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And all things end
All that we intend
is scrawled in sand
It slips right through our hand
And just knowing
That everything will end
Should not change our plan
Whеn we begin again

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Analog computers were also bulkier, had more mechanical complexity, and required higher power to operate and generated more heat as a consequence. The Heathkit EC-1 logic circuits operated at 0-100V. There are some real physics problems with scaling analog circuits up to higher complexity.

It’s highly unlikely that this thing would be able to operate without an Internet connection. There’s no way it would have enough compute power on board to do a significant amount of image recognition (find the socks, pick up the socks, find the laundry hamper, deposit the socks in the laundry hamper) or voice command processing.

I hate to disappoint but I am not some secret agent hiding a bunch of shit.

This is a very bad attitude to take towards your personal security, and part of the point I was trying to make is that there’s a very high chance that a device like this would have poorly secured software. When you look at incidents like the multiple Wyze security camera breaches, you have to expect that consumer security is always an afterthought for companies that make these kind of products. They will only start to care about it after something goes wrong and gets public attention (because it threatens sales), after which they will make a token effort to fix the problem (just enough to get a headline saying they did, so that it will stop hurting sales). So, don’t just think about the manufacturer/distributor having access to the surveillance data this thing will collect. Think about random people on the internet, a criminal with an interest in blackmailing people, or some random van driving by with a bunch of network gear on the back.

Get a robot to help around the house observe your daily schedule, your habits, your every movement, and upload video, audio, sonar, lidar and radar recordings to the cloud probably just an unesecured S3 bucket. And then use all that to profile you, sell you stuff, and send automatic reports to law enforcement about anything that triggers the AI as a possible indicator of criminal behavior.

Oh yeah, sign me right up for the corporate-controlled self-propelled surveillance platform. Maybe I’ll get two, so there’s never a gap in surveillance while one is recharging.

And if you think any of that sounds paranoid, you should be aware it’s already happening with robot vacuums:

A Roomba recorded a woman on the toilet. How did screenshots end up on Facebook?

While it’s vacuuming your dirt, Roomba also collects data on you: Next, it could be sold

No don’t you see - fewer employees means there’s less of anything getting done, and this company is just a parasite that produces nothing of value.

Ah, so removing employees from this dumpster fire was a net positive for society.

https://xkcd.com/977/

Twenty-two years later and still nothing really compares. I’ve played it through 5… 6?.. times and the characters still feel compelling.

I miss Westwood… everyone that came after only imitated their work, and while some have made improvements to the gameplay, none have really accomplished the same level of storytelling in the RTS genre.

Kind of a perfect game, one that keeps you coming back again and again.

This is an increasing problem and I’m not sure how the open source community is going to deal with it. It’s been a big problem with NPM packages and also Python libraries over the past five years. There’s a bunch of malicious typo-squatting stuff in many package repositories (say you want libcurl but you type libcrul, congratulations it’s probably there and it’ll probably install libcurl for you and bring a fun friend along).

Now with AI slop code getting submitted, it’s not really possible to check every new package upload. And who’s going to volunteer for that work?

There is no paradox.

Tolerance is a social contract.

If you abide by the terms of the contract (e.g. tolerance) then the contract applies to you and you are protected by it.

If you do not abide by the terms of the contract then it is broken, and you are not protected by the contract.

abandon ship

I totally agree on the pacing. The Red Strings Club is a masterclass of storytelling in a video game format.

I think it’s hard to describe as a game to gamers… the actual gameplay is pretty vague, the various minigame activities are almost inconsequential, but taken as a whole it’s a perfect experience.

I really enjoyed both Far games. I never felt like any of the puzzles were large enough to get tedious. When I finished Lone Sails I just wished there had been a longer section of driving the ship… it kind of felt like you never got to really go before there was some interruption that you had to stop and get out for.

Jazzpunk was one of those games that left me wishing there was more of it.

Manifold Garden is just such a perfectly executed atmosphere, it’s hard to do it justice with description - like walking around inside an Escher drawing.

Live for the adventure, not the grind:

Journey (if you play one game on this list it should be this one)

Far: Lone Sails and the sequel Changing Tides

Jazzpunk

Master Reboot

Manifold Garden

Sable

Fract OSC

Chants of Sennar

The Red Strings Club

The Stanley Parable

Rime

Superliminal

Naissancee

Soul Axiom

Contrast

It’s an embellishment on the above monkey’s paw comment, not actual technical information.

It doesn’t check dependencies.

You have 356 different copies of libcurl installed on your system.

Nginx, Apache and Lighttpd are all running in the background and collectively using the same port, somehow.

Wayland and X are both running with multiple sessions but none of them are on the default TTY.

every game is dark souls

Um, the core feature is privacy invasion. It does what it says on the tin.

It’s fine if some people want that functionality, as long as it’s not enabled by default.