Loot boxes are far more predatory than gambling. They are literally advertised in games that children play.

It’s the same as fighting against “fake news” which just creates a false trust that everything on the internet is truth. Which is the opposite of what one should believe.

Many European age verification services can verify the age without giving them any data. It works like OAuth. You get redirect to a portal where you login with your citizen ID and you’ll get redirected back to the website.

How it would work in practice is still too soon to say. Maybe they’ll also share other details such as your name or citizen id number to make sure you can only have a single account on the website. I wouldn’t want this either.

Keep in mind that all kinds of age verification like this just shifts a lot of porn into the underground and will increase identity fraud. The illegal sale of hacked verified porn accounts will also become as valuable as porn accounts on paid websites.

This.

They also have a form to submit AI crawlers.

CloudFlare can also easily maintain an anti AI crawler service completely by itself if it takes a fee on top of their pay per crawl functionality. However, considering CloudFlare already has all the tools and infrastructure to do this cheaply, providing a good service wouldn’t be too hard.

That is depressingly insightful. See also: the internal war on everyone who isn’t a middle-aged white cis het man (and even some of them, too). Just negativity all around.

Yes. Separating the people is an extremely strong tool in the authoritarian handbook. It is such a strong tool that the things it accomplishes are too much to list here. There are a lot of books on the matter. I think it’s even explained in some of the CIA books.

What really brings me down it’s the certainty that even if that is guy was suddenly not there anymore, there is a whole gaggle of like folk ready to continue that same rhetoric. How do you even dig yourselves out of that?

This is not completely correct. People fighting back against their oppressors sends an extremely strong message. And it even goes both way. For example, the attack on the USA Capitol of January 6th gave these Magazis a lot of power because they saw unity in their oppression.

The good thing is that there’s always more good people than bad.

That’s impossible. “Make America Great Again” is a slogan that he can only abuse as long as there are problems. If he wants to stay in power it’s in his best interest to create problems. It’s what fascists dictators have been doing since forever. Even if there are no problems they will point towards something and make you think it is a problem, so they can market themselves as the solution. If he would “win” he would lose his power, which is obviously the opposite of what somebody like Trump wants.

Cooked al dente?

Aren’t you a tiny blob of typography and biomass yourself?

Like any proud parent would do.

I guess the trick is to not look for stuff to host because you’ll end up with all kinds of things you weren’t doing in the first place.

Great. I always wanted a premium 911 subscription. If the lines are full it just disconnects somebody and connects me instead.

19.99/month for an operator with a decent microphone.

79.99/month for 2 operators at the same time.

Bots were a big reason why I didn’t continue playing Naraka. A battle royale that has bots is just awful. I’d rather have long queues than a BR lobby with a handful of people.

I’m saying blackhat hackers can make far more money off the exploit by itself. I’ve seen far worse techniques being used to sell services for hundreds of dollars and the people behind those are making thousands. An example is the slow bruteforcing of blocked words on YouTube channel as they might have blocked their name, phone number, or address.

What you’re talking about is playing both sides, and that is just not worth doing for multiple reasons. It’s very obvious when somebody is doing that. People don’t just find the same exploit at the same time in years old software.

In all fairness. Machine learning in chess engines is actually pretty strong.

AlphaZero was developed by the artificial intelligence and research company DeepMind, which was acquired by Google. It is a computer program that reached a virtually unthinkable level of play using only reinforcement learning and self-play in order to train its neural networks. In other words, it was only given the rules of the game and then played against itself many millions of times (44 million games in the first nine hours, according to DeepMind).

https://www.chess.com/terms/alphazero-chess-engine

Chances that such an old exploit get found at the same time by a whitehat and a blackhat are very small. It would be hard not to be suspicious.

$5,000

This is like 1/10th of what a good blackhat hacker would have gotten out of it.

Well it’s a 70 times improvement so the developer gets a 70 times bonus. Or at least all the money that would be wasted without this fix.

Or is the world unfair and are developers nowadays just cogs in a capitalistic machine?

Would speed up crosswalks a lot too. Whenever I cross a crosswalk with my dog I don’t want to risk me misjudging the braking of cars so I tend to really wait until I’m sure they’re stopping.

At least we know vibe coders will eventually destroy themselves.

Because Plex used to be good but new it’s just pure enshitification.