A video game reverse engineering community has shut down because many games can now be trivially reverse engineered and decompiled with AI: "The community aspect of decompilation has been broken." www.404media.co/video-game-r...

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No matter where you shop, you're getting screwed by Amazon. Amazon has found a way to make everything you buy - at Target, at a mom-and-pop shop, even direct from the manufacturer - more expensive. And they're not the only one: Expedia's done the same thing, but for hotel rooms.

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I’ve been saying this for a while. The reason stores don’t give you surveys anymore is because they don’t have to. They can collect data on your actual behavior and don’t have to care about what you think you want. The GOP operates the same way. They know what influences behavior using data.

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Aaron Swartz, coding prodigy and hacktivist who helped develop RSS and was a co-founder of Reddit, died by suicide after facing $1 million in fines and 35 years in prison for felony charges, just for downloading pdfs of research papers with the intention of making them accessible to the public.

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Mostly stylistic. There are plenty I’ve liked for policy reasons but I can’t remember a group of candidates I’ve found so appealing.

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