My partner often says it’s a lot of “middle class” workers.

Many things have been happening over the past 5-10 years that target or diminish the middle class wages overall. Basically companies and such are racing to the bottom in a way…and the way they built things out incentivizes this race rather than slowing it down.

I can’t imagine why anyone would allow an AI to interact with files that have not been thoroughly backed up and secured on a disk that is detached from any system the AI is running on.

Secondly, I cannot imagine why one would ever permit the AI to use move commands when getting files from a directory that is external to the directory you explicitly designate as the AI’s workspace.

Third, why would someone not make sure all the files are in the right places yourself? It takes maybe 5 minutes tops to crack open a file explorer window and do the file operations exactly as you intended them; that way it’s ensured that a ‘copy’ operation and not a ‘move’ operation is used on the files, while doing any versioning, backing up or checkpointing that is desired.

Last of all; why would someone use an LLM to make simple commands to a machine that they could easily do in one CLI command or one GUI interaction? If one can type an entire sentence in natural language to an AI, and they are skilled enough to set up and use that AI agent as a tool, why not simply type the command they intended, or do the GUI interaction necessary to do the task?

Again; I must iterate how wrong you are.

People can and do travel and move to different countries with their consoles. There can be multiple accounts per console. People can feasibly have two consoles right next to each other connected to different networks and swap carts between them. People can change consoles because they upgraded or because they have multiple consoles in the household. And people can and do resell carts all the time.

These situations do not matter as the logic for detection is very simple. Is cartrige A with serial ABC in more places than is reasonably expected of that cartridge? With physical copies that limitation is exactly 1 place, 1 system at a time. Irrespective of who it’s registered to or who owns it. Any cartridge that has been in more than one place at one time and your system cert is logged and inserted in the next upcoming ban wave / wave of system cert revocations. This revocation goes live on Nintendo’s servers. Your system will not get the Online Service kiss of death until after this happens.

Other checks such as location, account, how often it happens and such can and may happen after this check to automatically limit false positives and prevent you from being instantly banned. But their system works; and it’s consistent as to which condition triggers it; that’s when the identity of any physical or digital game title is in more places than it is licensed to be in. (Actively caught piracy).

And there is no way to differentiate those scenarios even if you can/could track each cart individually.

Except that they can, and do. See other comments around for the how and why…it’s related to Nintendo Gold Points.

There could be a record of which consoles have played which carts, but that gives you exactly zero information about how many owners the cart has had.

There absolutely is. An unmodified Switch console reports this sort of telemetry on a regular basis to Nintendo; and it’s clear that they can ban your system based on bad Title IDs; (basically fake title headers, or dumped cartridge headers used to conceal flash cartrige usage)

Switch accounts aren’t associated to consoles and physical game entitlements aren’t associated to accounts. Any account can be in any console at any time and instantly show in in multiple places and while you could account for travel times it’s a pretty pointless thing to do that, to my knowledge, Nintendo is not doing.

They don’t have to be. Just have to log that your System Certificate reported a new title. This System Certificate is used in all traffic to Nintendo as it authenticates your system to it’s network.

They literally have no way to do so. There is no tool in the toolset to distinguish a cart someone else bought at the store from your own carts you bought at the store and then moved from a Switch 1 to a Switch 2.

This is absolutely not true; it’s absolutely possible and even suspected that individual game carts themselves are signed with unique serial IDs or even full certificates or cryptographic signatures.

I think it’s more likely the previous owner did dump the cart on to a MIG Switch or similar ROM cart. While the NS1 cannot tell the difference; it can still be updated to do so.

I think it’s likely that in order to play titles online; your Switch 1 has to get the Cart Serial number from the cart and package it all up nicely and sign it neatly with the certificate from the system. So if said Nintendo Switch 1 already transferred that title out to a Switch 2, then there would be a record on file with Nintendo saying “NS1 with Serial XYZ transferred Title cart ABC with serial DEF to Switch 2 with serial GHI”. Then when you put that cart into a different Switch 2 it notices and informs Nintendo of the new title and cart serial…which then immediately picks up on the change of ownership.

