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  • Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment.

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  • I think it's akin to the sentiment that we see on here sometimes where people wish that Lemmy had bigger communities.

    We've been conditioned to think more views/subscribers/upvotes is always a positive thing and you should always be aiming for more.

    In reality (and imo), communities that have less members more successfully function as actual communities. Toxic conversations are a lot less likely to break out among people who've had a bunch of other conversations before and users who exhibit toxic behavior are socially shunned and shamed if not banned. (I'm massively generalizing here, but I don't want to write a book).

    The way I've managed with my group is to just not have the other accounts and tell them that if they want to message me then they can install Signal. It's a bit of a filter as well; If they're not willing to do something as simple as install an app to talk to you, then they were not likely very good friends to begin with (imo).

  • The full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced

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  • It's just applying Wayland surfaces onto a simple 2D plane in an otherwise empty scene. Wayland is optimized and creating a 2D plane in 3D space is about the most basic task that you can do in a 3D environment. I wouldn't worry about that too much.

    You can already do a lot of this on Windows using Vitual Desktop. If you want to get a feel for what it would be like. Virtual Desktop is the most 1:1 comparison, you can create floating 'displays' that show your desktop or you can make them show individual apps. Rendering on a 3080 going to an Index, the framerate never droped below the 144fps limit.

  • Meta Is Blocking Links To ICE List on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads

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  • Narrative control is entirely in the hands of who can hand out bans.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Maybe. We can't say, there is zero information there that even hints at how or how much they use AI.

    It isn't like they're saying something specific like 'Must be able to use Cursor, Mercurial and be able to direct multi-agent workflows'.That bullet point read like it is more there to include a hot keyword on job searching sites than an actual specification that describes the job.

    It's kind of like including the word in your comment, so that you grab all of the bot upvotes and can farm outrage in a way that is objectively off-topic and unrelated to the actual post, which is about GOG moving to support Linux, not and not about AI.

    It'd be one thing if there was something specific about the job related to AI, or if anyone involved in these comments had actually said anything of substance other than, literally, 'ew'.

    So, to my pattern recognition, this looks like every other 'ai bad' thread shoehorned into posts and full of toxic attacks while being light on actual discussion of the topic in the OP.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Why are you so interested in defending trolls?

    The irony here is rich.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Oh ok.

    'The job listing does not say anything about outsourcing your brain.'

    But, everyone knows that because it is obvious on the face.

    The subtext, as always, isn't about commenting on the subject of the article or even making any kind of cognizant point that could actually be rebutted. Much like the top comment, it is just running 'ai bad' through an LLM so that it fits the post.

    Would you honestly say that the comment that I responded to was made in good faith?

  • The full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced

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  • The Steam Frame is a “streaming first” headset - because the onboard chip is too feeble for a full onboard OS gaming support.

    The Steam Frame has hardware similar or better than the Quest 2, which can run games natively on the headset so it will be capable of local rendering.

    It runs SteamOS, which includes KDE Plasma (and so, would eventually include any merged changes such as this).

    As to the capabilities, it can run the x86 Windows version of Hades 2 @ 1400p using the onboard ARM processor.

    https://www.tomshardware.com/peripherals/gaming-headsets/hands-on-with-valves-new-steam-frame-headset-arm-powered-mixed-mode-device-uses-new-fex-translation-layer-for-traditional-x86-games

    Valve’s engineers emphasized that the company sees the Steam Frame as a “wireless streaming-first device.” [...] But that’s not the only way the Steam Frame can game. The company also showed off the x86 version of Hades 2 running standalone (as in not streaming from a PC) on the Steam Frame. And the game ran just fine and looked good at what Valve reps told me was 1400p in a window inside the headset, which I could actually resize to something that filled a large part of my field of view.

    “The magic trick is that the game doesn’t know it’s running on an Arm chip,” designer Lawrence Yang told me. The game may be designed for a Windows PC, but “it’s actually running on Linux, running on Arm.”

    That happens thanks to Fex, which is an emulation layer, so that will almost certainly mean increased power consumption / shorter battery life.

    The software in the OP has very low requirements compared to a game.

    It is only rendering a few 2d planes with textures in an empty space with no lighting or shadows to compute and the 'background' is a static image. I would expect that to change to include pass-through video, which is also essentially streaming a texture onto simple geometry with no complex shaders.

    You can see, in Linus Tech Tips preview: https://youtu.be/dU3ru09HTng?t=58 that they are displaying the Steam Library in a way that is very similar to the software in the OP.

    It includes KDE Plasma due to being SteamOS, can run x86 applications natively due to FEX, and we have video of the actual device's output showing that it is rendering the same '2d planes with window contents in 3d space' as the software in the OP.

    e: forgot the first part of the Tom's Hardware quote

  • The full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced

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  • I would be incredibly surprised if the Frame is not running SteamOS, which includes KDE Plasma and so any merged PRs will be included in a system image update.

