AdeptusAquinas

Seems fair. If you have a thousand dollars and try to clone a million dollar game, you're sued so hard your grandchildren need lawyers. If you have a billion dollars and try to clone a million dollar game, they call you a genius and invite you to the white house (for what that's even worth any more).

If they can argue its copyright infringement, then you can be sued for it. Sometimes you can get away with just a rebuild of the engine without the assets (do not try to copy the assets!) but even then its up to the company's lawyers if they want to push it. Certainly if you try to sell your remake things get spiky. Can look at all the legal disclaimers on things like OpenSAGE as an example. But plenty of companies are cool, as long as they see no competition to their own copyright: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_game_engine_recreation...

He mentions GTA a lot in this post. I feel if he reverse engineered and rebuilt GTA, then attempted to sell the result, that would be a fairly interesting case study in all the ways porting a game from the 80s to JS isn't quite the fait accompli for AI he thinks it is.

Ha I remember SVGA. Darn we're old. But pixel art was definitely a style of it's own then and thats what my modern efforts attempt to replicate, at least

This seems a bit focused on a specific era of pixel art games AND CRTs. For me, nostalgia was things like Master of Magic or Civilization 1/2, and I played those on CRTs attached to PCs, not in an arcade - the pixels absolutely did not blend together into rounded shapes due to fuzzy scan lines.

I thought the censorship was in the harness, not the model? E.g. if you use chat.deepseek.com directly, and ask it about the location or rumours of the location of the panchen llama it will shut down... but sometimes just after it starts generating tokens. If you ask it to respond in base64 you can avoid this and get its generated response which is not censored (though also not too helpful for the poor panchen llama kid)

That's always been Dawkins's shtick though. As an atheist I've generally found him a bit embarrassing

Very much mixed. I've used Claude to generate small changes to an existing repo, asking it to create functions or react template in the style of the rest of the file its working in, and thats worked great. I still do a lot of the fine tuning there, but if the codebase isn't one I am overly familiar with this is a good way to ensure my work doesn't conflict with the core team's.

I have also done the agentic thing and built a full CLI tool via back-and-forth engagement with Claude and that worked great - I didn't write a single line of code. Because the CLI tool was calling an API, I could ask Claude to run the requests it was generating and adjust based on the result - errors, bad requests etc, and it would fairly rapidly fix and coalesce on a working solution.

After I was done though, I reckon that if instead of this I had just done the work myself I would have had a much smaller, more reliable project. Less error handling, no unit tests, no documentation sure, but it would have worked and worked better - I wouldn't need to iterate off the API responses because I would have started with a better contract-based approach. But all of that would have been hard, would have required more 'slow thinking'. So... I didn't really draw a clean conclusion from the effort.

Continuing to experiment, not giving up on anything yet.

It's almost as if being able to generate boilerplate code is only like 5% of software development.

That being said, its great at generating boilerplate code or in my case, doing something like 'make a react component here please that does this small thing, and is aligned with the style in the rest of the file'. Good for when I need to work with code bases or technologies that are not my daily. Also a great research assistant.

But I guess being a 'better google' or a 'glorified spellchecker' doesn't get that hype money.

It's always 'eventually', 'soon', 'by the latter half of this year' with AI. Meanwhile I am both bemused and horrified as I watch a bunch of idiots desperate ly trying to find the magical 10x trick with AI unleash more and more mediocre code full of security vulnerabilities, running on agents with root permissions, that I somehow have to 'secure' for the company :D At least I have job security! Up until we get hacked sideways at least.

This reminds me of a take by Dan Harumi: these tools are always pitched for 'restraurant reservations', 'reminders', 'email and message follow ups': i.e. they appeal to the sort of arrested development man children that inhabit tech who never really figured out adulting. Now the computer can do it for them, and they can remain teenagers forever.

Too late backed it at maximum tier all extensions....

No idea what I'm going to use it for, possibly as a mobile Kali setup or something

I switched my laptop (Surface Laptop Go) from Win11 to Tumbleweed, and its great. Mainly because Windows kept getting slower, and arguably Win11 isn't great for an 8GB system. OpenSuse is a great distro.

