I'd prefer AI models be allowed to retain any and all information from any library book, or be able to reference full texts at will. Copyright law is very outdated for current technology.

Quoting: Purple Library GuyOn the copyright front, apparently researchers at Stanford tested the AIs from the main companies by prompting them with the first line of various books and asking them to continue the story verbatim. There were variants between engines on how sneaky they had to be with the query (Grok: not sneaky at all), but they pulled out 95% of "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone", "The Hobbit" and so on. All those engines would just give you chapter after chapter. This matters because the AI companies had repeatedly claimed that they don't actually store the texts they train on in any way (originally they also claimed they didn't pirate actual copyrighted books, either, but that got found out so the fall back was that they sort of didn't keep them). There's copyright lawsuits going on, so it may matter that it turns out they totally do store those texts they stole.

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When artists use AI to create code: 👍🏻
When coders use AI to create art: 😡

I find this amusing.

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Great coverage, Liam - this is something I'll expect Valve will pick up and run with.

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Quoting: Purple Library GuySomeone definitely needs to be getting the Chinese onto Linux.

There is Deepin, linux is at least not entirely absent.

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Quoting: ElectricPrismwhat the world needs is to stay united in technological partnerships. Similar to advancing science just for the sake of science. Advancing technology for the sake of technological innovation to make the best future possible.

I would argue the opposite. Independent products from independent thinkers will take us in new directions, solving problems in new and novel ways. The best of those will thrive and influence the rest of the world, this is especially the case in FOSS imo.

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Quoting: Jarmer

Quoting: Mountain Man$170 seems pretty steep considering you can buy a low-end laptop for that price.

Absolutely zero $170 laptops on earth are worth paying $170 for. This is at least worth the cash if you use it for the purpose of turning the steam deck or other handheld (maybe android phones?) into proper computer.

Whether or not you think a $170 laptop is worth the cost is beside the point. There's a whole lot more hardware in even a cheap Chromebook than there is in this thing, so I'm a bit baffled why it costs so much.

There are several reasons one can find cheap laptops - economy of scale, market share, and category market share. The reason this product isn't cheaper is for those very same reasons.

This product barely even has a recognizable category at all, it's novel. I think it's a great idea which I hope catches on, but for now it is very niche. Meanwhile, budget laptops (those sold for under $200) make up 30%-40% of the total laptop market share. That's huge considering laptop sales "are expected to hit almost $150 billion in global revenue by 2025." Compare that to how much was raised in the Kickstarter.

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Quoting: Purple Library Guy

Quoting: GuestWhat is woke?

Depends who you ask. Originally it came from a comment made by some black guy and had to do with waking up and smelling the coffee about racist shit. Antiracist liberals adopted it. Some of them got finicky about it.

Because of this, American alt-right Republicans and those influenced by them, who have a serious hate on for the mere idea of admitting that racism exists and has real impacts because, like, they're the beneficiaries, have begun using the term to mean "Absolutely anything I don't personally like, all of which shall now be considered evil and communist".

In the context of a game, it probably means something like, some of the characters are different races, genders, orientations or whatnot, which is terrible and woke because nature intended that all game characters be manly, muscular white males. Or it could just be any random thing, which got designated "woke" just because an anti-woke type didn't like it.

"Woke" the term in fact comes from a Leadbelly song, a black American folk singer. He's quite awesome, many artists have covered his songs though he died a long time ago (1888–1949). "There's a Man Going Round Taking Name" is a good one, Johnny Cash among others covered it. Nirvana covered "Where Did You Sleep Last Night" on their Unplugged album.

"Woke" has real meanings beyond the pejoratives you alluded to:

"In brief, “woke” means having awakened to having a particular type of “critical consciousness,” as these are understood within Critical Social Justice. To first approximation, being woke means viewing society through various critical lenses, as defined by various critical theories bent in service of an ideology most people currently call “Social Justice.” That is, being woke means having taken on the worldview of Critical Social Justice, which sees the world only in terms of unjust power dynamics and the need to dismantle problematic systems. That is, it means having adopted [critical postmodern] Theory and the worldview it conceptualizes.

Under “wokeness,” this awakened consciousness is set particularly with regard to issues of identity, like race, sex, gender, sexuality, and others. The terminology derives from the idea of having been awakened (or, “woke up”) to an awareness of the allegedly systemic nature of racism, sexism, and other oppressive power dynamics and the true nature of privilege, domination, and marginalization in society and understanding the role in dominant discourses in producing and maintaining these structural forces. Furthermore, being woke carries the imperative to become a social activist with regard to these issues and problems, again, on the terms set by Critical Social Justice. This—especially for white people—is to include a lifelong commitment to an ongoing process of self-reflection, self-criticism, and (progressive) social activism in the name of Theory and Social Justice (see also, antiracism).

Historically, the term “woke” has been used somewhat extensively in slang throughout the twentieth century to refer to a state of awareness of the discrimination, disenfranchisement, and mistreatment of blacks, especially in America, and it is in that sense always had some connection to the critical mode of thought in the New Left. (See also, black liberation, liberation theology, false consciousness, and consciousness raising.) The term is alleged to have gained its first contemporary connotation in 2008 with the Erykah Badu song “Master Teacher,” in which Badu envisions and dreams of a world of racial equality and then advises genuine activism with the admonishment that listeners should “stay woke.” The term developed from there, particularly via black activism on Twitter.

The term then gained particular significance and tied itself to the contemporary Social Justice movement in the mid 2010s as it became an activist watchword of the Black Lives Matter movement. There, say following the police shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, the phrase “stay woke” took on the very specific meaning of being aware of the reality (according to critical race Theory) of systemic racism in American society that activists blamed for being at the root of the incident. This has, in turn, led to the term being nearly synonymous with having a critical consciousness as provided through critical race Theory, although it has been appropriated through intersectional thought to apply to other issues of identity relevant to postcolonial Theory, queer Theory, feminism, and so on. It has since expanded and memefied further and is now seen from the outside as being wholly synonymous with having been converted to a Social Justice critical consciousness. As such, “wokeness” often refers to both critical Social Justice doctrine and the state of having accepted it.

In that “wokeness” has become a term directly associated with the critical consciousness provided by applied postmodern theories, especially critical race theory (see also, postmodern, Marxian, Neo-Marxism, Post-Marxism, and Cultural Marxism). As such, it is centrally concerned with being aware of the intersecting systems of racism, sexism, and other forms of alleged societal oppression and analyzing these in terms of privilege. This is most often done, under woke consciousness, by engaging in discourse analysis, especially using close reading, which enables racism (or other systemic bigotries) that are assumed to be present in all situations to then be read into them. This is then treated as proof of the systemic problem that was assumed to exist in the first place (see also, mask). Being “woke” would entail being able to “see” the intersecting web of dominance and oppression that arises from the function of privilege in society and taking up efforts to challenge, disrupt, subvert, deconstruct, or overthrow the existing system in the attempt to bring those unjust intersecting power dynamics to an end (see also, Matrix of Domination)."

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"The world and character design definitely looks good in this one"

Agreed, seems very cool - I'd love exploring the mysteries and secrets such a world offers. Movement looks a little on the clunky side at the moment, let's hope it gets more fluid before full release.

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Quoting: hardpenguinAlso: the first 5 people to comment with a funny joke about robots will get a Steam key for D-Corp ☺️✌️

Why did the robot cross the road?

He had to get to his Charger.

Knock knock

Who's there?

Robot.

Robot who?

Syntax error in punchline, sorry Dave.

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SV is one of the best games I've ever played. It is easily the best solo project out there.

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