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New comment by olivierestsage in "Magic the Gathering format: Fun 40"

olivierestsage — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:37:07 +0000

Is there any reasonably practical way to play a "restricted" version of MtG with physical cards and a somewhat stable ruleset, reminiscent of what play was like in the late 90s (as I remember it)? I like what's being proposed here, but I don't have access to old cards.

I'm not averse to buying new cards, I just don't want to be on an infinite treadmill of buying new cards and learning new rules forever, it's just not fun in my opinion

New comment by olivierestsage in "AI is just unauthorised plagiarism at a bigger scale"

olivierestsage — Thu, 21 May 2026 18:17:53 +0000

The problem is that something like (say) a song is much more than an idea. It’s an idea + work (arrangement, production, performance, etc. depending on the situation). The argument for owning work, at least for X number of years in a limited way (vs. our current system), seems reasonable to me.

New comment by olivierestsage in "The US is betting on AI to catch insider trading in prediction markets"

olivierestsage — Mon, 18 May 2026 17:58:09 +0000

The US is going to lose a lot on that bet

New comment by olivierestsage in "Windows 9x Subsystem for Linux"

olivierestsage — Sat, 16 May 2026 20:42:50 +0000

The perfect OS doesn’t exi-

New comment by olivierestsage in "Googlebook"

olivierestsage — Wed, 13 May 2026 00:31:47 +0000

Save us Richard Stallman

New comment by olivierestsage in "Students boo commencement speaker after she calls AI next industrial revolution"

olivierestsage — Mon, 11 May 2026 20:35:50 +0000

Is the practice on this site now to flag anything critical of AI...?

New comment by olivierestsage in "Ratty – A terminal emulator with inline 3D graphics"

olivierestsage — Mon, 11 May 2026 13:33:13 +0000

In a world of slop, one truly noble project emerges

New comment by olivierestsage in "People Hate AI Art"

olivierestsage — Sat, 09 May 2026 16:49:35 +0000

Flagged… incredible. Mockery is the way

New comment by olivierestsage in "People Hate AI Art"

olivierestsage — Sat, 09 May 2026 02:33:33 +0000

This post is right over the target. I see others posting that the author is out of touch, so here’s a humble +1 to the view that they’re not. Cathartic stuff here

New comment by olivierestsage in "I want to live like Costco people"

olivierestsage — Fri, 08 May 2026 19:50:21 +0000

First thing I did upon opening this comment thread was ctrl-F for "pretentious"

New comment by olivierestsage in "Spotify adds 'Verified' badges to distinguish human artists from AI"

olivierestsage — Fri, 01 May 2026 20:23:40 +0000

I think it's because its main use in this particular context is to produce results that the creator does not have the skill to produce and/or does not want to invest the time to produce.

I guess you could argue that drum machines offered simplification/automation when they first appeared compared to the option of a human drummer, but also, those machines opened up all sorts of creative and stylistic possibilities that simply couldn't be done by sitting someone at a traditional drum kit. Using AI to make music doesn't do this -- it's a shortcut that has no argument in its favor whatsoever except that it saved the person making it time (and/or enabled them to generate something they couldn't have produced through their own work). That's why it is fundamentally uncool in a musical context, and always will be.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Microsoft open sources DOS 1.00 on 45th anniversary"

olivierestsage — Thu, 30 Apr 2026 09:44:19 +0000

If win2000 got updated by the community with improved driver support people might actually prefer it to current Windows, which would be humiliating.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout the Next Year"

olivierestsage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:24:11 +0000

I wondered which of this distros would be the first to attempt this shit. Hopefully Red Hat has more sense

New comment by olivierestsage in "Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer 2024"

olivierestsage — Mon, 27 Apr 2026 18:14:30 +0000

Nice work. (The author is right, that printing ASMR in the video is incredible.)

New comment by olivierestsage in "NASA Force"

olivierestsage — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 18:04:17 +0000

It is not a sentence unless “to technologist” is a verb.

New comment by olivierestsage in "France to ditch Windows for Linux to reduce reliance on US tech"

olivierestsage — Fri, 10 Apr 2026 18:25:29 +0000

Do typical users care that much about a bit of jank, though? All the “typical users” I know are on spyware infested Windows laptops and just interpret the horrible shabbiness of the whole experience as being normal.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

olivierestsage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 14:41:05 +0000

I think what you're seeing is partly a consequence of how capable Linux has become. Linux is in a weird phase where it can still be enjoyed by hobbyists/enthusiasts/eccentric types, which were arguably its original audience, but now you can also Zoom and do work and install Steam on it, which gives it less appeal from the niche/hobby angle. The software ecosystem in Linux is also increasingly homogenizing, which helps with the "practicality" aspect, but also diminishes the niche appeal. BSDs are in a position to snap up that audience that appreciates engineering elegance/design and uses the computer as an end unto itself (not just as a means to an end). This audience isn't necessarily bothered by wonky laptop WiFi, and may even enjoy tinkering with it as a hobby project. Just my take.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Top laptops to use with FreeBSD"

olivierestsage — Thu, 09 Apr 2026 13:55:15 +0000

It's crazy how much negativity there is in comment threads like this. I would get it if FreeBSD was a product you paid for, or someone was evangelizing about how you're missing out if you don't get the FreeBSD laptop experience, or something.

As someone who liked FreeBSD in the past and curious to check it out again, I'm glad to have this handy list.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Music for Programming"

olivierestsage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 23:26:17 +0000

Swans is good for programming. And good for gnosis.

New comment by olivierestsage in "Music for Programming"

olivierestsage — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 22:55:49 +0000

Mamma Mia soundtrack also works well \m/