The post that did it for me was some guy saying “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing but I had claude port sonic cd to the Saturn”

These guys are everywhere. Someone on Vogons recently "ported" Terminator Future Shock from DOS to the Godot Engine.

The project is mostly useless and full of bugs. He also didn't disclose that he used AI at all. I wonder what he expected - praise? This feels similar to the cheaters in speedrunning, they often shower in praise for years until they get caught.

I hope that projects like these finally die down when the big LLM companies go down the drain and they can't run hundreds of agents in a datacentre without actually paying the money anymore.

It's kinda both, 'slop kiddies' discovered what took him months of effort through extensive knowledge and expertise.

But yeah most of the replies here are just assuming this is a similar case to OSS developers leaving projects when they're inundated and frustrated with endless garbage contributions to projects.

I’m exhauseted with AI and AI news. It’s why I had to leave Reddit. It has ruined everything that I enjoy.

The post that did it for me was some guy saying “I have absolutely no idea what I’m doing but I had claude port sonic cd to the Saturn”

It’s just endless hyperdrive of slop. Everyone is a “coder” now. It’s sad.

I bet the PS5 homebrew code itself was what was analysed to "discover" the hypervisor bug being exploited.

Automated plagiarism, same as seems to be happening with AIs and Mathematics.

So, there's no ARM -> X86 translation layer baked in?

I bet the way they "discovered" the hypevisor exploit was to use the LLM to trawl through TheFlow0's code for it ...

Same think can be done manually, but you need to have quite a lot more expertise and invest far more time to do it manually.

Well, there is an assumption like this with playstation, and this assumption exists since ps3. I'm not saying that it wouldn't be great if there were an ability to install whatever you want.

You expected to run linux on it 5 years ago? Based on what?

I think we have two different problems here:

• One is overload of the domain experts with having to review and integrate huge amounts of low quality "contributions" from people who are de-facto sub-junior in terms of domain expertise. This can be mostly solved by refusing such contributions.
• People using AI tools to trawl through the homebrew code to find out the mechanism using to go around Sony's blocking and then snitching it to Sony. As I see it, the only way to solve that is to close source the code, ideally just part of it if they can make sure that even indirectly that mechanism is not leaked (which can be pretty hard if you're trying to hide that, for example, certain something has to be executed at a specific point during code execution).

For other code bases which aren't trying to bypass certain locks, the second problem doesn't apply, though the first definitelly does to all open source projects with open contributions.

And thanks to slopfarms this won't change in foreseeable future.

It makes no sense, either busineswise or personally, for a very senior domain expert to waste most of their time reviewing the "work" produced by the equivalent of the a veritable army of the most junior dev imaginable blindly running random code generators to produce tons of low-value "code" and, worse, junior devs that will never fucking learn no matter how much feedback you give to them.

An overabundance of noobs is historically the reason why high level experts just stop reading and giving feedback in general subject forums - it gets really old really fast to constantly have to repeating the same basic lessons for junior level people, many who didn't even try to learn the basics from widelly available information out there.

Now imagine the same problem only the "junior" people in question are significantly more clueless (clueless zero-knowledge amateurs, so less than junior), don't even know they have a problem and basically use text generators to produce walls of code.

I suspect it's like the problems in expert Usenet groups that gave rise to using FAQs as solution and the good old Read The Fucking Faq (RTFF) response to noob questions, only 100s of times worse.

There is literally no point in engaging with slop kiddies.

(The extra sad thing in this case is how the only way to protect from slop kiddies using their slop tools to trawl the homebrew code for the hack used to go around Sony's blocking and snitching it to Sony for $$$ is to keep that code closed. In a way, this is quite similar to what's happening in Mathematics with AI were if a scientist reports on their progress to prove some theorem, somebody might very well use the AI to plagiarize what they've done so far and jump from there into producing a programatical "proof" which doesn't actually come with the theoretical underpinning explaining why and how it works)

The company and program aren't, the OS and hardware are, at least in the sense of user control.

The store: https://merch.kde.org/

i like the frog

At least Valve leaves you root access when you buy their hardware. I don’t like Steam and normally use Lutris instead, which is certainly an option on Valve hardware as well.

There used to be a time where you bought hardware and MAYBE you could do more with it. The assumption being that someone is going to fuck you over later so you can do less with your hardware sucks.

Whore is gender inclusive just not sex positive.

As someone who frequently uses open source software but doesn't code much, the prevalance of this kind of attitude is very concerning.

Don't get me wrong, I understand why the maintainers feel the way they do, I'm just worried that all the software I've come to rely on will slowly become abandoned because of it.

I'm getting a new job soon that pays more, gonna put some money every month into supporting maintainers of the software I use financially going forward, starting with the more obscure stuff. hopefully that helps ease the burden.

Lepton = Android --> Linux

FEX = x86 --> ARM

I really, really wish that there were laws that forced companies to allow people to unlock their devices once they lose support. Sony don't make any money from PS3s any more, so why not allow people to unlock them and tinker?

Yeah, I’m tired of paying money for devices a corporation controls to make it work in their best interest instead of mine, even if there is a small hope of hacking my way into root access that I should’ve had in the first place since it’s legally MY device I bought and paid for. At this point, a Linux gaming PC can play most games, and any console exclusives will be available to emulate at some point, but even if they weren’t, I’m not giving any more money to assholes like Nintendo, Sony, or Microsoft.

First, PS5s need to get cheap, which they still aren't.

I feel like this could be huge

So this is for putting Android VR games on Steam Frame. Like games released on the Quest and Pico

Cool. Can you borrow your time machine so I don't buy one 5 years ago?