So Ive been on Fedora with KDE for over three weeks now. Its good. I like it. I started dabbling in Linux last year with a Mint / Windows 11 dual-boot setup. After some consideration, I decided to fully switch to Fedora to make better use of my cutting-edge modern hardware (though I think Mint is great for older hardware).

The other main reason I switched to Fedora with KDE is that one of my best friends works in IT and has been using Fedora for over 10 years. Having someone just a phone call away who can help me troubleshoot is awesome. Overall Im really happy with the Fedora system. Ive tested over 50 games and all of them run pretty much straight out of the box on Steam.

I mainly use this machine for gaming, but I might try my hand at content creation in the future. If you have any input or tips, feel free to share them with the class ^^

With the new Discord changes and the controversy causing people to leave the platform, I decided it was a great excuse for me to finally try to ditch discord. I mostly used discord for my creative endeavors through the years (collaborating on projects, help with software - looking at you Blender and Godot, and etc) but now I really only have my small community that I was trying to start back up based on my board game project.

As someone who drifts from project to project, and often tries to find other people who want to participate in projects - this forum is meant to fill two needs:

‣A communication and contributor hub for the various open source and creative commons projects I am currently working on, as well as a centralized location to access information and assets for said projects.

‣ A place for other creative individuals to network, collaborate, and share their own projects - or even simply chat and meet like minded individuals.

I am a huge advocate for the creative commons, open source software, and the overall Libre community that counters the capitalist models that are so prevalent in the online space. While members of this community don’t need to share these same ideals, I would like to foster a community that can lift up and encourage others who contribute to this space. It would be nice if we could create a community where people help and contribute to each others creative endeavors and improve the FOSS/CC community.

And honestly, I kind of miss the days when forums were the primary form of communication, before discord - so I am excited to see if this community can take off at all.

The community is extremely sparse at the moment, but if any of you would be willing to check it out and stick around for a while to see if we can grow - I would be greatly appreciative. If anyone has feedback for improvement or ideas for direction of the forum, I would love to hear any and all constructive criticism.

And to get ahead of the "Lemmy/Piefed is a forum" comments:
I personally think there is great value in mega-forums like Lemmy, PieFed, and Reddit, and while there are subs for niche topics, the idea of a standalone forum for my specific purpose seems like it has more of an opportunity to create the “small, close-knit” type of community that doesn’t seem to fit within the sphere of these mega-forums.

I could totally be wrong, and maybe its nostalgia, but something about a good old forum seems to bring something different to the table in my eyes.

Today we had a fire alarm in the office. A colleague wrote to a Slack channel 'Fire alarm in the office building', to start a thread if somebody knows any details. We have AI assistant Glean integrated into the Slack, and it answered privately to her: "today's siren is just a scheduled test and you do not need to leave your workplace". It was not a test or a drill, it was a real fire alarm. Someday, AI will kill us.

Anders Eknert@anderseknert@swecyb.com](https://swecyb.com/@anderseknert)

AI agent "contributes" PR to matplotlib.
PR gets rejected.
AI agent *writes and publishes blog to shame the maintainer*.

What a time to be alive.

https://github.com/matplotlib/matplotlib/pull/31132

Context: matplotlib is a very popular plotting library and the issue has the "good first issue" label aka it was an easy issue left for beginners.

FOSS is already strained for maintainers, curl closed their bug bounty due to AI slop and for some reason the maintainer engaged with the bot in good faith, as if it can be reasoned with. I want AI bros to get the wall.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/63591197

sorry, g*mers, Xi has redirected your salvation to albibaba AI datacenters

If Discord’s age inference model can’t determine a user’s age, a government ID might still be required for age verification in its global rollout. According to Discord, to remove the new “teen-by-default” changes and limitations, “users can choose to use facial age estimation or submit a form of identification to [Discord’s] vendor partners, with more options coming in the future.”

The first option uses AI to analyze a user’s video selfie, which Discord says never leaves the user’s device. If the age group estimate (teen or adult) from the selfie is incorrect, users can appeal it or verify with a photo of an identity document instead. That document will be verified by a third party vendor, but Discord says the images of those documents “are deleted quickly — in most cases, immediately after age confirmation.”

With the new Identity and Facial Scan Requirements, I hope that Discord dies a painful death and people move back to old school forums or at least some open source platform like Element.