Half of capitalism enjoyers I know complain that “communists” (anyone who complains about capitalism) are hypocrites because they “don’t apply communism to their lives” by sharing their salaries and buying iphones and super expensive clothes.

Ask them how one can “apply communism” when they live under a society that is capitalist, where any donation or salary sharing is effectively feeding capitalism and they’ll just circle back to the initial complaint.

Something similar happened to Japan between 1868 and 1910, minus the space age

PSA

Subscriptions: not even once

That or a reflection of how bad your mental situation is

For many, it’s the equivalent of dealing with smokers in the 70s and 80s, you cannot escape football and the world cup. In a neighborhood I used to live (Brazil), half my neighbors would play up really fucking loud music, the kind that shakes your windows, as commemoration after a world cup victory

Nothing new in human behavior. The Nika Riots is one of the deadliest to have happened in Constantinople because of a chariot race.

The company’s reason is “brand protection”:

We carefully reviewed the project you shared with us (https://github.com/linuxwacom/wacom-hid-descriptors). While we appreciate the initiative, we found that this is primarily a Wacom-led project, and the potential impact for GAOMON would be quite limited. Even if we added support for our devices, the system would still show the device as a GAOMON model, but the overall setup would display Wacom branding. More importantly, participating would require sharing our device specifications directly with Wacom – which is not something we can consider.

The last part of that reply is very wrong.

The article also has a reply from Peter Hutterer, a “senior software engineer at Red Hat and a maintainer of Linux’s core input device handling infrastructure since decades”, which is worth reading.

How I feel knowing that, just by virtue of having a STEM bachelors and a bunch of cloud certs, I am way ahead of my competition in getting laid off and denied jobs for being “overqualified”

FTFY

You’re not a company dealing with massive inventories :P

Regarding the “click and play” nature, not every game will load in under 10 seconds, especially as they’re planning for Dreamcast and PSP next. It works for most platforms, but not as well for CD/DVD based ones

The store for indie ROMs is interesting.

Garou: Mark of the Wolves shocked me. I was testing the Neo Geo core and ended up playing it for way longer than I meant to. The sprites are massive, the animation’s great, it still looks good now. The thing that surprised me most was the sound, actual voices and an announcer, not the bleepy chip stuff you’d expect from that era. The Neo Geo came out in 1990 and you could buy one for your living room, I just didn’t expect it to sound that good.

The hardware was old, but G:MW is from 1999 and not too different from what King of Fighters 94 offered in terms of graphics and sound, 5 years prior. Also, only rich kids could buy the Neo Geo, it was expensive as hell, the huge cartridges too.

I wonder if t-i-m-e is a slur in a different language, because it definitely ain’t in portuguese, english, spanish, italian or japanese

AI is about to join the list of “stupid technologies that people should really wait and see before investing on”, which includes

• 3D TVs - complete dud
• Blockchain - useless for real world problems already solved by typical computing
• Metaverse - still one of the best jokes around
• Folding screen phones - overpriced junk
• Fully autonomous self driving cars - “Just around the corner” for the past 10 years

I really wish to get to that level. I already avoid a lot of corporate internet sites, but I still have to deal with whatsapp and, to a lesser extent, discord. My car is is an old piece of junk because that’s what my salary can sustain, if/when i get a new one, I’ll want the same amount of “smart” features as everything else in my home: zero. Computers (also phones and tablets) only connect to the internet via firewall.

surveillance state, the end of personal computing

These two were coming way before showed AI, so I don’t think AI’s to blame here, just the typical technofeudal mindset of not wanting the serfs to own anything

What a load of bullshit

Huang said the ability of AI to design a website, analyze complex documents, guide advanced research or even plan a kitchen remodeling has helped to close the technological divide in America. People can now do advanced work on computers without having to know how to program or write software, he added.

Glorification of the boss mindset: why do something when you can just tell someone else to do it? Better yet, without paying! Plus, you can even say it that “you” did it!! Seriously, though, that thing is not closing, it is widening the tech divide in 'murica and elsewhere, increasing the number of people who don’t know what the fuck they’re even trying to do with a computer in the first place.

Huang said society will adapt to AI just as it did to automobiles. He said cars were once portrayed as killing children, but the world changed its norms by having sidewalks and crosswalks and stopping kids from playing in the streets.

Also speed limits, speed bumps, unleaded gas, safety regulations. You know, things which he obviously didn’t mention because that would bring attention to the current lack of regulation in AI space.

Remember folks, the guy is a master of the deal

This alarm’s being rung for over a year now, so “calling it now” means finally reading the writing on the wall

I can only tell Goku and Miku from that image, no idea about the other girls

But how will the managers improve morale if they can’t stay behind you to ensure you’re working? Won’t somebody please think of the managers!?

Big mistake after big mistake, yet the company remains profitable in its perpetual surveillance. Eat a shitberg, zuckerberg.