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tldr people are disappointed with the new class, but I think it's really cool, and I'm excited to play it

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I know a lot of people are disappointed with the new class being a generic ganger, instead of Skitarii or basically any of the 40000 other very cool fully fleshed out factions to be found in the universe. And there's no arguing that, really. From a character design perspective, this class is a joke.
That being said, from a game design perspective, I really think the Scum is going to put on quite a show. There's a dev blog talking about the class's kit. One Blitz is a rocket launcher, another one is a blinding grenade that recharges when they kill an enemy, they can make their own fully custom Stimm, and maybe dual wielding won't be total cheeks!
I'm pretty new to this game (less than 100 hours), so I don't really have any expectations, and I think that empty cup perspective is why I wasn’t as completely heartbroken as most of the more invested people. The comments on the trailer on YouTube are hilarious tho. Like I said, I'm pretty new, but I've really been loving this game, so seeing the reaction to the new class is making me sad, and I want to foster a little positivity. Any Darktide gamers in the house wanna throw their two cents in?

The judge also appeared puzzled after a lead prosecutor said he couldn’t reveal whether career attorneys initially recommended against charging the former FBI director.

The Trump administration’s criminal prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey appeared to be in serious jeopardy Wednesday as the federal judge overseeing the case repeatedly questioned the validity of the grand jury indictment charging Comey with lying to and obstructing Congress.

U.S. District Judge Michael Nachmanoff pressed prosecutors during a hearing on the events around the Sept. 25 charges against Comey, questioning whether the entire grand jury ever saw the two-count indictment that a magistrate judge received after the grand jurors rejected one of three charges proposed by interim U.S. Attorney Lindsey Halligan.

Rates of pertussis, also known as whooping cough, are surging in Texas, Florida, California, Oregon, and other states and localities across the country.

The outbreaks are fueled by falling vaccination rates, fading immunity, and delays in public health tracking systems, according to interviews with state and federal health officials. Babies too young to be fully vaccinated are most at risk.

Trump has a long history of attacking journalists, directing particular vitriol toward female reporters.

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Linux hardware vendor Slimbook announced today the launch of the KDE Slimbook VII laptop to celebrate 8 years of collaboration with the KDE project in creating the best Plasma-powered Linux notebooks.

Designed for KDE Plasma users and optimized for the Linux ecosystem, the KDE Slimbook VII laptop features a premium aluminum chassis in a sophisticated slate-blue color, an AMD Ryzen AI 9 365 processor with integrated AMD Radeon 880M graphics, up to 128 GB DDR5 RAM, and up to 8 TB NVMe PCIe 4.0 SSD storage.

The KDE Slimbook VII Linux laptop also features a 16-inch WQXGA display with 2560×1600 resolution, 100% sRGB, 16:10 aspect ratio, 400 nits brightness, and 165 Hz refresh rate, a multi-language backlit keyboard, and a cooling system with dual fans and dedicated keys to switch between power modes.

Cross-posted from "When they get the bill too" by @Lydia_K@lemmy.world in !lemmyshitpost@lemmy.world

Sent out today was likely the last batch of HID subsystem fixes ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel releasing as stable around the end of the month. With it are some new device-specific quirks for fixing hardware support for a mouse and keyboard.

The ELECOM M-XT3URBK as a wired trackball mouse with six programmable buttons should see all the buttons now working under Linux. This ~$40 USD mouse should be playing nicely with Linux 6.18.

Last week, on the decaying husk of X.com, a former Disney Channel actor posted a 90-second advertisement for his AI company, 2WAI. The ad centers around “Baby Charlie” interacting with the avatar of his deceased grandmother.

In scene 1, baby Charlie’s pregnant mother asks avatar-grandma for advice. In scene 2, she asks avatar-grandma to tell toddler Charlie a bedtime story. In scene 3, 10-year-old Charlie talks with avatar-grandma while walking home from school. In scene 4, 30-year-old Charlie shows avatar-grandma an ultrasound photo, and she reacts with delight. And then, in scene 5, we see Charlie’s mom recording a three-minute video with still-alive grandma, to upload for the avatar. Then the tagline: “with 2wai, three minutes can last forever.”

I’ve written before about the social role of technology (here, here, and here. It’ll also be in the book). Advertisements like this are meant to build hype and garner attention, but they also present a vision of how a new technology fits into our social world.

