They’re paying for Google too, but they’re using the credit card of their students’ privacy.

It might turn out we were better off without electricity, but we’ll never know because we have electricity.

It’s also getting to the point where some nerd with a lot of DDR5 can vibe code a complete replacement emulator from scratch in a few days on hardware running in their basement.

I get to use it 5% of the time (e: for $20/mo)

Oh no, my life savings (2 sticks of DDR5) will decrease in value.

One one hand, I’m glad Steam isn’t abusing their market position and treats customers well.

On the other hand, why are our rules and laws setup such that it is impossible to compete with a company which has a de-facto monopoly on a service.

Good. Make disclosure required but otherwise let the consumer decide.

Or the teachers who done teached to giving run on clauses in sentences which are used to form the basis of our point in writing the sentence for.

I think I have TTW on Epic, but I’ve tried Borderlands 2 and Destiny 2 and didn’t like them. Do you think I should still give it a go?

No, it’s Borderlands but with a Dungeons and Dragons/fantasy magic theme and slightly more over the top scaling than normal Borderlands. It was a COVID-era project that was a nice thing to have between Borderlands but Borderlands 3/4 are better Borderlands experiences for the time spent.

And, importantly, it’s not a decision that’s compelled by some sort of hierarchical power structure. Responsible disclosure rules exist to protect everyone who uses the software. Like FOSS it’s a system that benefits everyone which makes it worth participating in voluntarily.

Capitalism sometimes gives a cash prize as well, because of course they do.

This is true, self hosting doesn’t save you money. It is, in fact, more expensive and costs your time.

This is because modern technology isn’t sold to you as a product, it’s sold to you as a loss leader so that you use their products and let them spy on you so that they can sell that data to advertisers or anybody who can complete an ACH transfer.

Your options are

1. Use commercial services and sell your privacy in exchange for cheap consumer electronics which will be obsolete next year either by design or through engineered hardware failure.

2. Setup the services on your own devices and pay the cost in hardware and free time.

In one scenario you spend a bit more money, in the other scenario you don’t have privacy. Everyone gets to choose which is more important.

Given the comments, I think this is probably the most relevant quote from the project creator (my bolds):

This project was built with AI, and that is part of the point.

I am not a reverse engineer or a security engineer, and I did not come up through whatever field normally teaches this. Almost all of the code here was written by AI coding agents (Claude) that I direct: I decide what to try, think up the angle of attack or the workaround, and the AI implements it quickly and comes back with a result I can check. That loop (an idea, an implementation within the hour, a measurement that says whether it held) is what made a project of this size possible for one person.

What I take from it: the bar for entry has dropped a great deal. The creativity is still yours (which problem to solve, which trick might get around it, when a result is not good enough), but the distance between having the idea and seeing whether it works is now very short.

Two rules kept it honest: every claim has to come from a test or a measurement (this README says what was measured and what was not), and nothing derived from the game goes into the repository. It is a study project; expect rough edges, and mistakes that a specialist would not have made.

To add to this, it uses a shim vulkan layer to create a fake X11 window for the overlay to be drawn onto and sent inputs and then it translates that into Wayland.

It’s a neat hack.

Billionaire accused of coordinating with other billionaires to manipulate public opinion, coordinates with other billionaires to manipulate public opinion.

The team is not to use any more “hand-written code,”

Sweet, so if someone gets a copy of the source code then it is public domain as the output of AI is not copyrightable under current US case law.

FTL is a jewel

One day you’ll use Arch, btw

CachyOS

Arch

This is because, while EasyAntiCheat was installed previously, it wasn’t enforcing. So Linux clients could run because EAC wasn’t kicking anybody.

In Early Access, EAC will be enforcing because it is one of the systems they want to test at scale.

As it stands now WARDOGS plans on adding EAC Linux support but it isn’t ready for the playtest. So once EAC is enabled, without a valid Linux client, it will kick Linux users.

This is just more of a ‘This is currently Beta/Early Access’ thing than a ‘WARDOGS hates Linux’ thing.

Saying he ‘made a donation’ is downplaying his role. It makes it sound like he’s just some guy doing what everyone else does to participate in politics…

The 2025 donation accounted for 72% of the party’s total income last year. … According to data collected by DonationWatch, 2025 was the most lucrative year in the party’s history, netting a total of 5.58 million SEK. For comparison, the party received just 202,000 SEK in total donations throughout 2024.

Just the annual interest on his donation is more that all of their other donations for the entire year combined.

He didn’t just make a donation, he is practically their sole source of financing.