GDPR is a bit more than cookies banners… it gives rights to European like deletion of one’s data, right to get a copy of one’s data, portability to some extent and a lot of transparency about what processing is happening. And if one of our DPA is taking an interest in a particular sus processing they can forbid it altogether which all companies fear much more than fines. It’s really a beautiful piece of regulation. And I’m not saying only because I make part of my living out of it :)

Just imagine the sharia mod of the Sims… heads be rolling…

Let’s hope we can flog them if they don’t obey as well then :) And cut a bunch of hands when catching something stealing some bread out of the bin. And beheadings all those dudes looking vaguely gay or too secular.

Maybe the next Sims won’t fuck anymore? Or the women won’t get to be as extravagant as in previous versions ?

But so many prerequisites for effective AI implementations are relying on improving quality of inputs / training materials and that is an OPEX siphon.

one of the first use case of augmented reality glasses was medical right after military. There are some positive applications for « smart » glasses. Not those from meta obviously but as with all tools there are good and bad applications and only the siths should deal in absolutes.

Also the jellyfish situation for one of the plants as well.

That could be the preface to internet overall…

I’m not sure how to position myself when a court orders a company to adapt their software in such specific ways. At the very least that should be a matter of a legislation with a broader analysis and considerations applied to the whole sector. Plus, maybe, consider parenting in the picture… Teenagers should maybe not be looking a notifications during the night.

Innovative mechanics are generally where indies are shining though.

I’m not arguing that some AAA don’t have merits either in play time or other but from a euro per minute of pleasure overall they are not as good as indie games these last 10 or so years.

€30 vs €80 and I can play it hundreds of hours. Is that so hard of an equation ?

Hold on a minute… the field of AI and in general algorithms and models is quite old. LLM is relatively new in there. For science and healthcare we’ve been using specialist ai for a long while for things like image processing, sequencing and what’s not. Those are absolutely monitored have have generally high standards because they are healthcare related already. Don’t mix those things.

Yeaaahhhhhhhh

Cool this will only encourage Europe / China & other players to up their game…

I don’t doubt I’d get the brain to handle the load or die trying… Somehow the dedication in UO felt more rewarding than current systems. Lemme do 1000000 potions to level alchemy and bake 100000 breads… it was so open.

Ultimate online is still by far the game where I have my fondest memories. I could really go for another round of that…

any users experience traffic shaping (throttling) when their ISPs detect heavy UDP traffic (like torrenting or IPTV) via standard VPN ports, whereas standard HTTPS traffic is generally left alone.

We don’t do shaping at our side bar some specific temporary instances to mitigate DDOS attacks. Even IPTV we won’t shape otherwise we stop being mere conduit and no one at ISP side wants that for very obvious juridic reasons.

Furthermore, even if the ISP only keeps metadata for internal routing and infrastructure management, those databases still exist. In an era of constant data breaches, many privacy-conscious users prefer that their connection logs simply show them connecting to standard CDNs (via TLS obfuscation) rather than persistent connections to known VPN datacenters.

As stated we don’t store that information relative to our customers (unless they us to do so) but from the perspective of our border routers so there should be no concerns.

See we have this wonderful GDPR thing that keeps me fed and allows me to enforce a whole lot of privacy practices at work.

I apologize if the post came across as fear-mongering; that wasn’t the intention. Your perspective from inside the ISP infrastructure is highly valued here!

Maybe start with another title then? Something more at content provider side who are absolutely not bound to our european regulations and have commercial interests in shaping, geoloc & other…

As someone responsible for this exact topic in a european ISP you are absolutely wrong on most accounts.

And that’s not even touching the purpose for which we collect connection metadata ; the collections containing this level of details is not provided to authorities on a global level, They would need a warrant to force us to do any disclosure on an individual level. We use some of that sort of data internally for the management of our infrastructure for which I fail to see how anyone would take offense in given it’s from the perspective of our border routers and not on an individual basis.

Maybe you want to take your fear mongering and related advertisement to elsewhere?

Are we legally required to log connection metadata to the level allowing general identification of VPN usage?? where are you getting that from?

Crazy to see that you feel the need to downvote my answer…