The Chinese models are significantly better and will outcompete the models from the US, it was just a matter of people realizing that.

Maybe not as good as Claude, but they are good enough, and open-source, and free. The US market is going to learn the hard way why open-source curbstomps greedy bullshit.

OpenAI will be the first to fall, and then better players like Claude will be forced to release more open-sourced models.

they will lobby for tariffs or banning Chinese models outright also seems to be coming true.

Then it’ll just come from Germany or France or elsewhere. It doesn’t take millions of dollars to train a good model, despite these US companies pretending that it does.

Just shout “lalalalala” until it goes away. Great strategy, people!

Holy shit… I finally found one of the screenshots for these loaders:

You could load up a disk full of games and tie it to a boot loader menu like this.

I mean, that’s how we ultimately got them. We must have had most of the popular ATARI XL games in two wooden floppy boxes.

But, you gotta respect the networked distribution even back then. Pirates would create their disk packs, upload it to some national BBS. It gets picked up by more local BBSs, and tech-saavy modem users would download it to floppies. All the while sneakernet would carry it down the last mile to fill in the gaps. Some of this shit even went international, as long as somebody dealt with the long-distance fees (or phreaked their way out of them).

EDIT: Just to give you an idea of the network we were dealing with.

There was a pirate scene even in the 80s, during the 8-bit computer era. Transferring games to floppy from a 300 baud modem.

Parents had a good friend of theirs that gave us a ton of games every time he visited. Most of them were game selection startup menus, because the uploaders wanted to use up all of the space on the floppy, so they crammed it up with 6-8 games each. You can still find these disk copies on certain C64/ATARI XL game torrents.

All the while SPA was still pushing anti-piracy commercials on PBS channels. “Don’t copy that floppy” was always their silly tagline.

And yea, once Napster turned into a household name, piracy was mainstream.

Anna’s Archive should hire this same lawyer.

I just want to be able to add PeerTube channels on my Lemmy feed. Unified ActivityPub protocol, my ass.

Well, I can wait for those games’ developers to stop losing their mind and remove the cancer from their game. They aren’t getting one cent from me, otherwise.

More like “AAA games are a big pile of shit, and only AAA games bother trying to fuck over the customer with Denuvo”.

The fascists’ weakness is their extreme overconfidence in everything they do.

Yes, but how does this connect together? I don’t believe for a minute that it’s coincidence.

I’m curious to know the connections between this and Collective Shout.

Gee, I wonder why.

That’s the thing. It’s easy to make something that obviously looks like AI. Slop is slop because it’s lazy and takes five minutes to make. Corpos love slop because they always want to take the minimum time possible to make anything.

However, with a bit more effort, you can make something that doesn’t look like AI at all, and still took less time to make than doing it manually.

With all of this boundary setting, people are just going to hide it better. More hostility just means less transparency. It’s already happening.

I know what’s been going on.

However, the statement “legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow” requires proof because it’s currently not true.

DOB is different. It comes from a legal expectation that correctness of the information will be enforced somehow.

[citation needed]

It’s literally an optional birthDate field in a place where there’s already realName, emailAddress, and location. If you’re concerned about privacy, maybe don’t expose your real name, email, and location.

And it’s not even fucking installed everywhere:

$ userdbctl
Command 'userdbctl' not found, but can be installed with:
sudo apt install systemd-userdbd

Anybody who is calling this age verification is actively lying to you!

This Sam Bent guy should fucking get bent.

It was posted by Yσɠƚԋσʂ themselves, who moderates several lemmy.ml communities. I agree it should be nuked, but it’s not going to be nuked.

In this case Artix already is a systemd-free distro, but this is part of why i think it’s a bad idea that systemd is wanting to implement the age verification crap, cause i think the distro should be allowed to decide if they want to comply or not. Feels like distros that use systemd will be forced to comply unless they change init, which is probably a pain in of itself.

Where do I install an Ageless-style patch to force flagrant non-compliance for systemd distros?

Soooo, why aren’t we hacking these guys to oblivion?