creatonez

> It has a lot of unusual stylistic choices that I don't believe an AI would intentionally output.

Indeed. One of those unusual choices is that it uses jQuery. Gotta have IE6 compatibility in your worm!

I'm not sure what to make of `Number("20")` in the source code. I would think it's some way to get around some filter intended to discourage CPU-intensive looping, but I don't think user scripts have any form of automated moderation, and if that were the case it doesn't make sense that they would allow a `for` loop in the first place.

As much as an inconvenience this may be, this is exactly what "agents" should be doing. If your tool doesn't have a builtin sandbox that is intended to be used at all times, you're using something downright hazardous and WILL end up suffering data loss.

> Colorado residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2028.

This law hasn't even passed

> Our strong preference is to continue to serve the Department and our warfighters—with our two requested safeguards in place.

It's absolutely disgusting that they would even consider working with the US government after the Gaza genocide started. These are modern day holocaust tabulation machine companies, and this time randomly they are selecting victims using a highly unpredictable black-box algorithm. The proper recourse here is to impeach the current administration, dissolve the companies that were complicit, and send their leadership to the hague for war crimes trials.

> No fiddling with setting needed either.

It's since become the default in several distributions, including Fedora.

The proof is right there for you to see. Denying it is rather wacky.

Here are a bunch of examples: https://github.com/McTsts/mc-core-shaders

This one is particularly interesting because it integrates block data in the rendered world along with some server-side augmented data to render a minimap in a vanilla client: https://github.com/JNNGL/VanillaMinimaps

That's still the official name of bedrock, but it was never meant to establish a hierarchy or a plan for ending Java, they always seemed very careful in their words to avoid making it sound like it does.

If anything, they might have just done the rename simply for standardization over 9 different app stores with different requirements, branding requirements, and length limits before truncation occurs.

It will be a while before JNI itself is dead, because far too much stuff still relies on it. The unsafe helpers in the Java standard library will die first because they are fundamentally incompatible with Valhalla, but it's likely the simple cases will last a while as there are vast swaths of glue code that needs to be rewritten.

IIRC Minecraft is still using entirely JNI and no FFM yet. That will probably start to change in the near future, though. Some modders have already been replacing their own natives with FFM versions.

> it's a shame you need mods to have shaders on Java

You don't. Ever since 1.17 you have been able to build GL shaders directly into resource packs. Resource packs don't require any complex loaders and don't pose a malware risk. To install them you can either drag-and-drop them as .zips directly into the resource pack menu, or a server/world can be configured to prompt the installation of a resource pack. These resource pack shaders are not quite as flexible as Aperture, Iris, or Optifine shaders, but they are fairly close in functionality.

I'm curious if they will carry over this functionality for Vulkan shaders embedded into resource packs. I suspect they may not, which is understandable given how it can be used to break the game's functionality much worse than an ordinary resource pack can (not full RCE, though)

Specifically:

  Minecraft Pocket Edition for Xperia Play
  -> Minecraft: Pocket Edition
  -> [Minecraft: Windows 10 Edition, Minecraft: Gear VR Edition,
      Minecraft: Apple TV Edition, Minecraft: Fire TV Edition,
      Minecraft: Pocket Edition]
  -> Minecraft
  (It is colloquially "Minecraft: Bedrock Edition" when Mojang is
   distinguishing it from other versions. Note also that despite all
   being named "Minecraft", different platforms are separate
   licenses, but the Windows 10/11 license is bundled with Java Edition)

  RubyDung
  -> Cave Game
  -> Minecraft: Order of the Stone
  -> Minecraft
  -> Minecraft: Java Edition

  Minecraft: Xbox 360 Edition
  -> [Minecraft: Xbox One Edition, Minecraft: PlayStation 3 Edition,
      Minecraft: PlayStation 4 Edition, Minecraft: PlayStation Vita Edition,
      Minecraft: Wii U Edition, Minecraft: Nintendo Switch Edition]
  (This was the 4J Studios version, now deprecated as some platforms
   are unsupported and on some platforms it is superseded by Bedrock.
   It is sometimes referred to as "Console Edition" but this was
   never official.)

> As far as I remember the original plan was to only maintain both in a transitional phase

Is there a source for this? I don't remember any language to suggest Java Edition would eventually be replaced when they announced Windows 10 Edition. They've always indicated that they intend to keep maintaining the Java Edition, with parity in the core game. The messaging here has never changed, as far as I'm aware.

I'm not super worried that this transition is cutting off hardware too soon.

- Vulkan requirement raises the baseline to 2016-2017 hardware. 2017 was 9 years ago.

