IMHO the UX problem is, as the article points out in so many words, shoving AI slop down our collective throats as if we were geese waiting to be fattened.

And that's why these days, I run Jellyfin on a VPS for watch parties (similar situation as yours), while sticking with Plex for family use.

The author argues that open CTFs are done for because of rampant cheating. You're agreeing with that, don't you?

The title is "AI has broken the open CTF format". If the format is "open CTF" then it is very specifically open.

As to your second question: Yeah, I believe having open CTFs was a good idea.

> Rules that ask people not to use LLMs are ignored and almost impossible to enforce in open online events.

It's quite sad to see CTFs dying. I never had the time do seriously participate in CTFs, but I always respected those who did, as well as the people organizing these events.

While we got ours at the Osaka airport (KIX), I am sure I saw the "purchase a new SUICA/ICOCA" options at a few terminals while topping up. I suppose you mixed up the "Welcome to SUICA" tourist card (available at fewer locations) with the normal one? I was under the impression there was a lot of confusing information floating around online.

But I agree, public transport in London is - as a tourist - more straight forward. Just a matter of spotting the terminals at some stations IIRC. OTOH in Japan we found no station with an elevator smelling like someone used a hippie bus as an emergency toilet ;-)

Anyway, amazing idea and I absolutely feel you. Recipe sites (and search engine results) are cluttered like hell, that's why I started collecting recipes in Mealie. But in practice this merely bumped my pool from "five fallback meals" to "10 usual recipes, which mostly cover my eating preferences since I'm the only one in the household putting recipes into Mealie".

Though IIRC his original design used active XO with op amps (after all he's the L in LR filter) instead of going the DSP route with IIR/FIR (which IIUC wasn't a good option back when he was alive). Did his successors modernize that aspect of the design?

Mission seems to be game archival and there is indeed a lot of stuff that likely no copyright holders care about anymore. And that is likely of value for computer historians.

But in addition to that, it is also used to share modern, non-game media. One folder contains 10 different Alien (the movie franchise), two Finding Dory Blu-rays (as ~40GB zips), plus a few dozen more... I'm pretty sure stuff (piracy) like that also increases storage and bandwidth costs, while they don't align with the stated mission. And I think that stuff is unlikely to go missing any time soon; in fact Jeff Bezos will be happy to ship you a copy.

I don't want to deep link, but the article mentions the site's name. The folder is "files/No-Intro/BD-Video/". There is more like that.

3. Just imagine being in a car accident, and some idiot in the vicinity didn't realize why traffic is slow, and takes multiple minutes to shutdown their jammer. Or is unable because they're the other party involved in the accident.

The paragraph you criticized was part of the original text: https://web.archive.org/web/20200909104647/https://effectivi...

So: Yes, it could have been more concise. Nope, we humans can write much too long text for the sake of writing text, which some of us can do better than others (e.g., better than me), and we can do that with no artificial assistance or substitute - we do it just fine using our own (in)ability ;-)

And I do own two proper dedicated speakers + amps setups. I also know how to use REW and Sigma Studio. So I guess I qualify regarding "cares".

Sadly I lack time to build a third set of cabinets to the constraints of our living room.

I got an offer for a "essentially free" residential turbine including the pylon (8 to 10 meters, the legal limit for a "Kleinwindanlage") in SW Germany - just had to dismantle it and put it on my lawn. And of course pour a huge foundation [2x2m?] and have an accredited electrician do the necessary alterations. Nope. It didn't even produce enough electricity to offset the maintenance costs - no idea how I should offset the costs for moving it, even with the free capex.

And I did the math about 3 years ago: Prices for both PV and batteries dropped a lot since then. For late fall/early spring I would be better off by adding a PV carport (2 cars). I could also finally automate charging my batteries while electricity is cheap during Dec/Jan, might even be worth bumping my existing battery from 28 kWh to 42 kWh.

To be fair: The math might work out in the Northern Germany; but I would not bet on it.

I've driven a 2003 Volvo S60 (plain 5 cylinder, no turbo), which matches your 20 years - and most diy repairs were quite straightforward. I suppose you're talking about some Mercedes or other brand I'm less familiar with?

UT4 would have been pretty nice. I remember building the alpha from source when they put it GitHub.... .... Which is now closer to the release of UT 2004 than today. sigh

Most woman don't run an OF of course. And wether they do or don't, anyone should be free to socialize over their hobbies on the internet, and/or present their art work for other to appreciate (and get validation with hundreds or thousands of up votes). But those on the intersection that choose to run thinly disguised ads ruin it for me :(

  - awkward function argument syntax: my ($x, $y) = @_;

  use feature 'signatures';
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  
  sub foobar ($foo, $bar = undef) {
     # do something smart
  }
  
  # call it:
  foobar(1);
  foobar(1, 2);