ImplyingImplications

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[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 38 points 2 months ago (2 children)

why not make everything (instance).com?

The cost of a (word).com domain can be tens of thousands of dollars if nobody owns it to millions of dollars if someone does. The cost of a (word).social domain is like $10.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago (6 children)

What is there not to trust? There are lots of disassemblers for binary files. Ghidra just comes with tools to make analyzing the resulting assembly code easier by doing things like graphing the jumps in code, allowing the user to give custom names to variables and functions, and attempting to convert the assembly into C code.

It would make sense that the NSA spends a lot of time reverse engineering programs. Not all hackers share their exploits publically, so one way to find unpublished exploits is by reverse engineering viruses and malware to find out what vulnerabilities are being exploited.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 7 points 2 months ago

I always enjoy how these guides always warn about guys and girls being alone together but never mention two guys take a break from studying together if they become aroused. I guess that's still allowed!

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca -1 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Writing code is probably one of the few things LLMs actually excell at. Few people want to program something nobody has ever done before. Most people are just reimplimenting the same things over and over with small modifications for their use case. If imports of generic code someone else wrote make up 90% of your project, what's the difference in getting an LLM to write 90% of your code?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

"Peter Molyneux delivers God"

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 18 points 2 months ago (1 children)

It's also incredibly dishonest to say the right to mine land is separate from the right to own it.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 20 points 2 months ago

Racism and bigotry aren't logical positions, but emotional ones. People have an emotional need to be part of a group and feel included. If the group a person joins is antagonistic towards other groups then the person will internalize that and become bigoted. The dislike of other groups becomes a part of their identity and belonging.

The documentary Behind The Curve illustrates this pretty effectively. They follow some flat eathers around and interview them and they all say the same thing. They love being a part of the group. They didn't have a group before and now they do. Their beliefs keep the group together and they're not going to get rid of them just because the beliefs can be proven to be wrong.

The desire to be a part of a group is strong enough that people will believe anything as long as it gets them some friends. There isn't anything wrong with that unless the beliefs of the group are harmful and hateful.

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Control of the server is the DRM. Radical Heights sold hats for $15. How do they ensure only players who paid for hats get them and that non-paying players couldn't just mod them in? They control that information on the server. Which accounts have cosmetics is controlled by the server. That's the DRM. If they had to release the server when shutting down then they'd have no way to ensure only paying customers play the game since the person who runs the sever can modify it however they want. Everyone could get the $15 hats for free! Or maybe they charge $2 for the hats. There's no DRM that could prevent this because control of the server is itself the DRM.

So a dev is being required by law to give out their game without any DRM meaning anyone can play it for free and even give themselves the cosmetics the original devs were using to pay the salaries of the dev team. I worry very much that this would cause companies to stop producing free to play games or charge a subscription for these types of games instead (since subscription based games would be exempt). I wonder why people would risk this to "save" games like Radical Heights which, in all likelihood, would have no community. A game doesn't shutdown after 1 month because it has a thriving community

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (3 children)

that's not my job to figure out.

So you want people to follow a law without knowing how it should be followed? You signed a petition and now it's someone else's problem if they get in legal trouble or not? This makes the world a better place because it protects theoretical people?

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

How would access be enforced to only paying customers? That would require a server which the company is shutting down

[–] ImplyingImplications@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 months ago (7 children)

So the devs give all the founders an empty map they can run around offline in and that fixes everything? The game hasn't been killed? It's been saved?

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