Attributing 'smugness' is a way to duck the merits of the issue. People with mental disabilities also need a stable roof over their head, security, privacy, heat, a bathroom, a bed.
I expect they need it more (very broadly speaking; people have very different disabilities do different degrees), because it's harder to adapt and survive without it, and therefore more traumatizing and destabilizing.
There is plenty of evidence, and it's common sense, that having a stable shelter and all the things I listed above would greatly help anyone. Humans in every culture have sought shelter for all of history - it's absolutely fundamental to humanity (and other animals!). Depriving people of it results in unending trauma - not a state to begin getting your life together, harm from others and the environment, an inability to accumulate assets, and spending all your time trying to survive.
> Attributing 'smugness' is a way to duck the merits of the issue. People with mental disabilities also need a stable roof over their head, security, privacy, heat, a bathroom, a bed
But it's only one piece of a very complex problem, it's akin to the magical thinking that is incredibly provision everywhere these days. "Just stop using seed oils and America will be healthy again!"
People who have personally dealt with this know the hard truth that simply providing food and shelter isn't enough to stop a significant portion of people ending up in the streets.
Right, who is disagreeing? Name someone. You've created a strawperson.
The knee-jerk anti-liberal responses (maybe that's not your motive, but it is for many) do enormous damage, by preventing good solutions from being implemented. The same thing happens with climate change, now vaccines, and other things. People are so focused on politics that they sacrifice lives and welfare of lots of people. There are good ideas from conservatives too - cutting off half the ideas is stupidity.
> People who have personally dealt with this know the hard truth that simply providing food and shelter isn't enough to stop a significant portion of people ending up in the streets.
In fact, the evidence and advocacy comes from people who have personally dealth with it, and providing housing does result in housing for a significant portion of people.
People need more than housing and that's where it becomes especially complex.
You better check your privilege re: your oppressive claims about humans needing to live somewhere to avoid trauma. Do you think the Roma have a lot of trauma just because they are nomads?
Nomadic people have homes and possessions; they bring the homes with them. They don't live out in the open with nothing like unhoused people are compelled to do.
There are digital nomads too - they usually have money and live in rented places, but they have shelter.
That may or may not be an INTERNAL NVIDIA goal, or even a goal for multiple companies, however, that is NOT how the situation will play out.
The ecosystem isn't closed. TSMC doesn't exist in a vacuum. They may be the most advanced, however, there are a few reasons this will never work:
1) older fabs can be built in a garage by a smart person (it's been done a few times, I'd link the articles, but I don't have them handy)
2) Indie devs exist and often provide better gaming experience than AAA developers.
3) Old hardware/consoles exist, and will continue to exist for many decades to come (my Atari 2600 still works, as an example, and it it is older than I)
Sure, they MAY attempt to grab the market in this way. The attempt will backfire. Companies will go under, including possibly team green if they actually do exit the gaming market (because let's be real, at least in the U.S. a full blown depression is coming. When? No idea. However, yes, it's coming unless folks vote out the garbage.), and the player that doesn't give in, or possibly a chinese player that has yet to enter the market, will take over.
It's probably not an Nvidia goal no but the publishers want that too. It's the wet dream of copy protection for them. It's easy to record a cloud streamed movie but a game not so much.
Yeah they want a return to TV era where censors curtail content
Everyone will own a presentation layer device. Anyone who can only afford the 1GB model can only get SNES quality visuals.
Snow Crash and Neuromancer have displaced the Bible as cognitive framework for tech rich.
Am working on an app that generates and syncs keys 1:1 over local BT and then syncs them again to home PC (if desired). The idea being cut out internet middle men and go back to something like IRC direct connect, that also requires real world "touch grass" effort to complicate greedy data collectors.
Testing now by sharing IP over Signal and then 1:1'ing over whatever app. Can just scaffold all new protocols on top of TCP/IP again.
