I didn’t play it when it came out, but playing it years later it fits the classic B game of the 2000s. Some alien or high tech gone wrong, with some attempts at an edgy meaningful plot and a twist villian trying to take over the world.

Haha, dark void is one of those games I was really interested in when it first came out and have had on my backlog for years, yet have never heard a good thing about it.

Thanks for jumping in on this. I just think OP has heard DRM bad and not thought about what DRM means. Once youre asking for a service that does everything for you, DRM doesn’t really play a role.

I could see an arguement for open playlist formats or something so you could move your account history around, but there is a limit to how useful or practical that would even be.

I mean I understand and support DRM free media, but I literally don’t understand what OP is asking for. If they don’t want to own/manage the music, then what part would be DRM free?

It already exists, but the sands of time Metroidvania “Lost Crowns” was surprisingly good.

How would you define a DRM-free online service? If you aren’t managing your own files, why would DRM free matter?

Thats fair, it’s a bit nerve racking (especially right now with everything going on). If you’ve got a good interest rate on the account then you’re at least not loosing too much value, but the main reason to invest is that money looses value over time (due to things like inflation).

Not a fiduciary or anything like that, but double check your at least getting at least 3% on your savings accounts, otherwise you’re basically throwing money away.

So what do you invest in then? It feels really hard to find any opportunities outside of the stock market.

This article is a bit old, they did remove Colleen Shogan as the archivist. While it’s an apolitical appointment Trump does have full power over the role which is why this didn’t get much attention. However the archives do play an important role in keeping track of presidential records, so not great.

I think the core takeaway is your shouldn’t outsource core capabilities. If the code is that critical to your bottomline, pay for quality (which usually means no contractors - local or not).

If you outsource to other developers or AI it means most likely they will care less and/or someone else can just as easily come along and do it too.

Maybe below what investors or OpenAI thinks, but I think I’d take it. Unless they’ve got more secrets up their sleeve I don’t seem them ever being worth that much.

You’re absolutely right a out data formatting being an issue and something that really does cause vendor lockin.

I would just think content creators would still want archive/backup of the final products (the video itself). For example could you imagine if a movie just disappeared because Adobe or someone shutdown.

Longer!=Detailed

Generally what they’re calling out is that DeepSeek currently rambles more. With LLMs the challenge is how to get the right answer most sussinctly because each extra word is a lot of time/money.

That being said, I suspect that really it’s all roughly the same. We’ve been seeing this back and forth with LLMs for a while and DeepSeek, while using a different approach, doesn’t really break the mold.

I think most of the tools have a way to download content, the issue is no one does or has a system for their backups. Which is the risk with the cloud, you’re putting all your eggs in someone elses basket.

This was actually something I found interesting with the brief TikTok shutdown in the US. A lot of creators only had their content in the editing software owned by TikTok or the app itself, meaning they lost access to all of their content.

The biggest risk of cloud only setups is you don’t own it.

The asynchronous games were a lot of fun. https://www.mariowiki.com/Nintendo_Land had a couple of them, like one where everyone is in first person mode chasing the tablet player who has a top down view.

I mean using proprietary data has been an issue with models as long as I’ve worked in the space. It’s always been a mixture of open weights, open data, open architecture.

I admit that it became more obvious when images/videos/audio became more accessible, but from things like facial recognition to pose estimation have all used proprietary datasets to build the models.

So this isn’t a new issue, and from my perspective not an issue at all. We just need to acknowledge that not all elements of a model may be open.

I mean, you can have open source weights, training data, and code/model architecture. If you’ve done all three it’s an open model, otherwise you state open “component”. Seems pretty straightforward to me.

I have a console and still play most games on the steamdeck. A lot is portability, but other times it’s what games are on PC vs Consoles.

I think the steamdeck is either sold at cost or at a loss too. Based on This article and others like it, Gaben says the price is a bit “painful” for valve.