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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That was then, this is now. I think the whole situation needs a rethink. It's not a coincidence that multiple project have to create AI policies due to slop. Tools like Openclaw make this kind of thing very hard to counteract, because the AI won't give up - ban it, and it'll just create a new account and re-submit, over and over.

I suspect that the only way to truly police this, ultimately, is using a system like StackExchange, where pull/merge requests simply aren't allowed - you go through a step-ladder of ever-so-slightly-increasing rights, as your reputation rises, until, eventually, you are trusted to contribute within the boundaries of the policies of that project.

Sadly the infrastructure for this doesn't exist. Yet.

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I assume the Ghouls will sneak up on you as they are going commando?

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I don't think I've seen melee combat handled as "meatily" as this since Elderborn, which is still the king for melee combat, imo. A crown held by Dark Messiah for far too long.

Interesting that they have gunplay too though. Hopefully that doesn't make melee useless, as in so many games.

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A paper trail can still be there without leaking personal data like mailadresses and full names to spammers.
I also assume that this old style approach deters people from joining eventually.

On the actual topic.
Do we have most of the HDMI 2.1 spec covered by now or is there anything else missing?

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Quoting: Mountain ManI used my OG Steam Controller right up until the new one arrived on my doorstep, and I had no problem making the switch, although oddly enough, the original now feels oddly clunky in comparison.

I do have to bend my thumb a little more now, and yeah...I'm being whiny. :P

After playing some Boltgun with both flickstick and the trackpad, I'm starting to think that the gyro is even better in the SC2 than it is in the Steam Deck, which I thought was A+ class.

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Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I just got mine. I decided to use the old Steam controller while waiting for the new one to arrive as a sort of last hurrah for it. Now, because of that, I've gotta get used to the lower trackpad positioning. I kinda screwed myself on that front.

Other than that, I'm liking it. It's great at Brotato!

I used my OG Steam Controller right up until the new one arrived on my doorstep, and I had no problem making the switch, although oddly enough, the original now feels oddly clunky in comparison.

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I don't have a credit card, so I guess I'm fooked :-(

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Quoting: BumadarI can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

My guess: HDMI 2.2 will be the new "no license" situation. HDMI 2.1 has a data transfer rate of 4k @120Hz and some monitors already allow 4k @240Hz (which DisplayPort can handle btw). So there is a good argument for companies to implement HDMI 2.2 and pay for it (even if it is just for advertisement). I think they only want to get payed for the newest license. This way they allow older specs to be implemented, which strengthens their market position (better have it build in everywhere to be present everywhere than taking the last cents they can get).

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Quoting: awfulsauceIt appears one of my worst fears when it comes to FOSS and AI is coming into fruition.

AI makes a lot of wannabe developers lazier because they don't try to understand what results they're getting from it and think that's the be all end all to solving the problem.

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Quoting: The_Real_BittermanThere are people not using the official flatpak? Geez ...

It's actually news to me, I think last time I checked it still wasn't official, and it had a bunch of issues like shipping an old version of discord for months because the current one used a version of electron that broke something. And of course they had to use some weird hack to make an old version work with current servers.

Then it wasn't the official flat, yes. But it is official since a long time now. I bet there was even an article her on GoL abut it.

Yep, here: https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2023/10/discord-for-linux-gets-flathub-verified/ 3 years ago

It's verified but it's not official. Here: https://github.com/flathub/com.discordapp.Discord/issues/343

Just because it's verified it doesn't mean that Discord is actually the ones developing/packaging it and, as a result, the flatpak has issues. There's a reason the flatpak isn't linked anywhere on the official discord website.

You clearly do not know how verifying work on flathub. You have to be the owner of the com.discord domain and add a link to the discord flathub page or at least the PR where you want it to be verified. So someone at discord has put up a link/token on their homepage to link to flathub. So yes it is developed by discord and therefore official. See: https://docs.flathub.org/docs/for-users/verification (or an authorised official 3rd party)

Therefore, what ever you've checked is just plain wrong. Just looking at the maintainers of the github repo doe not tell you anything.

Also the only thing flunky with the flat is that it can not sniff on your running process to show all your servers what your playing or which music you're listening too.

Unless an application specificity uses the discord RPC to tell discord it is running. App -> RPC -> Discord then Discord will show, also the flatpak. What is not working is Discord -> /dev/proc *Sniff, Sniff*

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The article does note each store the keys are for as well.

