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SillyUsername commented on Dev Reveals Secrets Behind New "3D" Platformer for the ZX Spectrum   timeextension.com/news/20... · Posted by u/Flow
SillyUsername · 3 days ago
I wonder if they can get the multicolour mode working with this to, the 8x4 (Vs 8x8) attribute colour switch thingie.
SillyUsername commented on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet   mashable.com/article/age-... · Posted by u/Teever
bko · 5 days ago
> If it was a serious enough problem to warrant government intervention the larger public would be championing this cause.

> They aren't.

Nearly 70% of Americans support tougher laws restricting children’s access to adult content online—up from 65% in 2013.

Six in ten young men (ages 18–29) support stricter online restrictions for adult content, a shift from an even split in 2013

You gotta get out of your bubble

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/jul/10/young-men-b...

SillyUsername · 5 days ago
I think that might have been an own goal on that link. The comment on the article sums it up nicely. Also can you trust the data source - a government body that wants to enact more control?

If there's independent studies great, especially world wide (the US can be a bit insular), but as someone in the UK I dont see anything but disdain for ID checking age-gating.

Even other political parties are saying they'll roll it back if they get in power, which if they're betting the farm on that policy, must have considerable public influence.

SillyUsername commented on Porn censorship is going to destroy the internet   mashable.com/article/age-... · Posted by u/Teever
SillyUsername · 5 days ago
Sure it's problem but one that doesn't need a state nanny.

Kids could always get jazz mags from friends, find VHS tapes, be told stories, see topless women etc.

The difference here is that it's easier, but that's partly caused by indifference and technical illiteracy.

If it was a serious enough problem to warrant government intervention the larger public would be championing this cause.

They aren't.

That's not even withstanding that soft porn is often just people showing their bodies, which should never be a problem.

SillyUsername commented on Who does your assistant serve?   xeiaso.net/blog/2025/who-... · Posted by u/todsacerdoti
watwut · 7 days ago
Real therapists are not just validating you and are not just agreeing with you. Therapy is a work - for patient too.
SillyUsername · 7 days ago
No but therapists like AI are not your friends.

They're there for the money as nobody else would listen to this kind of thing day in day out for free.

Your money stops - poof your therapist vanishes, not even a personal follow up call asking if you're ok, and I know this to be true from secondhand experience.

You can't heap your problems on friends either or one day you'll find they'll give up speaking to you.

So what options do you have left? A person who takes money from you to listen to you, friends you may lose, or you speak with an AI, but at least you know the AI doesn't feel for you by design.

SillyUsername commented on MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems   julsimon.medium.com/why-m... · Posted by u/yodon
w10-1 · 15 days ago
> these days REST and JSON (via req/resp, webhooks, or even streaming) are the modern backbone of RPC

No, they're the medium of the web.

The author is specifically addressing enterprise integration into business workflows - not showing stuff in a browser.

SillyUsername · 14 days ago
How is this browser specific or mentioned to be browser? The technologies can be purely "enterprise integration" of backend services. When was swagger (openapi) for example forbidden to be used for RPC? E.g. an endpoint that doesn't just support a crud op but take an event with an operation to execute?
SillyUsername commented on ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch   help.openai.com/en/articl... · Posted by u/Topfi
FergusArgyll · 15 days ago
I've been trying to find a good use case for it, I got one that I was happy with [0] but, yeah, it's not perfect

[0] https://chatgpt.com/share/68953a55-c5d8-8003-a817-663f565c6f...

SillyUsername · 15 days ago
If this got some traction there would be a lot more use cases: https://community.openai.com/t/feature-ifttt-connector-in-ag...
SillyUsername commented on MCP overlooks hard-won lessons from distributed systems   julsimon.medium.com/why-m... · Posted by u/yodon
SillyUsername · 15 days ago
MCP is flawed but it learnt one thing correctly from years of RPC - complexity is the biggest time sink and holds back adoption in deference to simpler competing standards (cf XML vs JSON)

- SOAP - interop needs support of DOC or RPC based between systems, or a combination, XML and schemas are also horribly verbose.

- CORBA - libraries and framework were complex, modern languages at the time avoided them in deference to simpler standards (e.g. Java's Jini)

- GPRC - designed for speed, not readability, requires mappings.

It's telling that these days REST and JSON (via req/resp, webhooks, or even streaming) are the modern backbone of RPC. The above standards either are shoved aside or for GPRC only used where extreme throughput is needed.

Since REST and JSON are the plat du jour, MCP probably aligns with that design paradigm rather than the dated legacy protocols.

SillyUsername commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
watwut · 15 days ago
Gamers threaten all kinds of things when features of their favorite games changes. Including depth threats to developers and threats of self harm and suicide.

Not every gaming subculture is healthy one. Plenty are pretty toxic.

SillyUsername · 15 days ago
Actually I just posted about this. I've experienced it first hand.
SillyUsername commented on The surprise deprecation of GPT-4o for ChatGPT consumers   simonwillison.net/2025/Au... · Posted by u/tosh
MallocVoidstar · 16 days ago
People were saying they'd kill themself if OpenAI didn't immediately undeprecate GPT-4o. I would not have this reaction to a game being shut down.
SillyUsername · 15 days ago
I worked for a big games company. We shut down game servers, we got death threats. Horses for courses.
SillyUsername commented on ChatGPT Agent – EU Launch   help.openai.com/en/articl... · Posted by u/Topfi
SillyUsername · 15 days ago
If you want agent to be genuinely useful please support this feature request to have a connector for IFTTT: https://community.openai.com/t/feature-ifttt-connector-in-ag...

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