“0 64-bit Linux” is the hottest distro out there right now, challenging Hannah Montana Linux for the crown

I’m not understanding the logic here. Apple killed their last tower. That isn’t surprising, and their user base is perfectly happy buying nothing but SOCs.

Then there is a still-expanding PC gaming market, where building the machine from discrete parts is a portion of the hobby. By and large, this has never really overlapped with Apple’s user base.

The article does a poor job saying why we should expect non-Apple machines to go the same direction.

Name checks out. Definitely should have waited.

On Tuesday, the jury deliberated for only one day before agreeing that Meta should pay $375 million in civil damages for violating state consumer protections and misleading parents about the safety of its apps.

Not enough. These corporations operate on different math. They pay no taxes. They swim in currency. Pick the biggest realistic number you can imagine and then multiply it by the next biggest. Anything less will be factored out as the cost of business.

Case in point: $375 million is a mere fraction of what Meta spends in a bunch of different areas. Compared to profits, it’s practically rounding error. It won’t affect much.

It’s Always Projection™

Hassett looks like Rich Evans (RedLetterMedia), if he had a real job.

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Don’t look too closely at family trees in the Bible Belt.

Time for a new supervisor.

Porn-Tsar is my new favorite word.

There was one that really stuck with me. This poor homeowner needed a plumber but she had no cash. It was a harrowing story of love and loss, and the climax was stunning.

I’ve never understood why this theme became so popular in porn. But also, it’s porn. If you’re watching it for the plot, you should probably be watching something else.

But obviously, this is more about banning something than actually an issue with the porn. Oiling up that slippery slope.

These products exist to collect data to train models. Every other function they perform is secondary.

People are paying hundreds for these, and then they’re paying the companies with their data, over and over again. Never before has an industry been able to have such spin on a product.

It’s effectively paying a company for the ability to give them unpaid labor.

So is it fair to say (in your view) that the case is more about AI personhood than copyright itself?

Headline definitely seems misleading. Even some parts of the body of the article try and push it the other way.

The FCC added that Charter and other cable firms will continue to face competition from fiber, fixed wireless, and satellite broadband providers. Competition from those sectors “will have a significantly greater impact on their pricing decisions than the possible increased ability to benchmark due to the loss of a single cable provider (Cox) in a different territory,” the FCC said.

Horseshit. Only in America is the literal handful of ISPs available considered healthy competition. This makes a couple near monopolies into nearer monopolies.

2026: “My LLM is female and conscious.”

2016: “My body pillow is female and prefers to be called Waifuchan”

Hopefully more like Arduino and less like RPi!

Yes, I have noticed that too. Not surprising but sure to have an impact.

The mesh in my area is growing quickly, at least it seems that way when checking the node list

These kinds of projects are basically always impressive, in particular on machines which predate the concept of protected memory. It is especially impressive on this machine.

For anyone who may not be familiar with the TI-99/4A, it is a strange beast. It competed with 8-bit micros like those from Commodore and Apple. On paper, the TI-99/4A looked more impressive because it has a 16-bit CPU, but the machine is effectively limited to 8 bits anyway due to supporting hardware and logic elsewhere. The weird design backfired, because it’s ultimately a very slow machine and obviously less performant than those 8-bit machines against which it was meant to compete.