I tend to think that the pro AI people are of a younger generation, because if they were closer to Gen X, they’d be feeling betrayed rather than excited.

Gen X and Millenials built the internet. We populated it with our forums, our blogs, our facbook profiles. We were the first ones sharing our photos, our very lives, with all of our friends and family. We created what it would become and we trusted that it was a community resource. Then along comes a couple of billionaires, they suck up everything that you have built and then have the balls to charge you an entry fee!

It’s like if you and your neighbourhood all got together and decided to build a playground for your kids, and when it’s done, some asshole asks the city for the right to the land and puts a toll booth up.

More than any other concern, THAT betrayal is what pisses me off the most. How fucking dare they say that I have to pay to access a system that was built on community content. They can fuck themselves sideways with a rusty sledge hammer.

Using AI to double check your code is very different from using AI to replace your skilled creative talent on a motion picture. It’s not even an accurate comparison… GL isn’t talking about coding, he’s talking about visual effects, writers, even actors…all of whom who’s careers are at risk.

You want to use AI to make sure you didn’t miss a semicolon at the end of a line, great…knock yourself out. But that has literally nothing in common with what Lucas is blathering about here.

Of course he did. He loves updating his classics every time some “new technology” comes along to let his freak-flag fly.

We’ll be seeing a re-re-re-re-release of A New Hope shortly where he uses an AI generated Boba Fett and Solo giving them a scene or two to develop a backstory.

100%. I’ve been saying it for years that at the end of the day, the only punishment that actually works is the public shaming.

Bring back the public perp walks. March the criminal through the streets with a big banner announcing their crime, and then leave them them in a public cell in the middle of town for a few days with their name on it, their crime, and no privacy so that people can come and see them.

A few days of that will do more to cure recidivism than any jail you can name.

And they should be.

I remember not liking it nearly as much

Same here. I know that 9 gets a LOT of love, but I’ve just never gotten it. Didn’t hate it. Didn’t love it.

I wouldn’t say it got so much wrong.

Everything except the overpowered draw mechanic was pretty amazing, in my opinion. And that could be countered by just choosing not to cheese it.

Easily my favourite of the PSX era trio (although 7 is of course classic)

Does the cat use Arch, BTW?

Weren’t expecting what?

Choice?…A succulent collection of choice?

What’s to stop them from just going a generation back and using DDR4 instead of DDR5.

There is no one who can convince me that it makes any noticeable difference anyway. When I was putting together a new/used desktop I specifically looked for DDR4 for precisely that reason and I would take any bet that a performance hit would be measured in numbers too small for any user to even notice.

Constantly needing newer hardware with only fractional improvements is the biggest scam in tech. They took their lesson from Apple and Samsung.

• cunilingus condom.

• analingous armour

• tipping the velvet behind a shower curtain.

• bringing a rain-coat for the man in the boat.

oxygen and air’s revival

You need to keep in mind that we are part of a niche community (Fediverse), where most of the people (I’m betting) run linux and are pretty old-school in their FOSS and design mentalities. Any excitement that exists here is going to be skewed by confirmation bias in a network where everyone basically thinks the same.

Speak for yourself.

Technically there is no such thing as a “completely secure system”

What Linux offers is the fact that by nature of being FOSS, there are millions of eyes on source code at any one time, and so potential exploits can usually be spotted and mitigated faster than waiting for the software maker to fix their own shit. And the fact that, in most cases with Windows, the call is coming from inside the house, so-to-speak; It’s the operating system itself that is malicious and anti-user.

To put it simply: Yes…linux can be attacked just like windows. But we live in an open-concept house with no hidden corners, and we’ve got a pretty great neighbourhood watch thing going on. Versus Windows users who live a house filled with cameras and alarms, surrounded by a giant wall that they can’t see over, and they have to rely on the security company to do anything about the burglar trying to get in.

I’ll take my chances with the community approach every time.

Nobody ever says the AUR is safe. In fact they say specifically that it’s not; for exactly the reasons you mention.

That’s why it’s the Arch USER Repository. You take your fate in your own hands when you choose to use it.

As for your comment about using a distro that has everything in the main repo? How so? Every flavour has software that isn’t included in the main repos. For Arch based systems, that means either the AUR or Flatpaks. For Debian based systems, that means adding new repos to your sources, which is exactly as unsafe as the AUR in most cases, or using Flatpaks.

If you’ve ever added a repo on Ubuntu, than you’ve essentially used their version of an AUR. The end result is no different.

That’s quite likely it. Something almost impossible to notice on a conscious level.

Yeah. I don’t know how to describe it. It’s ineffable in that respect. Things like scrolling, etc… just feel a touch off in ways that are difficult to put words to. Not enough to be consciously noticeable; just enough to creep out the lizard-part of your brain that just knows when something doesn’t feel right.

Maybe it’s the subliminal messages Google has been injecting over the years to make you avoid Firefox/non-chromium browsers.

Well that would certainly explain my irrational fear of foxes.

What’s to stop the developers of a Chromium fork like Cromite from mainting MV2 compatibility themselves?

Cromite’s only flaw (IMO) is that it based it’s built in adblocker on AdBlock instead of Ublock.

I’ve tried moving to Firefox and I don’t know, it just feels ugh to me. (scientific critique, I know…). It’s just something I can’t put my finger on; Firefox just doesn’t feel performative. whether that’s a frame-buffer animation thing, or icon shadows, or something else entirely, it just feels off to me in some uncally valley sort of way.