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Crypto Royale – A Play to Earn Ecosystem That Rewards You for Having Fun
by CryptoRoyale | 2025-08-28 04:47:22+00:00
Crypto Royale - A browser play-to-earn game that is purposefully designed to be simple to play yet difficult to master. Every day 100+ players congregate on the battlefield as they fight to see who can survive and claim the game’s token – ROY. Today, the game celebrates a new direction towards growth since its launch with every indication that growth will continue to reach new highs.

In our past, we've reached insanely high highs, such as when we broke $0.23 per ROY token back in 2022, and how we become an ecosystem with multiple games now under our belt.

Today, our goal is united. We're here to serve the user with the best experience they could have, while also rewarding them for having it. This is what crypto royale is inherently about.

Crypto Royale has, for a long time, been one of the only games in the Web3 ecosystem that never required an investment to play and earn money. This will continue to be a fact, forever. This is why we believe we’re set to dominate the space.

We’ve already begun expanding on our existing social media campaigns, spanning across Reddit, Twitter, Instagram, and now, Medium & Publish0x. We plan on adding to this list as time goes on. We’re focusing on unpaid and incentivised micro-viral content, which means that we effectly gain users at $0; unlike most of these other projects that pay for advertising, we’re simply just unique; our product has an actual utility, something people want, and more importantly, need.

Crypto royale isn’t just a battle royale that pays you to play. It’s a massive ecosystem that allows developers to create their own games and get monetized. It allows users to purchase their own skins, be apart of something bigger than themselves; a clan. Our clan wars & skin economy is something you can’t look past; it’s too striking, and more importantly, unique.

Our ‘clan wars’ aren’t simply just clan wars… they’re…the backbone of CR, and more importantly, a vibrant & competitive ecosystem that engages the user for a long, long time. Our daily war system and skin economy are core features that genuinely provide consistent, trackable competition that you won’t forget. Imagine a battlefield where everyone’s trying to capture the same set of planets, but on some days, some planets go unguarded, and boom! An easy target. Your clan had just made 300 ROY. This is a part of the massive heart of crypto royale. They aren’t just mechanics; they’re driving the inherent value of ROY, they’re fostering a strong community, and encouraging new players to stay tuned and find out if they could win today’s war, and ready up for tomorrow’s battles.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-28 04:47:25+00:00
The Apple bribe isn't less problematic because the dollar amount is lower though. The magnitude of the damage is not measured in dollars, it's measured by the reach of corruption.

Apple's bribe is the crack in the door that lets fascism in to American businesses. Apple, for its part, carries a certain amount of weight in the marketplace. What they do sets a tone, and the tone they've set is they are not above giving obvious bribes to a felonious racist wannabe dictator. If Apple is willing to play ball, most other corporations will as well.

Imagine if things were the other way around and they told POTUS to shove it. Maybe other corporations would do so as well.
by simoncion | 2025-08-28 04:47:36+00:00
> It's crazy to me that you are ruling out a power surge frying a board. Same thing could happen to the 80s model as well.

I'm taking OP at their word, in part because I don't feel like doing free-of-charge remote diagnostics on a microwave over a communications channel with such an absurdly high RTT. Based on your poor choice of counterexample, I was assuming that you didn't understand the difference between "as safe as we can reasonably make it" design and "it only appears to be safe" design (which is the worst kind).

> Don't put any limbs inside when it's on, and it really isn't that dangerous...

If true, then I'd wonder why they bother with any shielding at all. They'd save a bunch of money by putting a clear glass or plastic plate in front of the door, rather than all that metal, don'tcha think?

> Again, your microwave isn't a demon core.

Lots and lots of dangerous things are less dangerous than plutonium cores that are just raring to fizz a little. That doesn't mean that the safety mechanisms mandated to be incorporated in their design are obviously superfluous.
by kube-system | 2025-08-28 04:48:10+00:00
> I wonder what is a "commercially reasonable effort" for a non-commercial website to collect, accurately verify, and securely store everyone's identity, location, and age?