It’s not really about censorship though, it’s about having control over a rent economy where there is no ownership. It provides maximum profit potential
Different entities have different goals but are cooperating in making this happen so they each get what they want. Global corporations get guaranteed income streams from most of the population while governments and ideological groups get control over the flow of communication between people to ensure correct think.
I figured this out about 5 years ago.
Its why each of my kids and my wife all have decent spec desktop PC's, and half of us use linux (I'll migrate the others later)
Maybe then the year of Linux (or OpenBSD?) on the desktop would finally arrive. Maybe anti-trust could get used. Maybe parts could get scrapped from data centres.
It's already here right now, unironically. There's no need for Windows for gaming now. I just build a new rig with a 7900 XTX and with Steam on Arch Linux everything just works with absolutely no hassle or thinking. This was the only value Windows still had and now that's over.
I broadly concur. These days, gaming is usually very easy on Linux.
Except: If I want to kill some time being chaotic in GTA:V Online, and do that in Linux, then that is forbidden. Single player mode works beautifully, but multiplayer is verboten.
(And I'm sure that there are other games that similarly feature very deliberate brokenness, but that's my example.)
This is the part where I just stick with console for specific titles, like the GTA franchise. I feel like Rockstar treats the PC as a second class citizen anyway.
I bought my PS5 Pro in anticipation of GTA 6 and the (hopefully) upcoming DragonQuest 12. May my prayers be answered.
Console doesn't work for anything but platformers. Competitive online gaming = PC (Aoe2, BF6, Dark and Darker, Swordai, MWO, The Finals, War Thunder, PS2 etc.).
I definitely get the appeal of running FPS and such on PC. I'm much more accurate with a mouse and keyboard combo over a controller, but I'm appealing to the strengths a console does have as well. I own both so I can change up my experience to whichever offers the best one for me.
There are still some pain points with Linux distros: With some, an upgrade can leave you unable to boot into a graphical login screen. This can also happen if you leave a Linux installation, like Manjaro, alone for a year and then do an update.
Never have I ever once had a problem after updating Arch Linux. I always had problems with Manjaro when I put it on my ex's computer because I thought it would be easier. Wrong. Stop using Manjaro. It's much lower quality than a serious distro.
That is a problem if you happen to have a nvidia GPU, and, as the article says, by nvidia forcing it, you will not be able to have that brand of customer gamer GPU anymore.
For now, such hardware is readily available. Every Walmart, for example, will have it. Amazon has it. Pcpartpicker lists numerous other places that you can buy it from.
FOSS is more divided than ever, which is an interesting situation given the timing when they should be a solid place for individuals to turn to against the centralization of control. It's quite convenient that so many petty little wars have broken out across the FOSS landscape at just the right time.
Stadia worked, when conditions were good, Geforce Now exists. No cheaters in multiplayer (though there are always new ones), it's a way to go. They're even doing a thing with cellphones as merely devices playing a full screen video stream that you can interact with.
Criminals and the porn industry are almost invariably early adopters of new technologies. For better or worse their use-cases are proof-of-concepts that get expanded and built on, if successful, by more legitimate industries.
I'd argue mining malware is a net benefit to society. I'd much rather have my vulnerable server exploited by mining malware than left alone. If it gets exploited by mining malware, it gives me an extra chance to catch it before something actually bad happens, at almost zero cost to myself and a small reward for the person who found the vuln.
That virtually all ends up in the spam folder. Neither half the revenue generated nor half of the utility people extract from it is criminal. I don't know a single person who has used Monero to conduct non-criminal business.
That's the point, its private by design and unless they tell you, nobody will ever know how much they use and for what. The true hacker spirit.
If you bother to look past news headlines you will find a vibrant community of people paying for legal goods that value privacy before FUD and ignorance.
