From what I can tell, he's accused strictly of speech crimes against Ukraine? For changing opinion on the war in 2023?

So maybe it's not so obvious who killed him after all.

You mean Ukrainians killed him? I am not sure about that. Does not make a whole lot of sense for Ukraine to kill him, since he is so unimportant compared to e. g. russian generals. Whereas if you insult Putin, the midget will of course set his hit men on people. That has been shown numerous times again and again and again. Most famous one is still Litvinenko, but remember how Anna Politkovskaya was killed, Boris Nemtsov, Alexei Navalny, Yevgeny Prigozhin and so on, and so forth. The pattern is so clear really. It sounds more like russian bots trying to engineer the narrative towards "others did it", when all the facts are way too clear. See also Yuri in the 1980s foreseeing how an asset can be manipulated by the KGB: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yErKTVdETpw - KGB/FSB run Russia. See yesterday how Nikolai Patrushev babbled about bringing war to Europeans.

I don‘t think Putin knows anything about him or is even aware of his existence. He’s living in a cloud castle fed by briefings from his administration. It‘s likely that nobody in Moscow cared so much about this poor guy - there exist more annoying and influential people to focus foreign intelligence effort on.

But Kadyrov clan is a different story. It‘s getting weaker, its leader has according to some sources serious health problems. Moscow isn‘t keen on seeing another Kadyrov in power in Chechnya. So Chechens are more eager to suppress any attacks on the clan that question its strength and authority.

Politkovskaya I think was killed on Kadyrov's orders, not Putin's. Putin and Ukrainian nationalists alike are far more angry at people they think have an obligation to be loyal to them, "traitors", than on random people who offend them.

I don't think it's deliberate RNG manipulation they worry about. It's a single player (or coop) game after all.

However, one of their design goals is that people playing on the same seed should have roughly the same game, it should feel "fair". Some things you probably want to be fairly random, for instance your card choices can depend on what cards you chose before. But it's also important that people choosing the exact same cards (and taking the same path, maybe?) should be offered the same options.

In STS1, the order of relics was fixed from the start as I recall. So if you skipped a shop, you'd get exactly the same relics in the next shop as you would have in the one you skipped. Good for seed fairness, but a little odd.

I didn't "forget". I never agreed that I had some natural right to exclude anyone from or demand payment for using bits of information I "made".

It's not also actually "getting paid for your work" when you're talking about copyright. It's "collecting rent for your property".

Once upon a time, artists and writers got conned into thinking that was a good deal for them, forgoing payment for work in return for a dangling promise of rent extraction. The vast majority of them were wrong.

That makes me think of talkie toaster from Red Dwarf though.

Don't worry, nothing this administration says to Iran means anything.

This question depends as much on you as it does on history, because it's about identity: what made Rome Rome?

To say "Rome fell and nobody noticed", you have to have a different definition of Rome - or maybe we should say, assert a different essence of Rome - than the people who lived at the time.

There's also the Meta motivation, that even if you don't get the control you would like from releasing a model, it may still be worth it to at least deny others that control. I'm sure that matters even more to China vs. the US than it mattered to Facebook vs. Google.

Evaporation cools things, that's why we sweat. Condensation heats things. Sure, a wearable dehumidifier may be novel, but does it sound like a good idea to wear a dehumidifier in conditions where you might want to drink the water from one?

Why the negativity?

If someone wants to have fun in COBOL, let them have fun in COBOL.

If it’s agentic fun, that’s cool. If it’s an interest in the language, that’s cool. It’s not like you have to have an ROI for a fun side project.

It’s also OK to be turned off by AI use in hobby projects and it is also OK to prefer disclosure of the use of AI in projects so I can make that choice.

Magpies certainly have a different temperament from crows. I tried to feed a local crow a few years ago, and while it was busy acting confused (you're giving this to me? Seriously?) a magpie swooped in for the treat. These days I'm on good terms with both. The magpies are easily bullied away by the crows, and I've learned the distinctly unfriendly noise they make when a crow comes close (three rapid, sharp chatters). I think they have a sound for me as well, a rising chi-chik very quietly. Probably to avoid announcing the arrival of the food guy to the crows.