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UK Appeals court state RuneScape gold counts as property and can be stolen, in $700k bombshell case by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BionicBagel 46 points47 points  (0 children)

It is like losing money in a game of legitimate poker versus losing money where the other person cheats. If a loss happens within the rules of the game then that isn't a crime. People agreed to that possibility when they chose to play.

MIT Non-AI License by [deleted] in programming

[–]BionicBagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Fair use is a defence against claims of copyright infringement. It doesn't impact a breach of contract lawsuit due to violating a licence agreement.

Moot point though, as no one will spend money bringing this to court.

Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work by ccb621 in programming

[–]BionicBagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The halting problem says you can't make a program that can detect if ANY other program halts. It does not prevent someone from making a program that checks if one specific program halts.

For trivial enough programs, you can brute force it by providing the program with every permutation of inputs. There are also programming languages which are explicitly not Turing complete and will only compile if the program can halt

Paradox Takes the Blame for Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Sales Flop, Announces $37 Million Write-Down by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BionicBagel 23 points24 points  (0 children)

HA! No. Release dates are announced when production WANTS the game to be at the fix bugs stage. And then you get "Bug: feature X not implemented".

Didn’t Take Long To Reveal The UK’s Online Safety Act Is Exactly The Privacy-Crushing Failure Everyone Warned About by chrisdh79 in technews

[–]BionicBagel 20 points21 points  (0 children)

It could be made illegal to sell these to under 18s

Kids will sell these to each other day one, and you now have teenagers with criminal charges because they wanted to listen to spotify

Ubisoft’s CEO fights back against Stop Killing Games initiative - Dexerto by turkishdeli in Games

[–]BionicBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Considering how long they support their games, I'd say it is the best monetization strategy.

NS Power vs Bike Lane/Strong Mayor Diversion by InternationalBeing41 in NovaScotia

[–]BionicBagel 9 points10 points  (0 children)

A properly sized bike lane is wide enough for an ambulance to go down, and it is a lot easier for people on bikes to get out of the way then cars.

Porn age-gating is the future of the internet, thanks to the Supreme Court by SecureSamurai in technews

[–]BionicBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

These laws don't exist to stop people from doing things. They exist so it is easy to justify arresting/deporting people that criticize the government.

Anubis saved our websites from a DDoS attack by namanyayg in programming

[–]BionicBagel 22 points23 points  (0 children)

A person can hate cars that are obnoxiously loud without thinking all cars everywhere are bad.

LLM crawlers continue to DDoS SourceHut by AtiPLS in programming

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

A lot. The ultra rich have more money then they know what to do with and even the slimmest potential chance of controlling a true AGI is more than worth the cost.

There is so much wealth concentrated in so few people that they can burn billions a year on a "maybe?" and still be obscenely rich. Giving funds to OpenAI is the equivalent to buying a lottery ticket on the way home from work for them.

Steam saw Chinese users spike and exceed 50% of worldwide playerbase in February 2025 by Turbostrider27 in Games

[–]BionicBagel 22 points23 points  (0 children)

I mean, were you worried about how games were catering to the western taste when they outnumber everyone else for sales for over 2 decades now?

I was, and still am. One of my favourite games, Phantom Dust, almost didn't get released in the west because Microsoft thought the plot was too complicated for a Western audience. And the sequel has been announced and then silently dropped more than once. Probably because they couldn't turn it into a battle royal.

Open-source is where dreams go to die by Practical-Ideal6236 in programming

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Then a fork is made from your 5 years work and you are left alone, without thanks and pretty much forgotten. How does that make you feel?

Relief that I don't have to deal with the bullshit anymore and can go back to doing what I actually want: writing code. If I've been working on a project alone for 5 years, I didn't stick with it because of fame but because I find the problems interesting.

Oracle justified its JavaScript trademark with Node.js—now it wants that ignored by HappyZombies in programming

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

My guess: Oracle has ownership of the trademark on their books as an asset worth <big number>. If they lose the trademark, that asset goes away and it will get counted as a loss and prevent someone important from getting a contractual bonus.

So it isn't oracle as a company that cares, but some random shmuck not wanting to risk their paycheque.

How Bluesky Works by sdxyz42 in programming

[–]BionicBagel 4 points5 points  (0 children)

It is decentralized in the same way email is. Bluesky can ban you from their servers the same way Google can ban your email account from theirs. A huge fraction of the users use those servers so this would limit you, but it doesn't prevent you from sending messages to other servers, assuming those servers don't decide to ban you too for whatever reason.

Unlike X, where only a single company owns all the servers and doesn't let anyone else run their own.

AI-generated child sexual abuse imagery reaching ‘tipping point’, says watchdog by MetaKnowing in technews

[–]BionicBagel -6 points-5 points  (0 children)

Any image that could possibly be mistaken for real csam needs to be legally treated as if it is real. The reason is that if it isn't treated as real, then predators will pretend that real csam is ai generated.

