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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - August 2026

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  • It may do it on all frontends. So far I have noticed if it's taking a long time to load something, refreshing the page seems to work in getting it unstuck.

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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - August 2026

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  • Unfortunately It appears that some strange issues have cropped up with the new AI scraper countermeasures recently implemented :(

    poVoq is trying his best to resolve it, but it's a bit of a brain twister to troubleshoot, from what I gather.

  • An unbiased journalist's investigation on how some people are taking down Flock cameras (definitely don't do this! 😉)

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  • I'm guessing they are colored contact lenses, or much more unlikely, Scleral tattoos.

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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - August 2026

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  • It's nice to see the wiki getting some use, great work on there! ^^

  • An unbiased journalist's investigation on how some people are taking down Flock cameras (definitely don't do this! 😉)

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  • And definitely don't report and catalog any flock cameras that are near you on https://deflock.org/ (Please do).

  • In Person Activism @slrpnk.net
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    An unbiased journalist's investigation on how some people are taking down Flock cameras (definitely don't do this! 😉)

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • It truly is, and learning that virtually every DE is also using it was a wake-up call for me of how deeply this has infiltrated FLOSS projects (I would've assumed they would be less apt to jump on the band-wagon, especially after the environmental and ethical concerns became apparent, but... Most don't seem to care too much, if at all about that).

    Especially disheartening that the kernel is turning such a blind eye to all this and ignoring you. They seem to be setting an example for other FLOSS projects to follow. I feel like it'll continue until some of them get slapped with serious infringement cases, then maybe that'll cause at least some to take action against LLMs.

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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - August 2026

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  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • An update on the different DE's stance on AI:

    • LXQt won't ban AI, and will allow code contributions.
    • MATE's Contributing.md on github explicitly allows AI contributions that are marked as AI.
    • Budgie has Claude submissions right in their github.
    • KDE's team is divided somewhat, but ultimately accept AI code.
    • Gnome allows AI code on most of their projects.

    That leaves Cinnamon and Cosmic, both of which are currently unknown on their stance. If they turn out to both be pro-AI, that would mean most major DE's are pro-AI, leaving us with the Window Managers to investigate like i3, Qtile, etc.

    Edit: I see Qtile has claude contributions already so... Egh...

    Edit 2: Cosmic accepts LLM contributions.

    Not looking good. At this point I'm guessing Cinnamon will as well.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • Also update regarding the MATE desktop, I found in their Contributing text that they are following the Linux Kernel's lead on accepting LLM code, with only a requirement to tag it as being AI-assisted.

    AI-assisted code receives no special treatment compared to human code. If disclosing AI assistance, use the Assisted-by format adopted by the Linux kernel guidelines. Do not use Co-Authored-By with AI tool accounts or vendor emails, as it pollutes the commit history.

    So they're off the table as well :\

    The Labwc wayland compositor (which MATE uses for wayland support), has similar guidelines in its Contributing file.

  • How would a Solarpunk society handle law enforcement and military?

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  • No anacharchist society could ever survive being in competition with a legitimate nation state with mordern weapons.

    An anarchist society would need manufacturing capability to create weapons that would be effective against the enemies they faced (much like Ukraine's local drone construction is essential to their survival). That was an issue in the Spanish Civil war, especially as no outside countries were willing to help logistically except for the USSR, which had strings attached, and was mostly diverted to the Stalinist faction.

    These two concepts are so incredibley far removed from each other

    I don't believe they are. Rojava modeled its society on Democratic Confederalism as laid out by Abdullah Öcalan. Abdullah himself was heavily inspired by the works of Murray Bookchin, who advocated for a form of Eco-Anarchism, which Solarpunk itself is partly based upon.

    I am not saying that Rojava is a solarpunk society, it is not, it's also not considered properly Anarchist by most Anarchists, but it is currently an existing society that at least is attempting to decentralize societal power in a meaningful way (to varying degrees of success), similar to the Zapatistas.

    Also to be clear, my reference to Rojava in my previous comment about Community Defense related to how they had replaced law-enforcement, the primary subject of this thread.

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  • Solarpunk and its Anarchist ideals are a pretty direct threat to virtually every other societal system. Fascists, Capitalists, and Authoritarians all either see it as an enemy to starve out, or even directly attack in an attempt to prevent its spread, as was seen during the Russian Revolution with Makhno's Black Army, and the Spanish Civil War.

    As long as there are still state governments with military might at their disposal, a Solarpunk society is likely going to need to be able to defend itself against them. The Anarchists of Spain organized their voluntary militias from the bottom up, where the soldiers themselves would elect someone to lead the group (but with the ability to immediately recall them outside of battle if they didn't perform their duties to the satisfaction of the soldiers who elected them), and those elected leaders would then elect a commander to help organize them more effectively, with the same recall rules applied. It seemed to work out quite well for them.

    However, there may be a point in time where the advantages of the alternative solarpunk system are too apparent to ignore, which could spark mass-civil disobediance or even revolution in those other countries causing their governments and capitalist economies to collapse, hopefully then leading to them joining in with their own solarpunk movements. Were that to eventually happen the world over, the need for militias to exists would likely dwindle.

  • How would a Solarpunk society handle law enforcement and military?

