I wonder what the ideal placement or naming of such a file would be, where are credential scrapers going to check first?

Throwing crabapples in the road to watch cars run over them? I'm not sure it's a good idea

Can't trust

Walkthroughs for that game were the first thing I was really excited to use the internet for, went to the library to print them out. Just had to be aware back then that zelda.com was not owned by nintendo and was not an appropriate website to be visiting at the library.

One thing I see a lot is the same event repackaged repeatedly with various headlines from different angles to elicit despair and outrage. If you heard about it once already, that is probably enough.

An unofficial Minecraft-like game for luanti

Luanti is what Minetest was renamed to so it basically is Minetest

That way a certain subset of members could just drive-by downvote without getting themselves dirty.

I think tags could be alright but only if this is not allowed, it is unreasonable to ask people to disclose something just so others can shit on them for it.

I think that a lot of it is a result of forms of interaction that are easy to falsify and which real people are not expected to exercise judgment on. Fake likes, views, and upvotes involve little that can be scrutinized at the user level and are mainly a negotiation between spammers and a social media company. Those companies favor organizing their sites around these sorts of shallow metrics, and selling a passive experience that confers or requires next to no social agency, because they want to be able to treat the people using their services as commodities they own.

These problems would be greatly diminished with social networks that are actually social.

Even the older ones let you write custom programs, people definitely used that to cheat

There's ways for a comic to be good that go beyond just the strength of the joke. I really like the art style, the color scheme, the ways the emotional state of the characters is expressed, and the background details. It just conveys a sense of this setting and the people in it really succinctly. It would probably be bad if it was a comic with the same joke but much worse execution.

you are taking a risk either way. You are placing your trust in the dev and the few that can read code.

There is definitely a trust issue and a need for ways of conveying and building trust in smaller software projects. I think a much better solution there would be discussions about the code and how it works that aren't hostile interrogations with foregone conclusions in pursuit of a broader anti-AI agenda. If someone just put a lot of effort into making something the details of that process should be on their mind, it should be possible to make them more accessible to people and convey that there is non-artificial understanding behind the project. Automatic hostility and suspicion makes those kinds of conversations harder and less likely.

My takeaway is that not being on twitter enhanced my enjoyment of this show

What I'm getting at by that is, it seems like the creators of the show have a habit of saying somewhat trollish things about it online, and people read into those things and argue about them to determine the canon and message of the show. What the OP imageboard poster is dissatisfied about revolves around meta stuff, but you can also just watch the show itself and decide what it means to you on your own without that context.

Also, as far as I can tell, part of its message is that it is a good thing to still have compassion for people who have done awful things and acknowledge them as human, which seems to be an idea that just does not compute for certain people who think the only response to someone crossing a moral line is utter contempt. I associate that mindset with twitter and blame twitter for it.

Money laundering?

Extra fast spinning high tech drills though iirc

Fruit fly sperm, however, are some of the most spectacular sexual "ornaments" in the animal kingdom. The longest, produced by the species D. bifurca, uncoil to about 6 centimeters (2.4 inches)—the equivalent of a human producing a 120-foot-long sperm.

Fruit fly sex must be way freakier than I assumed

It looks like you can get around the wired.com paywall by just disabling javascript

I hear what you're saying, that at a certain level of wealth the power hierarchy becomes about seniority, and I don't know that it's wrong, but I'm not sure what reason there is to believe it either. Certainly people like elon musk are not all powerful, but what does that really say about the state of things when it would be hard to point to anyone who gets everything they want on a level beyond that?

What should be noted is that Garriott can't just make a game called Ultima, because EA will still own the trademark. For video games, copyright covers things like the source code and audiovisual elements, whereas the trademark is for things like the brand name, specific characters, things like that.

So, that's confusing, what exactly can be done when you have a copyright but not the trademark? Are there any examples of that happening before? What could you do with this that could not be done with a spiritual successor sort of game?

Damn, Ribbit got done dirty