xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

So much this.

People don't understand just how much of a problem degeneration is in technical fields. Just copying something without a high level understanding of it can cause irreparable problems.

People have had to deal with this long before A.I.
This is why so much software gets scrapped and has to be remade from scratch, which is only possible when there's enough competent people to do that, something A.I will reduce the supply of.

I know for a fact that there are high level organizations running systems that handle critical functions where there is no one on the team who knows how the system fully works.

So it seems that my old 2017 laptop doesn't support the lighting system required for my new horror game. WebGL stuff. I'm now stuck in between two options.

1) Keeping the lighting dynamic (and much easier to create) but raise the minimum required specs

2) Making all the lighting static (harder to do and weird looking if in motion) but keeping the game playable on potatoes

Anyone got some insight? I'm genuinely not sure which to go with.

"Cash is more than a method of payment. It is a fundamental tool for individual privacy and autonomy, and it is necessary for an open society."

— Jerry Brito (The Case for Electronic Cash, 2019)

#cash #privacy #autonomy

I just died of cringe

> You've probably got 3 or 4 good years

My instinct is it's probably more like 30 or 40...

I seem to recall someone said that near term predictions are usually too optimistic while far out predictions are not optimistic enough...

IMO AI is probably going to blast through all of the bullshit daycare jobs and then stall out for 20 years while we figure out hands, then it will surge forward again, but by then the world will look different and tradesmen will have adopted robots as tools in a lot of various niches...

Doubt it, from what I have seen of the technology it lacks the higher thinking necessary for true autonomy.

What we call "A.I" is just a large language model trained on immense amounts of human generated data. It doesn't think, it creates composite responses based off of available data sets.

You could it to pilot pilot a robot that picks crops or runs an assembly line but it always breaks down the second it requires proper thought and reasoning to do something.

The researchers developing this stuff have explicitly stated that we still haven't figured out how intelligence works, let alone how to replicate it.

OpenBSD already pushed development outside of the USA due to cryptography restrictions. I imagine foreign open source will be the method to stay safe for Americans if this could be passed and adequately enforced.

If there was ever a reason to avoid purchasing a newer car this article/research blog post breaks it down very well. So this researcher extracted the data that all modern cars collect and for which is mandated by law. Every time you take a trip your car is logging your GPS coordinates and ratting you out to the "authorities" and potentially others.

Privacy wise the best cars pre-date 1996, but a car from 2005 is still way better than a car from 2015. For the past decade now cars have been getting equipped (and more recently mandated by law) with GPS tracking systems. The most modern cars include cellular connections on top of GPS that can report back your every move.

Governments don't need to plant a GPS tracking device on your car or even get a subpoena necessarily. They can buy it or just ask a manufacturer for it.

You can thank "safety" advocates, politicians, the advertising industry, and manufacturers for these privacy invasive technologies. All have colluded to erode your privacy.

My current vehicle(s) are from the early 2000s and my next vehicle will also be from the early 2000s. The humorous part is I'd like to get an electric vehicle, but I'm not willing to surrender any further information to unscrupulous law enforcement or other parties.

You may not even be aware that you've been targeted over your political activities. The FBI tailed my partner despite having no connections to crime, just political activities. The FBI used a seized vehicle with a memorable vanity plate to tail my partner and was aggressive on this one occasion about two weeks before a raid of another major political activist. We happened to film that raid and a fully uniformed agent stepped out of this vehicle that day (TheCrypto6.com).

https://blog.quarkslab.com/tearing-down-a-car-telematic-unit-and-finding-an-accident-on-facebook.html

Trump Says He's Willing To 'Risk' Your Rights for His Surveillance Powers
The president once said he wanted to kill warrantless electronic spying. So much for that. https://reason.com/2026/04/15/trump-says-hes-willing-to-risk-your-rights-for-his-surveillance-powers/

@mangeurdenuage @phnt @maid @newt part of what made the podcast types on poa.st/elsewhere get mocked (and why that crowd became irrelevant) has to do with this.

They're all about making jokes, telling you shit sucks, and that you should give them money to tell you shit sucks. To quote one website, "The fate of western civilization will be decided by the e-daddy with the largest Patreon."

That's what it boils down to and nothing summed it up harder than the whole GG shit going on. The fact far more people from that movement became e-pundits instead of being gamedevs is telling. I've mixed up Luke Smith, Lunduke, and others in my mind because they fit the mold of "e-daddy who wants money".

Sourdough bagels. This was my best batch yet. Having strong starter is key, these expanded nicely.

@phnt @evan @p @tchambers @kissane @silverpill @Zergling_man I love how these guys completely forget kids have been seeing things they probably shouldn't on the Internet since the 90s and we've pretended it was all fine and dandy for decades and suddenly it became a problem sometime after 2016

Minish Cap's PC port is in the works! I don't like this game very much but I hope that one day we can have a PC port of every classic Zelda game. That would really be something cool.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ei6FvJRFeBk