🚫 hack - unprofessional, buggy and possibly illegal

✔️ Expanded features to free software - professional, shows care with all users

An apt metaphor: we’re the win95 home pirates that get every company to buy an official license

will require identification and photo validation

Straight from the book “How to kill your app before launch”, page 1.

data privacy at its core

Looks like they haven’t seen the obvious conflict with requiring id + photo, unless they plan on manually review every application.

After reading the article, it sounds like they’re just making yet another xitter clone with the hopes that govt figures will use it. Govts could just spin their own mastodon or similars for a similar effect.

Stupid name, vv, or vave would’ve been better. Besides, it’s not like they’ll register v.v as a domain, or even www.w.vv

wish meta had torrented all the viruses, too, would be fun to read the news of “facebook and instagram are offline as meta suffers from cyberattack”

I use Youtube. It has more stuff and most of the time, if you check the channel you can get a good feel of whether the stuff is AI - like several hour long “albums” uploaded only a few days from one another. Only applies to stuff uploaded after 2023

Pictured: Nadella holding in his hands all the profit M$ can make in the next 30 years even if AI booms like he really really really wants it to.

artificial intelligence (AI) risks becoming a speculative bubble unless its use spreads beyond big tech companies and wealthy economies.

Oh, you mean there is a risk it becomes the thing it already is? Boy, imagine that!

The really funny thing is how he says that “the benefits need to spread outside the tech sector”. Golly gee, I wonder why other sectors haven’t benefited yet! Could it be that it’s not worth the hype and it does not improve anything that typical computer systems are already working on, like managing electrical grids, keeping track of shipments, avionics, etc? Nah, it’s all the doomers’ fault

Alexstrasza, my dear 😏

The bottleneck isn’t acquiring plastic. The bottleneck is everything else.

This is spot on. I’ve had resin printers for ~6 years now, I’m quite skilled at adding supports to models (and despise pre-supported ones). I bought the first one fully intending to print RPG minis and maybe also make my own 40k army. Printed a lot of minis, printed some on commission, sold some, including 40k, but never made an army, “my” army, I get stuck at choosing a force/faction and then making the composition. The ready made combat patrols just feel “meh”

Most importantly, I only know one 40k group and they play ~30km away from where I live. I already do that kind of trip every single day for work, so that was a huge dampener to me.

Lord of the Rings

Die Hard

Terminator 2

Could be worse, he could be the kind that only plays fifa/ea football

I wonder whether the card game will be any good, or if they’ll make a mix of pokemon with yugioh just to spite konami on top of nintendo

I played Fable 3 around 2017 I think? Ok game, but Fable 1 was much better. Felt like they veered too much on making it linear. I wish M$ would release Fable 2 for PC, but that’s unlikely

Rakuel’s post on steam is very interesting

I made this game during the summer in couple months and thought to use AI because in university there is so much brainwashing on students and all the tools are given for free, so I could generate unlimited images for free and so.

Emphasis mine. Universities playing a role in this annoys me a lot.

Some AI companies can use this game just existing as a reason the get more investment for their AI companies, that benefit no one, but rather suck resources from the economy from hard working people.

I think this part alone is incredibly important and the real eye-opener for him.

I thought people would miss the keyboard on smartphones. Turns out we are a small minority

Those pesky nationalists thinking they could nationalize oil just because they fairly elected a president that wanted to do that!!!

For the Iranians, yeah, different asshole, same shit

The democratisation effect is something I’ve been thinking about myself, as hiring developers or learning to code doesn’t come cheap.

It’s not really “democratizing” anything, since anything made that isn’t like a simple calendar or forum will come with more bugs than working features. Low and no-code development options have been available for ages, so “doesn’t know how to code” was never an actual barrier to making software. Not only that, learning to code could be done effectively for free for well over 15 years now, online resources have only gotten better. It was never about the (lack of) money, it was always about time needed. “I don’t want to/can’t learn this, yet I want the thing done” - that’s why we pay professionals.

However, if it allows non-profits to build ideas that can make our world a better place, then that is a good thing.

At best, they’ll get semi-working prototypes. At worst, they’ll try to sell said prototypes as end products. Besides, anything that is “a disposable utility, designed for the immediate “now” rather than the distant “later.”” is extremely unlikely to make the world a better place.

You mean it isn’t the folks at trap-o-mart?

I keep forgetting to check it every week to grab a game. Never installed a single one via EGS, but pirated a few later on, though it’s no longer piracy if it’s a game I legally own :)