    Or, alternatively, as with essentially everything that's released which has 2 or more MOSFETS soldered together, someone will get Linux running on it within a few hours.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • And we open the book of troll arguments to chapter 1: Ad hominem

    Keep going, it really makes you look like the rational one.

    Maybe try a red herring next, or a straw man those are always popular.

  • AI bot swarms threaten to undermine democracy

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  • All of the things in that image are tactics that have been being used for nearly a decade now. It's not a thing unique to AI.

    LLMs have only made it so that the bad operators who are pushing these kinds of operations now have a force multiplier.

    We have already have a bot problem, but the capabilities were such that only a human would be able to draft arguments and posts while the vast majority of bots were simply there to manipulate the algorithm/votes so that their content is signal boosted.

    Now a single person can control a large amount of accounts which can actively respond and argue like a real person in addition to the existing vote manipulation bot swarm.

    Look at how many 'people' suddenly appeared out of the woodwork after the Minnesota shooting and started posting despite being inactive for months. Go look on any big instance at the number of communities which have moderators squatting on popular community names despite them having 0 subscribers, traffic or posts.

    I don't doubt that there are entire instances being run by these operations so that, much like the ever famous r/conservative, they can control the echo chamber.

    LLMs are just the latest tool in their arsenal, but this tactic of manipulating social media is taking place right now.

  • "Those rights don't count": Bovino says Pretti forfeited 2nd Amendment rights in fatal shooting

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  • It's sad, certainly, but I'll hold my tongue if it means gaining more allies to oppose this violence.

    We can get back to fighting about domestic and social issues once we make sure that we still have a functioning democracy, none of the other differences matter if that doesn't happen.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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            tar -Jcf DIY-dedicated-installer.xz /path/to/wine/bottle

    Now you have a very portable, highly compressed file that is easy to move around.

  • GOG is seeking a Senior Software Engineer with C++ experience to modernize the GOG GALAXY desktop client and spearhead its Linux development

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  • Yeah, what does GOG know?

    The real source of wisdom is social media users who approach a topic with bad faith, outrage farming framing. I mean just look at the upvotes, and you can easily tell how right you are, it's basically science.

  • The full VR mode for KDE Plasma continues getting more advanced

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  • I'd like to point out that monitors are a streaming-only device also

  • Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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  • Ha — how did you get to know my family so well? I’m not interested in conversation with people who aren’t interested in conversation, so I no longer engage — unless they say something stupid or fascist in my presence.

    I live in a rural area of a red state so I have to deal with MAGA people, family and clients, constantly.

  • ‘What the f*ck did you do?!’ Video contradicts DHS claims about killing of Alex Pretti

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  • I need to stop trying to do mental tasks at 3am

    Thank you very much :)

  • Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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  • Yeah, you're right there will be a lot of fair weather supporters who are only switching sides because the wind blew our way. Nor do I think we should coddle these people.

    My point is that: if you don't have something constructive to say then at least be silent. There is ZERO advantage (outside of soothing their ego) for a person who supports this cause to actively attack people who are coming around to see how bad this situation has become.

    The net result of this kind of tactic is to create division among allies. This kind of behavior isn't something that benefits us and should be actively discouraged.

    I'm not saying 'be nice or they'll go back to fascism' as you can already see the troll comments (reading from that exact same encyclopedia of toxic rhetoric). I'm saying that this kind of behavior cuts off these new anti-fascists from being able to support the movement, dividing the enemies of fascism.

    As I said, go try to engage some of these people in conversation to change their mind. Very often you'll find they have zero interest in having a good-faith discussion, and will constantly be deploying all manner of fallacy as a smoke screen. These people are not allies, they are agitators and, even if they are real American Human People then they are ideologically aligned with the agitators.

  • Yes, It’s Fascism | Until recently, I thought it a term best avoided. But now, the resemblances are too many and too strong to deny.

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  • The people with opinions over a fucking JOURNALIST not seeing fascism while it’s arresting his peers are doing the same thing as a fucking fascist!?

    Holy hyperbole!

    What the fuck is wrong with you?! “We want allies on our side… oh not YOU. YOU’RE JUST AS BAD AS THE FASCISTS! You must be a PLANT!”

    Go fuck yourself you clear fucking hypocrite.

    Oh and if that turns you into a fascist because i was mean to you then you already were one. Now fuck off.

    Edit: when you fuck up people will be pissed off at you. Grow the fuck up if you can’t handle that. The answer is not to turn into a fucking fascist it’s to fucking apologize for being wrong.

    Exhibit A

    Pick a random one of these posters to engage in a conversation to change their mind and you will often find the same toxic behaviors, bad faith arguments, red herrings, strawman arguments. It’s like they’re all reading from the same encyclopedia of bad faith rhetoric.

  • US judge rules ICE raids require judicial warrants, contradicting secret ICE memo

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  • It is downloading to the Steam Deck as we speak.