Oh yes, since all AI companies really want more regulations, I have an amazing idea for them: anything trained on stolen copyrighted materials needs to be published and licensed under public domain.

Microsoft, I’m sure you’ll thank me later!

In the hackernews thread one commenter mentioned https://github.com/AChep/keyguard-app

I need to soon give it a try.

If you combine this with vaultwarden then it’d be a fully self-hostable open source solutionm

Combining the power of the asset store and AI, you too can create the next bland asset-reuse slop hit game!

The asset store was already bland enough, adding AI to the mix surely is not gonna make the situation worse.

Tools can not depend on other tools. One of the issues with traditional distributions is dependency resolution and package management (this is subcategory of a heavily discussed topic, I also talked about it in my LAS talk from 2025. We should avoid making individual packages or having dependencies between tools, to avoid all the unnecessary complexity that comes with it.

I was getting excited about this, but this point might be a big dealbreaker. The C compiler for example will need to find manually installed headers and library files when you need to compile more than a hello world, and often tightly interacts with pkg-config, cmake etc.

I fear you’d have to be working in a container anyway for some scenarios, unless there’s some other parts not explained in the post.

I’m also not a fan of the possible gatekeeping of who can create these tools, via signing and trusted repositories, but it’s probably going to be fine in the end.

TBH toolbx is quite a good environment to work in already. I would just have liked a bit more sandboxing though (i.e. have a way for it to not mount my home)

Also, btw, this is an advertisement. There are plenty of media players in any distro, I love my old school strawberry/clementine plager and I’m not sure I would trust this software since I never heard of it.

You usually find software on https://flathub.org/ The flatpak command line tools also gets it by default from there.

Generally it’s best to use the software provided already by your distros because it’s more vetted than flathub. Use flatpak for stuff it’s not provided by your distro.

Flatpak apps are usually sandboxed so they won’t be able to fully take over your pc if you read the permissions they ask. You have to triple-check the permissions they require during installation, because they will be shown only at that point.

If you want to restrict or widen the sandbox I reccommend flatseal https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.github.tchx84.Flatseal

Also, like any 3rd party software on any operating system, you can’t know for sure if they are mining bitcoin or abuse your internet. Even websites can make your pc or phone mine crypto or try to launch DoS attacks. Be careful, look at reviews and check the permissions tgey ask for, like you would do with mac os/windows software.

Don’t be discouraged by the starting difficulty and ridiculous crafting chains (laugh at how ridiculous they are instead). There’s plenty of quality of life in there to make it less painful.

I would suggest to start with the 2.9 beta instead of 2.8.4, they improved a lot of the painful things at the start of the game.

Btw if you don’t like combat absolutely play in peaceful and change configs to make it less dark or straight up cheat items in if it becomes too grindy for you.

It’s a 2000 hour journey not a sprint and there’s plenty of content even if you cheat in resources or (tier-appropriate) items.

A similar modpack I am playing and I can reccommend is Star technology. It’s a gregtech-based skyblock mod. It’s very nice if you think GTNH is too painful.

We live in a period of extreme stupidity, so I now fully expect AI to cause disasters in the same idiotic and tragically hilarious way.

I expect AI to trigger a war because some idiot trusted it blindly without double checking (oh wait, it almost already happened!), and I’m sure there are plenty of people currently lobbying to have AI directly connected to weapons.

Skynet is not going to have the objective to conquer the world, it’s going to have the objective of maximizing paperclip production.

I should publish a blog post titled “Using Antropic’s Claude is a Perversion of Writing”. If you are taking AI output and thinking it’s good and engaging, you are making a load-bearing mistake.

Joking aside, the criticism can come only after they implement it and we can see if it’s having any effect on the output quality. I doubt it’s going to be detectably worse.

If anybody is feeling so strongly against watermarking even before we can evaluate how it affects the output, I am only thinking that they have ulterior motives or they don’t want to be caught spreading copy-pasted slop.