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I can't watch Mark Rober's content because of this. He dilutes his remarkable engineering stunts into ADHD internet memes.

But is it actually an OS?

Thanks for sharing your interesting research! Can you explain your honeypotting approach further? How are you "presenting" as a SIP relay? What other honeypots or protocols can you detect?

Eh, I actually do have kids, and like other North American children they usually don't pick up their toys. When things get messy enough, the "toy sheriff" comes into town and sets things straight. He's got a hat and a badge and a thick mean southern accent. Toys that aren't put away get locked in "jail" for indefinite time.

I won't lie, I don't do this often, and I end up picking up plenty of toys, and would welcome robot assistance, but it still seems wasteful and privileged to use advanced tech in this way

Toddlers should learn to pick up their own toys...? Unless we're grooming them for a life of pampered self-absorbed entitlement?

Because we're nearing the endgame...perfect total surveillance and control will be possible soon

Won't regulators just lock down all hardware? All bootloaders and OS are signed?

Or maybe China's math/science/population/gov investment powerhouse is pulling ahead and becoming unstoppable?

How about cheap healthcare? Or affordable housing, water, electricity and food? Is AI improving human quality of life?

There is a shred of truth in what you're saying, but I think you're generally mistaken. The USA in particular has companies that pratice censorship to support their Left/Right ideology (or push the views of rich people, politicians), but not even Trump can tell OpenAI or Google to turn their model into FoxNews bots.

Bot account?

You would be surprised...

Yep! Maybe Chinese models are banned in USA and made completely illegal

Shhhhhh...! OpenCode only runs on authorized machines by responsible employees following company policy ;)

Maybe AI slop has something to do with it?

The kinds of buyers who purchase pre-owned "used" games often CANNOT or WILL NOT shell out $70-100 for a new game. Social peer pressures might impact this (hey poor kid, do you really wanna lose your friends?)

Never heard of Nintendo's patent for digitally signing and transferring game ownersbip. Thanks for sharing. Hope it gets implemented!

Are repacks just binaries?

Mobile gaming is a mess. Android is still open, but Apple devices are locked down, and bigG keeps trying to close sideloading. Subsciption micropayments ads enshittification has hit mobile gaming HARD. Not sure mobile gaming is in good shape...?

MS would love to kill off custom Minecraft clients and servers, and have attempted to turn minecraft into a subscription service but they risk losing their entire community if they go too DRM heavy so Minecraft Java edition has remained very open

I'm optimistic that devs empowered by LLMs and local LLM will fight back and create new platforms if gatekeeping gets too out of hand

Technically legal since Steam grants ownership?

What happens when faceID or biometrics is required? Quickly gets very creepy if your kids want to keep playing your games

Is manosphere related to "red pill"?

Who is talking about furries? But Tyler James Robinson and Benjamin Jeffrey Smith. I guess that's only 2/100k to your point?

It is suspicious to me that "age assurance" is trending EXACTLY as AI agents become capable of autonomously operating a personal computer in the same way a human office worker would.

I'm afraid "age assurance" has nothing to do with "the children".

I had to Google "man-o-sphere". Is it particularly more dangerous or toxic than other identity-based activist communities? Genuinely curious to know

> Or, as Adamala put it: “What else can biology do?”

Oh I dunno, maybe create synthetic organisms capable of rapidly destroying all life?

Thanks for replying! Going to check out your educational resources

I recently heard that Super Mario 64 (N64) modding community reverse engineered the game enough to recreate more-or-less accurate C code that can be compiled in binaries to execute on many popular target architectures. Have you managed to get beloved games into modifiable C code? Or is it more common to invest a lot of work to document assembly language functions? I know some old assembly but no idea what is involved at a high level. Maybe you explain in your lessons?

Also, how to folks obtain binaries? Presumably unless there is a source code breach or vulnerability, source never gets exposed, is thst correct?