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I wanna thank everyone for this great platform of news. This is one of the few places of which I get updated with things I truly love (Linux and gaming), and I can easily say that, for me, this is the best place!
I wish all prosperity and joy to everyone that work here and contribute.

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thanks atari... i guess..

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if ai ever disappear, i will say, nothing of value was lost

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Quoting: doragasuUsing Generative AI tools to "fix Linux gaming" does not make sense, because Generative AI tools is killing gaming (in Linux and everywhere else) along with many other things, like many tech startups that will have to close because the magnificent 7 are hoarding all resources. And Anthropic is among the culprits here.

He also states the problem is capitalism, but it's difficult imagining this tech would work in a non capitalist heavy scenario, because for models to be effective they have to suck tons and tons of energy and data. Does he want to use AI but not "bad, capitalist AI"? OK, he can buy an RTX6000 Blackwell GPU and train his own model on non copyrighted/licensed code. But good luck getting the GPU at a decent price and getting that model to get the same level of performance as Claude.

He could just said something in the lines "I don't mind ethics, I just want to get things done", and although not OK, that would have been a better response. But his justification does not stand. **There is no ethical use case for Generative AI tech**, because it can only work if you waste enormous amounts of resources and train on tons of copyrighted and licensed work, without giving a shit for that copyright/licenses.

american billionaires prefers Generative AIs over any other technologies for spending their money on

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Quoting: BigJIs it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

Haven't encountered any. Some placeholder graphics in the unlocks screen is everything I was able to detect. Devs have said more content (monsters, cards, etc) will be coming, but otherwise it feels very polished already.

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Big tech did assumes AI-generated stuff make money best, and forgets that this broke copyright laws more than Fanworks fit to be protected by fair-use

more reason I completely switched to Linux as companies like Microsoft keeps Generative AIs from becoming things of the past

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Quoting: dragonherder He did not initially hide it though. He hid it after basically being bullied gor using AI to finish work he hasn't had the motivation to do on his own codebase... he then got bullied for removing the attribution because now he was trying to hide it. As another pointed out and I responded to it is basically coming down to people bullying developers using AI no matter what

That's also partially untrue. At the very first he didn't hide it, BUT he did hid it BEFORE being bothered. See his own statement :

" No, I removed the Claude attribution way before anyone complained. Looking at the git history, it seems to have happened on Feb 18th. The only thing I did as a result of this thread was putting them back. As a bonus, it fucks over every news source saying I've hidden Claude usage, making their articles wrong and outdated. "

The last sentence gives me everything I need to know about the guy though.

It seems like he just doesn't like having to face the consequences of his own actions (about using AI then about hiding it, trying to justify that he hid it precisely to not have to face consequences about using it, making it 10 times worse). And now being petty against " news sources ", which just did their job of informing people when HE should have been the one to inform them about using AI in a clear manner.

Why is it so hard for him to take ownership of his mistakes and choices ? There, have what I would consider a decent statement (not perfect since he still will be using AI for Lutris, at least mindful of people) :

Quoting: What The Statement Should Have been according to me" I have a stance on AI that can be divisive, I'm aware of the issues of the tech just like what I feel it brings to me, I chose to hid it because I was trying to protect myself from the consequences of using it, especially regarding harassment and toxicity which I didn't want to have to handle after having struggled with my own mental health.

I realize it was a mistake trying to hide it because it made it worse, by deceiving people who expected transparency and honesty in a FOSS project, and while people aren't entitled to me working for them, they're still entitled to honesty and respect, and it left them feeling betrayed because of how divisive this subject can touch core values, and prompted a lot more negative reactions than I would have gotten had I left the attribution to Claude, I understand that now.

In fact, I should have made it clearer that I was going to use AIGen the first time I did, to give time to people to move to an alternative and not catch them by surprising by having already done it for weeks / months now.

I can't take back how I acted, but I want to make it right by correctly attributing which parts of the code are made by Claude so people can fork the non AI generated parts if they do not want the AI code inside Lutris.

I know this won't fix the issue of me using AIGen for some people, but whatever your stances on AI are, when I stated that I failed you and you're entitled to my respect, please also be mindful and respectful in return, do it with kindness and in a place of constructive feedback and discussion. I wish good luck to people who will be looking for other similar projects without AIGen coding assistance.

Thank you all. "

That would have fixed lots of things for me. I still would have uninstalled it because the use of AI is an issue for me, but the biggest offense here for me was the betrayal of trust, you should never hide what you do in a FOSS project. This would have addressed that.

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I’m so glad that you’re taking a good stance on this, I really appreciate this site ^_^

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Quoting: Cyba.Cowboy

Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

I meant the console and handheld system names themselves. They're listed as "Super," "Mega," "8-bit," "Portable," and "Gear." Not SNES, Mega Drive (Genesis), NES, Game Boy, or Game Gear.

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Is it buggy at all? It’s “early access”

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Thanks for remaining a human.

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Quoting: Linux_RocksCan they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

What do you mean? The games I am familiar with in this package are called the same thing they were called a bazillion years ago.

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Quoting: Philadelphus

Quoting: Pikolo

Quoting: PhiladelphusI did notice that video backgrounds were a thing recently while video-chatting with my brother. Nice to see that finally happen.

What does doing "\@everyone" actually do? It's unclear from the patch note.

