I agree with you. IMO, it’s not that different.

The big difference is between the tankie LARPer instances (lemmygrad, hexbear, parts of lemmy.ml) and the rest of the major instances.

This is honestly pretty funny stuff.

The nation introduced a labor policy in 2018 that capped maximum work hours to 52 – 40 hours of regular time and 12 hours of overtime.

To be honest, I would be surprised if this rule was actually followed. Perhaps someone with more knowledge could comment.

Thanks for sharing. Going to read this before bed (yes, I am a nerd).

Not to be a “snob”, but chances are if you know about Voyager 1/2, you probably know that their power supplies are running out. More clarity is never bad though.

I am a long-time Ars reader and subscriber. I am not American, but I always found their articles on various public policy issues to be interesting and fascinating.

One particularly fascinating element is the callousness of the various “legal arguments” used to justify (and enable) various crimes/corruption schemes.

“I didn’t know this was illegal … it’s the fences fault … we sold both voice and data info, so umm it’s legal.”

Motherfuckers, you were selling real-time location of your customers to random thugs. By any real understanding of the term “justice”, you should be locked up for decades with full asset seizure.

No sane person would agree for you to sell their real-time location data to random goons. You know this and you dare to come up with this gibberish?

It’s not even so much the corruption/criminality that is fascinating (things like that happen everywhere), but the arrogance and callousness inherent to their world salad.

There is a reason the “forbidden fruit” concept was chosen for inclusion in religious texts. :)

Agreed. I wish the source page had a better summary of the research paper.

One advantage of Dropbox is that it is not that integrated into Windows/office.

I use Dropbox, albeit I have an old free account with much more storage than their 2GB base.

Some are mediocre/bad, others are actually funny.

I just think you need to able to laugh at your own choices/ideas. Especially when it’s a relatively non-controversial topic like OS choice.

This is a pretty funny community.

I don’t understand why there are so many downvotes.

I don’t use Linux on desktop (office and some business apps aren’t supported and gaming is a pain), but I do use Linux for my ghetto DIY raspberry pi home server.

I may be wrong, but I get the impression that the US legal system does not allow for real (not a $3.50 fine) prosecution of oligarchs/high end organized crime outside of some edge cases (Theranos, Madoff) where it’s physically impossible to come up with an excuse.

That crime family running a “legal” opiate distribution cartel comes to mind.

The plan this time is to build not just a different interface for a browser, but a different kind of browser entirely — one that is much more proactive, more powerful, more AI-centric, more in line with that original vision.

Who could have thought? These goons are so predictable…

It really does feel like satire, doesn’t it?

You don’t even need to go that far.

Just need real courts (based on principles of justice and sober interpretation of corruption and criminality) and proper incentives; full asset seizure and mandatory community service (decade minimum) working as a junior janitor at an Alzheimer patient facility, with restricted access to smartphones/computers and mobility restriction to the immediate area around the facility. You could even get minimum wage while taking part in your community service program.

This is the kind of thing that makes me support use of extra-judicial methods (at least in a temporary and limited context) against global oligarchs and senior lackeys.

The host then followed up with, “Do you think we can meet AI’s energy without total blowing out climate goals?” and Schmidt answered with, “We’re not going to hit the climate goals anyway because we’re not organized to do it — and the way to do it is with the ways that we’re talking about now — and yes, the needs in this area will be a problem. But I’d rather bet on AI solving the problem than constraining it and having the problem if you see my plan.”

This is outright malicious. How exactly would AI “solve the problem”? Later on in the article (I am not watching the propaganda video) alludes to “AI … will make energy generation systems at least 15% more efficient or maybe even better” but he clearly just made that up on the spot. And at any rate, even if “AI” helps discover a method to make (all?) energy generation 15% more efficient that would still require trillion-dollar investments to modify current energy generation plants using the new technology.

Who is Schmidt to say that the returns of using the total spend in the above-mentioned scenario wouldn’t be better used on investing into wind and solar?

One other note, to my understanding (I am not American), the “U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas” is known for its corruption.

Perhaps the ad-free prime video subscription could be a viable option if prime has a lot of your favourite shows and you are opposed to piracy?

Not judging or telling you what to do. Just thinking out loud.

I would just go with piracy if you don’t want to pay the ad free tier.

Depends on what kind of games you play. Economic strategy games (tycoons, city-builders, large scale simulation games) can easily bring even a modern CPU to it’s knees.

It seems that the ~$3.7 billion revenue figure is from this NYT article.

Some interesting background:

Roughly 10 million ChatGPT users pay the company a $20 monthly fee, according to the documents. OpenAI expects to raise that price by $2 by the end of the year, and will aggressively raise it to $44 over the next five years, the documents said.

It will be interesting to see if their predictions turn out to be true. $44 a month seems steep for a LLM, not to mention there will likely be a lot of competition both from cloud LLM providers and local LLM initiatives.