You’re not paranoid, that’s what dead canary means.

Fuck subscriptions though.

You mean ’apt’.

He also writes fiction, if you’re into that.

You can get it to work under linux, via Play on linux for example. It won’t be exactly integrated experience, but it works.

“Wherever means necessary” should not be available to corporations. I guess we agree as much.

In this case, yes.

Game developers employing psychologists to design systems to suck out money out of kids are a real problem, regardless of the context. Similar to advertisement targeted at children, but squared.

Have you ever seen a movie or read a book?

It’s not the bonding part with fake characters that makes this weird. It’s pretending they are in any sense real.

Not enough miniguns yet.

Question is, what is its Wife Acceptance Factor (WAF)?

Matt Mullenweg has not done anything explicitly evil, wrong, or super obviously illegal.

That’s hell of a twist at the end. I would argue he did all of that and may be looking at jail time.

I have 291 RedBoxes in my yard.

Can I take those? ;)

Virtual environments are a great thing.

No no, Google does actually have its own custom proprietary AI hardware - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tensor_processing_unit

Apple is not there yet, its models were trained on Google hardware. Though I am surprised it wasn’t Nvidia hardware.

Thanks! Will definitely help.

How did you do that please?

And heh, no cut, dummy. They get extorted. Netflix wouldn’t agree to allow the hi-res streaming to their devices otherwise.

This is an already solved problem - EU did it in the past.

You’re right. This is just “SaaS”, “cloud APIs” approach turned to 11 - making some thing unavailable to everyone unless they agree to agree with any conditions you come up in the future. For example, if Github Copilot becomes genuinely and uniquely very useful, that’s bad for the software development industry over the entire world: it means that every single software dev company will have to pay “tax” to Microsoft.

Weeeell, there’s a school of though leaning towards the opinion that using VPS is still self-hosting ;)