This kind of fearmongering is already leading us towards a cashless society because "only criminals use it". This is hackernews and not facebook or congress so it should be obvious to everybody here what the end result of criminalizing/demonizing non KYC payments will be (hint: look at china).
if you can't follow a basic discussion maybe don't have them. there are no factual statistics about monero crime unlike email because its private by design unlike email. i provided factual evidence about email being primarily used for crime, meanwhile you have "your feeling" about monero but still refuse to apply the same lens towards something you like once facts are against it. your ignorance and different treatment of the two based on emotions is apparent but has no place in a factual discussion.
> yes with hard data unlike you about monero. have a nice day
If I accepted your version of the events then you need to accept you posted a link stating that spam makes up 45% of email traffic, 45% is neither half nor the majority. I suggest you actually read your "hard data" before posting it.
"In 2023, nearly 45.6 percent of all e-mails worldwide were identified as spam, down from almost 49 percent in 2022. While remaining a big part of the e-mail traffic, since 2011, the share of spam e-mails has decreased significantly. In 2023, the highest volume of spam e-mails was registered in May, approximately 50 percent of e-mail traffic worldwide."
you have to be a fool to think there is less spam 2 years later but thank you for proving once again your clear bias and inability to read.
Well, because crypto has been a crime for it's entire lifetime. Any of my friends who got funding to work on crypto got debanked, fined, jail time etc. Throughout the entire Obama-Biden era. Only under the latest Trump admin are there new VC funding and things like ETF's, stablecoin settlements, and crossborder regulation being "Accepted" even though we have no legal framework.
So... Crypto is illegal so anyone using is defacto a criminal by definition.
Also, for this particular instance this is the best bug bounty program i've ever seen. Running a monero node that hits your daily budget cap is not that bad... It could be way worse like steal you DB creditials and sell it to the highest party... So, crypto actually made this better.
> Everyone is reacting negatively to the focus on AI, but does Mozilla really have a choice?
Do these type of also-ran strategies actually work for a competitor the size of Mozilla? Is AI integration required for them to grow or at least maintain?
My hunch is this will hurt Firefox more than help it. Even if I were to believe their was a meaningful demand for these kind of features in the browser I doubt Mozilla is capable of competing with the likes of Google & Microsoft in meaningful matter in the AI arena.
I think Mozilla can get pretty far with one of the smaller open source models. Alternatively, they could even just use the models that will inevitably come bundled with the underlying OS, although their challenge then would be in providing a homogenous experience across platforms.
I don't think Mozilla should get into the game of training their own models. If they did I'd bet it's just because they want to capitalize on the hype and try to get those crazy high AI valuations.
But the rate at which even the smaller models are getting better, I think the only competitive advantage for the big AI players would be left in the hosted frontier models that will be extremely jealously guarded and too big to run on-device anyway. The local, on-device models will likely converge to the same level of capabilities, and would be comparable for any of the browsers.
Its the reason why they found it because the code was in extension. Before manifest v3, extensions could just load external scripts and there's no way you could tell what they were actually doing.
Even if the extension isn’t malicious, it creates a new attack vector that can affect users. If whatever URL the script is remotely loaded from is compromised, now all users of that extension are vulnerable.
That is correct. You can not inject external scripts. You can fetch from a remote and inject through the content script though, but the content and service worker code is known at review time.
So you can still do everything you could before, but it’s not as hidden anymore
Most browser extensions don’t need to insert script tags that point to arbitrary URLs on the internet. You can inject scripts that are bundled with the extension (you don’t even need to use an actual script tag). This is one part of manifest v3 that I think was actually a good change - ad blockers don’t do this so I don’t think Google had an ulterior motive for this particular limitation.
He may have understood it, but the feelings of anger about it are so overwhelming he had to post anyway, even if it didn't perfectly flow with the conversation.
It seems like some of it was, but for full albums of artists they just redirected it to the official artist uploads on YouTube. But, then if those links change it breaks old playlists and I lose track of it.
It was just such a convoluted mess. They promised you could upload all your music and it would be there forever, they said! Bastards...
This is why it's so frustrating to hear people smugly say we just need to build more houses to solve the homeless crisis.
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