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“You do need to own a copy of the game to play it with OpenTS”

Arg!! I love these passionate re-imaginations, remakes and whatnot of old games, but they are already developing with AI, so why are they not generating a new asset resource that replaces all the original proprietary stuff!

Anyway, I hope we soon get complete asset replacement for ALL the old games Diablo, C&C, Baldurs gate and hundreds of other old classics that all have an open engine that still relies on shtty original copies of proprietary assets. Nobody cares about these corporate parasites anyway, so f’em…

I think it’ll get harder and harder to find ‘pure’ distros. For a while you can maybe rely on something similar to Gnu linux-libre kernel that removes proprietary blobs, or BSD, or Gnu Herd kernels etc, but linux-libre is already a pain if you need certain hw drivers, and eventually an anti-ai kernel will become crippled even worse, and it will become too hard to keep track of what kernels/parts of kernels is AI assisted code or not.

In the future, more and more new features will be from ai assisted code, and pretty soon, the anti-ai kernel will lose out to ai-assisted kernels in features, speed and soon stability (bug-finding etc).

The same goes for the rest of the distros that tries to avoid ai-assisted tools and code, and you/others will imho get completely swamped by this transformation. In fact, you will most certainly need an agent to keep constant track of this development.

I’m okay with AI, but I kind of feel for those trying to avoid it. Its hard enough just to avoid proprietary crap, and to me, avoiding ai-assists, is an even bigger mountain to climb. I do wish you all best of luck on that journey.

Ps. There ARE fully open models trained on fully libre with open libre data-sets, and for you - ethical data oriented - you could/should? probably accept that ‘non-pure’ situation, and use such an open llm to either maintain an ethical distro, or keep unethical ai-assist as low as you can get away with, for as long as you can.

I think your solution is a ‘declarative operating system’, where you just have a config file and the system builds it-self from that. You can decide if the system is locked to certain versions if you like. I know of Guix and NixOs, but maybe others exists. Alternatively an external scripting solution.

You still need to backup valuable local user data oc.

Wondered about the ‘childish’ choice of underpants:

“Citizen scientists enable large-scale research. The “Proof by Underpants” project demonstrates the potential of citizen science for research. Without the help of the many volunteers, a study of this scale across 1,000 sites would not have been possible. […] The exceptionally high level of participation is also reflected in the authorship: Around 240 citizen scientists are listed as co-authors of the publication.”

“The project was launched under the title “Proof by underpants,” and the extent of decomposition was termed the “Underpants Index” (UI).”

I guess the ‘exceptional participation’ was a small psychological study in it self. Seemed to work beautifully at least…

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I would’ve said it was long gone settled that any memory gets ‘contaminated’ by the local intrinsic/extrinsic environment we are in. In other words; we always tweak all memories every time we ‘read’ them.

To my knowledge there is no ‘static’ memory anywhere in our dynamic brain, and that knowledge have just been updated.

Woa :-O Definitely avoiding such people and their nazty environment/ecosystem… Thanks for info…

I had a blindspot and didn’t really knew what CVE’s was. Digging a little:

https://docs.kernel.org/process/cve.html "Common Vulnerabilities and Exposure (CVE®) numbers were developed as an unambiguous way to identify, define, and catalog publicly disclosed security vulnerabilities.

This article talks about op’s chart specifically: https://www.howtouselinux.com/post/why-linux-kernel-cves-are-exploding-from-500-to-nearly-2000-per-release

We are talking about “Property” - the core foundation of Capitalism. The holy grail of exploitation. Everything in this manufactured belief-system must have an owner and a price, and that price can only be forced upon others with ‘property-rights’ + top-down force (acab’s).

So, just about everything in our sick western fascist/oligarch societies is centered around ‘Property’ and the ideological right and moral duty to maximise profits from that property -> extortion.

The balance might shift slightly/temporarily if a huge cnt are fighting other huge cnt’s, but will NOT go away as long as Capitalism is the sole driver of western societies. Maximum property-rights are the steaming turd every Capitalist cnt are eating/craving.

More infighting is imho better as it slows down this pscho ideology…

We need some ‘nastyness’ from nature unless we want to become sick otherwise… ‘clean’ isn’t always a good thing unless we have open wounds, or the contaminant is particularly aggressive. Our whole body has evolved in raw nature, so we need a balance where we avoid the most dangerous, and allow everything else - to some extent.

“However, they cautioned that the results were based on a single trial day at each site and that some participants reported swimming elsewhere during the study period.”

So… bullocks with standard ‘the guardian’ fear-mongering, sensationalism, and lacking journalism ?

