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You need bigger systemic change for that. Under neoliberal capitalism the optimal theoretical end state of any (for profit) corporation is to own absolutely everything and be the last one standing. It‘s just the nature of a corporation.

Hyperbole, yes. But you get the point.

It just so happens that big tech firms have a shot of actually achieving it.

Yep. I used like 2TB last month. And that‘s with 2 people in the household. Granted, I‘m certainly a fringe user. But with 4K streaming, YouTube/Twitch, PS5 downloads, Steam, server stuff, usenet, video conferencing, WFM, etc. it kind of stacks up.

I‘m so glad I have a local fiber provider.

They do push for that though. Via PWA/WebAssembly.

For me, I use a Shield because of the technicals. It‘s currently the most complete solution if you want dolby vision/atmos capable playback with local stuff (plex/kodi) and streaming services. The shield pro 2019 is also the only box that manages to play 100gb+ 4K stuff without issues. Most people don‘t care about that though.

Been using Kodi since 2017. it‘s running on an nvidia shield with the files being supplied via NFS from a Synology nas. Currently not using an actual media server like emby.

It‘s been mostly rock solid. Kodi is more flexible in terms of interface. If you don‘t like plex‘s ui - tough luck.

I‘ve actually started using Plex for my highest-end Dolby Vision MKV‘s because Kodi didn‘t support playback yet. Might be different now.

Other than that I don‘t see massive differences tbh. Plex is certainly more of a „set it an forget it“ solution. Kodi is certainly a very good option, but if you have more than 1 user you might need some media server setup in addition (emby server, er even server side plex).

Edit: just updated on my shield. Does anyone know if Dolby Vision is supported now? Quickly tested it with a compatible movie - didn‘t work.

Edit 2: just looked it up. Apparently dual layer mkv is not supported yet. Guess I‘ll keep using Plex for this use case for now.

Also genital scan.

Possible yeah. Though I don‘t see this happening for a while yet. It‘s certainly marginally more secure than not having biometrics (3 instead of 2 elements).

Ideally something you „are“ as well. Though in practice this might be overkill for most.

I believe there‘s a new biometric yubikey in the works. A fingerprint version of the 5C NFC would be cool.

Exactly. It might for example make (business) sense for Google and Facebook to round up every single ML PHD and just keep them busy so they don‘t work for anyone else. That way other companies are dependent on them and they keep resources from competitors. I actually love the Silicon Valley (HBO Show) analogy of engineers hanging out on the roof being „unassigned“.

Historically, clubs have found homes in places like old cookie factories or power stations. Sometimes these buildings have been empty or in limbo for a long time. So either they’re being occupied by squatters or potential tenants are able to rent them for a reasonable amount.

Fast forward a couple of years. Suddenly rents in those areas have risen 20% yoy. Gentrification is in full swing.

The owner of that factory is approached daily by real estate developers who want to build (often high end) condos in Kreuzberg and Neuköln. Club managers can‘t compete with that money.

Yep. I used to live in Berlin for a lot of my twenties and the club culture is really quite unlike anything else I‘ve seen elsewhere. I loved it, and still do (much less frequently though).

The sheer hedonism is really something to behold. Clubs can run for 5 days straight. Drugs are basically treated as legal and it’s generally a pretty progressive and respectful atmosphere. Techno is closely linked to the LQBTQ and BDSM scene in many venues (like Berghain).

Clubs are dying though. Many are being pushed out by real estate development and obviously covid made everything much worse. Not sure how cities are going to look after things open up again. Club culture has been huge but may not recover.

To get back to your comment. I have no interest in 1). Where 2) has its faults and is not free from elitism at least it doesn’t come down to class as much. But 2) are gonna struggle more because there’s (usually) not as much money involved.

The public cares about privacy, yes. But only as long as its presence doesn‘t inconvenience them in any way.

People hate the GDPR pop ups. Most are badly designed (probably on purpose) and make it easy to accept all and difficult to customize/reject all. Most people are just going to click accept because it makes the box disappear faster.

Let‘s say we have the new Apple opt-in rules for Facebook. There‘s a pop-up some day asking users: „do you want facebook to be able to track you?“ many people will say no. But only because it‘s really easy/frictionless and the app presumably functions as normal.

So primarily users want to do want users want to do. They don‘t care about tracking/ads as long as avoiding them isn‘t completely simple.

