And not all anti-cheat is malware. I was referring to the kernel level anti-cheats.

As of now, you have to make an effort to find a game that won’t work through Proton, aside from games with malware (anti-cheat).

much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems

For current LLMs there would be a massive gain in energy efficiency if analogue computing was used. Much of the current energy costs come from stimulating what effectively analogue processing on digital hardware. There’s a lot lost in the conversation, or “emulation” of analogue.

I’ve been using “cheap” 43" 4k TVs as my main monitor for over a decade now. I used to go purely with Hisense, they have great colour and PC text clarity, and I could get them most places for $250 CAD. But this year’s model they switched from RGB subpixel layout to BGR, which is tricky to get working cleanly on a computer, even when forcing a BGR layout in the OS. One trick is to just flip the TV upside down (yes it actually works) but it just made the whole physical setup awkward. I went with a Sony recently for significantly more, but the picture quality is fantastic.

Then don’t buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you “can’t do that”, then there’s zero point in complaining. I’m not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.

I tried to demo an agentic AI in Jetbrains to a coworker, just as a “hey look at this neat thing that can make changes on its own”. As the example I told it to convert a constructor in c# to a primary constructor.

So it “thought” and made the change, “thought” again and reverted the change, “thought” once again and made the change again, then it “thought” for a 4th time and reverted the changes again. I stopped it there and just shook my head.

Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it’s core demographic?

<Looks sideways at Disney and Star Wars>

But that’s a whole other bag of worms

It’s the same reason that facial recognition has more false positives for people with more melanin in their skin.

This is not the real reason. It’s because camera tech from more than 10 years ago was worse than today and had trouble with anything less than ideal lighting conditions. Darker textures reflect less light, so the darker someone’s skin the less details a camera can see.

However we’re still talking about a 0.001 FMR for white men to a 0.002 FMR for black men. That’s “2x more false matches” but it’s a 0.001 difference.

With modern cameras and recent facial recognition tech, the issue in differences of skin colour is virtually non-existent. Yes, I know of the news stories about false arrests in recent years, but no tech is perfect and you’re talking about a few instances out of billions.

No, I’m not defending the use of the tech, just pointing out facts.

I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.

As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.

Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).

The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.

NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15

Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.

How many R’s in strawberry?

That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)

Can you name a more reliable alternative?

Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.

How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though?

WAAAAAY more than you’re giving credit for

I’ve decided people need to learn the hard way

Bold of you to assume people will learn. Didn’t you hear about that couple whose kids died from measles and they said afterwards that they still feel their decision to not vaccinate the kid was right.

Then it’ll only be available on enterprise editions pretty soon. Home and Professional will have it removed.

Ever since they went full digital with CT money, you barely earn anything.

Back in the day you could actually buy stuff with only CT money, and you didn’t have to spend crazy amounts to get it.

In the past 4 years I’ve earned about $4 worth, and I shop there all the time. It’s a joke.

But it’s still Windows.

Doesn’t matter how much hot sauce and cinnamon you dunno on to a turd, it’s still a turd.

They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.