Emulators with rewind and save states mean regular humans can finally enjoy this game.

Senator Thune will receive an Industry Champion Award for his work on policies that encourage innovation and competitive choice for customers. We’re not aware of any pioneering copyright policy the Senate leader was involved in, but he did extensively advocate for consumer freedom, including the Filter Bubble Transparency Act.

The MPA hasn’t mentioned Thune in any communications on its website before, aside from the fact that MPA’s Senior Vice President of Federal Government Affairs worked for him previously. That said, the award shows that the movie industry group values his work and achievements.

“Here’s an award!”

“What for?”

“For what you’re going to do!”

Thank you for this. I plan to look at the authentication part more closely, but that’s the part I can’t quite figure out (being an amateur at this stuff but still trying), since I’m nervous with just a password accessing it remotely or from the phone.

Authelia, NGINX, there is so much that’s confusing to me, but this might help.

Freemium dark patterns are also enshittification. It’s slight clickbait/ragebait, but not far off.

Final Fantasy 8 still getting no love, I see…

Your setup is closer to “statistic” than “anecdote,” so curious how many drive failures you’ve had?

What is the primary OS you run to manage all of the components?

I get that it’s usually just a dunk on AI, but it is also still a valid demonstration that AI has pretty severe and unpredictable gaps in functionality, in addition to failing to properly indicate confidence (or lack thereof).

People who understand that it’s a glorified autocomplete will know how to disregard or prompt around some of these gaps, but this remains a litmus test because it succinctly shows you cannot trust an LLM response even in many “easy” cases.

Seven figures? Try nine. Musk spent an absolutely staggering amount getting Trump elected.

Thanks, I didn’t know that!

Well, Nvidia seemingly forgot to price gouge on RAM for the 3060 and they had a 12 GB standard version for a while. That should have been the low range standard, with 24 for mid and 32 for high, but they’ve adjusted.

Possible I suppose, but if that worked, not sure why they couldn’t just provide a diff patch that worked on the user’s existing binary…

What is the DMCA argument here? Does anyone know what was alleged by Sony?

It would need to be either using copyrighted code or circumventing copy protection. Neither seems likely for a frame rate mod.

What gets measured gets improved. The inverse is also true - what doesn’t get (or can’t be) measured deteriorates.

Google had a uniquely employee-friendly culture and probably the highest morale amongst the FAANG companies. But Sundar apparently couldn’t assign a value to that like he could quarterly balance sheet improvements, and at some point it appears to have disappeared from his decision tree entirely.

So it’s no surprise they discarded their entire company culture and are so concerned with the same Wall Street-pleasing nonsense efficiency metrics as a typical company. Google is no longer special in any way.

The articles have been confusing - I guess they’re announcing a physical location, but also it’s a digital archive you can access on a website. Don’t know why they have a landing page that doesn’t clearly link to it: https://archive.gamehistory.org/

They may just have taken down the link because it’s getting hugged to death.

It’s an incredible resource - here’s hoping the publishers don’t kill it.

I like the site concept, but they really should fix the lone informational PDF link that directs to a “Not Found” error. Knowing anti-vaxxers, that broken link will be misunderstood to be proof that their anti-vax beliefs could not be refuted.

No, they worked for me between 15-10 years ago, but I get it - by all accounts now they’re so enshittified that it’s just Match parasitically turning loneliness into profit at ever greater efficiency. They would have failed immediately if they didn’t work long enough to capture enough market and attention.

As others mentioned OK Cupid, and it’s a great example. It was originally very good at matching people, and they took pride in it. I remember when Match bought it, as I had recently (just in time) found my person. I was able to see it go from “No, we’re leaving it alone, just tweaking a few things” to ending the interesting data-exploration articles, dumbing down the experience, adding micro-pay-gating, and fully gutting the experience and staff. Nobody should have trusted Match to not destroy what it was, and if they hadn’t sold and remained a useable app, maybe the market would have abandoned Match. Instead, here we are.

I don’t envy those people still looking, I assume best case is still using apps but you just have to waste a lot more time.

All good, thanks for posting either way!

Do you have links to some tracks you’d like to share? Always nice to hear what types of sounds a specific workflow makes.

Unfortunately, maintaining hacked forked versions of specific apps is even more time consuming for devs than it is for us to just spoof our security environment on our phones. Popular apps like YouTube have such versions but that’s only because the userbase is there.

I’ve seen some XDA discussion on hacking apps but you’re actually just learning to become a programmer/hacker at that point. If you have a specific app, and you’re not able to hack it yourself, unfortunately spoofing via Magisk & Tricky Store is the only sustainable way.