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Holy gracious smokes... I rarely comment on such cases, but... but sometimes it's so challenging to... to realize how "AI" is getting used nowadays even if you try closing eyes on it already just to keep moving forward... and not stagnate in sorrow...

I've just noticed the following video-game posted, and which was blurred by an anti-AI extension installed, "AI Warning For Steam".

I would skip it entirely if not a recent conversation regarding it noticed on certain IRC channel, and myself having experience in crystal manufactories... Then, I opened the Steam store page, and read:

    > # AI Generated Content Disclosure...
    > 
    > Some of the artwork used on this store page, including the capsule art, was created using generative AI tools.
    > 
    > Source: https://store.steampowered.com/app/5095670/Chip_Builder
Dear ruby smokes... The Authors, Artists, Developers of such projects, please do consider taking a photo of an actual motherboard with the logo engraved or applied in Photoshop... and remove this sorrowful disclosure...

Otherwise, your project may get missed, unnoticed, and not get a significant attention from those who actually search for it...

The "capsule art" mentioned: https://shared.fastly.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/stea...

Re:Reverse engineering a Beyblade launch tracker on Sunday October 25, 2026 @07:50PM (#50237211)

    > But I knew I could take this even further! Why not recreate DiZZi itself, complete with its sassy personality, and have it roast my launches and Beyblading skills? After all, we live in the AI era...
    >
    > Source: https://blog.simone.computer/reverse-beyblade-launch-tracker
Thank you... thank you heartfelt... for not using that sorrowful, void-bloody awfully misused technology for more than that, at least...

Thank you actually achieving everything else yourself... with your own hands, your effort, your own attitude and unique ideas...

This is an actual achievement to keep safe in the history with a name on it! A name of an alive developer, artist, an infinitely miraculous individual who discovers, learns, and treasures even higher achievements!

This non-AI projects is an alive project... which is an achievement indeed... to learn from, to keep safe in the history, to return to eventually, and get inspiration from!

Thank you, dear Simone Marzulli!

Thank you! Of course! I do believe these cases are dreams for LLM vendors to advertize themselves regardless truth, and many believe trends over actual evidence...

Please do consider sharing the actual evidence to keep in the history, and respect actual human authors involved, their effort, time, and humane attitude... for discoveries, competition, actual achievements to learn from and get inspiration...

Re:The Lucrative World of Literary Scams on Wednesday October 21, 2026 @08:36AM (#50179874)

    > "Not every author is a narcissist, but they all want to be recognized… That's exactly what these scammers are targeting. They have identified a very, very lucrative niche."...
    > 
    > Writers are waiting "for somebody to read their writing," Hoy added. She argued that is why many writers believe the praise scammers heap on them. AI makes many of the compliments sound nuanced and personalized. Elderly authors are particularly vulnerable. As Hoy explained, a significant number of people who have a book in them leave off the writing until they have retired. Something else also kicks into the picture at this life stage: a sizable retirement fund...
    > 
    > ...the voices seemed human...
    > 
    > It is happening all over the world...
Holy gracious smokes... This is such a sorrow... Please... please... dear Artists, People... please don't give up! Please just do the miracle, your professional, ingenious, the invaluably precious, ineffably magnificent Art!
Considering this is a slop (Cursor was used) and the author may not have enough experience in the subjects involved, why implement a yet another wheel, and not "improve" already existing like the following, infesting it with a yet another lifeless AI?: https://linkding.link/
This "restriction" probably has more to do with the fact that these models are also "trained" on User/Human messages, so the more swearing/obscenities/vulgarity/profanity there are, in the trained material, the higher the chance these same models will include that same profanity in the output generated back to the Human.

    1. During registration at Ahtrophic's Claude website, there’s a "Help improve our AI models" checkbox that's checked by default (you "can" disable it in the settings);
    2. The Claude interface has an "incognito" mode;
    3. There is a free tier available, and as we know, when it's "free", then User themselves is the "product", to quote various CEOs, including Google's;
But, even with the checkbox disabled, I reckon nothing guarantees privacy.

In case of the "privacy", of course, systems like these that operate under a umbrella of liability are monitored 24/7 by dedicated teams, which is expected/normal for any reasonably popular service.

From a viewpoint of the algorithm's creator, this may seem awful, when your algorithm is getting much vulgar attitude, but let's be real here. You try making that algorithm talk to the human mimicking another human, and now limit the human within your own environment? A human who also pay you for an access, too? This feels unfair, or borderline near fashism, sorry...

