Based.

Email is terrible. It’s an unreliable communication system. You cannot depend on sent emails arriving in the recipient’s mailbox—even the spam folder.

People incorrectly assume that all emails at least get to their spam folder. They don’t. There are multiple levels of filters that prevent most emails from ever making it that far because most email traffic is bots blasting phishing links, scams, and spam. Nobody wants phishing and scam emails, but the blocks that prevent those are being used by big tech to justify discriminating against small mail servers.

I can’t remember the site, now, but I literally couldn’t log into one this week because the email never arrived.

And “Windows” games run better in Linux/Proton. It’s more like a re-implementation of a feature set, right? Like, I could see devs targeting Proton as the primary target sometime in the future. That’s kinda how some multiplatform systems work already, going all the way back (at least) to “Java apps” in the 90s. (I can’t think of any older examples off the dome, but I only got into coding in a big way in the 00s, so I’m not confident.)

Oh, I very much doubt it. AI just introduces lots of new kinds of problems to solve.

Yeah, I’m not a lawyer, let alone a UK lawyer, but this seems insane. Why not sue Amazon, Walmart, and Best Buy for selling games that use their music, too, while they’re at it. The license to use their music is, presumably, licensed by the game creator. And, if it’s not, you go after them, not the storefront that’s selling the game, right?

If this case holds water, then didn’t that mean storefronts are liable for validating the licenses of all assets used by all products they stock? That would be insane. (“Prove you own the copyright to your packaging, design, layout, copy, music, textures, models, SFX, …”)

Agree completely. No DRM is best DRM, of course, but I’m also a realist. I understand that we need publishers to fund development of most bigger games, and that their shareholders will demand something to protect their investment.

Denuvo will never be installed on my devices, but I’m a patient gamer anyway. By the time I’m buying any game, they’ve already earned 90% of their expected revenue; by then, DRM is a barrier to sales, from gamers like us.

Keep Denuvo for 1-6 months, if they must, but then drop it.

It literally is a distraction. And your outrage at that is exactly parent poster’s point.

The Republican Apparatus (and Conservatives around the world, for that matter) have discovered that they can continuously manufacture new outrage to distract from the actual policies they care about.

With the Tea Party, a couple of decades ago, they mastered weaponized wedge issues to distract. (The “War on Terror” was a manufactured war, and that strategy goes back decades.) But they have since escalated to crimes against humanity.

And it’s working. I haven’t seen many headlines about ICE or Epstein recently because the average American is bored of hearing about it.

Meanwhile, they are enacting policies to further concentrate wealth and power amongst the 0.1%.

Exactly the point.

I run teacher training on this stuff, and that’s always a core part of the message: education is about relationships. Damaging your relationship with a student over an accusation of AI use is backwards; instead, come with curiosity.

Also, AI writes poorly, so you don’t even need to call them out on it. And then when they (inevitably) include a source or fact hallucination, return the paper and explain that the error needs to be fixed, and why. That’s your “in” to explain ethical use of AI.

Peach. Separation is where it’s at, and companies should be required to provide technology required for work.

In an ideal world “No, I don’t want that on my personal device” should be sufficient, but it’s a lot harder to argue with “No, I literally cannot install that on my device; it’s incompatible. Provide an alternative for me.”

I’m finally taking steps to walk the walk re: phone separation—I’m hoping the Click Communicator pans out, since it seems like the ideal work phone. (I get a stipend for tech, so I can get whatever I want. I’ve been pocketing the extra cash, but it’s time to get an actual work phone.) I’m just hoping I can wait it out and ignore the Authenticator warnings until then, or maybe look into Magisk Hide or whatever.

I think “contextual awareness” would fit better, and AI Believers preach that it’s great already. Any errors in LLM output are because the prompt wasn’t fondled enough/correctly, not because of any fundamental incapacity in word prediction machines completing logical reasoning tasks. Or something.

Seeing players through walls can be solved in other ways, though. At least partially. One fix is to only draw models that the player has line-of-sight to, often with out of LOS models drawn behind the camera. Then, pop them back into place a frame before they are expected to be in LOS. That eliminates a lot of the advantages of wall hacks and model hacks. (Model hacks add a giant stick out of the front of player faces so you can see what they are looking at and, from the size/colour/whatever, how far away they are.)

Server side, you can also measure reaction time net latency to determine overly consistent or superhuman reaction times. If players aim to headshots in under 0.3s consistently, then they’re hacking.

And rootkits can be beat anyway, so they’re pointless, like by ruining a VM or by injecting the cheat at the bootloader, before the kernel.

And there are hardware man-in-the-middle cheats, with video capture cards sending a video stream to a companion computer running an image processing model that injects mouse commands back to the host computer.

