At this point, as long as Steam and GOG stay up and running with their current catalogs, the entire video game development industry could self-destruct and any gamer over 30 would have enough stuff to play until they die. The younger generation of players would have time to create a new industry from scratch for themselves :)

Ahh well, good for this guy at least. I wonder if he'll actually name his kid Claude as he said in his post.

They still get a decent number of kids online but also get plausible deniability. Once you've required users to lie or cheat to bypass your "safeguards" you are no longer liable for any harm, right?

OMG can you imagine driving in a stressful or bad weather situation and having a constant animation playing on your car's fricking hood? Most idiot drivers can barely pay attention as it is. Next up - play Mario Bros on your car's hood in traffic!

"supported the idea in principle but would not block a major redevelopment project tied to jobs and local investment" translation: "I agree with the idea, unless they pay us enough money to ignore the problems, just like every other giant business investment."

It seems like there's a pretty easy solution to this problem, but maybe I'm missing some key info, since I'm looking at it from the outside.. 1) Don't allow uploads from any account less than a week old. 2) Anyone caught uploading an Ai track has their account warned on the first offense, banned for the second one. This incudes any payment details they gave to collect money for their garbage. 3) Cut the number of uploads an account can make to what a human artist could "reasonably" produce in a week. I leave it to the musicians at Deezer to determine that number. Make it a growing scale based on account age. The newer you are, the fewer tracks you can upload. This should make it just hard enough to keep setting up new accounts, that the minimal amount they stand to make from trying won't be worth it. It won't be 100% but it seems like it would cut down enormously on the amount.

I'm not nearly as worried about the NSA and Mythos as I am about what Trump's sycophants will do with it to mess with the upcoming elections, the Dem's email systems, and to trap and frame his political "enemies".

My friends and I saw Project Hail Mary in one of these types of theaters. The image was great and the screen was big, so that was nice. But theaters seem to be cheaping-out on sound systems now, relying on volume and bass to make up for a lack of speaker numbers and quality. I was not impressed in that regard.

Security through obscurity will usually delay hackers, the trick is doing it long enough to keep ahead of them. But would relying on an LLM to find all your weak spots in a meaningful way require subscriptions to every one of them, at their highest tiers? You have to find every problem that any one of them might spot. Otherwise you're still open to that one hacker who used that one tool that you didn't. I really wonder how much work and cost will be associated with maintaining open source code in a world where foreign governments and solo black hats have access to 100 different specially trained LLMs, including ones you simply can't get for various reasons.

Do theaters still get 0% of the box office and rely solely on ad revenue and dwindling sales of overpriced concessions for all their income? If so, it's easy for this kind of greedy idiot to complain about it, but ultimately meaningless.

Good info to have! Then I can't blame Valve for the old app going away, but can we blame them for not making one in the first place? Valve made it for AVP - an extremely niche device that seems likely to have very little commercial benefit for them. Samsung sells more TVs in a month than the total number of AVPs ever sold.

Unfortunately my house's attic doesn't extend over the TV area in a way that would work for wiring. You'll have to believe me that all the options have been explored. However, I have a strong mesh setup and had very little trouble streaming a 2K signal from the PC to the TV (which has ethernet to the router) over Steam Link. My current setup uses Apollo/Moonlight to stream from the PC to my Steam Deck, plugged into the TV. But that reduces compatibility (no motion control) and since the LCD Steam Deck doesn't support HDR, I don't get that either. Valve have also apparently given up on really making Remote Play work properly either, hence the Moonlight option (for now). I'm hoping they will fix it once the Steam Machine comes out and I can benefit without having to buy a new box just for the living room.

My gaming PC is on the opposite end of the house, so not only would I have to run a 50' HDMI cable, I'd need a 50' USB cable for my controller, since it can't pair over BT through the multiple walls between the couch and the PC. Believe me, I've tried :) Also, running long cables down the hall and across the living room seems ridiculous and isn't looked upon kindly by the spouse. Steam Link worked perfectly and I mourn its passing every time I try one of the other options that fail to work as well. I'd say it's no more niche than the number of Apple Vision owners who also want to play their PC-based Steam games on it.

They got rid of Steam Link for my Samsung TV, but release it for a device so few people own. WTF Valve? My life is measurably worse, but at least the rich f**ks can play 2D games in a VR headset now.

There's a reason this story is only showing up in nonsense rags like the Post.