simion314

>The negotiators agreed to demands under threat of tariffs that they believed would soon disappear? That makes no sense.

It buys time, the negotiators also have no power to force each country to implement the stuff , or make the agreement some law.

It would make sense to assume illegal tariffs will be declared illegal with 95% of the chance and just buy time and let the nariisit idiot think he won and go ahead and fuck with someone else for now.

>Steam in particular is known to play hardball with chargebacks. If you issue a chargeback, rumor is that Steam will lock your entire account. Which seems incredibly unfair, but capitalism.

1 do we have evidence this is happening more with adult games? You can refund games in 2 hours I think, so it is enough to get that clarity and refund the game or find it is trash and refund it.

2 the evidence points to a Christian Extremist group, so are you guessing here ?

If we are just pulling guesses from our asses I would guess that children that get their hands on the parent credit card could buy a lot of bullshit , then parents find out since the bullshit costs much more than a game and would attempt to recover the money sicn ehte time interval passed. And afaik all single player games can be obtained for free so honestly if someone is in doubt about some adult game they can find a free version somewhere and do not risk getting found out by some partner that spies on their Steam Library content or purchases.

>Now do the same for the country you are very fond of. It wouldn't be so hard, right?

Super easy, I can exit Romania to EU just with my identity card, I can go to Moldova just as easy , for other countries depends on their rules like I might need to have family there if I am visiting them or to have paid for hotels and have some money to prove I am a tourist. So I can exit Romania unless I am under some investigation by the police and a judge asked me not to run away.

this was not true during communist times, the communist had walls and they killed people attempting to leave the paradise, even if you had a passport because you were some important person your passport was kept by the police not by you.

Hard question for you now, If NK won't let the population go and visit some evil, corrupt, dangerous country why are teh citizens also blocked to freely travel to China or RuZZia ? Also why is that country starving when they are neighboring those big countries that soviets claim they are very kind.

This sounds very soviet, I see them all the time showing some traveling guide to NK and claiming is a paradise like USSR was, but then you ask why do this regimes have walls and kill the people that try to escape the paradise? why do people want to escape the paradise risking their lives ?

And to have the balls to claim you can't trust people that lived in NK and escaped and you should better trust who? those NK propaganda images the soviets are spreading around ?

I call soviets the home sovieticus, the imperialists bastards that excuse that criminal regime and want it back, like the Zeds and their friends.

>one might reasonably assume that X-rated games fall into the "frequently fraudulent" category

There was no such evidence presented, all the evidence was that some christian extremists complained.

Sure your wife might see that you have a payment to pornhub and might not like it but you will not get on your credit card report the name of the game you bought from Steam or GOG so this fake excuse does not work like it would have worked with adult sites subscriptions.

But if there is evidence for Steam and GOG let me know, if somehow I missed the news and the chritian extemists were not the one that pressured VISA then also let me know.

My guess the negotiators had somehow the information that the tariffs will soon be declared illegal so would be smart to let the narcisist think he won, I hope I am right and there is still rule of law in USA.

No idea, maybe they have money and they want to invest in something that they think is growing. Could be that there are some other plans with creating chips in EU and would then make more sense.

Do they need a "leader" ? Things move fast and Mistral is not much behind and it seems they are making enterprise relations, they can get EU contracts that a Chinese or USA provider would not be allowed and the only downside you are max 3 months behind. So for vibe coding they need to catch up, for other stuff the differences are not that large to notice.

They focus also on supporting well languages from Europe, and they are not anti open source.

yes, my first language is Romanian, a romance language , and add on that my complete disrespect for the company anti open source FUD so I never waste my time to double check my spelling.

>Seems like their only USP at this point is Made in EU.

They are also releasing model weights for most of their models, where companies like Antropic and until recently OpenAI were FUDing the world that open source will doom us all.

Mistral smartest model is still behind Google, Antropic but they will catch up.

