I don't think I even knew 4 nm was a thing yet.

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My year of the Linux desktop was somewhere around 2000, I can't remember exactly. The Linux desktop sucked really hard back then, but so did Windows 98, so.

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I believe there's some interesting stuff about Amazon in Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin's "Chokepoint Capitalism". It ain't pretty. Maybe not quite as sheerly criminal as Ticketmaster . . . well, except for the labour practices . . . but pretty bad.

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Quoting: PlayingOnLinuxphoneThat idea exists for decades and all times it was tried ended up in banning potential serious developers. I mean, just give a look how Reddit moderators do their job. We all heard about the horror stories of people getting banned for non harmful content if it just contains a minimum amount of critics to a topic. If I can ban you in the network, you are banned everywhere, not just on my project, even if I did not ban you for AI usage, I just need to tell you used AI.

Not even speaking about situations like Github writing "co-authored by Copilot" on non LLM PRs.

The mind behind this idea is great and I would support it, but the real world situation just shows that it harms more than it actually helps. The FOSS-community needs to think about a better solution.

That's fine and all, but the horrors of moderation even before AI tended to pale in comparison to the horrors of no moderation.

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Quoting: eggroleWhen these things happen (I suspect it is only a matter of time) IMHO the only valid response is to boycott the companies restricting access. Petitions and voting new "leaders" in doesn't seem to work. Violence is always an option, but a terrible one.

Boycotting a few companies into bankrupcy sends a clear message. And given how much hemming and hawing goes on about economics and GDP, I think it is the only language these people understand. Want to restrict the internet, suffer economic losses. All of a sudden the legislature becomes much more receptive and the companies themselves will start actually pushing back because it will now be existential.

people that think voting folks out doesn't work is why we have lazy a$$ people UNWILLING to hold their representatives accountable.. those fools get paid to be in office you threaten their livelihood they will listen when enough people are threatening them

You'll have to correct me if I'm wrong, as I am writing from a Canadian perspective, but there are a lot of countries whose politics are based off the British parliamentary system, just like Canada. At least for Canada, there is no recall option. In other words, the voters can only hold their representative accountable at election time. The politicians know that voters have short memories and tend to gamble quite confidently that the voters' anger will have cooled off by the time the election rolls around. It usually does.

Other issues come up, some politically manufactured, that distract the general voting population from the offense of an individual politician. Generally, the political parties are very careful not to stir up the voters' ire close to election time. So, it is not as simple as "lazy people being unwilling to hold their representatives accountable" -- although it does happen from time to time that a constituency's memory is longer than expected.

There's for most countries no recall option(for obvious stability reasons), but there're several control options, which does affect their ability to function and often even their income.
There're the spread out elections on different levels of government, which all preform checks and balances on each other.(on average 1 par year in Canada)
There's the ability to appeal to the other arms of the trias political.
There's the ability to track how your government has wronged you and remind others when the election does come up(freedom of speech), I'm actually quite surprised how few people do that, since everybody can write and people are quite publicly opiniated.

Your boss can't fire you any moment he likes, yet you still fear his power.
The same is true for politicians.

The accusation here's not laziness, but fatalism. I don't have absolute power, so I have no power, so I should take all the abuse.

It's a continuum, of course. Somewhere on one end would be full direct democracy or at least some kind of perfect representation of what people really want, based on excellent information, somewhere on the other end would be an illusion of choice that is completely ephemeral, with the fix in before anyone got close to a polling station, and the question is how close we are to the bad end. Not close enough to make the political process completely pointless, but certainly close enough to be uncomfortable.

A lot of European countries have proportional representation, which is nice; we should have that in Canada, but don't. The US of course has a less democratic system than most places that call themselves democracies, with just two parties holding a stranglehold on the political process. With only two political parties, and until the loonies took over the Republicans almost no daylight between them on economic issues, it becomes very hard to say that meaningful political choice is on offer. Add in all the money, and, well.

One thing we direly need in Canada is media reform--there is very little choice, most of the newspapers are owned by one company which in turn is owned by a US hedge fund, there's like, what, two private TV stations, and then you've got social media which is the same billionaire-algorithm-skewed doomscape as everywhere else, except on top of that Zuckerberg has explicitly dumped Canadian news sources from the algorithm. Such a media landscape puts a lot of "soft" constraints on what kind of policy can be offered.

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Generally, Paradox games can have all the masses of DLC, and I'll still be spending way less $$$ per hundred hours in game than with most other games. So I don't generally squall about it too hard.

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Quoting: TangoBakerWow, I think it was Galactic Empire. In my mind, it was always associated with Battlestar Galactica and I see on the Wiki page that the homeworld was named "Galactica" I've been looking for it on and off for years. Thanks. Now I've got to find a copy and see that really is it.

. . . And try to make it run.

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Quoting: LoudTechie

Quoting: Purple Library GuyThere is a cynical side of me that says the buzz surrounding "Gizmo sales crash site, gizmo sells out in hours" is bigger than the buzz surrounding "gizmo sells this many units out of a large stockpile" even if the second number is bigger. So, what's the motivation to fix it?

Larger Gizmo sales numbers mean larger income and thus happy investors.
Costs pr value, gains hard cash value.

Yeah, but the point is, the initial sales are not all the sales. If you can get big buzz at the beginning, get more notice, that's a ton of free publicity which will help maximize sales in the only slightly longer term. Sorry, I thought that was implied by my commment.

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There are some real issues that need work, but the current crop of solutions are very much in the "Something must be done! This is something. Therefore, this must be done!" vein.

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Plenty of optimizations too, a bunch of which is for mobile chip

Note that the Frame uses Turnip. [External Link]

If you think of that as just normal English, it's one of the sillier sentences I've seen in a long time.

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