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Quoting: kmturleyIt's sad to say this, but you will need a 100% human badge for the site.

Also sad to say that I genuinely need this to be a thing these days.

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Sounds like 100% marketing bullshit to me ... There's been native Linux support from Unity for at least 12 years now (we've been shipping our Unity based game natively to Linux since back then without any major (not homemade, like shader fuckups) issues. Including Steamworks and whatever other "plugins" we needed. And - as that was mentioned - 100% modding support parity to the Windows build, including code modding, both by adding new code as well as patching existing through Harmony(X).

While I could see them improving the *Linux* target in general (like was mentioned the Vulkan renderer still isn't perfect, at least in 2022.3, as it's way more dependent on the HW/SW combination of the system than both the GLCore and DirectX renderers). But why should we ever have to make different builds for e.g. "Steam Machine" vs "Linux"?

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I used it a couple years ago to install Ubisoft Launcher, but my gosh it's clunky AF, and making it "sloppier" isn't the right path.

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Quoting: Arten

Quoting: CaldathrasThe misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

Spell checking alone isn’t enough. As a Czech speaker, I find that having an LLM correct Czech works much better. Czech is a stupidly complicated language with many illogical exceptions, so we at least need the ability to guess the context for a correct correction. Spell‑checkers were terrible before LLMs.
The same goes for English when you can’t formulate a sentence correctly. My English is terrible, so using an LLM to correct it is very useful. Can a spell checker do that for me?

There's nothing wrong by using AI as a TOOL! But you woulnd't like to be replaced entirely by it and let it post on this site in your behalf... I guess.

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Humans (and Penguins) are the only species allowed here. 😁

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Quoting: scaine"I'm doing a thing people hate, so instead of not doing that, I'll continue to do it, but hide it better"

That's a bold position to take in any project, let alone a FOSS project. And just because he can use it in non-slop manner (maybe? hopefully?) it doesn't absolve him of the ethical concerns many of us have about genAI.

There are no ethical issues worth our concern. We'll carry on, not caring about your feelings.

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Quoting: CaldathrasThe misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

Spell checking alone isn’t enough. As a Czech speaker, I find that having an LLM correct Czech works much better. Czech is a stupidly complicated language with many illogical exceptions, so we at least need the ability to guess the context for a correct correction. Spell‑checkers were terrible before LLMs.
The same goes for English when you can’t formulate a sentence correctly. My English is terrible, so using an LLM to correct it is very useful. Can a spell checker do that for me?

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I don't give a fuck. Just as long as it works.

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It's still Unity... the next bait & switch is coming.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Liam DaweOpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

That's what I thought. This definitely smells of Atari going "make people buy our game to play yours, or we'll DMCA you off of Steam and GOG".

Oh, I don't know about that. It's certainly plausible but not the only explanation. The OpenTTD team may have chosen to do so preemptively to avoid any potential complaint from Atari. Another possibility is that Steam & GOG may have asked them to do so, as well. The norm with these open-source executible projects (and total overhaul mod bundles) has been to offer them only to those that own the original game on the same store. This change puts OpenTTD in line with that approach.

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The misnomer "AI" is just a marketing label used to inaccurately promote LLM. In my opinion, when the backlash began against LLMs and their objectionable social, legal, economical and environmental impacts, it was convenient for the spin doctors to confuse the issue by throwing translation, grammar checking, spell checking and other older technologies that pre-date LLMs under the same label. How could we object to these uses of "AI"? We don't. We object to LLMs and how they are being promoted and presently utilized. Personally, I also object to the label "AI" because LLMs are any but intelligent.

My two cents.

Thanks, Liam, for your determined stance.

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I just stopped reading most sites. If the article, reads like it's written by an eighth grader, I just stop reading and never go back to that site again. Same with YouTube. On YouTube, I don't allow a history to be kept. That means there are zero suggestions. The only way I have videos to watch, is through people I follow or searches. If you are a real person, do everything you can to demonstrate you are not AI.

