I got curious and checked my own usage. Averages around 700MB or so for the past few months. It spiked one month because I was using my phone as a hotspot for a work call.
Unsurprisingly, Google Play services uses the vast majority of my data. Fucking Google. I have unlimited, so it’s whatever, but still.
Breaking news: software written from the ground up in 2026 opens faster than software that’s been developed, extended, bloated, and maintained for over two decades.
Steam releasing a performance patch so soon after makes it even funnier.
Looking through the commits, a lot of it is localizations (.po files), which do appear to be generated. Of course, using a large language model to translate text to another language doesn’t really seem like a problem.
Code-wise, the thing I’d find suspicious is the frequency of commits. They aren’t very big, but there’s a ton of them.
CGB (MTG), Rarran (Hearthstone), and Cimo (YGO) used to do collabs like this as well, at least before Cimo passed. There’s also a lot of content of them learning each other’s games, if you’re interested in that.
if you have any sort of cloud-connected cameras in your home, get rid of them now
It really shouldn’t take anything like this for someone to get rid of their cameras. Did everyone forget Eufy’s camera feeds being publicly available?
Security systems (and baby/pet monitors) should be local network only. If it needs an internet connection, don’t bother with it. If you need access to the feed from outside your home network, then just run something like Tailscale.
Its pages should have never seen the eyes of a reader.
At least they’re somewhat self-aware.
Honestly, I have no idea what’s going on in conservative spaces, but they’ve been taking quotes out of context for well over a decade at this point (if not longer but I haven’t paid attention much longer than that). It’s entirely possible he said that and they’re quoting it, though the conclusion I’d have without more context is that he’s referring to something like binary partisanship, not gender. edit: skimmed past the quote with context lol. Ok, good job Talarico? I’m genuinely surprised.
But yeah, it’s going to spout nonsense. Even ignoring the potential for foul play, it makes shit up even with its “harmless” responses. My point was more that it at least lowers the barrier for people who would have done no research anyway, and those people often tend to lean right.
Using ChatGPT (or any LLM) for this purpose is obviously incredibly flawed and very likely to lead towards bias (both intentional by the service provider and unintentional from the training), and in a world of mass misinformation, a chatbot is going to be no better at filtering the facts from the bullshit than a person would be, and we know how good people are at that.
But if there’s one silver lining: anybody who did no research before who now does this at least is exposed to more perspectives, hopefully. One would imagine this is a possible gateway to further self-directed research.
300 hectares — the equivalent of almost 500 football fields
Thanks for the context. As someone who lives in the US, I wouldn’t have been able to put that to scale otherwise.
Yep, tokenmaxxing is a thing at some companies now. It often aligns with the same people competing to see who can generate the most lines of slop code (losc, which is different than sloc of course).
It wasn’t long ago where people understood that every line of code you write is a line of code that could have a bug in it. The good devs still know this, but many are also being forced to generate shitty code just to appease their shitty management now.
As an aside, I have yet to see a case where tokenmaxxing generates a profit for either the consumer or the provider. It just reeks of the same “market capture at all costs” mindset that have plagued SV startups for so long.
It’s not a question of if anyone holds the copyright, but a question of whether the models themselves and their outputs are derivative works of the data the models were trained on.
If they are derivatives, it may be possible that the licenses of that training data place additional restrictions on the generated code or forbid derviative works outright.
Speaking practically, for a random “FOSS” project that isn’t very big, this is unlikely to ever come up. Courts would have to rule in favor of the training data owners, plus they would need to issue DMCA takedown requests and/or sue to have the content removed. That probably won’t happen.
However, you should probably question any project where the developers don’t understand the code well enough to write it themselves. I don’t know if that’s the case here, but that tends to be the case with vibecoded projects.
So, uh…
It’s cardboard. Just do this fot every drop maybe? If you want to know what artificial scarcity does, just look at the Pokemon TCG.
It’s really not that complicated. If you can do it once, there’s very little reason you couldn’t do it every time. In your order window (24h, 48h, whatever) you collect all the orders, then use that quantity to inform your printers so they can print off the exact quantity you need. You get the bulk discount still, you avoid printing unnecessary cards (ignoring refunds/cancellations/extra stock for misprints/whatever), and everyone who wants it gets it. After the order window? You get your scarcity too.
Also buried in the article is that they’re killing off RSS feeds (unless you moderate that sub I guess).
I haven’t touched Reddit in a long time now, and I have no plans to go back. But if I still did use it, killing old Reddit would have me leaving entirely. Their “new” interface was atrocious on release and I assume it’s far worse now that they’ve ramped up hard on ads.
They also have been showing video ads occasionally to nitro subscribers, which kills any value nitro could have had.
I think they could have simplified them a lot by just making them into MDFCs. This also lets them adjust the mana cost depending on which variant the player chooses.
Otherwise, I’m always in favor of adding depth to existing mechanics. Read ahead was a great mechanic for giving the player choice, the summons were a cool way to create powerful, temporary creatures, sagas transforming on their last chapter gave them staying power, etc.
I do have to wonder if they’ll ever revisit battles though.
From my understanding, only federal criminal charges (and convictions) can be pardoned anyway, whereas I believe this is a state civil case (a lawsuit).
Ok I had to look up what the federal limit is here in the US and it’s apparently 10gal/min (~38L/min). Your pumps are just firehosing it then considering your fast one is more than triple the flow rate of the fastest pumps we can have here.
Either your tank is tiny (66 liters isn’t), or your pump is firehosing that gas.
Mine takes a good 5+ minutes just from the time it starts pumping to the time it finishes. It’s a >20gal tank though so I don’t fill it very often.
From an article linked in this one:
Via WSVN, Bermudez claims he’s “not against video games, but to go out and get a video game where – which glorifies not only our first responders getting shot, but also pedestrians and residents – it’s nonsensical.”
Republican sheriff Cordero-Stutz similarly points to GTA’s crime-centric themes, adding: “At a time when law enforcement is working every day to reduce violent crime, prevent robberies and car thefts, combat drug trafficking, and build stronger relationships between our deputies and the communities we serve, I believe we need to seriously consider the message we send when our own government promotes a fictional identity centered around many of those same crimes.”
Remember, kids. Guns don’t kill people. Games about guns kill people.
It’d be the Avenged Fold7.
No, there is no space there.