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I am in favor of severely limiting both copyright and advertising, but for the benefit of everyone, not just for the benefit of a few "AI" companies.

That's why my favorite unit is the px, a.k.a., 1 centiinch.

I think he means that the point of the article is that the doodle is AI-generated.

The market valuates Roblox child abuse at almost a billion dollars?

I understand that Europe doesn't have many mandatory union arrangements.

In Canada, unions are often shop-wide with no mechanism to opt out, which makes them very sticky and allows them to grow predatory if they can maintain enough corruption or apathy. I'm led to believe that many US states have similar problems, but that's only based on how American unions are portrayed in news and fiction.

It's HN, nobody reads articles even when they're not slop.

Advertising isn't just B2C, it's also B2B. The companies that make everything you buy (from the food you eat to the electrical wires you install in your walls) needs raw materials and machinery to produce anything. While there's trade shows and good ol' fashioned handshakes and whatnot, one of the main ways to sell B2B is just camp the top Google result spots by giving Google a lot of money to be the first result for the names of business inputs (or the names of your competitors, if you want to be cheeky).

When you hire a non-technical purchaser, when production line 13's full-body discombobulator breaks and the maintenance guy says "we need a new full-body discombobulator", the purchaser has no idea what a "full-body discombobulator" is or who makes it but they'll Google "full-body discombobulator" and they'll click [Buy Now] on whatever link shows up so that production line 13 can continue printing half a million bucks an hour.

online sociability protip: writing in all lowercase outside of instant messaging comes across (to me) as weirdly manipulative, status seeking behavior. you want people to read your stuff and to come to some form of conclusion—you wouldn't be writing, editing and posting text otherwise—but you feel you have to put your ideas and your vulnerability behind a moat of detached, nonchalant aesthetics

nothing personnel, kid

Offline, the client knows movement, graphics, statics (the world mesh, excluding the location and functionality of npcs, doors, plants, etc.) and some localized text. Almost all the gameplay logic is server-side.

What's the matter, honey? You've barely touched your corn in canola oil.

A watched pot never boils. A watched vibe coder never 10x-es.

Day-to-day usability doesn't bring much "wow" factor to a sales pitch.

I've tested just about every DNS provider I could find. Self-hosting and Bunny aside, my needs are especially well met by CloudDNS and LuaDNS.

https://www.cloudns.net/premium/

https://www.luadns.com/pricing.html

I've found every other offering to be lacking. Some examples: Cloudflare is alright but has settings footguns if you're not used to Their Way of Doing It™ (e.g., before using DNSControl, I had to manually flip switches to turn off proxying every time I updated my zones). deSEC is free and okay, but sometimes quite slow to propagate and its UI+API are unwieldy. DNS Made Easy is often pushed on social media, but it's ridiculously pricey for what you get if you don't need a SLA. DNSimple seemed nice but IIRC I couldn't get a different API token per zone (?).

I'm currently relying mainly on LuaDNS. For me, it functions as a "dumb" DNS host (i.e., not using their Lua configuration-as-code system). Their API is oddly designed, but it's been passable since a recent-ish update, which has allowed me to safely port my zone files to DNSControl.

https://dnscontrol.org

Military-style ARPANET designed primarily for nuclear warfare?

Oh, come on people. You don't need a cloud service for this. Just use the is-seven NPM package.

>One upside of this looming economic and intellectual depression is that the media is beginning to recognise gate keepers are no longer the hand that feeds them.

In what world is "the media" not an integral, tightly-bound part of the ratchet mechanism that seeks to suppress all distinction?

>Canadian courts are hamstrung at obvious human rights issues

Huh?

I've received many compliments for my Rolexes, and only ever a question about my Pebble. Nobody has ever expressed any interest in my Apple Watch.

Strangely: "Searches are, unexpectedly, more expensive for us to serve than AI. A user that does only traditional searches (not using Assistant) will cost more on our end than someone using AI + search."

https://kagifeedback.org/d/1338-provide-a-plan-without-ai-fu...

Golang is also "unmaintained" so you're in good company.

Your bank's insurer trusts Google's security more than yours, and they must surely (and rightfully) believe that while Google would spy on you, they wouldn't steal your bank account.

Oh no, Iran, please don't destroy our giant public-private surveillance apparatus!

I wouldn't be satisfied with my share of UBI. I'd want yours, too.

Was Stuxnet a part of this effort?

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One with Windows 11?

I've seen arguments about kids going to school in the darkness being thrown around a lot, but I've never understood why that (against fresh drivers) is always taken to be worse than kids coming home in the darkness (against exhausted drivers).

>Customers only care about game-engines when broken or cheating

Most game engines are broken by default. Modern customers just aren't very discerning ("It's for the pigs. Pigs eat slop."). You can feel holes and rough edges in the vast majority of new releases, including AAA titles.

Unreal is the worst for this and Unreal-based games almost always have two things in common: a very particular, soft, sticky and unresponsive look & feel (often alleviated but never fully corrected by turning off some combination of motion blur, AA and VSync), as well as a UI that mishandles mouse pointers.

Unity devs seem to rely on a (more diverse but still quite) small pool of subsystems and renderers; possibly some mix of baseline and Asset Store components. This gives each Unity game a specific subset of flaws from a wider common pool. That is, you can tell that game A uses the same movement subsystem as games B and C (but not D), that game B uses the same UI subsystem as games C and D (but not A), and that game D uses the same rendering subsystem as games A and B (but not C).

Mainly that a service can't refuse passwords from Bitwarden, whereas in a few years you'll find yourself reading an article about how a bank in Luseristan has decided to require that their users sign in using Passkeys stored in an attested authenticator (not Bitwarden) running on an attested device (not any current Linux desktop).

It's actually very simple to read a journal to determine the full current state of the database. It's potentially even faster than parsing XML, yielding exactly the same in-memory structure. Your computer will do it faster than you can cancel the operation. This also gives you history for free, rather than as nested entries (though you might have to write a log flattener to prune old journal entries). The operations required to parse log entries like "icon 4 is now this data" and "entry 791 now uses icon 4" are minuscule. There is no complexity, no nightmare, no loss of relations.

I am not advocating for KeePass switching to a journal, however, because the current ecosystem is fine.