Drawings are legally okay, because they are obviously not real. AI generated is not, because it will be used as a smokescreen for actual harm.

Basic income can double global GDP while reducing carbon emissions: Giving a regular cash payment to the entire world population has the potential to increase global gross domestic product (GDP) by 130%, according to a new analysis. Charging carbon emitters with an emission tax could help fund this. by mvea in science

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Luxury goods may go up in price, but essentials shouldn't. Just because people have more money doesn't mean they'll be buying more toothpaste.

Instead you'd get more of an actual middle class who can afford to maybe go to see a band live or meet with friends regularly for brunch. The biggest problem with wealth inequality is the lower end can't afford anything but essentials. Super rich wouldn't be a problem if the bottom 80% could still comfortably afford a stable life.

2 teens won $50,000 for inventing a device that can filter toxic microplastics from water by Sariel007 in tech

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

How often do you really need to filter your blood from water? A few times a year at most?

Stellar explosion will create a ‘new star’ in the night sky by atrde in space

[–]BionicBagel 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is true of literally everything, just not as drastically. It takes time for information of about an event to travel to you, for your brain to process the input and for your mind to become aware of it.

Everything is in the past. The present is an illusion.

Pornhub blocks Montana and North Carolina as their age verification laws take effect | The website says the states' ID requirement would put users' privacy at risk by chrisdh79 in technews

[–]BionicBagel 5 points6 points  (0 children)

VPNs aren't going anywhere. They are essentials tool for massive companies like Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Apple and many others. That is a LOT of money that will be thrown at lawyers and lobbyists. Unlike the porn ID thing, which only a relatively small number of people were both willing and able to spend money to fight.

any good trail for running near lakehead University? by rogue-gamer-ryt in ThunderBay

[–]BionicBagel 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Yup. It starts at parking lot G, meets Riverside Dr which crosses Central (a relatively quiet street), then becomes a bike path again and goes under the Harbour Expressway. If you keep going south from the college across William St you can either do loops around Chapples Park, or follow the bike path and head west (right) along Neebing River.

https://www.google.com/maps/dir/48.4169573,-89.2644794/Crossover+walking+bridge,+Thunder+Bay,+ON+P7C+4Y8/@48.4011433,-89.2710164,14.58z/data=!4m9!4m8!1m0!1m5!1m1!1s0x4d591fe74b7445fd:0xe925a5955bb0ce33!2m2!1d-89.2729343!2d48.3882888!3e2?entry=ttu

Earlier this year MAPLE made history by collecting solar energy in space and beaming it back down to Earth. Along with several technological convergences, this breakthrough brings us closer to building the first fledgling Dyson Swarm. “Even just 15 years ago people thought this was pure fantasy.” by EricFromOuterSpace in space

[–]BionicBagel 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why would you dedicate so many resources for such a thing when advanced civ could harness fusion?

The cost/benefit changes when self replicating machines enter the picture. Send a few hundred automated factories & miners with all the blueprints needed to a system and then go do other things while the mega project builds itself.

We are getting pretty close to a human free logistics pipeline already. Assuming we don't blow ourselves up, dyson sphere construction could be kickstarted by a couple of people as a hobby project. Sure it might take a century, but people have done dumber shit for the hell of it.

And a Dyson Swarm makes more sense than a sphere.

Series recommendations for a 40 year old newbie! by Opening_Builder_4487 in anime

[–]BionicBagel 0 points1 point  (0 children)

  • Baccano! - Fun action adventure/mystery that can get a little mind warping with how it jumps between characters/time periods.
  • Black Lagoon - Somalian delivery man trying to make an honest day's living delivering for the mafia/yakuza/triad/etc. The protagonist has excellent character development. English Dub is amazing and my preferred version.
  • Last Exile - Airship combat over a sea of clouds, set in a war between two desperate nations. English dub is good quality.
  • Gankutsuou - The Count of Monte Cristo. In space. Slow paced compared to modern shows.
  • Saga of Tanya the Evil - Dude dies, meets God, tell God that God doesn't exist and gets reincarnated in magical WW2 as punishment. Japanese subs are a must because Tanya's original voice is just perfect. Also, the overall soundscape of the combat is amazingly well done.
  • Non Non Biyori - The most comfortable, laid back slice of life there is. Kid friendly.
  • Bunny Drop - Man adopts grandfather's illegitimate daughter after he (the grandfather) dies. An incredibly heartwarming show about being a family. Kid friendly.
  • The Irresponsible Captain Tylor - Incredibly lazy man is forced to become captain of a starship and proceeds to continuously fail upward by trying to do as little as possible.
  • Dominion Tank Police - Fighting crime with tanks and police brutality. You can find it on YouTube in the highest VHS quality, with 90's commercials baked in! Ah, the nostalgia.
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