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#dispatchesfromhackernews "It may not look like it now, but I think Linux is not viable long-term as a desktop OS. There should probably be an effort to specifically make FreeBSD a gaming-ready OS. We know it can be done since Sony already did it for PlayStation (but that's proprietary)."

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

> builds a PC with the best enthusiast CPU that money can buy > uses it to exclusively play 15-year-old VNs truly, this is the choice of the Steins Gate

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

My homogame is 3 whole dollhairs store.steampowered.com/app/836450/H...

submitted 2 days ago • 9 comments

Lord, we have seen what child gambling has done for others, and we want child gambling for us

submitted 2 days ago • 0 comments

THERE WE GO LET CHAINS IN STABLE IT HAPPENED

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

pjreddie vindication continues

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

i ask myself this every day i am equal parts terrified of and impressed by professional Python programmers who manage to ship software that is literally held together by the programming equivalent of blu-tack

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

Negative psychological impacts of AI need to include the profound shame I feel when I hand it a script asking for a small edit and it hands it back refactored with classes and logging and robust error handling

submitted 4 days ago • 3 comments

My favourite trilogy is the algebraic sequence: The Field (1990), The Matrix (1999), and The Ring (2002)

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

@segyges.bsky.social icymi: decent review of byte-level tokenisation methods, including a study of BLT lucalp.dev/bitter-lesso... too sleep-deprived to ingest this properly but good read from a skim

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Huge news in AI copyright world. Still reading the opinion, but encouraged that Judge Alsup got it right on training. Act I Scene 1 in a long drama, but a promising start.

submitted 4 days ago • 5 comments

🚨BREAKING: Federal judge concludes that using copyrighted works to train generative A.I. is transformative and ultimately a fair use. (Nevertheless, Anthropic can’t beat the lawsuit because it pirated books for another purpose too.) First of kind ruling. www.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

submitted 5 days ago • 58 comments

is it me or is chess.com kind of... bad? the UX is just no good on web or mobile

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

honestly, I would read this for every fictional detective of note

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

how it feels to keep your camera off on a zoom call

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