I feel that in all the controversy with google Gemini, we've lost sight of the fact that they've invented a hilarious sitcom character. This is the first really good AI joke, no? Imagine a moment in a plot where a character is so concerned with representation and diversity that they make diverse Nazis. I wish I'd come up with that.
#Unity seems to claiming
https://unity.com/pricing-updates
that they will be able to differentiate between legitimate installations and pirated installations. I find this hard to believe because if it is true, it would surely make more sense to me to sell that capability as an expensive premium feature.
From @lumpley—Powered by the Apocalypse, Part 9: That’s What’s Happening https://lumpley.games/2023/07/17/powered-by-the-apocalypse-part-9-thats-whats-happening/ #PbtA
God, I don't know. I've always believed artists have to go where the audience is, but I never felt like a trained sealed as much as I have this last year. I guess we're just going to leap into the artist-shaped hole Threads opened up, make ironic jokes as we do so, and then just keep getting smaller and smaller and smaller.
Thank God there are still people who buy books.
What a gaffe! There's an ad for Desantis that appears to compare him to Achilles, apparently forgetting that the wrath of the son of Peleus' was the direful spring of all the Grecian woes! #gaffe
Can someone explain to me why #Reddit can’t just forcibly reopen the subreddits that have gone private in protest?
So I've been on @qoto.org for a while now, does anyone know what a very long post looks like to people outside the qoto instance? Can they still see the whole post? Does it get cut off?
So with all this #reddit stuff, here's question:
Reddit had almost 2 decades to figure out how to monetize it's platform in a way that didn't fundamentally destroy its value. Apparently they still haven't managed it.
So in light of the #fediverse, maybe it's just the case that the reddit 'model' never could have succeeded as a profit driven company, since it's so unusually reliant on volunteer run and moderated communities that seem to be at odds with a larger changes toward profit for the platform.
Gigabyte been selling motherboard with hidden backdoors that can download and execute software, more than 270 models affected https://www.wired.com/story/gigabyte-motherboard-firmware-backdoor/
New FTC proposal aims to ban non-compete clauses for all US workers:
I haven’t been checking socials much again, but my friend’s ( the cool @AllBetsAreOff ) Christmas gift finally came in, which was braille DND dice and I’m TEARING UP
As a follow-up to my last (weirdly popular) toot: Here's a wonderful write-up by the one and only @AlanZucconi on how #Minecraft generates its worlds.
https://www.alanzucconi.com/2022/06/05/minecraft-world-generation/
#procgen #gamedev