Why would you need to plug a console to the Internet to play solo games?

Connecting mostly bring enshittification: sending telemetry to 3rd party, ads, updates triggering a random time making it impossible to play when powering the console.

My console is offline 95% of the time, behind a slow connection 5% of the time. No physical media would mean not buying any new game. No new games means there’s no point in buying the latest console to play new games.

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For fuck’s sake. If that’s an undisclosed bot then it should be banned.

Scammers may not use this specific project yet, but do use tools like This with LLM integration. They absolutely will use an OSS tool if it’s good enough and cheap enough.

STIR/SHAKEN would help, but it would remain a game of cat and mouse. SPF/DKIM/… is widely deployed and enrorfced and yet spam email continue. There’s financial insentives to keep spamming one way or another.

LLMs enable spam call at a much larger scale with few to no human involved. They won’t quit nor blow the whistle on their shitty boss. LLMs are the least useful, most harmful kind of AI. It should be abandonned and/or regulated to death.

So that’s how spam bots are making tons of calls to sell their scams and harrass people.

I receive multiple calls everyday for the same scam despite being on a no-marketing list. The same AI agents are cycling through numbers to make themselves hard to block. Virturtally everyone I talk to got these calls, and increasingly avoid answering the phone.

It makes having a phone more annoying, less useful. Just like spam ruined emails.

PROFIBUS is the Process Field Bus as a digital communication protocol commonly used for industrial automation. […] This driver hasn’t seen much activity since the Linux 2.1~2.2 days.

This is probably still uses somewhere. Industrial systems have longer lifetime than personal computers.

Those systems probably use older kernels, and vendors can volonteer if they want to maintain the driver. If no vendor do, then removing the driver seems reasonable.

Is Helium or something like it available on iOS?

Windows is a toy OS, good enough to play video games. But many confused people think it’s okay to use for critical or sensitive operations.

They’re requesting mostly wrong solutions for real problems.

Age verification doesn’t address social media’s problems, but does increase data collection and decrease privacy. Same for decrypting private messages.

A guardian account does seem reasonable.

They could also completely turn off user seach for minors, so they would have to add contacts by username or email, and couldn’t reach or be reached easily by online strangers.

Minors could circumvent this if there’s no age verification. But today’s age verification methods are neither privacy-friendly nor hard to circumvent. Until they are, it’s not worth requiring age verification.

Bruce Willis isn’t going to act in more action movies unfortunately. Degenerative illnesses suck.

Relying on a black box or stochastic AI would probably make this harder to certify and to get public acceptance.

My guess is that, if certified, this would have very niche uses. Basically would only be used where using sprinkler is not possible.

I suspected LLM scrappers when hearing about the DDOS attack. Those are doing a continuous DDOS on many projects.

Debian trixie has a fix https://security-tracker.debian.org/tracker/CVE-2026-31431

Are you aware of the Piefed API? It’s provided specifically to allow building front-ends and bots while avoiding scrapping.

And I guess engineers would be held responsible for the code produced by the AI agent’s they’re pressured to use.

So management can blame and fire more engineers when things go wrong.

Good. This may reduce the amount of sloppy code being created. And prevent prices from increasing for everyone.

That’s a hard pivot. And building more AI infrastructure is a bad idea. But they might make some short term money given the AI hype.

Is that Oracle’s Larry Ellison on the right?

Oracle needs a good dose of adversarial interoperability.