Interesting Links for 17-03-2026

[andrewducker]

1. "Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don't rewrite an Iran missile story"

(tags:iran israel journalism gambling ohforfuckssake )

2. Subnautica 2 Publisher Followed ChatGPT's Advice On How To Break The Law

(tags:law ai games OhForFucksSake )

3. Nvidia's Next-Gen Photo-Realistic Lighting looks, frankly, amazing

(tags:games lighting nvidia video )

4. Regression, Not Progress: A Response to World Athletics' Return to Sex Testing

(tags:gender testing OhForFucksSake women LGBT transgender biology )

5. Have some simple but inspiring images about growth through making mistakes

(tags:inspiration visualisation )

6. Almost 25 years ago, a war game exercise had an Iran-stand in use asymmetric warfare to obliterate a US military force. So they re-ran it to force a US victory.

(tags:usa military ohforfuckssake iran games )

Comments

[calimac]

5) True enough that a scripted outcome negates the whole point of having a war game, but the article also says that the "Iran" victories were at least partly due to limitations on the simulation's capacity, so to that extent it wasn't realistic.

#6

[danieldwilliam]

The Japanese did the same thing in their exercises in support of their invasion at Midway.

Re: #6

[andrewducker]

It's really not useful to lie to yourself about your capabilities, particularly if you then use the results to go to war!

[bens_dad]

5 Firefox does not want show me the pictures and complains
This Resource ... was blocked due to its Cross-Origin-Resource-Policy header (or lack thereof).
See https://developer.mozilla.org/docs/Web/HTTP/Cross-Origin_Resource_Policy_(CORP)#

The issue is that the pictures are on https://instagram.fman4-2.fna.fbcdn.net not https://www.threads.com
and my firefox doesn't have a reason to trust that the pictures do what threads intended ...

[ I had to open the Web Developer tools to see the errors, but did manage to see the pictures, which are terribly small on my screen and scaled down, by looking in the Page Info. ]

[andrewducker]

Works fine for my Firefox install.

Have you set it up to block things in an unusual way?

[bens_dad]

I can see them on firefox on my phone.

I've probably disabled cross-site images - I don't see them in the Guardian either.
IIUC they set an img-src (or default-src) Content-Security-Policy to allow images from other sites that they trust, but https://www.threads.com has done that ...

I was going to say I hadn't blocked things in an unusual way but perhaps I have ?

[andrewducker]

Yes, a great many sites use secondary sites to host their images. If you block that then you're not going to see lots of things.

[juan_gandhi]

Thank you for all this.

[andrewducker]

Very welcome!

[jducoeur]

I only have time to watch a few minutes of #3, but my intuition is that calling this a "lighting" plugin is misleading. The before-and-after screams out that the NVIDIA enhancements are basically saying, "what should this look like?" and answering that. It looks like a lot of the fine details are being altered to be more photorealistic.

(I have a friend who is somewhat involved with this stuff -- I should ask them about it.)

[andrewducker]

Yeah, that seems to be what it's doing.

And while I think it makes the architecture look great I'm not a fan of the faces.