> Personally I'd say none at all, unless the government itself provides it as a free service, takes on all the liability, and makes it simple to use.

1. There are many commercial services that do identity verification. There are many other commercial websites that have tools to do identity verification themselves. There are industry published best practices for these types of activities. All of these are evidence that you could use to demonstrate how you are making a commercially reasonable effort.

2. It's completely irrelevant whether you consider your website "commercial" or not. The law defines which websites it applies to, based on the activities they engage in.

https://law.justia.com/codes/mississippi/title-45/chapter-38...

3. Since when does the government have to give you compliance tools for free in order to require something of you? This isn't the standard for anything anywhere. Compliance with the law is often quite expensive. Honestly, buying an identity verification service is pretty cheap in the spectrum of compliance costs.

> If a hobbyist just sets up a forum site, with no payment processor and no identified or identifiable information required, it would seem reasonable that the law should not apply. But I'm not a lawyer.

You don't have to guess whether or not this is reasonable or not. If you read the law, you'll see that it says it only applies to sites that collect personally identifiable information.

From the above link, again:

> "Digital service" means a website, an application, a program, or software that collects or processes personal identifying information with Internet connectivity.

> "Personal identifying information" means any information, including sensitive information, that is linked or reasonably linkable to an identified or identifiable individual. The term includes pseudonymous information when the information is used by a controller or processor in conjunction with additional information that reasonably links the information to an identified or identifiable individual. The term does not include deidentified information or publicly available information.
by dragonwriter | 2025-08-28 04:50:50+00:00
> That sounds a lot like regulating cross-state commerce, which is traditionally the purview of the federal government.

Except for very specific things that are forbidden to the states in Art. I Sec. 10, or where Congress has specifically closed off state action in its own actions under the Interstate Commerce Clause, states retain the ability to regulate commerce in manners that impact interstate commerce so long as they do not discriminate against interestate commerce compared to in-state commerce in such regulations.
by UncleOxidant | 2025-08-28 04:51:27+00:00
> Ryzen AI Max 395+, ~120 tops (fp8?), 128GB RAM, $1999

Just got my Framework PC last week. It's easy to setup to run LLMs locally - you have to use Fedora 42, though, because it has the latest drivers. It was super easy to get qwen3-coder-30b (8 bit quant) running in LMStudio at 36 tok/sec.
by Terr_ | 2025-08-28 04:51:36+00:00
> the modern-day equivalent of Lysenkoism

Another communist parallel: MAGA is aimed in the general direction of a Great Leap Forward [0] to screw over the American economy and industry with incompetent autarky, and also a Cultural Revolution [1] for persecuting "woke elites" (subject-matter experts) leading to international brain-drain.

I really hope the American people can put the brakes on that, because it took China decades to recover.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cultural_Revolution
by whatever1 | 2025-08-28 04:51:37+00:00
To me it seems that LLMs are a tool that only increase productivity for given headcount in dimensions that were neglected in the past.

For example, everyone now writes emails with perfect grammar in a fraction of a time. So now the expectation for emails is that they will have perfect grammar.

Or one can build an interactive dashboard to visualize their spreadsheet and make it pleasing. Again the expectation just changed. The bar is higher.

So far I have not seen productivity increase in dimensions with direct sight to revenue. (Of course there is the niche of customer service, translation services etc that already were in the process of being automated)
by h4kunamata | 2025-08-28 04:51:55+00:00
And yet you see some folks happy with Microsoft "investing" into open-source projects.

Microsoft never did and never will do something without personal interest. It is so ridiculous that the simple fact of using VSCodium, blocks many extension from being installed because it must be VSCode. If I cannot find the package elsewhere and manually install it, I'm going nowhere. Microsoft is taking what matter to them while killing everything else.

Also, the major part of the problems within the open-source world is its own community. Things are way too fragmented, competition is better than sharing and so on.

I mean, look at Ubiquity, how much did they give back to the open-source projects that helped them be who they are today??

