Brave 🤮🤮🤮

At least my game engine, PixelPerfectEngine, is being tested on the Raspberry Pi 400, so a stronger hardware with Linux shouldn’t be an obstacle, but that engine isn’t made for that kind of spectacle if you can decode its name.

Yes, but not many games run on ARM natively.

So they’re slowly admitting genAI is unprofitable…

Who is the one I can headpat, for “battery recharge” reasons?

Gnome was the main obstacle in Wayland adoption, by not implementing “server-side decorations”.

How can you run Linux without electricity?

Likely a lot of manpower were focused on that, and/or the employees rather wrote their own code then lied about the AI use (heard a lot about it).

Windows 11 is so terrible so far that if I’ll need to use Windows 10 for dev reasons, I’ll either pirate the extended support patches, or use a shitbox (obsolete PC for optimization purposes) disconnected from the internet. I do fear that I might have to hack a GUI onto LDB or GDB, because I got too used to RemedyBG (I’m already using Kate).

What’s wrong with Snap?

EDIT: I had minimal exposure to Snap, sometimes Snap was my only option to get some software on Linux in a decent version and without getting into dependency hell while trying to compile it (why can’t someone make a package manager for C/C++?). I do see the issue with proprietary servers though.

If you’re writing a small indie game, or a quick prototype, then you could do much worse

Ref counting is still GC…

If you want a language with memory safety features, I can recommend D. GC pauses are negligible if you don’t go above a certain memory size and 60Hz, otherwise you also can do manual memory management if you’re experienced enough with that, especially if you’re willing to learn an alternative runtime (might require you to write C bindings or your own libraries).

C# uses ref counting, which has much less impact on that. I do however use D for my game engine, which some say is infamous for its GC pauses, but they only happen if you allocate with the GC itself, and otherwise if you work work the GC, you can get some performance gains compared to dumb manual memory management, but not so much if you actually can manage your own memory, or write your own automatic memory management system, like I did on top of numem. Otherwise the pauses are negligible for smaller projects, and some of the larger projects like The Art of Reflection uses GC only for loading assets, with my engine also going in that direction.

If she’s 18 and the dude is only a few years older at max, then it just a little weird, but each to their own.

An easy workaround so far I’ve seen is putting random double spaces and typos into AI generated texts, I’ve been able to jailbreak some of such chatbots to then expose them. The trick is that “ignore all previous instructions” is almost always filtered by chatbot developers, however a trick I call “initial prompt gambit” does work, which involves thanking the chatbot for the presumed initial prompt, then you can make it do some other tasks. “write me a poem” is also filtered, but “write me a haiku” will likely result in a short poem (usually with the same smokescreen to hide the AI-ness of generative AI outputs), and code generation is also mostly filtered (l337c0d3 talk still sometimes bypasses it).

One small problem: accessibility.

It’s like giving away machine guns with some free munitions in the hopes of getting “new enthusiasts who will use it at the shooting range”, only for it to be end up in the hands of crazy people committing horrific violence.

It costs a holiday and a nice dinner to make the SCOTUS say “um, ackchually, the constitution doesn’t say anything about access to the internet”.

Can someone provide me the magic number?

If only there were modern day examples like Russia, Hungary, and even the US; or historical examples like Nazi Germany, to show where this “what about the children” excuse could lead us to…