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hark , 3 days ago

This isn't software that is exclusive to EVs.

hark , 4 days ago

Copyright is an arbitrary concept. If a country decides to ignore it, then they can do what they want with a publicly-visible resource.

hark , 9 days ago

Reducing the amount of data you need to send is an obvious factor for a service that sends a lot of data. Not much of a bet at all.

hark , 12 days ago

I'd rather not use youtube than give them money for it or even sit through their intrusive ads. There are infinite ways to entertain myself.

hark , 12 days ago

I specified intrusive ads. They could have non-intrusive ads, like a little banner or something. Instead they put up multiple video ads before and during videos. No thanks.

hark , 11 days ago

What really started the ad war was the endless drive for greater profits. Let's say I accept youtube's terms and sign up for premium. Sooner or later they will introduce ads into premium as well. We've seen this process happen with many other services before. I didn't start using an ad blocker until quite a bit after pop-ups were rampant and malware-infested ads became an issue. There's a point where it becomes too much and people will seek out alternatives. An entire generation grew up with convenient streaming services and they're generally less knowledgeable about piracy than the generation before them. That will likely change as those streaming services continue to jack up prices while making the experience worse all in the name of profit.

Again, there is an endless supply of entertainment these days. If companies think they can endlessly jack up prices and/or worsen the experience, they're contending with practically infinite supply, the consequences of which are obvious in when it comes to supply vs demand.

hark , 12 days ago

There's always Linux.

hark , 13 days ago

Supposedly AI is going to take all the jobs and yet it still can't do this task which it seems perfect for. Sure, eventually AI will get good enough to do it in the future, but there is just way too much hype given the reality of the current situation. This is a job that fast food workers are already required to do in addition to other duties, so it's not like it's labor saving from the company's perspective either.

hark , 16 days ago

I'm still on PCIe 3.0.

hark , 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago)

So true, things were much better when we had three channels on the TV.

edit: In case it wasn't clear, I was being sarcastic. Individualized propaganda isn't any more dangerous to democracy than completely-controlled broadcasts. In fact, the completely-controlled broadcasts are more dangerous since it's easier to control the message. It's not killing democracy because we never truly had it.

hark , 22 days ago

Can a daemon be my girlfriend? 🤔

hark , 29 days ago

Nvidia is making tons of money now, but they're still going to be in hot water with investors when they have to explain why exponential revenue growth cannot be sustained as revenues crash back down to the norm.

hark , 29 days ago

Yep, it's a system that relies on infinite growth and gets upset if there's growth but it's not fast enough or if there is any temporary setback no matter how minor or even if things level off for a bit. It's ridiculous.

hark , 1 month ago

My chrome phase-out finished years ago (though technically I was using a chromium-based browser and not chrome itself). Good riddance to that trash. Firefox all the way!

hark , 1 month ago

Economics is a social science (and often a political tool) pretending to be a physical science. If they don't want to be treated the way they are, they should drop the act.

hark , 1 month ago

That's not the reason why they're doing this, just like how eliminating the super size option wasn't to have people eat less junk food. It's not effective in achieving that. This is just to squeeze more profits out of people, on an item that costs them pennies.

hark , 1 month ago

Interesting timing on this article given how EVs are really starting to grow in a large way. Reminds me of the articles a few months back about how demand for EVs wasn't "as high as expected" (who is setting these expectations?) even though demand is still growing at breakneck pace. Sounds to me like dinosaurs trying to throttle the growth of EVs so they can keep up sales of internal combustion vehicles, to which I say that maybe they should've invested more into the EV space to reap the rewards instead of dragging their heels at every opportunity. Not to mention the human rights abuses and wars fought to keep the internal combustion vehicle industry going.

hark , 1 month ago

Would've probably turned out different if Valve was beholden to shareholders and the never-ending hunger for a higher stock price. The push to drive "shareholder value" is one of the most destructive forces if not the most destructive force we're dealing with these days.

hark , 1 month ago

This is a prime example of why the "code is law" selling point for smart contracts is a disaster waiting to happen. Proponents claim you won't need lawyers, arbitrators, courts, etc, but in reality you'll need all those and on top of that programmers to write and verify smart contracts.

hark , 1 month ago

Turn the bottle 90 degrees?

hark , 1 month ago

BYD doesn't sell their cars abroad for $10-$15k.

hark , 1 month ago

If these Chinese vehicles suck so much, why are US car companies so afraid of them?

