I still think the web would have been better off if certificates were signed and part of a web of trust like in GPG/PGP. It wouldn’t stop sites from using trusted CAs to increase their trust levels with browsers, but it would mean that tiny websites wouldn’t need to go through layers of mandatory bullshit and inconvenience. Also means that key signers could have meaningful business relationships rather than being some random CA that nobody has a clue about.

It’s a pity other platforms, especially social media / video platforms don’t require full disclosure of use of AI. It might allow a lot of AI slop and misinformation to be eradicated, downvoted, or at least call itself out.

What amazes me is Americans doing this to themselves. Literally acting against their own best interests, putting their lives and wellbeing in the hands of companies only concerned about profit.

Fuck every company that does this. I don’t like YouTube shorts. Can I disable YouTube shorts? No. Instead I can choose to “Show less often” which means absolutely nothing since they reappear in no time. Dark patterns are called that for a reason.

I think the main thing holding Wayland back are older drivers which don’t work well with it and impact on things like games. Once its over that hump there isn’t much reason for maintainers to suffer two back ends any more.

There is nothing worse than playing multiplayer and having somebody who is cheating. Viable and promising games have been ruined by people cheating.

But I don’t see an easy way around the issue but these are the usual solutions:

1. Reporting mechanism and admins able to observe cheaters and impose heavy penalties / permabans
2. Add anticheat on server side that detect for cheating (e.g. measuring % hit rates / headshots)
3. Anti cheat software on client that looks for common cheat hacks
4. Stream everything. It’s all hosted on the server, nobody installs anything, limiting ways to cheat.
5. Disincentivize cheating by not acknowledging people doing it in any way - no rare loot, no leaderboards, no material gain
6. Make it a 3rd party problem - release the server or sell hosting and make it somebody else’s problem to police the servers (e.g. Rust / Minecraft servers)

Personally I’d prefer that multiplayer games obtain consent to install anti cheat and should certify through auditing that the anticheat software is inactive and nonintrusive when the game is not running. Perhaps operating systems could even provide hooks and hard guarantees that this is the case.

If that is true then Musk & Twitter 100% knew about it before disclosing location to other users.

Most likely they fucked up their report and they’re using the rules of the exchange to suspend trading until they fix the mistake. But Ubisoft has been running on fumes for some time now, shitting out the same 3 or 4 games over and over again so I doubt their financials are that great.

This is just more noise and bullshit like demanding to see Obama’s birth cert.

As a European I’d see his policies as left wing but not as socialist, communist or whatever. And as a person who has been to New York countless times I would see anything that improves the quality of life such as public transport, childcare, food poverty as a generally good thing. Whether Mandani manages to pull it off and doesn’t go to the dark side like every single other New York mayor remains to be seen.

Some poor bastard actually buys a Kojima game to watch the cut scenes.

I still turn my computer like that most of the time.

So much for the “Apple is all about privacy whereas Google monetizes you” schtick.

Tron: Arse would be a better name for the new installment

I’m laughing that the committee awarded the prize to a Venezuelan. Trump is going to be raging all day - all caps screeching about how he deserved to win, how Maria Machado is a loser, about how many conflicts he resolved etc. His government is going to be striking out against Venezuela (despite the winner being an opponent of the regime), Norway and the Nobel Prize organization. Fox will be on a rage fest too and all his proxies too. I guarantee that we’ll see esteemed members of Nobel getting detained at US borders, being deported etc because Trump is a sore loser little bitch.

The worst outcome is he is seen walking and talking. If he dropped dead I doubt anybody else would feel emboldened to act the way he did.

If the code doesn’t compile, or is badly mangled, or uses the wrong APIs / imports or forgets something really important then it’s broken. I can use AI to inform my opinion and sometimes makes use of what it outputs but critically I know how to program and I know how to spot good and bad code.

I can’t speak for how you use it, but if you don’t have any real programmers and you’re iterating until something works then you could be producing junk and not know it. Maybe it doesn’t matter in your case if its a bunch for throwaway scripts and helpers but if you have actual code in production where money, lives, reputation, safety or security are at risk then it absolutely does.

I have never seen an AI generated code which is correct. Not once. I’ve certainly seen it broadly correct and used it for the gist of something. But normally it fucks something up - imports, dependencies, logic, API calls, or a combination of all them.

I sure as hell wouldn’t trust to use it without reviewing it thoroughly. And anyone stupid enough to use it blindly through “vibe” programming deserves everything they get. And most likely that will be a massive bill and code which is horribly broken in some serious and subtle way.

Alex Jones is more like Julius Streicher who also sported a pathetic moustache to ingratiate himself with Hitler. Streicher was virulently antisemitic and spouted all kinds of bug eye conspiracies but even other Nazis thought he was little more than an annoying clown.

Why the fuck should they hold a minute’s silence for this piece of shit anyway. He was an asshole in life, he got shot for his troubles and now the far right are trying to make a martyr of him Horst Wessel style. And that includes some some fellow traveller who happens to be an MEP in this instance.