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No free market invisible hand here.
I don't want a Steam replacement. I just want it to go away.
Gamespy was better.
> The main reason I said to avoid Session, all those months ago, was simply due to their decision to remove forward secrecy
I often see this complaint. But it seems to me that, since Session allows users to generate a new private key arbitrarily on the device (and without even associating it with a phone number on a central server) it benefits less from the feature.
> Forward secrecy protects past sessions against future compromises of keys or passwords. By generating a unique session key for every session a user initiates, the compromise of a single session key will not affect any data other than that exchanged in the specific session protected by that particular key.[0]
It is like someone who loses repeatedly at Roshambo while saying: "Okay, then. Best two out of three- three out of five- four out of seven- five out of nine..."
[0] https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/30/business/ai-stocks-bonds-...
Session is a decentralized Signal fork that creates the account on the device without associating it with a phone number.
See also maqp2's comment here regarding Simplex:
https://web.archive.org/web/20250302182017/https://reddit.co...
However, leaders of AI frontier labs aren’t blinking. To OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, for instance, having people run their own models at home on their own computers doesn’t make any sense anyway. During a recent interview on the Cheeky Pint podcast, Altman argued that ongoing memory supply chain woes were because selfish individuals wanted to run their AI models locally instead of leaving the remaining AI chips alone for hyperscalers to hoard in data centers.
https://www.mediafire.com/file/2rjmnla9huwvklr/Last_Day.pdf/...
And it is federated so when the biggest Lemmy instance starts to suck, Lemmy can be the Lemmy replacement, too.
I understand that mentioning it on popular subreddits is verboten.
So it's not an apples-to-apples comparison.
Turns out that the warts are the incorporation of the lessons learned. For this reason, just before Wayland fulfills its destiny and becomes an immaculate replacement for X11, a new generation of developers will determine Wayland's codebase is too complex to comprehend and must be rewritten from scratch.
https://itep.org/what-corporations-have-to-gain-from-the-gut...
Scrooge McDuck lived by the credo: "Work smarter; not harder."
But for many people, smarter is harder.
It is vexing to see ports of N64 games and Quake requiring OpenGL 4 (or better) hardware for no discernible reason other than the version number is bigger. Eyes on you, Ironwail.
Checking ID on election day is more likely to enable election fraud than prevent voter fraud.
> That astonished me. Too busy to look at a problem he had been dreaming about for 19 years? “I am genuinely busy and probably wouldn’t be able to get to reading a human’s proof immediately either,” he told me afterward, by email. “It does not help that AI does not write mathematics particularly well.”
Given:
* The human mathematicians can't solve the problems.
* The slop engine can't write well enough to make its purported solutions readable by human mathematicians.
* Sam Altman is a frivolous liar.
How is it possible to know whether the problems have been solved at all?
Or spend a lifetime reading and re-reading them non-trivially.
"My definition of a great story has nothing to do with 'a varied and interesting background.' It is: One that can be read with pleasure by a cultivated reader and reread with increasing pleasure."
- Gene Wolfe
I don't, since I read their privacy policy[0] before deciding to never use their software. Might I add: VSCodium[1] exists.
Strange to read "I grew up using Hammer." when I still see Hammer as a newfangled update to Worldcraft.
No Quake map editor will let you do anything the Quake engine can't, of course.
If you draw your maps on paper first, as id Software did[0], then the editor you use doesn't matter so much.
J.A.C.K.[1] is the current torchbearer for the Hammer lineage.
Also there is a community fork of Trenchbroom[2] that exists because Trenchbroom includes slop. Or "machine generated code" or "wAIfu generated code" or however salves your feelings.
"The map editor everybody uses" is reductionist.