They really just can't get a break. When they take money from Google they get attacked. When they try to create other revenue streams (pocket, vpn, etc.) they get attacked. I don't think you want the browser to be a paid for subscription product and the donations aren't enough to reliably cover browser development.

Maintaining and keeping secure a large standards compliant browser is decidedly expensive. And most of the expenses are not one off they are ongoing.

It's not out yet and it's already been illegally parked

I'm not holding my breath here. People seem far too willing to put up with stuff they wouldn't otherwise because it's Twitter. Far too many news orgs still point people to Twitter accounts.

Based on the comments it appears the prompt doesn't really even fully work. It mainly seems to be something to laugh at while despairing over the writer's nonexistant command of logic.

So what I am hearing is that Greg Abbot is preventing the border patrol from detaining migrants.

So once a game stops selling it had better hope its player base dries up and stops reinstalling it? The way that is phrased makes it sound like you could net lose money over the long term if sales decline and people keep reinstalling it

I will not stand slander of the arch wiki.

Also start with Linux Mint XFCE (unless they've fixed the stability problems with cinnamon)

Why yes, I would like my stack traces to make no ffing sense! I'm so glad you asked.

The complaints about Wolfenstein becoming political really took the cake for me.

Decades from now I will have to explain what the "3D Objects" folder is to some kid

Just got another. Seems they still haven't caught their intern

They kinda threaten to send you off to freedom camp if you disagree with them. The fascisim ain't subtle.

It's worth pointing out here that this script was probably written by a human.

https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/did-an-ai-write-that-hour-long-george-carlin-special-im-not-convinced/

Edit: reporting now indicates that it was human written https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/01/george-carlins-heirs-sue-comedy-podcast-over-ai-generated-impression/

The feds are actually disturbingly fair about this. You can deduct your legal fees as a business expense.

::: spoiler wikipedia excerpt

While embezzlers, thieves, and the like are forced to report their illegally acquired income for tax purposes, they may also take deductions for costs relating to criminal activity. For example, in Commissioner v. Tellier, a taxpayer was found guilty of engaging in business activities that violated the Securities Act of 1933.[8] The taxpayer subsequently deducted the legal fees he spent while defending himself.[8] The U.S. Supreme Court held that the taxpayer was allowed to deduct the legal fees from his gross income because they meet the requirements of §162(a),[9] which allows the taxpayer to deduct all the "ordinary and necessary expenses paid or incurred during the taxable year in carrying on a trade or business."[10] The Court reasoned (and the Internal Revenue Service did not contest the point) that it was ordinary and necessary for a person engaged in a business to expect to have legal fees associated with that business, even though such things may only happen once in a lifetime.[9] Therefore, the taxpayer in Tellier was allowed to deduct his legal fees from his gross income, even though he incurred the fees because of his crime. The U.S. Supreme Court in Tellier reiterated that the purpose of the tax code was to tax net income, not punish unlawful behavior.[11] The Court suggested that if this was not the case, Congress would change the tax code to include special tax rules for illegal conduct :::

Defense production act takeover when?

Firefighting foam is full of PFAS that tends to pollute groundwater. The last thing we need is more uses for it.

Not really sure curseforge is better. Its another of those sites with an sketchy bloaty overwolf launcher that makes you jump through hoops to load mods onto a server.

It's concerningly hard to avoid overwolf in modding

Crimea is Ukraine. Also that's not how sanctions work at all

I want to watch them try to convince people to call tweets exes

I'm a bit concerned what happens when Gabe Newell dies

Big "she should have dressed differently" energy

Probably wiping process control code from the systems that contain tons of fiddly hard to find constants and other information.

The problem isn't hosting its paying for production of content. His existing stuff will probably stay up and I find it unlikely that YouTube will take down the mean things John Oliver has said about China. The issue is shows with that amount of research and production is that they need a lot of money to produce content.

Scam Altman Freid strikes again

Oops should have cropped earlier. It is invisible on mobile

The article doesn't count the popups you get when you try to change your default browser

Prigozhin tries to march on C8 but he chickens out and winds up hiding in F7 instead

It'll be interesting to see how the Russian military tries to save face if he survived.

I use Gorillas with Grandparents instead as the performance is much better. Do you know how bad Gumbies looks on your resume? It came out in 2022.

The simple solution here is to record to flash when wifi dies. Yes wired stuff is nice but half of these are consumer installed.

Where is the mitocondria?

I would like to ban the Midwest from using the word salad. their misunderstanding of it will hurt someone sooner or later.

Iran has been doing this a while on the theory they can keep the escalation controlled. Up until now though they've gotten lucky with not killing any US soldiers. From a domestic political situation the Biden administration will probably need to retaliate. Hopefully this won't get too much further out of hand.

Where do I sign up?

Ah yes the rampant sexism of American politics is on full display

Peace at all costs has a price that should not be paid

The sane part of the anti war crowd knows that there have been peace settlements with Russia but that they don't last. Settling with Russia is just giving them time to re-arm

Not really seeing anonymous sources cited here. This looks like good old fashioned speculation.

From what I have seen so far it doesn't really matter if it was arranged. There just isn't much evidence of a command center. Sure there may have been a few AKs and a tunnel but that's hardly a command center.

From the perspective of a computer engineer SSDs are painfully slow. Waiting for data on disk is slow enough that it is typically done by asking the OS for the data and having the OS schedule another process onto the CPU while it waits. RAM is also slow although not nearly as slow. Ideally you want your data in the L1 cache which is fast enough to minimally stall the CPU. The L2 and L3 caches are slower but larger and more likely to have the data you want. If the caches are empty and you have to read RAM your CPU will either do a lot of speculative execution or more likely stall.

Speculative execution on CPUs is a desperate attempt to deal with the fact that all memory access is slow by just continuing through the code as if you know what is in memory. If the speculative execution is wrong a lot of work gets thrown out (hopefully nothing unsound happens) and the delay is more noticable.

Bluntly an SSD only system would probably be an order of magnitude slower. I'm also not sure switching to a new process (or even thread) to load from SSD would be viable without RAM as it would likely invalidate a lot of cache triggering more loads.

What exactly is it raining at 56°C?

I'm scared what your weather is like