Look at Ubuntu, the distro that dragged users away from Windows is now our enemy. SNAP is fully managed by them only, thankfully Mint kept FLATPAK instead, not to mention privacy issues Ubuntu has been involved into.

Raspberry Pi project using Microsoft repos without making announcements, users found it out and the usual "We are sorry, not really because we go the money"

pfSense merged crappy WireGuard code with vulnerabilities into pfSense and FreeBSD forcing the WireGuard creator to fix the mess. Netgate, a company is backing up pfSense so nothing new there.

This is just the tip of the iceberg.

If some project decides to take this secure boot mess seriously which has been a problem since forever, we will see tons of forks, more fragmentation, more competition and nobody gets anywhere.
by mikeyouse | 2025-08-28 04:52:14+00:00
Sure, but "just build nuke plants cheaper" isn't really a viable plan when you need electrons tomorrow. There's a well-known issue in the West that we've lost the ability to build large projects on budget or schedule and there a million reasons for it, but none of it really matters to people buying power.

As of today, if you had $20 billion and had to choose between maybe generating your first watt from nuclear somewhere around 2040 if things go well or just building 15,000 3MW wind turbines that could start generating power next year and will have over a decade of revenue coming in before you see the first dollar from the nuke - investors make the obvious choice.
by brokenmachine | 2025-08-28 04:52:18+00:00
I got a call from the bank asking if I'd spent over $8k today on my debit card at a mall and restaurant in a shady part of town... I said no, and they ended up refunding me and issuing me a new card.

They did ask me to make a statement to the police, which I did.

Funnily enough when I talked to the police, they said, "Oh, $7k, is that all? Just today we had someone lose over $140k".

How do you even spend $140k on a credit card? Must have been a platinum card or whatever.

I'm in Australia, not sure how different things are here.
by merelysounds | 2025-08-28 04:52:42+00:00
Interesting, I didn’t know.

> The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says most granite countertops are safe, adding little to a house's radon level. It depends on the rock that is used, the agency says, recommending that homeowners concerned about radon get their countertops tested."

https://www.naturalstoneinstitute.org/designprofessionals/ra...
by pkaye | 2025-08-28 04:53:34+00:00
https://termly.io/resources/articles/ccpa-vs-cpra/#who-must-...

> should I have to abide by California privacy laws?

It seems these are the conditions:

As of January 1, 2023, your business must comply with both the CCPA and the CPRA if you do business in California and meet any one of the following conditions:

* Earned $25 million in gross annual revenue as of January 1 from the previous calendar year

* Annually buys, sells, or shares the personal information of 100,000 or more California consumers or households

* Derived 50% or more of your gross annual revenue from the selling or sharing of personal information

Also lots of states have their own data privacy laws.

https://iapp.org/media/pdf/resource_center/State_Comp_Privac...
by jeltz | 2025-08-28 04:53:57+00:00
Seems mostly off topic to the article. I think system containers should be implemented in user space. They are not about security theatre but about getting a sandboxed environment which feels like a real/virtual machine but is lighter weight. Very useful e.g. when I want to emulate a whole cluster of Linux machines. And for those needs security is nice but not key.

It is application containers which maybe should be replaced by better kernel security, not system containers.
by gsf_emergency_2 | 2025-08-28 04:54:08+00:00
Have you uh ingested benzodiapine? The other common GABA "agent". Ime at low dose (~1mg) it has the disinhibitive effect that might feel like energy to a schizotype.

Of course since you're a Tom Wolfe conservative..

(I never really figured why either of you would be conservative, care to explain further? My guess it's something about not wanting to hack human cognition at the molecular to uh sub-emotional range)

https://archive.ph/zLcOL

Stalking the billion-footed beast is his most introspective essay [I could find], but even there I found no trace of the idea of a "personal" status hierarchy that is meaningful without concurrently tilting at the universal.

I'd say "cool" captures Tom Wolfe's master status hierarchy..

Cool can be personal in the way God is, though.. (so "personal sky" as an alias makes complete sense.)

