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  • YouTube is doing A/B testing of the Subscriptions feed

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  • Scumfucks. I started using the RSS feeds for every channel I follow and never looked back. Now I've written a little local program to check those feeds, throw new video URLs at yt-dlp, and I barely even go on the actual site any more. I'm sure they'll take away RSS at some point though

  • G@mer moment

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  • The others already covered AI and Linux so for the trifecta, he was/is a big metaverse guy which honestly might be the most embarrassing of those, but that's why fortnite is the way it is

  • [CW: SA] In 1995, a limo driver reported overhearing Trump discussing "abusing girls" with "Jeffery".

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  • Importantly, that's a report from 2020 of their recollection of the events of 1995, not a contemporaneous report. But I'm sure the events described could be verified and cross referenced to check it. I'm also thrown by that last bit, someone tried to set this person up as the OKC bomber?

  • Any keyboard nerds on Hexbear?

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  • One of the big reasons is to reduce finger movement actually! If you go really small with multiple layers you can have all the functionality of a full size board without ever moving your fingers more than one key from their home positions.

    That being said, I personally go back and forth on whether I prefer that or not. It feels more efficient but also I feel like moving my whole hands actually kind of helps with RSI more than reducing movement but locking my hands in place. Still trying different things on that front though

  • China's ByteDance reportedly building a Steam competitor — 'GameTop'

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  • On the one hand you hear about the flat management structure, but on the other you also hear that the culture is very in-group and clique-y (which, on the other other hand, is also what someone says when they just don't know how to work politely with others).

    That's something I've oftened wondered about. I feel like interviews with former employees often reference toxic culture and things, but then when they cite specific examples it rarely sounds like harassment and more often sounds like just not meshing into the way a team works. I obviously want to give potential victims the benefit of the doubt, but I do also wonder what portion of them just couldn't handle a high expectations low restrictions environment and find a team to slip into. Which isn't a personal failing or anything of course, I know myself I may not thrive in that kind of environment, but it just makes me wonder how much of the "clique" culture is overblown.

  • I selected both drives when installing Bazzite, creating one big volume. How much is that going to fuck me up down the line?

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  • Yeah seconding that you'll want to undo that before you get too committed. I recommend mounting the 1TB drive as /home (usually this option is "separate home partition" in most installers), this can be really helpful during a reinstall since you can just purge the boot drive without affecting your own files

  • Alpha stuff just alpha things

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  • Yeah the based alpha chad warrior book about how this war is a pointless nightmare that has left even the victors poorer, fought because of alliances that long should have been abandoned, followed up in the cycle by a poem about how hard it is to even come home from war

    Wow! Cool chariot!!

  • This AI Aced Hurricane Season in 2025. Here’s What That Means | the ai was google deepmind

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  • Google DeepMind is not an LLM, it's one of the few genuinely impressive technologies to come out of this boom (and, technically, the ML/Big Data boom previously)

  • Just a casual morning of checking my usual webcomics with breakfast... And I'm being recommended Double Genocide Theory propaganda.

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  • I'd completely forgotten about Soonish, never read it but I'd bet you're right and that's a more accurate start to his trajectory

  • Just a casual morning of checking my usual webcomics with breakfast... And I'm being recommended Double Genocide Theory propaganda.

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  • That's basically been my trajectory! When I was a kid I had dozens of bookmarks organized by update day, then I learned about RSS. But now I'm down to maybe 10 comics still in my reader, the ones that survived my political awakening and, frankly, just my expectations of narrative and comedy changing. Half of what's left barely updates. It's very sad. xkcd wins by doing nothing.

    In the interest of sharing, I'll leave you with a rec to my current favorite narrative web comic, Runaway to the Stars. Spec bio sci fi, very queer, can be a bit lib at times but nothing egregious and you can tell their heart is in the right place. Still somewhat early days of it so it's a little slow but the creator's been world building for years

  • Just a casual morning of checking my usual webcomics with breakfast... And I'm being recommended Double Genocide Theory propaganda.

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  • Zach was a lot funnier before he thought he was qualified to have thoughts on anything. I understand he did a bunch of research for his book on Mars that I'm told isn't too bazinga brained, but I think him getting into that mindset combined with the rise of AI (and it being the only other thing he seems to think about) aligns perfectly with SMBC going to shit over the last couple years.

