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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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Cool, now finally release a FreeBSD version Google. lol

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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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Thank you! I’m not that active (anymore) but I still very much enjoy reading your articles. Very happy to hear that I can just continue doing so!

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Quoting: Evanjellion

Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

It's hard to find the motivation to do anything when you're depressed, I can understand the decision to use AI to make his workflow easier. It's more so the way he responded to everything that I think is the problem.

He seems to have known that people would react negatively to AI code, and his decision to deliberately hide what's hand-made and what's AI and say "lol good just finding the code now" is just a really bad look. For one thing, as the initial article states, it makes it hard to trust what he puts out. It's also just kind of antithetical to the whole idea of open source projects when you're obfuscating code. He may have reversed his decision, but the damage is already done.

I don't agree. I haven't thoroughly looked into this but if the only thing he's obfuscating is Claude attribution then that's massively exaggerating the severity of the situation.

And yes, him being acutely aware of how others feel and think about Ai probably does play a part in his attitude and seeing how people have reacted so far, I'd say his feeling aren't entirely unwarranted.

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How do we know if this artice was written by real Liam or generative AI Liam..

just kidding ofc. Great to hear!
Been here since the beginning of the site!
the site is almost Adult age!

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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

1) It's not blind.
2) These "tools" are different from other tools. Very different.

I want a human to talk to me, not a machine.

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Nicely said. Thanks to you and all the other contributors here!

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: EWGEspecially good for books, CDs, DVDs/Blu-Rays if you ask me.

No, nope, definitely not. Clearly asking you would be, in my case, a terrible idea. I'm picky. Random books, CDs, DVDs would almost all be worth zero to me. Less than zero, because they would take up bookshelf space and I'm running out already. So yeah, I wouldn't take mystery random boxes of that kind of thing if you offered them to me for free.

The same applies to me. Also applies to those random video game bundles that are put out every once and a while. I don't want digital clutter either.

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Simon has really put in serious work into Hytale, it makes me glad that I bought the Cursebreaker Edition of the game. The best thing for a complex game like Hytale is a long EA period that people can play and make suggestions. Also find bugs and test fundamental features to make sure they are working 100%. Can't wait to see what else Simon and his team have up their sleeves.

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Your stance on GenAI is a sane one, and I appreciate you sharing this...I've been meaning to become a supporter, so this payday will be that day! I want to make sure you can keep this site going for as long as possible with human written articles about Linux and related topics! 🥰

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Quoting: F.Ultraif you are a songwriter you have to register each work you create to PRS. Organizations that then pay license to PRS have to also track which song is played so the payouts is actually divided per how much your music was played.

To my knowledge, that is not how SOCAN or RE:SOUND work here in Canada. Certainly, the manager of our community hall did not have to track songs or submit a report with those details. Just a list of events that featured pre-recorded or live music along with a cheque, of course. (Until they upgraded the facility to an annual all-events fee, that is.)

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Quoting: Evanjellion

Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

It's hard to find the motivation to do anything when you're depressed, I can understand the decision to use AI to make his workflow easier. It's more so the way he responded to everything that I think is the problem.

He seems to have known that people would react negatively to AI code, and his decision to deliberately hide what's hand-made and what's AI and say "lol good just finding the code now" is just a really bad look. For one thing, as the initial article states, it makes it hard to trust what he puts out. It's also just kind of antithetical to the whole idea of open source projects when you're obfuscating code. He may have reversed his decision, but the damage is already done.

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

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Quoting: WMan22The bad news is: Everything regarding cutscenes continuing is broken, like everything renders correctly (except the HUD) but the dialogue doesn't continue and menu music plays where it shouldn't. Don't know if this is an issue with the game or an issue with proton, but either way MDK 2 HD is still unplayable.

Have you tried with native xact as per the ProtonDB entry?
https://www.protondb.com/app/213350#_LemMKqpLj

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Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

That is exactly what happens now. You use ai at all they try and bully you for it even if is plugging in code you made to develop it further. We are not allowed to use AI and open frameworks to develop straight forward things either. Its just ridiculous. Claude's only real problem is attribution stripping at times which you can specifically ask it not to do

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Quoting: CreepioAnother thing I wanted to quickly say is that, the Lutris dev mentioned he has depression and he's using Claude as a way to stay motivated to continue working on his project (my interpretation of things). He's doing this to try to make more progress on something that otherwise risks becoming abandonware, and right now I feel like he's being bullied for using AI. He felt bullied so he removed the claude attribution, and then he felt bullied again so he put it back. And now after reading a few comments here, I see people are canceling their Patreons over this. Bizarre. I don't know what the end-game is here. If being bullied is going to be the result of using AI, I question if applying any AI attribution in the first place is the right answer. This situation affects how I will choose to go about doing things in the near future if I plan to release any software.

It's hard to find the motivation to do anything when you're depressed, I can understand the decision to use AI to make his workflow easier. It's more so the way he responded to everything that I think is the problem.

He seems to have known that people would react negatively to AI code, and his decision to deliberately hide what's hand-made and what's AI and say "lol good luck finding the code now" is just a really bad look. For one thing, as the initial article states, it makes it hard to trust what he puts out. It's also just kind of antithetical to the whole idea of open source projects when you're obfuscating code. He may have reversed his decision, but the damage is already done.

