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An open-source, GPLv3 open-world RPG looking for contributors

For a FOSS project you share surprisingly low amounts of info about it: the most vague concept there could possibly be, no tech stack, no ideas, literally nothing, which only tells me that there's no so called "initiative" that you're a part of, it's just you, and your attempt to make other people spend their time and resources to make the game of your dreams for you. Except, judging by the vague (probably AI-written) post here, by laggy (at least on my phone) the most basic-looking landing page you could find (which is 99% vibe-coded), you aren't willing to put even the slightest effort to do even that properly.

If i were ever to develop a foss game, i'd much rather avoid people like you, because what you do is less than mediocre. Judging by others' reaction, i'm not the only one here.

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me every night owo

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my guess would be that that's because it's a common thing amongst modern-day people, and transfems just happen to be slightly more open about it, which is a W for tf community in my book at least.

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Ken Thompson Hack 2.0

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just to clarify, he'd not so much called LLMs "the new compilers" as he compared both to each other in a sense that an LLM is just another layer of analysis tooling between the developer and the final machine code, which, IMO, sounds much more reasonable than calling LLMs "the new compiler".

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Ken Thompson Hack 2.0

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except for poison to take in, it should be a pretty significant part of the dataset. Also, ngl, i'm not much informed on the topic, but aren't all the datasets, if we're talking about generic diffusion models and LLMs, already been formed? From what i gather, the innovation in AI mainly comes from utilizing new architectures, rather than training a model on something unique.

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30 Minute Speed Painting

i think changing the color of the highlight on the hair would be a good idea. With red background and a very close to white skin tone, the white hair highlight at the first glance creates an illusion like the character is balding :D

That, and the face feels kinda flat, my guess, because the lips are disproportionate to the face and break perspective a little. But i can see how if i tried to draw it myself, concerning over curvatures, perspective and whatnot, wouldn't finish even the most basic of sketches even in an hour. So yeah, i'd say you did quite good. Despite the rough strokes, the work creates a feel of gentleness that i can't quite express, but pretty-much makes the artwork a pleasure to look at.

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i've heard of the dataset poisoning and degradation caused by llm-generated content present in the dataset myself, but i'm not sure whether it was a practical observation, or a mere experiment. And I still fail to see how new datasets are really useful for developing a new llms, or how it's a problem for the devs to switch back to the older datasets.

And the cornerstone stays the same: to have any significant effect on the final LLM quality, shouldn't the poisoned (either by llm-produced content, or by intentional poisoning) data portion be... well, statistically significant?

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YOLO

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i think that sort of issues will no longer be relevant, considering that there are official semi-opensource nvidia-open drivers and that even wayland supports nvidia gpus just fine nowadays.

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Thatcher famously said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money", but isn't it the best way to describe billionaires in late stage capitalism?

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I can’t give you an entire education on political economy and socialist history in one comment.

well, good thing you can't, because that would be graphomania, not a concrete answer to my question.

At the very least, socialism works towards solving the conflict that arises when one class of people do all the labour while another class reaps the profits [...]

Still nothing a good ol' law regulation or two can't fix... Without the need for a regime change.

Hell, let's imagine we live in the dreamland, where your average worker earns more-less same as their manager, or, better yet, ceo or even the business founder. Now riddle me this: who'd found the business in the first place? Who'd take the risks if reward is practically nonexistent?

I already hear you saying "we don't need no private enterprise!". I won't even talk about how the product diversity is a very good thing to have, because even if we don't account for that, there's still a new problem, two even. Namely, corruption and enshittification. When everything is centralized, and every enterprise is basically a government-mandated monopoly, those two become very prominent. So prominent, in fact, that by the sheer force of inheritance the post-USSR countries are still more corrupt than their western neighbours. Decentralization is the single most effective method to fight it.

Enshittification? We live in the world where we live, i bet you know how monopolies tied to that word. Thanks to the previous "power word", present in any highly-centralized government, no regulation would prevent it, only make it more creative in some cases.

This conflict is the main source of misery in the world today- war, starvation, deaths from preventable disease, climate change/ecological collapse etc. are all inevitable under capitalism [...]

You count starvation as one of the sources of misery of a modern human? You're either mindlessly quoting a 200yo book, or you live in one of not so many countries that still have problems with food. Newsflash, but starvation is not an issue for the majority of people in the 21st century, and, dare i say, there's no correlation between starvation and capitalism, considering that the entirety of US, EU and pleades of other capitalistic countris haven't known the taste of starvation for a very long time. According to the world resource institute 30-40% of the food produced in the world goes to waste. Any modern convenience store has a wider assortment of food than our ancestors have ever dreamed of. It's almost as if since Carl Marx wrote Das Kapital, the food production had been solved by automatization and advancements in chemistry and biology.

Preventable diseases? Well, technically all diseases can be called preventable, at least medical studies try their best for this statement to be as close to reality as possible, so i'd like you to give me examples of what you consider a "preventable disease", specifically, a preventable disease people systematically die of in all, or at least the majority of capitalist countries specifically due to capitalism-related issues. Because, as i said, if there's one outlier like US, it doesn't paint capitalism as a bad paradigm, it paints US as a deeply problematic country with fucked-up laws.

Next, the ecological issues. It sure is a challenge for humanity to solve, but i won't say it makes us miserable right now. What kind of problems capitalism has with ecology that socialism is guaranteed to solve, or at least "doesn't incentivize"? You think once socialism is established there'd be no schizo-politicians and climate change deniers? Or that a highly-centralized system isn't a fertile soil for lobbying and greenwashing?

And finally, war. There's an old saying. Something about wars ceasing only when there'd be a single person left alive or something. Do i really have to elaborate?

[...] because of the profit motive.

Except socialism doesn't get rid of the profit motive. It just moves it from per-enterprise to global economy scale, i.e. it practically turns whole country into a single gargantuan enterprise working for its profit.

Those things can all happen under socialism, but the system itself doesn’t incentivize them.

I tend to disagree. Check my previous paragraph to get the reason.

To summarize what i'm saying, everything is a poison if the dose is wrong. I think the path to the least shitty system lies through gradual changes of the existing system in response to the immediate concerns

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Thatcher famously said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money", but isn't it the best way to describe billionaires in late stage capitalism?

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i'm here because i don't like to sit in an echo-chamber, preferring to trial my views in a dialectic process of discussion:)

Also, this comm kinda mainly relates to US when it needs to dunk on capitalism, which kinda tells more about US and its inbred political system, than it is telling about capitalism itself.

Now, how about you elaborate, telling exactly how socialism would work better than a capitalistic system with all the regulations and welfare would, rather than giving me a non-answer?