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Golly gosh. I threw some random CRs into your brain dump so I could try to comprehend what you were saying. You sound very upset they didn't commit to whatever the video equivalent of an audio book is called. I don't want to upset you too much, but The Wheel of Time's biggest problem was the...

Did anyone think, deep in their heart, Wheel of Time was going to make it to the end? I enjoyed what I watched, dropped off somewhere in S2. I don't mind movies and TV changing a book, they're different mediums, and there is nothing a movie or TV can do to change that book gathering dust on...

I don't see how any OS is different in that regard -- you have no idea what's happening on the receiving end of any digital communication. Some organisations (including the one I used to work for until recently) run software that does exactly what Recall does -- record snapshots of the desktop...

I'm the up vote. Every electronic bank transaction requires authorisation of some sort -- you are literally asking permission to spend your money every time you use your card or phone. Your thumbprint, PIN, signature, security checks, bugs, outages, geo blocks, spending limits, fraud...

I recently worked for a very popular CFD trading company. If you are not familiar with CFDs they are basically leveraged gambling -- you can lose more than you bet. Extremely scummy part of the finance industry and naturally you can deposit funds using various crypto currencies. The company I...

I guess law enforcement store evidence/confiscated phones in faraday cage/bags. Well, they should anyway, otherwise all these OS updates make their job harder. I imagine they have 1000s of phones waiting for a hack to get released or priced to a point they can afford.

They are already doing this and similar. My former employer ran software that took a screen shot every 3 minutes of all employee's desktops. What was I doing? Quite often looking at highly confidential customer data, looking at passwords to critical systems, looking at contracts, CVs, code, bug...

Thank you! I don't use Discord, much appreciated.

Hopefully it's not one of those documentaries with minimal amounts of information, repeated in "the story so far" updates after each commercial break.

He's acutely aware of where things are heading, things like card art uses a lot of AI imagery already. He's smart enough to be investing lots of time into becoming an AI prompt engineer/artist, I think realising he can still be an artist in some form was good for his state of mind. He can spot...

I'm most disappoint there are no links to primary sources. Mead was invented in China.

Tariffs on Chinese goods might just solve the fentanyl problem! I know I'd rather smuggle cheap Chinese junk into the USA than drugs, you get caught with a bunch of RABBITGOO or whatever products and oh no! you need to pay some tariffs. Get caught with drugs and it's far less pleasant. Trump is...

If you like Slay the Spire you'll like Balatro and vice versa. Balatro is no more or less addictive than that silly phone game you play all the time.

Thanks for the info, really interesting. I'm a dev myself, and a huge fan of SJG from the OGRE/Car Wars days. I'm totally lazy, any chance you get edit in a link to the discussion you mentioned?

To pivot the conversation slightly to games, let's discuss physical copies of games? I own an Xbox Series X and have never bought a physical game for it, any discs I throw at it are UHDs. Did Nintendo say you can't buy the new Mario Cart game digitally? Impact to the cost of games (Koolraaps...

A good friend of mine is a fantasy artist. It was always hard enough to earn a living (luckily his wife does okay). Now it's even harder, even though the stuff he produces is great. If you're happy with second rate, cool. I'm not.

AI is better at identifying potential CSAM than humans, and AI doesn't suffer PTSD. Humans still need to verify. My understanding is material heading to court needs someone to describe the contents for the written record -- story I heard, haven't been there myself! To make it more weird: CSAM...

If only there was an emerging technology that would let Wikipedia detect AI bots hitting their site. Oh wait! AI.

But can it run Crysis? Oh. It can, and really quite well? Uh... well then. More seriously, I can't wait for a deep dive into its anti-hacking/rooting features once people figure them out.

On the upside we know they can just re-use the extensive automated CI/CD test-suite. Nah, you know I was kidding! At least the COBOL and Java implementations will have the same amount of unit test code coverage. Which is to say exactly 0% I'm a crusty 50 something year old dev. This is the...