...they find lots of conversations where people teach ChatGPT the lyrics of their favorite (copyrighted) songs. :-)

Chances are that's likely the real reason for fighting the order - they don't want to reveal the fact a lot of their users are using ChatGPT to violate copyright and it's something OpenAI doesn't want to admit to.

Pretty sure DRM is meant to drive people to warezzzz where the games are free and DRM-less.

Less DRM. More anti-cheat.

Most DRM is broken after a week - and the only reason it's kept on is usually because there are paid things that the game has (microtransactions).,

But the anti-cheat is the bigger one, and no one cares if you warez your game if you can't play it with everyone else and everyone you can play with cheats.

Low quality PC to console ports have always existed (and vice versa for that matter.) Define broken - crashing your console?

I'm a game programmer, 20 years in the industry shipping dozens of games across the entire history of consoles starting from the PS2/GC era up to and including the consoles of today. Take it from me, the fact that console hardware is fixed ensures the experience of running games designed to push hardware to their functional limits is far more stable/hassle free.

If you don't wanna play games that do that, then this might not be as big of an issue. But the fixed hardware of a console simply cannot be discounted. Valve is not stupid for making a "verified on our console" program. The console platforms spend OODLEs of money ensuring that console games are by and large rock solid. (Counter examples not welcome, I'm just saying in comparison to the arbitrary hardware landscape of the Windows PC install base)

Also console OSes are designed for their main purpose - turn it on, play the game, stop playing the game whenever you like, come back to the game whenever you like. They're optimized towards that experience in a way that a general purpose PC struggles to do (admittedly Steam's big picture mode is pretty good, but you can't totally handwave away the fact that Windows is running in the background)

I'm not against gaming PCs, I have a nice one, it's my main daily game driver. (Also have a PS5, because I'm not only a developer, I'm also a customer!)

So how come games on Epic Games Store aren't cheaper? Game prices have only gone up despite EGS charging developers only 18% vs. Steam's 30%. Many games were exclusive to EGS, and they didn't launch at lower prices or spur a trend to lower prices.

They started at the same price point as other games.

Prices are just sticky - if you're paying $60 for a game, why release your new game at $55? People are used to $60 so you might as well pocket the extra $5 and selling it for the same $60 despite the store taking less money.

Many don't even know what a terminal is. We are now trained through 2-factor authorization techniques that it is OK to have to prove yourself through a second method outside the browser page. It's not a far leap from email or text messages to entering a code into an app window.

It doesn't matter. You can walk through someone to install the Terminal app on Windows if they're motivated enough for the outcome.

People search all the time for free stuff - perhaps you can set up a page to "get Photoshop for free!" that walks people into installing Terminal from the app store, and how to run the script etc. You can even offer video tutorials on how to do it.

A sufficiently motivated person is suddenly very adept at doing technical things, especially if you explain it in bite-sized chunks.

The desire to have "free apps" lead many iPhone users to jailbreak their iPhones which lead to several worms because they installed sshd and didn't change the default phone password.

Why the hell would someone go open a terminal window and paste random shit in from a web page?

Because it leads them to what they want?

You can advertise "free pr0n!" and have people copy and paste random text into a terminal window if they believe it'll get them to what they want. Your random script can even pop open a website to make it look legit.

It's the whole Dancing Pigs means of security. If you offer a user a video of dancing pigs, they'll do anything to see it.

It used to be 30 days. Apple and Microsoft complained because it didn't give enough time to analyze the problem, fix it, test it, and then do a proper rollout to ensure there weren't unexpected side effects in 30 days.

I think what happened was a kernel flaw, meaning a fix could severely impact other subsystems in the OS and thus a fix would need to be carefully done and a properly staged rollout.

The problem isn't the AI tools - Project Zero has real researchers doing real analysis and making sure those AI issues are real. It's likely they're filing issues FFMPEG feels aren't really issues at all.