Maybe we should have an AI Tracker list. Up till now, I've just been removing them from my favorites and forgetting about them. Maybe I should have been adding them to my pihole block list.

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Quoting: Salvatos

Quoting: CaldathrasYou are assuming that most people even care or know what operating system is on the device.

You’re putting words in my mouth. What I’m assuming is that if their devices annoy them, they will complain to vendors, and the vendors will lobby against the law when the customer service it requires or the bad press it generates become too much of a burden/liability.

Not at all, you did write

Quoting: SalvatosLinux runs virtually everything that's not a PC.

I simply pointed out the most people are not going to care about the underlying operating system on those devices. The discussion, after all, was that Linux and Linux alone would inspire a voter uprising.

I'm not saying that a voter uprising won't happen, just that if it does, it won't be Linux that inspires it. They won't care about the operating system, just the inconvenience the law is creating in their lives.

I can't see complaints to vendors initiating such political change. If the vendors had that much influence, the bill never would have been tabled in the first place. I don't think the vendors will care -- such laws are rarely retroactive.

Myself, based on the acceptance of the Microsoft Account requirement for Win11 and everything else the Tech Giants impose on them, I'm guessing that the California voters will just roll over and accept it. I could be wrong.

Do voters in California have the ability to initiate a mandatory referendum, that, if successful, the politicians are required to implement?

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Quoting: scaine"I'm doing a thing people hate, so instead of not doing that, I'll continue to do it, but hide it better"

That's a bold position to take in any project, let alone a FOSS project. And just because he can use it in non-slop manner (maybe? hopefully?) it doesn't absolve him of the ethical concerns many of us have about genAI.

If you don't trust AI generated code is just because, maybe, you put too much trust into humans and that is dangerous, as the very opposite.
As for the ethical matter, do you think it poses an ethical issue to write an official document using a text editor, instead of doing it by your hand?
This is the same case, except the "co-authored by AI" sign thing which is very stupid, indeed, and without any legal basis.

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Quoting: CaldathrasYou are assuming that most people even care or know what operating system is on the device.

You’re putting words in my mouth. What I’m assuming is that if their devices annoy them, they will complain to vendors, and the vendors will lobby against the law when the customer service it requires or the bad press it generates become too much of a burden/liability.

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I played the game as a demo about a year ago, and I like it. I've been biding my time, waiting for it to be reduced in price, maybe 50%+ ideally 75%+ discount. Although an unrealistic viewpoint, I wish developer teams would *move on* to new projects rather than keep adding extra 'value' onto older titles. DLC additions like this keep the asking price of the title high which discourages me to ever buy it.

Yes, I am a proper bargain seeker. It is almost unheard of for me to pay anywhere near full price for a title.

In a similar vein, rather than the Facepunch developers keep on changing their RUST game, adding more and more content, completely altering the way it plays - They could have built a brand new game from scratch, survival, base building, in a different setting (Space, Fantasy, Cyberpunk).

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Quoting: mr-victory

Quoting: ArehandoroThe fear is tangible.

And fear is not good for working.

The fear of what? Merging so much code with unknown functionality and/or side effects?

That too, of course, but mainly fear of being let go. If AI writes the code, and AI reviews it... what are we supposed to do?

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Quoting: ArehandoroThe fear is tangible.

And fear is not good for working.

The fear of what? Merging so much code with unknown functionality and/or side effects?

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Quoting: tuubiThe only way I've used LLMs professionally is to help with the translation of documents I've written, and that's only due to time pressure. It helped less than you might think, seeing as we're talking about compliance and policy documents, which means the language needs to be precise and exact. Took a lot of manual comparison and corrections, but it was still a bit quicker than doing it all line by line.

I think that is the key point. Most people have tight deadlines and end up using it, myself included, even if they hate it and are against it.

