"The addition of Polygon not only strengthens our editorial muscle but also amplifies our ability to deliver unmatched value to both audiences and advertisers," said Valnet CEO Hassan Youssef in a statement.

That seems like it really won't be true when you've laid off all the writers and editors who were doing that.

I don't see any comments on PC Gamer about it?

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(Great art! (I think, haha, I also need to practice.))

Objects don't "have" colors either, if we're being pedantic. They reflect/absorb/transmit/emit different combinations of wavelengths. So "pink" objects just reflect some wavelengths that we classify as in the range of "red" and "blue". Color is an interaction between emission, detection, and the brain's interpretation.

Its not even a unique trick. The ears combine various wavelengths of air vibrations to create sound, with combinations of pure waves merging into distinct timbres (sometimes called "tonal color").

I knew about tracking dots and anti-copy features of currency, but I had no idea it was such a secretive thing. This is wild stuff.

According to Wired.com, the banknote detection code in these applications, called the Counterfeit Deterrence System (CDS), was designed by the Central Bank Counterfeit Deterrence Group and supplied to companies such as Adobe as a binary module.[

That's so fucked man, imagine integrating some random binary module supplied by the world bank into your app and then keeping it completely secret. That's surely not the only opaque binary that these companies just load in, god only know how many backdoors and other malicious shits have been stuffed into major retail software.

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        Black Ink
        Factorio
        Ignited Entry
        Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024
        MySims Kingdom
        No Man's Sky in VR mode (regressed after a game update)
        Rising Storm 2: Vietnam
        Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army
        Soul Interface
        THE KING OF FIGHTERS XIII GLOBAL MATCH
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        X Rebirth VR Edition
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        All-Star Fruit Racing
        Audiosurf
        Bloodstained: Ritual of the Night
        Gal*Gun 2
        Greedfall
        Indigo Park: Chapter 1
        Omensight
        SOULCALIBUR VI
        TELEFORUM
        Tintin Reporter - Cigars of the Pharaoh
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Do you know about 100 Rabbits? I've been occasionally following them online for a few years now. They're an art collective, living on a boat, writing code and sailing the world.

It is both my "living the dream" and my antidote to being overly romantic about what such a life entails.

Yeah, you can just use Google's VM, Google's renderer, Google's sponsored image library, write it in Google's language, and you can probably borrow some of the WebGL code from the Servo project.

Obviously the problem is so trivial when you're just bolting together premade components that the fairies delivered to you. Good thing none of those components are hard to write, hard to integrate, or written with corporate interests in mind.

Hey where's your snap-together browser project? It's so easy, all this free code just laying around.

Oh or were you arguing that I said you had to write everything from scratch? Because I didn't say that. I also didn't say that you needed all those things for communication, kind of the exact opposite. What exactly was the point of your "well acktshually" comment?

The modern internet, driven by corporate mandates, is rather complex. A browser needs to (at least):

• transmit and receive several protocols, usually HTTP/IP (ipv4, ipv6, http2, SSL/tsl for security, sometimes also ftp, gopher, torrents, etc)
• parse HTML documents and render them correctly to screen
• parse user input to forms
• parse CSS, correctly apply and cascade all the rules to the HTML element
• include a full, performant VM to run ECMAScript in, manipulate the rendered document tree according to those scripts
• include APIs required by ECMAScript covering the DOM, windowing, network requests, screen readers and other accessibility options
• render and work on at least 3 major desktop OS flavors and 2 mobile ones, across countless versions
• play media: images, audio, and video
• DRM handling for media
• Handle rendering of text in any world language

And that's just the tip of the iceberg! I've come around to the idea that the modern internet is actually, to be technical here, totally fucked. Big Tech is going to keep pushing users deeper into walled proprietary gardens. They've already made the open internet so complex and heavy that it requires a multimillion dollar company (dependent on Google's allowance or massive ad dollars) to create a browser for it.

I think the only solution is to throw it all away and start over. Twitter and reddit aren't being "saved" by the "resistance" users. The concept of free and open exchange of ideas on the net is being saved by new protocols and services that are built to resist corporate ownership, like Gemini and the Fediverse.

It's going to be hard weening off the flashy, ad driven Web, but its the only way. Go download Lagrange and start browsing Gemini space. If you weren't around for the 90s era of GameFAQs and the mostly-text web driven by individual writers and hosts, then here's your chance to go back to a better way of doing things.

We can't "fix" an internet that's owned by Big Tech, we need new spaces owned by the people using them.

Yeah, I'm excited for this to be documented. I got burned on Wrath: Aeon of Ruin by this. Fun game but it only has checkpoint saves. You can make checkpoints (from a limited pool) when you want, but only to respawn from if you die. If you turn the game off, it's back to the beginning of the zone. And each zone (which is basically a boomer shooter mission) can be multiple hours long.