It was working the same as @everyone (mentioning everyone giving them a notification), but without warning you that you're sending a very broad notification

Thanks! I'm just still unclear what an "escaped mention" is, or at least what it's supposed to do. If "\@everyone" does the same as "@everyone" now (if I understand the fix)…what's the point of the backslash? 🤔 Or does it do something different now? What does "\@<user>" do differently from "@user"?

It's not supposed to do anything besides showing the text ;) It's a relatively common issue in programming - you want to be able to do more than just show the literal text, but sometimes you need to show the very sequence of characters that would normally do something special.

One place it comes up is in error messages and instruction manuals - if you want to tell the user how to achieve and effect, you need to show them the "magic words", but not "cast the spell". Backslash is a very common escape character. If you want to actually show a backslash in a language where it's an escape character, you escape the escape character itself - so `\\` would show up as `\` in javascript strings.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Escape_character

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And to the users logged in who send in correction reports to fix my incorrect wording, and sometimes rather funky grammar - you're awesome too. You know who you are. I appreciate you a lot.

Aww, thanks! And you're welcome. 😊

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I just don't know why people think these things are reliable. I just asked ChatGPT if you can use options separately (pacman -Syu -p) and it said -p shouldn't be used with Syu because it's for querying/installing packages. It's a dry-run option.

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Quoting: Jarmer

a "download all" button for updates on the download screen

I'm pretty sure they had this feature before and then removed it because it dramatically increased the amount of traffic on their servers.

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For anyone interested, they did a talk at GodotCon on how they implemented multiplayer into their singleplayer game.

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We can **trust** in the rare occasion you mess something, you will do whatever it takes to correct it. I prefer one gazillion times all the messes you could make than a perfectly sounding pile of slop I will never **trust**, done with a tool made to exploit the people with less resources and accelerate this planet doom.

Thanks for GoL!

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For the record, I am a fan of AI. I think the tech is cool as hell, and I like seeing where it might take us.
I read the article about the dev of lutris using it, and the comments under it, and realized again that I am in a minority in the groups I normally align with. In that everyone but me seems to hate AI and think it should burn in a fire.

With that said, I really don't like that AI is basically taking over the internet. Dead internet theory is no longer a theory, 90% of the content we read, and the comments that are posted at this point are either fully written by genAI, or "corrected" by it, and that I think is a bit of an issue. I don't care if you write a bit of code with it to cut out some thing you don't want to deal with. Heck, I don't care if you write entire software stacks in it, so long as you let people know you did so they can choose to trust it or not. I do care if everything on the internet suddenly becomes homogenized slop.

Humans need to continue writing, and creating. Art should be made by humans whether that be writing, drawing, painting, music. Any of it. Some places need to remain human, and free of the slop regardless of my, or anyone elses opinion of the slops value.

So you know, TL;DR Good. I really appreciate the human touch, and I hope to hell other people take up the same viewpoint and continue to create in the face of this onslaught.

(This comment hand written by me. I think I am human.)

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Quoting: minidou

Quoting: Eike

Quoting: minidouridiculous, but not surprising
there's no stopping the moral panic against AI it seems

What is ridiculous about humans writing texts?

It worked quite well the last millennia, and it still works.

What is ridiculous is be blindly refuse to use tools, moreover to actively campaign against tools or anyone that use them

genai was built on stealing the works of millions of actual humans and then not ever compensating any of them and then regurgitating said works in a worse way. What is ridiculous is that you advocate for the use of such a thing.

Also ... are you actively saying you WANT to read websites that are just written by idiotic genai's ...? That's what you WANT to read?

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Can they not call the original systems by their actual names due to copyright bullshit? If so, that's stupid on the part of the copyright holders. It's fair use, I'd say.

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I am among those who believe LLMs are just another tool (admittedly overhyped, misused and with concerns like environmental impact).

Even so, I have yet to find ai-generated textual content which I can stomach for more than 15 seconds. All these websites feel like a jumbled mess of words trying to drown their own egregious lack of precision in a verbal diarrhoea.

Here is to GoL on point and enjoyable content. ❤️

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generative ai was around for 3 years and delivered ZERO IMPROVEMENTS for our civilization.and a lot of negatives. the internet got worse, ai bubble made ram prices high, everyone got dumber.

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Oh boy - that's so sad. :(

While I feel sorry for the circumstances which lead to the usage of the LLM stuff I've to say that I don't want it anywhere near my hobby. So for me this is good bye Lutris. :(

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Cool, now finally release a FreeBSD version Google. lol

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Just registered my self in GOL after years of lurking around to say. Bravo!!

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People are willing to forgive, forget, and accept just about anything except an arrogant attitude.

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Quoting: Antonio StorckeThis is getting ridiculous. The author knows his software. I fully support this author. As I side note, I fully support the use of Claude. It is the ONLY AI That I am able to trust with my code. The hts-time app.

You trust a war AI? A AI that delete all your work? I don't trus any AI. AI is the reason for the Ram crysis and you know that.

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Quoting: CrasbenFrom what I can see in the OpenTTD website it does affect the one you can get directly from them. You require Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files to have graphics and sound in the game.

OpenTTD has had free graphics and music available for a very long time. Using content from TTD is entirely optional.

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From what I can see in the OpenTTD website it does affect the one you can get directly from them. You require Transport Tycoon Deluxe data files to have graphics and sound in the game.

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