The 2wai commercial isn’t in the same genre as Sam Altman and Dario Amodei heralding the coming age of Artificial Superintelligence. The product they are promising is basically feasible with existing generative AI technologies. (Sora 2, etc) But the social vision is fucking ghastly.

There is a potential near-future where you could conceivably record a video of your parent and then offload much of the day-to-day interactions with your child to an LLM wearing their face and voice as a digital skinsuit. This was basically the premise for a Black Mirror episode (“Be Right Back,” S2 E1). Black Mirror is not a fucking Pinterest board, former Disney Channel actor! Your ideas are derivative and bad. Have better ideas.

Season 4, Episode 5 of Black Mirror (“Metalhead”) takes place in a near-future dystopia where the scattered remnants of humanity hide from robot dogs that kill anyone they encounter. It is a dark tale.

WIRED’s Will Knight reported last week that researchers at Anthropic have taken steps to go build the damn thing.

“We have the suspicion that the next step for AI models is to start reaching out into the world and affecting the world more broadly,” Logan Graham, a member of Anthropic’s red team, which studies models for potential risks, tells WIRED. “This will really require models to interface more with robots.”

Anthropic, of course, continues to brand itself as the good guys in the AI race. They aren’t trying to build an AI-enabled robot army. They’re just trying to see if they can, before someone else1 builds the AI-enabled robot army.

And look, I continue to think that Eliezer Yudkowsky’s AI Doomer argument in If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies is weak and riddled with holes. I am not particularly worried that a runaway superintelligence is going to extinguish life on earth anytime soon.

But if you hook flawed LLM technologies up to robots, and then Silicon Valley defense tech companies arm the robots… a lot of things can very predictably go wrong.

This is bad and I hate it. The point of Black Mirror is to critique the current trajectory of how society makes use of new technology. The point of Black Mirror isn’t to give ghoulish AI entrepreneurs a fucking dream journal.

The Tokyo District Court on Wednesday ordered Cloudflare to pay $3.2 million to major Japanese publishers after the U.S. firm was accused of hosting servers for manga piracy sites. ……

Four major publishing firms — Kodansha, Shueisha, Shogakukan and Kadokawa — accused Cloudflare of copyright infringement for its role in hosting sites that distribute pirated copies of manga titles. ……

The adventures of a precocious 6-year-old and his stuffed tiger debuted on November 18, 1985. NPR's Renee Montagne spoke with the comic strip's editor, Lee Salem, in 2005.

Proposed changes to AI Act would make it easier for tech firms to use personal data to train models without consent

Nobody wants to work in these situations”: A decade of exploitation on the Riyadh Metro project

Migrant workers who travelled to Saudi Arabia to work on the Riyadh Metro project were forced to pay exorbitant recruitment fees, worked in dangerous heat and earned pitiful wages during a decade of serious abuse, Amnesty International revealed in a new report today.

Der erste richtige Frost war da und hat den Balkon in eine zapfige Eislandschaft verwandelt.

Die Buds der Amnesia Haze waren dadurch komplett durchgefroren und konnten dank Minustemperaturen perfekt zu Bubblehasch verarbeitet werden. Konnte mir dadurch auch prima Zeit lassen. Kühlkette und so...

Wer braucht schon Eiswein, wenn man sowas hat?

Die Ausbeute beim Haschi-Waschi war dieses Mal auch verblüffend groß!
Bin sehr gespannt wie der dann schmeckt und wirkt :)

Eigentlich wollte ich die Pflanze stehen lassen und einen Highnachtsbaum (mit Weihnachtsdeko dran) draus machen, aber mit den Unmengen an Wasser dran wäre sie mir safe innerhalb der nächsten paar Tagen vergammelt.

Damit hat die diesjährige Grow-Saison nun also endlich ein Ende gefunden! 😇

HOUSTON (AP) — A grand jury in Texas has indicted the man accused of killing “King of the Hill” voice actor Jonathan Joss on a murder charge.

But it is unclear whether Joss’ killing will be considered a hate crime. Police in San Antonio did not immediately return an email seeking comment Wednesday on whether its investigation had determined that Joss’ sexual orientation played a role in his shooting, and the Bexar County District Attorney’s Office declined to comment on the matter.

Police allege Sigfredo Ceja Alvarez, 57, confronted Joss and his husband on June 1 as they were checking their mail at their San Antonio home, which had been burned down in January.

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