Latest Comments by emphy
GOG plan to look a bit closer at Linux through 2026
14 Jan 2026 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 24
14 Jan 2026 at 2:20 pm UTC Likes: 24
That, and GOG Galaxy does not support Linux.I would vastly prefer for gog to spend the resources on officially supporting existing open source efforts such as heroic, minigalaxy, and lutris.
CD PROJEKT and GOG co-founder Michał Kiciński acquires GOG from CD PROJEKT
30 Dec 2025 at 5:43 am UTC Likes: 3
30 Dec 2025 at 5:43 am UTC Likes: 3
Quoting: such...I could see it being a fun project for someone who had the background and who could cough up the funds. €25 million is not all that much for the parties involved, after all.
Unless Kiciński truly just wants a pet company that basically and barely funds itself, and doesn't really make anything... for the good of game preservation? Uh, yeah, sure.
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Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
20 Dec 2025 at 5:34 am UTC Likes: 4
For years now, mozilla has failed to truly address the issues the organisation has with corporate bloat and the addiction to their so-called ethical monetisations.
Imo, this recent carfuffle with fake intelligence is merely a symptom, not the problem.
20 Dec 2025 at 5:34 am UTC Likes: 4
Quoting: BumadarBecause "ai" was merely the proverbial straw?Quoting: CentrisToo late. Already got rid of FF.Maybe I am of an older generation, but why this on/off view?
Mozilla says they going to do AI in the future somewhere, it's not clear exactly how or what this exactly means or how it will be incorporated but you drop it like a hot potato and suddenly overnight they are evil.
The world is many shades of gray, not just black and white, see how it onfolds and then take a decision.
For years now, mozilla has failed to truly address the issues the organisation has with corporate bloat and the addiction to their so-called ethical monetisations.
Imo, this recent carfuffle with fake intelligence is merely a symptom, not the problem.
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
20 Dec 2025 at 12:49 am UTC Likes: 1
I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.
20 Dec 2025 at 12:49 am UTC Likes: 1
Quoting: LoudTechie...Haven't got the time to search for the source, but I understood mozilla uses open datasets for their models, i.e. permission was granted or copyrights expired.
Like all ML it's trained on data produced by people and thus at least subject to copyright.
Whether or not they've permission from the copyright holders to train their model with it I'm uncertain.
I would guess they've, because it's public which data they use and they've yet to be sued into oblivion.
It's the most auditable model I've encountered in quite some time, but you still can't usefully attach a debugger to it [External Link]
It's translations certainly aren't perfect, does mistranslated information count as misinformation?
I find it amusing, by the way, that the single "ai" browser feature that is actually useful to me is rarely advertised as being such. Even the "anti-ai" vivaldi incudes it without it raising a single eyebrow.
Total War: THREE KINGDOMS gets a GOG release along with various DLC
19 Dec 2025 at 11:03 am UTC Likes: 2
19 Dec 2025 at 11:03 am UTC Likes: 2
the game is in the GOG Winter Sale so it's 75% off as well.Pretty hefty base price for a game from 2019, though.
Firefox dev clarifies there will be an AI 'kill switch'
18 Dec 2025 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 4
As for what was said: Single "ai" switch is good. Admittedly, the bar has been set low by big tech (and firefox itself), but I think I would have been happy with this even in a world where fake intelligence was not being shoved down user's throats left and right.
The devil is, of course, in the details. For example, they could be planning on a malicious implementation where tons of actual useful features are linked to the kill switch and users are faced with the choice of either all or none of them.
Ideal implementation would be a single section in the settings where every single "ai" thingy is listed, master switch on top to enable/disable all, with fine grained control to switch individual items on and off.
Which still leaves the other elephant in the room, though: mozilla has the fundamental conflict of interest of being an advertisement company delivering a browser. Fine for users who like ads, but not so good for those who demand a browser that is truly designed for them.
18 Dec 2025 at 9:50 pm UTC Likes: 4
What do you think to this? Let us know in the comments.First: I trust the devs far more than the ceo's. Unfortunately, it will not be developers who will be making the decisions.
As for what was said: Single "ai" switch is good. Admittedly, the bar has been set low by big tech (and firefox itself), but I think I would have been happy with this even in a world where fake intelligence was not being shoved down user's throats left and right.
The devil is, of course, in the details. For example, they could be planning on a malicious implementation where tons of actual useful features are linked to the kill switch and users are faced with the choice of either all or none of them.
Ideal implementation would be a single section in the settings where every single "ai" thingy is listed, master switch on top to enable/disable all, with fine grained control to switch individual items on and off.
Which still leaves the other elephant in the room, though: mozilla has the fundamental conflict of interest of being an advertisement company delivering a browser. Fine for users who like ads, but not so good for those who demand a browser that is truly designed for them.
It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser"
16 Dec 2025 at 10:09 pm UTC Likes: 11
16 Dec 2025 at 10:09 pm UTC Likes: 11
Quoting: KimyrielleDid anyone read that before reaching for the pitchforks?The people who understand that mozilla likes to bury such "choices" under dark patterns and/or hard to find, undocumented, settings.
AI should always be a choiceWho cares as long as it's optional, really?
Hollow Knight: Silksong to get a free expansion, Hollow Knight getting a refresh upgrade
16 Dec 2025 at 6:24 pm UTC Likes: 4
16 Dec 2025 at 6:24 pm UTC Likes: 4
Some people, when seeing such success, wonder how they can monetise it better. Team cherry wondered how they could better thank their fans.
GOG formally announce their GOG Patrons subscription donation system
16 Dec 2025 at 12:53 am UTC Likes: 2
16 Dec 2025 at 12:53 am UTC Likes: 2
Being a patron would normally imply getting the funded goods in exchange for funding, wouldn't it?
I find the terminology around this program quite misleading, even repulsive in a world where we get thrown to death with the "companies are not charities" phrase.
I find the terminology around this program quite misleading, even repulsive in a world where we get thrown to death with the "companies are not charities" phrase.
KDE's 2025 fundraising has been a huge success
10 Dec 2025 at 11:26 am UTC Likes: 8
10 Dec 2025 at 11:26 am UTC Likes: 8
Kde will most certainly get its share of my yearly open source donations.
I may not get along with plasma, but there's still a fairly long list of kde stuff that I am using on my xfce installs, from okular all the way down to kupfer.
Recent (for me) high point: kdeconnect.
I may not get along with plasma, but there's still a fairly long list of kde stuff that I am using on my xfce installs, from okular all the way down to kupfer.
Recent (for me) high point: kdeconnect.