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Quoting: CaldathrasAGI = Artificial General Intelligence

And that term means something with real intelligence, which non of these AI models will ever be able to do (also not those in 10, 20 or 100 years, based on similar technology), because it is just a super complex deterministic program, where a specific input gives a specific output (if you control all input parameters, which are not exposed on cloud services, but on some local models). That companies speak about AGI is a pure marketing lie to make their bubble grow further.

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Anyone else noticing that countries and companies are loopholing authoritarianism through capitalist punishment hard lately? That has me terrified, because it means they found a means to get what they want through financial punishment rather than actual legislature.

Like, for example, the whole Visa and Mastercard situation. They're not banning NSFW content explicitly, they're just saying you can't earn money from it, which is close enough. Here, they're not explicitly banning freedom of speech outside of their own country, they're just fining Valve till the company does it themselves worldwide. Parents Decide act isn't banning linux, they're just making it untenable to comply with or face fines an open source community can't handle.

Makes me sick to my stomach, tbh. Especially because they're dressing it up in "fighting extremism" or "protecting children", people who aren't these authoritarians defend it themselves because they don't think of the collateral implications and context of what enforcing this kind of stuff actually entails. It will not be done with the scalpel it requires, it will be done with a zweihander.

I also see "yeah well just block [thing] in [place], problem solved" as incredibly short sighted, especially as a californian that would very much like to still be using linux after age verification laws we didn't even want got slipped in before we could even have a say about it, and I have to watch all these people go "yeah just ban linux from california then" - said before "Parents Decide" made it USA-wide

In for some scary times ahead.

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Quoting: NagezahnLegend of Keepers is currently free to keep.

Got it free from GOG a while back. Haven't played it yet.

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No demo? No thanks.

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one special exciting feature

Multiplayer?
The board game can be played solo (like the original videogame) or with a group, so I wonder if they'll implement something of a turn-based process for a multiplayer mode?

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For those that might not know (myself included),

AGI = Artificial General Intelligence

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All companies involved risk fines of up to AU$825,000 a day if they do not comply.

It seems to me that the natural response of these companies would be to block Australia from their services. The fines only matter if the companies consider the eSafety agency's concerns valid and want to do business in Australia. Otherwise, it's just lost tax revenue for the AU government.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe

Quoting: TevurJust another, vaguely related thing:

Yeserday, I got an update for Steam Runtime 4.0.
When was that released? What is the difference to Sniper? Who uses it?
Why is it not codenamed, yet? (vote for cannoneer)
Maybe for VR, Fex and the Frame...?

Each new Steam Runtime is based on a newer version of Debian. More info [here](https://gitlab.steamos.cloud/steamrt/steamrt/-/blob/steamrt/steamrt4/README.md).

Yep. Steam Linux Runtime 4 is based on Debian 13.2 Trixie. I used Runtime 4 to get OpenMW v0.50.0, which requires glibc 2.38, to run in Linux Mint 21.3. Otherwise, Mint 22 would have been the minimum requirement for v0.50.0.

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Quoting: GustyGhostIt will still be native Linux?

No one can say, as the article mentions it’s in the concept phase.

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This looks like a Warcraft 2 auto-battler and I think that's rad. I'm wishlisting it too.

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It will still be native Linux?

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Quoting: GoEsrDoesn't really need to be brought up to "current standards" whatever that means, ...

That's what I was thinking. They could do a completely new take on the game, like a fully 3d game instead of a 2.5D one, but I wouldn't class that as a remake.

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It's starting to get REALLY expensive to compete with the already established tech giants....

And this is still just populism. No-one wants to be seen as "weak on extremists" or be accused of not "wanting to protect the children" (both terms are drenched in deep double speak and dog whistling).

Everyone is trying to kick the can to someone else, it's a lot easier. Facebook wants the kick age validation to governments, politicians want to be seen kicking the can to companies.

Companies should take responsibility, and so should governments. This is neither taking responsibility, and is just a bunch of theater.

Sorry, old man ranting again.
(At least the coffee price is down somewhat!)

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Legend of Keepers is currently free to keep.

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Cartoony witches and cute familiars?

Colour me intrigued. 🐱

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how about targeting actual extremists in actual places where extremists dwell

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Doesn't really need to be brought up to "current standards" whatever that means, but there are a few QoL things that could be fixed up with a remake, especially with the excursions or whatever they're called. I've had buildings softlock more times than I care for.

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Quoting: Arehandoro

Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GerarderloperI do wonder how long until this extends to ALL software. Imagine having to have your face and id scanned to play a game or use an adobe app.

Could be worse. What if instead of your id, they wanted to scan your superego?

One would hope that only happens in Nietzsche applications.

You know, the Jung people aren't going to understand these jokes.

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Quoting: hardpenguinGood. It's time for gaming companies to take responsibility for spaces they own but opened to public.

You would ban an actively harmful and violent person out of your bar, football pitch, or book club, wouldn't you? This is the same.

Define actively harmful. I send my Turkish lady friend a joke about hitler and khm... sex toys, and it contained swastika. Or swastika MADE of sex toys. Which she loved and was laughing about. Am I actively harmful? Its just power grab by crazy people in head of state of AU. Nothing else. Anyone who is not opposing it is brain washed.

