The US has been on a governance crisis for some time now. It is slow and gradual, but they already had a coup attempt. It is the sort of things that is surreal and only possible to see when you look at it from a multi decades POV. Like Asimov's foundation, it will take centuries and lots of things can happen in the mean time, but you can already see the empire imploding, rotting from within. Rome took almost 3 centuries to fall, and it was more like an erosion rather than crumble. I can see something similar.

Didn't they already had a paid and with ads tier?

Self-hosted and locally run models also goes a long way. 90% of LLMs applications don't require users to surrender their devices, data, privacy and security to big corporations. But that is exactly how the space is being run right now.

Oreo was originally a ripoff so it makes sense.

Don't they already do that? I swear I saw a streaming service that offered 20% off the price if you agreed to pay 2 years in advance or something like that. That is already a thing on SaaS subscriptions.

That's the problem. They already wisened up and HDMI, the propietary standard they forced everyone to change to for HD+, has built-in DRM. Most smart TV have DRM built-in as well.

The cherry on top, you can't say no. You can only tell them to “ask you later”.

They would be ceased and desisted out of existence. There's a reason no one on the scene right now discloses methods and streaming piracy is a closely guarded secret. I'm sure it is perfectly possible, as that is how most piracy occurs nowadays. But it is extremely technical and most likely risks exposing any person doing it wrong.

I'm aware of this. But no corporation will ever let anyone get even close to releasing a consumer product like TiVo used to be.

I'm more of a walk-in abortion kind of person.

Never underestimate the accumulated idiocy of hundreds of people all focused to be inept on the exact same thing.

The answer is incompressible noise. Hours of full on 8k video and 7.1 channel DTS of pure noise. There's noise designed specifically to being incompressible and unable to deduplicate. I think some podcasts got in trouble with Spotify for something like this.

This is new hardware piling. What they claim to do requires reworking manufacturing, is not retroactive with current designs, and demands more hardware components. It is basically a hardware thread scheduler. Cool idea, but it won't save us from planned obsolescence, if anything it is more incentive for more waste.

The thought of commuter traffic as an extreme sport depresses me. But then, the number of people who die from cardiac arrest while sitting in a traffic jam is not zero.

My little cousin was 10 during the height of the craze. I have been regaled with hours of FNAF lore that now lives rent free in my head. My YouTube recommendations were cursed for years. I still tease him about it nowadays and he cringes hard.

This sucks but it is a hard lesson about dealing with large companies. If any company wants anything that doesn't comes off the shelf of the store, they have to pay upfront. Pay has to be by a certain amount of days in advance of delivery date or the date is not guaranteed and will be late. Work doesn't start until payment is done. If they want to pay after delivery, sign a contract, require an advance of at least half of the bill or materials cost (whichever is highest), non-refundable, include a cancellation fee. Put this shit up as terms of service on a website and direct everyone to that page whenever you are contacted by a new client. The larger the client company, the more important it is to be this strict. For you it might be a bankruptcy inducing amount, but to them it will be immaterial pocket change, so you have to hold your ground.

No, Todd Howard doesn't make mistakes, you just have to buy a more expensive graphics card!

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But he says it confidently, and that's all that matter.

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He was using some fancier and older form of English. I believe it is grammatically correct, we just don't use those forms anymore. The first translation of the Gita is from 1785 and it is one of the most translated Asian texts. Famously, every translator places emphasis and projects their own personal worldview unto the text. Though Oppenheimer actually could read and had read the Bhagavad Gita in its original Sanskrit, so he was just giving it his own personal twist.

People would read the second message, type the yes prompt, break their system. But still claim that it was linux's fault, and that the OS doesn't work.

I want shorter games with worse graphics made by people who are paid more to work less and I'm not kidding.

This thing is a scam, and you're all being taken for chumps. The only worse fraud than SC is buying Fatalities on Mortal Kombat.

Is it really thermonuclear if it can easily be dismissed with a couple of screenshots? And he is trying to allege fraud. This is the flimsiest crybaby tantrum he has had yet.

Massive misinformation warning for the article:

“Cologne-based Eyeo, which operates Adblock Plus, AdBlock, and uBlock […]”

They mean uBlock, by uBlock, LLC. Which is based on, but is distinct from uBlock Origin. uBO is the original FOSS project still developed by Raymond Hill. uBlock just steals uBO code and makes it use the acceptable ads frame to show some ads payed directly to Eyeo. uBlock Origins does not agree with the acceptable ads manifesto and will never show any ad.

All of Musk's companies suck at customer service. This is no surprise.

For anyone getting this news here. On Android, one of the best replacements is AntennaPod.

People called me crazy when I told them that Google was leveraging open source to enact their version of an EEE strategy to kill the open internet. But here we are. They embraced open source, expanded Chromium with unethical practices, and now that they have the monopoly of the space and the main voting power on the W3C, they are ready to destroy all that is free and open about the internet.

The UK used the same argument to stop the addition of iodine to salt. "People already consume enough dietary iodine". You know what happened? Thyroid diseases are on the rise in the UK again, slowly creeping back to early XX century levels.

