wizardbeard

Most AI agents don't have that level of access to the systems they are running on. What purpose would anyone have to teach it how to dowload a repo, let alone allow it to arbitrarily run excutables based off input data (distinctly not instructions)?

There are ways to break out of the input data context and issue commands, but you've been watching too many movies. Better to just do things like hide links to a page only a bot would find and auto block anything that requests the hidden page.

Um... they are, and have been for almost 20 years, since the Wii. Or the N64 depending on how you look at it.

What did you think Virtual Console was? How about the NES and SNES mini? What about the "Nintendo Game Pass" or whatever they're calling it?

Animal Crossing's original Japan release had NES games in it, and so did the GC rerelease/psuedosequel we got internationally too.

Even better: During the Wii era, the Wiis at the Nintendo Store in New York City ran official Nintendo made software to load games off a connected hard drive, so you could play multiple of their new releases without workers having to switch discs.

It has always been about attempts to prevent piracy and keep control over how people access their games for Nintendo, and they are roughly 10 years behind the curve on modern tech trends.

Either stop supporting them or get used to it.

Oh, you fool. Christians are part of the body of Christ, and communion involves eating of the body of Christ, and communion is entering into a convenant as a living member of the body of Christ...

Don't eat the Christians. That's how it spreads.

What's fun to note is that there are supposedly legitimate ways to use this concept for personal gain, such as creating yourself an LLC and then contracting yourself out as a contractor to do work. Weird as hell, but supposedly has some benefits in the tech world.

All supposedly. Don't know anyone personally who has done this, but have heard the idea brought up multiple times over the years in slightly more reputable online spaces than sovcit-book.

Contibute to the Stardew community here, it's quiet and could use the content

If they do, they have never mentioned it over a fairly long course of posting "everything sucks" and not accepting any advice. Check their posting history.

This may seems harsh, but I reccommend people take a look at platypus's profile (the person ninemiletower is calling out).

They are 35 years old, have posted a lot of this sort of stuff, and have not actually mentioned any physical issue or disabilities over the course of their very public pity party.

Hoping this gives the DS romhacking side a good kick in the pants. It's amazing what the community has done with R/S/E, but I'd love to see what they can get up to with fewer hardware limitations (while not going the full PC fangame route)

Is there any meaningful difference if it's an illusion? We experience existence as if it does exist.

This buries the lede quite a bit.

Mullenweg effectively runs both the non-profit organization Wordpress.org and is the CEO of Automattic, a for profit conpany that sells support for Wordpress (and a direct competitor to WPEngine).

A large part of Wordpress functionality is kept behind an Automattic plugin that forces any Wordpress site using it to collect telemetry/data for Automattic.

The update servers for Wordpress plugins are hardcoded to use Automattic's servers, and this is not configurable or changable unless you modify the Wordpress source code itself.

With Mullenweg's position over both the non-profit org and Automattic, he has direct control over these choices. If he's doing this for the sake of open source, why is he gating things that should be core functionality behind a data collection scheme? If there are problems with load on the update servers, why has no effort been made to allow the community to host update servers themselves that check update hashes against Automattic? That would significantly reduce the load on the for-profit resources (that you called APIs). At the very least, the setting needs to be something exposed to the user and configurable without modifying the source code. Otherwise he's complaining about a problem he has created.

It's also worth noting that at no point has Mullenweg tried to set up any sort of free vs paid tier of access to his update servers. This is a specifically targeted campaign. He has also not publically provided evidence of the increased load by WPEngine despite publically shooting off about a ton of other things that would be best saved for the courtroom.

Mullenweg has also publicly stated some very questionable things about how the resources of the non-profit and his for-profit are intermingled, which may have some legal repurcussions. But that's more of a footnote.

Wordpress's license makes explicit exception to copyright to allow anyone to use "WordPress" or "WP".

The initial reasoning (and I believe the lawsuit) for Mullenweg's attempt to claim 8% of all WPEngine profit, is explicitly based on the claim that they are breaching copyright due to their use of "WP".

So while I agree that lack of upstream contribution and the amount of load on the upgrade servers are important and valid reasons to try and seek some contribution, that is not the angle he took to start this.

At one point during all of this, he switched off the WordPress plugin update servers for all users with no warning.

Now he's done a direct hostile takeover of his competitor's plugin. Of the two security issues, WPEngine disclosed both of them themselves and had already fixed one. There was no evidence that they were going to stop and not fix the other, and the issue is of questionable severity. The main change Automattic did to the plugin was to remove the code that checked for an upgraded/upsold license, effectively cracking the plugin to offer paid features for free.

With the long history of WordPress, I find it incredibly hard to believe that there are not a considerable number of other plugins containing upsells, so the implication that those somehow are in violation of terms is weak.

In my opinion, we have someone in the perfect position to make changes to ensure the upgrade server load (the only quantifiable reason for all this mess) never would have been able to be a problem in the first place. He has singled out the largest competitor to his own for-profit company and targeted them specifically instead of announcing blanket changes that would apply to anyone causing their level of load on his systems. He has taken incredibly poorly thought out and reactionary steps intended to spank his competitor that have had far larger negative effects for the rest of his users and customers. He has and continues to make very piblic statements that any sane lawyer would tell him to keep his fucking mouth shut about. Now he has once again singled out his largest competitor, taken one of their paid products, and modified it to be free rather than creating his own implementation with the problems fixed and no upsells.

Matt Mullenweg has not done anything explicitly evil, wrong, or super obviously illegal. But he's doing a hell of a lot of very concerning and questionable things when he had every opportunity to prevent any of this from ever being a problem in the first place.

I have no love for WPEngine, but Matt isn't a saint and is ridiculously mismanaging all of this.

Please stop sticking your dick down the seat post hole.

Something I love about old PC games is that the files usually aren't protected or some proprietary format. I'd expect stuff like the textures and sound files are right there for you to mess with for humorous results.