A user asked on the official Lutris GitHub two weeks ago "is lutris slop now" and noted an increasing amount of "LLM generated commits". To which the Lutris creator replied:

It's only slop if you don't know what you're doing and/or are using low quality tools. But I have over 30 years of programming experience and use the best tool currently available. It was tremendously helpful in helping me catch up with everything I wasn't able to do last year because of health issues / depression.

There are massive issues with AI tech, but those are caused by our current capitalist culture, not the tools themselves. In many ways, it couldn't have been implemented in a worse way but it was AI that bought all the RAM, it was OpenAI. It was not AI that stole copyrighted content, it was Facebook. It wasn't AI that laid off thousands of employees, it's deluded executives who don't understand that this tool is an augmentation, not a replacement for humans.

I'm not a big fan of having to pay a monthly sub to Anthropic, I don't like depending on cloud services. But a few months ago (and I was pretty much at my lowest back then, barely able to do anything), I realized that this stuff was starting to do a competent job and was very valuable. And at least I'm not paying Google, Facebook, OpenAI or some company that cooperates with the US army.

Anyway, I was suspecting that this "issue" might come up so I've removed the Claude co-authorship from the commits a few days ago. So good luck figuring out what's generated and what is not. Whether or not I use Claude is not going to change society, this requires changes at a deeper level, and we all know that nothing is going to improve with the current US administration.

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They were going to get £55 from me but now they're getting nothing!

Instagram appears to be stepping back from end-to-end encrypted messaging — a surprising move after years of Meta, its parent company, promoting strong encryption as the future of private communication.

A notice on Instagram’s help pages now says end-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026. The page instructs affected users to download any chat messages or shared media they want to keep before that date.

Just a PSA.

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Sorry to link to Reddit, but not only is the dev sloppily using using Claude to do something like 20k line PRs, but they are completely crashing out, banning people from the Discord (actually I think they wiped everything from Discord now), and accusing people forking their code of theft.

It’s a bummer because the app was pretty good… thankfully Calibre-web and Kavita still exist.

Today’s game is some more Minecraft Legacy Console edition. It updated today which makes me thankful because it seems to have stopped the crashing bug I had been having. Now my friends are crashing, which is bad, but not as bad as me crashing because they can just rejoin me without any progress lost.

My friends have been building this pyramid base in the jungle. We’ve started messing with eachother though and I’ve been specifically just hiding for another friend living with him to find. For some reason it drives the guy crazy that I’m in his walls. I’ve had a few good hiding spots. I hid: Under the water in a door In their walls Against a tree using a skin really well camouflaged In their walls again And under their bed

It’s all in good fun, but I’ve been having a good time just messing with this friend. No destructive griefing. Just hiding and watching him.

I also built a sky bridge connecting our bases. I need to build a path connecting to our other friend that just joined too, but for now it’s a start.

I ended off tonight by building one less obnoxious but harmless prank on my friends. I built what I call my “sky pillar”. A giant egregious pillar in the sky just out of their “space” but within eyesight. I built a cozy little home up there.

It took a while to get the supplies because it was a lot of wood. The bridge made it easy though. Just hop onto the tree, chop it down from the top down. Start over from a new one. Super easy. I meant to get a screenshot of the pillar but got side tracked once I heard them look over and go “what the fuck is that”. It’s wood. So if they really want it gone it can be burned down but it looks like it’s here to stay for a while as they’ve grown fond of the sky pillar.

Hey all. I've recently swapped to Linux and I've been really enjoying it so far. I'm still pretty new to basically every aspect of it, though, so I'm not super sure what things I should be wary of with regard to hardware, in particular with Mint.

I was looking at buying a newer laptop to keep up with my main game, but it occurred to me that newer hardware may come with either a host of issues or be less supported than older hardware.

Any advice for laptops in this regard?

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adding AI to everything will continue until morale improves

Hey all,
I want to get away from Android, at the moment my solution is a flip phone. it runs an old version of Android GO, but the lack of practicality drives me away from using it frequently.
are there any good phone/distro combos with working VoLTE? anything to avoid? any advice or recs would be great.
Thanks!

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Hacker News.

Pic relevant. I've tried playing the new Civ games several times, and quickly end up quitting because I find them too overwhelming and find it hard to want to deal with the learning curve.

It occurred to me that part of the problem might be that I was jumping into a very old franchise that has been getting increasingly complicated over the years. Had a hunch I would have better luck with the original, so I went onto one of those play-dos-in-your-browser sites, dove in, and sure enough I am hooked!

Do I know what I'm doing? Not really, but stuff is happening and my civilization is growing, and it's a good time.

All of this—doling out relatively cheap dress shoes to a group of people disproportionately populated by billionaires, signing the boxes, inspiring fear of reprisal for wearing your own wingtips instead—is strange enough. Stranger still, though, is that the shoes (in some cases, very obviously) do not fit.