Hazzard

I'll give two answers to this question, from the perspective of a Christian reading the Old Testament/Torah.

Wouldn't it be effective to convince followers of a religion if a religion could accurately predict a scientific phenomenon before its followers have the means of discovering it?

This is interpretative, but if there is a God, he seems big on free will. Why give humanity the option to sin in the garden at all? Why not just reveal himself in the sky each morning? Why even bother creating a universe that can be explained without him? There's an abundance of easy ways God could make himself irrefutable, and yet in the Bible he makes us "in His image", and offers us choices like that tree in the garden.

Furthermore, why even create us to sin in the first place? My interpretation of the Torah is that God is big on relationship, and that free will is a key part of that. Just like a human relationship based on a love potion is kinda creepy, and a pale imitation of something real, it seems like God doesn't want to be irrefutable.

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I think that's the more relevant answer to your question, but I'll also give the only example that comes to mind of the Bible seemingly imparting "scientific knowledge", which is to look at the laws around "cleanliness". Someone else already mentioned some "unclean" animals, but if you read more, they pretty consistently seem like good advice around bacteria. Some examples of times you need to "purify" (essentially take a bath) that seem like common sense now:

• being around dead bodies
• touching blood that's not yours
• having your period
• etc.

Reading this as a modern person aware of germs, many of these "laws" seem like they would have kept the death rate of faithful Jews a lot lower than their neighbours in that day.

Interesting. I've been using XeSS lately, after seeing better results in DOOM TDA, but now I'm curious if this is worth using instead, and figuring out an FSR replacer on Bazzite to use this.

Exactly what I've done. Set my settings to hide NSFW, blocked most of the "soft" communities like hot girls and moe anime girls and whatever else (blocking the lemmynsfw.com instance is a great place to start), and I use All frequently. That's how I've found all the communities I've subscribed to, but frankly, my /all feed is small enough that I usually see all my subscribed communities anyway.

Hard to blame them. Proton is dang impressive, and if it works, it works.

Bold to assume this would even work. What on earth would "location tracking" even look like? Something that trusts the OS for a location? I imagine it could easily be tricked. An AirTag soldered to the board? Trivially removable.

Something like this sounds very ineffective, and would be devastating to Nvidia's brand in global markets like China, of course they're against it. It sounds like a stupid idea, frankly.

My guess here is that it isn't Denuvo, it just seems like it's not designed for Open World games. These issues all also exist on console, where Denuvo isn't a problem (although it certainly isn't helping either). Dragon's Dogma 2 exhibited a lot of the same poor performance and stuttering nearly a year before MH Wilds came out.

By then, I assume the game was too far into development to change course, with it's ambitious design and a lot of AI that has to always run in each area adding to the engine issues.

Honestly.... I'm not sure how much better they can make it, given how much time they've had to work on it, and that DD2 never really escaped its issues too. It feels like RE Engine was just... fundamentally not designed for this, no matter how great an engine it is in its niche.

Wait... they're doing rebate checks? I thought these tariffs were supposed to magically cover the overwhelming budget deficits? And how exactly will they do that when it's being distributed as free money?

Literally trying to bribe their terrible ideas into being popular, while blowing the deficit out even further. 600$ will finally convince Americans their economy is doing well and isn't barrelling towards utter catastrophe at mach speeds. Astounding work.

Amen to that, here's to hoping.

Mhm, fair enough, I suppose this is a difference in priorities then. Personally, I'm not nearly as worried about small players, like hobbyists and small companies, who wouldn't've already developed something like this in house.

And I brought up "security through obscurity" because I'm somewhat optimistic that this can work out like encryption has, where tons of open source research was done into encryption and decryption, until we worked out encryption standards that we can run at home that are unbreakable before the heat death of the universe with current server farms.

Many of those people releasing decryption methods were considered villains, because it made hacking some previously private data easy and accessible, but that research was the only way to get to where we are, and I'm hopeful that one day we actually could make an unbeatable AI poison, so I'm happy to support research that pushes us towards that end.

I'm just not satisfied preventing small players from training AI on art without permission while knowingly leaving Google and OpenAI an easy way to bypass it.

Exactly, it is an arms race. But if a few students can beat our current best weapons, it'd be terribly naive to think the multiple multi-billion dollar companies, sinking their entire futures into this, and also already amoral enough to be stealing content en masse from the entire internet, hadn't already cracked this and locked everyone involved into serious NDAs.

Better to know what your enemy has then to just cross your fingers and hope that maybe they didn't notice this was possible, and have just been letting us poison their precious AI models they're sinking billions of dollars into. Having this now lets us build the next version of nightshade that isn't so trivially defeated.

Eh, it's a fair point. Not trying something like this is essentially "security by obscurity", which has been repeatedly proven to be a mistake.

Wouldn't surprise me if OpenAI or someone else already had something like this behind closed doors, but now the developers of tools like Nightshade can begin to work on developing AI poison that's more resilient against these kinds of "cleanup" tools.

Might be a good use case for Anubis, in addition to the URLParam passwords mentioned elsewhere. Enough protection to prevent trivial brute force scraping, while also being basically invisible to users.