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Blackmist

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Blackmist ,

It was strange being there at the dawn of time, to see Google utterly displace Yahoo.

We were on conenctions barely faster than dial up and Yahoo's homepage was a complete clusterfuck of everything you didn't care about. Weather for somewhere else, celebrity "news", sports in another country. And all you wanted to do was look up a way to run some very dangerous unchecked SQL in PHP.

Google was just search. Nothing else. And it was so fast. You could have that potential SQL injection so much faster there.

And the sad thing is with phones and browsers defaulting to it, and even the word "googling" (I don't remember ever Yahooing anything), it's probably here to stay with it's terrible addiction to ads and AI. Won't be long before I'm served glue at a pizzeria.

Blackmist ,

I tend to agree. The right time to build nuclear was like 30 years ago.

The same people who opposed it then are the same people saying it's the future now. If anybody agrees to build it, the you'll have 15-20 years of renewable energy being cancelled because the "nuclear is on the way".

Blackmist ,

This is some very short sighted thinking.

Caps attached to the bottles is very important to the recycling industry, so they can be more cheaply and efficiently shipped to China and thrown into the sea.

Blackmist ,

I think a few years ago it was China. Now it will be anybody else who wants Western money and doesn't mind burning plastic. Malaysia and Turkey seem popular for the UK. Not sure where the US sends it. It sure as shit isn't recycled in any way that people would think of as recycling.

I've no idea why we make plastic bottled drinks when aluminium cans exist.

Blackmist ,

Not nearly as much though.

Chinese space firm unintentionally launches its new rocket (arstechnica.com)

The rocket was undergoing a static fire test of the stage, in which a vehicle is clamped to a test stand while its engines are ignited, when the booster broke free. According to a statement from the company, the rocket was not sufficiently clamped down and blasted off from the test stand "due to a structural failure."...

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Not for long anyway.

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And it passes the Acid3 test, which is more than Firefox does.

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Second picture should be Bhopal.

Blackmist ,

Those kids have no idea whatsoever of what went on at Stalingrad.

Blackmist ,

They're beaming electromagnetic waves into your eyes, man!

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As he counts his money.

Blackmist ,

If they haven't been doing so for at least a decade, I'm sure their shareholders will want to know why not.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, it's the reason I cancelled Amazon the day they announced that, while Netflix shambles on.

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And the product thumbnails that all look like sex toys.

Blackmist ,

Shit, most of Amazon is that as well.

Blackmist ,

Half of them aren't in China though. It's dropshippers, so you still get your cheap death traps, but you get them in a few days, Amazon get their enormous cut, and they get to take no responsibility when it burns your house down.

US Record Labels Sue AI Music Generators Suno and Udio for Copyright Infringement (www.wired.com)

The music industry has officially declared war on Suno and Udio, two of the most prominent AI music generators. A group of music labels including Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, and Sony Music Group has filed lawsuits in US federal court on Monday morning alleging copyright infringement on a “massive scale.”...

Blackmist ,

But of course. If artists want to fight for their rights, they better get their own lawyers.

Blackmist ,

You'd think so, but who do you think pays huge sums of money every year to be allowed to sell death traps to the public?

Blackmist ,

Yeah, there's no real costs, because in this case it's a cost of "lost opportunity" in advertising.

As a rich westerner, your eyeballs are worth more than some rickshaw driver in deepest darkest India, because you have more money to fritter away on nonsense.

Never understood how the third world pricing logic holds up for things like video games, since the hardware to play them costs pretty much the same no matter where you are.

Blackmist ,

I gave up trying to figure out what the "bitness" of CPUs were around the time the Atari Jaguar came out and people described it as 64 bit because it had 32 bit graphics chip plus a 32 bit sound chip.

It's been mostly marketing bollocks since forever.

Blackmist ,

I'd imagine 60 million dollars to google is like 60 cents to most of us.

Blackmist ,

Torrenting was blocked on it anyway, as far as I could tell.

Blackmist ,

If five people can maintain a service bigger than all those combined, then the big streamers need to buck their fucking ideas up.

Blackmist ,

Right wingers and authoritarians get mixed up a lot.

Blackmist ,

For the same reason they include spelling errors in their emails, it certainly helps when only their dumbest victims get past the initial pitch.

Blackmist ,

Well that's still better than the weird Indian witch doctor spam I see on a couple of forums I visit.

Blackmist ,

To do:

Cheaper headset

Actual controllers

Make it work with PCs

Blackmist ,

The whole "but what about the one journey a year you make that's outside the normal battery range?" is such an obvious fossil fuel industry boondoggle. It's up there with "but what about that one time you had to move a fridge?" when convincing people that a Ford F150 is a normal sized family car.

Blackmist ,

Last time I tried HDR on Windows, that sucked too.

My Android TV and consoles are about the only devices where it works properly.

Blackmist ,

Quality of HDR is very much dependent on the TV you have I think.

I'm still rocking a 2017 LG OLED which are considered pretty good, but as you go down into LCDs and the cheaper brands, you'll probably take a hit on image quality. Some TVs used to have a yellow pixel as well as red blue and green, so could even be that.

HDR is less about the brightness (although they are brighter than older TVs) and more about colour and brightness accuracy.

Blackmist ,

Did you try just staring at the screen and jiggling the mouse? This appears to be their only way of measuring productivity.

Blackmist ,

The shareholders will be furious.

Blackmist ,

I've seen people who make money from YouTube, and I've no interest in seeing them continue to get paid. If somebody actually makes something worth paying for, they can take their shit to Netflix or whoever. They aren't going to pay some manchild to yell at videogames all day.

Blackmist ,

Why would they do that when Google and Apple already do all the work for them?

Blackmist ,

Much higher floor limit, and no need to enter your PIN every X transactions.

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Blackmist ,

I wouldn't mind so much if they all just used the same bundle of stuff, and you could install that once, and then the apps were all like 2MB each.

But no, big fucking bundle of shit, every single time.

Blackmist ,

Don't they make a shitload of weapons though? They could probably never make another commercial airliner again and still do just fine.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, I'd imagine it's fine down gridlocked Tokyo streets where you might be doing 20mph.

Probably not so good in a 70mph highway collision though.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, but they've got better lobbyists.

Blackmist ,

Seeing these systems just making shit up when they're not sure on the answer is probably the closest they'll ever come to human behaviour.

We've invented the virtual politician.

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Taxpayers who'd rather not.

Blackmist ,

Spoiler: That is absolutely going against your account.

Blackmist ,

I think it's more that it costs money to use the Twitter API now.

Blackmist ,

Yeah, they're nearly twice the price.

Far more capable though, and typically specced with 16GB RAM and a 500GB SSD.

Blackmist ,

N100 is a standard Intel x86 family chip, so no. Plenty of power though, so you'd be able to install any Linux distro or even Windows if you wanted to disgust Lemmy.

Blackmist ,

Thing is left right isn't much of a line, no matter what shape it is.

The right is a point, they'll get behind a populist and go to jail for them.

The left is a scattered mess of disagreeing elements who hate each other almost as much as they hate the far right.

And of course they both hate the dreaded "liberals".

Blackmist ,

Indeed just like a regular car.

If cars lasted forever, they'd all go out of business within 20 years.

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