I was curious too and checked the article but skimming it, instead of a total, I found this:
A new analysis from MUSO, a U.K.-based anti-piracy analyst [...]
With the study being done by a clearly biased person/group and that large omission, I think it's fair to assume that the % of total web traffic going to pirates might not have gone up all that much, maybe it even went down.
Why did they clip the XKCD joke to the point where it makes no sense anymore?
Suddenly you have a 26+ character password that you don’t forget and doesn’t compromise you across other services because each is different.
It depends on what is compromised and how the attacker operates. If the attacker has your plaintext password instead of just a (hopefully salted) hash AND targets you individually instead of just having your password in a giant list of login-info to automatically try on other services then it's trivially easy to guess that e.g. your Spotify password is yogurt.
This exact image (without the caption-header of course) was on one of the slides for one of the machine-learning related courses at my college, so I assume it's definitely out there somewhere and also was likely part of the training sets used by OpenAI. Also, the image in those slides has a different watermark at the bottom left, so it's fair to assume it's made its rounds.
Contradictory to this post, it was used as an example for a problem that machine learning can solve far better than any algorithms humans would come up with.
Looking at the reviews on Steam, I don't think the setting was anywhere close to the largest problem.
In Roguelikes and Roguelike-adjenct games there are also a few games that get close. (I'd even argue some totally eclipse SV/Terraria in that regard, but that depends on your definition.) Some, but not all, of them are even completely free and open source.
Off the top of my head, a few examples would include Dwarf Fortress, UnReal World and Nethack. Maybe some Space Station 13 servers if you count that too.
Implying being creator of a popular mod doesn't open a lot of doors.
Merriam Webster says either is okay.
I interpreted it more as a "I'm willing to sacrifice all Ameircan's right for anonymous free speech, which I do value, to take away that of foreigners too." which is a typical braindead racist take.
I think it is meant to imply that they learned something new about their sexuality which puts all their wet dreams into a new context.
I could be totally wrong though. Edit: Turns out I was.
Wait, that's what I meant by "clipped".
Now I'm curious in what other way my comment could be taken.