The concept seems pretty clear to me from a quick look on wikipedia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sentience

Sentience is the ability to experience feelings and sensations. [3] It may not necessarily imply higher cognitive functions such as awareness, reasoning, or complex thought processes.

Also further down:

Animals such as pigs, chickens, and fish are typically recognized as sentient. There is more uncertainty regarding insects, and findings on certain insect species may not be applicable to others.

And if you don’t like wikipedia here is the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

[…] we raise cattle, chickens, and pigs. Evidence from their behavior, their brains, and their evolutionary origins, adduced in Allen 2004, Andrews 2016, and Tye 2016, supports the view that they have mental lives and, importantly, are sentient creatures with likes and dislikes. Even chickens and other “birdbrains” have interesting mental lives. The exhaustive Marino 2017 collects evidence that chickens can adopt others’ visual perspectives, communicate deceptively, engage in arithmetic and simple logical reasoning, and keep track of pecking orders and short increments of time. Their personalities vary with respect to boldness, self-control, and vigilance.

All the sources are in the body of the post. Windows being in free fall is at least questionable to me, because in the source, StatCounter, windows usage has mostly been replaced by ‘unknown’.

They claim it is an open-source model but at least for now it has a custom unspecified license. I hope they change that before the actual release because right now I wouldn’t even call it open-weight

Found it by looking up dark mode Firewatch wallpapers.

Edit: Didn’t find higher resolutions of this specific one. But here are slightly different but higher resolutions variants: https://imgur.com/a/jvkoP

And the second one in this list

You can also contribute to OpenStreetMap in your area using simple apps like StreetComplete or EveryDoor. This has a way lower barrier to entry than contributing code in my opinion. And it has the immediate benefit of a better local map for a LOT of services that are built on top of OSM.

I’m really not fond of the profiling by automated means, but it seems like an inevitable consequence of the design of the threadiverse. Everything is public and easily accessible by anyone that would like to profile you.

I certainly disapprove of moderation based on ideology. Moderation should be based on quality of the content and if it fits in the publicly readable rules. Definitely not some hidden analytics or if the user completely fits in the in-group of the moderator.

I will admit that this might be a good way to find and filter out LLM based bots that are only there to promote or manipulate the conversation. But it should still be done according to public rules.

Is this post written by an LLM?

I trust them as much as Google, Meta, or any other big tech company. I won’t use their cloud services, but I do run there local models.

I’m no expert, but basically the way to unlock higher/full bandwidth for HDMI 2.1. This will allow the use of higher refresh rate, resolution, and bit depth + HDR. Right now you need to make sacrifices in at least one category with HDMI

What is the difference between this implementation and the reverse engineered patches that were published a few months ago by Michał Kopeć and Tomasz Pakuła?

Edit: apparently it’s not the same patch, but Tomasz was CC’ed in the patch set so the timing might not be accidental.

I think I saw a similar comment on here last month. It was a user saying that Gemma claimed to send his chats to Google. Which is clearly a hallucination.

I’m not a professional or expert on anything security and/or AI related but this is my take:

• In general there will not be data sent anywhere if you use the big/trustworthy open-source backends.
• Unless there are bigger security issues the model files shouldn’t contain such code.
• Data could be sent using MCP/tool calling but you can see each tool call as it is happening so it can’t be hidden.

If you really don’t trust something you can always try to use a network sniffer

I’m European and had to do the same, so it’s based on something else.

Don’t know about Ubuntu specifically but for all software I actually want to work, I wait for the first point release upon a major release.

AllenAI has released open source models with open training data, code and science. If you value the ‘source’ to actually be open. They’ve also published the multimodal Molmo models.

Such a huge increase compared to previous months, with most of it coming from ‘64 bit’ and ‘0 64 bit’ seems suspicious. Don’t give me false hope…

Thanks, I added the checkout link to the OP

I got some weird specialised hardware over USB working via WinBoat. Might be an option for some.

What features are still missing after this gets merged? Right now, I still use a glitchy adapter that randomly drops out every few minutes and sometimes crashes my whole Hyprland WM due to an unsteady state when no displays are recognised/connected.

I would love to use my GPU and display with the features I paid for.

I can only speak for the Heroic launcher but this has been my experience:

• One click play button like Steam, but it’s easier to configure Linux-specific settings in the menu.
• Updates are done automatically or can be forced like Steam.
• Cloud saves are available, but need to be done manually from the game settings menu with the risk of user error.
• There is a friends list and chat, but the games I played had their own in-game friends list.
• Unfortunately, no achievements from what I’ve seen.
• No DRM, so you truly own the game. (as far as it’s possible to own something digital.)
• Linux game support seems to not be any worse than Steam
• Built-in Wine/Proton version installer.

Interesting study for some kind of reversed Poe’s Law