Wow. Learn something new everyday.
Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for sharing.

But, please stop using the curl command piped into a terminal pattern. Malicious actors have been abusing the fuck out of this pattern ever since the idiots at Anthropic decided that would be the official install pattern for Claude. I've been cleaning up infections based on people just blindly running shit like that constantly over the last couple months.

Folks, never run a random script from the internet, without being sure what you are actually about to run. If using AUR packages is considered risky. Random scripts being piped into a terminal ranks right up there with sticking your dick in a blender.

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Then they transfered a file to /tmp/exp which was linux kernel CVE-2026-43500, nicknamed ‘Dirty Frag’, an RxRPC local privilege escalation. I had not patched these internal servers that nobody should have access to against this.

Lessons Learned #1:
Install your patches.
"But I have a firewall!"
That is not a sufficient control.
Install.
Your.
Fucking.
Patches!

Translation: Microslop is going to start slopping out AI slop and hope that gamers eat it up like good little piggies.

LLMs are a tool. Like all tools, we are going to go though a learning curve as we adapt to safe usage of that tool. LLMs cratering companies would be a really tame way to learn those lessons. Usually, we don't start writing regulations around tools until we have buckets of blood to write those regulations with.

The thing about inbreeding is that it isn't an instantly bad problem. The Habsburg dynasty was all about doing the nasty with cousins for a number of generations. It took a few rounds before the Habsburg Chin developed. Records also indicate that sister marriage was a common royal practice in pharonic Egypt.

It's all a matter of probabilities and compounding problems. The first generation of inbred kids will probably turn out ok. With the second generation things can start getting sketchy. The more generations you go, the more likely you are to get Crimson Tide fans.

This is also why populations under a certain size can be problematic. When the family trees of a population start looking like brambles, problems start sticking out like thorns.

I still break out the old Sierra games (specifically the Quest for Glory series) from time to time. Those are still a lot of fun and ScummVM makes them run damn near perfectly.

Most non-indie stuff is complete and utter trash.

Ya, it's telling that some of my favorite games these days all started as indie games. I do worry about them as they get in bed with larger producers, but I also understand the draw. E.g. I still love Valheim, but they were Embracer'd by private equity. And I'm waiting for that relationship to push them to shit all over their players. Though I understand that publisher backing lets them focus more on development and less on the marketing and distribution of the game.

So now I expect it will be just a patronising nostalgia IP reboot fest designed to extract as much cash as possible.

Ya, this is one of the big turn-offs for me. For example, I really liked Prince of Persia: Sands of Time back in the day. I've got exactly zero interest in the remake. Ubisoft's logo now looking like a neat pile of dogshit, viewed from above, is pretty apt.