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Cake day: March 22nd, 2024

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  • it’s a form of private journalism, private opinion, and private art

    But without any of the liability hazard.

    This is my issue: the big platforms having their cake and eating it. In one breath, they claim to be little open-platform garage startups that can’t possibly be responsible for the content of their users; they’re just a utility. They need protection from Congress. In another breath, they’re the stewards of generations and children, the only ones responsible enough to tame the internet’s criminality. All while making trillions.

    They want to be “private content” protected from the government? Fine. Treat them like it, legally.



  • Yeah, that’s going too far, but I understand the reaction to fanning over Valve.

    There are a bazillion historical examples of why one should use, not trust, big businesses. They are entities to make transaction with, not people, and they will tighten the screws even if it takes decades.

    This is doubly true in the software business.

    And if the Valve superfans look at the world in 2026 and somehow don’t see that, I honestly don’t know what to tell them. They’re in such a completely different world than me I don’t know where to start.


  • Be prepared.

    Don’t hate, but don’t trust Valve. Treat your Steam library like you don’t own it, and it could be enshittified at any time, because you don’t, and it could.


    In practice, prioritize DRM-free stores when convenient. Or better yet, 1st party game dev stores. Archive any games or saves you actually want to go back to, just in case. Game like your Steam client install could require a subscription at a moment’s notice.




  • Yeah. Motorsport should have been right up my alley but… what the heck are they doing with MP?

    Last I played, the only half-usable race was the mixed class one, as it was medium length instead of short. It meant soft tires weren’t the uber-end-all meta, that the start isn’t such an apocalypse, and that one troll who knocks you off doesn’t end your whole race because it’s like 3 laps. And that you actually have time to pass.

    I think they did away with it, and with no reason to touch the SP campaign with the stupid AI… I just quit? Kinda with the feeling you get after mediocre fast food. “Why did I eat that?”

    Which sucks, as some of the cars are so much fun. I love the can am monsters, the ancient Le Mans cars, the quirky supercompacts and such, all sharing a circuit. What a waste.




  • Horizon 5 rallying feels great, but only on long-travel suspensions that don’t bounce over the road like a cartoon.

    Try the RJ Anderson #37 Pro2 truck, give it 4WD, soften the suspension/tires, fatten the rear tires and take it on that downhill mountain course. It’s utter bliss. I also like the Ford Ranger T6 on flatter courses, and the Rally Fighter for RWD fun.

    …But yeah, FH5 is too arcadey. Cross country is just miserable outside of the slowest class. The campaign is so sycophantic and stupid, and MP matchmaking racing is utterly broken. I’ll probably skip 6 too.





  • …Without cash, though?

    We’ve had an obvious, somewhat proven path to uber fast local inference (bitnet), but no one has taken it. No one is willing to roll the dice with a few multi-million dollar training runs, apparently, and this is true of dozens of other incredible papers.

    It seems like organization around local model tinkering is hanging by a thread, too. Per usual, client business will barely lift a finger to support it.

    So while I’m a local acolyte, through and through, I’m a bit… disillusioned. It doesn’t feel like anyone is coming to save us.



  • Go go China !

    Bops the tankie.

    Like, I have a Chinese LLM loaded right this second and follow them closely, but holy moly. Curb your enthusiasm.

    Anyway, OpenAI has plenty of compute to train a Sora 2 if they want, but apparently they don’t. My guess is some combination of:

    • They couldn’t figure out a more efficient architecture, like you speculated. I buy that. OpenAI’s development is way more conservative than you’d think, and video generation is inherently intense, especially if Sora 1 is the baseline.

    • …Maybe they looked at metrics, saw Sora is mostly used for spam, scams, or worse, and pulled the plug for liability reasons?

    • They’re focusing on short-term profitability, as other commenters mentioned.