why would one do either? By whitelisting you entirely prevent traffic. API auth takes processing. How wrong is it? Maybe for your home usage it’s good enough but layering measures has value…

I'm not sure how to position myself when a court orders a company to adapt their software in such specific ways. At the very least that should be a matter of a legislation with a broader analysis and considerations applied to the whole sector. Plus, maybe, consider parenting in the picture... Teenagers should maybe not be looking a notifications during the night.

Objectively to a large extent yes. There’s the family thingy where you can share games with a limited audience in steam but you can’t « re-key » a game to resell a key. That would be a wonderful feature…

I’d argue that there’s even less safeguards limiting them but yes that also. They have strong incentives…

Yeah creative fuckers those scammers. There’s a fine tradition of them being early adopters for tech that give them edge against their victims.

Innovative mechanics are generally where indies are shining though.

I’m not arguing that some AAA don’t have merits either in play time or other but from a euro per minute of pleasure overall they are not as good as indie games these last 10 or so years.

€30 vs €80 and I can play it hundreds of hours. Is that so hard of an equation ?

I don’t thing the world is so homogeneous that your take is applicable across the board but the overall trend clearly relates to « let’s reduce our human capital ». And a lot of opportunistic small / medium players trying to capitalise on it. With a sprinkle of conviction driven exec borderline on religious fanatisme.

That’s kind of part of criminals business plan not to comply with regulations…

So it’s not actually a downside. Just noise in the background for which we’ll need to cope with. Same companies were already impersonating banks or whatever so the use of AI really is just accessory.

On another hand, knowing when a company is using bots to interface with its customers or when AI is involved into decisions that can impact them that’s a strong benefit for us European.

Damn though the first argument is some LLM is bad pitchfork level comment… it’s not even about functionalities but about how it’s written.

Shouldn’t it be the other way around ?

I don’t think that a sickness is orchestrating all the crap your political leaders are doing.

They are clearly and happily doing all that of their own accord. And they also incidentally instrumentalize and opportunistically benefit from some epidemics.

Most cyberpunk read today.

How that shit is not illegal is beyond me. Gambling is already predatory but outside of sports and in fucking armed conflicts is abhorrent.