Steam is not a publicly traded company, so they don’t pull this kind of skullduggery in service of the shareholders.
They’re a company full of people who, gasp, like video games: unlike the average navel gazing, brainless, Harvard Business School CEO.
Given their track record they’ve been more consistently “pro gamer” than other companies and are given a lot of leeway for that.
It’s a dangerous command - I’d rather not run it by accidentally hitting the f key a second time.
If it’s not using GCM then it must be long polling, unless signal servers are set up to use a 3rd form of push (APNS for iOS, GCM for Android)
Q: What’s less funny than an explained joke?
A: Someone bitching about explaining jokes
Vista was a nightmare 8 was awful
Windows has consistently released 1 good, 1 bad for a long time now.
The thing is I think win11 is terminal. It’s just forever windows because they can milk it for ads without needing to iterate.
As an off instance user: great decisions! Strong migration makes for strong communities.
The next patch fully opens the game to end to end mod support. Items, characters, races, quests, dialogue - all available to mod.
It seems like the game will be able to live on in the modding community for a long time yet.
Ahhh pre-fent cops were still blaming drugs for their unseemly public panic attacks
Don’t miss. It’s always more impressive when you don’t miss.
Tiktok is a company comparable in scale to Google. 130Bn in revenue last year.
Patreon is nowhere near the scale of YouTube. But I also think it’s the only viable solution to privacy and supporting creators.
It’s impossible to do without exposing a private signing cert to everyone, yes. That’s the issue.
You can’t do asymmetric key signing anonymously and with a central issuer.
So either you have to just trust the assertions (0 security) or you have to have a trusted issuer (not anonymous)
A pseudonym issuer is a trusted issuer. There’s no way to do it otherwise. You have to trust someone to make this kind of system work.
Agreed that law enforcement should not be involved but the quote I posted was also from the article and it seems impossible.
Most of these make sense and are definitely blockers for this ever releasing but -
Remove the concept of the Pseudonym Provider and ensure pseudonyms are generated and stored locally without the possibility of linking back to real identities.
Correct me if I’m wrong but this data all has to be signed somewhere right? Like the eID contains cryptographically signed assertions about the user in some standard (JWT?) format.
What use is signing the assertions locally? There would be no way to tell if the citizen actually had any valid id at all. A pseudonym provider is the privacy layer that allows for signing of new tokens after ensuring the validity of the old.
How could you sign an anonymous token using a valid one without it being linked back to the valid one? It seems like impossible constraints.
Am I totally off base here?
Prompt engineering isn’t a real field bro
It’s unclear if the current models can reach that level though. They seem more like they’re asymtotically approaching their limit.
Maybe I’m wrong and GPT 5 will be the end all and be all - but I don’t think generalist models will ever be consistent enough. Specialist generators focused on specifics, trained to output very defined data seem more likely to be useful than this attempt to make a single catch all LLM.
Gpt 4 premium pictures still have these major issues.
It’s funny how the generators arent getting better. They’ve plateaued pretty hard in terms of believability. Glance value? Convincing.
Under any level of scrutiny though this falls apart in at least a dozen ways.
… But not when Joyce writes them. Don’t worry he’ll reference it again in 200 pages and if you haven’t figured out what theme they represent you’ll miss the fifth layer of context that actually inverts the meaning of the current paragraph.
(Ok he’s not that obtuse but I wouldn’t ever use death of the author/blue curtains on Joyce)
Here is a short list of things that Play Services do:
Even if you remove all telemetry you’d need to have the services running 24/7 in the background maintaining a socket connection to push notification services.