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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

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Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: memvirus

Quoting: Ehvis

Quoting: CaldathrasInteresting. I was forced to 580 from the 550 series. Wasn't given a choice. Based on the link below, Nvidia no longer supports the 550 series, by the way:

https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/

To do that I had to drop my kernel to 6.14 (which is now also unsupported I think) and remove one line from the code. But any drive above that messes up my VR (among other things), so it has to be done.

hey man, I'm trying since weeks to get back to 565 from currently 580
It updated automatically and it seems like I have no choice or way back....

I'm on POP OS (No wayland) and kernel 6.17.9-76061709-generic

Is there actually a way to get back to 565.77? Can you please tell me how?

Not exactly and it'll take a bit of doing. But I installed the old packages from the Launchpad PPA. This failed because the glue module wouldn't compile. Then I just went through the compile log and tried to fix the errors. Doing that for a "too old" driver on a "too new" kernel was just too much, so I enabled the older kernel from before my distupgrade. This combo only required commenting out a single line from the driver to make it compile.

There's not exactly a manual for this and if it's still broken after a reboot then you'll have to continue from the console. So if you're not prepared to just do it and deal with whatever happens, it may be easier to just downgrade the whole system.

It was the graphics-drivers PPA that automatically pushed me from the 550 series to the 580 series. I don't think you'll get any joy there.

Keep in mind that the 565 series, like the 550 series, is no longer supported by Nvidia.

That being said, it seems to me that the best chance would be to use Nvidia's installer. You'll need to make sure you have a compatible kernel, however, or the install will fail. I suspect that kernel 6.17 is unlikely to be compatible. The last 565 driver update was in Dec. 2024.

[Linux x64 (AMD64/EM64T) Display Driver 565.77 | Linux 64-bit](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/details/237587/)

Also, you can look here:

[https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/](https://www.nvidia.com/en-us/drivers/unix/)

(Yes, Nvidia refers to Linux as Unix.)

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Sigh… a fix for the Witcher 3 launcher that nobody uses, but where's the fix for Witcher 3 DX12 freezing constantly?

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Quoting: MakiThe big problem here is not so much whether AI was being used for it, but that the AI contributions are being hidden when there's feedback on it.

If it wasn't, then anyone could have forked the project if they didn't want to use the AI contributions.

The forked project could then just weed out the AI contributions in a simple manner without having to go through the code line-by-line to hopefully spot whatever vulnerabilities or bugs the AI might have added.

Start fresh with just the human-made code and fix whatever was wrong with that.

Wherever the rights of AI or projects using AI end up at, it would have secured the potential for a project like Lutris to exist without it.

Lutris' maintainers could have just said "Yep, we're using AI. Fork it if you're not happy with it."

Done.

No knee-jerk reaction. They could have kept up complaining about not having enough contributors as they have for years now.

It's the assholery of it which is egregious and a point of concern for many beyond the use of AI.

Having said that, I vehemetly disagree with the use of AI for any FOSS projects. Please keep it far away from me.

It is redundant to be so against these tools. Also he removed it and put it back because if people just acting like fools about it. There is nothing wrong with ai tools.

My projects all shown what contributed as they are web yhkngs. All show Tailwinds. Symphony, laravel and so on used. Was using grapejs for a bit but just couldn't make it do what I wanted in a clean enough way even with the help of ai.

People that can code and develop use these things as tools and we might be plugging in code bases we already have made or used ourselves and are developing off that code. I took some ideas from other products similar to mine, but my tech stack differs. My architecture differs, my front end differs i have features sets they don't that allow for better SaaS like control and lets multiple people use it etc. Ive painstakingly still had to go test every little thing and fix certain things and so on. There are still little bits I want to add likr revision tracking, two-factor, changing over to industry standards for some stuff. Maybe get translations going and the add on/module support and tracking or a down payment

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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.

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

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Quoting: GerarderloperMeh, results matter. But also if stolen code ends up appearing; you don't want that happening.

There is a risk when using AI coding tools where eventually it could turn into bloatware. So hopefully that isn't what will end up happening a couple years down the line.

The bigger problem is that how fo you really even say code is stolen. A website built on tailwinds vs bootstrap and similar setups on both will look very close to the same, minus bootstrap being way more blaoted because it loads in everything.. Their structures can be different and you can even do similar features, bur much of the CSS and visuals for many sites based on bootstrap and css just go default routes and have a "samey" feel even when coded by hand
...

There is only so many ways to do something in code that unless its kike a section by section copy you'd never know and in some instances its going tl be a direct copy outside of naming conventions just because that is the way for it to perform.

The biggest problem claude has really is attribution because most of the stuff they train on is open source

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So, basically, nothing changes unless you choose to use Steam or GOG as your download source.

Direct downloads and repositories are not affected.

Good.

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Thanks for this Liam! And everyone else involved in the site too!

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Quoting: Liam DaweRoguelikes will release until morale improves 😝

Rocks fall, everybody dies. :)

Totally agree with you, Liam. Well said.

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Well said 👍

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