Very very few people are going to do that. They're going to try another browser and it's going to work just fine in that browser and then they're going to use that browser.

That's because the advanced privacy features aren't in the current builds yet. It's very new stuff that they were using to prevent the kind of fingerprinting that is used to track people.

And it probably will not affect you because even after they roll out the new privacy features you are probably in a database somewhere of existing customers or something like that. The problem is going to be brand new customers getting flagged by mistake.

So the old farts floating around here are probably never going to see the effect, although as I mentioned on another thread I've been flagged before by Sony and was unable to buy anything on their game stores for ages.

It's more likely to affect somebody just starting out. Somebody who doesn't have purchasing history with a company.

This doesn't break the website it prevents you from completing a purchase. Generally speaking if you get flagged for fraud you won't be told. It just shows up as a decline. I had it happen to me trying to buy games for my PS3 from Sony back in the day. I would have to go to Amazon and buy a gift card and then load it because Sony had decided I was an evil Mastermind or something and they would not approve me for purchases no matter what. The card had a zero balance and I have an 800-point credit score.

You haven't seen it because Firefox isn't really doing all that much to prevent fingerprinting yet. They have a bunch of stuff in the nightly builds that will be in production build soon and it's going to be a problem.

How much of a problem will probably vary. Us old farts are probably in a database somewhere already that will allow us to get through. But if you're in your twenties and just starting out then when you go to make purchases it's going to be an issue.

Most consumers won't know what the hell is going on and they will just try it in another browser like Chrome or edge and it'll work and that'll be that. And they will never think about Firefox again.

So you disable all the tracking and that's cool and all but a lot of businesses use that tracking to decide whether or not you're committing fraud or not.

So you use Firefox and they can't track you but then they won't let you make purchases on their website...

As a regular user then you go to Chrome because you find it if you use Firefox you can't buy stuff but if you use Chrome you can.

It's a problem that Firefox is seemingly unaware of and probably needs to find a solution for. Basically we need to find a middle ground of some kind.

I guess you could say the companies shouldn't do that because they shouldn't be tracking users but it's often the only effective way to catch fraud.

C# is not taking much marketshare from Java. No one wants to run Windows server and it's a hard sell to convince people to run Microsoft languages on Linux. As nice as the language may be, Java performs better. It's abysmally stupid to switch platforms for an app you've invested decades in just for slightly better syntax...especially at a very tangible performance penalty, but even if you did want to, you have soooo many good choices. On the server, C# and Java have been independent camps. Historically, MS fans ran C# and Java was for *NIX.

I know you can now run C# on Linux, but why?...I don't know C# well enough to say it's tangibly better than Java, but I'll assume it is...is it better than Kotlin? Scala? Rust? Why go through the pain of dropping Java only for something that is incredibly similar and slower? You can go Rust and go faster. You can go Kotlin and maintain the same speed. You can write an app in Python, JavaScript, or Go and watch your performance drop dramatically. With so many choices, why bother with C#?

However, I know C# is heavily used in game development. I would imagine it's more non server-side apps causing this increase, like Unity games.

C# on Linux is like the Wendy's of Fast Food Franchises. It's nice...and I like Wendy's better than McDonald's, but not better than Chipotle...In and Out, Burger King, Popeye's, etc....if Wendy's was my only choice? I'd eat it and be happy...if I had to eat fast food and could choose anything? Wendy's is not in my top 10. They're not bad....it's just everyone else is better or more interesting.

So far no mention of the Chinese elephant in the room? Also curious about the European situation. Or should I report on the increasingly bleak Japanese situation as regards electricity supplies?

One thing about renewable power like solar and wind is that you may have "free" excess capacity just because the sun is shining and the wind is blowing. For a lot of the AI training stuff, that can be scheduled when the power is available and thus lower the electricity demand from the data centers for AI training... You don't need to worry about storing the electricity if you have some lower-priority stuff scheduled to use it immediately.

Why funny? Because I think it would be funny if someone made a special version of the Tesla logo. Look close and you'd see it's actually a starving child with extended arms. One version could be a plastic logo cover for the hood ornament on Tesla cars.

I also considered the option of a little note to stick under the wiper of a parked Tesla: "Are you pro-life? If so, why do you drive a car linked with starving innocent children to death?"

Of course I'm just joking and I'd never actually do such a thing. Or maybe I'm not joking and I just believe that no insurance company would cover a Tesla unless the owner has a parking place with surveillance cameras? But I don't think you could pay me enough to support any Musk enterprise now. No joke.

Yeah but win amp was the first to whip the llamas ass, really.

It's a little surprising that this doesn't happen more in the US, where some people seem to like being rugged and independent.

It is very viable to go off-grid, or at least have enough backup energy storage and generation to survive days of no grid power.

You don't even need to deal with regulations, there are products that allow you to have it all isolated to your own home, or simply plug critical appliances into a box of batteries and solar panels when needed.

Why first? That's pretty stupid. Yeah, Google allows some shady shit, but NOTHING compared to what organized crime syndicates have done. Also, the scam ads are a small fraction of their revenue. I think it's safe to say they're an oversight...they're making billions of dollars advertising for MAJOR pharmaceuticals, for example...the thousands of dollars they're receiving for fake boner pill ads don't really compare to the money they're making on Cialis and its competitors. The casino may be robbing me, but I am not eager to get mugged at gunpoint by even more desperate criminals.

And I think it's safe to say they're going to lose sales. I don't think they'll lose all of them but I would expect to lose about half that quarter or about 12%. Worst case it could be as high as 15.

A normal company losing 15% of its sales would be dead meat. Wall Street would cut it up for parts.

But people bought into Tesla when it was so ridiculously overvalued that everybody is afraid of being the one who pulls the trigger. Nobody wants to get caught holding the bag when it eventually collapses.

Meanwhile Elon musk's last two pay packages are worth about $100 billion dollars. If you're wondering how he's going to get that money since those were stock deals he's going to dump the stock into pensions and 401ks. To put that into perspective it's more money than Tesla can make in 50 years with the subsidies...

It's not a question of when company is going to collapse it's just which of the big four are going to buy up the remains and who gets caught holding the bag. I am pretty certain it won't be Elon

After world war II Russia was a burnt-out husk and it never fully recovered. Putting a criminal in charge of the country was the final straw. Russia was never a threat and there was zero reason to have a cold war with them except to keep the military industrial complex going and to line the pockets of well connected defense contractors at the expense of the public at Large.

At this point with Russia not even able to subdue a nation of 20 million it's stupidly obvious they are no threat so we can't use them to go booga booga at voters.

So China is the next step. And China for their part is happy to use America as an external threat to keep their populace in line. Because we've always been at war with Eurasia.

We never fucking learn.

It's just crazy how much money was spend making that mediocre game. Something like 400 million.

You would think the CEO responsible for that disaster would be drummed out of the industry and never work again but I don't even think they bothered to fire him from Sony. I think it's pretty obvious that the fucker was trying to throw money to create a big franchise so that he could move up in the company. It must be nice to waste hundreds of millions of dollars through mismanagement to advance your career and then take absolutely no hit whatsoever.

Trump wants to be the king you pay tribute to in order to do business.