I think it's a pretty reasonable wish for more macOS + Apple Silicon support of games, including more native FEX & Proton ARM support within the steam client. (We're lucky Steam works, it's a better games client than the Mac App Store dreams to be, but that's also not saying much either.)
I’ve been following this game on twitter, and I’m probably going to lose my entire weekend to playing it. We need more sweaty simulators like this—the genre doesn’t have enough entries.
Is this not going too far? It's a pretty weak "let's save the kids argument" that only serves to improve mass-surveillance outside of the argument presented. Like, this is the advent of strong thought policing and thought monitoring over the wires—oh no, you can't use a VPN because it's bad for "the kids"!
I don't think anybody thinks this has anything to do with child safety. It's not a coincidence that the UK, US and the EU, all working on implementing similar surveillance and censorship regimes. The platforms will develop the infrastructure, similar to the GFoC just privatized. The legacy media lost all influence with younger generations, just look at what the vast majority of young people think of Israel now. If the media can't fulfill its role anymore they need a big stick.
In the UK, most of our elected MPs are idiots. I cannot imagine they're anywhere near intelligent enough to be part of some sophisticated conspiracy while on the face of it saying "save the children". So it can't be coming from the MPs. If this is all a cover for full government control, where is it coming from? Who is doing the push and how are they keeping it secret?
Oppression doesn't necessarily have to be deliberately planned by brilliant villains in secret smoky rooms, twirling their mustaches and conspiring against the public. It can easily emerge organically out of hundreds of tiny, stupid decisions made by stupid people.
You can be malicious and incompetent. The only reason we know about project mkultra was because parts of the project were misfiled in the wrong place and were stumbled upon by accident.
You don't have to invoke some sort of conspiracy, the western liberal world is deeply interconnected and its all in the open, you just never hear about any of it. Nothing is secret, they don't have to hide anything there is nobody that would tell anyone. You also shouldn't make the mistake to separate or governments from private interests, they are identical that's the whole problem to begin with.
In 2021 the WEF launched the Global Coalition for Digital "Safety" [1] it includes Google, Meta, Interpol, and any neoliberal goul you can imagine. The push for universal digital identity cards is much older ofc. like (eIDAS 2.0) in the EU [2]
Meta and TikTok already developed AI based age estimation tools into their platforms, then lobby to have have laws passed accordingly. See this from 2023 [3]
There are also companies that offer these sorts of services pushing legislation, how else are they gonna justify their hundreds of millions in valuation? (Like yoti [4] or Clearview ai [5])
I think this is an example of above average but not great AI writing. I still read it to the end because the subject is interesting and there is enough focus (and, seemingly) expertise on the topic.
I think the telltale for me that makes me count as heavily AI-assisted is the lack of inclusion of real, inline examples of actual fares & their restrictions. I know I've seen them broken down before in other content. But not once here was there a full readout of an actual fare bucket & its rules. I think a human writer would have been tempted to include even one of those as an artifact, but an AI as a topic reviewer/summarizer/collator won't unless explicitly instructed.
It seems like this new PNG spec just cements what exists already, great! The best codecs are the ones that work on everything. PNG and JPEG work everywhere, reliably.
Try opening a HEIC or AV1 or something on a machine that doesn't natively support it down to the OS-level, and you're in for a bad time. This stuff needs to work everywhere—in every app, in the OS shell for quick-looking at files, in APIs, on Linux, etc. If a codec does not function at that level, it is not functional for wider use and should not be a default for any platform.
I work with a LOT of images in a lot of image formats, many including extremely niche formats used in specific fields. There is a massive challenge in really supporting all of these, especially when you get down to the fact that some specs are a little looser than others. Even libraries can be very rough, since sure it says on the tin it supports JPG and TIF and HEIC... but does it support a 30GB Jpeg? Does it support all possibly meta data in the file?
Prototype is not a charitable interpretation of the product. If you've been part of hardware, firmware, and software development processes, you'd really truly understand what prototypes are.
I think the point of BlastDoor, as covered in the post, is that Apple is indeed working to prevent injection at the cost of silently failing & poorly handling legitimate messages.
> By being pedantic about the formatting, BlastDoor is protecting the recipient from an exploit that would abuse that type of issue.
So, not impossible, but less likely than you think
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