But it is dangerous, Tim from Apple can't protect your grandma , she should only speak with their nephews using Apple approved applications , preferably the built in iApps, do you really want grandma to be scammed? Tium needs to remove microphone and camera support in browsers or else the hypocrisy is to obvious... or we can all be mature here and stop pretending that the restrictions are for security of your grandma.

I do not see this Apple fanboys asking Apple to remove the camera and microphone features in their OSX operating system. They have many stories about grandma getting tricked to sideload soem evil app from Facebook but somehow same grandma does never get tricked to share her microphone, camera or screen. So I concluded that it is all their minds creating a narative to feel better about them getting screwed by Apple (we all have this problem where we invent some reason to justify some decision we did but in this case is a big mob)

>People have been trained to tap through those prompts without really reading them, and it’s unreasonable to expect a less technical user to know what the implications of granting a permission are.

Can you please explain why there is no big push from the Google and Apple to remove microphone and camera access from the browsers? You claim that most users are "less skilled" and will allow anything , so for the grater good why not pushing to remove microphone, camera and file upload permissions? Why do we trust this users with reading a popup for permissions ?

Or maybe if the popups are not clear or good enough maybe is not the users fault ?

>They would get fined.

Right, so my local TV gets fined if they published something fake, like for example they had a news about some bullshit happening in Romania but they were showing a video from a different country, the TV claimed it was stupidity and not manipulation, they got fined.

So I want RT and other media to respect the exact same laws, if they do not want to respect our laws and continue to publish fake shit we block them until they pay their fines and start respecting the laws.

And trust me there is no communism censorship here in Romania, the TV is terrible still , you get tons of commercial to shitty suppliments and gambling, you get politicians presenting their bullshit conspiracies, you get the hosts claiming that Soros is doing everything that is wrong in the country and this days also Macron and France are big villains (because they upset Putin and the Zeds are super, duper butt hurt )), you can see ladies presenting themselves as "doctors in energy-shit-karma-bullshit" and claiming the vaccines caused a giant number of allergies and other crap that she and her company with ehr supplements will sell.

We still let people to be idiots but we need to not be idiots like a society and let paid and organized attacks on our population to continue, and we need to do more against this state organized attacks. (as I mentioned previously but maybe in other comment faked documents were sent by mail to people, this is clearly a state sponsored action, they had names and addresses, they falsified documents and then paid for physical mail delivery to make it look more authentic )

My point is about consequences, my question is what happens if a TV station in UK is not following that rule?

>If you are not happy with propaganda, it is your role and the role of schools to educate people around about how to consume information and look with a critical view.

This is as pointless as saying that is my role as a consumer to test the food that I buy to ensure it is not contaminated with shit, so instead of punishing the companies that have contaminated food we should allow them to sell if even if we know it contains literal shit and instead teach our children in school how to use equipment to test the food.

Sorry for the Ruzzian puppets but soem countries are not retarded and they decided to block the toxic food today and not ignore the victims, as I said in the original comments we have laws and the fact that you are from Ruzzia should not put you above our laws, RT shoudl stay banned until they open a local branch where we can apply the fine to them equaly as we apply to our own media.

Also there are a lot of Ruzzian money wasted on social media to spread actual fake shit, priovable fake shit that I think we need to really go further in identifying the source of behind those fake crap and arrest, fine and sanction the individuals behind that shit, no level of education can just make a person intelligent or make them do investigative work to confirm that some information that he really, really loves is in fact false.

And I know some fascist here will claim that trush is not objective, and my response is that a photoshoped document is 100% fake in all natural logic systems. The strategy used in Romanian presidential campaign by the Ruzzian aligned side was to put faked documents or information on social media then have media people share in on social media and then bringt the faked document in discussion on TV.

So don't cry for the regular idiot they still get their conspiracies and faked information from Ruzzia on social media and sometimes even in the mail, as an example they sent people faked official looking letters that they are getting called to military service to go and fight in Ukraine.

So please freedom of media but there must be consequences for external media not only for local one.

>I would. Appetite for censorship should be measured against something I find unpalatable.