    He strikes me as one of those guys who assumes he can't possibly be falling for propaganda (political, tech hype, you name it) because he knows how to spell it, so you couple that with a smug belief I can only describe as "if you're making any kind of definitive statement about history you must be oversimplifying", a belief that we can't simply "know" things, I think that's how you get to where he is now.

    Which is mostly sad bc he put out a lot of bangers in the past and now he's boring

  • Goblins are cool and J.K. Rowling sucks for making them not cool.

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  • The Pact and Pale web serials have a unique take on goblins, they're essentially aligned to filth and grossness, and revel in being fucked up. Some of ghem are, at many points, not only the heroes but some of the best characters in the stories.

  • 'There’s no profit to be made in raising soybeans': Farmers react to tariffs, harvest season begins

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  • I can't wait for them to completely deplete all the nitrogen bc if they can't sell the soy what's the point in growing it (the point is it makes the soil not fucking dead when it's time to grow corn)

  • Oh don't mind me I'm just a tiny little baby independent game developer guy putting out my itty bitty game plastered across the front page of Steam with my 133 casual friends who worked on it together

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  • IIRC SuperGiant makes a point of actually hiring their VAs full-time so it's easier to involve them in the development. Which to me is even more reason to not shit on that studio, most VAs are treated like garbage by the industry

  • The House Just Passed a Bill Punishing “Politically Motivated” Boycotts of Israel | USA

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  • Obviously bad but god I'm sick of bullshit headlines. Makes it sound like we're one Senate vote away from banning it entirely, get scared enough to click in, turns out it's actually just that federal contractors can't protest Israel now

  • some of you are like this.

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  • I see it like buying a movie ticket. For $10 I get a few hours, maybe a dozen, of fun with my friends for the next month or so. Not every game lasts forever or has to

  • It Turns Out, Steam’s Adult Content Ban Has Been Plotted For A Year And Is Spearheaded By One Of Project 2025’s Leading Voices

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  • I don't think that's what's going to actually happen. In the same way that Bluesky is replacing Twitter while Mastodon comparatively languishes, whatever decentralized way of distributing games we might hope for is just going to get beat out by Epic or whatever next launcher shows up, assuming these rules don't become reified as actual laws. Creators will still just be in a situation of making a game that plays by all these rules, or languishing in obscurity. And that's assuming Steam even loses its grip, I'm not holding my breath on that. I think it's much more likely they just keep dutifully enforcing these bans, and the vast majority of people simply don't know about it or don't really care unfortunately.

  • Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' (USA)

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  • They were trained the same way every model is trained.

    Literally the thing I'm saying is bad.

    Also, are you seriously advocating for copyrights here?

    I'm advocating for my artist friends to not die on the streets.

    People who think they can just boycott is out of existence are doing the same thing that libs do when they try to fix problems by voting.

    I'm not boycotting it out of existence, I'm arguing against its use because of the harms it causes. If your calculus is that different than mine, there's simply no point in continuing this discussion

  • Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates' (USA)

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  • Damn, I can run the models on my laptop? How were they trained? What benefits will they give me?

    I'm sorry for being snarky here but frankly speaking LLM output in general is neutral at best, as for what I'm an expert in I have little need of it, and for what I'm not I have little trust of it. And yes, while I can do the matrix math locally now, and get output even less vanishingly useful, it still embodies the fuel and treasure burned to generate it, and it embodies the theft of labor it is backed by. That matrix being handed to me to chew on the spare compute of my laptop - and let's sidestep the issue of that occurring at scale, as if a thousand people generating a gram of poison is somehow different than one generating a kilogram - was still generated via those expensive processes. It embodies it in the same way my coat embodies the labor and fuel used to make it and ship it to me but at least it keeps me warm.

    We can say all we want that the issue is the economic system - we would have no need of copyright, of being concerned about the theft of art and creativity, concerned about the breaking of labor, if only we simply didn't live under capitalism. And I agree! The issue is we do. And so I'm uninterested in hand waving those concerns in the name of some notion of "technological progress"