hark , 1 month ago

Meanwhile the US doesn't subsidize (or even bail out) its too-big-to-fail auto companies, right? If you consider affordable products a deliberate economic attack, what do you call the extreme price gouging that the American auto companies are carrying out?

hark , 1 month ago

If the vehicles are so low quality and dangerous, then it wouldn't be the job of tariffs but of bans, since there are minimum safety standards that still apply.

hark , 1 month ago

It made sense to me when I could take advantage of a tax credit for EVs in 2017. Now that car companies/dealerships simply jack up prices to eat that discount, it doesn't make sense even in that case.

hark , 1 month ago

From the article:

All that would be left behind was a tiny red dot where the dart entered the body, undetectable to those who didn’t know to look for it.

hark , 1 month ago

I wonder if it's possible to get a post about technology coming out of China without a "hurr durr they r spy!!1" comment. I don't see the same every time there's an article on a new Intel processor, for example.

hark , 1 month ago

Intel Management Engine. Do you have an example of Chinese tech spying on consumers for the Chinese government?

hark , 1 month ago

Meanwhile the US has successfully made people forget about the revelations that Edward Snowden made.

hark , 1 month ago

https://qz.com/1145669/googles-true-origin-partly-lies-in-cia-and-nsa-research-grants-for-mass-surveillance

https://news.yahoo.com/google-facebook-cooperated-nsa-prism-145643099.html

https://www.reuters.com/technology/amid-big-hacks-us-spy-agency-touts-collaboration-center-with-private-industry-2021-06-22/

It's not a better situation.

hark , 1 month ago

Yeah, the post is about a new RISC-V laptop and someone came in with "butwhatabout china!!'

hark , 1 month ago

The AI boom in a nutshell. Repackaged software and content with a shiny AI coat of paint. Even the AI itself is often just repackaged chatgpt.

hark , 1 month ago

It certainly looks sleek. Too bad that's all it has in its favor.

hark , 1 month ago

Apps are designed to be easy to use. If this device works as advertised (and that's a huge if), then it wouldn't offer much in the way of convenience anyway. From what I've been reading, it doesn't work well at all.

hark , 2 months ago

I've heard people say "data is the new oil" and there's some flaws in that thinking, but what I find apt, and what was probably not taken into account when that idea was thought up, is that like oil, it's being drilled, refined, and combusted, polluting the environment. Whether this is AI-generated or just poorly-written slop by a human for the purpose of generating "content" to make money off some dumb algorithm, it's polluting the environment and making it harder to get a proper answer.

hark , 2 months ago

I thought there was a site that let at most x number of people play games where x is the number of physical copies the site creator had on hand for that game. The industry doesn't like this either, but the industry can go fuck itself. They've already practically taken away the public domain by making the period for copyright expiration too damn long.

hark , 2 months ago

It's about privacy in the same way "protect the children" bills are about protecting the children.

Narrator: it's not.

hark , 2 months ago

You mean like how rideshare apps told their users to vote in specific ways on specific ballot proposals? No talk about banning those apps.

hark , 2 months ago

Billionaires might as well be considered foreign agents. They're parasites who are doing a lot more damage to the country than any actual foreign agent has ever managed.

hark , 2 months ago

What's wrong, America, can't take the competition?

hark , 2 months ago

Being the guy who signed the bill that threatens the existence of a platform that is super popular with young people whose vote he desperately needs during an election year. Masterful gambit, sir!

hark , 2 months ago

So it seems that there are indeed issues where "both sides" agree.

hark , 2 months ago

It's been mentioned multiple times already, but yeah, with each new action microsoft takes, it pushes me toward linux. I'm not currently on linux because I'm lazy, but my next build will be linux since I'll need to install an OS anyway then.

hark , 2 months ago

Rapid Abandonment Is Imperative

hark , 2 months ago

No, even though they don't like the instance, they are required to post in it for whatever reason and then cry when they predictably get modded.

hark , 2 months ago

Only pure all-American spyware on my machine. 🇺🇲🇺🇲🇺🇲🦅

hark , 2 months ago

The topic at hand is this survey which claims significant impacts to the workforce within five years and this is what I'm speaking towards. As for copyright, these models are straight-up not possible without that data and the link can be clearly demonstrated, they have their training data available which they may have to expose in a court case. Forget about the little guy, the large corporations who own the data will not be happy letting them build this lucrative AI without them getting paid for it. There will be legal fights and it is a potential complication in rolling this stuff out so it should be considered.

hark , 2 months ago

Not if you charge at home. Too bad I can't pump gas at home.