You might think a bug in a codec used in a 1996 console isn't relevant for security, but if someone can code up an exploit using it, it's suddenly a big deal. I don't have to play back 1996 console video game to hit the bug, I just need to trick someone into getting FFMPEG to see the file as that format and exploit the security hole. (Think sites like YouTube and such that ingest video, for example)

The problem is, there is no right solution. Is it a real security issue? I don't care if it's only for a platform that only only one game released and no one's ever going to practically use it. If it's a way to break into the software and escape my software stack, it's a security issue because all you need is to have someone pretend to be that file. If not, then let the issue be published - even if you don't want to fix it, people who use it might simply be able to disable ingesting that format at all and eliminate the security hole by not having the feature available.

Why don't you move your application to a normal 64 bit server?

Linux may be getting rid of 32-bit support, but that's only a 32-bit kernel on 32-bit CPU support which outside of the Vortex86 SoC no one makes hardware for.

Linux is NOT getting rid of 32-bit on amd64 userspace support, so your program will run just fine in 32-bit mode. Several distributions have tried to get rid of 32-bit usermode support but that was generally met with resistance.

You don't have to port the code to 64 bit - but it also doesn't need to be stuck on a 32-bit machine either. Linux can run 32-bit usermode binaries just fine.

Indeed, you want fun you try WSL1 - the Windows kernel does NOT support 32-bit Linux binaries and that results in it being basically useless. It works for maybe 70-90% of the things but you'll run into odd errors when you hit a 32-bit program. It's why WSL2 exists and it's running Linux in a VM so you can run 32 bit Linux binaries.

Still tons of 32-bit user space code out there. Even Windows 11 dropped support for 32-bit CPUs, but not for running 32-bit applications because I don't think it'll be possible to drop that ever. Even the OSes that did - iOS and Android - it wasn't completely painless and lots of apps just stopped working. On the desktop where there are far more legacy applications, probably not at all likely.

If you want a more flexible tablet, Apple doesn't make them, but they exist.

Android has tablets, and if you wanted a tablet laptop, they exist as well.

The problem is, they just don't work as well, which is why Android tablets are limited to either Samsung or Temu specials nowadays. And convertibles exist but always seemed awkward to use - probably Windows' fault but goes to show perhaps the demand isn't there.

The iPad is 15 years old now, if some tablet concept was the hot thing, the last 10 years of the iPad wouldn't havve been so stagnant. There isn't much new about the iPad now over a few generations past.

It's just a big screen device that does stuff your phone does in a less portable format. People seem to like that - they're at home and want to play games, watch content and social media except on a bigger screen. The fact you can do "creative" things with it is really just to satisfy the fact those people may want to create now and again, and whole social media networks (like TikTok) exist just for mobile and tablet created content.

Slashdot is basically old techy people and this is a fashion label's product not Apple's.

My wife and me just now:

Me: Look at this iPhone sock thing.
My wife's words after I showed her: Is it available in pink
Me: Yes
Wife: Sugoi! Interesting.

She then proceeded to buy one.

Fashion is whatever you make of it.

And just because you don't care about clothes, shoes or small things to hold stuff like purses, doesn't mean others don't. I'm sure there's probably something you care very much for, like a "Red Swingline Stapler" that has to be Swingline.

(And yes, you probably have your reasons, but they're likely going to fall on other's ears like the iPhone sock does on you).

If you think it's a useless accessory, visit a cell phone accessotry store sometime. They sell cases, and they're not all one design - you'll find cases with lots of designs and patterns and other stuff. It's why Apple has a whole lineup of relatively boring cases. It wasn't too long ago when a cellphone case was just a cheap polyurethane sleeve or pleather condom on it coming in black.

Or you see people with laptops that are covered in all sorts of stickers (also common in the tech crowd, too).

Phones are basically flat rectangular prisms. They contain tremendous opportunity for customization and a huge industry has sprung up trying to make your flat rectangle more interesting.

I like my stuff plain and unadorned, but I get others who see it as an opportunity to get a little creative and make their person device a bit more them.

Lots of people spend hundreds (or thousands) of dollars to see someone stand in front of them to do something for a few hours too. Or they buy fancy metal boxes to move around in over more basic metal boxes that do the same thing.

