That's a hell of a nostalgia trip. Freelancer is probably my all time favourite game, and I had literally a decade of fond memories of Disco before I eventually drifted off.
What's it looking like these days? The pop count and surviving factions were looking a little sad the last time I checked in a year or two ago.
The two YouTube links from Haelian in my summary set up the context for why this is really hard, and then commentary on the actual run itself.
Those last few seconds were absolutely hair-raising, even if we already knew how it was going to end!
See you in 200 hours, enjoy!
Also, if you're playing for the first time maybe don't watch those videos until you've completed at least one run for spoiler reasons.
https://www.plymouth.ac.uk/discover/why-are-artificial-lawns-bad-for-the-environment
Minimising the objections down to that and then writing them all off as NIMBYism is such an absurd strawman.
I agree that non traditional lawns are better, but that definitely does not include artificial pitch.
since C2PA relies on creators to opt in, the protocol doesn’t really address the problem of bad actors using AI-generated content. And it’s not yet clear just how helpful the provision of metadata will be when it comes to media fluency of the public. Provenance labels do not necessarily mention whether the content is true or accurate.
Interesting approach, but I can't help but feel the actual utility is fairly limited. For example, I could see it being useful for large corporate creative studios that have contractual / union agreements that govern AI content usage.
If they're using enterprise tools that build in C2PA, it'd give them a metadata audit trail showing exactly when and where AI was used.
That's completely useless in the context where AI content flagging is most useful though. As the quote says, this provenance data is applied at the point of creation, and in a world where there are open source branches of generation models, there's no way to ensure provenance tagging is built in.
This technology is most needed to combat AI powered misinformation campaigns, when that is the use case this is least able to address.
Data Protection shouldn't be a relevant issue - at least not in the sense that it forcss them to delete accounts. When you process data under the GDPR, you have to identify a lawful basis.
I assume that transactions through the eStore would be handled under the contract basis, with the hosting of the game in the library forming part of the contractual relationship. That would enable them to maintain an account for as long as the contractual relationship persisted.
That basically means GDPR doesn't force them to close an account, they close an account based on their policies because they choose to. That'll be based on their T&Cs, so things will fundamentally circle back to whether their T&Cs are legitimate and lawful.
It is possible that a data subject could potentially raise a claim for damages under the GDPR, on the grounds that the deletion of their account is a breach of contract that amounts to an availability data breach.
It looks like the TLD was sold off to a private business by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority in 1997, with those rights subsequently being sold on to other corporations.
The British government have issued an FOI response advising that they recieve no funds from .io domain registrations. The Chagos Islanders still don't benefit, but it looks like that'd need to be squared with a hedge fund rather than a government.
...It is weird that territorial domains can be auctioned off in the first place though.
UK district and borough councils have a homelessness prevention duty which also applies to refugees. Unfortunately said councils are also largely falling to pieces and social housing stock hasn't met demand since Thatcher eviscerated it in the 80s.
This basically means that a bunch of them are going to end up living long-term in 'emergency' B&B placements due to a lack of available social housing, unless they can find private arrangements themselves.
It'll be funny if Georgia also gets off the pot and indictes too.
Could this go in US News instead? Lemmy is broadly very US-centric already, so posting US politics here too drowns out other global stories.
Why would blockchain be necessary to do that? Honestly, 99% of the time blockchain is just a highly inefficient buzzword.
Usually there are better ways to achieve the same outcome, with the added bonus of not automatically attracting a cavalcade of Web3 con-artists and grifters.
You can host your own server too, although there's a few steps you need to follow to get FLServer working properly. There's instructions on the Discovery forums for that.