? Personality doesn’t only come from genes. In nature/nurture, genes are mostly ‘tendencies’, or recipe’s and needs to be activated by environment. In the West, environment - nurture - are usually dismissed, and peoples behaviour is deemed ‘nature’ - ‘who they are’, but that is untrue, cruel and just a relic from current anti-scientific ideological claims. You can guess which ideology currently shames, and harass people deemed ‘not good enough’ as they are. It allows any elite establishment to jail and mistreat people bc ‘they just ARE bad’, and ignore the environment that led them to behave that way. Every prisoner are a prisoner bco environment, and bc the elite believe in what is convenient. We are NOT our genes, and general behaviour is much more associated with nurture after the initial fast development. Twins had the ~same environment until birth, so are very alike later. However, any ideology/religion that fail to include environment in behaviour, will have the same problem.

In short: every time we experience something, our genes get enabled/disabled accordingly. No neuron or cell stays the same in all environments, or throughout our lives. We even get behaviour from how our parents felt in their environment when they fucked us into existence.

Besides, genes are just accumulated environmental influences, so in the big picture all behaviour is really just environment.

All market behaviour is gambling and economic war against everybody else - to the death. But it doesn’t sound as benign / innocent as ‘competing on markets’… Point is that all market behaviour needs regulation or better yet, to disappear.

“stillOS takes the GNOME desktop and configures it like Windows out of the box.”

Seem to be the only thing that makes it ‘special’ ? Not sure that is unique really, but if it makes some users happy…

https://www.modelscope.cn/home

Not as many (old?) models though. https://presenc.ai/research/modelscope-vs-huggingface-2026

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“MLB only checks your location at the moment a stream starts.”

This is/was what Pandora.com did, and the solution was to run a small proxy that directed the exact login url through Tor with a Merican endpoint while stream was normal, but you can just select an EU/UK endpoint instead.

I used a Tor proxy - privoxy, I think - from the openwrt package repo, but others exist, and for other platforms…

‘$1 HTML’

Why tf do US/western kids always think its okay to monetise everything they touch !? Just make something that are free because it doesn’t cost you anything, because it was fun, or because you want to share with others, ffs ! This is the same annoying ideological mindset as new game-programming kids that have setup ad-servings in their games before they have a gameplay, assets or any other working code.

You managed to enshittify your entire ‘fun’ project before it was even released. I think that is a horrible, childish, capitalist mindset/project, and I don’t think sharing/open-source people would want to support your selfish for-profit kid-project - ‘fun’ or not…

Peak late-stage Capitalism… So much stupid behaviour comes directly from that moronic/anti-scientific belief-system…

AI can’t handle legacy system quirks, creative problem solving, or massive projects with changing requirements.

I think that disliking ai - for whatever good reason - makes people shun the reality, cherry-pick articles/studies etc, but we have to be honest: We all do that - even when we try to balance it, so that is normal behaviour within a spectrum. However, current anti-ai leaning do end up blinded to how fast things are moving with this technology because it is moving so fast. There are massive burnouts just from those following AI development every day, and they constantly have to expand/narrow their scope. If anyone takes a few days of in their field of interest, it feels like they have to sprint to catch up. It is accelerating and is no longer confined to model inventions from big corps with mega models - developers are building ‘cognitive architectures’ around the current llm’ limitations.

So to me, these ‘AI can’t …’ type of sentences are always changing as they become yesterdays ‘AI cant …’ sentences within days or weeks. It is a great ‘moving goalpost’ tho, as there are a lot of human level evolutionary abilities lacking from current models. But every second, one+ of millions of people are working towards adding that next ‘AI cant …’ sentence to yesterdays claims, and things are moving fast.

I think it is vital for everyone - in all corners of human ‘belief-space’ - to keep in active touch with this technology, as much as they can muster, agree they are angry but try to shake some hard assumptions/‘loosen up’, see where it is headed and adjust their expectations/plans for the future accordingly. Anger is an easy but dangerous thing as it can make us refuse to acknowledge something that we need to prepare for. We’ve all been there - many many times, and we all know how we think and act in anger. Now, is a bad time for that. Please familiarise your self with ai tech.

Not starting an argument/debate (i’m burned out atmo), just a long-winded observation really…

Not 100% on what ‘stack-based’ means here, but if ‘stacking’ = ‘tiering’, you could use a normal filesystem like bcachefs that have tiered storage ?

You can declare different tier devices for speed, availability or what you prefer, and have different compression, managed cache, auto-move hot data from cold storage, cold data to cold storage, and what not…

However, I’ve never actually tried it, so I’m likely exaggerating the possibilities. I think ZFS have tiering too, but maybe a filesystem specialist can chime in with some advice.

Alternatively, if it doesn’t bother you, it could be a great task for a sota ai, to help/create/setup a simple fuse fs for your needs.

…while not a part of the so-claimed “Magnificent 7”, its interesting that none of the US AI red-teams have flagged ‘Private ps*cho corps controlling the most powerful weapon ever’ !! …as a security risk for Humanity !?

I mean, ASI in the hands of the worst and most evil corporations, ‘Epstein’ people, and their fanatical Capitalist backers seeking more profits and more power from other people and our shared habitat…

What could possibly go wrong…

When everything crashes around you and on top of you, remember to say loud and proud: “Thank you, Capitalist believer !” …