I played the first one of the series but bounced off it pretty quickly. Seems there are a lot of these now. Are they visual novels or something?

They probably need to sell over 14 million copies at full price to break even with that bonus. The math is very bad for them. That’s not impossible, but it would make it one of the best selling games of all time (top 50)

Companies often arbitrarily pick. In the US retailers often start the year in like April so they can get all their holiday season earnings in the same fiscal year

I’m not concerned about it personally, but you are putting a lot of trust in them as a 3rd party service provider. It’s up to your specific risk profile if that’s acceptable risk or not.

The alternative would probably be self hosting a vpn yourself with dyndns to handle ip address resolution. I’m biased (I have a professional networking background) but I don’t think it’s that much harder to setup either. But then I’m also a hypocrite and don’t self host anything anymore.

There’s also a valid argument to be made that doing it yourself is riskier because novices make mistakes. I don’t think this is too big of a concern personally - it’s not like you’re rolling your own cryptography.

Just as much as Tailscale is self hosting. Tailscale is probably more concerning from a security point of view.

At some point it’s just mismanagement and blows any potential profit out the window.

I’d skip Active Directory but the rest seems reasonable.

Doing it all through infra as code and using ci/cd tend to be the most “devopsy” things.

It was pretty predictable that this was gaming’s “3d movies” moment imo. I am surprised we’re still talking about it 10 years later though.

I’ve never understood the point of postman. I usually just use curl

Without knowing more about your use case, seems fine I guess.

This is an incorrect assertion. Making common actions self service without needing a human is almost always a customer win. For example automatic refunds on request if your request meets the correct criteria, instead of needing a human to look at it and make an arbitrary decision. Or having a knowledge base of common issues that can help people fix problems on their own without needing to talk to a person. Both are much faster and more repeatable.

• Ground truth is real data that’s been verified to be correct. Eg a bunch a images that are labeled “hot dog” or “not hot dog”. This is a common AI industry term.

• Structured data just means that it’s in a consistent machine-readable format that programs can easily interact with. This is just a common computer science term.

• Guided means that it’s not operating from nothing, the process is being influenced or constrained by something.

Taken together it means that they’re taking input data (probably the existing artwork), converting it into a structured data format that’s easier to work with, then that’s used to augment or restrict the AI process to move in the right direction or not go off the rails.

I say it’s misleading because this is something that was fairly obvious to everyone looking at it, even if they didn’t know that terminology. What their model is producing is obviously influenced by and recognizable as a modified version of the original. Even if the overall outcome is lacking.

I know what it means, but it is using jargon to say something simple to mislead people

This is the way to go. Do a simple website that says “hello world” then add all the other infrastructure around it until it’s a real webpage accessible on the Internet. Only then should you move onto something complex like mbin. Don’t skip the basics

Sony has always been pretty anti consumer. I’m addition to the root kit thing, they have a history of pushing their own propietary crap as open standards. Sometimes successfully (blu ray) and sometimes not (memory stick). They also removed the “other OS” (Linux) option from the PS3 midway through the console’s life cycle.

I’m sure there’s more examples, but they’ve been a bottom tier brand for a long time due to this for me.

Works fine in Firefox on Android

Just post “No dogs” if you don’t want dogs, sheesh.

It’s been a long time since I saw a dcss morgue post

It’s way too complicated for tech illiterate people.

Haven’t found one that’s as good yet personally…