My ideal package manager design for a programming language:
Packages are downloaded over a P2P system, like BitTorrent or IPFS
The package manager runs as a daemon and seeds all downloaded packages
There is also a centralized site, which is a directory that maps packages to hashes/torrents; also has documentation and search
The site has an open API that other sites can replicate
Project files reference packages by both name/version and hash; the hashes remain valid even if the site goes down
The site has human moderation and handles detecting malware, spam, etc. and removing it
Package names always have a username prefix
The site's staff can choose to bless a package as the preferred implementation of some feature, giving it a non-prefixed name
I know that the governments pushing these age verification laws are just using the well-being of children as a smokescreen, but for anyone who does think that the need to government to protect their children from porn, let me have a word with you:
Yes, it's your responsibility what your children do on the Internet. I don't buy this counterargument that your children will always be more tech savvy than you. Just look at Gen Alpha and how most of them can't even navigate a file system. Do you really think they can bypass firewalls if they can't understand how directories work?
You may think that children will find a way, but there are plenty of tutorials online on how to keep up with the latest security trends. Also, your kids won't be able to hack whatever security you have if you block the sites that give tutorials on bypassing such security measures.
If you are truly paranoid about what your kids do on the Internet or on the computer in general, either don't let them use a computer or electronic devices at all or set up their devices for them. There are custom USB-bootable Linux distros out there with parental controls in mind. You can even buy them from some websites so you don't need to know how to make bootable drives yourself. They only allow kids to use whitelisted sites and programs. Don't give your kids accounts on your computers and then they will have no choice but to use those flash drives. Whitelisting (i.e blacklisting everything except for a few approved sites) is the only guaranteed way to keep your kids safe online (outside prohibiting them from using the Internet at all, of course).
He's not a fed elephant buddy .. or probably not.
No, this is the intention of the entire Epstein thing. Also Israel. Also maybe Ukraine.
There are not two parties. There may be a couple of different actors behind the scenes (CIA, MI6, Mossad, Bilderberg, WEF, etc.) who hand out different scripts to their little puppets and might work at slight cross purposes against each other, but in general whoever these powers are seem aligned in keeping everyone outside of the $1 billion club fighting among themselves.
This person you're arguing is likely the most danger type of actor of all: The True Believer. An identity tied to a figure, whether that be a church or a mosque or a Hollywood mogul or an Elon or an Orange Man .. the faith in a cult of personality or organization is what helps turn off that frontal part of your brain to reject obvious problems presented before you. It's a natural defense mechanism. It's the way religion is created.
The MEGA-MAGA base splits apart and yells and screams and do not even notice the fake left and fake right use that outrage to further enslave them.
The United States is currently trying to introduce legislation similar to the UK Online Safety Act. Both parties support this. No one is talking about it.
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I noticed now that I made the game too easy by having the player heal between levels. To somewhat compensate, I increase the prices of the white and blue swords. Maybe they should be even more expensive.
I also realized that while the bosses take a while with the wooden sword, they are easily cheesed with the blue sword so I think it should be pretty expensive.
Balancing difficulty is basically the only thing I have left to do. I could release this game unbalanced, but since permadeath is a key feature, I want to make it so that you can lose and probably will on your first playthrough, but not have it so that winning is impossible. Though there was a Japanese PC game known as Xanadu which was infamous for being popular, but having very few people actually beat it, so maybe I could do that.
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Improved the shading in #MakeRoom which is a lot smoother and softer now, and more efficient to render! ✨
Age verification is creating an information desert.
The Online Safety Act sets every UK user to child as default.
Teenagers? Blocked. Adults? Content denied unless we do age checks with unregulated companies.
It's not just porn! News on Gaza and Ukraine is being scrubbed from view, threatening #freedomofexpression as well as #privacy ⛔
#OnlineSafetyAct #onlinesafety #OSA #palestine #gaza #ukraine #reddit #ageverification #ageassurance #censorship #ukpolitics #ukpol
@zenhob It really is. Venture capitalists and companies have spent billions and billions on a tech that has no future in any of the things they've been spending on it doing. LLMs can have uses, but not one single one of them is anything these corporations are trying so hard to force them into. They will never -- no matter what -- ever be able to become true AI and will never successfully perform as well as alternatives in any of the things they're using them for.
What scares me is it may be another housing market crash type of thing if everyone lets this get much further. Governments are already starting to become receptive towards it. I'd love to see corporations knocked down a peg, but chances are they'll just get subsidies to support them when this fails.
So it seems like most people agree with me that $5 is a reasonable price. I'm going to go with that, then. I just need to balance the difficulty and compile a Windows binary along with Linux and I'm done.
Though I wonder if the recent situation on itch will affect any potential sales, even though my game doesn't contain porn and the current situation isn't itch.io's fault because I bet some people are boycotting itch anyway.
UK online safety act bypass