Such algorithms are art under-the-hood, mathematically speaking, and are/should be respected, sure. But, it's ridiculous/dystopian to prohibit profanity against an algorithm, a bot with banish risks against alive human... It's simply inhumane to ban a Human for it, I believe. This is an algorithm that must support a Human - not judge it. Only a Human is supposed to judge another Human in person - this is live, fair, and humane.

Re:If AI is conscient, then we are making slaves on Saturday October 10, 2026 @01:39AM (#50029931)
Aren't we, infinitely miraculous human, are becoming slaves?

    1. Become more dependent on the AI vendors...
    2. Become more dependent on the AI, atrophy gradually
    3. Think less, pay more
    4. Pay more, think less
    5. Pay more
    6. Depend more
    7. Pay more
    8. Give everything to those who run DataCenters or have unlimited access to LLM/AI
    9. Become homeless
    10. Fail to support your own family
    11. Devalue and obliterate your art and history
    12. Devalue and obliterate human art and history
    13. Depend more
    14. Depend more
    15. Depend more...
Re:Teaching a World Model to Play Pokemon on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:59PM (#49851709)
This is so dear sorrowful...

Art is a conversation between two people, that is a timeless communication between human.

An artwork to realize... to surf within to learn from, to listen to, to realize someone's images, someone's ideas, someone's worries, someone's messages... someone...

Art is someone's work of life, their experience, their... love...

There's human time in art... in a book, article, painting, soundscape, film, video-game... there's alive time of other human who reified their life experience, views, ideas... in an artwork and passed it to the outer world... to be inscribed in the infinitely magnificent history...

This...? This is just, sorry, deadly awful, dreadful, dark, and dear pain in heart... This is also disrespectful towards the Artists, Developers, people who worked on the Universe and this exact artwork...

This is utterly sorrowful...

Re:The Price of Intelligence Is Falling Rapidly on Wednesday September 23, 2026 @10:16AM (#49816560)
These ML/LLM/AI are systems where no one will ever be accountable for and guarantee its stability, safety, and its value.

ML/LLM/AI may be useful, but it must always be considered unauthorized, mistrust, experimental, unverified, always probable to fail on each iteration. Its data must always be accountably supervized by an alive human, who realizes responsibility, life, pain, art, effort, love... Always, even at 2999+ years/times. No life/pain/art/love is no sense/trust/confidence/respect/safety.

That is, it may be fun to play with as a toy, as any ML/LLM/AI based system, where no trust exist but only probability, entropy, chance, luck... but nothing serious, time-rewarding, or humane enough to appreciate and love it in the long run.

An actual Developer is someone who prioritizes thinking and solution finding relying on something deterministic and accountable.

All systems based on LLM, ML, or anything that is algorithmically based on feedback system, learning, training, is indeterministic, and hence, always inaccurate, unreliable, and irresponsible systems, by design.

The process of art-working, coding, programming, development, solution finding... that feel of an achievement. This is what I understand, too. There's no achievement in anything AI-driven - it based on luck/moment/probability/chance.

"Oh My God! Please, all Gods, make this AI output the finally correct code! Please!"

Fudge it.

And you also pay for it. You pay and depend on it, on the the luck, for the chance, for the probability someone controls for you over an API or algorithm you don't even know or cannot verify due its "self-training" design, or it being close-sourced.

> ...you're gatekeeping programming... you are not seeing the big picture... you are missing opportunities...

No, sorry, never. I do not agree with that. These "responses" are coming from infants, immature, children, I believe, sorry... from those who could not care less about the development, responsibility, the overall process of the life of us, people, to find solutions, to reach the goals, to treasure achievements, to write our history with actual names of people on papers sign on papers by hand... for what will leave after us, with art, statues, quotes... in the infinite history of the ineffably magnificent world...

Your name should be in the code you write alone or with a team, your commits, solutions. Your work must be acknowledged and kept in the history. You should be always a respectable alive artist, who is responsible for their work. Our history must evolve, be preserved, respected, appreciated, and shine with glory of our achievements with human names in it for the incredibly marvelous future of opportunities, discoveries, love, and purely magnificent marvel.

There's whole space out there, still, and we must add and keep human names in the history cherished.

