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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (7 children)

Small FYI, not a sneer or anything, you can stop reading if you don't know what the godotengine is. But if you do and hear of the fork, you can just ignore the fork. (the people involved also seem to be rather iffy, one guy who went crazy after somebody mentioned they would like gay relationships in his game, and some maga conspiracy theory style coder. That is going by the 3 normal people the account follows (out of 5) who I assume are behind it).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (27 children)

amazing work they've achieved so far though

yes, that's the complete change set for the fork

oh and a Godot discord moderator turned out to be extremely into dropping n-words in chat

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

a user called "crypto-bitcoin" raises an issue with the World Wide Web Consortium's Accessibility List

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

See image description below

Image descriptionImage shows user joined two weeks ago.

Yikes. Could be a troll (I hope it's a troll)

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I’m just thinking about all the reply guys that come here defending autoplag, specifically with this idea:

“GPT is great when I want to turn a list of bullet points into an eloquent email”

Hey, you butts, just send the bullet points! What are you, a high schooler? Nobody has time for essays, much less autoplagged slop.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 month ago

No no no it's fine! You get the word shuffler to deshuffle the—eloquently—shuffled paragraphs back into nice and tidy bullet points. And I have an idea! You could get an LLM to add metadata to the email to preserve the original bullet points, so the recipient LLM has extra interpolation room to choose to ignore the original list, but keep the—much more correct and eloquent, and with much better emphasis—hallucinated ones.

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