- They're not cutting off OpenGL right away, according to the announcement they will release 26.1 as OpenGL-only, and then at least one more full release where you can choose between the two options. Based on their usual schedule it will probably be at least a year from now before they cut off OpenGL support, if not longer.

- All previous versions of the game are still available to play, including the oldest versions that run on Java 6, x86-32, OpenGL 1.2, Debian 5, Windows XP. Can still do multiplayer sessions on versions released in mid 2010.

- The community can fill in the gaps in multiple ways. Translation layers are available to connect to newer servers with older clients (ViaVersion), as well as with Bedrock clients (GeyserMC). Mods will almost certainly be released to reimplement the rendering engine in OpenGL or GLES. Renewed interest may mean OpenGL 2.0 compatibility mods could come back. Also, Mojang recently liberated Minecraft from variable name obfuscation, so modding will be easier than ever before.

- As a last resort, software rendering for Vulkan has gotten relatively mature, though obviously this means single digit FPS in many scenarios

Java Edition has taken an extremely conservative path, practically nothing else in the gaming industry held on to legacy hardware this long.

Miss the boat on what? Idiotic agents with no sandboxing, with the door fully open for prompt injection purgatory? There's nothing interesting about this technology other than how dumb it is and how badly it will spam the internet (see https://theshamblog.com/an-ai-agent-published-a-hit-piece-on... for how bad agent slop has gotten).

Then you can personalize it... manually, using deterministic filters. Ideally, the algorithm just wouldn't be black box anymore.

Banning personalized recommendation algorithms altogether would do so much good. Feeds should be the same for everyone who has the same filters and subscriptions configured.

> isn't LfS all about the basics of the distro than building a fully fledged system?

Not at all, and I'm not sure why so many people have this perception. It's never been this way. LFS is the tutorial you follow to get a full GNU/Linux system. In LFS, not having a base that can theoretically support the latest desktop environments is considered a fatal bug. It's just a conventional distro but in document format.

This is good for its comprehensiveness and as a way of documenting what existing Linux distros are doing, but it limits its utility as a learning aid as well as for embedded development. Most people interested in barebones Linux should instead start with a kernel and busybox and ignore most GNU packages.

Wrong tool for the job. Netcat gives you raw TCP as stdin/stdout without injecting or interpreting control codes.

> Now what

Flock's terrorist cameras must be destroyed. With airstrikes and poisoned ice cream.

Flock is a terrorist organization

Deporting 25 million people using a terrorist militia is mass ethnic cleansing. Period. Has nothing to do with the job market, it is a basic historical reality.

This probably has the most egregious data errors out of all similar tools.

> You can already perform parallel transfers quite trivially by typing "find .. | xargs -P$(nproc) -n 1 rsync ..", carefully managing sync folder sets and just being a Unix god in general.

This solution sucks in a number of different ways, and is downright incorrect. I'm baffled by the frequency at which these hacky parallel commands are recommended when rclone exists, works perfectly fine, and has literally no runtime dependencies.

Don't think so? Linux should still support almost all builtin motherboard floppy controllers, for the platforms it still runs on. ISA floppy controller support is probably not as comprehensive, but not because anything has been dropped.

I thought this was only common on fake flash drives and external SSDs? Has this been happening to NVMe SSDs as well? It's definitely possible, but scammers tend to be lazy to branch out beyond what already works, and SSDs are a bit more complex.

ICE hasn't gone after cartel members or fraudsters in the past year. ICE does not conduct fraud investigations at all. It's a complete lie. The goal is to attack innocent people, while freeing actual drug traffickers and dangerous people. You've been duped by a modern Nazi movement.

There's no such thing as privacy for innocent people and no privacy for bad actors. Logically how is that supposed to work? Predictive policing?

> privacy

ICE is literally buying all your data right now, paying surveillance contractors to rapidly install vastly more CCTV cameras than we've ever seen before, purchasing malware to target citizens, and filling secret watchlists with thousands of innocent people. And you're sitting here angry that EFF is opposing exactly what they've been against this whole time.

You stopped donating to EFF because you stopped caring about mass surveillance, because your ideological allies wanted it. Keep on folding like a lawnchair.

We are in a post-hyperloop, post-spinlaunch, post-theranos, post-oceangate world. You can't trust that any project is not just there to generate VC hype.

> has maybe 15 minutes allotted to getting to know you [...] Then you go again in two weeks with the same thing, it's a different doctor and the context has been reset

This is not how doctors work in most of the world. Not having an actual primary care physician that is able to keep track of each patient over multiple years means they are skipping out on one of their most important duties. You should advocate for a better standard of care rather than resorting to hallucinating chatbots.

ChatGPT Health is a completely wreckless and dangerous product, they should be sued into oblivion for even naming it "health".