Because that’s how most people implicitly frame headlines like this one: a generalization of the public

The whole book series is an allegory for the bible.

• The Magician’s Nephew is an allegory of Genesis
• the Lion, Witch, and Wardrobe is an allegory of Christ
• and the Last Battle is an allegory of Revelations

Oh i know

I’m more blaming the system than the user. The system is designed to be as addicting as possible. Literally a century of addiction research into drugs and gambling, all used to squeeze every drop of engagement from the user

He’s literally sacrificed as a Christ figure

Anything to get that dopamine drip from the Black Rectangle

It’s not about what the user wants. It’s about what will make the most profit for Microsoft

Federated git hosting platform when?

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Something needs to fill the role of civil protection services

Though, how to do that without encouraging corruption, i dunno

Hyperfocus does not allow for frivolities such as walking, peripheral vision, eating, or sleeping

Something about this composition is giving AI, but the line art says hand made…

Traced AI art, perhaps?

You know, you could just ask what that means

s/org/li means replace org with li

I did do the Nasty in the Pasty

AI slop

I can’t wait for all the new year’s resolutioners to show up at the gym so I can smash them

(Brazilian jiu jitsu)

Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Ocarina of Twilight

LoZ: Twilight Majora’s Ocarina

Source code is just text with special grammar rules, that’s easy for a human to read and think about. But it’s not possible for a computer to execute source code directly.

So it’s run through a “compiler”, which takes the text and compiles it into binary machine code (x86 Assembly). This is what gets written to the CD and shipped

“decompilation” is the process of starting from the raw machine code, and trying to figure out what source code text could have generated that machine code.

Typically you use a tool that can do an initial decomp pass, but since it’s missing a lot of context, the resulting text is generally incomprehensible (and may not even fully compile). Variable x123ieh48hdc could be Link’s velocity, the currently loaded map, or it could be a temporary scratch variable

The real challenge to decomp is figuring out which incomprehensible variable and function names actually correspond to in-game

(Note, usually “100% decomp” means they’ve fully translated machine code to source code. But there may still be large parts of the source code that remain incomprehensible. Ocarina of Time decomp still has sections like this)

The reason this is exciting, is because the source code is much easier to modify. So having 100% of the game in source code means you can do fancy things like PC source ports (even if some of the code remains incomprehensible, though i imagine that makes it more difficult)

It’s not an exaggeration

They are selling user data for profit. It’s anonymized sure, but it’s still selling user data