Huh. Guess he was telling the truth after all.

Even if an LLM hallucinates a sentiment that we like, it’s still slop.

I’ve been playing a Gamecube game (Spiderman 2 (2004)) on original hardware lately (slight lie - playing on a backwards-compatible Wii, but with an official Nintendo Gamecube controller) and the analogue L/R are quite annoying. Given that the analogueness doesn’t do anything in the game I’m playing unless you fully press it, it’s more like a non-analogue trigger with a ridiculous depression distance.

Be safe. Use a good VPN for pirated content and don’t trust that what you download is what you expect it to be.

The longer the bubble continues to grow and the bigger it is when it pops, the worse the crash/deflation will be, which is why I say I hope it comes “soon”.

I guess that and so that I can stop having LLMs forced on me.

Oh, and “deflation means you have less money” is a bit overly simplistic. If you’re living hand-to-mouth and don’t have a lot of debt, deflation can actually be a net good thing because a paycheck in the future can buy more than a paycheck of the same size today.

I’m in the U.S. if you’re curious.

I have used vibe coding

You really need to take what I’m about to say seriously and not dismiss it offhand.

It’s possible this is AI psychosis. Don’t use AI any more. At all. It’s fucking with your mind. Also recommended: seek help. This is not meant as an insult. I’m really concerned for your mental health. You need to reach out to a professional.

I hope it comes soon.

It’s the best Democrats can hope for in Missour-uh.

Apparently Trump saw the “The Secret Handshake” browser game and decided it couldn’t go unanswered.

Wait until OP finds out about Base64.

That’s epic!

Questions for you:

• What material did you print it out of? (PLA, ABS, etc.)
• And have you had any trouble with warping or softening due to the heat generated by the laptop and/or hard drives?

Morrowind has fast travel (sortof). It’s called “Recall”.

If you’re trying to persuade people that your take is more reasonable than official stories in UK media, perhaps you’d have more luck by acting… you know… reasonable?

Jesus? Yeah, back in highschool he could always hook you up with the best warez.

For like half a second he must have thought “Ha! You missed me!” before he realized god had another one in the clip.

Huh! That’s wild. How have I never heard of this?

I’ve frankensteined distros before, but without the help of Bedrock. An employer asked what OS I’d like on my work laptop and I asked for a Linux system, but of course they didn’t offer me my choice of distro or anything. It came with KDE Neon. I wanted to run Artix and I wasn’t going to let UEFI Secure Boot stop me even if the PC Support department wouldn’t share the BIOS password. Now, KDE Neon uses the Ubuntu kernel, and it booted on the laptop in question, so I knew the secure boot trusted the signature on the official Ubuntu kernel. But Artix uses the Arch kernel which isn’t signed at all, so the laptop wouldn’t boot that. So I made a PKGBUILD that would download the Ubuntu kernel .deb file from the official Ubuntu repository, unzip the .deb file, and build an Arch/Artix package containing the kernel image and initramfs and CPU microcode and such. The result was a system that was entirely Artix except that it used the Ubuntu kernel. Worked perfectly. I’m sure the folks at PC Support were confused when an Artix box showed up on their Nessus asset management software.

My first gut reaction is to say “zero. Not a god damned single solitary second. If you want to own a story or a song or whatever, keep it the fuck in your head you fucking moron what the fuck is wrong with you?”

And my only hesitation to say that is: copyleft isn’t so easy to accomplish without copyright. Particularly, without copyright, the way the GPL does the whole “source code provision” thing falls apart. Without said provision, OpenWRT wouldn’t exist. And for the existence of the source code provision, with a little luck we’ll have FOSS OS distributions for smart TVs sometime in the foreseeable future. And hopefully that same court case will spawn a proliferation of other “OpenWRT but for <kind of consumer smart device>” projects. That actually work.

It might not actually be impossible to do a “source code provision” without copyright. It’d probably involve some kind of NDA with “source code provision” kind of conditions, though. And if you allow for NDAs on stuff in place of copyright and every game or book you buy forces you to agree to an NDA… is that actually better than copyright? It’s probably worse.

So, I think even given all the above, my answer is still “zero”. But aside from that, I also hold the opinion that we should have legislation which makes for a “source code provision” on “all software” (for some definitions of “all”. In practice I could see it being difficult for companies to comply with that with regard to software made well before the law was passed, for instance. For instance software for which the source code is now lost.)

Beyond that, I’ll say that I believe in a right to attribution, which feels a little more like a trademark-y kind of thing than copyright. Rather than artificial scarcity, let’s “promote the progress of… useful arts” (quote from the U.S. Constitution) by helping creators cash in on their reputations. That plus physical products (collectors editions, swag, etc), unique experiences (live shows, theme parks, etc), authenticity (if you get it from the creator, you know you’re getting the real canon and not someone’s fanfic), quality… that sort of thing. Don’t believe the big-copyright industries when they say they’ll go out of business without the outdated and ruthlessly abused model of promoting culture that is copyright. They’ll largely have to pivot into business models that don’t depend on government-granted monopolies. But that’s a good thing.

Plus, consider your favorite individual creators. Most of them don’t make money really on what they do at all. And for the ones that do, would you really put less money toward their creative efforts if copyright didn’t exist than you do now? I support my favorite small creator on Patreon. (Don’t get me wrong. I’m concerned about the chokepoint that Patreon has at the moment, but I like the “patron” model for supporting artists better than copyright.)

Anyway. Go watch “Steal This Film” or “Good Copy Bad Copy” or something.

“You leave the sticker on – the story ends, you wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You remove the sticker – you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.”

That’s Kalshi’s slogan, right?

No wait, that’s “gambling on fixed bumfights”. My bad.

the AI bubble has popped

So, there’s one positive thing, at least.