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gmercon EU chief opens door for Canada to become 'associate member'

Because the US isn't exactly on the same path, right?

gmercon Amazon vs. Perplexity – U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit

It was legal when amazon did it to everyone else

gmercon AI models don't kill people – people kill people

techbros kill people.

They only use the same language, nevermind, it's a coincident. I love the weak "if you call me Nazi, may as well become one", it's the most weaksauce nonsense ever. Oh you called me names, I'm gonna become names to spite you. Either you have values or you don't .

gmercon How the Tobacco Industry Drove the Rise of Ultra-Processed Foods (2025)

They also have society self enforced limits on bringing harm to society restraining capitalism

gmercon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Shoot Meta, meta harm gone, shareholders lose their pants.

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Using a car is not a way to travel, the real way is to take a horse.

gmercon Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board

Corporate Death Penalty absolutely would prevent future murders.

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

This post has the actual prompt used for one of my ports and the stack, and there's more info below it under "further reading".

There's really nothing much to it, all the knowledge needed is in the weights of the model, so regardless of what you want to do, you can ask "if I wanted to do this, what would be the best way / best practices to get there with my machine"

https://georgzoeller.com/blog/posts/what-reverse-engineering...

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

I just did a one shot port of Dragon Strike (1990) and it got to about 85% playable from zero. Cost: About half a Claude Max 200 Weekly Limit, whatever that means. Details: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgzoeller_fable-51-is-a-si...

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

Strike Commander is in the works. I tried a few months ago and got quite far asset wise but stalled on the flight model, I will probably see how Fable 5.1 does from zero after this weeks limit reset. I imagine it will be able to get quite far.

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

https://redbaron.tooclever.org Demo, requires WebGPU - PC version but with modern upgrades (can be disabled), Opus redid the plane models and turned everything proper 3d, plus added ww1 frigates, flak searchlights, etc.

gmercon Porting my 1993 Amiga game to Godot, with an LLM reading the 68000 assembly

It's a completely new world. Random retro games I ported to modern webgl/webgpu in the last few months:

- The Adventures of Robin Hood - Opus 4.7/Sonnet https://robin.tooclever.org

- Syndicate - Sol/Luna 5.6/Opus ( https://this.os.isfine.org/blog/posts/modern-game-port-syndi... )

- Kaiser 2

- Populous Plus - Sol/Luna 5.6/Opus

- Dragon Strike - (Fable 5.1 almost one shot)

- War of the Lance - Qwnen-3.7-27B-dense (got stuck, finished with) Qwen-3.8-Flash-Next https://this.os.isfine.org/blog/posts/what-reverse-engineeri...

- Dungeon Keeper - Various

- Red Baron - Opus 4.8, DeepSeek 4

- Test Drive 3 (Qwen-3.8-Flash Next, DeepSeek-4-Flash-exp, GLM-5.3-Flash)

- In progress Ultima 6 ... to 3d (Fable, GLM-5.3) ( https://this.os.isfine.org/#ultima6-atlas )

Some straight source ports (Kaiser), some full RE jobs (Dragon Strike, Test Drive, WOTL)

Some a mix of available sources (Syndicate, Populous)

Some of the findings are documented here: https://this.os.isfine.org/blog/

gmercon Claude Code reduces it's weekly limit by 17% – compared to today

Everyone has been running promotions and, gosh, demand is up.

gmercon You Know GDPR Is Good Based on Who Hates It

It's a case of industry malicious compliance

gmercon The Tariff Cost: analysis of the costs to Americans from new tariffs on Canada

Pray tell, what's with the whining about Chinese overproduction then?

gmercon One corner of China’s internet is insisting that the Tang Dynasty never existed

One look at what’s happening with vaccines and you’re disabused of healthy. It’s not. it’s insanity

gmercon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

lol Senate in the US

gmercon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Turns out protecting our industries from the US buying their way in was always the way to go since they can’t be trusted

gmercon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Why? China taking the goods we sell to the US seems like a good deal for us. They won’t copy our dairy or oil and if they want to assemble their EVs here and give us free AI, it’s a clear win win.

gmercon Canada will match US tariffs 'dollar for dollar' as trade talks break down

Sovereignty is not for sale

gmercon The Lost Treasure of Sid Meier's Pirates

I just ported syndicate to the web

https://this.os.isfine.org/#syndicate-plus

With some improvements and, uhm, modernizations https://www.linkedin.com/posts/georgzoeller_i-ported-syndica...?

gmercon How to compromise your system with a job interview

Americans are uniquely (c|f)ucked that way because, lol regulation would be worse

gmercon How to compromise your system with a job interview

Well then it’s not financially worth it for capable people to work for that company. And of story

gmercon Civic Hygiene – avoid building technologies that could be used by a police state (2013)

Harder than it looks. Everything is dual use. Certainly didn't expect my game development telemetry[1] system used to improve artillery [2]...

[1] https://gdcvault.com/play/1012227/Development-Telemetry-in-V...

[2] https://www.army.mil/article/85934/solution_to_weapon_develo...

gmercon Universal health coverage could save $1T and 114k lives a year: study

Luigi had that idea already.

gmercon Anthropic's 'watermark' text adulteration in Claude is a perversion of writing

It’s not because humans are rate limited which is the entire point.

gmercon Research papers using "kidney disappointment" instead of "kidney failure"

That sounds like Anthrophics watermark explanation though.

gmercon Tech leaders say AI means less work – staff say they work up to 90 hours a week

Almost there. Who controls management?

gmercon Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models

Nobody learned nothing from the metaverse.