Epic Games has suggested changing the SVID behavior to Intel Fail Safe in the BIOS settings of Asus, Gigabyte, or MSI motherboards

This seems very similar to a setting JayzTwoCents complained about over a month ago.

TLDW: Some motherboard manufacturers are setting BIOS defaults that push the hardware too far.

How about letting creators decide if they want their videos to be used to train AI instead of deciding across the board for them? Perhaps a robots.txt equivalent for AI which lets creators opt in.

I make business decisions

Everyone makes purchasing decisions, not just people "in business".

I don't spend my money on payback for a corporation's previous "sins" like cashing in when they have the best in market products

If that works well for you, then great. But the reputation of a corporate brand is important to many other people - it's why advertising is such a gargantuan industry - and it's why committing "sins" can have detrimental effects on a corporation for many years. Consumers don't easily forget about being mistreated and they have little recourse to punish corporations for their behavior today other than avoiding that company's products.

You can buy what they sell at the price they ask or not.

Or you can buy from a competitor now that there are other serious options in the market again, aka "voting with your wallet". And those votes can be payback for prior transgressions when Intel had no significant competitors and rested on their laurels. I fail to see how your statement refutes the OP - not buying products from a company can very much be a form of payback.

He's failed in every war aim

He's gained about 20% of Ukrainian territory so far. Sure it's far from the 100% that he sought, but in his mind 20% is far more than 0%. And all he had to do was trade the lives of hundreds of thousands of people that aren't him or anyone he cares about. And he just "won" about 87% of the popular vote for re-election. We can't defeat our enemies if we do not understand how they think and I don't think many of my fellow westerners understand how Putin thinks. In order to do that, we have to recognize that he's a true psychopath who has no problem throwing endless numbers of his own people to certain death just for the benefit of gaining a relatively modest amount of territory. Any rational person would consider the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people to be a terrible loss but to him it's just a currency he uses to trade for land, and any gain whatsoever is a win despite the cost since he's not paying with his own currency (his life). So in his mind it's not the "win" he wanted but it's still very much a "win". And that doesn't even begin to cover the growing normalization of Russian aggression without direct western resistance, which will only further embolden him.

Is it like Proxmox?

We will use discarded human embryos and comply with both domestic and international rules

Do the parents of these "discarded embryos" know that their embryos are going to this Dr. Moreau wannabe? I mean do they actually know or is it shrouded in legalese and buried in the middle of page 47 of the Terms of Service?

I stopped watching the NFL this past year. I'm not sure if it's due to gambling, but in the past several years it kept feeling more like watching a WWE match than a genuine contest. I don't know if it's always been like that and only my perspective has changed or if there really is something to it, but the games seemed to have more of a backstory to them, the refs seemed to get a lot more involved in each subsequent postseason, and some teams seemed to be propped up as heroes while others portrayed as villians. Either way, my life hasn't changed much by abandoning the NFL, so I don't regret it for a second.

While some people truly like vinyl, my guess is that most people are buying it because it offers the largest and most detailed artwork and then proceed to listen to the digital versions of the songs. It's really tough to play vinyl on your phone or in your car.

These up-to-date sources [masteringthemix.com] beg [musicguymixing.com] to [veniamastering.studio] differ [weraveyou.com].

I was going to say the same thing, albeit without as many links. With that said, the best vinyl I've ever heard just barely approaches the levels of CDs but with all of the downsides of vinyl and almost no other perceptible benefits.

The loudness war began in the 90's [wikipedia.org] and was hitting its stride in the early 2000's when streaming was still in its infancy. Streaming may be contributing to the entrenchment of over-compression, but it had nothing to do with its genesis.

Please reread his post. He wasn't suggesting that streaming caused the loudness wars, but instead the opposite. Streaming sites got together and introduced a "loudness penalty" which normalizes the songs in a way that makes them sound even worse if you upload an overly-compressed track. Your first link mentions creating separate masters for streaming which is done almost exclusively to get your music as loud as possible without triggering the loudness penalty. I believe the loudness penalty is applied at levels lower than what CDs can typically handle, so streaming tracks may actually have more dynamic range than their CD siblings.

I'm not surprised at all that Apple modified the behavior of a command-line utility to do something their way, especially since they've had the mentality that they know better than their users for quite some time. However, it really bothers me that they didn't change the version number. Who knows how many poor bastards will be banging their heads against the wall trying to troubleshoot why curl on their Mac isn't acting like the same version of curl on their other devices or the same version that they built themselves. This is a pet peeve of mine: any time you change any code, you modify the version number. At best Apple was being lazy and at worst they're being deceptive, but neither is a good look.

And that is the expected behavior you will get with all standard calls to curl. But from the summary, when a user specifies the "--cacert" option to curl, the user is explicitly stating that they only want to trust the cert provided by that parameter.

Then everyone's new EULA is "we can do anything we want with your data".

They effectively already do whatever they want with your data by changing the terms later. At least requiring them to say it upfront would force them to be remotely honest about it.

We need to gut the ability of corporations to constantly change the terms in which they operate. It should be relatively simple (famous last words) to create legislation that says that companies are bound by the terms of their own EULA which existed at the time that the data was collected. I only consented to providing certain data based on the "contract" we had at the time I provided it. If any company can later decide to change those terms to whatever they want, then the social contract completely breaks down. I mean, what the fuck is the point of even having an agreement if one party can later change it to be whatever they want whenever they want?

That is exactly what I was thinking. So they have a scheduler and are possibly writing directly to the disk instead of using a file system. There's a lot more to modern operating systems than those two components. I'd be far more inclined to believe that DBOS is truly a complete operating system if it's running its own implementation of a TCP/IP stack inside the database. And even if this thing is its own OS, what fundamental advantage would it have over something like Yocto Linux with a custom scheduler and writing directly to the block devices? It seems like a very interesting research project but if there's any commercial viability for this, it wasn't communicated well at all.