I could keep going. There are so many ways. Trusting the client is impossible, trying to force it is unethical (requiring rootkits), and it doesn’t even stop cheating! Just give up and move to server-side detection, or go back to community servers that can self moderate with human admins.

And, imho, don’t even ban the cheaters—instead, flag their account to be exclusively placed into cheater-only games (with bots for filler, if needed to keep queue times roughly matched to avoid player detection). ngl, younger me (who had more time for this kind of thing) would have loved the challenge of trying to out-hack other players using cheats.

Servers that don’t update = minor Y2K. But only for small websites/businesses/servers and that won’t affect anything important. Who doesn’t update their server for months, knowing this change is coming, right?

It should be fun!

I’m partly with you. The sleep research is pretty clear, from my understanding, that, in winter, daylight time is worse for sleep and mental health than standard time.

But the research is also pretty clear that changing time zones is even worse, afaik.

So, according to the science on sleep and mental health, the ranking of the options is:

1. Permanent Standard Time
2. Permanent Daylight Time
3. Changing to/from Daylight Time

But, on the other hand, there are also arguments for the social and economic benefits of having light to “do things” after work. I’m more inclined to think the sleep and mental health benefits of morning sunlight for resetting our collective circadian rhythms is more important, but I also accept that others disagree.

Regardless, this is better for almost everyone. Some businesses, airlines especially, will face some complications, but it won’t be a big deal in the long run. Saskatchewan has been like this forever. It’ll be fine.

He’s sealioning you, not arguing in good faith.

It’s more effective to call out the behaviour than to continue to engage, since continued engagement makes it seem like there’s a “debate” or “two sides” and that his side is the rational one that’s “just asking questions”.

That’s bullshit. He knows exactly what he’s doing. Trolling and trying to shift the Overton window. It’s bad faith manipulation, not a conversation. Treat it as such.

“Next”? Isn’t that already baked in with the platform’s spyware that governments can access freely?

Every few weeks when I run a full system update. Otherwise, only when Teams fucks up and I’m out of other ideas to try. It usually doesn’t fix it. (And when it does, it’s probably just arbitrary anyway.)

Oh, wait. You said shut down. lol, no.

Actually, I guess when my local energy company runs a power saving event.

Lowkey how I version number personal mini-projects and small things I roll out for my team.

I guess more like:
x… “huge new feature, scope expansion, or cool shit.”
.x. “small feature, or fixing a serious bug” …x “testing something. Didn’t work. Try again +1.”

I’m not ashamed it didn’t work. I swear!

I don’t believe my bank allows NFC payments or camera depositing cheques using the web app. I never use my bank card to pay anyway (not as protected as credit cards), so I don’t really know much about NFC payments by phone. I don’t think there are any significant technical barriers preventing them from implementing camera-based cheque depositing online, at least. I could live without that anyway… I get like 5 cheques a year?

I imagine NFC payments might have technical requirements that prevent a web app front end. They also might require more protection than just loading a website, but idk. We can already e-transfer once we’re logged in, so I’m not sure why NFC would need extra protection. But the cards they mail you has NFC payments built in, anyway, so I don’t get why this would be a deal breaker. It’s a minor inconvenience to get a bank-/credit-card phone case.

That’s likely wise. I played Civ 5 before any expansions and it was bad. So bad that it turned me off Civ games and I haven’t played one since. I’m sure they eventually figured it out, but I should have waited.

Same for Diablo 3. Played through the whole game to the endgame on release, waiting for it to be fun. It never was. Went back to PoE, Last Epoch, and others. I hear the expansion made it pretty good, but I’ve moved on. Diablo 4 isn’t as bad as D3, based on what I played in free play weekends, but it’s still a subpar Diablo-style game. It’s a shame they didn’t pursue Diablo 3 before they lost all the devs from Blizzard North that worked on D2. I played thousands of hours of D2, and I’m sad we’ll never get a true Diablo successor using the IP.

Thanks for sharing this! I’ve been using Moon+ Reader for years as it was the only eReader I could find with my required features. I have fairly unique TTS requirements about speed and text highlighting, and many apps don’t read fast enough, or don’t support my preferred TTS engine, or drop words at max speed over Bluetooth. This sounds like it could be perfect for me, depending on how they implemented TTS.

I’d love to move to something open source, too. I’m getting the Click Communicator for a work phone, so I should hopefully be able to de-Google my personal phone. Getting off Play Store apps entirely would be amaze balls and make that very easy.

Thanks for the link. It annoys me that even “good” journalism (PC Gamer) didn’t quote him correctly; stripping the <em> tags obfuscated the original tone.