The Power Elite looks interesting.. I'll let you know when something comes out of reading that..
by nativeit | 2025-08-28 04:54:28+00:00
Now they also have their own paramilitary, better funded than most national armies. I'm afraid people have a very naive view of what life looked like for an average German resident in the late 1930s. Just because tanks aren't running down Main St, Normalville, USA doesn't mean we aren't treading in seriously dangerous waters just now. We are pushing past points of no return every day this continues.
by monster_truck | 2025-08-28 04:54:37+00:00
I went several years without having to interact with Github, I came back to it this year and it was truly shocking how bad it's gotten.

I had to alter basically every aspect of how I interact with it because of how fucking slow it is! I still can't shake the sense that it's about to go down or that I've done something wrong every time I click something and nothing happens for several seconds.
by ModernMech | 2025-08-28 04:54:38+00:00
Tim Cook gave $2.5M, control of his company, and his dignity. He stood there and handed a gold award to a convicted felon, rapist, insurrectionist, and likely pedophile. That's now Cook's legacy. It was grotesque, and an embarrassment of epic proportions. If that didn't hurt him, he must have lost his soul long ago.
by magicalist | 2025-08-28 04:54:44+00:00
> You can nit-pick if you want, but there are major differences between the two schedules, they're different for a reason, and my point is that there's actual scientific disagreement around many of these vaccines.

Ah so they're nitpicks when I call out your misrepresentations, but somehow they're still material to your overall point?

Your mpox and dengue points are nonsense, as already stated, but I wanted to get to this:

> Rejecting one schedule because you read that it was "anti-science" is as non-sensical as accepting the AAP without knowing that it's actually very different than the WHO recommendations.

Who are you even talking to? You've invented a strawman to respond to.

In fact, the CDC doesn't even have an updated vaccine schedule. If you go to their current site, guess which vaccines are included?

https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/hcp/imz-schedules/child-adolesc...

So take it up with MAHA.
by overfeed | 2025-08-28 04:55:31+00:00
> I’m not sure if there is a proxy that would do this locally but I’ve found it invaluable.

If you're on Linux, you can use iptables to randomly drop a fraction of packets to simulate bad connections - even for localhost. The TCP retransmits will induce a tunable latency. You have to be careful with this on a remote host or you may find yourself locked out, unless you can reboot out of band
by simoncion | 2025-08-28 04:56:04+00:00
> No harm whatsoever is done by running a piece of closed source software on your computer.

So, I'm confused. What do you believe that Stallman is right about? If there's never any harm done by running nonfree software on your computer, then what's the problem? I must have misunderstood your commentary here [0] because this statement

> The thing is... he seems to have been right the whole time. Companies really do want to lock you out of controlling the devices you own, and do so at the first opportunity. So... Stallman was right.

certainly seems like you were claiming that there are harms inherent in the practice.

> It is ideological, not practical, to say that the only reason to deviate from one's ideology is if doing so advances the ideology even faster.

Not making a concession to practicality would be saying "There is no circumstance in which one should use nonfree software. Not even in the service of replacing that nonfree software with free software.". You're simply incorrect about this... especially when you also consider point #2 of the section you've quoted from.

[0] <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45036440>
by chickenzzzzu | 2025-08-28 04:57:24+00:00
I currently am an "individual contributor" on a very large (15+) "game team". It is hilariously inefficient to have one manager supporting that many people, as the manager just makes decisions based on heuristics and buzz words. They almost always make the wrong decision, and we just silently ignore those decisions. Since they're so busy, they don't notice.

I have advocated many times and been told no for a situation like, "hey I know a major core problem we need to solve, give me one extra engineer in addition to myself and maybe a part time tech artist and we can deliver this to you."

It is repulsive how many large corporations follow such outdated and rigid processes, and follow the logic of "more engineerer betterer"
by laughing_man | 2025-08-28 04:57:47+00:00
I doubt zoning has any real effect. Henry George realized in the 19th century that if you increase the money supply most of that money goes into driving up the cost of real estate. And the government has been printing money like crazy for decades now.

