cameron

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years 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.

 

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

 

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.

 

eTail.market currently have both of the recent Spider-Man games currently on offer, according to IsThereAnyDeal, these are the lowest prices currently available for the games.

Could be a good time to grab them if you haven't already :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

This is a good question, I'm not actually sure to be honest with you.

So far I've heard nothing about the main project receiving any sort of threats, and even the Steam page wasn't officially DMCAd or the like. It was more of a threat saying they WOULD officially DMCA if the project wasn't taken down.

It's very interesting that it was played like this rather than just officially issuing a DMCA takedown request. Almost like they weren't 100% convinced the official DMCA would actually hold up?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

At present, it will create a post per deal. Which would be way too spammy!

However, the bot is currently offline whilst I'm trying to make some changes. I want to get it into a state where it aggregates multiple deals into a single post. Rather than posting a post per deal that is found!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

I don't know if this is something that is possible to do unfortunately. It's not something I've seen available in any of the settings and such I'm afraid :(

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hi, many thanks for the compliments! The bot is having a couple of problems atm which I'm trying to solve, so it's not live at present. The downvote button being enabled / disabled is set by the home instance you are using. For example, the downvote button is enabled on my own compuverse.uk instance, however it appears Beehaw does not enable the downvote option, and thus you don't have the option there.

 

Seems the US has now decided to block the MS / Activision merger! Following from similar blocks by the UK's Competition & Marketing Authority!

Wonder if this acquisition will ever go through!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Source Code

I do plan on making the source code for this bot public eventually.

It's a lot better than it was when I first started, but still an absolute travesty with a lot of hardcoded nonsense.

Once the code is cleaned up, I will be posting the source code on my GitHub over at https://github.com/CameronRedmore

 

Hi all!

In order to give people automated access to loads of game deals, I've created the CompuVerse Deals Bot!

This bot will automatically post new deals as they come in from https://isthereanydeal.com!

To try to keep the quality of the bot's posts at least moderately good, there are a few limits in place.

The bot will only post deals which follow these rules:

  • Offer title is at least 30% off
  • Offer title has at least 75% positive reviews on Steam
  • Offer title is not a DLC

The bot will automatically post the highest cut it has found in the title of the post, along with Steam review scores for the game.

The main body of each post will consist of basic review information on the game, and then a table listing current best known prices in GBP, USD and EUR (other currencies can be added in future if this is something people are interested in!)

I hope you find the bot useful.

Please let me know any suggestions or improvements you may have regarding this bot :)

Thanks,

Cameron

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 years ago (3 children)

This is a great point! At present I'm using a UK dataset, but I could likely cross reference with the datasets from other regions and try to find the price in those too. Maybe give prices like [£5/$6/€5.50] or something!

I'll have a look and see what I can do :)

 

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:

 

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:

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years 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 [email protected] and [email protected] communities.

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

 

"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.

 

Always thought ChatGPT's jokes were a bit stale!

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 years 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.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years 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 @[email protected] 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 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
 

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!
 

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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