They will like PC gamers swallow all the DRM and digital downloads as we see everytime there is complaints about Denovo or the latest game has been withdrawn on Steam gamers keep going back and buying more. It will end the same way on Playstation.

PC gamers accepted the inability to sell and loan games and to have extensive DRM on a large number of games. The console players are the last holds against this anti consumer practice. Just because PCs has multiple stores it doesn’t change the fact Steam is a near monopoly and while its relatively consumer friendly we still don’t own games on it, they can not be passed to others in any way legally. People have a weird love for Steam but the basic facts are the same, it uses DRM, you can’t sell or loan games and you have a licence and don’t own them, you can’t pass them to someone else in a will. Steam is pretty anti consumer on the big items here compared to disks on the consoles.

When you ask people if they want to hand over government ID to every website they access as an adult to prove they aren’t a teenager however support is going to drop really rapidly. Most adults on the internet have had basic details stolen on the internet, but having your passport and other biometrics routinely stolen alongside your bank details is going to open people up to a lot of identity theft attacks. They aren’t likely to support the actual implementation.

“But the leopards wont eat my face”

Hate to break it to you but in the countries where they are restricting it they are doing so to Youtube and Reddit and many other places. Anywhere the plebs can talk to each other.

What I miss in the transition from forums to Reddit and Lemmy is the longer forum discussions that could go on for years. They had their issues, they regularly went off topic and resulted in insults being traded and trolling but they also got to a depth that we don’t see anymore. They were much better for getting to the detail of a thing and with Reddit/Lemmy being so focussed on today the entire discussion is gone tomorrow. The tree format is better for the branching discussion but its also got a real depth limit.

We lost something important when most of the forums shuttered. I really miss usenet for that as well, it alas didn’t evolve with the increase in spam but it could have been something still in use if it had.

Need another one now for all the removal of side loading, that is another big antitrust issue. Best make the fine actually worth something this time.

Its a really great market for picking up talent if your company isn’t currently suffering AI psychosis. You don’t have to use talent scouts or anything else expensive, your competitors are just laying off their top engineers who previously you had no chance of getting and they aren’t even doing it out of necessity.

The analysis comparing GPU flagships and price/wattage is somewhat shallow because it hides another thing that has been going on, the reduction of fundamental specs of the various classes of card. It used to be the case that a x80 chip meant it had a 512 bit memory bus, that it was ~500mm^2 die and hence a fully maxed out GPU and you got all that for ~$400-500 or so. Then the 680 came out and its specs were more like an x70 card from the prior generations, its only 294mm^2 and a 256bit bus, it was a rename of the lower class card, they never produced a flagship for that particular generation and some of that degradation in specs carried over to the 780 ti as well which now only had a 384 bit bus but its die size was ~561mm^2.

An RTX580 is now 378mm^2, which is about an x70 in pre 2012 terms and 256bit bus which is also x60-x70 class.

That process has resulted in the titans and the x90 and the x80 ti all slipping above the x80 as its specs gradually decline and its price is still going up compared to the historical picture, enormously more than inflation. During the same period CPUs on the other hand have stayed fairly similar in price with a steady increase in performance at a price point. That 680 oddity in the historical area was the moment things changed and AMD had a big part to play in the reason why with their 7970 being priced so much higher. This process started then in 2012 and its been getting worse as time goes on.

Its unlikely that we will, too many people want this and the elites have created a system that has disempowered people completely. You work around it, with VPNs and use other sites.

They have been finding that pretty annoying too, they are banning as much of that as they can currently get away with even if its completely ineffective.

I feel like there is a future of more targeted AI. At the moment something that does spreadsheets has to carry knowledge of programming and chemistry and lots of languages and this seems very heavy for what ultimately we need. A programming language focussed AT dedicated to Rust or Go or Java could potentially be quite a bit smaller especially if they focussed on algorithm snippet and auto complete smarts. There is definitely a market for smaller more targeted uses than these all encompassing chat bots where the goal is to move the state of the art on for existing algorithms.

I have just let it grow organically. The front page is an index of various topics from personal things and particular games to household information. Then below that there might be just a page or an index to a bunch of pages often starting just as a list of links. I am often refactoring once a page has a bunch of sub headings of related topics but ultimately now needing multiple pages and replacing the original with the index to those pages. I don’t think I could have designed an index system from the start without the content because I wouldn’t have known what I was going to store.

I wouldn’t be surprised to find out that more than half of all diseases globally are never diagnosed correctly already in the world and that is getting worse. Cancer is one of the more commonly easily diagnosed diseases but that is because it shows up on an xray and especially MRI. But with much of the world not being able to afford imaging unfortunately a lot of people will die without treatment.

I really wish the ground combat was better or entirely ignorable because its not as good as the space ship combat aspects of the game.

Puts a lot of evidence towards his claims that Microsoft was behaving badly from the outset and the reason why he started doing this. They keep escalating. Its a war they started.

The death of Stackoverflow is one of these events where the site has been completely killed by AI and yet its contents is completely necessary for AI to know about solving programming problems. Its death will mark the end of AIs ability to learn how to solve programming issues. Its cannibalizing itself in the process, as it destroys its sources it destroys its own ability to learn.

Standard USB 3.0 is 5gbps, which is quite a bit faster than a hard disk drive so if you get a basic USB adapter it will perform about as you would expect a hard drive to perform just a bit worse. Direct Attach Storage will be many drives connected over USB and then you might run into limitations as the number of drives increases as USB tends to top out about 350MB/s with drives.

There are already companies mass producing solid state batteries with ~380KWh densities for a Litre, substantially better than Li-ion and safer as well since they don’t ignite. They just aren’t at the sort of scale yet where a lot of the market will be using them.

One possibility is to leave the Github available but just have it as a project page that points them to where the development is really happening and then host it where ever you want. In the near term this seems like a solution that at the very least makes the project visible and findable for those that go looking just on github.

They aren’t yet putting up barriers since their sole purpose is people connecting to each other. There is every chance they do move to restricting access but I think it would be the death of Twitch and certainly Twitter if they started doing so. Social media doesn’t require us to trust some group of people to choose our content for us and as such is a lot less prone to that bias and billionaire control. That isn’t to say the billionaires don’t have an effect, on Twitter what people are exposed to by the algorithm is very intentional and controlled as is the front page roll on Twitch, but unlike mainstream media its still possiblr to see and connect with the unfavoured content and grass roots movements can still form. I would prefer this was all on the fediverse but its not where the people are yet.