Really there's nothing outside of the ISA being open and freely extensible for anyone who wants to do so. The ISA itself is similar to ARM, MIPS, or other RISC ISAs. If you wanted to build a custom microcontroller for some purpose it would be cheaper to use RISC-V since it doesn't have licensing costs. Most companies aren't doing this though and just by OTS components that work with their codebase. If you wanted to create some dedicated hardware paths for computationally expensive operations, the RISC-V ISA lets you add those in. You'd need your own compilers to generate those instructions or to write the assembly code yourself, but it gives users that flexibility.

Otherwise there's nothing inherently magical about RISC-V that would make it better than ARM in some performance metrics.

l think this comment wins the thread.

The time has come for a European University CSE department group to reverse-engineer HDMI 2.1 and publish a compatible implementation on Github.

There's a solid history of this category of work going back 30 years.

They have certain legal protections for compatibility and public interest work.

This 1990's licensing model is antiquated and obsolete.

IEEE and ITU have abdicated their responsibility so sombody like Valve needs to do for transport spec what AV1 did for codecs and linux did for operating systems.

"A rising tide lifts all boats" is common among free marketeers and communists but opposed by fascists.

> Is there a huge difference between a criminal organization and a multinational corporation?

Yes, huge difference.

The common-law criminals running corporations get statutory protection from liability for the crimes they commit under corporate letterhead.

A regular mafia has individual liability.

>"any women "injected" by her husband is indistinguishable from a random woman with donated sperm."

Actually, that isn't quite true. There are subtle processes at work in couples choosing each other in unconscious ways. Some are based on smell, some on visual health cues. Interestingly, they tend to help make sure that they are genetically more "compatible" with each other. I don't know how effective it is, but I do remember reading about it more than once. One was really strange, it had to do with having women smell different men's worn shirts and describe what they feel, then compare to what various blood tests show.

What tells you people are leaving these?

Last I checked, Fecebook still has millions of active users, and fuckerberg is still raising a shit every time an app store adds a rule that restricts his ability to spy on people, as if he thinks he has any power to do anything about it. His net worth would take a major hit if people really left it, which would be funny, but it hasn't.

I still can't figure out what the fuck mastodon is, aside from the fact that Trump Social uses its code, and on toot.io right this second you'll find a feed of "toots" from people who only know how talk about how much they hate Trump, America, the right, etc. So I think it's safe to just call it Trumpadon. But at least it appears to be active, because there's definitely tooting going on. Or as the British call it, trumping. Either way, no obvious indication that people are leaving.

Bluesky is kind of weird, but there are sites that track how active it is. It gained millions of users at the 2024 election, then they seemingly just as quickly left. Ever since then, they come and go in little spikes that somehow correlate well with every news cycle featuring Elon. Oh, and the ones who stick around appear to find joy in painting swastikas on things, especially cars.

As for x...well, unlike Fecebook, it's not public and its valuation doesn't appear to affect the net worth of the guy who is most commonly associated with it, assuming its value has changed. The media enjoys quoting random people from it anyway as if the stream of consciousness of random twitter users is somehow newsworthy. But as with Trumpadon, no obvious signs that people are leaving.

It looked like you were having fun when you did it, so I thought I'd join in, didn't I?

Obviously I can't tell you what was in their heads with any certainty, but somehow you seem pretty certain that you can. You just did exactly that, after all. More than that, from the very first sentence in your very first post you seemed certain that I somehow "know it was morally wrong", despite the fact that I haven't even made any judgments about morality. Why? Because I wasn't the one out there getting shot, bombed, or kamikazed at all over the Pacific. Nor was I ever at risk of being tortured and starved in a Japanese POW camp. Obviously a different time, place, and circumstance, wasn't it? Much the same way it was no big deal to walk in on somebody in an outhouse and plant your naked ass right next to theirs.

But from that air conditioned armchair you've fancied yourself a proper judge and jury for 80 years ago in the Pacific theater. If you want to call out war crimes done at a policy level, as opposed to actions of individual soldiers, the best example I can think of is when the US handed over some half-million German and Italian POWs to Europe under the full knowledge that Europe was going to force them into unpaid labor, in many cases on de-mining duty, which was, even at the time, a war crime.

And what does this have to do with Porsche again?

The statement presented was whether it was a war crime. The answer is a firm no, and I already gave it to you. How much more candid do you want?

Besides, I'm openly troll. That's about as candid as a person can get. I'm not afraid to play your game, let alone beat you at it. I don't need a moral high ground when the very bridge you're playing stupid games on was already claimed by me.