The problem with a linear layout is it's linear. You're going to eventually run into a situation where you have no choice but to have to travel the entire length of it and back just to do anything So you will be traversing the entire city just to get anything done. Anyone who's lived or worked in a skyscraper knows what it's like because those are relatively linear and you have to have multiple tier of elevators where you go from one local to one that serves only certain floors, etc.

It's why towns developed cross streets and eventually into a grid.

And circular cities exist - except we usually call the circles "ring roads", but that's really just a non-Euclidean grid in the end.

Unless everything is planned out properly, your commute and errands will literally involve driving down the city one way until you reach the end, then travelling back to the other end of the city and driving back to your starting point requiring two full traversals of the city. In an era where you want to promote "local" so people can walk to what they need most, this is the antithesis to that, requiring some form of long distance transportation to do anything.

Even the enclosed circle with a central courtyard is a common design to minimize travel time. And it doesn't have to be enclosed - the "quad" having been around for centuries on college campuses and universities was to allow students to traverse multiple buildings in minimal time.

A line is just a tourist attraction. It's not practical because people don't have the patience for it as they'd want shortcuts as the reality of having to cross the city multiple times gets real old real fast.

Or rather, unnamed unions:

struct my_struct {
        int a;
        union {
                int b;
                double c;
                void* d;
        };
        int e;
} foo, *bar;

You can then reference t as foo,a, foo.b, foo.c, foo.d, and foo.e.

Without it the union must be named:

struct my_struct {
        int a;
        union {
                int b;
                double c;
                void* d;
        } u;
        int e;
} foo, *bar;

and referenced as foo.a, foo.u.b, foo.u.c, foo.u.d, and foo.e. Or the less useful bar->a, bar->u.b, bar->u.c, bar->u.d, and bar->e. (And who has NOT gotten confused in a complex structure of structures with pointers and such?)

Using bar->a, bar->b, bar->c, bar->d, and bar->e can make code far more legible.

Often a data structure will have a header that tells you what type it is, followed by a union of available types - so you might have a "type" field that specifies if the following data is an int, for a float, or a double, or a string and then followed by a union of all them.

Or because it's a Microsoft extension, Windows makes use of "size" parameters in structs to be binary compatible. So you might declare a struct, then the first parameter is sizeof(struct), which is used so if the API internally adds more elements, it can switch back to older behavior when given a shorter struct so old programs using the old struct still work with APIs that could take either version.

Javascript is still part of PDF. So are freaking 3d CAD models. They just added HTML to the spec so you can't even rely on PDF being a high-fidelity representation of a printed page anymore. (You might ask, why not just use an actual HTML file instead of embedding it into a PDF file? GOOD FUCKING QUESTION.) ActiveX was never part of PDF though. Flash kindof-sortof was, it was part of Adobe's version but was left out of the ISO standard, and then Adobe removed it from its version.

Because you can't send HTML files around without including their dependencies, and doing so might require manually editing all the links because the dependencies require going through multiple CDNs.

Every browser has its own independent format for saving an HTML page with dependencies making life fun if you want to send HTML around. Like maybe mock up a page or something.

Maybe PDF could be the universal format where instead of simply printing a web page to PDF and dealing with limitations, it could contain the webpage and dependencies and then be reflowable and scalable. (PDF did allow for reflowing of pages so you could choose to be pixel=perfect or reflowed to suit your screen). It could also allow you to previous your web page on multiple devices without needing a staging server.

Javascript on PDF has a use - for fillable forms it does a verification or provides a helpful way to do things. Like it could verify your phone number is in the form-accepted format, or let you use a date picker instead of manually entering a date.

It's sort of a universal viewing format - where you could print it out, or you can view the content in an enhanced way. Perhaps your 3D CAD drawing is an example where having someone be able to zoom in and out, or rotate the part around or even pick off dimensions. Without having to have a copy of the CAD program

It seems exceptionally weird that people have started writing as though "AI"'s needs are just axiomatic; and that the size of other things, like revenue or suckers with available capital, must be the problem.

The fact that you want something that costs more than you have isn't normally described as a 'funding gap'; it's just you having expensive tastes that you can't afford. Why are talking about there being X trillion in 'demand' when, in fact, there's only X trillion in unfunded hype because nobody has slapped a shock collar on Altman yet?