PlayStation's Classics Are Quietly Making a Comeback, And It's About Time
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    Some of these could use "Nightdive" treatment like TimeSplitters trilogy.

    Simple a PC version of the game with support for latest hardware and operating systems and support for LAN or self hostable multiplayer would give these games new life among people not interested in modern multiplayer games.

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  • Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
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    Well since they were/are hosting Mastodon instance they do seem to have some interest in the fediverse. They do also have official plugins.

    Personally I feel something like this could be the next step for social link aggregation and discussion platforms. Being able to share and discuss on about videos and articles without having to register to dozens or more pages while also having some control over the people you interract with through instances, subscribed communities etc.

    Source media would also be unable to control what can or cannot be discussed. Many youtube videos and news articles for example may block all comments. It would be up to community on how to moderate discussion.

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  • Mozilla is shutting down their Mastodon instance.
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    Lemmy support would be much more fitting for Mozilla. They could add plugin or lemmy integration to their browser that could show discussions from subscribed communities matching the current url.

    Effectively acting as a "comment section" but for any page. One would only need lemmy account to comment on youtube videos, news articles, blogs etc.

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  • Random Zelda Fan Project Turns 'A Link To The Past' Into Roguelike Dungeon Crawler | Time Extension
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    If you want to make a fan game, make spiritual sequel instead.

    Nintendo can't do much about games that are very similar to Mario, Zelda or Pokemon for as long as they do not copy any assets, (some) names or levels from those games. Based on the videos the main character is unique but most if not all the other art assets are direct copies from the original game.

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  • Billionaire Larry Ellison says a vast AI-fueled surveillance system can ensure 'citizens will be on their best behavior'
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    It's all fun and games until said system is used against you either by hackers, insider with mallicious intent or the goverment.
    Albeit said A.I systems could also be used to get rid of billionares by simply exposing tax loopholes, tracking illegal transactions and by finding answers from any leaked data which will be more plentiful when such systems gets in to place.

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  • FBI: Trump target of apparent assassination attempt in Florida
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    Well JD Vance did say gun violence is just "Fact of Life” that we just “Have to Get Over” so surely the republicans understand this.

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  • Laura Loomer: Who is conspiracy theorist travelling with Trump?
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    Reminds me of Melisandre from Game of Thrones tv-series (havent read the books).
    Red haired witch that acts as kings counselor.

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  • Why the Linux ecosystem cannot be considered "standardized", unlike Windows and Mac?
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    Mentioned Ubuntu since its backed by Canocial and fairly popular desktop distro. Mentioned Fedora instead of RHEL because RHEL is mostly used for servers and maybe in schools or high security environments.

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  • Why the Linux ecosystem cannot be considered "standardized", unlike Windows and Mac?
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    You could consider Ubuntu, Red Hat Linux and Oracle Linux to be about as standardized as Windows or Mac. These distributions are usually what larger enterprises use for servers and sometimes for software development, IT operations etc. These are about as standardized things get in the linux world.

    Now when it comes to using Linux as daily driver there are so many options out there and none of the distributions have really yet hit the mainstream. For my understanding it's been long been battle between Ubuntu and Fedora with their derivatives but with SteamOS using Arch Linux would not be surprised if some sort of Arch based distribution with maximum Proton combatibility would gain popularity.

    Arch itself seems too minimal to be considered as "standardized" operating system.

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  • Is it illegal to download things that aren't meant to be downloaded?
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    According to the big tech its ok if you're training large language model with it.

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  • Amazon cloud boss echoes NVIDIA CEO on coding being dead in the water: "If you go forward 24 months from now, it's possible that most developers are not coding"
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    As software developer I am not scared that A.I will take away our jobs. What I am scared is that at that point A.I good enough to do most jobs out there.

    All it really needs to do is replace large chunk of the service industry to wreck massive havock in our society.

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  • How AI’s booms and busts are a distraction
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    The thing is that generative A.I is not really a new thing, secondly the question is not whether the technology will be transformative rather than if the investors can be patient enough to see that.

    When it comes to AGI generative A.I is probably part of it but I would guess we need breakthrough or two from other areas as well which could happen in next 5 years or take a decade or two.

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  • Giant FAQ on The European Initiative to Stop Destroying Games!
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    Signed this few days a go.

    Many games already do this and I would like to give honorary mention to NeocoreGames who have done this to their Van Helsing and most recently with Warhammer Inquisitor. Latter one just recently got offline support with all past seasons playable.

    I dont think its unreasonable to require even live services or mmos to have robust end-of-life plan that quarantees customers that the game will remain playable in some form or another.

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  • Was super excited to see the 5.0 changes. Until I discovered my long time base is completely ruined and our 'home' system planets have changed.
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    They likely just have one algorithm that uses seed based on star systems id or location. This way the planets are the same for everyone and they only need to store data based on player interractions like bases and discoveries.

    Due to this the changes can't be applied to just "selected" planets. Separate dimensions might be possible as they already have similar systems in place for expeditions and galaxies. These could however confuse returning players looking for new content.

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  • Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
  • Vipsu Vipsu Now 85%

    Keep in mind that during the US Presidential Election of 2016 Assange had already spent 3~ years living in the Embassy of Ecuador in London. Add in how the United states wanted him extradited to serve potentially life in prison and was probably using all sorts of surveilance and information gathering methods against him and wikileaks to prevent and mitigate any future leaks.

