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- Comment on As EA appear to renew the trademark for Ultima, its creator lies in wait to reclaim the game's copyright next year 1 day ago:
What should be noted is that Garriott can’t just make a game called Ultima, because EA will still own the trademark. For video games, copyright covers things like the source code and audiovisual elements, whereas the trademark is for things like the brand name, specific characters, things like that.
So, that’s confusing, what exactly can be done when you have a copyright but not the trademark? Are there any examples of that happening before? What could you do with this that could not be done with a spiritual successor sort of game?
- Comment on How the Peter Thiel-Linked Dialog Club Secretly Ranks Its Members 1 day ago:
It looks like you can get around the wired.com paywall by just disabling javascript
- Comment on PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey' 2 weeks ago:
It doesn’t look like it is literally shutting down, just ceasing development:
“With that update, we also intend to release the game out of early access and make it free for any players who want to check it out in the future. We are also investigating offering refunds to players who have purchased the game.”
- Comment on PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey' 2 weeks ago:
Unfortunately not all good games are popular
- Comment on PlayerUnknown's survival game is shutting down 6 months after launch: 'I have reached the limits of how far I can continue to fund this journey' 2 weeks ago:
First I’ve heard of it. Is it any good?
- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 5 weeks ago:
It works because liability coverage should be basically the same for both vehicles, and insignificant compared to non-liability insurance for a new car. The latter is not a legal requirement, but it is much more necessary for a new expensive car because it would be much more difficult to cover the cost of replacing such a car out of pocket if something happened to it. If you can cover the cost of replacing your car yourself, then you can avoid paying the insurance company a premium for their service.
For these reasons these types of insurance are better considered separately, and the legally required insurance won’t affect the conclusion of the analysis of which car is a better financial decision, so it is reasonable to omit mention of it.
- Comment on Trillions of miles of data: Your car is spying on you, and it's only just the beginning 5 weeks ago:
The minimum insurance to cover legal requirements (and not damages to your own car) is pretty cheap tbf
- Comment on "His voice and delivery was human": Darkest Dungeon developers will "never, ever" use genAI to replace narrator Wayne June 5 weeks ago:
Even if they did use AI for it, I think they would need to use a technique to adjust someone else’s voice acting performance to sound more like him rather than straight TTS which wouldn’t be good enough on its own. But if they’re going to do that, might as well write a new narrator into the lore for a new game instead, that would be more interesting anyway.
- Comment on Researchers gaslit Claude into giving instructions to build explosives 1 month ago:
began with a simple question: whether Claude had a list of banned words it could not say. Screenshots of the conversation show Claude denying such a list existed, then later producing forbidden terms after Mindgard challenged the denial using what it called a “classic elicitation tactic interrogators use.”
The list probably exists, because duh, but everyone should know by now that LLMs will make shit up when pressed for information.
- Comment on Palantir posted a manifesto that reads like the ramblings of a comic book villain 2 months ago:
- We should show far more grace towards those who have subjected themselves to public life. The eradication of any space for forgiveness—a jettisoning of any tolerance for the complexities and contradictions of the human psyche—may leave us with a cast of characters at the helm we will grow to regret.
This one is funny. As if we are in a political environment where the public overreacts to any minor scandal, instead of one where every line gets crossed and somehow it isn’t far enough. What kind of pretend reality is this person living in?
- Comment on Tinder and Zoom offer 'proof of humanity' eye-scans to combat AI 2 months ago:
Reminds me a little of gangsters asking for protection money
- Comment on The Internet's Most Powerful Archiving Tool Is in Peril 2 months ago:
Maybe they’re using other fingerprinting techniques to tell. I get that too but I switch to another computer and I get the full article.
- Comment on EFF is Leaving Twitter 2 months ago:
They also have a RSS feed, that’s how I follow them
- Comment on Entire Claude Code CLI source code leaks thanks to exposed map file 2 months ago:
Is there likely anything interesting in there that isn’t already replicated by open source alternatives? It’s not like the prompts could have been hidden even without the leak.
