Alternately, imagine if all text in your favorite game was IP owned by some random third party that could ruin everything one or two years down the line.

Perhaps it is time for more people to invest in royalty free IP? We are seeing a bit of a tragedy of the commons type of situation going down, right now.

Sounds like one should be able to get a long way if you put down, say, 2 years of the new license fee and then never have to pay again

I guess the trouble is that game companies can't really band together and pool money to make a good font since the point is to look unique, so this only works for the largest studios. Otoh, at least for now, the smaller ones might stay below the 25k user limit

Not from the perspective of "harm to those lied to", no. But from the perspective of "what the liar can expect as a consequence".

I can lie to a McDonalds cashier about what food I want, or I can lie to a kiosk.. but in either circumstance I'll wind up being served the food that I asked for and didn't want, won't I?

No, it's about putting things into perspective.

We are accustomed to seeing our lives and the power of dictators and the influence of tiktok content creators etc as these enormous, reality-defining things. And then we look up at the sky — with extreme rarity thanks to light pollution — and often perceive little more than a tableau as if looking at an aesthetically pleasing poster in a waiting room.

Pale blue dot flips that on its head as it should, clarifying that everything we normally view as so important does not have to be confused with the fundamental nature of reality. If there is something wrong with our environment, the fact that it is small in a grander scheme means that we have a better chance of changing it than we might have otherwise supposed.

Tolkien offers a similar quote I'd like to offer to compare and contrast with Sagan:

``` Frodo sighed and was asleep almost before the words were spoken. Sam struggled with his own weariness, and he took Frodo’s hand; and there he sat silent till deep night fell. Then at last, to keep himself awake, he crawled from the hiding-place and looked out. The land seemed full of creaking and cracking and sly noises, but there was no sound of voice or of foot. Far above the Ephel Dúath in the West the night-sky was still dim and pale. There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tor high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty forever beyond its reach. His song in the Tower had been defiance rather than hope; for then he was thinking of himself. Now, for a moment, his own fate, and even his master’s, ceased to trouble him. He crawled back into the brambles and laid himself by Frodo’s side, and putting away all fear he cast himself into a deep untroubled sleep. ```

That's just rephrasing it. "Putting things into perspective" means noticing that those things are bigger. But a giant is not necessarily more important than a dwarf, a cow is not more important than a human, and the rest of the universe, if it turns out to be composed entirely of rocks and gas and dust and devoid of meaning, is not more important than Earth. But people really love the pale blue dot meme, and showing off their humility. Look how aware we are ... aware of relative sizes.

In Tolkien's world the star probably really does have some magical protective or reassuring force via the powers of elves. In reality, if we get reassurance from the bigness and distance of a star, we're just staring at a nuclear furnace and imagining some such magical influence emanating from it, or some nurturing, godly importance. No. Balls. It's gas. People are what matter, in all their annoying pettiness. There is no escape from this.

History, mind you ... one could contemplate the vastness of human history and derive from that a sense of reassuring triviality about the present. "This too will pass," sort of thing. That would make sense. Getting reassurance from the size of space really doesn't. It's big, and it's dumb. It's where everything meaningful is, so far as we know, not happening. Nothing reassuring in that.

So think through what you've just said.

If you were able to do all of those things to prove your identity using your ID.. then any identity thief with a copy of your ID could use it to impersonate you in every one of those venues.

That means that somebody else can send your money wherever they wish.. create bank accounts to perform nefarious deeds that tie back to you.. book flights, and subscribe to services on your dime or on a stolen credit card behind your name so that after the chargebacks all debt collection activity aims at you. And finally convince the government to send your tax refunds to them.

In light of this what is absurd about being parsimonious with who and how we share copies of our ID, and why should virtually every website online be deputized into keeping copies of them to provide dog standard content services that might not always be suitable for all audiences?

Yea, I guess you thought through the fundamentals of security better than banks, payment providers, and governments. Well done.

Bro already has a disease, doesn't care if everyone else gets it too. What kind of argument is ... I already sent my ID all over the internet multiple times?

I wonder what the legality would be for the brick and mortar stores (especially the big chain ones) to just start asking customers for ID and then swiping them through scanners that can do all of the eidetic memory work for them?

Kroger already does this, they will get sued for millions and millions of dollars when they have a data breach.

So wait, is the cartoon mascot at issue the Annubis one for the Cloudflare-like DDoS protection, or is it an actual FFmpeg mascot? Because I don't see any cartoon characters on the FFmpeg code, main, or wiki websites. But I am curious what kinda -tan they came up with. :P

It's the Anubis one, there are a few other drawings on the homepage of theirs.

It was pointed out elsewhere in the thread that they also sell an unbranded version for companies: https://anubis.techaro.lol/docs/admin/botstopper

Cool way to make money, to be honest!

I too subscribe to the Anthropogenic Waistband Change model.

Or the loading chute thing that they use could just lead to more doors :)

In theory you can emulate every biochemical reaction of a human brain on a turing machine, unless you'd like to try to sweep consciousness under the rug of quantum indeterminism from whence it wouldn't be able to do anybody any good anyway.