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I run a game listing website for MUDs. Recently someone submitted their AI generated game, with all the content in the listing written by an AI. Likely the form to sign up and submit the game was done by AI as well.

Two days later I received an AI generated email from the "game owner" noting issues with the listing (that they had submitted) such as wrongly selected features, etc. and requesting that I, the person who runs the website, correct the issues.

It's their listing on their account on the website, and they can update it whenever they want.

First time dealing with something like that, but doubt it will be the last.

Guess I need to task an LLM with writing an AI content and contact policy for the website.

I think this is just how it goes. Were you here in 2017-2018 when it was all blockchain all the time?

Does it work? Absolutely. It just depends how you use it and what for.

I had 12 legacy node apps running node 4, with jQuery front ends. Outdated dependencies and best practices all over. No build pipeline. No tests. Express 3. All of it worked but it's aging to the point of no return. And the upgrade work is boring, with very little ROI.

In a month, without writing any code, I've got them all upgraded to Node 22, with updated dependencies, removed jQuery completely, newer version of express, better logging, improved UI.

It's work that would have taken me a year of my free time and been soul crushing and annoying.

Did it with codex as a way of better learning the tooling. It felt more like playing a resource sim game than coding. Pretty enjoyable. Was able to work on multiple tasks at once while doing some other work.

It worked really well for that.

> The FBI seized 137 laptops as a result of the raids.

So close. 1200 more and it would have been epic.

What's the symbology there?

Love this app, the GitHub is easy to clone and modify as well. Used it for a game once.

It sure does. That was an uncomfortable read. Lots of implications in that statement. Many of them ungood.

ToastStunt is an actively developed fork of Stunt which is a fork of LambdaMOO. It's extended a lot of what LambdaMOO offered via patches, as well as adding a lot of new and much needed stuff. Active Discord community as well. And several large MOOs are running it instead of LambdaMOO these days.

https://github.com/lisdude/toaststunt

Great write up and very very true. The MUD I staff has a running joke (but also not a joke) that the first one of us to win the lottery will just pay everyone to admin it.

In a way, yes. I vape instead of smoking. But it isn't the same. It's a different way to get nicotine, like dipping. And vaping was, AFAIK, more of a grass roots thing than a Big Tobbaco thing, at least at first. It felt like Big Tobbaco was caught kinda unawares when vaping became very popular and ended up buying a bunch of vape companies.

Very interesting. Thanks for sharing this.

It's a little surprising to me that no company has come out with a 'healthier cigarette'. They could claim to do the acid washing and all the things mentioned in the article in their advertising. Probably without actually saying their cigarettes are healthier but instead focusing on what other companies don't do (the acid wash) and the cancer causing carcinogens their competition's cigarettes contain that their own do not.

That would hook people who enjoy smoking but also enjoy not dying. Even if they are just deluding themselves. It would at least get me (former smoker) curious.

I've also always wondered if Big Tobbaco was working to cure cancer. It would make business sense. If we cured the types of cancer that smoking causes... A lot more people would probably smoke. (Obviously there are other issues like emphasima).

Have you checked out ToastStunt at all? C++ fork of Stunr which is itself a fork of LambdaMOO.

I dig the Hackers reference.

Comparing Bard to Bing and GOT4 today. Bard was the worst of the bunch. Bing was actually the best overall. Not surprising since it's basically GPT4+Search context.

Bard did do fairly well on some of the questions I asked that were things google would be good at answering. Did not do well at all on generating code in more obscure languages.

I don't generally agree with this take. I also don't think allowing deploys on Friday and letting the team decide their risk/reward ratio is a bad thing. Teams should be empowered to make their own decisions. If they are consistently making bad decisions that will become apparent and can be addressed in a variety of ways. Most likely by the team itself because they don't want to be working on the weekend.

https://www.mudverse.com/ is actively maintained.

Grapevine is awesome. Good call-out.

I remember finding this BS on my phone and being pretty annoyed about it.

I got flicked in the back of the head at a tourney a few weeks ago!

Beginners are the most dangerous to fence against in my experience. They don't move like you expect, they flail and flourish and smack you in weird spots with the flat of the blade. All the worst bruises I have gotten have been fencing newbies. It isn't their fault, they are still learning. But owww.

The Greenway is a lovely addition to Boston. Used to spend lunches there eating from food trucks.

You're saying Meta doesn't have the power to change politics? Where have you been since 2016.

It sure works for me.

Same here. It's shady AF.

I worked at a digital agency for years. This is the most true thing I've read in ages. Every single point struck a nerve with me. I honestly wish I'd read and believed this before starting my job there. It would have saved me endless hours of stress and pushing back with my leadership about technical requirements that went nowhere.

The number of people telling this guy to change his passwords after he already said he changed his passwords like five times made me cringe.

You should check out the Stormlight Archive. It's really good.

For good reason, though. Bad actors using tor not for privacy but to evade IP bans on websites/games/etc or to shit post or disrupt legitimate communities-- this is the issue IMO. It's easier to simply block all to IP addresses, especially if you just need it to stop and don't have the resources of a larger company. And for larger companies that block in an automated fashion as has been mentioned elsewhere, there is so much stuff coming in via those IP addresses that is shady that they all tend to get blocked or at least added to watchlists by companies like cloudflare.