CoyoteFacts

“Internships tackling climate issues” yeah just type that into the climate-destroying search box please.

If you want a role tackling climate issues you’re going to make a much bigger dent by being self-employed and doing some on-site work at those noisy new buildings.

I have always skipped over this game but I’m definitely going to commit and check it out now.

In the meantime, as another rodent game I highly recommend Small Saga. About 8 hours long, story-focused, charming, and constantly hilarious.

It’s worth mentioning that this sort of thinking gets really close to “there are good ones and bad ones” in some people’s minds. IMO there’s a lot of representation for the “non-normal” queers because they are the most vulnerable and because it needs to be clear that it’s a package deal. People don’t get to draw the line in places like “gays are okay but trans people are icky”, and unofficially supporting mindsets like that would legitimize disgust-based morality.

People need to learn the lesson that others inherently deserve rights and respect regardless of their own personal feelings, otherwise we’re just going to be fighting this battle over and over again for each minority group.

While I don’t think hypervisors are all that interesting to most people due to their brittle nature and real security risks, I still think there’s a definite blow being dealt to Denuvo even if not a single person actually uses them. The publishers making the decision to pay for Denuvo are still going to see their games being cracked same-day, hypervisor or not, and that probably puts a lot of pressure on their decision to continue paying Denuvo.

I just did it manually, pointing faugus at the old prefixes and setting the launch options the same

I guess I’ve just been behind the times, but I’ve never had an incentive to switch. I just installed faugus and transferred everything over and it seems very slick. It seems to be missing 1 or 2 things, like environment variables per-game, but all the other important stuff seems to be here. I know what I’m doing with prefixes so having all the knobs to turn is great, but honestly linux gaming does not need most of those knobs nowadays.

Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society

This gives me shopping cart theory vibes. I don’t usually base my moral compass based on whether my action will have some kind of measurable impact, but whether I believe it’s the right thing to do. After the intense doubling down in that discussion thread I’m definitely steering clear of lutris. It costs me very little effort to avoid projects that do icky things I don’t want to encourage (even though it may not have a measurable impact~)

Unsettling that I could recognize Mii Todd Howard from the thumbnail. Have graphics gone too far?

If it helps, you can use https://noai.duckduckgo.com/ to stop the auto-AI inserts.

Apparently the price increase happened yesterday; I hadn’t heard anything about it until just now. Gave me the push I needed to switch to self-hosted vaultwarden in like 15 minutes. Very pleased with how simple the docker compose and export->import were. I’ll note that I’m running it privately on my local network, which I’m assuming should work fine as my devices enter that network semi-frequently and should keep everything synced up(?).

Really appreciate their takeaway from this. It’s unfortunate that AI is so popular right at the moment that a lot of people are trying to switch to Linux. They’re also still solidly within the honeymoon period so we’ll see how they feel in a month or two.

Note people are reporting some crashing at certain points with the voices38 crack. It will need to be proper’d again. I also feel like voices38 doing Dead Space when 0xZeOn was already spending a lot of time doing it is disrespectful, doubly so when voices38 is like “hey my crack is real and proper and doesn’t crash” and then is immediately eating crow when theirs is crashing also. Maybe ZeOn will be able to study voices38’s crack and learn from it, but I wouldn’t be surprised if they just rage-quit instead; I know I would be demoralized as hell if someone just swooped in and invalidated all my work.

I don’t think they’re all that separable. In the worst case, using a corporation’s LLM, as Linus is doing, is in essence voicing support for any negative effects in the strongest way possible. LLMs as a technology are fueled by stolen and scraped content, which is in turn fueled by other myriad issues, like datamining and privacy erosion. LLMs as a technology are also extremely inefficient and resource intensive; by writing yourself off as “just one person” doing it we’re ignoring the global effect of many “one persons” all consuming resources by using this technology.

I guess my point is that by using and helping to normalize LLM usage it’s playing right into the hands of all the previously mentioned consequences. Big tech doesn’t need you to use their specific brand of LLM, they just need you to become dependent on the idea of LLM assistance itself. Their endgoal is total adoption and mindshare, and they’re spending vast amounts of money in order to reach it. By refusing to support the technology no matter how “useful” it might be, we can prevent many of the inherent problems from getting worse, and prevent big tech from gaining even more leverage over slightly important things like “is the news real”.

Given his flogging of LLMs with respect to the kernel, I’m guessing Linus is of the opinion that vibe coding is okay to play around with for yourself and for your personal tools, but to use it professionally or to force others to interact with your own vibe coded junk is where the fault lies. This is a fairly mature take on the surface, but also I’m someone who really can’t get past the part where the inherent existence of LLMs is carving ruin through the world through their content theft, resource depletion, and class warfare… so like… I hope he pulls a little harder on those threads sometime instead of judging it purely based on its utility.

Are you referring to Ghost QxR? They release all of their stuff on public trackers (e.g. 1337x). If you’re interested in x265 micro-encodes in general I’d recommend getting into at least HUNO and TL. There are other trackers that specialize in this area, but I’m not as familiar with them so can’t vouch as much.

On the surface yeah it sucks, but remember that they can charge any price they want at any time. The only reason they don’t is because it would hurt sales to price something higher than what people will pay. This scheme can only work if a substantial amount of people buy into the scheme, i.e. the sales they lose from regular people unwilling to pay abnormally-high prices is worth the secondary value of those that give up their data or get sucked in to the loyalty programs/etc.

I’m guessing this is more about preserving culture and art. I find it unlikely that this post would be someone’s first clue that they could listen to music for free, and listening to music out of this dump would be way harder than any other method.

I would only stream if it’s something you will enjoy doing regardless of success. I have some friends who have treated streaming like a job for years and their viewercounts are still pretty low (~20-50). Something like a youtube channel would be a helpful addition/alternative as well, so at least your content doesn’t continuously disappear into the void.

It looks like it might be; I just know someone that has a site using it and they use a different mascot, so I thought it would have been trivial. I kind of wonder why it wouldn’t be possible to just docker bind mount a couple images into the right path, but I’m guessing maybe they obfuscate/archive the file they’re reading from or something?

You can customize the images if you want: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper#customizing-images