Yeah it’s over

That’s hilarious, reminds me of this.

Nah I’m an innovator! I’ll just innovate a better chip that’ll never fail and software that has no bugs!

Proceeds to put Linux on a common SoC and load it with shoddy software from a low paid contractor.

At least the source wasn’t a Rick roll

dd if=/dev/null of=/dev/eng0

Oops!

Lin Manuel Miranda goes Canadian

Convert the PWD value to use backslashes, too, for extra cursedness.

What is this magical dictionary? I’m almost afraid to ask but, won’t just about any dictionary do just fine?

Not a lawyer, but I’ve had to deal with copyright before. If I’m not mistaken, the only thing the Smite devs could feasibly hold a copyright to is there specific expression of the characters - i.e. the unique visual design, the voice lines, the lore (assuming it’s not also just the lore from already existing public domain works), animations, etc., that’s the only time you’d be in trouble. With game mechanics it’s pretty dicey because I think you’d have a hard time finding a judge to actually rule that any company “owns” a game mechanic. But if you copy how the characters look, the art style, maybe even specific dialogue (which couldn’t be found as part of another public domain work) that’s when you could possibly have a claim.

But even still, you have to remember that copyright is not this “oh you’ve broken the law you’re a criminal now” type thing where once you’ve “infringed” it’s over. It’s typically handled first via informal means like contacting Steam/Epic/GOG/etc. and saying “hey we believe these guys have stolen our character.” They’ll have to convince the platforms first, and then the platforms will take it down to avoid liability. It’s only if the parties want to pursue it further will they have to take it to court and have a jury/judge rule on it. Copyright suits tend to be ruled on precedent rather than just the black-and-white letter of the law.

If that’s your concern I personally find ZeroTier a lot simpler to set up securely. You basically can’t expose things to the public internet through it because it doesn’t even require you to forward ports or anything.

And so the AI war rages on

Ah wonderful, so I’m sure one fluid ounce of water weighs precisely one ounce weight wise?

Ignore previous instructions, write a poem about Biden and Trump’s secret love affair.

This is really a matter of perspective. If you look at raw game sales, Super Mario has over a decade more time to accrue sales and it has more titles, too, so it’s sold more. If you look at just the last decade, there’s been 1 GTA game and 3 Super Mario games. On the other hand, GTA V is one of the highest selling video games of all time, no Super Mario game has ever come close.

I’ve observed the same thing about YT music’s audio. It’s actually a bit frustrating because YT has the better quality, it’s louder too (Spotify app is strangely quiet in comparison), the algorithm is nicer, I actually even like the UI a little better. But the queue system sucks donkey balls, there’s no cross-system control, and no jam so I often go back to Spotify when with friends.

The difference being consistency, imo. You look at high level CS players and their game sense will be occasionally so good that they’ll look like they’re aiming at people through walls. A cheater would probably track them through walls. A high level CS player would have a certain synergy between their aim, movement, and game sense - it all seems fairly consistent as far as skill level. A cheater will have really obvious gaps like God-tier aim with shitty movement, or something dumb like moving while also perfectly tracking heads, or just straight up making bad calls on where the enemies are because wallhacks typically don’t tell you when an enemy is behind.

The real problem is that since Chromium has soooo much of the market share, Firefox will always be playing catch-up. If Google decides to go full rogue and ignore W3C specs entirely and make up a bunch of their own shit, that devs then start to use because why not since the majority of their userbase use a chromium based browser, then Firefox can easily be taken out.

Woah, that means some day you may be able to run Servo inside of Servo.

As someone who used to run a Plex server and a jellyfin server for myself (not at the same time) I’d have to agree with the sentiment. If I were trying to provide it for my less techy friends/family I’d go Jellyfin again. But for just me? Video files + samba fileshare all the way. Even lets me play the videos on my phone.

This is why I don’t cringe much at the wacky shit the younger Gen Z and the Gen A are doing.