bigyabai

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by bigyabai 1mo ago
To my knowledge, AI has one (1) single catastrophic downside. It lowers the waterline for exploitation of internet-connected devices. We know we're vulnerable, and we aren't ready. Claims of AGI, ASI, RSI, are all unsubstantiated
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Because the desktop Linux stack is replete with LLM-related contributor policies.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Who volunteers to be the shmuck that fights Nintendo's lawyers in court? Who's funding the defense against Apple? It's safest to err on the side of plausible deniability, any proximity to OEM software increases liability if t
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I'm only asking for (1); Apple can keep breaking APIs forever as long as they support the libraries that enable Proton. (2) is precisely the reason why nobody can port games to macOS anymore, and largely why ARM is a second-class citiz
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
It's not my policy, and I don't personally agree with many/most of them. But they do objectively exist in many desktop Linux projects. If you are the sort of person that sees software as "dead in the water" from A
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
That is the point. Valve is maintaining the patches; Apple has to do nothing besides support compliant Vulkan 1.2+ drivers (which their community already does). Apple doesn't need to implement ntsync to support Proton or DXVK, eith
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
If contributor policies are enough to make projects "dead in the water" for you, the rest of Linux' desktop efforts will leave you appalled.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Probably not. Clean room RE is serious business, projects like Dolphin have to carefully vet contributors to remain legal.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I wouldn't expect "flawless" support for those chips in the next decade, even with AI. The earliest-supported Asahi chips still have missing power management and dark silicon. The only way to get flawless Linux support is to
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Nothing. I hope those companies go bankrupt, I'm not underwriting their failure to support their customers with my time and effort.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Once a country develops midcourse ballistic missile intercept technology, it's practically impossible to not own an ASAT weapon. It's just a matter of targeting and programming. This can lead to "defensive" efforts tha
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> just for asking simple questions Could you paraphrase any of those simple questions? It seems like a weird thing to omit. If your "simple question" is something that violates the CoC then I can understand why they'd push
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Linux is just a kernel. It is so stable and boring that you can oftentimes update the kernel in-place, without rebooting, and nothing will break. > It is basically the same Android versus iPhone argument. Maybe, if you've never used
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> but it's just not there for the "home user" Vanilla Arch definitely isn't, sure. But there are distros with immutable root and Flatpak-focused package management that work fine for the ordinary home user. SteamOS is
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
It's also a boring retort. Current LLMs can be faster and likely smarter than any one person when it comes to hacking. We're already in the endgame, as far as real-world risks go.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Yeah. Do you think we should regulate Red Mercury just in case someone figures out how to build a nuke with it? Red mercury and RSI are both science fiction psyops. They do not exist.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> For a good period of my life I don't think I had same Linux install on my personal machines for longer than three months. ...this seems like the obvious problem? Both of my NixOS installs are ~4 and 1/2 years old now. If you&
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Microsoft Office and Adobe products had FOSS alternatives before AI ever existed. Between Libreoffice and Google Docs, I haven't touched MS365 products in almost a decade now. The problem is usually a licensing/compliance/sup
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
I am talking about PC gaming, and more specifically modern DXVK/Wine support. There's no need for ports, as the Steam Deck showed. Apple Silicon GPUs are all capable of supporting Vulkan 1.3 and translating DirectX code. Proton 11
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> The open weights proponents seem to think of ai as a utility when it’s more like a utility that also is a tank You could say the same about normal computers. Where are our regulations on Kali Linux, to prevent people from bruteforcing
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> It seems like Apple could very easily turn the AppleTV into a proper game console Apple could turn the Mac, iPad or Vision Pro into a proper gaming console, too. It's just not something they are willing to do, no matter how well-p
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Because I want to identify with luxury brands, celebrities and lifestyle corporations, but can't stand when they virtue signal what I hate.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> We deserve to get our time back > I would be pretty proud if I could fight for my users' time. It's the most beautiful thing we get as humans. You don't need Apple to fight for any of these things.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> I am saying VR had a great run. I am saying that too. AR had a comparatively terrible run - it's possible that Apple's Vision Pro moved even less units than XReal. VR is niche, but a real market. It coexists with the AR wor
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
There's an accessory that adds high-res color passthrough: https://arcturus.vision/ > If they were trying to make this an affordable device I'd understand, but it's over a thousand dollars. It costs less t
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
> as long as you mute the topics that get annoying People have been saying this since the Dorsey days, they were wrong back then and they're still wrong today.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
...relative to what, Windows 11?
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
The XReal is practically guaranteed to have sold less units than any generation of the Quest hardware.
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Yeah, their pitch still reads like parody: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/flock-safety
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by bigyabai 1mo ago
Also exciting, Valve has finally started shipping native ARM/FEX builds of Proton 11: https://www.pcgamer.com/games/vr/valves-latest-proton-11-bet... Will be super interesting to benchmark various ARM chips a

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