Given what they’ve been up to lately I’m not entirely sure that gov.uk is a credible source on this topic either. They’re saying that Ofcom “will now consult on new codes of practice” but it’s really unclear what they could possibly come up with that would cover all of “social media” (including e.g. fedi) without being either completely ineffectual or a legally unacceptable violation of human rights.

It’s obviously the right idea, Cory’s been saying it to anyone who will listen for months if not years, but it would depend on governments doing something. How can it possibly happen then, if there aren’t powerful corporate interests hiring lobbyists to say it in a way that politicians can hear?

Go game devs were super lazy, couldn’t even design interesting shapes for the pieces.

I am insufficiently versed in Star Trek to know whether there’s a known reason why that isn’t true at warp speed.

That was a lot of reading to learn that the two things were:

• He had some kind of problem with the laptop Wi-Fi driver on his new install of Ubuntu, and — pressed for time, away from home — decided that the best way to fix it was to reinstall Windows.

• He’s unwilling to give up games whose devs have chosen to make them impossible to play on Linux. It’s not clear which one he’s hooked on, but Apex Legends, to Fortnite and Valorant are mentioned.

LLMs don’t know much about any people other than authors and fictional characters. Well, until quite recently at least: The next model will know the most intimate thoughts of millions of AI-obsessed humans.

Wrong number of buttons on the captain’s chair.

Yes, that is the novel usage of the word I’m complaining about. It was not common 30 years ago.

Things must be getting pretty desperate in Russia. But I continue to have a suspicion that this trend of calling teenagers “children” in English is unintentionally erasing the whole concept of childhood. That they’re not children doesn’t make 16-year-olds getting pushed by their parents into arranged marriages any less horrifying.

Only an AI can detect how expensive-looking your clothes are and raise the price based on that.

“It is a reasonable assumption that this would be in the interests of a foreign state”

No, it isn’t. Unless that state has the best interests of UK citizens at heart, I guess.

The AI bubble is so ridiculously huge at this point that I think we’re all living inside the AI bubble.

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As a joke it probably would’ve been more funny if it weren’t for all the reporting about how they were deporting people for posting JD Vance memes and are now demanding to see everyone’s social media accounts at the border.

Obviously loose-leaf free-range tea is a little better than tea that’s been confined to a bag, but what you really want is all the water-soluble compounds synthesized in precisely the right proportions by a properly programmed replicator for that perfect hot cuppa.

Maybe it is the movie studios, but there don’t appear to be any of them on the list of HDMI Forum members, or on its board of directors. So my first guess was some combination of Microsoft, Nvidia, Sony, and Apple. Whoever it is though, the question is how they went about convincing the HDMI Forum as a whole to take such a self-destructive approach.

They’re not fucking with AMD and Valve just because they spontaneously developed an irrational hatred of partly-open platforms. Somebody has persuaded them that they have a financial incentive to do it.

https://www.phoronix.com/news/HDMI-2.1-OSS-Rejected

It’s pretty weird that this organization that exists only to extract rents from people who want to use hdmi remains unwilling to do so even for a customer as large as Valve. I wonder who has given them the motivation for it, and how much it cost them.

Nonsense!? I found Jesus Christ Superstar to be quite theologically sound. My Catholic grandmother agrees.

It’s hard to guess why you’re dissatisfied with blahaj.zone. Far as I know it still has a good reputation.