> Machines should work. People should think. ~ IBM

Re:Jev-Leftpad on Monday September 21, 2026 @05:54AM (#49785192)
Now that's a rare GitHub Username!

Though, again, a yet another project for a yet another "AI" to make someone else more dependent on it...

Related:

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jev_(AI_model)  
    https://typesafe.ai/
Re:The next GitHub is not worth winning on Sunday August 23, 2026 @11:58PM (#49415062)
And it shows:

    > Forgejo's code base (especially frontend) is quite out-dated, so nothing to do with Gitea.
    > 
    > Source: https://github.com/go-gitea/gitea/issues/6058#issuecomment-5351342357 [2026-08-20 04-25-05Z]
Yes, a fear of license change, forking, and maintaining by enthusiasts is sure understandable, and is a miracle, but it does not let you to just dim/negate/forget the so marvelous history and human effort that allowed the fork, with still so little but appreciated changes, to even exist.
Re:The next GitHub is not worth winning on Sunday August 23, 2026 @04:23AM (#49407020)
The author mentioned Forgejo, but why don't mention Gitea that is the direct fork of Forgejo without which the former would not even exist?

Why skip such a marvelous project that is still modern and inherits a marvelous amount of human time and work within?

Perhaps like you, I did contribute pull-requests/issues to the Gitea project, and know people who did, too. Why do you mention a fork that changed the license and added possibly just a few if compared to the initial base repository of the Gitea and its Action Runner based on nektos/act they mentioned in their own fork even, too?

Is this how they dim so recent history, but why?

Re:There's no such thing as a small software team anymore on Thursday August 20, 2026 @09:07PM (#49382427)
Thank you. I do not believe the author has any idea what he is talking about, too. It's worth to also mention some basics:

    1. Dependency on some outsourced LLM vendors (no Internet? No API response? Welp, you do you.);
    2. Undefined amount of payments/paid subscriptions at vendors;
    3. Undefined amount of tokens burnt on each prompt/iteration within undisclosed algorithms;
    4. Absolutely no responsibility/copyright for the LLM output;
    5. Privacy concerns on inside/company project source code uploaded;
    6. Incremental eventual atrophy of developer's own skills;
    7. Inhuman attitude for art, development, effort, purpose in general, since the models are built on stolen effort of other, now unknown, people...
Does the contributor of Canonical mentioned consider the fair difference between the absence of any telemetry on actual Linux desktop people just opt-out initially, and the forced/hidden telemetry on Windows?

How is that even possible to compare these numbers and state anything aloud like this, if we have literally no idea how many genuine Ubuntu setups are there with absolutely no Microsoft involved?

Sorry, but I believe the blog post author's statements regarding "statistics" are not fair, inaccurate, and simply invalid.

The "AI" part is a literal nonsense, bigotry, and just awful, too. The author should rather check the following stance, and reconsider his history and life decisions, I believe:

    > AI drive-by issues, pull requests and security reports are overwhelming maintainers. Rising security expectations (thanks Mythos) require maintainers to do even more work. Open source funding is hard to secure and insufficient.
    > 
    > Some of this is happening, but I’m sure as hell not seeing it in Homebrew...
    > 
    > As I’ve written before, the scarcest resource in open source is not money but the motivation of the maintainers.
    > 
    > # Fun Is Social
    > 
    > My first real experience of OSS was with a successful, established project whose culture I could observe. It was KDE, the community behind a desktop environment for Linux...
    >  
    > Firstly, this was weird because, if you read the discourse online, you were typically in the camp of “KDE SUCKS, GNOME ROCKS” or “GNOME SUCKS, KDE ROCKS”. And yet: you had both groups working together. Not just working together but eating, drinking, socialising and building new friendships...
    > 
    > Source: https://mikemcquaid.com/open-source-must-be-fun-or-it-will-die
  
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P.S. When I published the identical comment in the blog post comment section, via their Disqus feature below, their moderator just deleted my message, too, at ~1830 UTC.

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    > Our goal isn't to increase the volume of AI-made assets on the marketplace. It's to give designers better tools to work faster and focus more of their time on creative work.
    > 
    > Source: https://www.404media.co/ai-generated-3d-models-flood-market-but-almost-no-one-is-buying-them
This is not art. I do not and never will believe "AI" supports the creativity mentioned. More to that, I believe only not artists would say that nonsense. Or, sorry, a dear idiot even, who could not care less about art, human, the future at all.

