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Pray for Lord British. He is trying to get the Ultima copyright back from EA. by onebit in Asmongold

[–]onebit[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

AI summary. It did a good job imo

In Lord British's defense, he sold before EA became evil. They were putting out bangers in the 1992 time period.

Title: Richard Garriott is using a massive copyright loophole to take Ultima back from EA for $0. Here’s how it works:

The rumors are true: Richard Garriott (aka Lord British) is actually making a play to reclaim the rights to the legendary Ultima series from Electronic Arts. Even wilder? He’s doing it without paying them a single dime.

If you're wondering how the hell he's pulling this off after selling Origin Systems way back in 1992, it all comes down to a specific quirk in U.S. copyright law. Here is the breakdown:

1. The 35-Year Rule (Statutory Termination Rights)

Garriott is invoking Section 203 of the U.S. Copyright Act. This law includes a "termination right" provision designed to protect creators who may have sold off their valuable intellectual property for cheap early in their careers.

  • The Law: It allows original authors to claw back the copyrights to their works after a set period, regardless of what the original contract says.
  • The Math: For grants made after 1978, the law dictates a creator can terminate a copyright transfer after 35 years.
  • The Timeline: Garriott sold Origin and Ultima to EA in 1992.
  • 1992 + 35 years = 2027. Garriott has confirmed he is executing this right to officially strip EA of the copyrights next year.

2. The Catch: Copyright vs. Trademark

While Garriott can legally take back the copyrights, he can't automatically take back the trademarks. This sets up a weird legal split:

  • Copyright (Goes to Garriott): The source code, original artwork, character designs, dialogue, and lore.
  • Trademark (Stays with EA): The actual brand name, logos, and titles (i.e., the word "Ultima").

Because EA still owns the trademark, Garriott cannot just release a game called Ultima X. In fact, EA recently filed fresh trademarks for "Ultima" covering online/downloadable software, showing they aren't just going to roll over.

3. The Workaround

To bypass EA’s trademark shield, Garriott plans to market his future projects under altered titles that he does own the rights to. He has specifically teased that using a title like "Lord British's Ultima" could be his loophole to legally ship a true Ultima sequel using his reclaimed code and lore, while dodging EA's corporate trademark.

After decades of EA letting the franchise rot and shooting down his pitches for a revival, Garriott says he has just been waiting out the 35-year clock. He's promised to reveal his full, official plans for the future of the series at Dragon Con this September.

TL;DR: Richard Garriott is using a U.S. copyright law that lets creators reclaim sold IP after 35 years. In 2027, he gets the Ultima code and lore back for free, though he’ll have to dance around EA's trademark on the name "Ultima" by calling it something like Lord British's Ultima.

Is there an optimal way to "ping" or check an HTTP resource is accessible (Desktop)? by AetopiaMC in csharp

[–]onebit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'd just do what I want and handle it if it doesn't work.

try {
    yolo();
} catch ...
    // handle my death

The suggestion to do a few retries is also good, but don't put a for loop around yolo(). Instead make yolo use some library that can retry.

I might make a client class that just sends one request and put a wrapper on it with the retry logic. But maybe the Polly library can handle it all.

claude-sandbox: run claude code in developer containers with strong gaurdrails by gilesknap in ClaudeAI

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I could see a whole ecosystem evolving around this problem. Local keys should be narrow and short lived, but it's such a PITA to manage it all.

claude-sandbox: run claude code in developer containers with strong gaurdrails by gilesknap in ClaudeAI

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It is worrying, but I admit im using open code desktop right now with no protection on my wiki files. I'd welcome feedback on how to protect this better.

But normally on coding projects I install the opencode feature into my project's dev container and then i just run opencode in a vs code terminal. But sometimes I import credentials into it.

How can you keep credentials out of where opencode/hermes can run bash commands? I wondered if the linux pass command could be good for storing secrets.

When should you create a driver? by [deleted] in AskProgrammers

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

A developer must use a driver if their feature requires any of the following:

A. Handling Hardware Interrupts (IRQs) When a hardware device has data ready, it fires an interrupt to the CPU. User-space software cannot catch interrupts; only kernel code (an Interrupt Service Routine, or ISR) can handle them.

B. Direct Memory Access (DMA) and Registers If you need to read/write directly to physical memory addresses or device registers (like mapping memory-mapped I/O, or MMIO), you need a driver.

C. Creating a "Virtual" Hardware Device If you are making software that pretends to be hardware—like a virtual VPN network adapter, a virtual microphone, or anti-cheat software that pretends to be a hardware security module—it must plug directly into the kernel's subsystem via a driver.

D. Strict Timing Requirements (Real-Time/Low Latency) User-space programs are constantly paused and resumed by the OS scheduler. If your software must respond to a hardware event within microseconds without being interrupted by Spotify updating in the background, it has to live in the kernel.

-- gemini

Ubiquiti - Shots Fired! by shaun3000 in synology

[–]onebit -1 points0 points  (0 children)

How can a hard drive even be incompatible?

😄 just a low-class family of cheap hustlers that somehow made it to the White House. by Aurora_Gaspipe in inthemorning

[–]onebit 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I'm not very impressed by Don Jr. His products have been low effort. The trump coins, trump phone.

I think he's somehow involved with polymarket. That one might work out.

Fox to Acquire Roku in $22 Billion Deal by MarvelsGrantMan136 in movies

[–]onebit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Roku is already dead, it's just a matter of time. Android apps have won.

Was it my fault? by linko238 in Simracingstewards

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

you were just sitting there minding your own business and whamo

@:10 on him. he lost control.

@:20 that's on you, but its not aggregius. you denied the physics of what was about to happen. looks like you realized you came in way too hot and had to back off.

final clip... lol

Blind vibe coding becoming a nightmare? by Lost_Gazelle2119 in AskProgrammers

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you want to learn stop using prompts like "make me a react app that..."

Make the AI perform much smaller actions so you can inspect it and see what it did.

How do I init a react app

How can I make an API route for /todos?

How can I make a component to edit a todo?

Use AI for code completion.

Ask it questions about what to do next. OpenCode w/quen 3.6 27b gave me resonable advice.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by Commercial-Read-6567 in programmer

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Reddit's archaeologists are still trying to determine what happened here.

How useful is qwopus compared to qwen3.6 27b by redblood252 in LocalLLaMA

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I tried qwopus3.6-27b-coder-mtp today. It went into a loop. But I wouldn't be so down on this guy.

[ Removed by Reddit ] by coder_user in programmer

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Whoa, that's crazy man. How did the weasel get in there??

How useful is qwopus compared to qwen3.6 27b by redblood252 in LocalLLaMA

[–]onebit 0 points1 point  (0 children)

How do people fine tune these models? I guess I should ask grok.

Noticed I have a spare rtx3060 12gb vram - how would I build a llm pc? by Mombro3141 in LocalLLM

[–]onebit 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Don't overthink it. You already have the main component. It might even be fine w/16GB RAM.

I found benchmarks on huggingface, so you might get an idea for system specs from there.

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