Apple's game porting toolkit announced at WWDC looks like it's a way bigger
deal than Apple made it sound and may shake the very Foundation upon which the
Temple of Gaben is built I'm Jacob Rush
this is techlinked and you're about to be a Mac gamer it's happening just a
accept it turns out in addition to making it
easier to Port Windows games to macOS the game porting toolkit or gbt weird
coincidence can be used right now to run Windows games at playable frame rates
and quality settings similar to the steam decks proton compatibility layer
as shown by redditors this is huge for pressuring my Mac using friends huh
imagine me having friends into playing games with me a person who definitely
doesn't have friends kit uses source code from crossover a
wine-based open source solution for running Windows games on macOS first
published in 2007. according to a statement from codeweavers they are
pleased to see apple recognizing the power of wine as a tool
16 years after the fact that's an oversight that's apparently old enough
to drive apparently the new toolkit will quickly convert Windows games to run on
macOS translating Intel based x86 instructions and Windows apis to the
corresponding Apple silicon instructions and macOS apis developers will also be
able to launch an unmodified version of a Windows game on a Mac and see how well
it runs before fully porting a game some individual users have already tried
running major titles on their own such as Diablo 4 and cyberpunk 2077 which
managed to run on an M1 MacBook Pro although it ran at 14 FPS and was more
than a little buggy not buggier than when it was first released on the PlayStation 4 though boom roasted
twitch updated its terms of service with restricted new rules on sponsorships and
multi-streaming on Tuesday in the platform's latest attempt to trim down
its user base there's just too many streamers
watch I can't throw enough kids birthdays to do with all these streamers
twitch's new guidelines stated that sponsored videos banners and audio ads
that are burned in would be prohibited and a previous policy Banning twitch
partners and Affiliates from simultaneous live streaming on Twitch like platforms also known as
simulcasting will now apply to everyone without advanced written permission from
twitch it's like getting a permission slip from your mom except instead of a
child taking a field trip to the aquarium you're an adult operating a
small business twitch also limited the size of Advertiser logos to a maximum of
three percent of the screen like a sponsored game of where is Walmart
and the completely prohibited promotion of a bunch of products ranging from vape
pens to male enhancement products no doubt frustrating many unenhanced
viewers streamers of course took this in stride by which I mean they were Furious
and threatened the boycott confronted by thousands of angry let's players and
reaction streamers and let's not players you know the kind of people who yell for
a living twitch attempted a swift backtrack first apologizing for the
overly broad changes then right before we started filming rewrote the
guidelines forcing us to rewrite the story and film it again come on Twitch
what won't you screw up so the new just
updated branded content guidelines doesn't restrict burned in ads at all
although changes to the prohibited types of branded products and the ban on
multi-streaming still stands so in the eyes of twitch if you live stream in
three places at once you're still a two-time and hoe unfortunately for
streamers looking to jump ship twitch's partnership program actually charges a
25 fee for anyone looking to leave just like me on a first date and thousands of
Reddit communities are planning to go dark June 12th in protest of reddit's
proposed API costs which will likely spell the end of multiple popular
third-party apps such as Apollo sync relay and narwhal the list of protesting
subreddits is extensive and at least 37 different communities have over 5
million subscribers each reddit's actions have been so egregious it's
brought together the forces of r anti-work r slash cryptocurrency end r
slash wolves with watermelons
double double w
oo one subreddit however is planning to cross the picket line r slash UFOs which
reneged on the walkout after users protested that they may miss an
important Revelation in the U.S government's ongoing public investigation into UFOs
what if on June 12th the aliens invade them were all caught in their pants down
because Reddit user you slash the truth is out there 69 failed to manage post
he wasn't Naruto running fast enough what are we going to do the blackout
will last at least 48 hours but some of the subreddits may not come back at all
as their moderators refuse to use reddit's clunky first party moderation
tools while it's easy to hate on Reddit moderators as a population composed of
power tripping busy bodies and actual 14 year olds Reddit offloads a ton of
potentially expensive labor onto its volunteer moderators the mods do a lot
to make Reddit what it is both for the better and For Worse while the change to
API prices was likely motivated by AI developers using Reddit as a free
training data bucket pricing out third-party apps isn't necessarily a
drawback in reddit's eyes I mean that's capitalism
the platform has increasingly pushed users towards its first party app though
less through making it the app of pleasant and convenient experience and
more through making its mobile website like trying to read a book with both
your hands duct taped to your face that's why
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oh the biggest WWDC announcement has
finally been revealed it wasn't the Vision Pro the Mac Pro or even the Mac
gaming Revolution it's the iPad OS 17
will support external webcams other cameras and any microphone over USBC
continuing Apple's long slow journey of maybe eventually justifying that what's
a computer at by actually making the iPad into a sort of computer PC users
however are still waiting for an apology Bing users have noticed that entering a
search for Chrome actually prompts Bing to look for news articles about Bing
features instead apparently someone at Microsoft genuinely thought they could
serve a full page Bing ad to Chrome enthusiasts and blame it on their state-of-the-art AI whoa whoa it's uh
it's it's it's uh going rogue
wouldn't you know it the uh the the error stopped happening minutes after
the story broke and Microsoft was reached for comment
man that Sydney sure learns fast Instagram is allegedly testing an AI
chatbot according to a leaked screenshot the AI will answer questions and give
advice that you definitely shouldn't take it's going to be bad but more
uniquely the screenshot says you can chat with 30 AI personalities and find
which one you like best apparently the people at meta looked at Chachi between
being and thought you know what would make a thing more stable more split
personalities 30 of them yeah 30. they deleted 20 last
time the Bing presumably the most popular personality will then be
uploaded to Mark Zuckerberg who has none
that's true they finally did they spent all that time greasing him with with sun
Sun's screen have you seen that picture
yeah he's warning that scammers are increasingly using public photos and
videos to create deep fake sex tapes as a tool for extortion sex extortion if
you will personally I won't this is an evolution of an already common practice
of catfishing unsuspecting people into sharing sexual videos and images of
themselves for blackmail purposes this is why I don't have friends
so you kept extorting them for news no no so I never get extorted I'm all I
always come out on top I'm always on top of it even more people are potentially
vulnerable to this new scam as most of us have pictures and videos of ourselves
hosting a Thrice Weekly News show it's a common problem and a redditor has
created anime inspired QR codes that actually work using stable diffusion
according to their website they were able to train a model of control net
which is stable diffusion's neural network to generate QR codes resembling
traditional Chinese patterns and Japanese ukioae art styles more
importantly they made codes that look like waifus truly this is an Age of
Wonders now lonely internet dwellers can fall in love with urls
I mean I've already made a shrine to the YouTube channel in my closet and imager
Chan please answer my emails and you'll fall
in love with Friday's episode when you come back for more TechLinked but don't
get like weird and draw an anime Riley husbando or honestly do we could we
could use the engagement um or you could draw me
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