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WB axes Shadow of Mordor maker in setback for clever, sadly patented game system

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  • so BS. A patent on the game remembering your previous actions???

    • Trump vows to slap 25% tariffs on EU and claims bloc was ‘formed to screw US’

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  • food undercooked? tarriff!

    Food overcooked? Believe it or not, tarriff!

    • Tradeoffs

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  • and only if you're doing something that has been previously done and publically released

    • Tradeoffs

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  • even more. The first 100% of the tech debt is just understanding "your own" code.

    • Linux users don't customize their systems all that much?!

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  • I'm still 34. Does this make me old?

    • Linux users don't customize their systems all that much?!

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  • I do not care for customization. What I care for is consistency. So whatever distro I choose, I always install the stock kde and leave it like that.

    • Xenia rule

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  • it is actually about 70 separate programs designed from the ground up to work really well together. But since it's one project and they are developed together, it automatically is considered a monolith and "goes against the unix philosophy"

    • 12 years of incubating Wayland color management

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  • and yet "it is not enough for professional color management needs including photo editing and print preview."

    12 fucking years....

    • Microsoft CEO Admits That AI Is Generating Basically No Value

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  • alphafold is not an LLM, so no, not really

    • How to secure your phone before attending a protest

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  • how to secure your phone: leave it at home. Done

    • An unknown illness kills over 50 people in part of Congo with hours between symptoms and death

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  • we could all just move to greenland and close the ports

    • Will AI Startups End Up Like Blockchain Startups?

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  • bitcoin is a workaround, not a solution to the byzantine problem. Its security hinges on humans placing value on it and wanting to hoard it. It's a clever psychological thing that makes it so that the participating cleanly is more advantageous than trying to cheat. But the byzantine fault problem is just as mathematically impossible to solve as ever (because proven math does not change).

    • I just gotta find out what Edward Bernays was up to okay!??!?

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  • the star wars hotel

    • Sam Altman: AI Will Solve Problems We Haven't Invented Yet

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  • so you admit they don't solve any problems we have now?

    • Google Co-Scientist AI cracks superbug problem in two days! — because it had been fed the team’s previous paper with the answer in it

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  • but that won't trick investors into funding more of it

    • What are the chances of this?

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  • this cracked me up so much. Saw the video, read the comic, but never put them together haha

    • Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books.

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  • only one needs to read the data. Only one needs to write it (the receiver)

    • Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books.

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  • if you're found later with a bunch of pirated material, you're the one who gets prosecuted, not whoever you dowloaded it from

    • Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books.

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  • it's a digital item. You can only make a copy

    • Meta Says it Made Sure Not to Seed Any Pirated Books.

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  • you are literally choosing to run the software that writes it to your disk. You also (probably) take steps to ensure the uploader does not have access to your disk. You are in control of what gets saved