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[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 29 points 1 year ago (8 children)

I would like games to arrive as a single complete package, but I was relatively fond of expansion packs from games like RollerCoaster Tycoon.

They took the game you already had, and pretty much doubled it, they were fantastic!

Far better than any modern DLC for sure.

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WARN: Error encountered while processing the incoming HTTP request Spam (from lemmy.world & lemmy.ml) (compuverse.uk)
 

Hi, I run the Lemmy instance over at https://compuverse.uk I seem to be getting spammed with literally thousands of incoming activity requests (primarily coming in from lemmy.world and lemmy.ml). (I measured about 1 new request ever 0.01 -> 0.02 seconds)

The error message in the Lemmy logs is very unhelpful, giving 0 detail about the actual error itself.

The UUIDs in the activities seem to be all unique, rather than duplicates. Does anybody have any idea what's going on and why there is such a large torrent of requests coming in?

This was so bad it essentially caused a DoS attack on my instance, and brought it down. I have had to move the PostgreSQL server onto a more powerful machine in order to keep up with the request rate!

Any help or advice is greatly appreciated :)

Thanks,

Cameron

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Falcon 40B LLM (www.youtube.com)
 

An intriguing video discussing Falcon 40B, another LLM that seems to perform really quite well, especially given its much smaller size than models like GPT 4.

OpenChat_8192 - The first model to beat 100% of ChatGPT-3.5 in c/machinelearning@compuverse.uk
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago

Hmm,

Now this is very interesting.

I'm going to have to take a look into this. It's great to see how well it performs!

I use the OpenAI API for a couple of things at cost atm.

Self-hosting this could be really neat.

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Meta: Facebook owner launches $7.99 a month virtual reality service (web.archive.org)
 

Looks like Meta are trying to introduce a subscription for their VR headsets. Wonder if that'll go anywhere or not...

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Tales of Monkey Island Complete - £1.70 (85% off) (www.indiegala.com)
 

If you're a fan of TellTale games, Monkey Island is a classic.

A real gem of a game and well worth snagging, especially when it costs as much as a coffee.

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Ubisoft Forward June 2023 | Ubisoft Official (US) (www.ubisoft.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/3922

I know many people don't like Ubisoft, but for those of you who do enjoy their games (including myself), they have an event going on here today at:

  • 10:00 (AM) PT (West Coast United States)
  • 13:00 / 1:00 PM ET (East Coast United States)
  • 17:00 / 5:00 PM UTC (GMT +0)
  • 18:00 / 6:00 PM BST (Most of the United Kingdom)
  • 19:00 / 7:00 PM CET (Most of West Europe)
  • 2:00 (AM) JST (Japan)
  • 3:00 (AM) AEST (Oceania)

You will be able to watch the event on:

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Peglin - Peggle / Pachinko Deck-Building Roguelike (store.steampowered.com)
 

Peglin is a fantastically entertaining game, combining aspects of Peggle / Pachinko with a deck-building roguelike.

In Peglin, you build a deck of different "orbs", each with their own unique stats and abilities, such as being extra bouncy, chaining to nearby pegs, splitting into more balls when hitting a peg etc.

You combine this with a number of passive boosts, and have to traverse 3 maps, engaging in combat, and dealing damage based on how many pegs you hit!

The game is a great little time waster, and can get some really satisfying synergies with the right items.

I highly recommend people check it out.

YouTuber Aliensrock has a video series on Peglin, following it through early-access to the current day. The most recent video being here

What service/site would you like to see a fedi version of? in c/fediverse@lemmy.ml
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago

Whilst not directly intended for gaming, my instance is targeted specifically for technology, of which PC Gaming would definitely come under!

You're more than welcome to join and create communities for AMD, Nvidia, Intel etc. if you so wish!

We already have !gaming@compuverse.uk and !retrogaming@compuverse.uk communities.

But you're welcome to make more specific communities if you so wish!

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'AI can predict premature babies at 31 weeks' (www.gossipslife.com)
 

"The key takeaway is that it is possible to take data as early as the 31st week and predict preterm birth up to the 37th week," Arye Nehorai, PhD, professor of electrical engineering at Washington University in St. Louis, told Fox News Digital.

