A Sharky Anthro

Heh, I almost forgot that Microsoft would likely release it on PC…They are also putting on Steam as I checked! There was a time when they were distributing their games through the Windows Store. Silly me, my memory is shaky at times!

I agree, P4G still looks fairly good and holds up on PC (where I play it), maybe if they bring back some story-lines that they abandoned during development…I could perhaps see a justification for Revival existing. Even then, that is pretty shaky in my opinion. Eh, they could honestly do something better with their dev time like craft a really good Shin Megami Tensei game or Devil Summoner game…Maybe create something a bit more original.

The only thing that makes me sour on the idea of this game is that it is an Xbox exclusive. Clockwork Revolution would be better served as a multi-platform game, Xbox isn’t in a position where they would benefit from it. The barrier to entry is fairly high these days to get a console, I doubt that this game would sway enough people to move consoles. Given that Microslop has caused gamers to distrust them and their brand, it’s even less likely.

As a person who has an Xbox Series S, I am not even sure how long that will be for until I go all in on a Steam Machine. Sticking with the PC game scene entirely as consoles aren’t a sound investment anymore, the game sales are better on PC anyway. I’d rather be able to freely modify and upgrade my PC (I use Linux so I have control over my distro).

If LLMs needs trillions of dollars to stay ahead it was doomed from the beginning as it was never a viable technology! This is clear as day to me now, they just want to fuck us over and not risk their own money to ‘win’.

I hate it because the technology is clearly a scam at the moment; “AI” is merely a Frankenstein’s Monster of LLMs being warped into a purpose that this software could never fulfill. Any sane person should be able to see how techbros are trying to warp reality and create a post-truth society using their slop generating software. Where they hold all the wealth and influence while the general masses are dependent on them. Eliminating critical thought, obliterating dependence on workers, and breaking the ability for people to meaningfully resist their stupid plans.

I think LLMs are really useful in when applied to correct usecases: Spellchecking/Grammar (user has ultimate descresin to use a correction or not), Real Language searchable databases. However, LLMs should never be used to answer questions themselves, as they cannot think or feel, and are designed to occasionally offer incorrect answers to keep people relying on them. They are also used in Chatbot form to reinforce the worst opinions in their unthinking users, drawing them into LLM induced psychosis states that they can easily be isolated from others in. Making that state enduring, and dangerous for themselves or others.

The push to get this snake oil forced into every place (often where it shouldn’t belong) really grinds my fucking gears. My goddamn phone doesn’t need a slop engine inside of it to do basic things that digital assistants could do beforehand. Also, the Bots designed to scrap open source code repositories, writing sites, also pisses me off. LLM people don’t respect the creative works of others and violate them with bot scraping to the point of DDoSing sites because they get hammered with so many bots scrapping information. The extractive capitalism nature behind the push for LLMs another terrible thing about them.

I don’t think my hate for what the technofascist techbros are doing with LLMs is going to die until they final fail, which they fucking will.

As long as moneyed interests are involved with the idea of trying to turn a profit off of LLMs (that they successfully conflated with AI), ethics will never be considered in any capacity. As it stands right now, a real AI is a pipe dream because techbros have shoot their shot way too early; instead of funding multidisciplinary efforts to understand consciousness, the brain, and ways to simulate real reasoning/thought. They’ve created a Frankenstein’s Monster with LLMs, that would never gain any form of intelligence as it cannot possibly replicate the complex consciousness and reasoning process that living things possess.

Realistically, I prefer humanity gives up on this at the moment because the technology to sustain data centers and cool them without severe environmental impact to OUR ONLY HOME PLANET is insufficient. Until we sort out our economic, social, political issues…An actual artificial intelligence should be a low as fuck priority.

I never said getting rid of Putin would change anything…The unique conditions that Russian citizens have lived under for years upon years, would enable anyone to replace Putin and be just as shit as him. If that person sucked a little less, and life improved a tiny bit. Nobody would care, it would be business as usual. I wouldn’t be surprised that Russian Oligarchs might have had some influence, as the rich always benefit from a terrible war.

Ah, looks like the ill-advised War to take Ukraine is grinding too much of their workforce into either deserters or unnecessary casualties. Sane leaders would’ve long given up (or never started) a war that is so very worthless fight or continue. However, Putin will instead continue the fruitless war effort and try to get children to work, as they yearn for hard labor instead of playing ball or being carefree. I genuinely wonder if Russia has a future as a nation, given what Putin’s sustained and incompetent leadership has doomed them towards inevitable collapse.

Wow, way to crater a potentially good IP by letting a dumpster fire of game studios develop them. I won’t bother to buy the first game at all, I can’t bother to get my hopes up with a decent game, only to know the future of a franchise is totally fucked.

They are trying to get this proposal passed but people are fighting back against it…As it is obviously stupid, not to mention insane given that Private Equity or Cryptocurrency cannot stand on their own two feet. These practices should just be allowed to fail because both are fiscally irresponsible and far too volatile to be trusted.

Human effort has always been cheaper; powered by caffeine, curses, and general spite. Like, relying on slop tools like Coslop and Hallucinating Claude is just going to make you poor because by design these services are financially extractive. If nobody saw for miles away that Microslop was going to heavily enshittify their service, it’s kinda sad given Microslop’s history.