Do you even realize how ineffably much an artist may imagine, consider, realize, choose while actually creating? It may be weeks, months, years... when artists developers, creates, enchants their unique miraculous creation... making it invaluable... an actual art...

These human experienced choices are immeasurably important where no "AI" should ever exist... The effortful lovely choices, where every single choice polishes an artwork... reifying it into a perfect or an imperfectly perfect miracle...

Re:SearXNG in Rust on Monday August 03, 2026 @03:58PM (#49160659)
Thank you. Good point, but I did not mention anything about "auditing" but: "developing", "accountability", "art", and "mind".

There's no "religion" nor "subjectivity" here, and I have no issues with any developer who uses LLM for reviewing and auditing if they have no time or don't know anyone nor participate in Communities who will support a project in the subjects required.

If you still develop with your mind, accoutnability, creativity, and effort towards actually learning, getting valuable experience, and always prioritize a human, art, and effort, you should better know when use an LLM and when not, considering an undefined magnitude of marvelous knowledge, people, and experience you will definitely miss meanwhile, possibly remembering nothing and have no idea what you're doing at all alongside the non-accountable and prone to nonsense algorithm as LLM.

For example, if you do not consider the meat-ground miracles and artworks inside a yet another "free"/sold LLM dataset of now defaced/unknown artists, developers, engineers mentioned, people (like you and me), then if you prompt for a case to audit, require all sources to the evidence/suggestions found, carefully read the output, and manually approach it making notes to learn from and base your future on, it still may be considered an accountable development process.

Re:SearXNG in Rust on Monday August 03, 2026 @01:42PM (#49159058)
What 's worth to mention is that no sorrowful effortless awful LLM/"AI" use is seen to be used, from the first glance, thankfully...

- https://github.com/MikeLuu99/searxng-rust/graphs/contributor... (as of 2026-08-03)

Though without actually checking out the source code, I believe it initially suggests respect, trust, and heartfelt gratitude towards the author, their experience, and the attitude the author bases on their miracle to be inscribed in the infinite history we all participate in...

Thank you, dear MikeLuu99, for you actually developing, being an actual developer, and the art... you do...

I wish you safety, prosperity, stability... and to your project to be acknowledged, receive enough attention, and to successfully set itself as a miracle to cherish...

Re:Mathematics Without Mathematicians on Sunday August 02, 2026 @06:14AM (#49142974)

    > The AIs will exceed humans in taste and intuition...  
    > The AIs will be better teachers than the humans. In any case, there won’t be a human audience for expository work of frontier math.  
    > No human needs to understand any of it...
Absolute nonsense. I am sorry, but... is it appropriate to not consider the author sick or having some mental disorder?

It seems like the person has no idea what they are talking about, or just too sarcastic to the point of idiotism.

Re:Hooray for the Sockets Interface on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @11:08PM (#49092991)

    > Many early modems were acoustic couplers attached to telephone handsets using Velcro — one part was a microphone, the other a speaker. You connected by dialling the phone...
    > 
    > Tools like the Unix-to-Unix Copy Program (UUCP) used scripts that called cu or similar tools to establish connections, then transferred data...
    > 
    > UUCP was how we sent mail, read network news, and received (small) files. For much of the research community, it effectively was the network...
    >
    > Sockets changed all this.
    > 
    > Source: https://blog.apnic.net/2026/07/28/hooray-for-the-sockets-interface
So much has changed... yet so much has not... All are pure marvels and based on dear miracles...
Re:ReFrame – The EPaper Camera on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @09:06PM (#49092163)

    > With ePaper, the photo on screen stays there even after powering off.  
    > The only way to clear the screen is to take a new photo.
    > 
    > Source: https://reframe.camera 
Thank you... dear developers, artists, people... for the marvel, art you do...
Re:Pacing the Frontier on Tuesday July 28, 2026 @04:59PM (#49089826)
The website does not list all the comments but just around ~50 without any way to load all the ~+1100 more (1132, as of 2026-07-28 2100 UTC).

The number of em-dashes is questionable, existing in many, if not all, the comments.

    > ...AI may end up progressing far more quickly than societies and states can adapt... ~ Stephanie Chan, Google  
I am sorry, but I am not sure whether it's adequate and fair to allow join such statements/petitions to only those who live in it. Isn't it like allow deciding the future for weaponry laws to weapon and war enthusiasts only?

