Previously known as Bierstadt

Missed opportunity. Long live Beertown! 🍻

This is about market capture, not compatibility. This isn't about expanding the existing library, but opening the door for future titles to make kernel level anti cheat a requirement. While the current community will likely turn their nose up, Linux gaining traction means there's a growing line of users that may not.

Let's just ignore whether there's any moral or ethical arguments about legal compliance: What law is this man complying with? This is not a law that governs him. He is volunteering, and not compelled. There is no sanctity of law at play here.

That simply is not what people want when they look for information.

Well, except for those who do. The problem is a use case mismatch. I'd argue, if anything, an encyclopedia should contain the minutiae. Unfortunately, there's no huge compendium of brief but accurate and sourced synopsis of the same topics. To be fair, we've never really had one.

I agree with the editors that embedded AI summaries are not a good idea (at the moment, at least). Users can bring summarizers to the data set of that's their want, or someone (maybe even wikimedia) will find a way to provide this in a way that preserves the underlying data's validity. Stripping Wikipedia of its full context seems like a bad idea.

... They're not lamenting that it's dangerous. They're exercising their authority over the strait.

Even if this were technically correct, it would be disingenuous.

PAC spending is directly correlated to congressional election outcomes. Being pedantic about the word 'bought' doesn't hold up either, this is an accepted use of the word.

If the PAC is operating under the support or guidance of a foreign entity, it is a foreign lobby. The origin of the dollar is irrelevant.

But, yes. MTG was, is, and probably always will be an anti-semite.

Sure... But there aren't facts on occurrences. Violations seems like it would be a strong indicator of occurrences. If not, why?

The FAQ explains this with a few existing examples.

This isn't about running a game indefinitely, but laying out a plan in which the game is still playable by users after the developer ceases support. Games are so varied, so the end-of-life plan may include a lot of different solutions, but here's a few ideas:

• Remove online service checks, considering there aren't servers anyways. This works for games that are largely playable in an offline capacity regardless.
• Release server binaries or source. There's a lot of this already either with existing or RE'd servers. Any MMO with a private server is a good example.
• Transition gameplay to offline modes. This is a lot more involved, but has been done before.

This isn't about burdening the developers, though all solutions do have developer impact. This is more so about requiring developers to consider the full life time of the product. I'm a developer that has only worked on live-service games. I have very little to show to anyone without a time machine.

Sorry, I'm a bit too used to the average take everyone has that Steam somehow gets a pass and Epic is the peak of tyranny. Pardon that, I largely agree.

You're right. We should do nothing until a self-organizing, grassroots, independently funded organization gets enough signatures to get enough permits and consent to formally complain.

You didn't have to write anything. Instead, you argued semantics. Then you argued that progress needs to be made on your terms. (Also what is the difference between a national reaction and movement if not just time and effort? Most movements are reactions). This is exactly how you counter-message and push people away from the concept of activism.

I do agree that effective long-term change likely comes through critical and organized methods. But that is not to dissuade anyone from participating in resistance or activism. Change is rarely graceful, and does not need to conform to anyone's prescription.

These veiled reactionary takes are stale. The overwhelming majority of immigrants fit the bill. To frame this in terms of immigration is to effectively suggest a preference only for home grown American criminals.

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As expected? There's been a few high profile RE efforts recently of games of the era without AI tooling. The Mario 64 decompile effort from a few years ago being the most notable. While I'm not surprised to see an AI disclosure here (I would assume agents are a very useful tool for this particular work), this just as readily have been an entirely human passion project.

Headscale, for one. This is probably implied as part of one of your above stacks, but let's list it out loud. Tailscale is great and all, but it's downright icky to offload routing of any variety to a third party.

Immich. Turn off Apple or Google's automatic scraping of all photos, keep usability. Even if you're not a photo person, at least some of your users are.

Syncthing is or Nextcloud, or something in the family. This may already be part of your NAS plans.

One of the code forges like forgejo, gitea, gitlab. Even when not a developer. Self hosting involves configuration and if you can get that into text and into a history, it makes things so much easier. Add bells and whistles to your hearts content, but these are good suites for a lot of functionality. Forgejo does have federation on its road map, but it's a while off still.

These are ones I find pretty ubiquitous. There's so many options once you have initial infrastructure. Email, for instance, isn't as daunting as the horror stories make it sound, though not as simple as many hope. My suggestion is to take time and do it correctly. There's a lot of backtracking involved as you learn more, but it's usually worth it. Best of luck!

The problem playing devil's advocate is you're defending the devil. Running to the all or nothing edge is simply an attempt to end the discussion. "If Nazis can't have privacy, nobody can." There is an in-between, and conveniently it's called moderation.

Are we equally of the opinion that hate speech should not be moderated? Are threats without action to be defended unilaterally? It's not important what the answers are, it's that there is a world in between absolutist ideals. There are alternatives. We can discuss them.

Companies are also capable of navigating this space, and should be responsible for doing so if they are entitled to their platform. The idea that their hands are tied to all or nothing is ignorant if not apologist. If the best you can do with 10's of millions of dollars is helplessness, perhaps you deserve all the criticism. The devil needs better attorneys.

For what it's worth, usually devs use one of a handful of telemetry solutions to track achievements and the like. There's some plumbing needed to hook those systems to a platform like Steam, but it's the same idea for Xbox, PSN, etc.

Most major platforms have the same general pieces on the backend, though all laid out a bit differently.

I'm saying that the framing of this response is intrinsically reactionary, if not xenophobic. Criminality itself is rare. Americans themselves are vastly more prone to criminality. And the ideals of the American system, for better and worse, are forwarded only by Americans themselves, and not their guests. If this is about public decency, following laws, and participating in the system, then the call comes from inside the house. "Crime should be punished" is the accepted way of the world. There's no point in stating it, we take it for granted as part of the 'civilized world'. For some reason this needs reiterated in the context of immigration, however? Evidence suggests if anything this is of less concern when discussing immigrants, yet it needs restated?

Maybe more simply, it reads, "I don't trust 'em". There's a type of person who says that kind of thing.

No. It literally is. It is specifically Digital Rights Management. You are using the colloquial term, not the literal. Words do mean things.

You have no capacity to access these products via any other system than Steam. You have no means to redistribute, modify, etc. except for what Steam forwards to you. This is no different than Netflix. It is no different than Spotify.

Denuvo is also a DRM solution, that is leveraged to prevent tampering and reverse engineering. This is because Steam's DRM guarantees do not rise to the level desired by many publishers. These DRM solutions are more consumer hostile, sure, but it's ignorant to suggest Steam does not perform a portion of these duties as well.

There's no subtext. This man has no obligation to this law, so “How dare this person follow the law. ;(” isn't relevant. This man is not following a law, he is simply going about his day. He is volunteering, and not compelled. There is no sanctity of law at play here.

But, to play ball, yes. If a person who would otherwise receive punishment were to do this, I would take that into account. That is not the case here.

Stepped right on some ml land mines with this one. For what it's worth, I'll back you up a bit. I don't think all actions have strict utilitarian needs. There is a mountain of soft value to these large scale actions that go missing when we focus only on concrete progress.

If nothing else, these are obvious community building and networking opportunities. The US is starved of these opportunities, and rather than turning our noses up, should be engaged with. Pissing and moaning about structure loses the forest for the trees.

We don't have examples of these movements being effective without targeted and concrete goals, but we also forget all examples of the moments in between these landmarks. It's important to develop this momentum into structural progress, rather than upset that the average person is more willing to participate in less-targeted action. Progress doesn't have prescribed structure, despite what many suggest. Take wins where you can and keep working.