In your country if say some public TV would publish hard core porn mid day for children to see, would there be consequences? like fines and license removal? I am sure in civilized countries that TV station will be punished.

Now imagine you have a Ruzzian TV station publishing hard core porn for children to see, how to you punsish them without paid trolls claiming censorship ? Because this si what happens, in Romania Romanian TV station need to respect the Romanian laws , liek for example pay fines and retract any falsehoods and mistakes, but Ruzzians can publish fake documents and videos and if we want them to respect the laws of our countries we it is censorship... blocking faked documents is bad, blocking boobs is good in the land of the free

I love KDE, I am using it for 2 decades, I can't see the margins or font issues this other people see and I spend my time at the PC looking at the browser, Kate, Intellij and the deskotp panel and maybe a bit at the file manager Dolphin.

Why i love KDE is because I can customize it to work as I want not as it wants me to work, I do not bend my fingers to use what soem dude with GIANT ego wants me to use as key shortcuts, I remap them to fit my preferences, and I have a fucking tray icon where I can see if I have unread messages and guess what you can remove the Tray if you are that kind of fascist that hates it because the GIANT ego dude said that tray icons are not cool.

>Proprietary driver installation was the sole reason of existence of Linux Mint which was a fork of ubuntu, so your memory is incorrect.

I think your memory is incorrect, you might be thinking of video codecs and maybe Flash not proprietary drivers, since Ubuntu already had support for easy install of drivers before Mint.

>The only specific thing Ubuntu did for beginners is sending CDs for free

Assuming you are not malicious I will kindly help with your bad memory, Ubuntu had always very good proprietary driver support, this made laptops actually work and helped beginners. I also remember they had a graphical installer compared to Debian and for sure this was beginners friendly. Maybe some other distro offered easy way to install and come with proprietary drivers setup but I can't remember a deb based distro doing that.

Anyway you were wrong, the CDs were not the only thing made Ubuntu appeal for beginners, there were Linux magazines with CDs each month and they were not super expensive , my first linux was a Kubuntu 6.10 from a magazine and I am still running Kubuntu today though i ran Debian, Sidux, Arch, Mandriva, SUSE in the past when I had time to try different distros, compile custom kernels etc.

>None of the things you’ve said this means match my experience using LLMs to write real, usable, viable code. It might not be the most performant or perfect code, but it’s certainly usable and most software isn’t written at Google or whatever and don’t need to support hundreds of millions of customers at scale. If it took a day instead of a month, then “the business” might decide that’s a worthy tradeoff.

It depends on your project, I seen a lot of stupidity in the AI, like in a lua project where arrays were 1 indexed it would 0 index them, somehow the c like behaviour was too strong of a force to drag the model in that direction.

For example when i test an image generator I ask it to create a photo of the front of a book store and to include no brands, labels or texts (because they always include english text and most of the time there are spelling errors), but the AIs can't make a shop without the branding/text above teh door, they are just so over trained on this concept that explicti commands can't fix it,

so the same with LLMs, they are attracted to the average most popular shit they seen in the training data, so without instructions by you or maybe by the provider behind the hidden prompts it will output outdated javascript using "var" . it will output unoptimized algorithms, and even if you used a specific variable name it will be strongly be pushed to rename it to whatever is most popular in the training data.

Yes, I can make the LLMs write soem good code but ony if I baby sit it, tell it exactly what files to read as inspiration, what features to use and what to do, for sure I can't just paste the text in a ticket and let if free.

I also use it to review my code for bugs, it can find up to 5-% of the bugs and halucinate others that are not possible (like it would sugerate that if $x is null then something would crash and I should check for that, but the type system would already ensure $x can't be null so it really needs more training to do simple stuff... to be original and not just regurgitate the most popular things it was trained on it would need to be something not based on LLM architecture

>The GTA example is not a good one because the vast majority of the work in making a videogame is not coding...

What is outside coding?

- writing? an AI that can replace hard core developers that write optimized game engines should also be able to generate quests

- art? same, AI should be able to get already created models and change them here and there to make them not look stolen

- marketing? why can't AI replace those people

so?

