“Hey everyone, big news today! We’re announcing update 1.7, which moves RimWorld from Unity to the Waylith Engine, our own in-house engine built by Ludeon Studios. The game looks and plays exactly the same, but in our tests performance is improved by 2-4x.” https://ludeon.com/blog/2026/10/announcing-the-waylith-engine-and-update-1-7/

I don't think this will happen for a year or so, but what would you do if ChatGPT or other platforms became token based billed and not subscription based?

Because this still doesn't seem to be clear to people - and when I say people, I mean leftist parlamentarians in my country - Substack hosts and actively promotes literal Nazis. It's a bit silly to complain about the rise of fascism while directly helping fund it by producing content for Substack and X. https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/feb/07/revealed-how-substack-makes-money-from-hosting-nazi-newsletters

I'm very excited to announce that the PLC Organization now has a statute! And a bank account! And a standard.site publication! All the important stuff. The PLC Org is an independent Swiss Association that's meant to operate the main PLC directory, which collects and distributes signed updates to AT Protocol accounts. https://blog.plcred.org/3mwlphq42d227

All sport names should be onomatopoeia. The same way that table tennis is ping pong, table hockey should be thwick thwack. But also, court tennis should be pick pock, and ice hockey should be shick shick shick. Basketball is boompf boompf. Baseball is crack pumpf. I don't know what cricket sounds like, that one might have been done already.

PIR (the .org registry) confirms it suspended the autistici.org domain name out of fear of the US legal threats, arguing it is "legally mandated to suspend it", which is not, IMHO, a given at all (given that PIR doesn't have any contractual relation with autistici directly, the registrar does). this is a very dangerous precedent that confirms a deeply rooted fear that the US essentially controls all of DNS. if PIR's arguments are left standing, what's to keep the US from applying the same logic to ICANN and suspending an entire TLD?

the tech industry fervor over Omarchy is so fucking confusing to me that i'm honestly starting to wonder if it's just money laundering. over TWELVE MILLION DOLLARS for a fascist's dotfiles and bash scripts is patently insane

For my English-speaking audience: Macron's recent law that was adopted in Parliament earlier this year and set to impose a nationwide ban on social media for under-15-year-olds via systematic age verification, was just declared unconstitutional by the French Constitutional Council. Namely on these grounds: • the council considers the law disproportionately infringes on the freedom of expression of minors, • it considers that the establishment of a nationwide age verification system* may have consequences for any citizen's right to privacy. * when imposed as it is without specific legal guarantees regarding the collection and conservation of private data

For the first time, the Trump administration says it's going to allow some vetted U.S. private companies to launch cyberattacks and surveillance operations against overseas criminals and hackers, like ransomware gangs. More: https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks Ad-block bypass: https://web.archive.org/web/20260813141304/https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/13/in-a-first-us-will-allow-some-private-firms-to-carry-out-cyberattacks/