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  • It's the first time I hear systemd or wayland were spelling the death of the linux desktop (not even gonna mention gnome, it's a choice).

    There are controversies around these two, some extremely valid, some a bit over the top, but both do work adequately for the vast majority of common use cases. I'd even argue that systemd (the init process) is better as far as being user friendly. And I say "user", not "poweruser" nor "sysadmin". And wayland is an opportunity to clear some long-lasting backward stuff, and even though it is possible to find issue today, for regular (and new) users, it has no bearing on the usability of their system.

  • Planes they already have can't really be grounded immediately without replacements. Buying replacements takes time and money. Negotiating contracts also takes time. Pre existing contracts tying a company to boeing probably exist in some places. There's probably some incentive to not drop a somewhat strategic business on a whim. And maybe some people believe that boeing will start pulling their head out of their ass at some point.

    And all that would be a hindrance assuming there is a will to stop buying boeing planes, AND move to another, potentially foreign business like Airbus.

  • There's also something to say about someone that was a racist in his mind, but made some effort to move in a better direction and/or live in isolation, versus someone that's actively moving toward ruining other people lives with the benefits they reap.

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  • Yes. But I worry about your premises. Except for a few thing, gaming is not a 10 hour long experience every time; you can just easily slip-it in any free time. Not having the time to play video games sort of implies you never have free time, which would be concerning.

    Maybe I'm misunderstanding the question and it is not about having time to play video games as much as will to play video games. Interests can shift over time; for some people, it's playing different types of games, for other, it's having different hobbies over time.

    I think the same way people have to be a bit social, they need a bit of "me" time here and there. All things in balance and all that. But the material "time" needed to play video games? Yeah, it's there.

  • You're talking about fast food. And even them are slowly (very slowly) moving toward reusable/washable stuff.

    Some fast food, if eating there (not to-go) have limited waste, as far as the customer side is concerned. Actual restaurants, aside from straws everything's reusable. And they're probably a bit more efficient than cooking at home, too.

    It might just be a case of stopping supporting places that are not moving in line with the time.

  • Things LLM can't do well without extensive checking on large corpus of data:

    • summarizing
    • providing informed opinions

    What is it they want to make "more efficient" again? Digesting thousands of documents, filter extremely specific subset of data, and shorten the output?

    Oh.

  • That's the plan. Attack subject that are traditionally seen as taboo/sensitive/whatever, then extend. CSAM content, porn in general, even random bulletin board with cringey content these days, are used as the entrypoint. You target those, people are wary about defending their rights because of the flagship topic, so laws are changed to put some extra layers of tracking, surveillance, etc.

    Step two is claim whatever site/service the current government dislike falls under an imaginary category that allows using these layers of surveillance. And these are extra hard to remove once put in place, because nobody wants to break their surveillance toy.

    It's never about the porn, it's never about the kids, it's never about our security when a proposal shows up and talks about breaking encryption, privacy, etc.

  • I hope some people are keeping track of all this, to keep them ALL accountable, and put safeguards in place so that it won't happen again. I also hope there will be something to build on next US election.

    If people are ok with authoritarian regimes, let's use that as an opportunity to strong hand transparency and trust into them. I was always against that stance, but the fucking shitfest we're seeing there? Yeah, no more of that. Force laws that prevents unlimited power when you can instead of hoping the next madman will play "fair".

  • The end result is the same though; if the bar is set to "be vaccinated against a minimal set of preventable disease", and either people are happy to not be, or worse, because there's always a worst option, we start seeing more cases of people falsely claiming to be vaccinated while they're not, other countries might start tightening the grip.

    …how would we know that some vaccination certificates are bogus? I have no doubt that some people would be bright enough to travel while having measles or whatever. It already happened, and increasing the amount of people in this situation is unlikely to heighten their awareness of it :(

  • Weren't they saying good thing about vaccines a few week ago? After saying they were useless? After saying they were efficient? After saying they caused whatever? After saying they weren't against them? After saying they caused cognitive decline in kids? After saying they did not have an opinion? After saying they would not use them?

    If a massive amount of people were not put in harms way by this senile sick idiot, it would be hilarious to make a montage of their interviews flip-flops.

  • And where would you download from, that is seen as legal sharing of someone else's IP?

    The closest you could get is by locating the ROM file in some PC remakes, assuming there's no "protection" on them.

    Again, playing around the "legal" way to do things. In reality, it's different.

  • People buying the console for the games that are on that console, not generations before, are 100% fine.

    Beside, it's not something you have to fiddle with to get it work. Either a patch come, or you're on your own.

  • It is not illegal to emulate a game that you own.

    In a lot of place it is illegal to circumvent technical protection measures, which is technically required for almost anything starting from NES era. Making it impossible to "legally" rip your own games (yes, even in places where there IS a tax to allow private copy of content you bought). So the only way you can do that is by downloading it, where there is no "legal" way to distribute it in the first place, so "legally" you can't download it either.

    I'm not defending the practice, I'm saying that if you're going the "legal" defense, you're going to have a bad time if it gets attention. Fortunately, suing every single gamer on earth is not an attractive prospect.