    Now when you're facing an opponent known for its power to assasinate world leaders and powerful political figures, power to spy, hack and survey even their close allies for years, influence other goverments and politicians through blackmail, extortion and economic means you're bound to get a bit stressed and go a bit paranoid. When it comes to Russia the oppinions towards them where a lot more favorable in 2010-2022 as most of Europe wanted to keep access to affordable oil and gas. Meanwhile Anti-imperialist sentiment against US was probably at it's alltime high with the War in Afghanistan and Libya.

    Wikileaks was never really a beacon of free speech its always been more of a platform where people can leak information about goverments and other powerful individuals or organizations doing bunch of shady or downright evil stuff behind our back. These often offer rare glimpse behind the scenes allowing us to be little less blind when voting during whathever election comes next.

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  • Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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    Hopefully he can safely return to his home country and take a long deserved rest from this all.
    It'll probably take a decade or more to recover mentally from all the shit he has gone through.

    I just hope he takes his time to recover and passes the wikileaks torch as all the accumulated resentment and paranoia will probably take a while to shed off. Going all out on anti-american frenzy on social media and whatnot would likely lead to undesirable outcome for him in public eye.

    I’m wondering if it was worth the sacrifice. The governments and tech companies are spying more than ever on everyone.

    Snowden revelations and Wikileaks have made E2EE pretty much a standard for most internet services. People are also far less naive when it comes to online privacy which has spawned bunch of regulations like GDPR and bunch of investigations on how well services and products handle information security.

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  • Julian Assange has reached a plea deal with the U.S., allowing him to go free
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    Assange is a citizen of Australia and since The United States is known for spying on its allies the act of exposing US informants would be closer to serving ones own country than act of treason.

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  • Thoughts on the self promotion rules that many Reddit subs have?
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    With hundreds of games, updates, dlc, mods, merchandice, videos and streams appearing each passing day gaming communities would get flooded by spam if no such rules would be in place. If you want to advertise on a commercial platform then you should do so through official channels.

    Generally lemmy and reddit communities favor more organic content like for example solo game developer could ask for a feedback on piece of art of game mechanic they've implemented to their game in gamedev related communities. They could also participate to community events like screenshots saturday, share your progress friday or anything similar.

    Now /r/gaming and /r/pcgaming are probably huge communities that are mostly about discussing gaming news, articles and just general topics around gaming. These communities are probably hard to moderate as is and allowing people to self promote there could lead to flood of indie or mobile game ads, streamers and youtubers trying to get more views for their vods or streams, etc which could really annoy the community.

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  • Kiinalaisille sähkö­autoille ~~paljastetaan~~ paljastettiin tänään mojovat tullit, mikä voi aloittaa kauppa­sodan
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    Vaikka näillä suojellaan varmaan lähinnä Eurooppalaisia autovalmistajia, niin ihan hyvä ettei nyt anneta Kiinan vapaasti temmeltää euroopan markkinoilla samalla kun säätelevät omia sisämarkkinoitaan hyvinkin tarkasti.

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  • Dragon Age: The Veilguard | Official Gameplay Reveal
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    They've probably spend a lot of budget to make the combat in this game this fluid. However as a side effect the game has become even more of an action game with leveling and loot shoveled in than before. I just hope Bioware can pull off at least some level of build diversity with different classes, skills, items and abilities so that there will be at least some depth with character progression.

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    En kyllä ihmettelisi jos väkivalta ja kaikenlainen ilkivalta kaiken maailman päättäjiä ja poliitikkoja kohtaan yleistyisi myös Suomessa. Ihmiset jotka kokevat jääneensä yhteiskunnan ulkopuolelle voivat jopa ajatella olevansa oikeutettuja rikkomaan yhteisiä pelisääntöjä. Tälläiset henkilöt ovat myös alttiimpia salaliittoteorioille, populismille ja radikaaleille aatteille koska nämä usein antavat (yleensä valheellisen tai liiallisesti yksinkertaistetun) syyn jos toisenkin heidän ongelmilleen. Päättäjien kannattaisi seurata tilannetta [Saksassa](https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/why-german-politicians-are-facing-growing-violence-2024-05-10/) ja ehkä vähän varautua ainakin ajaessa vahvasti aatteellista / polarisoivaa politiikkaa tai puhdasta rakenteellista väkivaltaa.

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    yle.fi

    Kiinnostus maksaa näille yrityksille sosiaalisen median käytöstä lähentelee kyllä aika tavalla nollaa. Mastodon ja Lemmy instanssien ja kehityksen tukeminen kuulostaa siinä vaiheessa aika paljon paremmalta ajatukselta. Monet julkiset organisaatiot voisivat kyllä siirtyä fediverseen ja vaikka pystyttää omat instanssit. Ei tarvitsisi katsella Twitter tai facebook linkkejä pysyäkseen kärryillä tapahtumista tai ilmoituksista.

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    yle.fi

    Nähtävästi sään ääri-ilmiöihin valmistautumisessa on vielä melko paljon petrattavaa pääkaupunkiseudulla.

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