I’m just starting “blasphemous” and “inscription”. I just completed “Axiom Verge”.

This is not about stopping bot-scrapers, it’s about charging them.

I was tired of being a Darwinist. Now I follow the writings of Dickens; I’m a Dickhead.

Capitalists are so fucking innovative that they’re trying to replace unpaid human labor with robots that are worse and cost money.

Your argument is more out of date than Vista. Windows is not the default because people like their software, or would choose it over anything else. It’s because they’ve positioned themselves as the default monopoly since the goddamn 1980s.

To see what happens when Microsoft has to compete on quality of software, just ask yourself why Copilot and Recall aren’t being rolled out on Windows phones.

If you think about it, almost all computer-technology is radio. Wifi, bluetooth, GPS, radar, and cellular are literally radio. Meanwhile everything else runs on transistor tech developed and refined… for radios.

Our modern economy couldn’t exist if people like Hertz and Maxwell didn’t get to toy with their useless hobbies. But we can’t rely on the curiosity of the leisure class anymore. Basic research is expensive, necessary, and a public good. I’m afraid that the Trump regime has already spoiled the secret sauce that makes America the technology leader of the world.

I’m rocking a GTX 1660 and have no plans to upgrade. Ray-tracing is a scam and all the “AAA” titles that are too vram hungry for my card are not that attractive anyway.

I think I’m starting to understand the gamergate dudes. They had, in videogames the ultimate trad setup. Women were on display, available for use, and existed for their approval. Much like a powerful man from a bygone era would have enjoyed in real life.

That’s what “they took from us”. A pathetic virtual chauvinistic paradise. It was sadder than I thought.

One day, a handheld running Linux will emulate Mario Kart Wold. A Nintendo product will never run a Steam game.

A large contributor to Irish suffering were the British corn laws, a tariff that kept the price of barley, wheat, and oats artificially high. So when potato crops failed, the poor Irish couldn’t afford substitutes. Ironically, American maze was exempt from the corn laws, so much of that was imported to Ireland.

Tariffs: never any externalities or unintended consequences; you will certainly not regret imposing tariffs.

It’s a tool that has gone from interesting (GPT3) to terrifying (Veo 3)

It’s ironic that you describe your impression of LLMs in emotional terms.

It’s insane to go through TSA for a bus. I can’t believe a person would do that on purpose.

The motions which the planets now have,…could not spring from any natural cause alone, but were impressed by an intelligent Agent.

Non-credible scientist, notorious for spreading his “theories” about planetary motion.

it’s interesting that the guns were silent throughout the trailer.

When any game changes ToS, the refund window should reset.

I just got my favorite game (Sekiro) to run on Linux! It wasn’t hard or anything, just the first time I’ve gotten a Windows game to run.

Windows users are a revenue stream, not customers. M$ views it’s users as a sort of raw material that can be processed with dark patterns for ads and subscriptions. And like everything else, Americans are treated with the most disrespect and coercion.

Linux fanatics

I’d rather be a fanatic than a revenue stream with Stockholm syndrome.

If M$ was smart, they’d develop a version of Windows optimized for gaming. But they can’t do that without implying that desktop Windows is inferior for games.

Oh, I see now. This is actually pretty cool then.