From Infocom to 80 Days: An oral history of text games and interactive fiction (arstechnica.com)
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"This population doesn’t often seek medical help out of fear of being unemployed.”
A physics simulation flaw in text-based 1969 computer game went unnoticed until today.
If Apple aren’t paying OpenAI and OpenAI aren’t playing Apple, it means that consumers are paying both.
"So the cop was tracking random people off social media using this incredibly invasive technology, on a pretty regular basis."...
- Hackers working for the Chinese government gained access to more than 20,000 VPN appliances sold by Fortinet using a critical vulnerability that the company failed to disclose for two weeks after fixing it, Netherlands government officials said....
Run trials with an astounding number of easily avoidable flaws, win stupid prizes. It would be a shame for this to turn into an overall setback for psychedelic therapy....
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Saw a article on a large number of gamers being over 55 and then I saw this which I believe needs to be addressed in our current laws.
The comments section on this article is illuminating beyond the story itself (as is frequently the case on Ars) and worth a look....
cross-posted from: lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/21218504...