And ethically trained. People should be financially compensated if their data was used to train AI without their consent.

It is rather complicated. My understanding is that most repackers actually have their own custom pipeline for repacking and even custom tooling.

What a repack is, is just a custom compression and packaging of the video game install. Some experimental repacks cut, or rip, part of the game such that it occupies less space while still keeping the game functional. Many choose not to cut anything. A part of the process is using a different optimized compression type for each type of data file in the game, then assembling a compressed file for distribution. Finally, they supply the custom installer that reverses the process correctly.

It is a rather technical and fascinating side of software development. But when I looked at it, it seemed a bit tedious.

Between NVIDIA, Intel and AMD. There’s no longer a lesser evil to choose.

Yeah, Steam is even better. It shares pre-compiled shader binaries as a download among users who have the same GPU configuration. The caveat is that it all depends on the game’s underlying graphical technology, and not all of them are compatible.

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This is not TikTok. Please, just say what the actual software does somewhere in the post instead of linking directly to a change log that means nothing for someone who doesn’t yet know what the software does.

Because the pace of code production has officially overwhelmed the human capacity to review it. As it was discussed recently. Linus answer was to use more AI, with the implementation of code review tools that gobble up code and spew out summaries.

For the time being, humans reading the summaries count as human reviewed. But at some point in time this system will crack. The current zeitgeist is to restrict who can contribute. Which leads to the obvious follow up question of who decides based on what, and how to decide who deserves to contribute.

You just witnessed the first steps into the philosophical and political erosion of the open source movement. Not just on the kernel but it is also affecting almost all popular FOSS projects.

But of course, that doesnt matter because Linux is not and has never been political. /s