This argument fundamentally misunderstands AI and copyright.

Straight dumps of AI output can’t be copyrighted, but as soon as it’s modified by a human in nontrivial ways, it’s copyrightable again. If open source projects are using straight dumps of AI output without modifications, then the project will be irrelevant before copyright matters, lol.

It’s great for coding things that you don’t care if it gets it wrong, though. Like, I vibe coded a JavaScript injection to add a client-side accessibility feature to a website running a fairly complex tech stack. I don’t know JavaScript, but I know how to code, and I know enough HTML and CSS to do simple things.

It failed quite a few times, but each time I just needed to refresh the page for a clean slate, tell the LLM how it fucked up, and try again. In about an hour, I had a functional script I could inject in the site to bolt on a new feature.

I was reading the code along the way, so I know what it’s doing for the most part (not some of the JavaScript things, like why there are extra brackets in places I wouldn’t expect, but whatever.) It wasn’t doing anything dangerous.

Not mission critical. A small block of code to do one simple thing. There was no real downside or cost of failure, aside from wasted time. And it’s small enough that it’s easy to understand from scratch; it’ll be fairly easy to update and maintain.

On the other hand, it sounds like Microslop and NVidia (and many others) are using AI slop in complex, mission-critical projects. I’d be nervous for their future, if I cared about them.

This will lead to lower prices, right?

/s

(In case you didn’t know, no, it won’t. The Strategic Maple Syrup Reserve is run by the maple syrup cartel to keep prices artificially inflated.)

Not if you’re running an Arch-based distro, like CachyOS. Between CachyOS’s Hello app and Octopi, it just works.

Granted, I do use the terminal, but that’s because I’m a tinkerer and I want to do unusual things, not just web + games + office suite. For most users, they never need to see the terminal, aside from hitting “q” and “y” when they install or update things a few times.

OctoPi is included by default for a GUI app, iirc.

Brittleness didn’t get talked about enough. I couldn’t figure out why my fundament was breaking on retraction to my Creality Hi CFS over and over again. It was driving me nuts. The prints all came out looking great, so I thought I wasn’t having humidity issues and that there was a mechanical problem somewhere. Took the whole damn thing apart to clean and check that everything was tightened to correctly. Multiple times.

I just needed a filament dryer.

I had no idea that filament snapping on retraction could be caused by wet filament, and I read about 3D printing a lot more than most. Almost all threads about wet filament are about print quality, and people rarely mention brittleness. Conversely, in threads about filament jams/errors, most comments focus on the mechanical parts (tension, loose screws, debris in the gears, temps, etc.) and rarely mention wet, brittle filament as a possible cause.

If you’re reading this and don’t have one (or another method for it), get a filament dryer. I recommend the Creality one when it goes on sale as it’s one of the cheapest options that can hit the high temps needed for some filaments and that can also be used as a dry box you can print from. My only gripe is needing to prop the lid open when it’s drying to release the humidity. It’s silly that it can’t dry filament properly without the door cracked open.

In recent history, it’s every 20 versions, iirc: 5.19, 6.0, … , 6.19, 7.0

I’m not a kernel developer, but it does seem weird to remove the legacy function in the same patch as the replacement function is shipped.

That said, isn’t it fairly easy to install a modified kernel? Or is that hard on Ubuntu for some reason? I suppose it’s to do with official support cycles and patches, so that’s only really a viable fix if the distro manages to kernel options, to ensure timelines with security patches and commercial support.

100% agree. Israel has been committing war crimes, and the West (broadly) is thereby complicit. By continuing to support Israel’s genocide for 2½ years, Western democracies have eroded international law to the point of uselessness.

The Geneva conventions are dead in the water, and good luck to anyone who is ever in a war zone in the 21st century. The destruction of civilian infrastructure and disregard for civilian life is now, de facto, acceptable.

That’s not really how it works.

Interest rates get low during recessions by deliberate choice from central banks. They reduce interest rates directly to stimulate economic activity. This works because the cost of longer-term investment in growth is, largely, based on interest rates.

You’re slightly right that holding wealth increases money supply, but only indirectly, and only to a certain extent. Most importantly, the amount of money held in banks and investments isn’t affected much by market cycles—the amount saved changes dramatically, but that’s a small percentage of total wealth holdings, so it doesn’t matter much in the short term.

The bigger factor for increasing financial activity is something called monetary velocity, which is a measure of how many times the same dollar is spent per year. Like, you buy something from a store, they pay their employees with that dollar, the employee pays their rent, then the landlord… etc. Monetary velocity can change suddenly in a recession, so it has a far bigger impact.

If you’re interested in this, I’d suggest taking an introductory macroeconomics course. There are lots of free MOOC course options for this, but it’ll take 50-200 hours to complete one of them, likely, depending on your academic background and academic skills.

I appreciate that the author suggests that Google take on maintenance of the Drive integration. I’d rather volunteers work on supporting open platforms and protocols, which seems to be what they’re doing.