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  • It relies on a legitimate government outside of it to provide actual protection from outside lawlessness.

    A solarpunk society would decentralize power as much as possible in-line with Anarchist principles. Anarchist Catalonia (which had over 3.5 million participants) demonstrated that a decentralized society is entirely viable, and how it functioned was documented quite well (such as in this book). We also have a modern example of how Rojava (a somewhat decentralized society in Syria of 4.6 million people) does community defense.

  • Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

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  • That's exactly the type of thing I had in mind! Thanks for the heads up :D

  • Low Stakes Cozy Co-op Game Suggestions?

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  • Dome Keeper is a really fun up-to 4-player co-op game about digging for minerals beneath a dome and defending it from creatures on the surface who try to break in every so often.

    https://store.steampowered.com/app/1637320/Dome_Keeper/

    It's mostly a chill game, but the defense of the dome can be exciting, though only one player needs to actually man the defenses, the rest can continue to mine below ground.

  • Got a spare $10? Net yourself almost 150 games and help support laid off game devs with the game industry hardship fund bundle

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    SLRPNK Community Discussion - August 2026

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  • We were going to shut that down as well until we discovered an actively maintained fork, so thankfully old.slrpnk lives on, it's only the alexandrite front-end that will be shut down due to it being abandoned by the dev.

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  • Cyberpunk depicts a dystopia that assumes capitalism essentially 'won', but how punks at the bottom of society can still resist it and use the system's technology that enabled so much oppression and exploitation against itself.

    Solarpunk instead depicts a utopia where capitalism lost to the punks, and how society would be organized from that anti-authoritarian eco-anarchist perspective.

  • LLMs and xfwl4 – Brian Tarricone

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  • I believe FreeBSD currently doesn't allow LLM's either, at least for now due to licensing concerns (I get the vibe they'd be open to it if it was deemed 'safe' from a licensing standpoint, so if the court ever made a decisions that makes them feel safe, they'd probably open it up to it).

    Realistically though, both BSD and Haiku would be a pretty drastic downgrade in overall usability from reduced software and hardware support compared to Linux, and at least at this point, that's a bit too big of a sacrifice to make :(

    I plan to start probing other DE's who have yet to make a public stance on LLMs in hope of finding at least a few that can be considered a safe haven.

  • Human Nature & Socialism

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  • Agreed, but this is a video based community, and unfortunately Peertube is not yet used enough to completely replace YouTube.

    In the meantime, there are ways to avoid YouTube's tracking, such as Freetube, Invidious instances, NewPipe, and Grayjay (grayjay is not GPL, but it is source available, and can sometimes work when the others are temporarily blocked by youtube and need to update a new solution).

    Freetube videos cannot be linked to, it's up to each individual to use manually on their end.

    Invidious instances can be linked to, but unfortunately instances die fairly frequently, and links using them often die with them after a couple months or more, requiring the poster to search out new instances to replace them (having to comb through my old posts to replace the links with working ones eventually turned me off using it, I'm afraid).

  • Linux @programming.dev
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    Xfce dev sponsored by Xfce project to create Wayland compositor admits to using Claude LLM/AI for development, dismisses ethical concerns

    www.spurint.org /journal/2026/07/llms-and-xfwl4
  • Animation @piefed.social
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    Short Animation

    Ruffian In The Diamond

  • Wikipedia @lemmy.world
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    Dynabook

    en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dynabook
  • Traditional Art @lemmy.world
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    Dozeherd, Arantza Sestayo, Oil on Linen, 2020

  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Thief vs. AAA Gaming - An Essay

  • Star Wars @lemmy.world
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    Star Wars: The Phantom Menace Video Game (PS1) - Undue Review

  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Frontier Fundamentals - An Elite 2 Tutorial Series

  • MS-DOS gaming @retrolemmy.com
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    DOS haven: A website hosting modern DOS games and DOS development software

    www.doshaven.eu
  • RetroGaming @lemmy.world
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    Snatcher: The Power of Limitations

  • retroNET - Vintage Culture/Websites/Software @lemmy.sdf.org
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    The History of AOL Instant Messenger | Macintosh Librarian

  • Pixel Art @retrolemmy.com
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    A particularly good guide to Pixel Art for Beginners

  • The Eternal Playlist @crazypeople.online
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    Playout, by Duett (80's synth)

    duett.bandcamp.com /track/playout
  • KDE & Plasma users @lemmy.ml
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    Minuet, KDE's application for music education, needs testers!

    sandroandrade.org /minuet-26-08-call-for-testers/
  • unions @sh.itjust.works
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    What Can You Do When You're Replaced By Machines? History of the Wapping Dispute and Strike | J. Draper

  • History @mander.xyz
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    What Can You Do When You're Replaced By Machines? History of the Wapping Dispute and Strike | J. Draper

  • Gaming @beehaw.org
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    Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with QBASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamers

    ladiesgamers.com /whispers-in-the-moss-review/
  • Games @lemmy.world
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    Whispers in the Moss - A very odd JRPG released in 2024 that was made entirely with QBASIC and MS-DOS ASCII / BBS ANSI art | Ladiesgamers

    ladiesgamers.com /whispers-in-the-moss-review/