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  • GOG now using AI generated images on their store

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  • Fair.

    I just sent GOG a complaint about the banner and urged them to recant. I cited your post as evidence that they are driving people to Steam, so hopefully the money will persuade them if the moral arguments don't.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • Hey now, stealing is wrong.

    I will give it to you as a gift.

  • Workers Say AI Is Useless, While Oblivious Bosses Insist It's a Productivity Miracle

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  • I'm a line worker in a factory, and I recently managed to give a presentation on "AI" to a group of office workers (it went well!). One of the people there is in regular contact with the C_Os but fortunately is pretty reasonable. His attitude is "We have this problem; what tools do we have to fix it", and so isn't impressed by " AI" yet. The C_Os, alas, insist it's the future. They keep hammering on at him to get everybody to integrate "AI" in their workflows, but they have no idea how to actually do that (let alone what the factory actually does), they just say "We have this tool, use it somehow".

    The reasonable manager asked me how I would respond if a C_O said we would get left behind if we don't embrace " AI". I quipped that it's fine to be left behind when everybody else is running towards a cliff. I was pretty proud of that one.

  • GOG now using AI generated images on their store

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  • Bad news. There's tons of AI slop on Steam. And also DRM.

  • Why do video game skeletons put themselves back together?

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  • You cannot kill what doesss not live

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • I am also in favour of hippie chicks using Linux.

    And also hippie dudes, to be clear. And hippie whatever the non binary version of dudes is.

  • Dev creates astrology-powered CPU scheduler for Linux, makes decisions based on planetary positions and zodiac signs — sched_ext framework informed by lunar phases, cosmic weather reports, and dynamic

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  • Boss:Ugh, fine, are we talking tropical, sidereal, or anomalistic years?

  • NYXI Introduced Hyperion 3 Controller For Nintendo Switch 2 With Ergonomic Controls and Hall-Effect Sticks

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  • I admit that looks tasty

  • What are some girl names named after flowers in your country?

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  • Irish is somewhat similar to how @jeinzi@discuss.tchncs.de describes German.

    -ín is a diminutive added to the end of a noun. So for example you can have:

    • buachaill (boy) → buachaillín (little boy)
    • bóthair (road) → bóithrín (small road; this one has undergone some mutation because it's such a common word)
    • smidir (fragment) → smidirín (small fragment, hence the English word smithereens)

    Beag is the word that literally means small, and there are slightly different connotations. Buachaill beag is a boy who is small in size, while buachaillín is a term of either affection or derision depending on tone of voice. Bóithrín specifically means a winding country road with unkempt vegetation on the side, while a bóthair beag would be any small road.

    Adjectives do not affect the words they are attached to. For example, the Irish word for red is dearg. Hence, a red rose is simply róise dearg, and a little red rose would be róisín dearg, though róisín is rarely used for flowers; it's basically exclusively a name. If you're talking about a flower, you'd be much more likely to say róise beag dearg, though róise dearg beag would also be correct.

    Adjectives, however, can be altered by some adverbial prefixes, such as an- (very) and ró (too [much]). So, for example, very small is an-bheag, while too small is ró-bheag. (The BH there is pronounced like the English V. It can also be pronounced as W. I know the rule has to do with which vowels are adjacent, but I can't articulate what the rule is).

    The past tense of many verbs is formed by changing the initial letter. Cuir, (put), for example, becomes chuir (put [in the past]); CH here is pronounced the same as in German, which is like the sound J makes in Spanish. Negation also tends to change the first letter of a verb; for example, cuireann (puts) → ní chuireann (does not put).

  • What are different things made from the same thing/category?

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  • Cheese isn't a mould. It is a dairy product, whereas mould is a fungus. Some cheeses use fungi in production, such as Roquefort and Stilton, but the majority do not. Cheese is made by processing raw milk using various enzymes; if there is fungus in there, it is added towards the end of the process.

    But for a real example: diamonds and graphite (pencil "lead") are both pure carbon crystals, but one is hard and the other isn't.

  • What are different things made from the same thing/category?

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  • Do you have just a few minutes to discuss our lord and saviour Richard Stallman?

  • What are some girl names named after flowers in your country?

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  • We mostly speak English in Ireland, so I'll stick to Irish.

    Róise (rowisha): Rose

    Róisín (rowsheen): Little Rose

    That's all I've got.

  • If you could erase one event from human history, what would it be and why?

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  • The unification of the Italian peninsula by Rome. Because fuck the Roman Empire and fuck imperialism. (Also most of what you think you hate about Christianity is stuff the early Christians inherited from Roman culture).

  • Hard work

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  • Here's the original

    I became Senior VP at a multi-million dollar company at age 26. My salary was $600k. This was in 2018.

    How did I do it?

    It wasn’t hustle culture. No 5:30am wakeups, cold showers, or productivity hacks.

    What got me there was a relentless focus on impact. Every project I touched, every deck I built, every presentation I gave MOVED THE NEEDLE.

    Always, I asked myself: what is the single most valuable contribution I can make to the company right now? And I did that. If people disagreed, I convinced them otherwise.

    I kept this up for three years before the CEO (my dad) finally recognized my results and promoted me to SVP.

    There are no gimmicks. There are no shortcuts.

  • Digg launches its new Reddit rival to the public | TechCrunch

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  • And since they use ActivityPub, they make up one big meta-site!

  • Furious Protestor Tears AI-Generated Art Off Wall of Exhibit, Chews It Up Into Tiny Shreds Using His Teeth

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  • I can definitely understand why he was driven to do this. Fire is much faster, more thorough, and has much less risk of ingesting toxic substances, but can easily get out of control and damage real art or people's health. Teeth are the better tools here.

  • What is your country's equivalent of the last name "Smith"?

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  • Smith. Also Murphy.

  • Hooded Horse ban AI-generated art in their games: "all this thing has done is made our lives more difficult"

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  • Judas Priest, not Black Sabbath.

  • If you could erase the existence of 3 people, who would they be?

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  • Philip II of Makedon, Qin Shi Huangdi, and the person who invented salted caramel.

  • Nintendo @lemmy.world
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    Nintendo Alerted After DHS Uses Pokémon to Promote ICE Raids

    www.thedailybeast.com /nintendo-alerted-after-dhs-uses-pokemon-to-promote-ice-raids-tearing-families-apart/
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Could first millennial saint Carlo Acutis' PlayStation controller become a relic?

    www.euronews.com /2025/09/16/could-first-millennial-saint-carlo-acutis-playstation-controller-become-a-relic
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Trump to host UFC cage fight on White House lawn to mark 250 years of US independence

    www.euronews.com /2025/09/08/trump-to-host-ufc-octagon-cage-fight-on-white-house-lawn-to-mark-250-years-of-us-independe
  • Science @beehaw.org
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    One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-025-09425-w
  • science @lemmy.world
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    One mother for two species via obligate cross-species cloning in ants - Nature

    www.nature.com /articles/s41586-025-09425-w
  • Not The Onion @lemmy.world
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    Firefighters tackling wildfire in US arrested by immigration agents

    www.aljazeera.com /news/2025/8/29/firefighters-tackling-wildfire-in-us-arrested-by-immigration-agents