Honestly it’s really easy to suss out someone’s political opinions if you just try a little bit

Disposable vapes, not vapes in general

Banning disposable vapes are just a strictly positive thing

A single AGI could be copied into a million copies near-instantly. That would be significant

Sure, but deadlock isn’t exactly late. And if there’s a time when you want to add more developers, then an alpha when the game is still in the early stages is the best time to do so

I mean, they’re not gonna stop developing deadlock once it comes out. It’s likely gonna be a decade long project at least. More hands won’t hurt.

Why would it never be easy? There’s no fundamental reason for why it can’t work as well as on windows, or any other operating system

It’s in closed beta right now

average person would be able to understand the MD5 checksum

Well, it ought to be just yet another skill in the modern world such as reading, critical thinking, media literacy, paying your taxes, etc. I think just saying “average person won’t understand this” is a bit of a cop out. Like, yes, you’re right, but there is no other way around this, it needs to be implemented as a core feature in social media, the verifications of origins.

This stuff isn’t just going to get better by itself. AI will only get better at faking as time goes on.

GregTech: New Horizons

:)

Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead and Dungeon Crawl Stone Soup are two examples off the top of my head. Traditional roguelikes are often open source.

Yee, you’re mot going to be hurt by open sourcing your game 5 or 10 years later. By that time practically nobody will buy your game anymore. And of the ones who still will,.they likely aren’t the ones that would even bother with looking for alternatives other than a big sale on a store page

But then, open sourcing adds to human culture, it lets others modify the game, or use it as a foundation for something new. And those things will credit you, and you will still get some extra benefit/good pr.

It’s just a good thing to do, imo.

The “extremes” here being “social justice” and “anti-social justice”

…I’m gonna side with the social justice side here.

Yeah, Mozilla is doing good work, and AI is here to stay. It’s all about making and using AI ethically.

Why would you be surprised? And why would 15$ for a book be too much?

Well, that’s the thing, it’s the core part of their entire business. The glue that sticks everything together. Or at least used to be until Azure.

To me it’s absurd how Microsoft gets beaten by a free desktop environment when windows is like their main product. They have billions of dollars. How do they manage to not do better?