Feels like hard mode…

I like to tinker and I want to find a usable retro window manager and CTWM, the one they bundle, has great potential. Might take another run at it this weekend when I have more time.

I just installed it but out of the box it’s extremely bare bones. There’s not even any software to install more software until you type (not copy and paste, because there’s no internet and no browser - type) these commands

export PKG_PATH=https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/pkgsrc/packages/NetBSD/$(uname -p)/$(uname -r | cut -d_ -f1)/All  
pkg_add pkgin  

That failed to install the software-installer, there was some error message which makes me think my DNS settings are wrong.

That was enough for me. I’ve got work to do.

Downloading .iso now!

Sounds like the S3 connection is not configured properly or the S3 server is having some issues.

FYI they can’t down vote you in any piefed community because their excessive down-voting history automatically disqualifies them.

Afaik Gentoo is anti AI. As much as they can while still using the kernel I guess.

https://linuxiac.com/gentoo-council-implements-ban-on-ai-assisted-contributions/

Let’s see if there will be a checkbox in the UI that I can tick to exclude AI software from my search results…

FYI https://piefed.social/ recently added a filter for them

https://piefed.social/c/piefed_meta@piefed.social/p/2457619/reposter-feature

I tend to take things literally, sorry about that.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_exports_of_the_United_States

enjoy

BTW, the “weapons” category is the light green stuff in the bottom right.

Imagine upending the whole desktop software ecosystem for years, to produce this result.

Great idea :)

I’ve tried a couple of times but it seems pretty cursed.

Yeah they were begging for a trolling, really

Yes the screenshot is just the user settings. Admins are going to have to manually designate accounts as reposters because I haven’t even tried to make an automated detection. That would be very hard to get right.

Working on it!

Attempts to have your cake and eat it too are always going to be pretty fraught when it’s a moral / ethical issue. If you try to compromise then no one is happy except the opportunists who see it as a chance to push for further changes in their direction.

Several weeks ago, a KDE developer started a mailing list thread asking about how we should handle the flood of AI slop merge requests. Everyone agreed it was a problem, and that we don’t want that crap.

That bit of context was certainly left out of the story when I first heard it and had I known that I would have read the proposed policy more charitably.

As an aside - this is the problem with having mailing lists and chatrooms - they are not on the web so it’s impossible to link to the original source / context and this provides an opening for people who want to stir up some shit. I use Matrix a lot less these days, for that reason.

The NoGoogleAi firefox extension solves this.

Yeah, see, one minute they’re “just loosening a policy a bit to be more reasonable” and the next they’re giving out free tokens and getting everyone hooked.

The policy change is just the start of the process - https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/

What happened to Bevy when they loosened their AI policy to be more ‘realistic’

https://blog.fallible.net/it-breaks-a-village/