That might not raise red flags if you handed the cart over to your friend next door; but it certainly might raise red flags if you air-mailed the cart over to your buddy a few countries over.

In general, I disable the ability of getting a ‘read receipt’ if at all possible. In the case of some rare platforms that don’t allow this; I also warn people that "Seeing a ‘read receipt’ indicator does not mean I was available to reply.

In general; people who hang on to this little indicator are also committing a larger social faux pas, and you should { [(yellow/red) flag] / address / handle } it accordingly based on your relationship to that person, your goals and the situation.

Whether that means ‘calling them out’ or kindly explaining what it actually means or explaining your approach to communications; the behavior of expecting something to happen on the receipt of a read receipt needs to be discouraged in my personal opinion.

It will be the end of Nintendo. …Eventually. Of course these things take time; and people in general are slow on the uptake; especially uninterested masses.

Eventually though; they will grow too bold; brick a larger number of systems than is absolutely necessary to intimidate people away from piracy and basically piss off the gaming userbase; at which point the Steam Deck and related hardware will likely draw all casuals in.

This is problematic; and a perfect example why end users should not be trusting Windows 11, 12 or later, or any software that Microsoft outputs from now on.

AI CAN’T WRITE SOFTWARE, ONLY HUMANS CAN CREATE AT HIGH LEVELS NEEDED TO CREATE NEW SOFTWARE SOLUTIONS At Best, AI can tell you maybe what libraries might help you get 50% the way there; but it cannot, and should not ever be used to do all the work of a human.

I disagree wholly; but I understand what I see to be the underlying concern; which is a cat and mouse game of ‘who can generate a harder hash to fake?’ versus ‘who can sling the best fake hashes?’.

Alpha channels are critical. The ability to have images have transparency in them is much more useful than you believe it is. Many end users have a need for it, more than they know they do; so this argument really isn’t doing much for your stance supporting PNG. Similarly PNG has supported alpha channels for quite a while.

The change in EULA was the hint; I have not; and will not be buying any Switch 2 games, consoles or related merchandise. Nor will I be paying any further into my Switch beyond NSO as I have or buying any games for the Switch that are not explicitly on a physical cart.

I don’t buy games often anyways and would rather support Pocketpair and Palworld and Valve. So that’s where my discretionary spend and gift requests will go henceforth.

In general Nintendo is having it’s villainous arc; and I don’t believe they will survive it…given that they’ve run out or demoted their creatives and visionaries to workers. Nintendo is dead; what’s left is a greedy and soulless shell that behaves more like a gang or mafia. Given their History; that doesn’t surprise me.

This seems like a potentially clever defense against scrapers…which probably spoof the referrer field to be the base domain anyways.

I also think it’s important to point out separately that this software can be modified down into an easy to use software package that allows one to input relevant taxable financial data into it; and then when it comes time to file your taxes; you print out a long report; take it to your tax professional, who is now easily able to read that report, and use the information to appropriately file taxes.

Heck; that report might even make it drop dead simple to fill out your own tax forms; should you decide that’s what you’d like to do; and you could feed the software the relevant tax forms in and it would fill them out to the best of it’s ability using the data provided to it.

I don’t see the problem. This can be forked, enhanced, updated, and modified and that version released with an appropriate copyleft license.

Sure; some companies will do the same with utterly horrific copyright licenses. That’s fine; as it’s in the public domain. We just need some group to work to provide an appropriate copyleft licensed version.

Ideally we should be getting on this fast; but we all know FOSS work isn’t going to be fast if it’s done by volunteers. Some funds might need raising.

In essence; CC0 is an ultimate copyleft license; as it does not even preclude the use of copyrighting improvements on variant works.

It doesn’t have to be sinister to be wrong, or, to violate the ethos standards that the FOSS community at large is supposed to stand for.

When it’s explained simply; it seems to make more sense to emotive thinking.