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‘I Failed Miserably’: Lawyer Who Used ChatGPT in Brief Explains Fake Cases to Judge (www.bloomberg.com)
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Researchers discover that ChatGPT prefers repeating 25 jokes over and over (arstechnica.com)
 

Always thought ChatGPT's jokes were a bit stale!

It's the same with riddles, the answer to 90% of them is "fire"!

Real Trucking Company Is Buying Billboards In American Truck Simulator To Help Recruit Staff in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Coleman is a real brand!? I legitimately had no idea 😂

I loved FFXV, the only advertisement I outright noticed was Cup Noodles, but that was a SUPER egregious one!

Own posts aren't viewable from profile? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Technically the domain of this instance didn't change. This instance was setup from scratch, under compuverse.uk.

However, a different instance did run under the same domain for a brief period of time, which was removed, and completely replaced by a brand new fresh instance.

Own posts aren't viewable from profile? in c/lemmy_support@lemmy.ml
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

👋 I'm Cameron, the Admin of the instance in question.

It's a very odd situation, I'm entirely new to this whole Fediverse thing myself, but, trying my best!

I noticed in my log, literally just after @TopHat@compuverse.uk posted their comment, this popped up:

I'm unsure as to exactly what this is referring to, as the comment was made from my instance, but it appears the instance believes it came from elsewhere?

It's very odd and I can't really explain it I'm afraid.

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Plans - Deal Bot (compuverse.uk)
submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by cameron@compuverse.uk to c/gamedeals@compuverse.uk
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For new subscribers to this community, I plan to write a bot which will automatically find and post deals (likely using the fantastic resource that is https://isthereanydeal.com!)

So hopefully we'll soon have awesome deals being posted here automatically :D

EDIT: The bot is live: /u/gamedealsbot!

At present, this is pulling data from yesthereisadeal.com
I plan to add support for more deal sources in the near future!
Halo - The Master Chief Collection 75% Off (All-Time-Low!) in c/gaming@beehaw.org
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Halo - The Master Chief Collection 75% Off (All-Time-Low!) (www.reddit.com)
 

cross-posted from: https://compuverse.uk/post/453

This is the lowest price the collection has ever been! Well worth grabbing if you can :)

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Hi, I'm Cameron! (compuverse.uk)
 

Hi all,

I'm Cameron and I'm the current administrator of this site.

As the TLD implies, I, and thus this site are UK based. But users of all nationalities are welcome.

I'm a long-time fan of technology, being enthralled by it since I was about 5, learning to program when I turned 10.

I'm relatively young (only 23 as of the writing of this post) but I love all things tech, and I have a fascination about retro tech.

I thoroughly enjoy learning about tech that's sometimes over twice as old as me, and frequently watch channels such as

I'm always on the lookout for new people to watch, so please let me know any of your suggestions!

I absolutely love video games, which I primarily play on PC, but I love Console gaming also, my first console being a PS2 (but mostly playing PS1 games on it). I love learning about and looking at games that are well before my time, so if you have any suggestions for older titles, they're also very much welcome!

As my day-job, I'm a software developer and I very much enjoy programming. I enjoy writing utilities to make my life easier, and I love learning new programming languages and frameworks. Currently, I'm trying to learn Rust!

Please feel free to comment on this post, or send me a DM if you ever want to chat about anything, always happy to talk (so long as I'm awake that is haha)

I look forward to seeing you all around!

  • Cameron
Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 4 points 1 year ago

Most of the mods that were infected were projects specifically designed to host the malware. From what I've read, only one legitimate user's projects were affected, and like yourself, I'd never heard of the mods personally.

So, this is a dangerous bit of malware for sure, with the potential to spread quite badly, but so far I believe it's had quite a limited reach due to not actually infecting anything super popular.

Dozens of popular Minecraft mods found infected with Fracturiser malware in c/gaming@beehaw.org
[–] cameron@compuverse.uk 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This situation is potentially a little overblown.

A very specific subset of mods were problematic.

The real worry is that the malware can automatically spread itself into all the other .jar files on your device!

CurseForge have a disinfection guide here: https://support.curseforge.com/en/support/solutions/articles/9000228509-june-2023-infected-mods-detection-tool/

So I highly recommend you give that a check through if you've downloaded anything from CurseForge recently.

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