Which reminds me: I need to get a Syncthing server set up.

What the AI slop did I just read? That wasn’t even edited.

The infill selections for comparison don’t make a lick of sense, and one of the tables doesn’t even have content that matches its introduction.

What a waste of time.

Edit: 57 upvotes? What the hell. Does nobody read the article?

The last sentence is kinda core to why parent poster’s comment isn’t really helpful.

But here we are talking about it, so more evidence that engagement hacking works, I guess?

The article mentions that there are performance penalties to running hypervisor cracks in a VM with GPU passthrough, but if you’re dual-booting barebones Arch (just enough to get a VM running), is there really a significant performance loss?

And once you have that set up on a separate boot, then it should be safe and fairly efficient to set up a bunch of these hypervisor cracks, I’d expect.

I don’t care enough or have time to tinker with this myself, but that sounds like a more fun project than actually playing one of these AAA games, lol.

That’s the cool thing: there’s plenty of wealth to cover all of that, it’s just currently being hoarded by the ultra wealthy.

There’s no reason that people in Canada should face food insecurity. Basic nutrition is a human right, necessary for survival.

The PC party in charge right now is better than the Reform Party they beat to gain power, but neither of those parties have any plans to help 90% of Canadians with meaningful reforms to income and business tax.

For example, the “Liberals” (PC party, in all but name) axed their legislation to a modest increase on capital gains tax advice $10K/year. You know who’s earning over $10K/year in non-tax-deferred investment accounts? Only the 1%.

Bring back 70% marginal income tax rates for income in 7 figures and no special status for capital gains (except for being able to subtract capital losses at par). That alone would pay for basic life necessities for every Canadian who can’t afford to live.

Which is why it should be illegal, but enforcement should be light.

It’s ridiculous to require websites to validate users ages. That’s either a massive security vulnerability waiting to be exploited, or pointlessly easy to bypass.

Instead, we should treat it like “bad parenting” and treated like a form of neglect, with social workers helping parents learn about the harms of social media.

Then, we don’t lose our civil liberties and human rights while still “protecting the kids”. Let’s put the millions of dollars that the age verification middleware was going to charge and put that money towards social workers and mental health counsellors, eh?

But, most of all, we need to make addictive patterns* themselves illegal, and also the dark patterns that trick users into making choices that benefit the platform over their own interests.

* Although I worry that they might make videogames that depend on random chance illegal, too. Loot collection RPGs are only fun because of the random chance at loot, but I worry they’ll be caught by “gatcha/loot box regulations” if the laws are written by clueless politicians.

Sounds like Windows Search Indexer. I just changed the settings in my Win 11 VM to only index the Start menu, but I’m also an old school folder user, so I never use the Windows menu to find files anyway.

Before the change, my VM was arbitrarily locking up, unable to do just about anything. It’s been a lot smoother since the change.

Except for when sandboxing is better, like for server-type things that need to “just work” and won’t directly interface with anything else on the system.

Like, a WiFi mesh network controller has no need to access anything on the system at all and users will only interact with it by a web portal. Docker (or an alternative) is perfect for that.

The article highlights how the UK is moving to ban infinite scrolling access autoplay videos. So, thankfully, those changes are coming in at least some jurisdictions.

That said, the article also helpfully points out that the Republican administration has stuffed their science & tech advisory panel with Meta and Google execs, so I’m doubtful that the US will regulate anything reasonable.

I’d like a ban in effect for children below 16, but enforcement should be a misdemeanor on the parent. It should be a social worker coming to discuss with the parents the known harms of the platforms and let them get away with a warning, but that there will be fines if this damaging behaviour continues with an automatic 1-year (or whatever) follow-up. Basically, treat it the way it’s treated if parents are giving cigarettes to their children.

It’s coming, but it takes time. Business revenue is largely based on existing products, procedures, brand, contracts/business relationships, etc. It will take time for AI slop to reduce the quality of their offerings to the point that they’re no longer competitive.

In the case of AA/AAA games, AI hasn’t been around long enough to get a full production cycle using it. We’re already seeing AI slop in the indie games space, but it’s not really making waves because most indie games never do well anyway. As far as I know, there isn’t a single “very successful” game released with heavy AI use.

I know someone who works for one of the huge game companies (on the “live service” side) and he’s seeing it. (You’ve heard of them.) But he’s needing to walk a fine line with his team: he can’t reprimand them for using AI to make the slop he’s sent to review, because upper management is pushing for more AI use, but he’s getting plans & proposals that don’t make a lick of sense. On the surface level, they read fine, but on a deeper read, you realize the solutions don’t line up with the included examples, and don’t make sense in the context of their existing tech stack. It sounds really good, but it’s just garbage.

It’s only a matter of time before slop like that ends up costing them, likely in both product delays and worse performance and stability. Hopefully, they don’t have slop in their database/server security, as that will hurt their users not just the company going to shit.

The future is looking rocky for high-budget games. I’m lucky I almost exclusively prefer and play smaller indie games.