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I can't really find how they got passed thr HDMI Forum licensing?

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Quoting: CaldathrasHow does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

There's a bunch of codes for GoG and some other services. No need to ever touch that luna stuff.

I swear, I forget that this is a thing that exists and is available the second I close their site, until I'm reminded of its existence by peoples on social networks :D

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Quoting: Mountain ManPlayed all day with the Steam Controller. I can say it's the best controller I've ever used.

I just got mine. I decided to use the old Steam controller while waiting for the new one to arrive as a sort of last hurrah for it. Now, because of that, I've gotta get used to the lower trackpad positioning. I kinda screwed myself on that front.

Other than that, I'm liking it. It's great at Brotato!

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Quoting: tmtvllet's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch

Actually it was 200! But 150 went to TikTokYouTube-‘reviewers'/influencers, 30 went to actual reviewers who know what they’re doing (Hi @Liam 👋🏻) and the rest got bought up by scalpers and their botnets.

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How does that work now? Do you have to play the games through the Luna service or are the codes/keys still independent of Amazon, as they were before?

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I broke down and bought it.

Discount if you have the other 2 games.

(I saved a whopping 4 bucks)
:P

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It appears one of my worst fears when it comes to FOSS and AI is coming into fruition.

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Quoting: tpauIt is incredible that this development still relies on files exchanged over e-mail.
Even worse is that these mailinglists are publicly archived with full names and e-mail-adresses.
Why not keep that to those that subscribed and not let harvesters access them?
Where are the gitlabs and githubs and modern infrastructure? ;)

If a process has been working for this long, why change it? Besides, emails are still a good way to leave paper trails in case anyone wants to go back to see what conversations have been going on during the development process. Using modern infrastructure doesn't guarantee that every conversation will be available forever because all of it can go away if no backup (or the backup got deleted) was done to preserve it in the event the repository or other modern tools ceased to exist.

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That idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

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Quoting: Jarmeroh man. GIVE THIS A TRY. It's got a very unique skill system I've never seen in any other arpg ever.

Someone in Steam Family is fan of such games and will buy it sooner or later. So I will gain gratis access to test it before buying. To me it is still a huge difference if something is isometric or third person.

It is indeed cool to have true offline singleplayer functions in Dragonkin. I also highly value "no planned game destruction".

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It is incredible that this development still relies on files exchanged over e-mail.
Even worse is that these mailinglists are publicly archived with full names and e-mail-adresses.
Why not keep that to those that subscribed and not let harvesters access them?
Where are the gitlabs and githubs and modern infrastructure? ;)

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Quoting: tmtvlThat's nice, let's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch. Saltiness aside, I hope SC Controller gets support for the SC2, would be nice to be able to use it without Steam.

20 controllers 😂

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Huh... never heard of it before. Guess it's time to dig out RTCW again. I think I still have the DVD version somewhere.

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That's nice, let's hope they make more than 20 controllers next batch. Saltiness aside, I hope SC Controller gets support for the SC2, would be nice to be able to use it without Steam.

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Quoting: KrejsyLainenHow legacy are we talking? Nouveau is getting quite nice these days :)

The open source stuff is now focused on GTX 1600 and later (newer firmware). So not legacy.

When I used nouveau on any hardware years ago everything was superbroken.
In the last months I tried it on a 330m(old macbook), a 450, a 660, a quadro k600 and the mx550 in my laptop, on every card I had little to no issues (though nvk was broken on kepler), just a manual reclock with a oneliner and everything I tried just worked.
So much so that I just ignored the proprietary driver, on older cards the legacy proprietary driver is super finicky and there are so many problems, with nouveau everything including wayland worked.

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I agree with @pb with the added that submissions could be used to increase social engineering attempt success rates. The code “looks right” and the AI verifier says it is “safe”. “I’ll merge it”. That on top of people “writing code” that they don’t understand in the first place.

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I've said it before and I'll say it again. We need three-strike system for accounts contributing to open source projects. First slop submitted to any project = warning, second = red flag, third = ban from opening any pull requests. Project maintainers would be able to opt in/out to allowing these accounts to contribute to their projects. Of course I realise that it's trivial to create a new account, but the main motivation behind such contributions are building "reputation" and filling these green squares, so that system should act perfectly fine as a deterrent.

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South Africa does too. UK does too. New Zeeland does too.

It's a honking good idea to add a few small guards to lower almost your entire population stress levels by a noticeably amount.

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