They just have really good PR and much less touch points with consumers.

Honestly it probably just boils down to: Rupert Murdoch hates Google and Facebook.

Who wouldn‘t. It‘s not like they have anything to loose when it comes to search.

Well, it would still be linux presumably. MS would likely not allow them to use Windows that way. Or they‘d make it prohibitively expensive. In any case there‘d be even less differentiation from xcloud.

Shadow does offer Windows VM‘s. It works pretty well, but it‘s also quite expensive and not really generally available.

Szenario: Stadia partners with Steam.

Next day: Publishers start crying and all change their TOS to exclude cloud gaming like they did for GFN.

Look what happened to Netflix. Publishers and rights-owners love to collect exorbitant royalties (and not pass them on to devs/creators).

In the end, if you‘re consumer-facing, you have to create your own content. Or be extremely entrenched.

This is probably what prevented the Stadia team from doing the same thing. Lot‘s of people saying: „why not partner with valve/steam for their library“. Because it‘s not Valves library to begin with. This was inevitable. No publisher cared about GFN playing their games in the cloud in the beginning. Just like studios sold off their content to Netflix for pennies in the beginning. It was free money and they didn‘t have a use for them anyways.

Now they smell money and opportunity to fleece a bigger company for higher fees. It happens all the time, unfortunately.

That‘s why it‘s pretty disappointing that stadia killed their first party studios. You have to produce your own content (like netflix) or at least partner with publishers to be exclusive or simple. This seems to be happening with Ubisoft.

But MS just has such a massive advantage with Gamepass.

Except Azure is the new thing that makes MS untold amounts of money via the same lock-in effect created by windows/office. It‘s adjacent business basically.

Culturally it was much more difficult for Google to create a functioning cloud business, even though the tech is in it‘s nature.

A better comparison would be Xbox for MS. Or AWS for Amazon. It‘s quite surprising that xbox wasn‘t cancelled or sold off, really. It was close. Someone has to advocate for these things. Even if you‘re a company making 50 billion a year. From the outside you have to either look enigmatically mysterious and visionary. Or you have to be cost-conscious and focused.

Otherwise your stock is getting destroyed.

Does this surprise anyone? It‘s pretty much a given that Oracle can‘t compete longterm without their legal department.

As someone who regularly uses other e-commerce front ends, I find Amazon to be quite cluttered and messy. Also it‘s surprisingly difficult to quickly find a specific product.

At it‘s most basic, Microsoft‘s makes billions by enabling enterprise customers to remain lazy.

If you don‘t force them they will never move an inch. They‘d rather pay insane amounts for support for decades old shitty software than to finally modernize.

It‘s easy money for MS. Though I‘m sure Windows devs hate it.

I can pretty much guarantee many tech-illiterate users will not really realize anything changed. Or they won‘t care.

Funny fact: check out the mobile version of bing.com. The MS logo is hidden from the viewport unless you scroll up. Almost as if MS is pretty ok with not advertising to people too much that they’re on their platform.

Full scale Matrix?

VR cloud gaming to start with maybe.

Am I missing something? Aren‘t you supposed to do this via end point protection these days? In the same way that big corps should deploy zero trust models.

But I get it. Security and Privacy is really only about ‚compliance‘ and legal protection for large corps.

I said this before, but I still believe Larry and Sergei removed themselves completely from the company because they couldn’t care less about the ad or cloud business per se. More so they might even view it as dirty. It’s a means to an end. Amass as much money (ad/cloud) as possible, get the best possible experts in CS/AI (so many phd’s) and gather every last bit of relevant information/data they can get.

It seems kind of obvious. Their goal is to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful. What better way to achieve this than to somehow create an AGI/ASI. They are certainly the best placed org to do it.

This is terrifying. And it might be where they got inspiration for the Black Mirror episode ‚White Christmas‘.

To add to this. In (old school) enterprise security measures seem to exist more for compliance and legal protection. Top management and especially shareholders care much more about being financially protected via some insurance or government action than technically safe(ish). See Equifax.

What if it does something weird like trapping your consciousness in a loop for eternity. That would presumably be far worse than simply dying.

(Sorry)

By the time humans are able to create universe scale simulations, post-scarcity might well have been achieved. So finite computational resources — or indeed economic competition — might not be a thing anymore.