Where I live there aren't too many restrictions on housing, but a developer friend tells me he can barely make a profit at current prices because of 1) the cost of the land and 2) modern building codes make housing a lot more expensive. You can have cheaper houses if you're willing to give up things like the insulation that forces builders to use 2x6s instead of 2x4s for exterior framing.

That NIMBY stuff is mostly a problem for pricing if you want to live in a big city.
by timr | 2025-08-28 04:59:00+00:00
> Having read marginally more than you have, it seems to me the AAP's recommendations are complementary, rather than contradictory, save the recommendation for COVID-19 vaccination.

I mean...they're recommending a lot more vaccines in general, so I guess you can frame that as "complimentary", but the WHO document also has a number that are not on the AAP list:

https://cdn.who.int/media/docs/default-source/immunization/i...

Everyone is fixating on Dengue and Mpox because they think they know something about them, but just in the core set, there at least 9 major differences between the schedules: Hep A, Flu, Meningococcal, Covid, RSV, BCG (TB), Dengue and Mpox.
by noisy_boy | 2025-08-28 05:00:07+00:00
Or writing them in whatever language gets you going quickly and rewrite the "successful" ones in a more safe language like Rust. Of course write test cases for those ones first and then use LLM help to migrate them, including tests, to a safer language. Problem happens when the velocity of changes is too much and/or there is no appetite for migration - those are a different category of problem.

The ideal scenario is what you are saying but most of the time it boils down to deadline vs familiarity/skill (of the developer and the team) trade-off.
by Brajeshwar | 2025-08-28 05:00:45+00:00
I do this, albeit, kinda a Start Page. I like it because it is plain-text, and I can access it from any browser (not just the ones I bookmarked with).

Mine is online (rendered client-side) so I can access it from anywhere. https://start.oinam.com

Just in case, anyone wants to look the source is at https://github.com/oinam/start
by wkat4242 | 2025-08-28 05:01:04+00:00
Ehh I've seen some of these teen games involve complete immersion in oil or even water (can be done as distilled water doesn't conduct but if only a pinch of salt gets into it...). Or even more extreme things like liquid nitrogen. This can have all sorts of weird effects on CPUs not designed for that kinda stuff (e.g. thermal contraction to temperatures under low load way below spec, or cracking due to extreme thermal gradients).
by litmus-pit-git | 2025-08-28 05:02:14+00:00
A recruiter in India was talking to me about some roles for some time and then disappeared. After a few weeks, when I was ready for interviews, I reached back. I was informed that those roles didn't exist anymore. I enquired further asking wahether those roles were filled, and the reply was something on the lines that no, they didn't exist anymore. Bit of a bummer because Google was one of the very few companies here that actually interviewed you pretty fairly even after a considerable employment gap. Those were L7 roles (not sure whether those are around TLM).
by monster_truck | 2025-08-28 05:04:24+00:00
I've got a few buddies over at Microsoft, they've all said something along the lines of "I really hate using copilot. They at least let us use pre-approved models in VSCode, we get most that come out. But all AI metrics are tracked and there are layoffs every quarter. I have kids now man. Strange times. I know you would have quit months ago" and they're right.
by Wololooo | 2025-08-28 05:05:18+00:00
I'm sad to see this for several reasons because I do not expect or want everyone up use a LLM to converse with me via mail, the whole point is to exchange information, with everyone using a LLM as output and input, now the whole thing becomes a game of telephone.

You do not need to build a spreadsheet visualiser tool there are plenty of options that exist and are free and open source.

I'm not against advances, I'm just really failing to see what problem was in need of solving here.

The only use I can get behind is the translation, which admittedly works relatively well with LLMs in general due to the nature of the work.
by ada1981 | 2025-08-28 05:05:38+00:00
Thanks. My work has been featured on national television with PBS as I was the first person to openly administer underground mdma on national TV.

My relevant experience is here: http://earthpilot.ai/cv

That said, I agree that finding trusted people is a process and I’ve seen people really get messed up from bad practitioners in the psychedelic / transformational space.

Anyhow, thanks for allowing the sharing of this.