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That's a bit better but it shifts the question: Why did they not mandate national (or at least EU-based) hosting and infra ? It feels a bit insane in retrospect for such a critical…

Yet another AI company where the logo follows the butthole convergence rule [0] ? As an aside, my favorite Sierra Entertainment logo version is probably the 1983-1993 version [1]. …

I received the email telling me I am impacted today. Ironically it changes nothing for me as that same data had already been leaked by the French government agency that handles une…

Even more hours where people in Spain will have to wonder why their online apps/services are not working anymore I suppose.

A good reason to outlaw bribes is that politicians tend to be incredibly cheap and offer an extremely high ROI. Albeit at the cost of a nice democracy.

I take it you are not a member of the Church of Interruption[0] then. https://sambleckley.com/writing/church-of-interruption.html

There's also nothing saying they are not dog fooding at least a little bit.

Suing made Grooveshark disappear. I still miss Grooveshark's UI.

https://news.ycombinator.com/formatdoc

You should probably check out Wargroove on Steam. It's very close to the Advance Wars games in terms in terms of mechanics.

As far as technical resources are concerned, gbatek is probably your best bet: https://problemkaputt.de/gbatek.htm

You've outlined the steps but not named the process outright : This is basically establishing a dominant platform and then abusing the dominant position that comes with it.

Article is missing some context imo : * Annapurna Pictures (the parent company of Interactive) had some financial issues previously at least (see [0] from 2019) while Annapurna Int…

Recently there's been a uptake in free procedural construction games like Townscaper. There's Tiny Glade and SUMMERHOUSE that have attracted some attention on Steam.

Reminds me of that bits about money blogpost title : "The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero"

"It's been determined with more than 86% accuracy that you are likely to commit a crime within the next 6 months. You will be detained until the probability goes down."

I remember reading someone's conclusion about Logitech accessories several years ago : "Good hardware, terrible software." I guess that still holds somewhat true today.

I think I would have preferred .intra (Unless it's already used somehow ?). Just 5 letters is less annoying to type repeatedly than .internal, while still conveying the overall pur…

We might never know if it was "justified", but we have everything we need to judge how the termination was delivered though, and that one is a shitty look for Cloudflare.

Agreed on all points, the tweet feels like an allergic reaction to what copyright has morphed into, which is a tool for big corporations to extract money from existing IP for an in…

Haven't read the book, but the author wrote multiple blog entries about different maze generation algorithms[0] prior to its publishing which I found personally useful. [0] http://…

> Sgt. David Fikes is still featured on the Brookhaven Police Department’s Facebook page even though he is conducting plain-clothes drug interdiction operations at the airport and …

Agreed that web search quality has been deteriorating since much earlier than LLMs gaining popularity. Interestingly, we are in spot right now where I feel that for certain types o…