Is it this? https://github.com/wipeout-phantom-edition/wipeout-phantom-edition

It seems based on the original Wipeout, but I can’t find a similar XL decomp/rewrite project, just emulation.

When their alpha testers are already ransomware victims, I suppose they figure what’s the harm?

I wouldn’t underestimate the security holes that spaghetti AI code will create. Hackers have had a motivation to get creative solving those problems for a long time. E.g., a persistent logger or listener over an extended time to collect rarely used keys when they production cross the air gap, for a single catastrophic hack later?

Ultimately in a code-illiterate world, the code-literate hacker is king.

Occupational hazard when her mouth is just that large.

Yup, these are not investments; they’re not even bets that AI will continue. No, they are self-fulfilling prophecies of AI’s relevance.

In the end there has to be an economic backstop for reality. It’s either third party vendors that aren’t part of the hyperscaler cabal, or employee payroll. We’re already seeing layoffs which reflect AI financial tie-ups rather than efficiency gains.

But those two are where I’m hoping eventually we see missed payments as an early canary in the mine. But it’ll probably be a long time, too much money is at stake now for them to give up until they’re actually broke.

Yes, but a) not all terms are legally enforceable in all situations, and b) that enforceability has not to my knowledge been tested for situations where the software fully disabled the hardware unless the new software and terms are accepted.

I mean, we’re already at 200-500% even for those low capacity drives, unfortunately. I bought a 26TB last fall for $240. I bought a 22TB in January for the same.

The part that hasn’t been litigated is unilaterally modifying the agreement and whether you separately own the TV apart from the software covered by the click-wrap contact of adhesion.

I think a court would decide you have the right to use the TV without the software if you disagree with the terms. Except they currently give you no way to do that.

Further, it should be illegal to require an update that updates the terms, since the manufacturer effectively can force you to agree to new terms while holding your TV hostage.

Contract rights have a limit, especially with TOS agreements that are not negotiable.

I knew this was coming at some point. Forced updates need to be illegal, or allow users to roll back updates at their discretion.

When you buy something, the seller cannot enter your house without permission and break it. Legal action is going to spread - Hisense should be next, they did the same thing to me.

Any idiot could have predicted if you cut China off from Nvidia chips, they’d use their own, quickly surpass Nvidia, leaving Americans not being able to ripoff Chinese progress, unless we get our hands on the new Chinese chips if they’re not direct ripoffs of what Nvidia is doing.

I agree the policy never made sense, but Chinese chips are still a few generations behind and will remain that way for a while.

China currently has a physical limit to transistor size that is enforced by the physics of their lithography machines. They are doing everything they can to use export-controlled ASML technology including rebuilding prior generational tech from the second-hand market, but that is a.K2-level sheer-face climb. Considering how much unique knowledge ASML and TSMC have, even corporate espionage can’t fill in those gaps probably for a decade.

They absolutely are using homegrown chips that are lower quality and making up for it in quantity, however, using older lithography.

This is what the US is doing with other successful public services, like our postal service, social safety services, along with our limited public insurance options. I feel like the goal of this tactic generally needs to be shouted out, taught, put on billboards for a decade, because it just keeps working for right-wing saboteurs in so many situations

https://www.reddit.com/r/PS5_Jailbreak/comments/1fhlyjt/guide_to_find_the_firmware_version_of_a_sealed/

Based on this list, it looks like you have to be sitting on a 2022 or earlier non-updated PS5 to have a chance at the 4.51 or lower firmware to use this. A chance it’ll open up to other firmwares and as said maybe there’s a limited functionality 5.xx exploit on the horizon, but just a bit of reality before you get too excited.

They figure once they have a captive audience, anything short of killing the hostage is fair game.

In the US there is a “right of publicity” that is based on state law, typically for commercial uses. There are also some laws depending on locality criminalizing deepfakes for revenge porn. Some countries use copyright law to the same end.

The “doppelganger problem” is really why this is not an easy issue to answer. If someone gets exclusive rights to a specific face, who is to say another person naturally having a similar face isn’t being wronged? How close is too close? What about similar names? And should that really be protected after death (which copyright and trademark and some publicity laws allow)?

Good rule of thumb: if you don’t know, don’t respond. You’ll see someone did post a credible and confident answer after your post.

I’m hoping we hit “peak stupid” with these nonsense metrics soon, but the C-suite MBAs who get all their AI-related information solely from vendor demos, Sam Altman and Elon Musk keep surprising me.

I’ve been playing Puzzle Quest on my original PSP every so often and it’s really such a nice change of pace. No enshittification, subscriptions, forced updates, distractions…

I know it’s just a game system, but it feels like it’s helping repair my attention span and reminding me why I enjoyed technology a decade or two ago.

Yeah, totally. I notice it, didn’t seem like you were shaming.

I mean, to each his own and everyone is allowed to post what they like, but I’d guess 95% of these types of memes are the same one or two people. I can spot a meme by this poster without looking at the name at this point.

I mean, I agree we don’t want spying, but: a foreign government absolutely can use your data against you. Whether its creating a profile on you that could later be used against you when you enter that country, using it for statistical or targeted data for influence campaigns…there are a lot of ways.

China in particular has repeatedly deployed extra-territorial “police service stations” in at least the UK, Canada and the US to punish or harass those it’s identified as “Chinese” dissidents or sympathizers in other countries.