xianc78 @xianc78@gameliberty.club

Because most states make it so even if you can get a license at 16 it’s heavily restricted. Where I grew up you still needed an adult over age 18 in the car with you and could have one other passenger over age 18. You also needed to take an expensive course when your turned 18 to get your full license.

Hence I just waited till I was 18 to do the drivers test and I just got a full license with no bs.

Backlog of Life
Roadmap of the Future

Currently there exist great federated communication protocols, including email and ActivityPub. There also exist powerful overlay networks such as Tor, I2P, cjdns, Yggdrasil and others. Even the DNS problem has been solved numerous times with Namecoin, ENS, Unstoppable Domains, PKT DNS, and others.

However, almost all federated protocols depend on IPv4 and ICANN DNS, because there’s currently no good way to federate across network boundaries.

(I have an idea)

My hot take guesses on what Sony will do going forward with their “no disc 2028” decision:

1) Stay the course. All digital as is.
2) Redefine digital ownership ala GOG style. Make their own used digital market.
3) Announce all new storage medium like they did with the memory sticks/UMDs.

Place your bets. 😈
#gamer #gaming #videogames #vidyagames

@mischievoustomato also they're erasing john romeros time when he pissed money away for a mid game and had an egirl do it because he said the magic word on stream

"I don't care about the personal life of this guy" types when it's someone they hate

"DuckDuckGo just gave its browser a feature that a lot of people have been waiting for. The privacy-focused browser can now block most video ads on YouTube"

Then I read a humorous or maybe disingenuous comment:

"Slashdot reader BrianFagioli argues that the feature raises questions about how creators are compensated when ad revenue is bypassed."

Creators don't make shit from YouTube advertising. They make their money by pimping often questionable products (though probably less questionable than the ads YouTube places in the videos) and services, selling t-shirts, and similar merch.

I have to wonder how these people come to the idea that this somehow impacts creators unless I've totally overlooked what this is doing. I'll admit I didn't read the story, but it sounds like 'blocking' here is akin to what uBlock Origin does based on the summary which is NOT an adblocker that blocks creator advertising. It blocks the wayyyy more annoying Google placed advertising that gets inserted or played while the content creators video is basically paused at random terrible spots in the videos. Google makes money off the advertising that is placed in this way, not creators. Creators make money off the products the creators pimp within the videos themselves.

My gut says this irrational questioning is basically a left-wing tactic trying to get you to think that the only answer is socialism.

This is far from the reality. Google long ago abandoned funding most creators. They had a revenue sharing program regarding its placed ads, but it's largely irrelevant for the vast majority of creators now. Unless your one of the top content producers your not making your money from Google advertising. The solution didn't depend on socialism, but entrepreneurial efforts.

FF6 in the FFT engine? I gotta try this when it's out of beta.

Fan hackers are doing what Squeenix don't.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FbgFCFLnz3w

Just because America needs a revolution doesn't mean I have to trust everyone who calls themselves a revolutionary.

> GitHub removed the ability to browse stars anonymously
And with that, nearly all the utility of GitHub is simply gone. Just like that.

ChatGPT, how freaky is my engine?

`Pretty freaky. In a good, “someone built a PlayStation-era engine inside a haunted operating system” way.`

I liked Opus' line: It's a serious engine wearing a deeply unserious hat.

How ChatControl passed in the EU parliament.

Artist making their art and eyesore just to own le AI