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  • Decompiling. Use ILSpy for games coded in .NET for example. You take a .dll for the game that you think contains the code that controls the behaviour you want to change. You decompile it. You change the code and recompile it. Then you replace the original .dll with your new one.

    Sounds easy, but the tricky thing is that decompilers only parse what the code does, and if the code was compressed of obfuscated, it usually doesn’t provide what the coder called the variables and functions to indicate what they were for. So a function that was coded as:

    function damagePlayer(characterRef *Player, int damage) {
    *Player.health = *Player.health - damage;
    }
    

    It will look like this after decompilation:

    function func238(objRef *var4748, int local1) {
    *var4748.param35 = *var4748.param35 - local1;
    }
    

    So a lot of the effort is interpreting what these functions actually do then replacing the generic names. The hints come from when they are called (if the game can be debugged, you use breakpoints to pause the program when that code is called).

    If there is a common engine or way programs are compiled, people develop libraries that work for many games, and all you have to do is have the library hook into the spots of each game where it does the common things like load resources or manage global variables, to have them loaded from a separate additional files rather than replacing everything (See BepinEx for example). Then that saves people work from having to compile and replace files themselves, and they can get right to changing the code where they want to. Then more modding tools make the earlier modding tools easier to use, so on and so forth.




  • It’s hard for me to figure out what HF as a platform can do here. What specific signal can be vetted to prevent this? Since models are non-deterministic I don’t know if keyword filters would even work.

    To me this is different than Grok because Grok is a tool embedded in Xitter, that grabs the photos posted on the same platform to create the nasty images, so because the platform and tool are working in concert, X and Grok should be shut down over it if that function can’t be disabled.




  • Rentlar@lemmy.catoTransfem@lemmy.blahaj.zoneI just dont know anymore
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    You don’t have to force yourself to become girl-like just because you don’t want to follow male gender norms. I won’t deny you the validity of the pain and feelings you’ve had in the past, but since it’s evolved into a calmer confusion, I invite you to look beyond the binary. I’ve got non-binary friends, going by they/them, they figure out their life one step at a time like anyone else, with good days and bad ones.

    Grow out your hair if you want or not, do your nails or not, wear what you like and fits comfortably, your deodorant can be artificial sports smell, unscented or flower. You will always be you and none of the things above will change that. I’d think your friends like to be with you for reasons other than your appearance or gender identity. Embrace that you’ll figure it out eventually, you don’t necessarily have to rush directly to the answer to live an adequate life. I suggest to start doing more of the things you like doing (which can include makeup/beauty activities), over worrying about the appearance of doing it.


  • It’s true I can’t convert a given amount of money into a fixed percentage of reduced traffic, I can only give estimates for each project in a particular region.

    You also correctly mention the point I’m trying to drive home (pun intended), that funding alternatives to driving benefits drivers too. Whereas wider highways only create more traffic on existing unwidened roads and incur higher road maintenance costs for benefits that quickly disappear after opening.


  • It’s too bad that this had to be a big drama, but:

    No one is talking about the Piefed vote quotas anymore, so you’re welcome.

    More than once I brought this up as comparison on the difference between an unpopular default based on the main developer’s needs, that was announced and detailed in changelogs, that can be toggled and worked around, instead of a control-freak’s grudges manifesting as a hidden shadowban list. We lost a very friendly power user (PugJesus) from the Piefed change, but unfortunately sometimes that is the price of it.

    Wanting a less-toxic fediverse is a totally normal thing, users and admins have many of the tools already for that, and I respect devs for trying to do their part. But it is the dishonest way of implementing it that no one is a fan of, and that makes everyone question this dev’s character. If this person could at the very least own up to it, call it well-intentioned error, and respond to the problem with solutions rather than a crashout, then this wouldn’t need to be as big of a deal.

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    Lemmy is bandwagony but in politics you have to live with a little bit of it. I’ve said anti- and pro-feminist stuff, made anti- and pro-trans arguments while trying to be empathetic as I can, made cold, warm and hot takes, toed the line and went against the grain, got lots of up and down votes. I try to pushback against gatekeeping and purity tests, play devil’s advocate, and when I’m not shitposting, try to steelman arguments I don’t agree with. People are imperfect, I try to avoid to assign guilt by association, people will think differently about things than I do, I respect their opinions while still disagree with, and I’ll take downvotes on the chin for defending different that.