In my team, a mix of software engineers, architects, data engineers, etc, we're now expected to use Claude Code, and from creating code and architecture design now the workload has shifted to reviewing PRs... and only last week the company started playing with AI PR reviews too because they became the bottleneck, cause people can't properly review so much slop all the time. The fear is tangible.

And fear is not good for working.

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Quoting: Arten

• AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.

This is the correct take, as long as "responsibly" and "reasonable" are well defined, and cover issues beyond immediate utility, including legal, societal and environmental ramifications. Not just whether you get useful results out of it.

The only way I've used LLMs professionally is to help with the translation of documents I've written, and that's only due to time pressure. It helped less than you might think, seeing as we're talking about compliance and policy documents, which means the language needs to be precise and exact. Took a lot of manual comparison and corrections, but it was still a bit quicker than doing it all line by line.

Mostly LLMs have been a huge pain in my backside and a source of tons of extra busywork, being the guy responsible for information security in our organisation. I keep having to preach to everyone from the C-suite down to individual developers that laws do in fact limit what we can do when it comes to LLMs, and risks need to be assessed and results measured just like in everything else we do. We've got EU wide legislation like the EU AI ACT, NIS2 and obviously the GDPR forcing us to be responsible with our customers' data and transparent about our AI use. (And that's a good thing for every single one of us, even if that might mean a few less euros going to the pockets of shareholders.)

And non-professionally, I don't see any use for LLMs. I enjoy being creative, be it photography, coding or doodling something silly with my wife's Cintiq, and all of these would be less fun if the machine did the work for me. Results are less important than the process. Might as well just let an LLM play my games and read my novels for me.

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Quoting: kmturleyIt's sad to say this, but you will need a 100% human badge for the site.

The idea is so good that I was sure somebody has made them already.

Here you go: https://www.aimeecozza.com/human-made/

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Thank you for making this site my #1 bookmark on everything! The work put in daily is nothing short of incredible.

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It's sad to say this, but you will need a 100% human badge for the site.

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Quoting: KandarihuI don't think that this is the right approach. As much as I want Linux to grow as a platform, this gives us an unfair advantage. The better choice will be to scrap/abolish such legislation entirely.

I disagree. First off, Linux desktop market share is small enough that anything to give it an advantage is a good thing. And second, if this kind of legislation does end up favoring FOSS, then the answer is simple. Microsoft, Apple and all the other proprietary goons should just make all their stuff FOSS too. If the legislation is stacked against proprietary, then stop being proprietary.

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The Attorney General of New York is not a hero, and does not get a free pass to do whatever she wants just because she opposes He Who Shall Not Be Named. Just because my country loves to make everything partisan does not mean I have to play along and clap to the song and dance of either party.

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I used Lutris back in 2020 when I first switched to Linux because it was recommended, but I haven't used it since. I don't think it's very good, and I find Heroic to be much better for my GOG games.

Now, with that out of the way, I don't object to the Lutris developer using AI. I object to him trying to hide it rather than be upfront, and I also find him hypocritical. He criticizes Google, OpenAI and Meta...while using Anthropic's Claude. As far as I'm concerned, Anthropic is no better than any other "AI Company".

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From my point of view, there are three stances toward AI. Two of them are unhelpful. One is reasonable.

• AI is evil and must be avoided in all cases. This is a bad stance.
• AI is just a tool, and when used responsibly it is reasonable to employ it. I don’t think generating an entire article with AI is a good idea, but using it for spell‑checking? If it can catch incorrect wording, that’s a worthwhile use.
• Throw AI at anything. This is also a bad stance.

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The gameplay was haphazard, the controls horrible, hand-holding nonexistent. But the graphics and the sound were great. I loved it.

Never played it for long, because it was just too random. But I still know (and can probably play) the (absolutely great) title melody.

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Quoting: hardpenguinStop, stop, we went sufficiently back 😄

We're all waiting for EGAVK.

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