gbl08ma

"Invalid handle" is Bluesky jargon; it's also what most would like to say when trying to read my username. Too-young-me chose it 15 years ago, and it stuck. I'm gbl08ma everywhere on the internet, but you can call me just G-B-L or Gabriel. He/him. Feel free to reach out, I think I don't bite.

It's a bit of a weird launch for Valve standards, when the Steam Frame doesn't play nice with the Steam Machine, for now at least... and this is a product that was delayed for months, and ships in this state? gbl08ma.com/posts/steam-...

It's all fun and games until the CFAA is used to put an inconvenient innocent who merely used a LLM in jail. Wait, we didn't need LLMs for that - they'll just bring efficiency gains. ...We didn't _need_ the CFAA for that either. And, traditionally, the fun and games have continued regardless. 😩

This will feature in GTA VI, a game that won't ship on a disc at launch. Satire, self-awareness and/or "the consequences of my own actions?"

It's crazy how whenever people talk about digital ownership, some mf comes along like "Well, it's in the terms that you agreed to that you don't own it" and like YEAH THAT'S WE'RE TALKING ABOUT! WE SHOULD CHANGE THAT!

This goes for more than social networks btw

Not a Serum user but I am really happy they're finally doing this. Hopefully more VST developers will follow suit, especially considering there's no behemoth that will fund and build "Proton for VSTs" like there was for games.

[blog post] Not just development, distribution of software may change as well: antirez.com/news/170

Here's my late contribution to the "physical vs digital" debate, whose latest iteration was prompted by Sony's infamous announcement. Digital media can be even better than physical, when it has no artificial limitations. We should strive to remove some of those. gbl08ma.com/posts/digita...

My timing really is impeccable. There's nothing like promoting my writing about **purely hypothetical** Valve malfeasance, just a couple hours before Sony decides to remind everyone who's the much bigger actual villain now.

if i can be completely honest the platonic form of a game is to me a digital file that is easily replicable and has no anti-piracy locking and can be put on a physical medium by a person if they want a physical version but there is little mass production of plastic for their distribution

vendor-backed hardware attestation is an extremely harmful trend in software and everyone trying to impose it onto other people should be shunned from the space

Sorry guys, I think I jinxed it by reminding Sony that Rockstar was still putting out new disc (re-)releases of some games as of just a couple months ago.

I wrote down some thoughts on Valve's latest gambling mechanics of sorts - the ones oriented towards allocating the limited supply of their newest hardware. To be fair, this is not something only Valve is doing... and it seems it's only going to be more and more of a necessity for consumer hardware.

"You are in 'detached HEAD' state. You can look around..."

1. Create obviously AI-driven YouTube channel that occasionally has semi-hilarious "strokes" / hallucination 2. Create a bunch of less-obviously-AI-driven ones that create """reaction""" videos to the "epic moments" of the former 3. Profit, as the audiences might as well have AI for brains by now.

I uploaded another thing. It's quite different from my previous tracks... maybe better, maybe worse soundcloud.com/gbl08ma/free...

Yes, it looks like in the (near) future it'll be a must to have at least one phone we don't own, just so we can pass these challenges, access banking apps, government apps, etc. and be surveilled. Those who want a bit of freedom back, will increasingly have to carry a separate device around.