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  1. Tolos

    Revisiting Jill of the Jungle, the last game Tim Sweeney designed

    Thanks for this reminder. I spent countless hours as a kid playing shareware releases from EpicMegaGames and Apogee. Jill of the Jungle, Cosmos Cosmic Adventure, Duke Nukem 2, Epic Pinball were some of my favorites.
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    Interplay co-founder and pioneering game developer Rebecca Heineman dies at 62

    I don't have a comment of value to add, just thank you for sharing her story and mentioning how much she cared about her wife.
  3. Tolos

    Robotaxis burn in Los Angeles in backlash to immigration raids

    This isn't just some random luddite uprising. As mentioned in the article:
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    Android 0-day sold by Cellebrite exploited to hack Serbian student’s phone

    DHS updated guidelines this past week, removing the clause that citizens should not have intelligence gathered on them on the basis of sexuality or gender identity.
  5. Tolos

    Trump orders US withdrawal from the World Health Organization

    hugs 🫂 . You're not alone
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    Domestic consequences of the 2024 US presidential election: the quickening

    As of this moment, there are 138,438,139 votes reported for the top two presidential candidates (via AP). Still a lot left to be counted. CA at 54%, WA at 62%, CO at 75%. 2020 had 158,429,631 votes for all presidential candidates combined...
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    Two never-before-seen tools, from same group, infect air-gapped devices

    I was really disappoint about the lack of details in the article. It spends a lot of time explaining capabilities, but not how or what the compromise is. As far as I can tell, this is a set of (hidden?) tools that work when a USB device is plugged into a system. There's always instances where...
  8. Tolos

    Talking to ChatGPT for the first time is a surreal experience

    Wow, this is really impressive. My hope is the hallucinations and error rates continue to improve to the point this can find a use in education -- answering questions at a museum, helping school kids outside of class, that kind of thing.
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    New color E Ink reMarkable tablet tries to catch up with—and leapfrog—Kindle Scribe

    Thank you for this review. E readers have to be some of my favorite future tech that just aren't quite "there" yet. Hopefully companies continue to improve the functionality.
  10. Tolos

    Thanks, Internet! It’s now shockingly easy to become an international monkey torturer.

    Hey I just realized the answer to the Fermi paradox.
  11. Tolos

    A few weeks with the Pocket 386, an early-‘90s-style, half-busted retro PC

    Thanks for doing these reviews, really enjoy reading about these retro projects about things I remember from long ago.
  12. Tolos

    Washing machine chime scandal shows how absurd YouTube copyright abuse can get

    I had a similar terrible experience with youtube. I created a short video of some custom math visualization software I wrote. I used a mostly ambient music track that I specifically chose because it was licensed for use in derivative works (CC BY 4.0). When I uploaded the video, youtube decided...
  13. Tolos

    On self-driving, Waymo is playing chess while Tesla plays checkers

    Thanks for the detailed analysis, the self driving articles are some of my favorite content on ars.
  14. Tolos

    Garry’s Mod is taking down 20 years’ worth of “Nintendo Stuff”

    er, that's not right at all. Fair use is a framework to say that you are not infringing copyright, and you have the legal right to do what you do. The rights holders would argue infringement, and your lawyers would argue about how the four factors apply to show you are not infringing copyright...
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    Squeezing science out of New Horizons as it heads out of the Solar System

    Alright, the paragraph this is from is confusing. Light intensity varies by inverse square law. Measuring brightness of distant stars falls off with square of the distance. More local objects, like KBO don't emit light though. We can only detect them if they block a known light source, or...
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    Perfect Dark finally gets the full-featured PC port it deserves

    There is a detailed level editor. It's a bit bulky and confusing, but you can change just about anything from the game. This is "Perfect Gold" aka "GoldeneyeEye Setup Editor" or the github project name "GoldEditor" hosted by carnivoroussociety (Carnivorous). There's tutorials and things about...
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    Google Domains halts registrations as it waits for the Google Grim Reaper

    I would recommend Gandi. They support having TOTP 2FA, as well as They even offer static IP login restrictions. They offer a lot more TLDs than Cloudflare. And way back when, when SOPA was threatening to destroy the internet, Gandi came out in opposition (along with Wikipedia, reddit, etc)...