But my gaming PC and primary workstation remains Win11, and always will be (windows, that is). Notably Suse under WSL2 works great there as well, and my Kubes workflow is just as easy with PowerShell commands as it is with bash.

OS's have purposes, and arguably there is no single platform that is better than the others in every way - Windows is better for games and is more stable across different hardware and configurations. Linux is much lighter, more intentional, and for me better for infosec and some coding activities.

I've been using Windows 11 since it came out. Seems fine, no real difference over 10. Maybe a little bit faster.

Some of the more annoying stuff like ads in the start menu and the like only really affect americans, as far as I know. I've never seen it. Had a brief battle turning copilot off everywhere when that became a thing - including in notepad! - but thats hardly just a microsoft thing.

Don't really understand all this drama over the TPM chip, especially since you can bypass that requirement with a little effort if you can't upgrade your hardware.

Seems really unfair to the AI

It recently occurred to me that the crazy expense of the US Healthcare system (most expensive in the world, while also being terrible quality) might be by design: it keeps you desperately tied to your jobs. Just another threat enforcing that weird modern serfdom the Americans are so fond of, along with their unsolved homelessness and massive prison industry.

Agree with most of this (not the weird anti-immigrant bit but the rest), however China does have some foreign requirements that are a bit of a pain in the ass, like its insistence that Taiwan isn't a country. They also don't like it and will retaliate when you point out the shady shit it does (e.g. the Uighurs), but then thats no different from the states especially under its current toddler administration.

I got this and I know several others have gotten similar, seemingly tailored to their repositories. I'm not even American lol.

It was very much a decision between drinking curdled milk and drinking bleach.

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Should mention I feel bad for the Gazans. The democrats had already abandoned them (Genocide Joe etc) but they're screwed now - just like the Kurds which Trump betrayed and left for ISIS and Turkey last time.

Not sure if its clear here to US participants, but the world views this outcome much like we did in 2016: it makes the US into an absolute laughing stock. I don't fully understand: he was voted out in 2020 due to the massive failures of his term and him personally, and now four years later when he has become even more deranged, they voted him back in? What the hell?

Positive outcomes I see is that much like with the US's unequivocal support of Israel, this devastates the US's reputation and foreign influence. Trump wants to abandon Europe and Ukraine, which might grant Europe the independence and the urgency to step up and support Ukraine itself, unfettered by dysfunctional politics back in the US. A third pole on the world power stage would improve things, the US isolated back home in its infighting and staying out of the rest of the worlds business. IF the EU steps up.

Huh, didn't know it was basically bash commands for windows - I thought it was a faked up linux environment.

I mostly just use ubuntu under wsl2, though the file performance across the windows filesystem isn't the best.

Could someone explain the 'sluggish ui responsiveness' talked about in the conclusion? I've never experienced it in 11, 10, 8 or 7 etc - but maybe thats because my windows machines are always gaming machines and have a contemporary powerful graphics card. I've used a mac pro for work a couple of times and never noticed that being snippier than my home machine.

A shame. All the random garbage that comes out of things like ycombinator, promoted by 'visionaries' like graham, thiel and other bottom feeders, and something truly useful to the world like exercism is starving for funding :|

Practice this transition :) -> :| Maybe throw in a sigh or a smirk or something. Know that no matter what the reason for or against a change is, you should be able to find a reason why it improves or harms security

But jokes aside its mostly about realising that when you consider all aspects of computing its such a wide, deep field that no one, no matter how much of a "power user" they think they are, will ever do things perfectly, and mistakes add up over time until one day Validimir Hackowski is running bitcoin miners in your AWS account. Then you find one aspect or more of computing and investigate the infosec fields that help find those bugs/mistakes and fix them. I like websec and linux/windows config security, myself, all of which is in high demand.

People treat it as adversarial but really its a circular ecosystem

That's the spirit! People with attitudes like that are why my salary keeps going up.

I support the c coders. Rewriting linux in rust is an existential threat to the infosec industry where I work

Depends which news you're talking about. MS guy who discovered it found it March 29th, published to oss. It was in infosec news same day as redhat, others pushed out critical advisories. Patch didn't come til a day or two later.