The point is, not to believe the government. That’s the “win” in quotes. Same reason why people think the earth is flat or the original moon landing is fake. If the goverment said “nobody was on the moon”, then by definition those people would think the opposite and say “government lies, the are hiding something on the moon, they visited it”.

I also not entirely against Ai, if its ethically correct and used wisely without slop. I am looking forward for 2 major improvements in the future:

• 1. not important throw away NPCs in RPGs with some (local) Ai support when talking to them, this is already explored, and
• 2. multiplayer enemies with advanced Ai acting exactly like humans, with a human vision, reaction and thinking, this would make mulitplayer games possible to play offline without servers, and I even envision that we can download “training” data of other players such as friends or professional celebrities

Not to mention (as you mentioned already) for development. The problem is, the current industry uses Ai reckless, producing slop, and using stolen training data. Also agreed, please don’t create games their story, main plot and gameplay entirely by Ai…

They have to disclose that Ai was used. So you should be able to filter them out. At least in theory. This should be a general setting in https://store.steampowered.com/account/preferences/ . Maybe you could exclude some titles by tags, but I would be careful to not exclude normal and good games by accident. Maybe there is a Steam Curator for this job (does anyone else use the Steam Curators?).

As for the Next Fest itself, my internet is extremely bad since 2 months. I have no clue what’s on it right now… :-(

Q.A. tiiiiiiime

I’ve been trying to understand one of the latest AI coding buzzword: Spec-driven development (SDD).

writing a “spec” before writing code with AI

The spec becomes the source of truth for the human and the AI.

In other words, the specs are vibe coded and then this vibe coded spec is used to vibe code a program. How exciting.

Pixnapping attacks begin with the malicious app invoking Android programming interfaces that cause the authenticator or other targeted apps to send sensitive information to the device screen. The malicious app then runs graphical operations on individual pixels of interest to the attacker. Pixnapping then exploits a side channel that allows the malicious app to map the pixels at those coordinates to letters, numbers, or shapes.

It works like screenshotting the 2FA tool. It’s an Android issue.

I have on my old phone still a custom Android /e/OS. It’s a “deGoogled” variant of Android 12 on my S7 Edge. And if I ever buy a new phone again, it will be a direct Linux operating system (I know that Android technically uses Linux as its Kernel) or again an ungoogled custom Android. But as someone who doesn’t do much with the phone anymore, I probably won’t.

It’s got an awful, hard-to-remember command interface

Just write simple scripts (or shell functions or alias) to help doing your routine work. Then you don’t need to remember the commands quirks and only have to remember your own solutions quirks.^^ I wrote such a complex script to help me with youtube-dl / yt-dlp and need to do this with ffmpeg too.

I remember the “switch to tty2” thing too, from old glory Ubuntu days (I mean decade ago at least). Nowadays when I switch to a different tty, it feels like stuff is assigned randomly. Honestly I never got that deep into it to study and don’t understand it fully myself. So don’t ask me about details, I would probably look goofy then.

SDDM is a popular graphical display manager used by KDE as the default, because their previous house made display manager didn’t support Wayland. Gnome has GDM (do they still?) and there are bunch of others. You can switch the display manager too, I think KDE even offers builtin option to change, but I’m not sure right now. The name display manager is a bit confusing, because its about your user login with graphical interface.

Rust, is that you?

I wonder how much storage I’m going to save converting my mp3 library to opus

Depend on the source and output quality you have. Also do not forget conversion from lossy into lossy format will degrade quality too, even if its most of the time not noticeable. If you have them all in constant 320 kbit/s, then you could probably get a good chunk of space without sacrificing quality much.

As for the software recommendation, it would be good to know what operating system you are on. Windows, Android, iOS, Linux PC?

Preaching to an existing crowd makes sense too. So they do not lose confidence and believe. The hardest part isn’t to convert, but to keep them.

I need to learn how to do that now before I’m faced with a situation where I have to,

+1

What about qtile, which works under Wayland too. It’s not native Wayland, but does that matter?

On top of it, if they do, it might be in a sub forum or community where the director did not look at.

Or its more like:

Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 still has secrets fans haven’t reported online OR the director didn’t saw it

And you keep misunderstanding and misrepresenting what I’m saying.

but it is repeatable and has generated accurate predictions which is what science is all about.

No. If I program a program that equates 1+1=3 in a predictable manner, and many other wrong calculations, so we don’t understand its inner workings. But still the prediction would be the same with this program. That does not mean its correct. IQ tests are not good indications of if someone is more intelligent than someone else. And no, they do not generate accurate predictions, that’s not even what an IQ test is for.

Q is a messy and imprecise measurement, but it’s better than nothing.

I argue having wrong measurement (or something you think can be measured and compared to another humans IQ) is worse than nothing.

You’re still talking like IQ is this absolute immutable number that a person possesses

Wrong. It’s the exact opposite of what I’m saying. You can’t measure IQ, because it is not a single number you can compress to. IQ is a complex thing. And because you cannot measure it, you can’t compare two individual’s differences. It makes no sense to compare.

Measuring temperature can be done exactly. If water boils here or there does not matter, the measuring act of water temperature can be done exactly. Which we cannot say about the IQ of a human, because it is not something we can measure. We have to do tests, which are obviously flawed and incomplete, and then try to guess if the test works well or not. Basically an IQ becomes an opinion, not a fact we can measure like temperature of water. Your example with the water does not apply therefore cannot be used as an argument for or against an IQ test being useful.