When challenged it will spew some words representing the form of a counter-argument, prefaced with an apologetic tone. Probably with even lower accuracy than the initial slop.

When you get your accounting from "IIRC" you end up somehow, miraculously, being stupider than that stupidity box people stare at.

(The US Government's entire budget across all IT and AI research for 2025 was $11B)

Considering your username I'd have expected better, except that this is slashdot so expectations are pegged pretty low.

People get tricked and become really fanatical for a few months, and then they slowly mention it less, and then a couple years later they avoid the subject altogether.

They're never wrong about any of it, though... they won't even admit that they changed their mind.

So you were tricked by the word "hallucinate," and don't have the educational background to understand the subject matter.

The links are called Slashvertisements. The "summary" is the first paragraph from the link.

Any other random facts you need to get off your chest?

You gotta log in if you think anybody is gonna read that long of a rant.

I don't see any reason not to trust the Autobots, lets just put it charge of everything then!

The Cloudflare captchas just loop back to themselves for me on over 90% of sites that use them. But a few work.

I believe they're selling an anti-adblock service to sites, and pretending everybody is blocked for a different reason, through creative categorization.

The internet was created by the military to allow university researchers to collaborate on weapon research.

The heat and the light are not physically different things. If the light is absorbed, then the object that absorbed it was heated by that amount of energy.

If the heat escaped, that would mean the light was reflected, and it wouldn't be black, it would be white. (Or a mirror, depending on how consistent the angle of reflection is)

No. Any other questions?

It has nothing to do with small cars that the dealers will refuse to sell, it is about rolling back the crash safety standards.

Even after all these years of this shit, Americans are still to stupid to see a bait-and-switch staring them in the face. There is little hope for the future.

> Meanwhile, H.264 has dedicated hardware decoders in world+dog devices, including ancient ones.

Ancient ones, yes, but most devices sold in the past five years have AV1 *decode* support.

Hardware with AV1 *encode* is still pretty rare but a fair number of up-market chips from the past few years have it.

What we mostly care about here is the $20 amtel or mediatek devices sold today, and those are fine.

Netflix can support the older devices with H.264 as long as it makes more sense to pay the patent license fees than to drop support for old devices.

It won't be long before there are no devices that the manufacturer still supports that can't decode AV1 in hardware. Not that most end-users even know their device went EOL and now a potential liability.

Given that Netflix has native apps on most of these systems it should be straightforward to serve the non-patented stream to any device that can play it well.

> They don't do backups at those outfits?

We really need Federal government backups to be centralized at the National Archives.

Both so one expert team can make sure it's done right, instead of hundreds of teams with questionable experience and track records attempting to do it right.

And /also/ so when one agency goes, "whoopise, I guess we deleted the evidence of our crimes!" there is recourse.

Right now, the prosecutor just goes, "shucks, I guess we don't have a case then. Better fire some leaf-node IT contractor."