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  • The inarguable case for banning social media for teens

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    Ah, yes. Truly, I cannot argue against this impeccable logic. I am swayed.

  • How I use Kate Editor

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  • I feel kind of lame saying so, but I just use Kate for taking notes.

    I only realised it was supposed to be for editing code when it gave me a debug error when I wrote something with parentheses (what do you mean there's an error in line 43!? That sentence makes perfect sense!)

  • Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

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  • I'm not opposed to either. I think of this a bit like procedural generation, except better.

  • Carmack defends AI tools after Quake fan calls Microsoft AI demo “disgusting”

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  • Speak for yourself. As an avid gamer I am excitedly looking towards the future of AI in games. Good models (with context buffers much longer than the .9s in this demo) have the potential to revolutionise the gaming industry.

    I really don't understand the amount of LLM/AI hate in Lemmy. It is a tool with many potential uses.

  • Elon Musk dies to tutorial boss in Path of Exile 2 livestream

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  • I take posts like these as an opportunity to block people who spam Lemmy with stupid nonsense. I'm heartened to know I won't ever see a post by this person ever again.

  • Ventoy my beloved.

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  • Jesus Christ can you at least be accurate?

    Speaking of accuracy, your comment seems to identify the wrong issue. Navigating the install menus in a non-Arch linux distro is pretty much analogous to Windows. The biggest difference is that Linux distros don't have 3-4 pages where they sneakily try to include privacy-breaching clauses during the installation.

    The real issue is starting the installation in the first place. Windows is easy, because hardware manufacturer's have en masse bent over to willingly present themselves to Microsoft, Linux doesn't have this advantage and users must figure out how to get around the 7,000 different Secure Boot UEFI configurations before they can even start the installation process.

  • 'An Insult To Life Itself': Hayao Miyazaki’s AI Criticism Resurfaces As OpenAI’s Ghibli-Style Image Trend Takes Over Social Media

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  • forgot they call weed drug

    Clearly you didn't, because weed is completely unrelated to this story. You saw the word 'drug' and assumed it must mean 'marijuana'.

    Edit: You know what, this response was pretty dickish. Sorry. Ignore the above.

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  • The ruling means far-right leader Marine Le Pen could face a five-year political ban if her party is convicted in an ongoing embezzlement trial.

    My dream is to one day read a news article about a court decision that actually has final concrete repercussions, and not something that will likely end up with 2-3 more appeals later down the track.

  • It Might Be Time to Admit the Great VR Experiment Has Failed

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  • I can't think of a single VR game that has come out that felt like a fully fleshed out game. The games I've played the most have all been ports (e.g. Borderlands 2, Skyrim, Fallout 4, The Forest) because native VR games are typically only 3-6 hours long.

    Meta really make it annoying to use too. My next headset will definitely not be a Meta.

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  • I promise you that koala is not being pensive, it's probably just constipated; koalas aren't really known for their intellect.

    Though being constipated is unfortunate because that means its babies are probably going to starve (koalas feed their shit to their young).

  • Hulu quizzing about the ads played

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  • They're really doing everything in their power to destroy their own business model, aren't they?

  • Google begins requiring JavaScript for Google Search

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  • Deutsche Geophysikalische Gesellschaft

  • What is the legitimate use-case for generative AI?

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  • I'd say there are probably as many genuine use-cases for AI as there are people in denial that AI has genuine use-cases.

    Top of my head:

    • Text editing. Write something (e.g. e-mails, websites, novels, even code) and have an LLM rewrite it to suit a specific tone and identify errors.
    • Creative art. You claim generative AI art is soulless and poor quality, to me, that indicates a lack of familiarity with what generative AI is capable of. There are tools to create entire songs from scratch, replace the voice of one artist with another, remove unwanted background noise from songs, improve the quality of old songs, separate/add vocal tracks to music, turn 2d models into 3d models, create images from text, convert simple images into complex images, fill in missing details from images, upscale and colourise images, separate foregrounds from backgrounds.
    • Note taking and summarisation (e.g. summarising meeting minutes or summarising a conversation or events that occur).
    • Video games. Imagine the replay value of a video game if every time you play there are different quests, maps, NPCs, unexpected twists, and different puzzles? The technology isn't developed enough for this at the moment, but I think this is something we will see in the coming years. Some games (Skyrim and Fallout 4 come to mind) have a mod that gives each NPC AI generated dialogue that takes into account the NPC's personality and history.
    • Real time assistance for a variety of tasks. Consider a call centre environment as one example, a model can be optimised to evaluate calls based on language and empathy and correctness of information. A model could be set up with a call centre's knowledge base that listens to the call and locates information based on a caller's enquiry and tells an agent where the information is located (or even suggests what to say, though this is currently prone to hallucination).

  • Accurate programming movie

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  • "Quick! Hurry! Scrum! 5 minute stand up team! We need to sort this crisis out NOW!"

    "Joe! The building is on fire! Move! RUN!"

    "No! We need to have a meeting first! SCRUM! STAND UP! AGILE! SILICON VALLEY!!!1!!!1!! When is the next sprint!?"

    Looking for a passionate, motivated team member to be part of a newly refreshed team created to replace an unsuccessful team (RIP) promoting our incredibly competitive product!

    • You must have at least 40 years experience working with Windows 11.
    • GENEROUS remuneration package!*
    • You need to be able to work 26 hours a day 9 days per week.
    • You will need to bring PASSION! ENTHUSIASM! EXCITEMENT! [synonym not found]!, and GRIT!

    *as we are a small start up, we can't afford to pay wages, but when we are successful, we promise to write your name somewhere on an archived version of our website.

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  • Magic. That is the only way they can enforce this drivel.

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  • Absolute stupidity and a waste of taxpayers' money spending so much time on this nonsense.

    These incompetent morons are pretty much guaranteeing that they will lose the next election. In the middle of a housing and inflation crisis this is what these fuckheads decided was important.

    I loathe the opposition, but it's hard to defend the sheer incompetence the Labor Party has displayed their entire term.

  • Half a million suspected Nazi collaborators are named in the Netherlands

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  • Look, you tried...

    ...and were found guilty.

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  • My feedback: I wish it was -15 °C... To snuggle up under a bundle of blankets sounds divine. Instead, it's almost midnight where I am and it's still bloody 32 °C.

    The UI looks nice, though I've effectively disabled the Overview and replaced it with the ArcMenu on my setup. I've also aligned my common/active applications to the left on my panel rather than centred (so that my pinned applications are always in the same position and don't budge over when I open another program). Rounded corners doesn't do it for me, I try to avoid anything that removes screen real-estate, no matter how minimal. I've also set the bottom panel to auto hide so that it's only visible when I move my cursor at the bottom of the screen. Overall, your setup's pretty nice, though I don't think I like the bright colours for the buttons in the top right of your windows, they're a little distracting. Mine's set so the cross is a washed out red colour, the minimise button is a pale horizontal line, and I don't have a maximise button.

    I'm going to install that Weather or Not extension. Thanks.

  • now I know why

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  • I agree, but a couple of programs I use were specifically made compatible with Gnome. It only took me three extensions to make my UI look like KDE though, so it wasn't too bad.

  • Linux @lemmy.ml
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    What's with the cross?