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Minecraft Modpack Madness

I have pretty stable versions of my core modpack (270 mods) and an RPG version (300 mods).

The RPG version adds the RPG Series including Archers, Paladins & Priests, Rogues & Warriors, and Wizards, which allow your character in Minecraft to have a class and gain skills, plus the Ars Nouveau mod which is basically Create but using magic.  And Ars Creo which makes those two mods work together.

Testing and fixing minor issues now.  I haven't seen a ferret yet, but I have seen weasels.


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1 The issues with companies conducting massive espionage/surveillance on their customers is actually very easy to solve and requires minimal government intervention:  
Change the class action penalty for a data breech of customer information to be market value of the data breached plus 20% to cover the attorneys and administration, with each member of the class paid the market value of their data.  If your data is anonymized or aggregated but still part of the data breached, then you are still eligible for the class.  An additional penalty of 100% of the market value applies for each 30 days the holder of the data takes to notify the victim from when they first notice the breach.  Governments (state, federal, and foreign), NGOs/charities, political campaigns, and third party purchasers of the data are NOT exempt.  If you conduct a data breach and are caught, you are also subject to a separate class action as above that is in addition to any criminal penalties.

Companies will very quickly re-evaluate if conducting espionage on their customers has a good cost/benefit/risk analysis.

Posted by: stargazera5 at Monday, January 20 2025 01:47 AM (olvLH)

2 Andreesen interview is interesting. There's actually people I think I could talk to using that. Quantum computing thing is quite interesting. There's a basic security and authentication problem when it comes to economically weighting results from a novel computing scheme. You probably want people who can understand and verify what is going on, and you only want to trust those people if you should. A problem with predicting tech, instead of seeing what actually happens, is that we have fucked over trusting experts as proxies. I'm sorta interested in studying quantum circuits and systems as machines, but I would want to understand the physics, and currently I find classical electromagnetics fairly challenging.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, January 20 2025 06:25 AM (rcPLc)

3 Wow, what a Paean to 90's anime! I don't think I've EVER seen Shamanic Princess used in an AMV. Or Angelic Layer for that matter.

Posted by: Mauser at Monday, January 20 2025 12:05 PM (QE7eq)

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Apple pies are delicious. But never mind apple pies. What colour is a green orange?




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