Can you tell me how to get to that universe?
I fucking loved Windows Phone and was horribly mad that Microsoft bungled it, bought Nokia, bungled it further, then eventually gave up.
It was years ahead of the shit Apple and Google were doing, but good lord Microsoft just couldn’t manage to figure out how to sell the thing, even with super amazing hardware, like the Nokia 1020.
Can’t wait to see Matt’s next weird and unhinged reaction, considering how this has gone so far.
The worst thing I ever read about the issues about destroying sexual education is that it also leaves children unable to actually describe any abuse, because they don’t know what’s going on, what anything is called, and what is and isn’t a “good” touch.
I’m not saying Florida Republicans are in any way wanting that outcome, but you have to at least wonder why they’re so concerned about this.
Reported by a worker at McD. Wtf, they’re the group that would benefit the most from a change in the healthcare system. Idiot.
Or, and hear me out here, we can view this with a little sympathy: there’s $60k in rewards for anyone who turned this guy in, and the person who did it makes peanuts at McDonalds.
Now, I don’t know if I would do it, but I can completely and utterly sympathize why someone who makes poverty wages would turn class traitor for what almost certainly life-changing money.
For Youtube I was very much talking specifically about how long and how little action they took on the kids-doing-gymnastics videos, even when it became abundantly clear that the target market was pedophiles, and the parents who kept posting these videos were, at the very least, complicit if not explicitly pimping their children out.
(If you have not seen and/or read up on this, save yourself the misery and skip it: it’s gross.)
It took them a VERY long time to take any meaningful action, even after the intent of and the audience to which it was being shown was clearly not people interested in gymnastics, and it stayed there for literal years.
Like, I have done anti-CSAM work and have lots and lots of sympathy for it because it’s fucking awful, but if you’ve got videos of children - clothed or not - and the comment section is entirely creeps and perverts and you just kinda do nothing, I have shocking limited sympathy.
Seriously - the comment section should have been used for the FBI to launch raids, because I 100% guarantee you every single person involved has piles and piles of CSAM sitting around and they were just ignored because it wasn’t explicit CSAM.
Just… gross, and poorly handled.
Exactly: too many people confuse the monopoly aspect with the consumer gaming stuff, which isn’t even pocket change at this point.
CUDA and AI are the whales in the room, and nVidia has a stranglehold on that market and should be investigated.
(Even though, IMO, this is because AMD did their usual shitty job of software, and basically gave the market away.)
First: I’m not in any way intending to cast any negative light on the horrible shit the people suing went through.
But it also kinda feels like a lawyer convinced a victim they could get paid if they sued Apple, because Apple has lots of money.
If you really were serious about suing to force change, you’ve literally got:
Apple, at least, will take immediate action if you report a user to them, so uh, maybe they should reconsider their best target, if their intent really is to remove content and spend some time on all the other giant corpos that are either literally actively doing the wrong thing, doing nothing, or are sitting there going ‘well, akshully’ at reports.
AFAIK, it’s still not had the code released, so at the moment there’s just the one site and you can’t host your own.
Until a flood of TikTok users bankrupt them, anyways.
Not entirely sure how you’d make the economics of hosting endless video files work without great big piles of money and some way to get even more big piles of money on a routine basis :/
I’d like to ask a different question: why do people keep buying inkjet printers with horribly expensive ink?
Is it the case that people print that many photos that getting a hilariously cheaper-per-page laser just not an option, or is there something else that’s causing people to keep buying crappy inkjets with DRM and subscriptions and that somehow require magenta ink to print black when it has separate black ink already?
Always been confused by the popularity of inkjet printers since they’ve always been kind of awful.
I was curious how bad 10% was, so I went digging to see what it should be.
A “good” yield target on a modern process is something like 60-70%, so this is a shocking shockingly bad oof, though it’s also not a complete process, so it’s possible they can salvage this and turn it into something viable but, still, oof.
As with all things in America, it’s only illegal if a normal person does it.
If you’re rich or politically connected (or are the actual government), anything goes.
Indeed.
It’s to the point that even legitimate sites look like those dark-pattern fake scam ecommerce sites with all the popups, fake “deals”, and timers and shit.
Windows of course feels much the same way - recently replaced a failed mac with a new Mini and holy crap is MacOS so fucking zen.
I logged into my apple account and then was assaulted by… fucking nothing. No ads, no popups, no upsells, no candy crush, no enabling AI shit. I just landed on the desktop to do whatever the hell it was I was going to be doing.
had the issue that they tied their chip designs to specific nodes.
In fairness to Intel, every modern semi design house has that same issue: a chip is designed and laid out for a specific node, so this isn’t really a failing so much as a how-it-works.
Of course, Intel was being very, very, very risky when they were designing for a process that basically didn’t exist assuming that hey, they’ll have it done by the time the design work is complete and they’re RTM.
couldnt just take the design and use it on a different node without a lot of effort
Which is what they had to do once they failed to ship newer nodes on schedule with the new CPU designs, and well, we see how that ultimately cost them a whole hell of a lot, if not ultimately their entire business.
Linux users don’t want to admit that a huge thing that makes people hate Linux is having to type in their password every time there’s updates
Hell, people get mad about having to hit a ‘Cool, do that button’, let alone something like a password. It’s how we ended up with UAC v2, because people were steaming pissed about having to accept when a badly written app was doing something stupid that they just changed the scope of ‘stupid’ to be much less restrictive.
In fact it’s even bled over to OS X, as people are SO mad about entering passwords they’re angry at Apple over it, too.
Basically, any time a UI hops in front of you and goes ‘Wait! This is important!’ people get annoyed, and well, all OSes are moving towards more of that shit rather than less, as if they didn’t know that was annoying or something. Glad I don’t work in UX or I’d probably lose my mind at how much stupid hostile shit is being added constantly.
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Well, I mostly was reading it as ‘I put a new battery in, then tossed it back in the closet.’ and was wanting to comment that adding the new battery isn’t a great idea, heh.
Anecdotally, but the only leaky batteries I’ve had are ones that I replaced with new ones, which is why I’m on team no batteries if you’re not using it and no batteries if it’s not absolutely required to make the system work.
I’m assuming it’s just a case of basically depreciated battery sizes being made by factories that aren’t putting in the time to do as good of QA as you might get from a more first-tier manufacturer, but whatever it is, even a shiny new battery is a risk to vintage stuff at this point.
where we can’t trust their levels of education can protect them against capitalism run amok
I’ve been dealing with more zoomer-and-younger kids and uh, it’s less that we can’t trust that their education level will protect them from the evils of capitalism, but more that we can’t even trust that their levels of education are sufficient for them to be able to both read and write, nevermind more complicated things like determining the accuracy of factual data and be able to make a reasonable decision based on you know, critical thinking and analysis.
It’s shockingly dire in a lot of places, and it’s unlikely to improve, at least in the US, since nobody values education and nobody wants to fund education, and we just elected a pile of geriatric rich white people that think we don’t need to do anything but add more Jesus.
And yeah, as adults we’ve absolutely failed the two most recent generations, and are going to epically, epically fuck up the next one too.
So uh, just a friendly suggestion: don’t leave any battery in any computer stored anywhere for any length of time.
If you’re storing anything (expecially if it’s somewhere that’s going to be subject to extreme heat/cold, or humidity or whatever) longer than a couple of months, you should probably be yanking the battery out, because even newly made ones will leak given the right circumstances and enough time.
Uh, jesus christ, also what the fuck.
Computers were a mistake, and the internet just made it worse.