Quoting: SaladinThey said

Applications containing AI-generated or AI-assisted code, documentation, or other content are not allowed

But they give preferential treatment to projects like VS Code, VLC which of course uses AI-generated or AI-assisted code ? So they are not being transparent with the rules, big projects breaking the rules is fine for them but the smaller projects are the ones which will have to comply.

VLC-mediaplayer contains an AI(for generating subtitles), but as far as I can find no AI generated code.

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Quoting: Slaxer

Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

I never understood the "eat the rich" sentiment. I do think corruption, fraud, or unethical business practices need to be called out and held accountable to the law when necessary - however, I don't think that's what we're talking about here, is it?

GabeN got wealthy by:

• Working at Microsoft


• Founding Valve


• Creating Half Life 1 & 2


• Creating Steam


• Creating the Steam Deck\Steam Machine\Proton

At what point between getting a job at Microsoft and being wealthy enough to buy a yacht did he suddenly become immoral? From my point of view, he got wealthy by founding the company that created one of the best games I've ever played in my life (Half-Life 2), and by supporting the Linux gaming community by getting Valve to create Proton and open-sourcing it. Furthermore, through Valve he has also employed 100s of people and enabled them to have a living. GabeN is not my friend, but my life would definitely be just a little worse if Half-Life never existed - and I reckon yours would probably be too. If you made a cultural landmark of a game, and developed a game distribution platform/community that revolutionized the way people buy games, you'd be rich too - should I hate you then for having done so? Or should I reward you with my money in exchange for the awesome thing that you created?

He also got rich
- running a shadow gambling empire on Steam with Steam assets.
- being close to power by studying at Harvard(which few have the opportunity to do), while the US military was spending tax paying money to prop up US tech influence.

I think Arehandoro would argue he didn't make his money through work, but enterpreneurship, which would make it bad, since he didn't work for it himself.
I argue that, such an argument underestimates the risks and effort involved in enterpreneurship.

Having said that.
I agree with your issue taking with the attack on his super yacht ownership, without clear explanation what is wrong with it.
Rich people spend lots of money on luxury goods, that's not really the issue.
In an economy without the moat effect of capital this would actually result in trickle down effects.

One could argue that even among expensive expenses super yachts are extremely bad for the environment, but would that mean that owning a pickup truck should be punishable by flaying.

Also I think execution isn't an appropriate way to deal with wealth disparity.
Land and wealth taxes I've no issue with, just like hightened transparancy requirements, because wealth buys freedom from the law. Also you will hear me arguing for the abolishment of cooperation as juridical persons, because that risks it shields from is exactly what we're rewarding their sponsors for.

Execution is generally counter productive and just mean, also generally it just moves the wealth to inheritors.

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Quoting: Highball

Quoting: TightRopeI am expecting another sub par product from the Wintel duopoly.
At least more competition is still good for pricing and quality.

Oh, I'm sure they will fuck each other over, as per usual.

Yeah calling wintel a duopoly is an insult to cartels worldwide.
They're two crappy monopolies, which hate each others guts and can't do without each other, because an older monopoly made them reliant on each other.

Microsoft has tried to leave x86 6 times. [External Link](I count the copilot+ pcs as a seperate attempt, because it had extra features.).

Intel treats Linux as a first class citizen by providing open source drivers, patching the kernel and helping to develop compatible open source compilers.

They both fail hard at it, but they really try to kill each other, without committing suicide.

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Quoting: suchOooh, portable heaters. Noice.

Intel has actually really really decreased their heat production to the point they're now competitive with the most recent ones in the M series. [External Link]
AMD did too, but we're talking about intel here.

Turns out the issue wasn't with ARM vs X86, but 7nm vs 1.8nm, which is obvious in hindsight.

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Quoting: ArehandoroEat the rich. Whether they are whining moron or a super yacht owner.

Although there's historical precedent for that solution, [External Link] the french method seems to be generally dominant. [External Link]

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It's his repo and his choices.
The contents of a repo are what makes or breaks it.
Some repos reject all closed source stuff, Apple rejects what it can't control, Many reject malware, github rejects nudifying AI, debian14 rejects non-reproducable packages
Many of these policies are perfectly reasonable and sometimes lawfully enforced, but they're all an integral part of the repo experience.

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Quoting: Nickname

Quoting: nullzero

Place your bets now - when do you think it will see a pricing and launch date announcement?

Tomorrow (TM)

Joking. Just wanted to mirror the separate steam reddits, specially the r/ steamframe one , which are full of fans saying it's today/tomorrow over and over again.

Could the 3 separate hardware launches actually have gotten people more hyped/anxious about the whole thing?

While this could be the case for the Steam Machine, I guess the Steam Frame cant release until it is also added to this Vulcan list🤔
Does that mean it will most likely release after the Steam Machine? (unless they delay it until the Steam Frame is ready)

The Steamcontroller came first, so it stands to reason the others are also released in order.
Also there is the indication of Valve suddenly receiving shipments full of consoles. [External Link]
The Steamframe is much fancier tech than both the console and the controller(emulated x86, Waydroid, etc.)

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Quoting: Purple Library GuyHelps to be old fashioned I guess. I usually reach websites by typing the URL (well, for sites I go to a lot, just a bit of the URL--for Gaming on Linux I type "g" and the bar fills in the rest). Hard to end up at a fake site that way.

Typosquatting is still a thing, also these sites aren't aimed at people who already know the url.
These sites are aimed at people who're trying to install an open source program for the first time and operate from a misunderstanding of what's and what's not a sketchy website.

Spoiler, click me

For FOSS projects simple pure html sites or a README are more realistic, because those are better standardized, much easier to work with, with limited tools and many of these people see GUI as optional for those without a handicap.
Reputation thieves on the other hand specialize in GUI, have no qualms about using certain tools, don't care about standards and assume everyone needs GUI.

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The curl read was indeed valuable.
I knew these sites existed, I knew open source devs hated thems and I knew the service they offered(nicely crafted install instructions).
What I didn't know was the reason, why they executed this obviously malicious behavior, nor the scale and method they used.
The answer seems to be Google reputation farming and selling this reputation to others, which want to "boost" their search rankings.
The scale seems to be "anyone who can't fight back and is worth some effort".

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Quoting: PenguinThis is one of the many reasons why I love Valve! While most other gaming companies are focusing on cutting-edge technology or chasing the next golden goose, Valve is investing in their community having FUN! And fun is all that should matter when it comes to gaming. Well played!

We all have fun once in a, while Google has android easter eggs and event based minigames, Microsoft has Pinball spaceCadet, all these [External Link], Meta had english(pirate), basically anyone has tried something with the Konami code and a rickroll.

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