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Quoting: Mountain ManUsing AI to fix security holes in software is like using window screen to repair a hole in a bucket.

its not to fix, but to find, then an human being can confirm the issue is real (not an halucination) and fix it.

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I wish they weren't promoting and supporting fascists so I could appreciate them for their products.
https://gardinerbryant.com/the-omarchy-framework-thing/

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US, the country where they sell insulin for free and excessively accept all valid insurances claims, land where justice prevails and CEOs and elites are given living wages for bare necessities like fuel, food and housing, are now passing bills to protect child so fast one has to ask what other wonderful things their parlamentary excellence will bring fourth tomorrow. We should do our part too and encourage our representatives to pass a bill to make all smartphone cameras controllable by federal government and local, so that law enforcement can track down the baddies without back doors. Noone likes backdoors, certainly not us penguins, so lets remove those also. Thank you for your attention to this matter.

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Just more government control that ultimately will not yield any results. So glad I don't live in Australia.

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Comparing MS Paint to online platforms makes no sense. This isn't about how you use software, it's about how you regulate online platforms. Roblox, Minecraft and Steam are not "games" per se (unless you stick to single player Minecraft). Just thought you should be made aware of a very simple difference. Grooming, for example, has been widely reported on Roblox.
Also, you can use your printer to print whatever you like. You shouldn't be able to parade around promoting your hate speech and using your printed hate symbol in public. It's a serious debate, and sadly it seems a bunch of people commenting here don't even seem to understand the nature of the subject itself. I personally believe in banning n*z1s and groomers everywhere possible (by the same argument hardpenguin stated), but I don't know, that's my non-n*z1 non groomer perspective.

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Quoting: Cley_Faye

Quoting: WORMI can’t help but think a similar tool targeting Windows would be super janky and cost $20.

VoiceMeeter is actually free, although they do ask for money if you want. And it provides a lot of features that makes it a breeze to manage a fair amount of real and virtual input/output with multiple routing, in addition to a pretty good networked audio solution on top of it and various built-in effects.

It's actually the piece of software I miss the most from windows, although I just coded a pair of scripts that tweak all my audio devices as needed, now, so all of this is kinda moot to me now. And it also auto-toggle when my wireless corsair headset connects, which was impossible to do on windows, as far as I know.

Still, it's nice to have more good UI for audio management moving forward. Pulsemeeter is another project, but seems to move very slowly, and not everyone is comfortable with just piping scripts in `pw-cli`.

I've used VoiceMeeter 'Banana' on Windows earlier this year to route the output of a midi synth instrument & microphone to OBS, & then to video conferencing -- and yeah it was a breeze to set up, there was no added noticeable latency on the midi instrument, etc.

qpwgraph is very powerful on Linux, but doesn't cover all of the use cases that 'Banana' helps with, especially the easy routing of virtual io -- so I'm really excited to see this new program.

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Using AI to fix security holes in software is like using window screen to repair a hole in a bucket.

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Quoting: stormtuxNot exactly a revolutionary technology, ever heard about "static program analysis"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Static_program_analysis

Are they surprised that a new approach to the problem has uncovered new vulnerabilities? Who would have thought! 🤔

How many vulnerabilities have been systematically fixed by traditional code analyzers throughout the entire history of Firefox without all this marketing hype?

Yeah, these tools have been around for years (by which I mean "before the genAI hype cycle began late-2022"), but typically only affordable to large Enterprises. With their desperate need to overhype genAI, the AI companies are loss-leading the access to these models to drive adoption, so we're seeing lots of weird hype for things that have existed for years, but have been priced... well, if not fairly, then at least "normally", within the industry. So now smaller outfits like Mozilla have access to these capabilities, and we're seeing headlines like this.

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Quoting: neolith

Quoting: ScottCarammellon one hand, I love Framework and I REALLY want to get one of their laptops when I can afford to.

on the other hand. $1200. base price without RAM or storage. they're not exactly making it easy

My thoughts exactly... They produce nice hardware, but that laptop with the RAM and SSD I need easily puts it higher than what I payed for my computer. That's just not gonna happen, I cannot mindlessly throw away that kind of money.

yea.. struggling to see the point if you can get better desktop hardware, even with dGPU, for much lower price

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This afternoon I will paint a swastika in MS Paint. That’s right, Microsoft (MSFT) is far-right because it is enabling me to create far-right propaganda material.
Then I will print the swastika with my Hewlett-Packard InkJet. The 'P' in 'HP' stands for 'Phacist', a bonafide nazi-company.
I will conclude my already very productive afternoon by going to a mailbox in order to send the printed swastika to a friend. Australia Post serves as a formidable communication platform for extremist like my friend and me. Their post offices are veritable hubs for alt-right, extreme right and all other kind of facist minded people.
How is it possible that none of this 3 companies is investigated for enabling me from spreading my hateful speech?
Won’t someone think of the children?!

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Quoting: hardpenguinYou would ban an actively harmful and violent person out of your bar, football pitch, or book club, wouldn't you? This is the same.

I don't think it is the same. This is akin to trying to get Olympia to make sure their typewriters are not used to write an extremist manifesto - which is arguably also a lot harder to do than kicking an unwanted person out of a bar.
Any means of communication can be used to communicate bad things.

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