Its basically unplayable for me because I have to clear out an afternoon to beat the whole level in one sitting.

I'm putting my bets on Skyrim Remastered before we see Morrowind or TES6.

Or maybe a skyrim-(or fallout-)based battle royale shooter, i could see that being very likely too.

Further, "Whether another user actually downloaded the content that Meta made available" through torrenting "is irrelevant," the authors alleged. "Meta 'reproduced' the works as soon as it made them available to other peers."

A "peer" in bittorrent is someone else who is downloading the same file as you. This is opposed to a "seeder" which is also a peer but is only sending data, no longer receiving.

You don't have to finish the file to share it though, that's a major part of bittorrent. Each peer shares parts of the files that they've partially downloaded already. So Meta didn't need to finish and share the whole file to have technically shared some parts of copyrighted works. Unless they just had uploading completely disabled, but they still "reproduced" those works by vectorizing them into an LLM. If Gemini can reproduce a copyrighted work "from memory" then that still counts.

Now, to be clear, fuck Meta but also fuck this argument. By the same logic, almost any computer on the internet is guilty of copyright infringement. Proxy servers, VPNs, basically any compute that routed those packets temporarily had (or still has for caches, logs, etc) copies of that protected data.

I don't think copyrights and open global networks are compatible concepts in the long run. I wonder which the ruling class will destroy first? (Spoilers, how "open" is the internet anymore?)

I'm guessing this is Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton?

Feels like a "so close to the answer" kind of statement that veers wildly wrong because of the false metaphor employed at the beginning.

Low populations are bad for evolution, actually.

And why wouldn't that be true? Larger population means more opportunity for mutation, more chances to evolve. Larger pops are usually more spread out, which means more diverse environments, which means varied pressures for selection, which means more diversity and more evolution.

Island species are ideally suited to test the nearly neutral theory. Both the colonization process involved in their evolution and the limited ranges offered by islands contribute to reduced effective population size, and we can expect drift to be a major force in their evolution. With this in mind, Leroy and colleagues4 investigated the genomic diversity of 14 island and 11 continental songbird species (Figure 1). They found that island birds are genetically less diverse than continental congeners and have smaller effective population size; they harbour a higher proportion of harmful mutations, and less beneficial mutations reached fixation over the course of their evolution.

So the metaphor is misleading and leads to bad conclusions. The internet should, and did, cause a huge burst of innovation as globally isolated people were able to connect and exchange ideas for the first time. Multiple new genres of music, film, writing, and games have been the evolutionary descendents of this early-internet swapping of "memetic material."

If it seems like thats died off now, its because the internet isn't a wild place of free evolution and innovation anymore. Like the natural world, it has been colonized by monied-interests who have monocultured it because thats simpler to understand and control from the top down, which is how the rich on top like it.

When you play a "brass" style instrument (trumpet, tuba, trombone, didgeridoo, vuvuzela, etc) you don't just blow into it, you press your lips together like for a kiss, and then buzz them. If you do a small, very fast and tight buzz, you get high pitched notes. If you do a looser, flappier buzz, you get low notes. Most people can get about 3 to 5 notes this way, which is why most brass instruments have slides or valves to adjust the airflow and change the note further.

Funny enough for calling this a sax-hybrid, saxophones and other woodwind instruments use a small piece of flat wood called a reed to create the vibrations needed for notes. These mostly only make one note though, which is why sax, flute, clarinet, and so on need so many buttons.

Yeah, I just took a phone screenshot off Instagram, which is where he hosts the comic. So it picked up some UI crud. I hate IG, no way to download photos to your phone, among many other flaws.

Without pointless censorship: (did you know you can fucking cuss all goddamn day on Lemmy?)

How i feel about self-censorship to appease corporate social media:

I'm happy to unveil that ive fully moved off FF and onto various forks of it.

Can you imagine how great software would be if we had UBI? No one would need advertising money to stay viable, and every developer could just make whatever they wanted or what felt important to them.

When I was in college, living right off campus, there was always a cop car parked by the entrance to my apartment complex. For "security".

Every time I walked past and looked in the cruiser, the cop was playing WoW on his little computer. One time, a drunk driver rolled into the lot, right past the cop, and proceeded to swerve into and hit about a dozen parked cars while he watched. Guess he didn't want to risk getting involved until the drunk had passed out on his own.

The Dao that can be told is not the eternal Dao.

Spiritual practices are experiential; you aren't meant to just hear them, you are meant to practice them and be enlightened through lived understanding.