Yes Bill, that is sort of the point of a strike. You could end the strike today if you wanted to.

Is there a Tidal linux player? Or a Tidal for Roku? Those are the two things I couldn't find that made me choose Spotify.

Edit: just checked again and it's 3 times more expensive than Spotify in my region.

Edit 2nd: they list Linux as a non supported web browser. They don't support Max quality on Firefox or Safari. But have a dedicated free 90 day plan with the Humane AI pin. Lol, tf is this company?

Political correctness. This guy inherently implies that following the law and not committing crimes is too woke. Bros, is it gay to not commit an assault and battery at least once a day?

What a clown.

Can we make it a site wide policy to NOT have supermods?

I've already identified a couple of users who are accumulating mod positions like MTG cards, and some are the most toxic and intentionally astringent users who are constantly involved in all the drama.

Buddy, you fell for the PR machine. Back in 2002 when Elmo was thinking about what to do with his ill gained money in order to scam the us government make more money he wanted to rely on a futuristic sort of image to raise capital. We came from the turn of the millennium but nothing futuristic had actually materialized. Mind you, not utopia futurism but more like rugged individualism dystopia futurism. Then in 2008 a movie came out, IronMan, starring Robert Downey Jr. And Musk thought that everyone liked that guy and if he presented himself that way—he owned a space launch company after all—then people would like him and he would be able to raise more money. Hence the hair implants (he was balding before) and Tesla self-driving (it was just electric cars before), and SpaceX to mars (originally it was just a fund sink to do something useful with all soviet era rockets), brain implants, etc. Along with it came a blitz PR campaign. The Muskrat didn't have a significant public presence before 2010, no one knew who he was other than some eccentric billionaire who owned things nerds liked. Electric cars, and rockets. So he and a few publicists for hire pushed him hard into the public eye as the real life Tony Stark. That's it.

Cut to 6 years later, no more publicists. You see, he wanted more publicity, the way he acquired it was by inserting himself in any conversation he could. But as a any narcissist, Musk thinks himself perfect and incapable of any wrong doing, any fault is someone's else and everyone are just dead weight dragging him down. So when he wanted to insert himself into the Thailand cave tragedy, Tesla's PR, who doubled as his personal PR, told him please don't. He called a guy a pedophile and fired the PR (“all the PR my companies need is me as their CEO”). He came from 6 years where everything he said was applauded by the public and anything he commanded was done. Then he paid to be was declared the richest man on earth. Nothing rubs the narcissist's ego like being publicly acknowledge as what they think themselves to be. But this means all self-restrain was off and without any external constrains, his true self has come to be publicly known.

Lead poisoning is still the prevalent theory, I think. It fucks up brain development in ways that make kids tend to sociopathic personalities.

There's a subgroup of the millennial and gen X that grew up with a sweet spot of computers such that you actually need to know how it works in order to use one effectively. Ease enough to do a lot of fun stuff, hard enough that it encourages learning the technical minutiae. The rise of smart phones and net/chrome books means there is a huge chunk of population that has a superficial and passing relationship with tech. It's big buttons or else it doesn't register with them. It's not their fault, the pursue of usability and fool proofing without actually giving tools to dig deep when necessary means they have less exposure to the underlying tech. Thus are less familiar with how things work. It's an universal phenomenon, I would bet most people have no clue how to raise, grow and process food, but still we don't starve, we go to the grocery and buy what's there already cleaned, processed and packaged. There are huge advantages to understanding the chain of production of food, but I'd guess most people would struggle in an agronomy class about what's a compost bin.

Yeah, it's called lack of ethical integrity.

Isn't it ironic that most likely, all their sales were used to make videos roasting their shitty product?

This is the opposite of subliminal. It's almost super-liminal. This people must think that a punch in the face is subtle disagreement.

Arch Linux has always been the butt of a lot of jokes and memes. Anything that becomes popular and has lots of cheerleaders will become a target for jokes. You're just noticing now because it's peaking on attention on the places you look at. It's the natural ebb and flow of memes. It has no rhyme or reason. Trying to predict or explain it is a fool's errand.

Remember, "I use Arch, btw" was born almost the same year Arch was invented. And the first time, it was uttered without a single lick of sarcasm or irony

Oh yes, we all remember that well established in the bible parable about Jesus dragging a pine tree into his house in a dessertic weather town for his birthday party every year and how mad Mary and Josef were when it started to rot in February because Jesus just refused to take it out.

Here's an intuitive reason, have you ever used a wheelbarrow? You'll notice that picking up a wheel barrow to push it is extremely nimble to spin it up around the wheel and dumping the contents precisely. Turn around and try instead to pull on it, and suddenly you can't make as sharp turns and maneuvers unless you uncomfortably shimmy your feet around. One fixed point of swivel with a long lever behaves differently being pushed than when being pulled. A car has a similar effect in place, driving backwards a car is more precise and maneuverable than going forward. Because the rear wheels act as pivot points and the front wheels have a long arm of leverage to more accurately direct the car, with tighter turn radius than when going forward. This is why experienced drivers agree that reversing into a parking spot is easier than pulling into it.