It’s clear that this is his own project, that he is doing this for himself…It’s just sad this is what Felix is choosing to share with the community of people that follow him on YouTube. It’s bad enough that corporate idiots are peddling slop tools, but having a content creator with history and sway in the YouTube scene do it. Also, it’s an LLM not an “AI”, as AI is actually out of human reach unless humans actually do some real multidisciplinary work to make it happen. Techbros being able to conflate LLMs with AI was the worst thing to happen to the world. If only they were forced to advertise their slop tools correctly, we’d be in a different situation. 😮‍💨

I was finally becoming interested in Felix when he started dabbling in Linux and made some serious cool shit…Now that he’s made his own slop tool, I am losing interest in him again. It’s so fucking cursed, this slop nonsense needs to stop. I wish he would’ve stuck with ricing, making fun projects instead of open source washing corporate garbage.

Thank you, I guess because I stare at what I write all the time…It’s become boring and substandard in my opinion. It’s like looking at your own face for years, looks ordinary or bland because familiarity creates a lack of novelty! If you provide too much sensitive information it does raise the risk of someone being able to connect the dots and finding you. It does create an attack surface, but…They need to have all the parts in order to be able to act upon it. If the device is a local network thing that doesn’t connect to the internet…Small bits of info might not be so bad, but too much is not good.

I think hustle culture has destroyed a lot of the blogging scene with pushing products, services, etc. I really hate how authentic blogs have gone to the wayside and the hustle blogs have kinda taken over. Or worse the influencer blogs designed to sell you low quality tat are growing in scale and influence.

Yeah, deciding what a blog should be, its purpose, or how it should be implemented is very person. I would think on it, personally I am choosing a general purpose style. That focuses on variety stuff written from my perspective (occasionally flawed because yah know, people aren’t perfect). My Blog.

I think you can talk about all manner of subjects, whether they be controversial or otherwise provided you do it with care. Really think about the political posts carefully before you make them, as it is important to talk about politics, but doing it in a humane way matters. I think we’ve lost the art of the indie web since the commercialized, centralized website has become popular. I am even trying to rediscovering it by just trying shit and seeing it if works in practice. There is nothing wrong with a bit of live practice!

It depends on the subject, often times I tend to learn better by simply doing or thinking through the process before actively attempting what I thought about. I am a weird mix of practical and book learner, I often just blog about daily life stuff or whatever has my immediate attention. A blog for me is like my current hyperfixation identifier. ROFL

For internal stuff, I tend to keep system documentation of all the changes that I made (directories, etc), the reason why I did it, how I did it, what steps did I have alter in order to complete the change. That also really helps because years down the line, this helps build my understanding of my personal system.

Oof, clutch win against the US Company, as a US Citizen…You don’t want our irresponsible and stupid corporations buying your stuff and running it. It would be a privacy nightmare! It would be expected that The Netherlands would protect their citizens from the forces of nasty US companies.

Uh, I don’t blog regularly…Might do someday. Personally, the quality of my writing isn’t that great. I occasionally think before I type (got that goose on the loose energy). LMAO If I do end up writing more, I will put the blog link in my profile.

Solus is something that I chose because the sane defaults are good at install. You can use Secure Boot if you want with the Linux Distro and you only need to enroll in MOK once at install, never worry about it again. It is a rolling release with weekly sync updates that are often fairly fast, depending on your internet speeds. The most I ever had to wait is 4 minutes for eopkg to download and install the updates, a simple reboot and I am into the latest Solus Linux version. Talking about eopkg, I like their custom package manager, it’s fast tells you everything you need to know, and doesn’t waste my time. Solus repos have quite a bit of software in them, you can also use Distrobox/Shelf, AppImage, Flatpak to shore up any deficiencies. It’s a general purpose distro that is a perfect daily driver. That will make it very difficult for me to test Gentoo on bare metal because I love Solus. Still, there is a lot of time for me to read and learn beforehand.

It seems like you have everything just about figured out for your plans, so that is good. I knew about Asahi Linux project…I have an aversion to Apple hardware because of my personal bias. I’d honestly want a Thinkpad or another kind of Windows Laptop to wipe clean of Windows. As while you like sleek and light laptops, I don’t mind a laptop with a bit of heft (love a good 17 inch screen laptop) I like having roomy keyboards and screens. Mostly to account for my shitty eyes being borked from birth LMAO, and my big hands. I find anything less than a 15 inch screen device to be cramped and it hurts my hands over time.

As for Gentoo compiling on another device, yep you can indeed do that. You just have to be sure to compile with the correct hardware in mind! It will be hard given your core desktop is running Arch and you don’t want to disturb the force at the moment by installing a distro you haven’t any practical experience with on it. That would be a trial by fire way of learning (I often do because as apparently my brain loves the adversity and frustration a lot).

Given that you’ve used Arch for years and have entire workflows attached to Arch, I would just get something relatively powerful and cheap to test Gentoo on, so you don’t have to compile the distro on another device. If you are testing, there is nothing wrong with keeping the compiling contained to the device in question. You’ll get the full experience and not sacrifice anything (since it would be easy to install another distro you’d like on the thing).

That way if anything goes wrong, you can do some reading on how to fix it on the other device, to troubleshoot. Whatever you decide, you naturally have all the time in the world to decide! Good luck on that.

That man is a fucking legend, good job on making these clanker tools eat shit. Human coders clearly don’t have to worry about it, so I really don’t mind the existence of this Booby Trap for creators of Slop. They can cry harder, as it amuses me. Its about time more measures like these are implemented to disrupt sloppy clankers.