I mean, you did imply that I make people who disagree with me my personal enemies based on me commenting “Fuck gen-AI though”.
I didn’t say you were not a bot, I only allowed that you were possibly a regular human. Though it is sus that you’re anti-AI and also being offended on the behalf of bots, hmmmm
And why should LLM-bots post anti-AI messages?
The same reason an LLM does anything, because a human prompted them to.
I sure did insult the anti-ai bots, you are right about that.
That should not offend people that are not bots.
You may have your opinions and be a human, but that is not true of everyone who posts on this topic.
If you’re reading ‘bots’ as ‘people I think are dumb’ or ‘NPCs IRL’ instead of ‘automated posting done with the use of LLM augmented human agents coordinating in teams’ then we’re probably having two different conversations.
It has been long time since social media cared about showing us things that we wanted to see.
There have been several shootings that have had massive social media impact, you may have avoided them (and you did the right thing) but a huge amount of people experienced witnessing their first shooting death and maybe 2nd, 3rd and 4th this year. That’s a lot of cumulative psychological stress being inflicted on society and it isn’t like we’re living in a world that is otherwise a calming paradise…
Social media is inflicting real harms and the people in control don’t seem very motivated to try to control them. Or, they did try in tests and determined that Engagement was more profitable and they’re shielded from the externalities so who cares really?
Yeah well, I don’t like crunchy peanut butter but I don’t make it my entire identity or treat anyone who disagrees as a mortal enemy.
You’re right, as a consequence of the power of this new technology to change our life it poses a constant risk to fabric of society and our ability to understand facts about the world.
Discourse and culture are shaped by the structure of these social networks. Those structures are designed to the benefit of a dozen or so specific people. The amount of power that it gives them over all of society is not an amount of power that should be wielded by a private individual.
We wouldn’t let Oppenheimer have an arsenal of nuclear weapons because he was part of the team that invented The Bomb. We recognized, as a species, that this technology was too dangerous for anybody to have (even though we all thought we were the exceptions) and we tightly control access to this technology and stack all kinds of safeguards and checks on their usage as if our lives depend on it… because they do.
We can all see the power of controlling the perception and attention of society. We can see how discourse is shaken and manipulated for views and profit instead of for understanding and knowledge. We need to treat these technologies like they are dangerous cyber weapons. They need to be studied by professionals and the structure of these systems of discourse need to be set for the public good.
Just to head off the obvious attack angle. I don’t mean regulate speech, but the upvote system from Reddit is a terrible way to handle the ‘which comments should we show people’ problem. It’s also probably not a good idea to use machine learning to optimize ‘Engagement’ or other metrics when we know the outcome is that it drives content that creates fear, hatred, disgust and anger. A video recommendation algorithm that prioritizes views and comment engagement over anything else ends of amplifying the viewpoints of the most extreme opinions and this creates a false perception of consensus towards extremism. Allowing programs to advertise themselves as ‘News’ when they’re just ‘entertainment shows’ is about as harmful as letting companies claim their peanut butter is ‘allergen free’.
We’re in the wild wild west with an incredibly destructive technology being driven by a couple of dozen people who appear to have little empathy and a taste for power that may lead them into flying too close to the sun.
It didn’t, but EAC added Linux support a while ago… so any game dev can choose enable Linux support (and most do in my experience). I play many EAC games on Arch(, btw) with an NVIDIA card, HDMI 2.1, HDR works, etc. I have a working VR (Index) setup, a gaming mouse with better customization software (imo) than Windows, etc.
Most of these things had various minor issues even a year ago and now the only thing I can think that is non-standard/requires tinkering is that I’m using beta drivers to have Vulkan support on NVIDIA. This provides a good HDR implementation. Once the Vulkan support is released in the official driver then a user could get all of the same features without ever needing to do anything but update their system and install Steam.
Progress in the Linux gaming space advances every week. Things are approaching perfect, outside of structural issues (such as kernel anticheat). I have 213 games in my Steam library and the only game that I cannot play is Apex: Legends.
Apex runs just fine, but EAC is configured to kick Linux clients if you try to connect to a match. This isn’t a Linux issue that can be patched, this is a developer choosing to not allow Linux.
If you haven’t tried gaming on Linux in a while, you should give it a shot. I’ve long since ditched Windows in order to have more free space.
anti-ai bots don’t understand humor, just hatred and outrage
You’re welcome :)
The siren call of enshittification-driven short-term profits was too strong.
A leader doesn’t seem necessary. The leaderless nonviolent resistance movement has been winning in the court of public opinion.
100%
In some sense, they’re using modern technology to mass produce propaganda but the people actually directing things are still stuck in the 1900s mindset when regards to thinking about power.
Communication Technology has made these kinds of diffuse movements possible, that’s why they’re trying desperately to create an ‘antifa’ to fight against. They want a conflict with a target that they can slander/attack and instead they’re just getting shit spontaneously from every possible angle.
They’re fighting a 20th century battle with 21st century technology. Like Russia using armor to invade a country armed with Javelins.
Steam? We had Wine launch scripts AND WE LOVED IT.
If our DXVK and Mesa versions were not compatible we just kernel panicked like a real OS. Kids these days with their GE-Proton and NTSYNC don’t know how good they have it.
Kernel synchronization primitives? ABSOLUTELY NOT, we’ll use file mutexes in userspace like Linus intended.
If they didn’t want to be looked down upon then they wouldn’t be inferiour.
Space Marine 2 works just fine on Linux, I was just playing it last weekend. It has a gold rating on Protondb.
Kernel anticheat games can die in a fire, with all due respect to them.
I’ll worry about them when I get through my backlog of games which grows faster than my completed game list.
The progress in the last 2 years has been nothing short of amazing.
The KDE team, Wine, Proton, TKG/GE/etc have worked miracles for the Linux community.
Also, shout out to Microsoft for spectacularly face planting in their move to Windows 11/CoPilot/Vibe coded OS development. Nobody deserves more credit for Linux’s growth than Microsoft’s complete failure to innovate as an operating system developer.
Life ain’t fo’ hatin’, life is FauxLiving
They don’t need to target everyone, just the people with the aptitude and inclination for leadership and organization.
The goal wouldn’t be to arrest everyone who doesn’t like them, just to prevent that anger from leading to the creation of a real political opposition movement.
Give these a shot:
https://lemmy.world/c/dull_mens_club
https://lemmy.world/c/linux@lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.world/c/linux@programming.dev
https://lemmy.world/c/linux_gaming
https://lemmy.world/c/privacy@lemmy.ml
https://lemmy.world/c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
https://lemmy.world/c/privacy@lemmy.ca
https://lemmy.world/c/technology
https://lemmy.world/c/tenforward
Yeah, this isn’t any kind of crazy technology there should be a way to do it with any device that has bluetooth and a processor.
All it does is listens for devices, almost like it would when you’re trying to pair your earbuds. It just compares the detected MAC addresses vs a list and sends you a notification/alerts you if there is a match.
You can do the same with Wifi (the kids used to call it wardriving, back when modems were a thing and pringles cans had appreciable metal contents) but the people for whom that information is useful will know how to do it on their own.
I knew it was a lie