evilstevie @evilstevie@mastod1.ddns.net

the most difficult problem in computer science is finding a job that doesn't tolerate chatbot-generated code

Any Linux users able to help me out with setting up Pokemon TCG Live through Heroic Games Launcher on Linux Mint?

Linux Mint 22.1 Cinnamon, Heroic Version 2.22.1

I'm following this tutorial: https://www.reddit.com/r/PTCGL/comments/1q05iny/guide_how_to_install_and_login_to_pokemon_tcg

Stuck on step 23 about opening Winetricks GUI, which I don't have the option for anywhere. This is all that comes up.

#linux #pokemon #heroicgameslauncher

"One guy in #Sweden built a #searchengine to fight Google, and it works.

It's called #MarginaliaSearch.

It runs its own #crawler and builds its own #index instead of borrowing Bing's. It has no ads, no investors, and no loans.

What it does differently: it ranks for text-heavy, non-commercial pages. Personal blogs. Old university pages.

The weird corners SEO strangled. Every result tells you whether the page uses affiliate links and JavaScript, and you can filter them out.

There's an "explore" mode that just shows you random sites from the index. It's open source under AGPL, so you can host your own copy.

It's keyword-based, so don't type a full question at it. Type two nouns and see where you land. Every #searchengine now shows you the same twelve #monetizedpages."

https://marginalia-search.com/

as always with any claims around LLMs, what you need to ask is: where is it?

and I’m not talking about confident LLM output or a flood of confident CVEs or a confident changelog or a confident gist or even some code you’re very confident is correct because the LLM said so

is the software you’re using right now materially better or worse, in your lived experience?

if we’re going to get left behind without LLMs, shouldn’t it have gotten incredibly good ridiculously quickly? why didn’t it? why is it worse now than it was before?

why do all these companies that are all-in on these frontier models keep having incredibly embarrassing security incidents? shouldn’t the frontier models fix that?

#penguins #linux #humor

@mothninja

@urlyman

FWIW, my pc is almost 11 years old and has had no upgrades since I built it. High volume airflow case with a giant 6' fan in the front keeps it cool and quiet. I'm doing a longevity challenge with it now, I have so many games it runs well that I'll never run out of stuff to play on it

I LIKE this movement. We are at rapidly dimininishing returns with performance, we are approaching the maximum we can do with molecules. So can we just rest here, and turn our focus to efficient and reliable coding? please