The Stochastic Game

Sound check done, ready for another gig! This one is gonna be long, with 3 sets… I might go hiking a bit before the show

“CWA Canada president says Saudi buyout of EA should trigger ‘virtually every alarm bell'”: LOL no shit. But hey maybe the sale won’t even go through because the Saudis are busy with other stuff right now…

It’s amazing that EVE Online is still going after 25+ years. I remember playing the closed beta, joining the first organized events with the Aurora program, and getting my ship blown up very often. Good times, and congrats to the ex-CCP people for becoming independent!

“Visualizing The AI Scraper DDoS”: I think most of us who run servers online hate genAI because of shit like this. We frequently end up with higher hosting bills because LLMs scrape our data like crazy. It’s not just IP theft, it’s also extortion.

“Australia’s ‘Payphone Tag’ Game Is An Excellent Use Of Public Infrastructure”: this game looks like a lot of fun, and a good excuse to go bike and hike around.

“The Angine de Poitrine Argument for UBI”: despite the title, it’s actually more about Einstein than Angine de Poitrine, but hey, both are cool.

The latest Murderbot audiobook, “Platform Decay”, is out on Libro.fm! As always, it is available DRM-free (as the gods intended) so this gets my money!

Wooohooo “Happy Death Day 3” may still happen! I’m very happy to hear that.

I thought I was original when I wrote in my Last Will and Testament that I want to be mummified and wrapped in pages ripped from my favourite TTRPG books, but apparently some fucker already had a similar idea thousands of years ago!

“The Centurion Project Scandal Ensnares the UCP”: more about the political debacle in Alberta. TLDR: the Conservatives are attending separatist groups’ meetings and sharing voter databases with them.