Much of it might be freely available data, but there’s a huge difference between you accessing a website for data and an LLM doing the same thing. We’ve had bots scraping websites since the 90’s, it’s not a new thing. And since scraping bots have existed we’ve developed a standard on the web to deal with it, called “robots.txt”. A text file telling bots what they are allowed to do on websites and how they should behave.

LLM’s are notorious for disrespecting this, leading to situations where small companies and organisations will have their websites scraped so thoroughly and frequently that they can’t even stay online anymore, as well as skyrocketing their operational costs. In the last few years we’ve had to develop ways just to protect ourselves against this. See the “Anubis” project.

Hence, it’s much more important that LLM’s follow the rules than you and me doing so on an individual level.

It’s the difference between you killing a couple of bees in your home versus an industry specialising in exterminating bees at scale. The efficiency is a big factor.

Really? I remember Nemo being my favorite GTK file manager, but that was some years ago. When I started using Dolphin I thought that it was the best file manager I’ve ever used. I still think that, but as mentioned above, I’ve not tried Nemo in years.

IDK guys, do you think a web browser should be a “broader ecosystem of trusted software” or a web browser?

My absolute favourite thing about them is that they allow me to play games designed for mouse and keyboard from my bed! Like any old PC games (fallout, wasteland, baldurs gate, etc).

I don’t play enough “first person” games to have any valuable input, but when I’ve played things like Elder Scrolls I’ve honestly preferred using the track pads for controlling the camera.

Indeed. I very much liked the original steam controller in concept, but the execution left a lot to be desired. Like not using the most “plastic” feeling controller I’ve ever touched…

Yeah I love that I can play old PC games from my couch! I recently played through Fallout 1 (partly) on the Steam Deck. Amazing times.

I used to think XBox controllers were the best controllers on the market. I still think they’re very good. That changed when I held the Steam Deck for the first time. The feel is better overall, and in my opinion the track pads are such an obvious and great improvement on the traditional controller design.

Nowadays when I use other controllers, they just feel “bare bones” and like they’re missing something.

Wtf is mayonnaise salad

GIMP is actually pronounced guh-imp

I use, and love, KDE, but this is not one of the reasons I use it… What

I’ve just migrated most of my repos from Codeberg to Sourcehut (sr.ht) and I really like it. I’ve got nothing against Codeberg or Forgejo, they’re awesome, but I just really like the simple design of Sourcehut.

The git send-email workflow was new to me, but I started liking it fast! I’ve never really enjoyed the web-based MR/PR workflow of GitHub anyway (read: it feels very slow).

Sourcehuts CI system if also really nice overall, although there are some things I miss from the great CI that GitLab has. Mostly I miss only running pipelines when tags are pushed, and stuff like that.

I’m from the country side and I very much like easy access to nature, but New York is a great city, especially with all the parks! The subway is bomb