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As with every monthly update, comes a monthly colossal thank you! You're doing awesome and impressive work, operating with clarity, transparency, and a noble intent! Keep up the fantastic work, as it yields great results also for an ever-growing healthy community!

This game is one of my all time favorites! The game engine is cool, love the story and it's all its twists, and especially all the small hidden pieces of background info, like the alternate history you pointed out!

It also has some great puzzles and secrets hidden in areas that are interesting to explore every nook and cranny of. I feel rather clever for noticing things like "huh, this is a window, but this game has something called a 'looking glass'... I wonder...". And the verticality of a lot of these maps is so fun, giving you the possibility to approach enemies and puzzles the way you prefer (just like the Dishonored franchise, which I can greatly recommend to anyone reading this!).

I wish you a great time with it!

That's a pretty good deal! It's a huge game (some say too big), but if you don't mind a bit of repetetiveness, this would get you a lot for the money

This is super cool! I'd love having something like this when I was a kid! I'll see if I can find some kids I know to take a look at this, and I'm confident they'll have a blast!

All major VPN services will be explicitly blacklisted, and if you try to resolve/connect to one of these services, you'll be marked. Those who have minor VPNs, for example a self-hosted server or a small community server that go under the radar, will likely be spared.

"Added a customisation tab to game properties," the notes for it read, "The customisation tab allows users to view and set custom artwork for the game and set a custom sort title that will be used instead of the actual title when sorting games in the library."

Thank you, Lord Gaben! It's been many painful years, but you finally did it! People all over the world with OCPD will rejoice!

I used to use one of them in my passwords - it usually works fine, until I'm met with a platform where this key doesn't exist (damn you, Nintendo Switch!)

I feel like scams are getting more and more dedicated. If you have the patience to pursue someone for 18 days, you have the patience to use any and all information you get to try and further your agenda.

If you get ahold of an email, there are two main things I'm thinking: One is opening up the potential for spear-phishing. You can hold on to that email for a little while, so the email you're about to send is seemingly not connected to you, and the contents of this email could be using any information acquired through the conversations. Say the victim talked about the reason for their economic troubles being taxes, and in another convo they mention that the weather here in California is so great. Bingo! You can now forge a targetted email for taxes from the IRS as a resident of the state of California.

The second thing is that you can look up other accounts where the same email is used, giving you a second angle or perhaps even a second chance by messaging from a different account, on a different platform, at a different time. This may be desirable if the target has shown potential of more large payouts (even if it means indebting the victim).

Say it with me now, people!: "GPTs are not mindful!"

LLMs (everything out there called "AI" these days) are predicting words based on statistical analysis of human-made texts. There is nothing "smart" about LLMs, they are only perceived like that because the training data contains a fair share of intelligent works from humans!

So, it doesn't have "feelings" or "motivations". It inherits the "traits" from human works that relate to the context given. If I prompt something like "Tell me a short story of one paragraph backwards in leetspeak", it's going to generate some sentences with these words being the context. It will sift through its model, prioritizing works it has trained on that has the highest relevance/occurance/probability of these words, mix it up with a bit of entropy, and voilá! You'll (likely) get a fair amount of gibberish, because this is a very small-to-non-existent part of its model, as very few actually use reverse leetspeak, i.e. it makes very few appearances in the training data. (I haven't managed to get any model to write this flawlessly yet.)

Watch this if you want a bite-sized explanation of how a GPT works: https://youtu.be/LPZh9BOjkQs

It's fun that one can use games for it, but it shouldn't be difficult to do the same through AI-generated imagery either, which isn't much more difficult.

Even though this method is flawed, one shouldn't really use ID-only verification either imho, as it's a security risk to upload any official document like that (ref. Tea app leaks).

The whole age verification that the UK wants to impose has been quite the impossible task from the beginning. Creating government-backed education for (future) parents about how to raise a kid and protect them in today's digital society would be more efficient than this, if we really are thinking of what is best for the kids. But alas, there are zero requirements to become a parent...

I think there are two more questions that need to be answered first, before being able to tell whether we should prioritize the many.

First question is what is the ultimate goal behind prioritizng the many? Happiness of the population? Infinite growth? To conquer the stars? Depending on what the goal is, there are occasions where minorities should be the focus if we want to approach the goal the fastest.
Example is moon landing: The amount of resources that was spent on "simply" building a rocket, space suits & equipment, and send a couple of humans over there was prioritizing the few. Despite a lot of people watching with curious eyes, it did not benefit the many's needs much. There were several goals here: Being before the USSR, explore the unknown, satisfying shareholders, and more. By the many working hard to send the few, we approached all these goals faster than if we would allocate some of these resources towards the many's needs, like health (prime days of smoking cigarettes).

The second question is what timeframe are we talking? Is it long-term or short-term success we're aiming for? Because in many cases, if we want long-term success fast, the many are those who should "suffer".
Example is where the long-term goal is the glorious evolution of mankind: In one way, we downprioritize the few who are those born with defects, either by culling them or by ensuring they do not make offspring. In another way, we downprioritize the many who are on- or below-average intelligence/capabilities. But then we get the question of how we quantify the few/many; where do we draw the line? And as we get more smart/capable humans, the average constantly shifts - what is the concrete goal?

Suffice to say that this is written without emotion, as that makes this discussion the soup it really is: Ethics, benevolence, discrimination, etc., as you mentioned.

First time I hear of the group, but I find there to be such irony, how Kremlin reasoned that they entered Ukraine in order to de-nazify it, only for actualy neo-nazis to fight alongside the Russian military...