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- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 14 hours ago:
We’re in the “grow a locked-in user base” part of their rollout.
An attempt at that. It will be partially successful but with AI accelerators coming to more and more consumer hardware, the hurdles of self-hosting get lower and lower.
I have no clue how to set up an LLM server but installing github.com/Acly/krita-ai-tools is easily done with a few mouse clicks. The Krita plugin handles all the background tasks.
- Comment on Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user. 15 hours ago:
However, people don’t really like ai.
Whether they like it or not, doesn’t really matter. It’s being used everywhere.
The results aren’t great
Depends. To get information: No. To write big software: No. To write an Excel macro or a browser bookmarklet: Yes.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 15 hours ago:
I’m not sure that an extension would have the necessary access to manipulate the browser like that.
I don’t know if they still do but they used to have. That, however, is something to discuss with the genius decision makers at Mozilla who decide to break extension APIs every couple of years. Firefox on Android still hasn’t recovered from last time.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 day ago:
You only disable the chat. Overall setting seems to be
browser.ml.enable. - Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 1 day ago:
I like the tab groups.
And nobody should stop you installing an extension that provides tab groups. I agree with the other commentator that some features can be left to extensions and don’t need to be part of the core web browser, though.
- Comment on Heretic + Hexen re-release - Launch Trailer | Nightdive Studios 2 days ago:
What does it do in doom?
- K: Keys
- F: Firearms
- A: Ammunition
or Keys, Full Ammo.
IDFA is the same but without the keys, so you still get to go keyhunting.
- DF Retro EX: Heretic + Hexen Review - Fantasy FPS Classics Receive Exceptional Remasters!www.youtube.com ↗Submitted 2 days ago to retrogaming@lemmy.world | 1 comment
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- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
So not setting up a Discord in the first place is not an option because some people are so desperate to get feedback even though they are annoyed by feedback?
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Who forces him to respond to such messages on Discord? He can just not engage with people of whom he thinks are idiots.
If he doesn’t want to engage with users at all, maybe not set up a Discord in the first place.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Normal people would just invite distribution packagers to develop fixes upstream.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
To write a script that checks out upstream code and compiles it locally is not a distribution by a 3rd party. The code comes directly from Stenzek. That’s why he puts the Arch check there.
If that script happens to do a search and replace of archlinux with some random jibberish (so the check is no longer for archlinux), that’s still not a distribution of modified code because all code modifications happen locally.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
AUR can. It’s just locally checking out the code from git and compiling it locally as well. I’m not a pro AUR maintainer but I’m not aware of a single AUR entry that ships software source code directly from AUR.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
AFAIK they did.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
CC4.0 licenses work for code. The language was made generic and no longer talks about performing music on stage and such.
Better to use CC NC for non commercial works than to homebrew your own text. CC BY and CC BY SA are GPLv3 compatible.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
True but there is a workaround: a patchset to a specific upstream git commit and local compilation. Pretty much what PKGBUILD already does. LAME was developed this way for years. It was a patchset to reference source code under a nonfree license.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
“What? People are doing things with my Apache project I don’t like!?”
Well, at least for the GPL www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-faq.html exists, so there is no excuse because of incomprehensible legalese.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Is there a specific interaction that made them angry?
Stenzek’s feeling got hurt when DuckStation was still proper open source software and people used the software fully in accordance with its license, i.e. they distributed modifications and not all permitted modifications were the most polished ones, so he felt that they give his name a bad reputation. Again: Stenzek released DuckStation under a license that explicitly allows this.
So he rage quit open source and released new DuckStation versions under a very restrictive “source available to look but not touch” license that’s so insanely restrictive, Linux distributions are not allowed to make their own packages. So they ship the old version that works just fine because PlayStation 1 emulation was figured out very long ago. Stenzek feels that they should not ship the old version (which they are fully entitled to) and instead make a special exception for his software alone to point their users to DuckStation’s website where instead of acquiring the emulator from their package manager (or “app store” in case you’re not familiar with that term), Linux users should take extra steps to manually download and install DuckStation.
And since users may not know about this rift, they may post bug reports and feature ideas to Stenzek, even though these bugs may have been long fixed by non-open source DuckStation.
Basically: Stenzek did not read the license he picked for his software and then got mad when people made use of provisions explicitly allowed by the license.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Ha! Yeah ok. And looks like its maintained.
It is but it’s also just a libretro plugin without any stand-alone GUI. That said, with the great strides projects like ES-DE brought in terms of usability atop of standard components make stand-alone GUIs more and more unnecessary.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Yeah im sure someone will fork and it will be named chickensation or whatever. Then we will move on.
- Comment on Nintendo refuses to repair water damaged Switch 2 console 3 weeks ago:
Isn’t this common? From what I know water damage isn’t covered under warranty by anyone.
It sounds like the water indicator stickers did not change color. But they said that water can still get in / water damage can occur regardless.
I also asked for a picture and they flatly refused that they don’t do that. – www.reddit.com/r/consolerepair/…/n1y1kga/
- Comment on Republican Pride 5 weeks ago:
Russia Day is June 12th, though.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 5 weeks ago:
No, I meant that revolting against a government without an election system change is replacing one almost dictatorship with another.
- Comment on Happy No-more-USA Day 5 weeks ago:
First past the post voting system isn’t democratic and can easily be corrupted by Gerrymandering.
- Comment on spicy one 1 month ago:
Deoccupied Ukraine. Very good.
- Comment on Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app 1 month ago:
Telegram isn’t banned in Ukraine. Can’t be that bad.
- Comment on MAGA, please stand by until our grand TACO provides you with how to feel 1 month ago:
WW3 fear mongering is playing into the hands of weak aggressors.
Neither Iran nor Russia nor both at once have the capability to ignite WW3.
- Comment on Russia prepares to get rid of WhatsApp and possibly Telegram: Parliament passed a law pertaining to a national messaging app 1 month ago:
Pavel Durov had to flee Russia after resisting Putin’s influence on VK. That’s public information known to everyone who cares to spend a minute reading his Wikipedia article.
- Comment on Diablo 2 on Linux 1 month ago:
- Comment on Rumour: Google intends to discontinue the Android Open Source Project – OSnews 1 month ago:
the EU needs a smartphone brand like…yesterday
Germans, get cooking!