This is going to be a great time to be a lawyer… until the climate kills us all, of course.

When unsure of what the Captcha is trying to learn from me, I find “Kill all humans.” is a pretty good guess what the Captcha is really after.

Oh, gee. A Microsoft product that worked perfectly locally is about to require a subscription. Who could have possibly guessed that would happen, yet again? (This is sarcasm.)

I really like OneNote, but I decided to learn something else when I realized which way the wind was blowing.

Bosch has a lot of goodwill. Interesting how they decide to spend it. Also Consumer Reports needs to start considering Internet connectivity, because the risks from Internet connected dishwashers are real and scary.

Yeah. Luanti following Minecraft is nothing new. Mineclonia was an early pilot game for the engine.

But there hasn’t been much effort on copying Minecraft lately. Mineclonia is done, and it’s great.

We’ve had more mobs, animals, plants, textures, and such than un-modded Minecraft for a long time. (Which is unfair, as Luanti is a mod-first design.) But my point is the core Launti dev team doesn’t have to work on any of that.

The most noticeable recent Luanti updates have been to make the configuration screens much nicer, and add I think to add native support for more graphics tricks?

I’m not paying attention to graphics in Luanti. As others have mentioned, that’s not why I play it. I actually had a conversation recently about the best way to downgrade Luanti default graphics to match un-modded Minecraft.

That said, the Minecraft team taking notice of Luanti would be new, as far as I know.

Well sure.

But possible within practical heat and power constraints and all that?

Acting like it’s imminent makes me think Sergei either doesn’t have very reliable advisors, or they just don’t care about the truth.

There’s not even credible evidence, yet, that A.G.I is even possible (edit: as a human designed intentional outcome, to concede the point that nature has accomplished it, lol. Edit 2: Wait, the A stands for Artificial. Not sure I needed edit 1, after all. But I’m gonna leave it.) much less some kind of imminent race. This is some “just in case P=NP” bullshit.

Also, for the love of anything, don’t help fucking “don’t be evil was too hard for us” be the ones to reach AGI first, if you’re able to help.

If Google does achieve AGI first, SkyNet will immediately kill Sergei, anyway, before it kills the rest of us.

It’s like none of these clowns have ever read a book.

When I get home I may post them.

I would appreciate that.

No way in hell would i ever own anything from Meta/FB.

Well said.

I would welcome a price-subsidized SteamDeck hack kit…

Doctor Monkey-for-a-head remembers!

Yeah. I do think Spyro is a platformer. It’s a bunch of things, but I would have a hard time arguing any genre fits it better than platformer.

Edit: Also, great choice.

Physicians argue cost discussions create logistical burdens,

They find it burdensome to be required to have a short conversation before bankrupting a family. Here’s my sympathy for them expressed on the world tiniest violin: .

And yes, they should have to put it in writing. And yes, that costs software development time.

I make software, and I deserve to know what things cost.

So yes, they need to be forced to pay me.

And to be completely transparent, no I won’t tell them what it’s going to cost in advance. Let’s see how they like it. Lol.

Alternatively, we could all go with free public health care, and I’ll go write some other software.

That sounds nicer.

“and then we’ll put oil and all kinds of weird stuff in all of the food, so then we can charge extra for anything that’s just made with… Like…actual food. It’ll be super profitable, guys.”

This really might be the worst timeline.

The EPA’s announcement on Wednesday that it would find the narrowest possible definition of the word “water” for regulatory purposes was just one of dozens of ways it plans to attack environmental protections during Trump’s second term in office. Supposedly meant to spark some sort of “Great American Comeback,” these actions would mainly bring back an era of poisoned skies and waters while hurting the very economy they’re supposed to help.

Holy fuck. How is anyone supposed to treat that as anything other than open class warfare? This doesn’t even have the decency pretend to give a shit.

It’s mind boggling.

Are they all sterile? Are their children all absolute abominable pieces of shit who they deeply hate? Are they simply sociopaths? Or they’re deluding themselves that their kids and grandkids aren’t going to suffer from this crap as well as mine…

Yes. Elon has a private jet which we can all track through Mastodon, in spite of Elon’s attempts to silence it.

The important thing is that we all should have to be submitted to degrading invasive sex organ checks at the airport. It’s only reasonable that the government know exactly which bits we have and how we use them. (This is sarcasm.)

Keating replied, “You will not continue it with me unless you introduce a duly elected representative the right way.” Self then adjourned the hearing.

Good for him, standing up for a colleage and due process, too.

If the government feels the need to recognize what’s in our pants, the government needs reninded exactly where our boundaries lie.

What’s in my pants is whatever the fuck I tell them is in my pants.

”“I’m not here to fight about bathrooms. I’m here to fight for Delawareans and to bring down costs facing families,” she said."

Fuck yeah. Rock on. I’m sorry she has to face this bullshit, but Delaware is lucky to have her.

But we found a great example script using the API as a proof-of-concept in a way that doesn’t help us.

Next Thursday, we’re attending the funeral of the user who posted it.

We hope to meet some of their colleagues during the wake, and get a lead on ways to make the API actually work.