We know for a fact that animals think and feel, even if not on our level, and we still have no qualms about eating them.

Who’s ‘we’ here, because I have plenty of qualms with eating animals.

This isn’t my best game yet—it’s not as fun to play as Battle Drones—but it represents the kind of game I want more of: weird, fun, uniquely personal—something that wouldn’t have been built in the before-times.

This is about the cosy farming game btw. The ‘uniquely personal’ is the fact you grow pumpkins and the author grew up in a place that grew pumpkins. Imagine not engaging with the already oversaturated farming sim genre because it’s not enough of a facsimile of your childhood. It’s all just so anti-art.

France’s National Assembly has voted in favour of a new “internet tax” that would charge companies for every gigabyte of data they send to users in France.

Unrelated, but isn’t the response to this just going to be capping video to France at 480p? And what about things like game distribution?

So I dug up the merge request and it seems to be about this unmerged Wayland protocol. I’ve only skimmed all this, but from what I can tell the difference is this protocol allows windows to declare themselves always on top, so you won’t need things like this in future.

Did KDE not have this before?

File explorer should be way bigger.

Why does everyone who starts using AI always devolve into posting like this?

Honestly a lot of these are weird. Like there are definitely more famous French paintings than Impression, Sunrise.

True, true, mustn’t pigeonhole them. You’ve almost got to respect the effort it takes to make godless Calvinism from first principles.

I hate living in the timeline where the options of Harry Potter sex cultists matter.

She’s updated the comment now to say ‘a lot of us outright ban’, which is more accurate.

Just a side note, GNOME Circle and Extensions are two different things (but both do ban AI projects). Circle is a way for GNOME to say a third party app is good, while Extensions are like browser extensions but for the DE.

That’s a very uncharitable view of a mod locking down a heated discussion because they don’t want to deal with it anymore. There’s also KDE devs in that thread who are anti-AI, so I don’t know why you’re concluding they’ve ‘made up their mind’.

They’re not EU based, but libro.fm is good for DRM-free audiobooks.

Likewise, it’s possible that it may be able to generate AI child porn without any actual child porn in its training dataset, but if it knows what children look like and what nudity looks like, then it could figure out what nude children look like.

This is true and it’s what happened to OpenAI, there’s a section in Karen Hao’s Empire of AI about it. Remember, these companies (under) paid Kenyan workers and gave them PTSD to make sure CSAM and other undesirable content wasn’t in their training set.

Lol, when did I disagree with your reasoning? At most we disagree on the meaning of ‘local model’. Have a nice rest of your night, sister.

I bet you don’t own or like an absolute gob of them but it doesn’t change their usefulness

I was commenting based on my experience with this stuff, it was a lot of work to set up and the results I got were bad. I never even contended that it could be useful (but I’m reading selectively), I said you that you need decent hardware for it to be useable. I have an RX 6800 XT and 32GB of RAM and it was really slow, even with recommended models.

Jfc why even comment if you’re gonna be so dumb and selective with your reading?

I tried to engage in good faith, and you proceeded to call me an idiot, sorry I reacted poorly to you being rude. You get what you put in.

Just because you don’t understand a tool or how to properly use it does not mean someone else doesn’t.

You brought up the Kimi model up in a conversation about local models being viable, something that requires 8 Nvidia GB300s as a prerequisite. And I’m sorry I don’t follow you’re little hobby close enough for you, I did try it and it sucked.

If you want something useable you need a decent amount of RAM/VRAM and a modern GPU, things that aren’t exactly accessible these days. That Kimi model is apparently half a terabyte in size and requires 100s of GB of VRAM, so I don’t know why you’re saying it’s a ‘local’ model.

Too bad it’s made by someone who promotes ‘great replacement’ theory and stands with fascists.