Social media in and of itself is not. Certain forms of social media have been shown to be harmful, but this doesn't seem to make any attempt to understand or distinguish which, rather decides to perform surgery on it using a pipe wrench to the face. This is what happens when you act on a moral panic.

Either way, let Australia do Australia, I'm only giving you my take on it. They already make highly subjective things like parental ratings on games, music, and movies law, which is de-facto censorship by virtue of the fact that it makes it impractical to sell anything even remotely questionable in that market when stores can't legally carry them. Exactly why Germans only get to play games for ages 5 and up on steam unless they leave the country. Then again, as every German will tell you, if you feed him a swastika after midnight on a full moon, he'll turn into a Nazi zombie, so maby it's for the best that they ban that kind of thing and censor stick of truth there. Every country has a unique situation.

Uh, that was kind of my entire point. The sports card example I provided IS being marketed to children now. Directly to children. And their junkie parents with lottery-grade five and six-figure potential payouts if the stars align as Insta-tok advertises those cardboard dragon payouts as 'easy'. Makes Las Vegas marketing look like Mormons marching for manure costs.

And sadly, all you need is a parents approved signature on any debit/line of credit card and damn near any age kid can abuse one today. And plenty of parents do give their children a card, to simply avoid the "annoyance" of their kids bugging them for all those 'micro' transactions that shockingly add up to a $100/month spending habit, addicted to fucking Fortnite skins by the time they're 12 years old, voraciously spending under the innocent guise of "V-Bucks" being spent instead of dollars that would have normally paid the water bill.

Capitalism, grooms them early.

I don't follow the NFL that much, but don't they have some kind of subscription service where you can watch all of the games without having cable or satellite? MLB has had that for a while and if you just want to watch one team it may not be the best value, but it's great for anyone that wants to watch a variety of games on demand.

If there's a football game I really want to watch I can just go to a friend's place or a sports bar. Both are arguably better viewing experiences as well.

That's nice Adobe, but why do I need any of your products at all if I can just use a LLM to generate the image I want or make the requested modifications to my existing image directly?

If AI manages to kill this shitty company and their shitty business model, I wouldn't shed a tear. GIMP has gotten surprisingly good over the years while Photoshop has tread water or regressed for completely bullshit reasons.

>"The main limitation is that it requires you to use their NVR products"

It is true that Unifi cameras can't be used without running Unifi Protect. And there are many low-cost options for that. But Protect also fully supports RTSP, so you can send the video to something else and never even touch Protect (other than for setup), if you wish. For example, at work we send the video from all the Access door readers to our large Synology system where we store/archive/access the video with their NVR (Synology Surveillance Station).

And you can connect 3rd party ONVIF cameras to Protect, too, which is nice.

>"The unifi stuff leans heavily towards cloud, you can force it to do direct connections but its not the default"

That is not accurate. There is zero dependency on the "Cloud", other than if you want to install updates. Or if you optionally choose to use their cloud tools to gain remote access more easily. The login, the settings, the processing, the web server, the data, and all the video are all local.

Ubiquiti's signature feature is having everything local. It is one of several reasons they have become increasingly more and more popular.

Well, let's see what the data says:
https://fred.stlouisfed.org/se...
https://fiscaldata.treasury.go...

So...tax revenue is not decreased, and neither is welfare spending. And the US ranks high on the list of countries in terms welfare spending as a percentage of GDP.

https://oecdstatistics.blog/20...

The country that ranks the highest is France, and as you can see, their poverty rate isn't doing much better than ours. Notice Italy ranks third, yet their poverty rate is higher. As you can see, welfare spending isn't a silver bullet.

https://worldpopulationreview....

Indeed, we actually do better than much of Europe. Notice Scandinavian countries spend less than France and they're doing much better. I don't know whether it's coincidence or casual, but their economies are more market driven than even the US. We also know that countries who have eliminated their markets entirely (i.e. socialism) tend to fare the worst.

Note also that your preferred system where the markets are semi-free and the government exercises a heavy handed control of the private sector, forcing it to make decisions in the interest of the state when it suits the state, sometimes called fascism, isn't doing particularly well in the states that use it, such as Russia and China.

Indeed, I hope what you wish for happens to you as well. Merry holidays!

Is this some kind of toothless threat? Either you have the power to block a deal now, or you don't. The likelihood any court will let you call 'takebacksies' on a multibillion deal that affects tens of thousands of employees is... unlikely.