Ow lad he’s coming

Gigachad

I’m a game dev, so I’ll have to at least keep around either a Windows VM or a dual boot system, since Windows is still very popular.

Issue is, a lot of people still using Windows, and Linux pro-audio is still questionable at best (lack of drivers, etc.).

As the fediverse becomes more and more of a feasible alternative to corporate social media, it will be inevitable that trolls and spammers will use our platform for malicious things. All we can do is to get better at moderation, maybe somehow bust these farms.

Yay, a “good” guy with a company will stop a bad guy with a company!

All hail Jack!

Just ban any instance of generative unconsentual generative nudity, AI or not.

I was so heartbroken once I saw the Mastodon handle of Jack Saint (leftist youtuber), only to the last post of his being “I’m moving to BlueSky”. I’m also asked WhiteLeaf (worker coop behind leftist streamers’s stuff) if they thought on starting their own Mastodon or other instance.

https://youtu.be/6fcWOivJ6bs?si=LveofkfTpG7cvnIs

They’re a terrible idea.

Even the plagiarism machine gets plagiarized nowadays…

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Elon be like: “What if I got OpenAI’s chatbot and disguised it as mine?”

I’m on the main kbin instance, and I’ve requested ownership of quite a lot of magazines.

The “superintelligence” in question: the same old tech, but with a larger context window, which will make it hallucinate a bit less often.

Also GPU drivers.

If you’re mad at NVidia for their closed-source drivers, then remember that ARM seldom makes their Linux drivers available for free, so you have to either have to deal with absolutely no GPU driver while the CPU does the graphics rendering (might not be a big deal on a NAS though), or with open source drivers that are less capable than the Nouveau drivers and even fiddlier to install. The ARM Mali driver issue is so bad I was legit thinking on a solution to run the Android binary blobs (which at least are available by ripping them off from the Android kernel) on regular Linux, a lot of function call redirects would likely take care of that issue.

ClosedAL

I’m from the generation that used to have sound cards, and I’m very sad about what Creative did to the industry…

If-Else spaghetti with Markov-chains!

Butlerian jihad noises intensifies

My first encounters with it were very rough to say the least. Developers getting used to the jankiness of the graphical user interface (if they had one), was commonplace, and often I was pulling my hair when I was forced to use older versions of Blender and similar productivity software, and any suggestions for UI improvements were met with massive resistance from the developers, due to wanting to avoid “spoonfeeding”, and “not introducing users to write their own shell scripts, thus making them lazy and never discovering its feature of automating complex tasks”.

However, this changed when I started to get into drawing and downloaded Krita. It showed me that open source software doesn’t have to be an absolute nighmare to use, and not hiding handy but less-commonly used features behind a barely documented CLI. Even Blender became more usable in my experience than many more expensive 3D rendering software.

There were times I’ve done line-by-line commenting to reverse engineer code I’ve written in the past. Also very important in case of Assembly and similar problematic languages.

I’ve also done some line-by-line stuff to show how my engine is initialized, so people will understand why a given line is there and not just have to know what lines they must type in.