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I’m not the droid you’re looking for, move along.
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reactordev··on Samsung TV privacy issues
They still can’t technically obtain it without a warrant. They do it anyway.
reactordev··on Samsung TV privacy issues
Follow the money
reactordev··on Disney Raising Prices Days After Confirming Ads Will Now Show Up on Every Tier
The issue is when they censor the version they host
reactordev··on Battlezone Online: BZFlag in the Browser
While we’re at it, MechWarrior/BattleTech could use some TLC in the form of the same treatment.

This and titles like it made my childhood

reactordev··on Does Ruby on Rails still make sense?
No and having strong opinions codified into patterns that an agent can utilize is exactly what we need today so, no not wrong and in fact, more needed than ever.
reactordev··on IKEA – 3D Guide
Indeed, step 3 has the shelve boards in backwards.
reactordev··on Publish fake stats, get cited in LLMs
in which case it sees it's been cited, that it's the "source of truth" and approves the fake data.
reactordev··on RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]
People complained and they changed it.

Contrast with Origin Systems at the time and Richard Garriott getting murdered as Lord British and the chaos that followed.

I miss those days. When your avatar/player had consequences.

reactordev··on RuneScape Bench: MMOs for Agents [video]
If this was for UO, you'd have a bloodbath. RuneScape's systems were pretty tame compared to UO:SA where anywhere outside of towns was PvP allowed and when you died you lost all your gear.
reactordev··on tsc-ts: TypeScript written in TypeScript
Stage 1 to writing a bootstrap able language is using the intermediate step of compiling it with a compiler written in another language so that you can write a compiler for yours. I’m sure they did this in order to get a binary of the first self-compilable version.
reactordev··on Steam Client is now faster than Epic's new vibe coded launcher
Both take way too long because of all that electron bloat. I miss being able to load a small app in under 1s. Everything has telemetry or online verification/updating now.
reactordev··on Israeli firm's digital ads enabling installation of 'zero-click' spyware
If I had to ponder a guess…

It’s to do with hiding malware/spyware in an image which ends up in your cache on device. I can’t go much further into details but all this takes is for you to visit a site that serves it via ad network.

Israel has been known to have some sneaky spyware in the past with Pegasus.

reactordev··on Character.ai's Bankruptcy Documents Show the Economics of AI Don't Work
I can have full conversations with Gemma4 on my phone, no server requests, with voice.
reactordev··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
Early PC release would be amazing but legally dubious.
reactordev··on AI is mass decompiling games. That's both awesome and scary
It's an AMAZING time for mods. The list of mods for games that support it is growing fast. I would start listing them but I'm sure you can check your favorite game and just see for yourself. What I don't care for is Nexusmods. More and more people are getting into indie game dev with the support of AI now and while yes it will produce more slop and crappy games, it will also produce some really good new ones. We need more NEW franchises.
reactordev··on OpenAI engineer arrested in bugging of executive conference room
And anything you put in your phone for the last decade as well
reactordev··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
This time, so take EPA equivalent in whatever jurisdiction. You’re nitpicking.
reactordev··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
who is left at the EPA to review it?
reactordev··on Google told to halt work on datacentres in Finland over environmental concerns
be real, they will just pay off the local officials to pass zoning laws to make it all legal. As they have done across the states.
reactordev··on Total Annihilation, rebuilt for modern computers
Can confirm, BAR is what you want...
reactordev··on Imposing Sanctions on the International Criminal Court
ROFL… the hubris is strong
reactordev··on Docker Agent
so is everyone else. We're all building the same stuff.
reactordev··on Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth
I tried... I submitted a bug report for it. It's hit or miss with bloomberg, sorry
reactordev··on Study: Claude, ChatGPT Offer Different Shopping Prices Based on Wealth
https://archive.is/mtHkk
reactordev··on Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
I’m not talking coding agents. More so agent harnesses and using LLMs for decision making
reactordev··on Meta’s Muse is an adorable privacy and security dumpster fire
It’s 100% intentional, go look back at what they did with the Facebook app.
reactordev··on Meta's Muse Is an Adorable Privacy and Security Dumpster Fire
I’m in the same boat. After witnessing context rot and inference collapse, I do not trust any LLM with mission critical work. Not Jev, not grok, not fable, not Opus.
reactordev··on The future of independence is interdependence
This is why I feel sorry for nationalists. They don’t understand basic global economics.
reactordev··on OpenDLSS: A Vulkan Reimplementation of Nvidia's DLSS 5 Neural Rendering Network
This. This is what they are trying to do. If they can flip the entertainment industry to use neural rendering using their "proprietary" api's then they would have cornered a market from the bottom.
reactordev··on SDF vs. MSDF vs. Slug: GPU Text Rendering
Excellent write up. The cited references are on point too. Eric Lengyel is a legend.
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