>I kinda feel like this is a self-placating statement that is not going to stay true for that long. We are so early in the process of developing AI good enough to do any of these things. Yes, right now you need senior level design skills and programming knowledge, but that doesn't mean that will stay true.

So you really think that in a few years some guy with no coding experience will ask the AI "Make me a GTA 6 clone that happens in Europe" and the AI will make actually make it, the code will just work and the performance will be excellent ?

The LLMs can't do that, they are attracted to solutions they seen in their training, this means sometimes they over complicate things, they do not see clever solutions, or apply theory and sometimes they are just stupid and hallucinate variable names and functions , like say 50% of the time it would use speed and 50% of the time it would use velocity and hte code will fail because undefined stuff.

I am not afraid of LLMs taking my job, I am afraid of bullshit marketing that convinces the CEO/management that if they buy me Claude then I must work 10x faster.

We use OpenAI API at work, it fails when translating children stories, the reason is violence. Either the model safety is shit or the AI companies are pushed by some extremists groups to censor shit that is acceptable for children in Europe (Romania). But the most bullshit is when you give it a safe prompt, the mdoel generates a response and the safety checker kicks in and blocks the response because it thinks the model was too naughty.

>And yes, people being able to use your code for whatever they want is absolutely more open than having restrictions on how/who gets to use it.

Yes, this is why people should use free not open , and GPL is more free when you report to the entire community otherwise you are in the famous case from a story where an USAian was claiming "Amerika is the land of the free, we are free to own slaves"

>This, btw, is also why claims that some side is targeting civilians in otherwise 'productive' warfare (e.g. actually achieving things instead of bombing for the sake of fear/terrorism/headlines/photo ops) is usually just lying propaganda. Civilians are a worse than 0 value target meaning you completely wasted your munitions.

The issue in your logic is assuming Ruzzia/Kremlin uses same natural logic as the rest of the world, I talked with many Zed patriots, that country uses a non natural logic, Zed Logic. Add on top of the unatural logic, the brainwashing and the fact that most of thye soldiers are murderers and rapists from prisons and you get a lot of civilians killed or abused by this asshols for fun or other reasons that make no sense in a natural logic.

An example of Zed logic

When Ruzzia attacks some civilian infrastructure in Ukraine (like grain storage) then Zeds claim it is legal, but when Ukraine strikes a military ship Zeds claim this is illegal, it is terrorism because... ... the ship was outside the SMO (special military operation) that Putin decided to be.

I am not joking, the Zeds are full of this bullshit logic, something ie legal/correct is always dependent of who makes the crime, where the crime is happening, who is the victim.

Second best Zed logic shit I heard is "USSR was the best democracy ever, in the entire human history"

I will respectfully disagree, I can't see your comment on topic. you said "The only thing that impacts this really is chargebacks, which iiuc are much more common with adult stuff." and this is something claimed about porn sites but explain how this applies to Steam or GOG, please explain clarly or admit it does not apply.

>I don't necessarily disagree, but I personally find these "but you theoretically could have done even more to prevent this"-type arguments to be a little dubious in cases where the harm was caused primarily by operator negligence.

The article says that soem government agency demanded Tesla to actually geofense the areas Tesla claims their software is incapable to handle. I am not a Tesla owner and did not read the small fonts manual, do Tesla reserve the rights that they might also not sound the alarm when the car is going at speed straight into an other car while a driver is not having the hands on the wheel? sounds bad, the driver is not steering, the car is driving on an area where it is incapable of driving still and it is heading into a obstacle and the alarm is not sounding (still from the article it seemed like this was a glitch that they were trying to hide, and that this was not supposed to happen)

Anyway Tesla was forced to show the data, they did tried to hide it, so even if fanboys will attempt to put the blame `100% on the driver the jurry and Tesla 's actions tell us that the software did not function as adevertised.

The article claims that the software should have been geo fensed in that area but Tesla failed to do that, that the software should have trigger warnings of collisions but it did not do that. So there were things Tesla wanted to hide.