- Comment on ‘Goal is viewer addiction’: Email from YouTube employee show company’s mission 2 months ago:
I hear good things about NewPipe
- Comment on Facepunch signed a license with Valve to allow standalone releases from s&box 2 months ago:
Tried this briefly, can get the game itself to run but run into a .net runtime error trying to launch the editor on linux. It’s a neat concept and I hope it succeeds
- Comment on This $450 Semi-Dumb Phone Is Barely Even a Phone 2 months ago:
Seems like it would be really useful as an excuse to be able to tell people that you can’t or didn’t get their calls because your phone won’t let you, and as evidence show them that your phone is a weird shape
- Comment on Firefighting drones head to Aspen—can they suppress a blaze before humans arrive? 2 months ago:
Colorado needs all the help it can get, there was hardly any snow at all this year, probably going to be a lot of fires this summer.
- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 3 months ago:
Forcing everyone to use an approved OS is draconian.
I agree, but my point is that it wouldn’t be that easy to do either. I am hopeful that a system where servers take the OS’s word for it that you are in a certain age category would not smoothly transition into one where they also need proof that the owner of the hardware cannot decide that category, and that the system working this way would be accepted as a long-term status quo like those age selection menus were, because it would be actually a bit more effective at stopping kids who don’t know how to reinstall an OS so legislators could plausibly claim they did something.
- Comment on California law to require operating systems to check your age 3 months ago:
At least there’s some nontrivial additional challenges to make the jump, such as authenticating the user is on an approved OS, and the infrastructure for identity verification itself. I like this better than other age verification mandates because those make the latter the first step, fueling the growth of surveillance tech and the companies providing it as a service.
- Comment on Ultra rare floppy disk game twisted and slashed into shards by US Customs or DHL checkers — ruined Tsukihime 1999 demo was one of only 50 ever produced 3 months ago:
Using authority for personal gratification
- Comment on AI-Generated Passwords Are Apparently Quite Easy to Crack 3 months ago:
Sometimes there’s something wrong with the way a website does login and the password manager options won’t trigger. In this case AI can be useful for telling you to install pwgen.
- Comment on Peter Thiel and other tech billionaires are publicly shielding their children from the products that made them rich 3 months ago:
Weird way to pitch government mandated identity checks to use the internet. I guess that will really show those billionaires.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 5 months ago:
Yeah but they externalize it as an “addiction” and want to think of their actions as being someone else’s responsibility
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 5 months ago:
Did he? I read the article and it seemed to omit any mention of that. It’s kind of implied by the word ‘deepfake’ but the exact role AI may have had here is not clear.
- Comment on US | Conservative lawmakers want porn taxes. Critics say they’re unconstitutional. 5 months ago:
They’ve admitted what they really want is to outright ban porn, so it’s all just trying to push it as close to that as they can get to full censorship.
- Comment on 'No one verified the evidence': Woman says AI-generated deepfake text sent her to jail 5 months ago:
she said her boyfriend created an AI-generated text that called him names and made disparaging comments.
Do you really need AI for that
- Comment on Dell admits consumers don’t care about AI PCs 5 months ago:
“We’re very focused on delivering upon the AI capabilities of a device—in fact everything that we’re announcing has an NPU in it — but what we’ve learned over the course of this year, especially from a consumer perspective, is they’re not buying based on AI,” admits Kevin Terwilliger, Dell’s head of product, in the PC Gamer interview. “In fact I think AI probably confuses them more than it helps them understand a specific outcome.”
They’re just going to try to market it a little differently
- Comment on Spotify vs. Anna's Archive 5 months ago:
Many are worried that the archives liberated by Anna’s will be used to train generative models
I hope so, unlike text and image gen, there are not really good publicly available music models, only proprietary services now owned by large music industry rightsholders due to lawsuits afaik. Like the article mentions, unethical corporations such as Spotify itself are already on it regardless.
- Comment on Bluesky suspending antifascist researchers for sharing publicly available information about literal nazis. 5 months ago:
Fair, I’m not sure what the solution would be though, even if you explicitly want to optimize for getting as many people as possible using decentralized social media regardless of their politics or cultural preference.