And, this is not serious at this point:

    > ... ~ Source: Anonymous, Meta
    > ... ~ Source: Anonymous, Google
Re:Humans Haven't Stopped Evolving on Sunday July 26, 2026 @09:27AM (#49058005)
> Do you think we will become more and more tolerant?

I do not, sorry. This question feels quite odd to see, too, frankly. I became intolerant in ~20 years just "because", and only when I checked at medics for non-related general tests, and out of the blue it showed on the results paper. And And this is when I never had any abnormal meals with it, but just casually and normally as any other one, I believe. It was like a blow to the gut...

This intolerance changes the life much. It makes impossible to have any meals with other people in group or be afraid of trying anything that may have any kind of milk in it, and you may imagine that there's so much of it out there... including many kinds of common bread, cakes, candies, certain cheese, coffee as Latte, Cappuccino etc. The aftereffect depends on the person, and some have diarrhea-type issues, but in the case here, it only the stomach that hurts so much as if someone cuts it inside-out. There are tablets, but... it's always dear scary and it doesn't help much...

Currently, I am ~1.75m and ~63kg in ~40 years old woman, and I see more of this intolerance become normalized in European and Asian countries where some stores sell lactose-free holy milk and some cafes offer a so much appreciated lactoze-free lovely coffee...

Re:Humans Haven't Stopped Evolving on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:59PM (#49054585)
The chose for the illustration is marvelous, no words... I love it...

Thank you for mentioning the Artists of so ineffably magnificent works:

- https://luisajung.com/

Re:I Regret Migrating to Codeberg on Thursday July 23, 2026 @10:46AM (#49022506)

    > The announcement blog post, however, reads very poorly, and the section titled “The development team of none” is the worst of it. It states:

    > > Using LLMs to work with your code gives you a kick of adrenaline. You can develop at a rapid pace, build things as if you had a large team. Only that you have none. In fact, you are (often) alone, working with a statistical machine that turns energy into code.
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This naive "rapid pace"...

Those who do in that careless "pace" will invest more time maintaining it, fixing it, supporting it, or well... realizing it, I believe.

Not to mention that they make themselves more and more dependent on some LLM vendor prospering these vendors with each iteration and tokens burned, and training their models on your own ideas, creativity, and your time of life. Yet, not a single person will guarantee a stable outcome, and no one to blame after. Is that "development"? That is dark horrific sorrow.

This "vibe coding" may be quick at starters, if lucky and all Gods and the Fortune got you, yet supporting that and investing your life time after?

No, never. I have my own mind to train. The people I work with have their own minds. The Communities out there have their own minds. We all have our mind to develop, and learn from each other. Otherwise, it’s empty, pointless, and not art you will be proud of as a developer who inscribes moments in the history, and stand your name in it.

Re:A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @11:00PM (#49001304)
Roger that! I'll look forward for an update, and hope to catch the moment and learn from it!

Meanwhile, I do wish you, and the whole team, success, stability, and peace!

Re:A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:49PM (#49001234)
Roger that! Thank you for the reference to the Artist!
Re:A flaky test exposed a Redis client use-after-free on Tuesday July 21, 2026 @10:00PM (#49000923)
Thank you very much! This is great read! Though, no actual steps mentioned, including the:

> From this, he ascertained that the exception was triggered by a call to the C function memmove. While the source and destination addresses for this call looked sane, the size field was set to...

I do get the most of these stated, but it would be awesome to know more about how he did actually find it, and with what toolset. Was is gdb, Valgrind, JetBrains, IDA Pro, or some another general/complex dump viewer/toolset?

And, the interactive miracle, at the top of the website is freaking marvelous... It reminded me of the articles of the fluid simulation algorithms of Yusuke Endoh! Heartfelt gratitude to the developer, the artist who implemented it!

Apparently, behind the scene, the fluid colors are contained in an array where every single color has a defined meaning!

     // categories in STACK order: index 0 at the floor → 4 at the surface
     const CATS = [
       { key: "Code", rgb: [133, 232, 157] },
       { key: "Craft", rgb: [179, 146, 240] },
       { key: "Lessons", rgb: [249, 117, 131] },
       { key: "Story", rgb: [255, 171, 112] },
       { key: "Opinion", rgb: [158, 203, 255] },
     ];

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