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People downloading their software.

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EU and European countries are rent-seeking apparatuses whose only purpose is ensuring the status quo. Italy attempted to tax free cloud storage offered by providers such as Google, etc. to customers along with their own paid storage -- private storage is also, of course, taxed on purchase, for all hardware: from 5 to 30€ depending on capacity and intended use, because the citizen is automatically presumed to store copyrighted material on them.

It's already been required for years, if you use a VPN or happen to live in the wrong place according to them. Either way, the site lost any usefulness it may have ever had after it stopped allowing you to see whether the person writing something is a regular of /r/piss and drinking their own.

My comments were all about how this can be replicated by anyone in the world at their own leisure and has been for a long time, and for other countries also, because everything needed is freely available. With some tools mentioned in this thread, it's just the press of a button. Don't conflate that and not caring about the nth project that does this and charges money for it.

Why would I be sarcastic? Importing real-world data in whatever format it may be into Minecraft has been a thing for nearly as long as it has existed, either with custom tools, WorldPainter, or the dozen projects on github that do this. swisstopo gives you everything, and there's endless tutorials for what to do with it on YouTube also. You can point an agent at the problem and it will deal with it swiftly and effectively because all resources on this have been extensively worked on or documented. Lately, plenty projects have been working on this, arnismc.com has already been mentioned and seems to be the most ambitious one and freely available.

If someone wanted this, and lived outside of Switzerland (where it's sold exclusively, presumably to avoid digital sales headaches), or did not want to pay the equivalent of a monthly subscription for the conversion to Minecraft, that's what they'd do. This could've been a GitHub page with instructions to follow. The dataset does not impose any country restrictions unlike the product.

This is a trivial task for any good model provided with all the tools it needs, and excluding the time it takes to download it from swissALTI3D -- which is the source of the data (heightmap, surface map, subsurface, building 3D models with swissBUILDINGS3D) and is a pretty useful resource for lots of terrain work. Other countries have similar datasets from airborne LiDAR, it's just very well published in Switzerland's case. Most European countries have this data available at similar 0.5m resolutions but coverage may not be as good in some cases. Some individual US states also publish them.

Steam had a problem with trash even before "AI". It allowed rampant asset flips that required little to no technical expertise and certainly no effort. "AI" tags make no sense because you cannot separate supposedly "vibe-coded" slop from any other game made by anyone from normal indie developers to big studios (and they are using the same tools supposed vibe-coders use). Disclosures are also useless, because the entire development process cannot be meaningfully audited and it becomes a gamble people will make to try and not get filtered and such. Valve needs better curation, but it did not do anything about it before and it certainly will not do so now, evidently it's profitable this way.

>Internal AfD thread reveals party split over expelling a member for antisemitic writings and a plan to use Israeli government contacts to whitewash AfD antisemitism accusations.

The irony. All those parties really have no beliefs or principles, they only desire power and to use it for themselves. One may wonder what got so many people to decide those entities would deserve their vote more than the other establishment.

Browsers do not use hardware decoding with the exception of Apple for HEIC, and it's implausible any will ever do so for AVIF. Chromium tried to, and never managed for simple lossy WebPs. It'd be limited to a subset of images with a matching profile, have significant overhead for most of those "web-friendly" potato images people make pointless comparisons for, and any implementation would not come without downsides. Nobody is willingly shouldering the cost of dealing with all the broken hardware implementations out there. So it's difficult to see it as a possible advantage.

The problem really boils down to WebP having no purpose to exist for any user, therefore no reason to waste time and introduce vulnerabilities for its support, especially for feature-complete software. An image format (actually not, one of those video keyframes formats that have little to do with images, let alone photos, and in its case it's 2-in-1 too with lossless), that was already outperformed by mozjpeg on its initial release as far as human eyes are concerned, and thoroughly obsoleted by jpegli..

It's not a "normal" sentence and is quite clearly produced by an LLM, it's a typical Claudeism so probably that. The entire post is also flagged by Pangram, so OP is correct.

Middle dot (·) is an obvious telltale. Not as if it detracts from the work, but UI makes it quite clear.