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You still have all of those things; but no the 95% also have it (albeit in a walled garden). It's more "Others are participating, but not how I want to" than anything I think.

I do wish more tech oriented communities ran off RSS/blog/etc instead of Twitter though.

IIRC, MS has right-of-first-refusal on providing any new/necessaary compute for stargate.

But also iirc; Stargate was well along before trumps horse/pony show also no idea how much is still necessary to purchase.

I don't know if its golden rule or common-sence when applicable.

If our testing framework is in Python; writing a wrapper to code tests for your feature in Perl because you're more comfortable with it is the Wrong way to do it imo.

But if writing a FluentD plugin in Ruby solves a significant problem in the same infra; the additional language could be worth it.

Everything is about tradeoffs.

how much of that cost is hidden/subsidized though? Less I missed something; there's lots of claims but lots of fuzz also. If you bring up API fees; CCP is notorious for subsidizing local business to operate at a loss on the global stage.

You aren't paying per request/GPU access, CCP is.

As a Caps -> Ctrl lifer - i feel personally attacked.

As an aside; if you do the mapping system wide - it's useful everywhere - caps lock is useless everywhere, and Escape is marginally usefull in general desktop usage. I do ctrl-a-ctrl-a tmux 100x/day to swap panes; and ctrl-u in terminal countless times. Minimizing finger movement on all the little things is valuable. That said; I've also become a fan of home row mods also.

The argument is that you're running code on the remote host, and it could be compromised. The same argument can be made about any code you run on the remote.

VSCode may be seen as a larger attack vector due to its popularity; but maybe not as many won't use the SSH agent? It's also fairly common sense that you should never run it to mount on a production resource; but again, you shouldn't be able to ssh into a production machine anyway.

The issue wasn't inconsistency it was "had no home integration at all" at launch. They rushed to roll out the 'new' assistant and didn't bother waiting for the basic feature set first.

Today; it works ~perfectly for TV control/Alarm setting - I can't think of it not working first try in the last month or so for me. Maybe more consistent than prior?

The rollout was simply borked from the PM/Decision making side.

Pixels replaced Assistent w/ Gemini a while back and it was horrendous; would answer questions but not perform the basic tasks you actually used Assistant for (setting timer, navigating, home control, etc).

Seems like they're approaching parity (finally) months and months later (alarms/tv control work at least now), but losing basic oft-used functionality is a serious fumble.

Unless you have very specific applications that require* windows; desktop linux has been a great alternative for a decade or longer I think.

> 1- Things breaking seemingly randomly

This is/has always been the kicker; especially with security updates. If you're comfortable switching; just reinstalling in place is the 99% hammer solution to get back and running imo, and isn't that bad as a last-resort.

> Why would this be an option even? Why allow apps to override a PRIVACY setting? It's like saying, you're allergic to peanuts, but ALLOW waiters to ignore your request, cor. This is becoming so ridiculous I'm struggling to find words to describe my utter disdain and contempt for these low-IQ games.

Author is both complaining about being railroaded and about being given choices paragraphs apart.

> All in all, a meaningless chapter in a meaningless story.

Author is self aware.

> Well, fact-checking works if it's done impartially. So, if you want to fairly fact-check a political debate, each side should have their own team of researchers/fact-checkers being equally able to object to an argument made by the opposing party. Due process, sort of, kind of.

IIRC, This is mostly what Facebook did after the 2016 election; put together a non affiliated board and made sure it was populated by all sides - Facebook itself had no/minimal control over what said board did/decided; but all decisions were public.

Zuck just gave in to 'community moderation' instead because "actual solutions" are considered a negative in today's political climate.

Define Blocked? I just posted a https://meta.wikimedia.org/ link without issue.

> US citizens not being able to freely access information that is published elsewhere in the world

there is a difference between 'US Citizen having access to information' and 'Hostile Foreign Govt having Direct Push Access for news to ~70% of a generation of Americans as they go from puberty to voting age'. US isn't discussing a Great Firewall, the information will still be available, it just won't be as easy for a generation to be indoctrinated (well, by a foreign govt instead of our own* at least. Theoretically our govt has our interests at heart more than 'hostile foreign power' - but that's a different fight we need to have)

> But the approach is also the riskiest

Honestly in open source I'd argue it's not. If an OSS project has significant usage, if BDFL struggles/etc - community forks can put the project back on pace. NeoVim is the classic (successful) example that gave us a great alternative while also nudging the BDFL into the modern age.

