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It was murder. He stood against the hoarders, and they got his head.

Annoying. Don’t let the industry autoregulate, it’s always lukewarm and ineffective.
Legislate. Ban underage gambling.
This is not a complicated issue, at all, the only barriers are lobbying and corruption.

Meta will face daily fines of €89,500 if it doesn’t comply with the order.

Bet they can write it off as expenses.

Where I live it’s much more complete than google maps, especially in the countryside.

I don’t see a scenario where google or the likes would be allowed to fail. So moot point.

Hypothetically it would open a window for open source services to sneak in.

Middle term? The phasing out of personal computers, and moving toward a system of servers/terminals where noone owns software.
You’ll rent computing power or storage space, you’ll only pay for the interface.

I have absolutely no idea, you could try asking the devs or look into webtorrent.

Peertube uses bittorrent, the viewers share the video among themselves to relieve server load.
I don’t know how well it works, since there’s never enough people around to see it in action.

I still regularly listen to the soundtrack.

Feels like a spin to me to be honest.
They used to say the same things about lead before transitioning to the current “unsafe at any dosage” view.
Labeling everyday products as carcinogenic would work to muddy the waters after a few damaging papers on industry important products. I remember the ‘red meat is cancer’ craze breaking out suspiciously close to the first studies linking glyphosate to cancer.

My euristic will be to take popular belief into account. I see it as emergent intelligence by trial and error, not merely nonsense.
You do you of course.

In my mind, the main reason to avoid edulcorants (including stevia and acesulfame), is that they taste like shit.

Yesteryear’s conspiracies are today’s common truth. Getting slowly used to that one.

Trying to find some that haven’t been talked about yet:

Echo. It’s a fantastic experimental infiltration game with an AI that adapts to your way of playing. The setup is very impressive.

Pathologic: one of the three playable characters (the Changeling). It’s a bizarre russian game, with an unique world, and messy gameplay. Can’t recommend it enough.

Va11 Hall-A: chill bartending game in a cyberpunk setup.

The Blackwell series: comfy, kind of amateurish point and clicks by Wadjet Eye. I like them very much.

Transistor: weirdest game by Supergiant. You play as a redhead with a talking sword. I don’t remember much about it except that it was good.

The Fall: (pushing it a little bit, since the protagonist is an AI, but I’ve always seen here as female.) Criminally underrated puzzle games, disguised as metroidvanias.

Eliza (by Zachtronics): the only visual novel I enjoyed. It’s hard to explain, it’s about AI, burnout, whether tech dehumanizes people, and solitaire.

Hedon Duology: for something completely different, it’s a slightly kinky retroshooter, with amazon Orcs fighting demons.
It may sound a bit dumb, but it’s excellent. Huge levels, interesting worldbuilding, and a gameplay based on exploration, puzzles as well as shooting.

There’s probably a ton more, but that’s all I can think about at the moment.

10 years limit, absolutely non transferable, limited to human beings (not abstract legal entities) .
Eventually extendable to lifetime of the creator if the work is still being developed, to prevent being usurped by copycats.

I also believe that facilitating voluntary sponsorship (a la patreon, but without letting 10% get siphoned by leeches) is preferable to selling works. Especially since distribution is now pretty much free.

This looks amazing. Almost better than the original in some ways.
But playing Doom in 1:1 aspect ratio is masochism.

I’m still angry about it.

It kind of matters to me.

Depends what you mean by security.
If you mean privacy, no such thing exists. All browsers snitch on you, and trying to actually have a private life will land you in jail soon enough.
If you want to do online banking, any of the big three will do if updated regularly.
I’d choose firefox as a symbolic protest against tech oligarchy.

I don’t know, Empress comes with her own theme songs, long winded bizarre philosophical rants, beautifully ornamented nfo, and pointless drama with repackers. If that’s a cover up persona, they did a hell of a thorough job.

I use it from time to time. The tech is getting better.
But it’s very hard to find anything interesting on it.
They REALLY need to focus on implementing content filter and discovery tools.
Right now it’s a lot noise and reposted videos. The search function doesn’t work at all.

I think the platform could be viable with a decent, verbatim search function; a tag-based browsing system, and the ability to visualize the federated instances and browse any of them as local.

It’s still possible to find interesting videos by browsing an instance focused on a specific interested as local.