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  • IANAL but I really doubt you can't patent a game mechanic. Have you noticed the amount of "D&D clone" which aren't SRD version but do use D20, classes, and level rather than original game mechanics?

    You can't come with an infinity of games mechanics and even assuming it's legal to patent (I doubt-it) there is tons of previous art which would make the patent invalid. Even a very inovative game like Blade in the Dark re-use tons of concept from other games like reputation score, partial success, dice pools or clocks

  • In theory, they're supposed to have custom-made secure phone with built-in cryptography, a famous example would be modern Police walkie-talkie which practically speaking are using a protocol closer from (legacy) mobile phone than from radio.

    The problem is that it's 2025 and not 1995 anymore. When it was about A mobile device which can carry voice and short text message A custom device would be a bit more bulky and expensive. But today, when smartphone are mini-computer with tons of cool feature, and that people are used to have group-chat, touch screen, visual call. Sudently a custom-device feels like back in 2005. And here is the problem, most high level politicians aren't cryptography nerd or Military/Intelligence officer understanding how to be discrete, they're marketing and communication people who love these fancy UI, and need to show off.

  • For a while, every company who wanted to so some Virtue signaling was giving Tesla rather than Mercedes to their executive as a way to tell the general public we're environmentally conscious that part of Tesla's marketing is gone for good.

    Moreover, and most-likely a bigger factor in the sales drop is that, every car maker has now an electric offer. Let alone all the advertising for BYD who really tries to enter the European market. So mechanically Tesla sales are dropping

  • For this one I used getimg AI improved prompt to turn A kid in facing a sci-fi control panel, presses a red-button, on the background there is a gigantic explosion Into digital painting of a diverse, barefoot toddler in a striped pajama pressing a glowing red button on a hexagonal control panel; behind them, a blinding white and orange explosion ripples with surreal geometric flames à la dalí, casting sharp shadows on the panel’s glossy metallic surface. holographic displays flicker, showing crackling energy fields. 8k realism, cinematic lighting.

    And then gave it to eat to Bing

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  • if I were to become a citizen of the UK, or Germany, or France, I would not feel comfortable using the term British, German, or French to describe myself. Because those words are not just nationalities, but also ethnicities.

    From a french perspective, What you said about French being a naitonality and a ethnicity sounds pretty racist, like the kind of things that Le Pen thinks but doesn't dare to say too loud. France bragg a lot about every french citizen is equal and fully french (well we do have racist cunt so it's not fully true, but it's not the thing people would claim in public)

  • I am a bit concerned by brit media obsession with naming any suspect. Sounds a big breach of innocence presumption. And considering how severe is the accusation (if true it can wait 6mènth for a verdict, but would avoid a defamation if not)

  • Next Monday, at 6:30 5 lorries will leave the main base to bring supply to the outpost, these vehicle will take the highway 13, then the road 666, One hour prior to the operation, mine-sweepers will inspect the bridge, and special forces will secure the pass to prevent an ambush.

    Now the enemy knows exactly when to attack.

  • Engines are cheating. Good pilots don't need one :)

    Joke aside, while having an engine is comfortable, no need to wait for hours for the right moment, no need to struggle to stay in the air, it removes a huge part of the fun which is staying in the air and gain altitude.

  • Something that is very easy to forget is that stock value is only very loosely tied to actual company value. Stock value is based on what people are prepared to pay for the stock, not what the company is worth.

    Which IMO is a real problem in Tech companies If I look at more traditional industries, A coca-cola stock gives me ~ 0.50 US$ per quarter, so with an expected yield of 3% I am ready to buy a stock at US$ 66. and the current market value is US$ 68, if I do the same exercise for Airbus with 2 EUR of regular divident and 2 EUR of exceptional dividend and that I expect a 3% yield, I would pay 133 EUR for an airbus stock, for a market value of 166. A worse investment than Coca-cola, but still a decent one especially considering the raise of the military companies.

    And then there is tech company giving no dividend and using stock buyback (How is that even legal) to keep the company value artificially high.

  • There is tons of legit way to exercise, and lifting weight in a gym isn't the only way. It may be worth looking at sports clubs in your town, no matter you want to practice Karate, volley ball or even rock dancing these are fun and legit way to exercise. They also tend to be more social than fitness gym which helps with motivation.

    Now regarding what you can do at home, depending what you call home. A fitness mat and a rubber band can bring you far. Body weight training does work too. While not strictly at home running is fun too, and goes from beginner who alternate one minute running and one minute running to people preparing Ultra Marathon

  • Way easier, most of us do carry 24/7 a tracker and store our data in foreign host cloud. This also includes target of interest who still use social media, Ms office/google/apple cloud and more.

    Special forces and submariner do post on strava letting everyone know where they are, weapon industry engineer bring work at home saving data on Microsoft cloud and way more stuff which are supposed to be forbidden but happen

  • Yes, many of us do filter by language, because I can't read Korean nor Italian. However, I kept undetermined in my setting.

    I believe it also helps people using screen reader to have the proper setting when reading lemmy, especially in a multi lingual social network such as here

  • I expect that the money goes in the boss pocket. Well I understand the cost of the truc, tooling, and paying an employee waiting for a call has a cost, but still shit it's expensive for 45 min of work and one hour of commute doctors and lawyer are cheap in comparison