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While this is still bad, If you watch the video, the officers announce themselves and enter with empty hands... it's very different from videos of "raids" by US police that I've se…

There's a lot of evidence showing that gambling as a child leads to gambling problems as an adult, and loot boxes are just gambling aimed to a large degree at children. Valve games…

> The idea that babies feel pain is only somewhat recently accepted This is crazy to me, but I still believe it's very unlikely plants experience conscious suffering > Would you fe…

> play the same game .. where some line is drawn > Things could be better but they also could be worse > the moral arguments are sort of silly and illogical You can use these to ju…

Any time I've tried an "abliterated" model, heretic or other, it has always damaged the capabilities of the original model and will still often refuse or produce garbage at a lot o…

Every piece of KDE software I've tried has been buggy to the point that it's now a red flag to me: Spectacle (silently failed to copy/paste), krunner (refused to close), SDDM (refu…

Google sold the company to Lenovo in 2014

> It sounds like Blade is a cross-API graphics engine, by one of the original gfx-HAL (former QGPU name) creators? My understanding is that wgpu has a lot of constraints and comple…

I often see people lament the lack of popularity for D in comparison to Rust. I've always been curios about D as I like a lot of what Rust does, but never found the time to deep di…

- It is possible to write Rust in a pretty high level way that's much closer to a statically-typed Python than C++ and some people do use it as a Python replacement - You can build…

> their ideas where collected and documented Yeah, documented *and credited*. I'm not against the idea of disseminating knowledge, and even with my misgivings about LLMs, I wouldn'…

Are you against copyright, patents, and IP in all forms then?

No, in the same way that I wouldn't cite Euler every time I used one of his theorems - because it's so well known that its history is well documented in countless places. However, …

If you fork an open source project and nuke the git history, that's considered to be a "dick move" because you are erasing the record of people's contributions. LLMs are doing this…

> Pre-training is, actually, our collective gift I feel like this wording isn't great when there are many impactful open source programmers who have explicitly stated that they don…

HDR videos and games (both native and proton) work in both KDE and Gnome (and supposedly Sway and Hyprland, but I haven't tried either). I think support in KDE/Gnome landed in a st…

First time round, Trump would consistently say lots of worrying stuff, but people in the US administration would stop him from following through. This time, it's become quickly evi…

> Every operating system is in US hands Desktop Linux is (becoming) usable for a normal person just in time, I was surprised how easily a non-technical friend switched over to Bazz…

My new favorite breed of commenters are AI bros who go around lamenting how trivial other peoples' work is, while they themselves fail to create anything that anyone else actually …

Per capita, China and especially India emit far less CO2e than the US.

I started reading the Grokipedia page on the "Russian invasion of Ukraine". Immediately after the abstract, it starts talking about the "9th century Kyivan Rus" which seems like ir…

> hardware Sure x86 is an absolute mess, but I don't think it's a primary bottleneck. High end x86 cpus still beat high end ARM cpus by a significant margin on raw performance. Eve…

We measure computer performance in the billions and trillions of ops per second. I'm sorry but if it an app takes 200ms to hide some comments, the app or the tech stack it's on is …

I've been hearing about fights over JpegXL and WebP (and AVIF?) for years, but don't know much about it. From a quick look at various "benchmarks" JpegXL seems just be flat out bet…

> You can simply pick the minimum SDF value and get no blending at all. While this true for traditional SDF rendering (e.g. raymarching), the method of "interpolating cached distan…