Wildmimic

and do what then? If you prevent games from running on linux, it means that piracy is the only viable way of playing them, leading to mass proliferaton of bypass techniques.

Support for Linux has to be implemented in the cracks themselves too, though I did read that DenuvOwO (de facto THE hypervisor cracking team) is backporting support to all previous releases :D.

main issue is that the HV bypasses actually checked if the HV is active - that check fails on linux and is currently being removed

This might change tho. The current push for digital autonomy by the EU is creating a pretty large movement towards open source and Linux in many countries. Sure, it’s not an overwhelming amount of machines simply dropping windows, but it increases the amount of Linux and OSS software in government and attached business by a significant share of the market, creating a pull effect.

This might be what makes other businesses move away from Microsoft in the long run. Being able to say that the data you store is safe from US government agencies simply because you aren’t attached to them anymore might be a plus in the current - and even more in future - markets.

It’s similar to what happened in the server space. Everything was IIS, until it wasn’t because OSS became the thing to use. These days MS rents out Linux servers.

Edit: this doesn’t mean that we won’t be stuck with Windows legacy stuff for the next decades tho :-(

Damn, i was too slow to see the post lol I loved playing Simtower :-)

I know. They are very tragic figures.

2B and 9S are my spirit animal.

Very much more socialist, thank you. Socialists wouldn’t let the bartender cover their tab, they would ask how the bartender might get more of the tab than the scraps he gets thrown by the owner.

Come on, UK! I expected more of you! The whole world is waiting for you to continue to catapult yourself back into the bronze age, and this decision is simply cheating because someone at OFCOM realized how FUCKING STUPID all of this is and wanted to keep Wikipedia around.

Stop cheating, get back to bronzeagemaxxing lads!

For estimates you can subtract about 10% of max wattage per year the PSU has been running, which is a pessimistic take but possible depending on quality of the PSU. I am astounded you can run a stress test without crashing.

The thing i am hyped here for is Arcane possibly going independent. This was never a studio for being confined to the hard structure of a company like Microsoft or Bethesda, who put monetization first.

I really hope we get a revival of a studio thats comparable to “Through the looking Glass” out of this. Nowadays they have probably more options of being profitable, when i look at projects like witchfire.

Its a bit like instead of nationalism abusing religion, its religion abusing nationalsim… same same

I was thinking specifically about the abrahamic religions when writing that. There are many religious organizations in that space that really stand by the words “love thy neighbor”, and even if i think that religious belief is akin to a psychosis, i can appreciate those that try to reduce barriers and be there for vulnerable people.

I agree - their approach towards the rest of the world is so very entitled that no person outside of that state can take them seriously anymore. It’s like they think that the world owes them something, while in reality the Brits have a pretty large amount of atonement in their todo list.

Every religion has their enemy laid out in scripture; It’s important to see that even if there are “enemies” defined in a religious movement, that all of those people still have the option of living the pacifist variant of their religion.

I personally am an atheist, but i am able to see that there are many religious movements out there that substantially improve the life of people. I - sadly - recognize that the moment you mix religion with nationalism you achieve a mindset where everything that isn’t according to the most hardline shit in your scripture becomes heresy. I simply postulate that theologians free of nationalist impulses tend to be a much more positive influence on society.

I personally am an atheist. from what i have seen in my life, i have formed the opinion that people living their religion with the intent of being good are actually not harming someone, but are strengthening communities. I sadly have to agree that there are sooooo many people out there using religion as an excuse to abuse and murder.

It’s the same with islam or christianity. if you want to use it to make your world better, you will probably focus on the part where you welcome your neighbor and support your community - many religious communities act this way. But the moment where you start othering people using religion, you aren’t really following your belief anymore, you are using it as a weapon; and if you mix it with a nationalist movement, you get shit like the Zionists or ISIS.

Will the Brits realize that the times when they were a world spanning empire are over before they are the laughing stock of the rest of the civilized world?

If they were actual theologians and not zionists abusing their religion as a cudgel, they wouldn’t be genocidal maniacs. Judaism itself is pretty staunchly against being a murderous bastard.

I’m late GenX, i have a wallet lying around, but it doesn’t leave home if it isn’t specifically needed. Most of the time my phone is enough.

If you are suggesting that LLMs are sentient, then this isn’t a “mild disagreement”, it’s the San Andreas fault.

I am certain that LLMs are a step into the direction of AGI, but it’s a small piece of the puzzle. There are so many technological leaps that have to happen before AGI can become real that I am certain that neither of us will see that day.

If you have such an open mind, then please also read the paper they released, which is a lot more careful in how all of this is framed. This article is here to drive VC funding, not for scientific accuracy, and this is not the first time Anthropic has framed things in a sensationalist way that had no basis in the reality of the paper. (the blackmail-thing for example.)

You think those companies have any shred of decency? Even if they could prove without a doubt that these statistical models are more than just that - that wouldn’t change a thing in how they were used. We can’t even agree that all humans should have the same amount of rights - how do you think an sentient program would fare?

And regarding the global economy: the only “global economy” thing i can see at the moment is a group of companies that are overvalued because of circular cash flows and artificial hype that stems from an assumption that LLMs can somehow become AGI, which would inflate the value of those companies into infinity. We are currently not even able to measure a ROI for these things, and companies worldwide are pulling emergency breaks in usage because of the costs, which are not even covering what the inference itself costs. The only “Global” thing here will be the crash, fucking up the DIY PC market for a decade or longer.