But once you leave Steam […] it gets a lot worse

Heroic Games Launcher is pretty great for games from GOG and Epic. You can run games with Proton just fine.

TBH it’s not even piracy. Piracy is raiding ships on the open seas and stealing their booty and selling the crew into slavery. Calling file sharing “piracy” is corporate misinformation that was somehow adopted by the general public.

I want to add my tuppence worth as well. Even if one day we have a justice system that can be 100.000% certain of guilt AND 100% certain that there is no chance of rehabilitation, I think we should still not have the death penalty, because I don’t think spending the energy and time killing individuals in cold blood is a healthy way for a society to behave. This Rudakubana guy may be some kind of monster, but that doesn’t mean that acting monstrously towards him is somehow acceptable.

Yes you’re right, sorry I went off on a tangent about the reasons for the intense negativity in the Lemmyverse about LLMs. I’ve been using lemmy for four years, and definitely don’t think there has ever been any positive feelings towards LLMs here, especially as ChatGPT’s arrival predates the first surge of users on Lemmy (and the subsequent appearance of all the instances we see today). On reddit, yes, and there are still many people there who still think OpenAI is great.

I think it’s another example of “internet bubbles” - people with similar views tend to congregate together and this is particularly true on the internet, when going elsewhere is always just a mouse-click away.

When ChatGPT first launched, Lemmy was still pretty much a ghost town, and it did cause a lot of optimistic excitement e.g. on reddit. Lemmy got a big surge in numbers when reddit did its infamous API changes - enshittification driven by spez’s and other reddit executives’ insatiable lust to exploit the site for more and more money.

Perhaps for this reason, people on Lemmy are more averse to the enshittification trend and generally exploitive nature of large tech companies. I think this is what people on Lemmy object to - tech companies’ concentration of power and profits by ripping off the general public - not so much the concept of LLMs themselves, but the fact they could easily be used to further inequality in society.

Yes that’s pretty much it, with the extra detail being that he notoriously claimed to have a medical condition which made him unable to sweat and therefore his accuser must have been lying.

ooh a good game that doesn’t require an Amazon prime subscription! Thanks for the heads up!

For the penguins out there, it’s platinum on protondb so it should be easy to play on Linux via Heroic Launcher.

I’d say these books are important for anyone studying American literature - and probably essential for anyone studying American literature of the 20th Century.

They’re not so important for Welsh pupils and don’t need to be included in a general English literature syllabus for 15-year-olds in the UK. The reasoning outlined in the article for choosing not to include these sorts of works in the list of required and optional texts for this specific qualification is pretty convincing IMO and I completely support it.

No books are being banned from schools or anything like that. The article headline is I suspect just trying to get clicks from the anti-woke crowd.

The book hasn’t been banned, it’s just not been selected as a required or optional text in a new English qualification for Welsh schools. Steinbeck is a wonderful author and story-teller, and his stories provide a useful insight into America’s difficult recent past in regards to racial segregation (as well as other issues such as oppression of the poor). America is an important country, and it’s useful to understand why it remains such a damaged society with deep racial divides even today, but it’s not Wales is it.

And coconut milk. We now have to call that “non-mammary coconut secretion”?