An example:

“[Manufacturer] is [telling you that/acting like] you cannot choose apps outside of their [store/collection/catalog]; even if you, as an adult, would trust that app or need it to save your own sanity, health or life.”

When I tell an Apple user that; they suck their teeth and try to make [noises/excuses] but in the end they do relent and admit that does suck. Not only can they not refute it logically, they cannot refute it emotionally.

When I show them how I’ve riced out the experience of my Android Smartphone and how I can use my phone rapidly without encumbrance because I have everything at my fingertips in a workflow that comes native to me…they get jealous!

Sadly where I lose them, is where I tell them all the work I put in to achieve it. I have to break the news to them that going to the store and buying a phone with freedoms just like mine isn’t possible. Perhaps that’s where we need to attack these things.

Basically; we need to make freedom look sexy. There will invariably be things we can do with our freed devices and software systems that they cannot hope to achieve. We have to endeavor to make that difference as pronounced and noticeable as possible. When we do; that’s when FLOSS communities swell and grow. When Linux got good at gaming with Proton; the numbers swelled. Linux became “sexy” because it could game. If we give users something they can have over their peers who don’t seek freedom respecting software, they will flock to it in droves…and the companies will be driven into the poorhouse for failing to meet the user demands.

When comparing it to X11; it absolutely isn’t. That isn’t me being unfair; just objectively comparing the two to each other. Literally nothing else exists that are quite like X11 and Wayland…so it makes sense to grade one against the other.

That isn’t saying it does not work as well or even better than X11 does; it just hasn’t existed for long enough yet to be nearly as widely adopted as X11 is. Gnome’s decision to adopt a Wayland only stance is fairly new and I’m waiting to see how that goes for them. With luck it will go well and increase the adoption of Wayland. I’m aware that plenty of Distros do include Wayland; and plenty have taken the plunge similar to Gnome; which is why they probably felt it was wise to follow suit, after observing Wayland succeeding in those Distros fairly well.

I don’t really have a horse in the argument per-se; I think both X11 and Wayland are both great; if you’re using them like the developers intended you to use them.

I do think the video makes a pretty good point about how people who attack others for continuing X11 is very much violating the ethos of FOSS communities in general; and I have no doubts that if the claims made in the video are true; I think folks like Stallman would be kind of upset with people behaving that way because it only harms the FOSS community as a whole.

You may not agree with people who want to use X11 for their very niche use cases. That’s fine. But I do question any motives behind any kind of behavior that is not only ceasing all development on X11, but actively blocking and sabotaging others who want to work on X11 from doing so.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electroconvulsive_therapy#History

Hell. To. The. No.

This is no different than the electroshock ‘therapies’ that were pioneered from 1930 and onward through the 1990s used to treat people who were “Mentally ill”. This is based in medical quackery and this is highly problematic that it once again is being suggested.

This is some strange stuff.

I thought it was odd that there were distros pushing forth into Wayland-Only territory; given that Wayland isn’t yet mature.

Now it seems like something more odd and sinister is going on…

Feel free to discuss and reply civilly.

In a perfectly reasonable, civilized and rational world; this would be seen as an additional feature in “Bad taste”.

There is no rational reason for the company to permit any kind of detailed filtering; the longer you’re swiping through photos, the longer you use the app and the chance that you potentially give them money for services remains.

There is no rational reason to discriminate against people based on their height either. While it’s quite natural to have preferences, generally speaking, you know when you find someone attractive. I don’t think I’ve ever heard of someone genuinely only attracted to specifically only tall or short people; there’s usually something else there behind the reason. That reason could be any number of things from feelings to experiences and more.

Attraction, much like people, is a complicated and not so straightforward thing. It’s reason for being isn’t based on rationality always, we don’t always size up our mates the way a computer would. In general it’s oftentimes emotional, and attractiveness can be something that happens when someone manages to emotionally convey an appearance or vibe that matches something the one feeling the attraction might be looking for.