I just finished this, yes it took me a month.

I found his literary style, very compelling, it was a fun read.

I found his predictions while interesting, not very clairvoyant. BeOS is sadly no longer with us.

I did like his tie-in to the Church of the simulation at the end, though this predates the official organization of such an church.

I think it was a thought-provoking essay, I disagreed with some aspects of this predictions, especially around what a monopoly is. It’s thought-provoking. It’s a good read. It is not gospel

He did talk about hacker culture, and anybody being able to fix anything, but was not able to make the connection between BeOS and proprietary license and Linux with an open license. The death of BOS followed one year from the creation of this essay

Pros:

• You get your hands dirty
• You learn a lot
• You have total control of everything

Cons:

• It takes a lot of time to do anything the first time
• You’re always going to be tweaking something
• Things are going to break at random times when it’s inconvenient

No matter what you do, have an extra cheap open WRT router you can throw in when something breaks.

I for one like unifi, I would recommend their dedicated router product rather than an all-in-one device. You can always run there management software in a docker container when you need it

If you want a hands off linux experience

• ChromeOS
• AndroidOS

True, it was a really well done clone, but it was well done. The game worked. It wasn’t terribly buggy.

My favorite theory is internal politics meant that the people who knew it was going to fail couldn’t prevent the game from going live without extreme cost to themselves. And they would be blamed for it.

Letting the game go live, was probably the least politically expensive thing for them to do. Even though everybody knew the outcome

Linux with packages, specifically debian with packages. It’s fine and I’m happy it exists,

but… if your a security researcher, political dissident, hacker, etc you should be using Qubes inside of which you can run this debian distro if you want. you could even run Kali, and parrot at the same time!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parrot_OS

Parrot OS is a Linux distribution based on Debian with a focus on security, privacy, and development

You misspelled Qubes

Just make games and people will buy games.

yeah a overwatch clone, even a really well made overwatch clone, 8 years too late and $40 too expensive… Was always going to have a really rough time

Plus… Dollar store guardians of the Galaxy vibes didn’t help.

100%. Patient gamer all the way. Single player games get bought when they get to the $5 discount range.

It’s still a probable token generator, you’re just training it on your local data. Hallucinations will absolutely happen.

LLMs are totally unreliable for research. They are just probable token generators.

Especially if your looking for new data that nobody has talked about before, then your just going to get convincing hallucinations, like talking to a slightly drunk professor at a loud bar who can’t ever admit they don’t know something.

Example: ask a llm this “what open source software developer died in the September 11th attacks?”

It will give you names, and when you try to verify those names, you’ll find out those people didn’t die. It’s just generating probable tokens

I don’t think IGN is inherently racist, they are upset they couldn’t get the developers to play in their artificial drama. IGN lives by creating content and drama, so they need everybody to respond to them and play into their stories.

A game studio only wanting to talk about their game? And a game journalist being upset that’s all they want to do? That seems insane

I don’t think anybody is upset about Concord failing. At all. I think there are people who are genuinely sad for all of the workers of Concord, in the games industry having a good game on your resume is important. There’s probably more than a few completely new employees, first job out of school, spent 7 years, and now they have nothing to show for it. It’s not great

So I think we can be empathetic to the people who wasted their lives on this poorly concepted project.

But I haven’t seen a single Concord fan out there, I don’t see anybody arguing that we should be playing it, nobody’s defending it. Hell even Sony is just cutting their losses, they didn’t do any real advertising, just slipped it out there

first among equals.

https://www.daybreakgames.com/status/

7 servers

https://steamdb.info/app/218230/charts/

https://activeplayer.io/planetside-2/

Yup, and 1,355 people are enjoying it right now!

Wrong time, 5 years too late

Wrong price, $40 too much

High friction, PSN account required

Nothing new, no new mechanic or feature or playstyle…

From all accounts the game is fine, but nothing makes it stand out enough, against ANY OF THE FREE GAMES: overwatch, planetside, warframe, halo infiniate, tf2!, apex, finals, destiny2, pubg, valorant, cs (not really hero, but close enough), cod warzone, fortnight, and deadlock…

So you have 6 buddies want to play a game… which one are you going to pick?

Assume you’re incapacitated, and somebody gets access to your recovery document. What information do they need to do what you would want them to do. Make sure all of the information is there, and all the steps are written out

https://github.com/cyphar/paperback If having your secrets written out is a little too risky, you might consider a distributed secret sharing approach. So multiple people you trust would have to coordinate to recover the archive

I think you’re struggling with the mix of artistic endeavor and commercial success. For the vast majority of artists they do not exist independent of the need to survive and have money.

But the games industry, by virtue of it being an industry, needs to make money. So commercial success is the primary target.

In the envelope of commercially viable projects, people can be artistic, and have demonstrated great feats of art, but the vast majority of output is not moving the dialogue forward.

Think pieces, conversation pieces, emotionally evocative pieces, they’re all part of the artistic vocabulary, but these are not bi-directional dialogues, the vast majority of artists are dead, and their art is appreciated in the context of the viewer. Hopefully the message is clear, but sometimes especially for abstract art, the message is deliberately ambiguous.