Name of the Wind is up there in my top pantheon, right up there with the Hobbit and Dune (among others). I'm sad we'll never see the end.

Despite Sanderson and Jordan having starkly different styles - I do think he did the series justice. Well worth reading.

you are me; down parents issues with smoking/etc and current career/age.

> I'm not sure how I can survive in the US once I can no longer find companies willing to hire me

My plan is simple: Retire. Avoid that 1m house when possible.

> I have no idea how my kids are going to make it

Same boat here, but I'm less concerned insofaras I'm doing everything I can to keep as many options/opportunities open to my kids as possible. This honestly significantly dampens the 'retire' plan; but what can you do? My parents would have no idea what I do if I tried to explain it; I expect the world to shift similarly by the time my kids are working. The goal is simply to give every advantage I can and keep as many doors open as possible.

Functionally; as TikTok is a known/controlled mouthpiece for the CCP - it's infringing the first amendment rights of the foreign govt within US borders?

For perspective on the the root issue, that number seems incredibly high, and it's still only ~.5% of estimated active American TikTok users.

DingDingDing. Ignoring actual value of the ban - I fully expect Trump to save US TikTok to avoid the bad PR associated.

> It’s very telling that TikTok would shutdown instead of divest.

TBF; The CCP passed laws that likely make it illegal for TikTok to sell/export that kind of information (the algo). They can't divest without also neutering the sticking power of the service.

> 1) Influence- TikTok gives the CCP significant direct influence over the views of Americans.

There is no credible argument that the CCP doesn't directly control the alg as it's actively being used for just that in tawain/etc.

Does the US really want a (hostile?) foreign govt to have clear direct access to influence 170m americans, an entire generation - completely unfettered? Incredible national security implications. Bot farms can influence X/Meta/etc, but they can be at least be fought. TikTok itself is the influence engine as currently constructed.

I like more details/discussion; but the take in this podcast feels incredibly naive and conspiratorial; going isnofaras to blame Israeli dark money for the 'ban' while ignoring the legally mandated CCP integration w/ large companies (while claiming "i have no way to know if there is integration" despite it being easily searchable).

Yep; that's where the story as-told seems fishy.

I'm guessing he had been running the 'demo' site for a fair minute using scrapped data; but didn't get noticed/caught until he requested the token.

Still shit to lock him out after he pulled the site down.

Honestly this. I agree the registrar can be shitbag; but having a method to request token access but also blocking the OP here even though he claims he never actually had real data on his site, but was planning on using the legally-requested-token to populate it in the future? That smells of half the story i think.

My guess being OP was probably running the service for months under-the-radar via scraping prior, and they didn't notice him until he requested the token to help clean up his data. Else they punished him before* he actually did anything wrong? yea, just smells.

> That's what they would reduce our PCs to.

As I've spent weeks of my life getting kernel modules to build/sign/release properly in a secure boot environment :D

> That's an affront to the user. Accepting this costs users part of their dignity

I honestly love this. I want to hang out at a bar and get sloshed with you; maybe after hours at a conference. I legitimately think we'd be best buds.

As an aside though - 95% of PC users generally just don't care as long as ItWorks and its fun. It's easy to get mired in the minutia of the systems (technical and societal) instead of thinking about how it interacts with the average person.

> only a handful of titles are actually playable on pc, around 10% in my experience

https://gg.deals/games/xbox-game-pass-games-list/

Currently if I'm filtering right; 553 games are 'free' under Game Pass Ultimate currently, 223 are available on PC. ~42%. That's not great; but not horrible either.

Full Game Pass is 331,461 titles currently, and 240,596 installable on PC; so a bit better ratio.

> They don't prevent cheating, they just make it harder.

TBF; it's net the same thing. People just need it to be hard enough that it (generally) doesn't ruin your game.

You're making the same logical argument people have made against wearing (and then mandating) seat belts, and in more recent times vaccines. It's a sad slope that's led to me being told over Christmas dinner that murder being illegal is stupid because people still kill. He was serious. Boggles the mind.