I've been programming for more than 40 years. This is something like the 10th time that my job has went away. I'm still programming.

If you think AI is going to take your job - you're correct! Your new job will be up one layer from where it is now and you'll be able to build things that you weren't able to just a few short years ago.

I'm excited.

"Constant inflation devalues currency"

You're mixing cause and effect. "Inflation" is simply what happens when currency is devalued. Currency is devalued because half of all US money ever created has been created in the last 4 years. When you see the price of everything go up what you're actually seeing is the value of money going down.

Yes, rampant inflation creates jobs.

Fuck off with those data points.

I voted for no one and am glad.

Linux is pretty well supported on Commodores at this point. Sometimes the kernel versions lag behind a little bit but there's versions of 6.x for Amiga working. Most of the focus tends to be on accelerated and modified machines, as well as more modern m68k variant chips, but there are plenty of people keeping it alive even on original hardware.

I actually ran into this a bit with my car (Scion FR-S, technically a Toyota?). It did indeed have a slightly smaller than stock replacement battery and the previous owner had either lost or not tightened down the battery clamp properly, and it was gone. This let the battery rock back and forth, with the battery terminal banging off a strut tower brace. The terminal cover was a pretty simple little clip on thing, and had clearly been knocked off or come off somewhere along the line. Maybe from banging on the brace. I'm not sure if I lucked out because it hadn't quite gotten through the paint enough to short out or was such a momentary contact it didn't cause any problems (and hadn't welded itself to the brace). In any case, definitely could be a problem for any car with different sized batteries than stock.

They oughtta feed some Yoko Ono stuff to the AI, see if tries to kill itself.

Their heyday is probably past at this point, but for many years there were whole youtube channels and even entire creator networks devoted entirely to Minecraft content because of the sheer amount of hours watched of it. It took awhile to get going but a lot of stuff was appreciated and praised for a long time. I've seen some arguments made that Minecraft content was such a huge percentage of youtube consumption overall for awhile that it was a big contributor to the dominance that YT has today.

I doubt we'll ever get back to that point but poking around un-logged-in youtube it looks like there's still some MC out there getting decent views.

Depends on your goals and what you enjoy. It's entirely possible it's just not the game for you, which is fine too. Everybody has their preferences and likes/dislikes with games.

As far as Minecraft goes, it has a few different gameplay loops. There's a whole survival aspect where you build defenses to protect against bad guys. Maybe do that in interesting and unique places like the nether. There are bosses and an endgame as well for people to work towards.

Some people like redstone and making complex automated machinery with it. Even without mods there's a fair amount of interesting factories, machines, sorting, special effects, etc you can do with it.

Others enjoy the building - maybe they make a replica of a giant cathedral, or the USS Enterprise in 1:1 scale, or a whole city, or their own house. Basically a virtual lego set.

Plenty of other things too. Social aspect where multiple people can hang out and chat with some extra stuff to do while doing so. On mobile it's probably one of the better experiences that isn't a completely shitty p2w/mtx laden mess. It can be a great way for parents to play games with younger kids. Tons of interesting mod packs that can transform it into various things whether it's single-block challenges, Factorio-esque automation games, fantasy swords and sorcery RPGs, whatever you want.

Anyway, nothing wrong with it not being your thing, but there is genuinely a ton of different things you can do it in that a lot of people really enjoy.

At this point I feel like these companies ought to just offer this monitoring for free and be done with it. I think I have three different credit monitoring services I'm getting for free due to various breaches and compromises. And I've had them for years without ever paying for them because it seems like every couple years there's another breach of something where they throw in monitoring for a year. Equifax, T-Mobile more than once, a previous company of mine's employee database, Xfinity breaches more than once... it's endless. I've taken other precautions with my credit so I've never had any problems, hopefully it stays that way.

They can mostly ignore the hobbyist pirate that installs a copy or two on their gaming machines with hacked activations because they're not much revenue anyway. Running Windows un-activated these days is a fairly mild inconvenience too if you aren't big on customized colors and stuff, so that's not a huge deal either.

But, Microsoft can still make decent money on OEM licensing agreements as well as business/volume sales with accountability there should a business choose to not license their stuff. They probably couldn't care less about randos messing with on their personal machines, it's more about the bigger deals. Although to be honest I don't actually know what the licensing implications would be if, say, a business decided to deploy a whole zoo of PCs with unactivated Windows on them. I'd imagine there has to be legalese in there about commercial/business use of it.

It shouldn't be necessary, but you can get/make thin little 3d printed inserts that let it use the in-between settings. Fortunately the middle setting works fine for me but I've had a few friends struggle with it. Hopefully they do fix it.

That's my understanding, or at least what the big fear was. If a studio used AI for the majority of initial work trained on writings of big-name (read: expensive) screenwriters and then used cheap staff writers to clean it up and tweak things where needed, and then didn't have to credit the original screenwriters who made the content the AI was trained on, there were questions over copyright and ownership and credits.

I'm not going to get into the arguments about the state and quality of modern screenwriting, but as I understand it that's the basic arguments. Writers had a concern they'd be replaced by AI, and wanted concessions to ensure they'd still get credit and compensation for AI output derived from their work. We're seeing similar strikes and concerns from actors and voice artists.

Hue used to be one of the few "Major vendor" smarthome things that actually worked completely locally and disconnected if desired and played pretty nicely with other stuff, but also had decent integrations with other things if you wanted to. It's disappointing that it's gone this route, but not entirely surprising sadly.

I was able to find the full article elsewhere, but it doesn't have much details just yet. It seems like it means that if an AI model is trained on a writer's work, that writer would get partial writing credits for it. Presumably any humans working on it would get it too, but it ought to prevent a studio from doing something like, say, training an AI on all past Tarantino scripts and then using it to produce a Tarantino-esque script without credit or compensation. That's the way I interpreted it anyway.

Whether AI use in this stuff is a good or bad thing or not or whatever I'm not going to try to editorialize, but it is what it is. At least this way there's some protection for writers, but I guess we'll see what happens if they try to make hybrid models, unique models not attached to any existing writer somehow, or whatever.

There's nothing shady at all about that sign. Leave a review and get a discount.

The problem is when it's specified that the review has to be a five star review. I sometimes buy stuff from Amazon that comes with a card saying "leave a five star review and get $x off your next order from us". That's review buying, and is very different.