, worse or stay exactly the same. And use your head - with something like 15,000 hours in KSP, I never bought into KSP2. It stank from afar.

  • "Everyone knows what a horse is"
  • I can't remember if it's an official Asimov book or not, but one of the Foundation books set far beyond even the main series has an archaeological mission finding thousands of ceremonial hard white ceramic bowl-funnels and speculating on their significance to these incomprehensibly ancient peoples.

  • Civilization 7's post-launch plans include free multiplayer and Age features and paid Ada Lovelace
  • I've put hundreds or thousands of hours into every Civ game since Civ 2. I'm so fucking sad that I don't care about this new release. I'm Irish and I can't even enjoy Britain being relegated to DLC because somehow Ada Lovelace is a leader? Who is this game for?

  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
  • It's certainly better than "Open"AI being completely closed and secretive with their models. But as people have discovered in the last 24 hours, DeepSeek is pretty strongly trained to be protective of the Chinese government policy on, uh, truth. If this was a truly Open Source model, someone could "fork" it and remake it without those limitations. That's the spirit of "Open Source" even if the actual term "source" is a bit misapplied here.

    As it is, without the original training data, an attempt to remake the model would have the issues DeepSeek themselves had with their "zero" release where it would frequently respond in a gibberish mix of English, Mandarin and programming code. They had to supply specific data to make it not do this, which we don't have access to.

  • Isn't EU's "VAT" a regressive tax? Why do they have that, instead of something like, taxing the rich?
  • No, not every purchase is taxed, and not every purchase that is is taxed at the same rate.

    These rates are set by individual countries (because "Europe", lol) and can change year to year. For example Ireland doesn't tax books, basic food staples, children's clothes, medicines. Heating fuel is taxed but was set to a reduced rate during the cost of living crisis. Other countries will have different priorities.

    VAT ensures that even those who have a large amount of wealth accumulated without "income" also contribute to society.

  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
  • A model isn't an application. It doesn't have source code. Any more than an image or a movie has source code to be "open". That's why OSI's definition of an "open source" model is controversial in itself.

  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
  • I know how LoRA works thanks. You still need the original model to use a LoRA. As mentioned, adding open stuff to closed stuff doesn't make it open - that's a principle applicable to pretty much anything software related.

    You could use their training method on another dataset, but you'd be creating your own model at that point. You also wouldn't get the same results - you can read in their article that their "zero" version would have made this possible but they found that it would often produce a gibberish mix of English, Mandarin and code. For R1 they adapted their pure "we'll only give it feedback" efficiency training method to starting with a base dataset before feeding it more, a compromise to their plan but necessary and with the right dataset - great! It eliminated the gibberish.

    Without that specific dataset - and this is what makes them a company not a research paper - you cannot recreate DeepSeek yourself (which would be open source) and you can't guarantee that you would get anything near the same results (in which case why even relate it to thid model anymore). That's why those are both important to the OSI who define Open Source in all regards as the principle of having all the information you need to recreate the software or asset locally from scratch. If it were truly Open Source by the way, that wouldn't be the disaster you think it would be as then OpenAI could just literally use it themselves. Or not - that's the difference between Open and Free I alluded to. It's perfectly possible for something to be Open Source and require a license and a fee.

    Anyway, it does sound like an exciting new model and I can't wait to make it write smut.

  • Couldn't have happened to a nicer guy
  • I understand it completely in so much that it's nonsensically irrelevant - the model is what you're calling open source, and the model is not open source because the data set not published or recreateable. They can open source any training code they want - I genuinely haven't even checked - but the model is not open source. Which is my point from about 20 comments ago. Unless you disagree with the OSI's definition which is a valid and interesting opinion. If that's the case you could have just said so. OSI are just of dudes. They have plenty of critics in the Free/Open communities. Hey they're probably American too if you want to throw in some downfall of The West classic hits too!

    If a troll is "not letting you pretend you have a clue what you're talking about because you managed to get ollama to run a model locally and think it's neat", cool. Owning that. You could also just try owning that you think its neat. It is. It's not an open source model though. You can run Meta's model with the same level of privacy (offline) and with the same level of ability to adapt or recreate it (you can't, you don't have the full data set or steps to recreate it).

  • TIL Alan Moore, the author of V for Vendetta, has a negative view of the revolutionary cultures/movements he helped inspire
  • I didn't put any words in your mouth... I really don't understand how you're not getting that. I said you understand that it's not true. Literally just read the part you quoted.

    Actually none of what you said just now was untrue. The leap that is unexplained is that bringing back a Catholic monarch would turn the UK into a papal theocracy where no other Catholic kingdom was (except the Papal States!).

    And that specifically is the part that I'm arguing has no basis in fact - you're asking me to provide evidence that something wasn't going to happen. Usually we ask for evidence of speculation, not against speculation. It doesn't help that the people that could have said so were hung drawn and quartered, and the history written by people who immediately brought in further anti-Catholic legislation.

  • TIL Alan Moore, the author of V for Vendetta, has a negative view of the revolutionary cultures/movements he helped inspire
  • I genuinely don't know how you interpret "I'm sure you understand the difference" as "you actually believe this". But sure, I'm manipulating your mind.

    The evidence - well, an argument, because this isn't a paper - is exactly what you so helpfully brought up the Papal States for. Apart from literally his own domain, the pope did not turn any other nations into a Catholic theocracy because their monarch was Catholic.

    It should be the other way around really - this idea of Catholic blind obedience to the pope is advanced as an assumption hy British historians despite having no example or evidence that it would be the case other than "that's what Catholics are like" despite the Anglican church literally arising from a Catholic English monarch disobeying the pope.

  • TIL Alan Moore, the author of V for Vendetta, has a negative view of the revolutionary cultures/movements he helped inspire
  • I'm not accusing you of that (in fact I literally said that you understand its not that), but I'm guess you're ignorant of how that is how it is taught in the British curriculum. The motif you're talking about Alan Moore using - the Gunpowder plot and therefore Guy Fawkes wanting to replace the noble British monarchy with a foreign theocracy - relies entirely on that context. British history is carefully curated with "that was a foreign plot and the British nation bravely survived it" vs "a foreign ally saved and restored our glorious nation". For many, the presence of Catholicism is one of the primary deciding factors in that.

    Are you usually this unable to take criticism without insulting people? (Yes, daily)

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