No, it won’t. It will cause more of the supply to be reallocated away from consumers into enterprise, and that is exactly what the big tech companies want to see happen.

Having access to a computer and phone is as much of a necessity to survive in modern society as internet is. When personal computing is unaffordable to the point where subscription computing is a good enough “deal” for consumers to jump on, the ball will start rolling towards the inevitable price squeeze that we have no choice but to accept.

Great, now we’re going to have them shooting more people because they felt threatened by large suitcases that “might have a bomb” in it.

Sure, you’re not all vile people. And yes, liberals have a problem with generalizing their political rivals.

Whataboutism notwithstanding, surely you can recognize that to also be a problem in your own party too, though, right? I’ve seen the shit people on r/conservative say whenever there’s a major political news event, and it ain’t great.

What exactly do you think the greater evil is, then?

It must be pretty bad if the lesser evil is the former BFF and associate of a convinced child sex trafficker, had directed a riot of followers into impeding the fair and free election process laid out in the constitution, and has bombed 3 countries in the past 12 months.

Which is uncannily large for the wrist it’s attached to.

The researchers said it was “maddening” that such easy action to fight the climate crisis was not being taken, and said people should be angry. Stopping the leaks can even be free, given that captured gas can be sold – methane is the “natural gas” that fires power stations.

It’s maddening but expected.

When corporate decisions are based solely on pleasing investors, fixing a leak isn’t a priority. It might be a long-term investment that eventually pays for itself, but it comes with a front-loaded cost that diminishes the profits of the current quarter.

The only way to get them to care about the problem is if it’s actively unprofitable or comes with personal liability for the leadership, and the only way that will happen is with regulations.

In other words: “why about the survivability of the species when we can instead care about making our investor’s loins tingle?”

Eventually we’ll get his second term declared invalid, and roll back all of his EOs, legislation, etc., including pardons.

Let me fix that for you:

Eventually he’ll get his second term declared invalid, and use that as his reason for running for his third term.

They’re not awesome when your workflow revolves around the command line and you’re stuck choosing between wasting days trying to layer your configuration on top of the project devcontainer or giving up and using the unconfigured bash shell included.

The Darwin kernel is based on BSD… sort of. It’s a monstrosity hybridization of an ancient version of BSD and the Mach kernel.

You should do dev work in devcontainers anyway.

Devcontainers work for Visual Studio Code when developers are more than happy to click their way through running builds and debugging problems. But, as someone whose workflow is optimized for the command-line, they can fuck off.

He used OpenClaw to write and commit code. That shows a complete lack of care for even the most bottom of the barrel security standards.

If there’s any valid reason for someone to be ridiculed over using AI, it’s that.

It’s the same for me.

I don’t care if somebody uses Claude or Copilot if they take ownership and responsibility over the code it generates. If they ask AI to add a feature and it creates code that doesn’t fit within the project guidelines, that’s fine as long as they actually clean it up.

I’m more concerned with the admitted OpenClaw usage. That’s a hydrogen bomb heading straight for a fireworks factory.

This is the problem I have with it too. Using something that vulnerable to prompt injection to not only write code but commit it as well shows a complete lack of care for bare minimum security practices.

the experiment you are referring to was specifically designed to deceive whereas AI vulnerabilities would just be simple bugs.

In my original comment, I was specifically referring to OpenClaw. Given that it doesn’t live in a vacuum and can be influenced with prompt injection, it’s not safe to assume that whatever bugs it creates aren’t specifically designed to deceive.

Secondly, the security requirements of the Linux Kernel are way more important/stringent than Lutris, which has no special access & is often even further sandboxed if installed via Flatpak.

Sure, but that’s not the point I was trying to make. You said that I don’t trust the guy to audit the code for malicious intent before committing and I gave you a reason why nobody should: if multiple people with decades of experience in a specialized domain can’t catch vulnerabilities disguised as subtle bugs, one guy who isn’t scrutinizing the changes nearly as hard definitely won’t.

For a research experiment, a university snuck malicious commits with subtle but exploitable bugs past the maintainers of the Linux kernel.

I trust the Linux kernel maintainers to be capable of finding obfuscated exploits far more than I trust this guy, and even they failed to identify a bunch of them.

Remember, kids: if communism is evil and communism is “taking your hard-earned money away and giving it to people who don’t work hard enough,” then it’s your duty to demand the government stops those communist bailouts given to corporations that won’t support themselves.

Sometimes, I ask OpenClaw to generate some code

https://github.com/lutris/lutris/discussions/6530#discussioncomment-16088355

OpenClaw is extremely vulnerable to prompt injection. If the maintainer is using it to author code, you absolutely can not trust that the code is safe from exploits obfuscated as unintentional logic errors or bugs.

There’s purity testing, and then there’s being cautious about running code made by someone who is doing something incredibly stupid and unsafe. This is the latter.

I think it comes down to developer skill more than the engine itself.

There are a few indie games that run great and you wouldn’t even have known they used Unity until you looked for it. The Hollow Knight games and Ori games are well-known examples that even manage to run on the 2014-era pile of underpowered crap that is the Nintendo Switch. Even some 3D games like Gunfire Reborn or Risk of Rain 2 (before Gearbox took over) run well on older hardware.

Shitty devs with better engines can still produce horrible, unoptimized games. More alternatives to Unity are great, but we also need devs who aren’t pushing out half-baked slop.

You do know that people can have multiple motives, right?

They put out an engine that offers unoptimized shortcuts for traditional development techniques, replacing LODs with Nanite and introducing Lumen as a low-effort way to produce “realistic” lighting.

Both of those fall short of acceptable performance and visual stability quality during real-time rendering, but who cares about that when they make development faster and do a good enough job for prerendered trailers? /s

Jones-Radtke family is planning to move across state lines with hopes of easier access to this treatment and more care options.

Better now than later. It’s only a matter of time before they start taking this to the same extreme as abortions and treating it like a crime to cross state lines while suspected of getting medical care.