So a license check which cost several cpu cycles, and maybe even a call to a server is replaced with a noop. And you say identical performance?

This is the way.

Those are the days. I can even sometimes sneak in some tech debt reduction.

Is this for real?

I use it often, but not professionally, and it’s pretty handy.

And what do you do with the ewaste?

Or maybe they’re using AI? Somewhere, there could be an LLM trained on the Epstein files.

Are we copying the Karma farming posts from reddit as well? What’s up with that?

Can’t wait for it to be completely unsupported in 5 years and turn into e-waste

So back to shit again

I almost deserted the post

Never will be

Nice. Thanks for sharing

Hmm. Good to know. Though at least they only download once for multiple people

Question: does a debrid server avoid that? Do debrid providers seed?

So AI in Google searches has improved Google to the point where it’s as good as it was before enshittification. Anybody want to guess what the next step is?

Leaves a bitter taste in the mouth. You could probably find a better resolution copy of the painting online anyway.

Exactly. The author seems biased towards Nintendo here.

I thought of that after I posted, and I also saw somebody commented something similar on the article itself.

The Mig Flash Dumper creates pirated copies of Nintendo Switch games from cartridges.

In the same way a camera can create pirated copies of famous paintings from museums