Well, I hurt somebody’s feelings once

You sure we haven’t been already?

Ah these guys. Weren’t they the ones using electo shock therapy on their “organoids” to “teach” (force) them to play Doom?

https://hwbusters.com/news/human-brain-cells-on-a-chip-learned-to-play-doom-in-a-week/

And didn’t said organoids mysteriously “fire” the moment someone walked into the lab?

https://www.sciencealert.com/brain-tissue-grown-in-the-lab-produces-brainwaves-resemblings-pre-term-babies

Nah, it’ll be fine.

Hey, here’s a cool idea. Why not take “samples” from “neurodivergent” children (let’s say… 1500cm^3… throw in some spinal cord), finely sliced, and bathe them in Adderal, Dr Fucking Mengele. Just think how “on task” the compute will be!

In fairness, the ScienceAlert piece notes that if any start to show signs of consciousness, they will “consider” shutting the project down.

Which is reassuring in the way that a fire extinguisher on a rocket is reassuring.

PS: sorry if I was unclear. STOP FUCKING CREATING BRAINS IN A VAT, YOU FUCKING MONSTERS.

I am…scaroused.

I don’t recall that one…but in fairness…AI generates a metric shit ton more code than humans. We’d have to normalize the results. Interestingly, looking it up now, someone DID normalize for that very case. Bug rate per commit for the AI-assisted versions landed within normal historical range. A pre-AI release had more regressions. The 3.4.3 regressions were primarily from the CVE security patches, not the AI work. Zero CVEs from the Claude-assisted commits.

EDIT: Correct URL https://alexispurslane.github.io/rsync-analysis/

Very well. Here -

https://www.debian.org/security/2008/dsa-1571

https://www.finnie.org/2024/05/13/i-discovered-the-debian-openssl-bug/

That’s the thing about “pure human slop”: it doesn’t need to be malicious to be catastrophic.

The second link is particularly salient - kills the “supply chain attacks are special” argument because it is precisely about “unwitting bugs in normal human-written code just happen”

Ssshh…Most of those having a knee-jerk “AI BAD! YOU BAD!” reaction don’t have any clue WTF an IDE is, how code completion works, nor the fact that by most metrics 95%+ of code now has “AI” in the chain…and has had that for YEARS.

https://github.blog/news-insights/research/survey-ai-wave-grows/

https://survey.stackoverflow.co/2025/ai

OMGWTFBBQ!

Here’s a crazy idea…how about instead of “AI BAD! ME HATE AI” how about some nuance? Assume ALL software in 2026 has had AI assistance, and review it on its merits.

As for the devs at GrapheneOS directly…why were you (the general you) trusting them before? Humans can be plenty dicey in ways that affect code all on their own.

https://www.reddit.com/r/PrivacyGuides/comments/13s7mv3/why_i_deleted_grapheneos_louis_rossmann/

https://factually.co/fact-checks/technology/louis-grossman-grapheneos-drama-c1f2ae

Supposedly wonderful “human artisanal code” has plenty of fuckery.

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

https://thehackernews.com/2024/03/urgent-secret-backdoor-found-in-xz.html

https://simonwillison.net/2026/Mar/31/supply-chain-attack-on-axios/

https://www.hivepro.com/threat-advisory/axios-npm-supply-chain-attack-what-you-need-to-know/

Late to game, Google. Pull your socks up.

https://www.theguardian.com/games/2026/mar/16/petri-dish-brain-cells-playing-doom-cortical-labs

NACUZ would be even better … right up there with Boaty McBoatface.

Im on a 2013 m93p thinkcenter tiny. Still goes hard

Heh. That’s my gaming machine. Win 8.1, 2x4 GB sticks, i5-4785T, 2x Xbox 360 controllers, SSD.

I can play retro games, emulation (Wii, Gamecube, PS 2 era), indy’s and PC AAA upto about 2015ish. Boots in under 5 seconds, smooth 60fps @ 720p (which is good enough for me). For a $100 “piece of ewaste”, it goes hard AF.

Keep your GTA 6; Lego City Undercover local co-op is where it is at.

https://complexlogic.github.io/flex-launcher/

2007? Sit down junior.

Games are a luxury good that need to thread a fine needle.

With roughly fifty years of back catalog to draw from, free engines, and endless other distractors, a $250 game would need to be an epoch-defining masterpiece - or have true AGI baked in - to get my attention.

Then again, I’m not the target demographic: I built my own retro console from office e-waste and play retro games, older AAA and indies.

You’re not wrong… but “othering” people is no way to lift them out of the muck. Causes classic back fire effect. I say present the alternative case clearly and succinctly. If still finger in ears well, wish them luck and go separate ways.

some consumers… maybe even most. Certainly not all.

I’m actually grateful for the enshittification of the main stream. It’s an excellent incentive to carve your own path, in some small way. Hopefully that spills over to other aspects of people’s lives.

“Fuck you, I won’t do what you told me” is a wonderful fuel.

… For everyone one of “us” on this thread, there’s 10,000 that will shrug and conform.

You and I are not the target demographic. Clearly - look at where we’re having this conversation :)

Ipso facto we need to make sure that we support those that support us (Indie devs, FOSS etc). Let Sony do Sony things.

Seems like a bit of a leap, tbh.

As a follow up, I’m curious to hear from lurkers here or those who are thinking about self-hosting (but haven’t started yet); which approach appeals (using the “media at home” example in OP) and why? We’re all pretty much damned souls here but it might be interesting to hear from someone just starting out.

I can dig it…but surely the simple option is to have the PC wake up on power restoration, right?

Set the BIOS to “restore last state after AC loss” and let the UPS do its basic job. If power returns before the battery dies, the PC never shuts down. If the battery does die, the PC loses AC while running, then powers back up when AC returns.

Does that not achieve the same outcome?

I get the idea of Pi + NUT + WoL setup (especially if you want a clean shutdown). It just seems…a lot for a single machine.

(He said, conspicuously hiding the shopping cart of solar panels and marine batteries)

I’m not sure if there’s a fundamental misunderstanding but I felt a need to clarify that NUT works with a UPS. It isn’t either or. Whether you’ve got a homelab or a single desktop PC, you need some piece of software which can see when the UPS goes “Oh shit, power is gone” and instruct the machine(s) to shut down cleanly. NUT is that software.

Could be. In context, the respondent was discussing the use of a raspberry pi - between their UPS and their single Lenovo minipc - as a stand-alone home device. Why? Don’t know.

To my understanding, the sequence is (or should be)

Mains fails -> UPS supplies battery power -> UPS reports its battery state over USB -> software on the PC shuts the OS down.

Using a Pi as a dedicated NUT server makes sense when several machines need the same UPS…for one PC, it seems like an extra machine in the chain (for the sake of an extra machine in the chain).

That’s sort of what I meant: things get overbuilt. Maybe for fun.