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> This drives up the "real" price of these purchases because of the time constraint.

I'd say you answered your own question.

> telco's tend to be oligopolies and tend to also do some form of price collusion among themselves, it was generally accepted as "just how things were"

So are LLM companies, at this stage

> Am I missing something?

Not really

> Is this really how things should be?

No, this is how thing are. I'm more than interested in ways to change the status quo, though.

How you consume social media is not what everyone does.

For example my SO spends hours on end on Facebook. Depending on whether you consider it social media I sometimes sink a lot of time (think hours) on YouTube. And that's time we're not spending on reading.

In light of this the question doesn't seem as twisted.

The point being that if the change to Calibri has been done to improve accessibility (hence: inclusion) that makes it woke.

Which is stupid, of course, especially considering that sans-serif fonts improve readability on screens for most people, not for a minority.

EDIT: extraneous "don't" in the middle of a sentence

This reads like a mish-mash of various science fiction sources I can't quite pinpoint (except WALL-E in the end, maybe).

Anyway, that's probably how it would go, but I'd like to think of the better vision for the future where such a machine would instead result in a post-scarcity world where one of the few actual jobs is designing the stuff the machine creates (of course excluding all the jobs that can actually be automated once the economy changes so drastically).

Take a look here[0] for a discussion about cassette quality.

TL;DR: Like many of us you probably had shitty equipment and shitty cassettes. They are more than capable of sounding great with the right tools.

[0] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=jVoSQP2yUYA

> it feels better to choose to listen to a particular album rather than putting endless playlists on shuffle.

Isn't that something you can do with streaming services as well?

I understand that many people choose to go with playlists, but it's not like the choice of listening to full albums has been taken away (yet).

Sure, the implementation is lackluster, with gaps between tracks when there shouldn't be one (really annoying on ambient/atmospheric/drone tracks), but still better than nothing.

> the open-source community gets to make use of it as they please

Uhm... I wouldn't be so sure. Looks to me like such a license carries transitively to projects that depend on your software.

Suppose you're distributing a library on such terms. Then an open source project uses your library. Such a project can't then be used in a commercial fashion unless whoever distributes it gets a commercial license from the library's copyright owner. Now suppose the project uses multiple libraries with such terms. That's a burden.

Then again this may be a feature, not a bug, of the model you're proposing.

I suppose that it wouldn't work in practice, though. The AGPL license (and libraries with a GPL license instead of a LGPL one) aren't really widespread, probably because of the virality clause.

Sure, but what about those who got hit by that bad law in the meantime?

> Any instance of selective enforcement being necessary is ipso facto evidence of a bad law.

Yep, and while we fix that bad law we need judges to be able to say "I won't apply that" or "I won't sentence you to jail for this". That's kinda the point.

What about trains, though?

Ok, but what you're describing is a step (or several steps) beyond a personal website. For a personal website you only need a free hosting provider (like angelfire, geocities and co. of yestercentury) or a Wordpress hosting. No need to toy with registars, dns, cdns. Just a bit of html (heck, if you know what a url is you can just make webpages with Word), or not even that if you use a hosted blog engine.

> If the DRM is enabled, the game does a simple "Is the game available in the user's library?" and steams says yes or no.

So if one day Steam (more broadly, Valve) says "nope" you're locked out of your game, correct?

I'm not sure I'm understanding how Steam DRM works then. Does it phone home? Or is it tied to a particular device? How is this verified?

In the first case they can just refuse to let you use your copy when you ask for permission.

The difference is that "Not having DRM" means the games I bought with no DRM is still there once they enable it. For example, with GOG I download the games I buy and there's no way they can enable DRM on the copies I made.

On the other hand, if the games already have DRM and it gets worse or for whatever reason Valve goes under and you can't play your games anymore, well... you can't play any DRMed game without using whatever DRM mechanism they'll choose next.

In other words "No DRM -> DRM" and "DRM -> Worse DRM" have different outcomes.

> Valve has been doing business this way forever.

And Google's motto was "Don't be evil" and for a good chunk of their life they weren't. That worked out well, did it? I'm not saying Valve will do a 180 and squander all the good faith it acquired. I'm just saying it's not beyond the realm of possibility.

Ok, but sideloading is already a thing. What will this way to install unverified apps be? I doubt it will be an extra screen asking "Are you super-duper sure you want to enable sidloading???" after the one already asking the same question.

I'm a long-time Debian user and I have no idea who you're talking about. How much weight do they actually carry? Who is this influencer you're talking about?

I can't force them. Doesn't mean I can't criticize them for not doing it.

> and the political ones are very, very rare... at least not in the tech world

That's what I said: events (especially hacking camps) that are not purely tech-focused. We're just going to different kinds of events :)

Looks like many people here in the comments don't hang out at hacking events that are not purely tech-focused. In European hacker camps these kinds of stickers are the norm, especially the political ones that, because of the very nature of those camps, lean heavily progressive if not anti-capitalist/anarchist.

> If they weren't greeted with a load of what seems like nonsense for nerds there could have been broader adoption of RSS.

Why? Wouldn't just see a different view of the same website that had that intriguing icon and go "ok, so what?"

If they don't know what an RSS feed is, seeing a stylized version isn't really going to help them understand, imho.

Usually it's because of an initiative by the Long Now Foundation that is supposed, among other things, to raise awareness about their 10,000 years clock and what it stands for.

See https://longnow.org/ideas/long-now-years-five-digit-dates-an...

They should go looking for the Hacker Known as 4chan and collect from him.

Note: I had to edit the title because it was too long for HN

Why would you compare "any modern game that ranks on Steam" with random games from the era?

You said

> It's the same phenomenon where people think their Nintendo 64 or PlayStation 2 was a masterpiece never paralleled, revisit it in 2025, and realize: "wow... this... sucks actually."

I actually tried re-playing PS games I remember enjoying, and I still enjoy them.

I see what you mean about the fact that people look at old stuff with rose-tinted glasses, but really some things did age well (including parts of the early web).

> I search DDG from the Firefox bar, and that does not let me copy the URL anymore

Yeah, I just noticed too. Go to Settings->Search there's a checkbox just below the default search engine. Uncheck that. Should be something along the lines of "Show search terms in the address bar in search results" (sorry for any errors in the translation, my browser's language is not English).

Previously (ten days ago) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44901608

> Anything that doesn't need external "life" to come alive, I would consider as "life" in various states

Doesn't almost any biological entity need external life to come alive via, e.g. reproduction or mitosis or what have you?

Sure, but considering how central and defining the concept of "life" is to biology (the study of life and living organisms) you'd think we wouldn't have a fuzzy definition for that specific concept. I can see why it's tricky, though.

I, for one, still need to look it up every time I see it mentioned. Not everyone is talking or thinking about LLMs every waking minute.

> If your card is that old, shouldn't the nouveau drivers be quite full-featured anyway?

Normally they would probably be, but it looks like my ultra-wide screen is too much to handle for those drivers.

> you may also want to run a Bookworm kernel with a full Trixie userspace.

Good idea indeed. But at this point I'm afraid of borking everything again. I'll just wait for the replacement card I ordered and hope it doesn't make things worse.