Rubbish.

ntsync relies on a very particular kernel module being present on Linux-only systems.

The other syncs will all have to stick around for the foreseeable, e.g. MacOS is never going to implement ntsync.

And actual compatibility is not an issue, that's just bug-fixing. But requiring a kernel module to operate AND actually only publishing benchmarks against "no sync at all" (in effect) is disingenuous. It benefits a few apps that are in particular cases of tight CPU loops on sync calls which presume NT-style sync semantics.

Sure, it's progress and a patch, but it does not deserve the press it has gotten earlier in the year, and still doesn't deserve it now.

Oh, look, now the limits start to come in, then the prices will go up, and eventually... hell... who knows... maybe the investors will actually see A PROFIT from those billions spent on training an AI to be a glorified autocomplete.

It'll only take about a hundred years or so to pay back their investment, even then.

Public/well-known VPN traffic lights up like a Christmas tree, and has to be paid for so it lights up in financial dealings too.

But what this stops is exactly what it was intended to stop - children bypassing it. Now you need a credit card, sign up with a VPN provider, etc. and pay money, or a decent amount of technical knowledge and a non-UK server running somewhere. Not something the average teenager will manage (but there will always be on).

Basically it achieved its aim, and now you know who's VPNing out to sites.

Of course most adults will just jump onto a paid VPN service but in doing so they're actually trusting EVEN MORE third parties with the privacy of their browsing, not less. And I bet they don't even know what country regulations their browsing comes under when using such a VPN. Hope you haven't chose a cheap, dodgy one that's routing through some dictatorial state that you later plan to holiday in (e.g. China, etc.). They literally know who you are and your credit card number now...

Given politician's histories and even things like adult content regularly being browsed in the UK parliamentary computers (I'm not joking), and I would imagine that VPNs are not generally allowed on such networks, this will likely affect two classes of people the most: The MPs who put it in, and the children it was supposed to protect.

Your views on quite whether that's desirable may differ, but as a guy who works in school IT, I will be expecting far more "VPN" searches and much less direct inappropriate content searches on our webfilters come September.

This nonsense again.

It's a very niche feature that benefits only a small handful of particular games, and the other existing and competing "syncs" already do a pretty good job (and the benchmarks almost always compare having none of those enabled to ntsync, rather than actually compete).

It rears its head every few months over the last couple of years, so I assume the person who wrote the patch has a good PR firm.

It's always sold as some miraculous huge leap forward for Steam / Steam Deck / Proton / Wine and yet all those places say "no, not really, it helps a little for some games".

Go read all the mailing lists about this and you'll see it's really not such a huge deal.

At best it'll end up as a switch somewhere that, for a few games, you'll enable instead of the various other syncs that Proton is using in the wild already, but most stuff will just carry on as normal.

It's really so much snakeoil that "gamers" with absolutely no understanding of Wine et al leap upon every time it's talked about as if it's the sole saviour of modern gaming somehow.

This is a step away from having your licence to practice removed entirely. It's pretty serious.

And her demand that they tell ALL THEIR CLIENTS, OPPOSING LAWYERS AND CURRENT JUDGES IN OTHER CASES.... wow. That's gonna hurt, because those judges, lawyers etc. are going to be poring over every bit of text they'd presented looking for anything similar and if they find it there... oh boy, that's going to go badly for them.

Any lawyer with half a brain watching this will be rethinking any use of AI models, and telling their legal teams including just the researchers etc. to stay well clear of it or check its output extremely rigorously.

My ICE car does 500 miles on one tank (it can do more, but that's the average).

I don't need it to. That would comfortably last me a week and a half of commuting, my own usage of the car, etc.

And every single time, the end of that journey is:

- a workplace with EV chargers.
- my house that I can put an EV charger on
- some other place that I can get back from on a single charge and/or people wouldn't object to me plugging in and paying them for the electricity while I was there (e.g. family).

To be honest, 150 miles is more than adequate, all other things being the same. Because, unlike fuel, I wouldn't mind putting an EV on charge every evening. It takes seconds. Finding a decent fuel station that's open, secure, cheap, and then pumping fuel takes a lot longer and a lot more thought.

I'm pretty sure that most people - especially in Europe - are just the same. Range anxiety is dead. It's from when the EV ranges were 50 miles, not 350 miles. I've used vehicles like that at work, on the second-hand market they are almost worthless and they were basically being used in the same fashion as golf trolleys (literally one was only used to take mail / goods from one site to another just down the road).

Nowadays? I don't even really look at the range of an EV. I'm in the market to buy my first one. My next car WILL be a full battery EV, not even a hybrid. You know what I look at first? The price tag. Then the size of the vehicle (I don't want a huge SUV like thing, I want a small hatchback with room inside it to carry a couple of friends comfortably if necessary). Then the extras. Then the finance (leasing, PCP, "optional final payment" nonsense can feck right off).

Range doesn't really come into it any more than me checking it has headlights and wipers and all the other things I'd want to check. It's a non-issue nowadays.

Sell me a CHEAPER EV not a more expensive one with a battery that I just won't use the capacity of and which in ten year's time will be even more expensive to replace.

It would have to, because the rest of the world wouldn't touch it with a bargepole, and the US rarely accounts for anything as much as, let alone more than, about 50% of any particular consumer market.

I think all international organisation are now realising:

The US is entirely unreliable, especially when it comes to funding.

I wouldn't bank on any of their promises or budgets any more. They've totally lost all credibility.

And especially where anything humanitarian is concerned, I'd be treating them as a minor player just because of their variable attitude and flakiness now.

I'd rather concentrate on those nations providing 5% reliably than one providing 8% but could disappear at any moment. And the longer this continues, the more it will be the way those organisations operate.

The US held - rightly or not - some position of authority in these organisations and could quite well use the "what am I paying you for" lines with some justification (though always over-egged). Now it's just a partner the same as everyone else, but far more flaky and unpredictable.

It's lovely to see them throw away so much influence so very quickly.

"Over time"?

Grok already just searches the Internet to see what Musk thinks, and then presents it as the answer.

I wish I was joking.

2500 steps is literally "existing as a human" unless you're bed-bound.

Someone once gave me their pedometer in a bid to prove that they were more active than I was (I have an office job).

In the course of a working day, just doing what I always do, I blew through 10,000 steps by lunchtime. They didn't believe me. They were somehow going OUT OF THEIR WAY to struggle to complete 10,000 steps including going for a long walk for lunch.

But 2500 steps? Yeah, you can do that just getting up and getting to work and then coming home, let alone anything you do in-between.

Is it profitable yet?

Even the $200 / month tier isn't profitable, apparently.

And they were trying to push a $10,000 "PhD-level" tier to try to make some cash.

While you're giving stuff away, I'm sure it's popular. What happens when you start charging even cost price for it? Or when you start trying to profit from it?

Because you only really have another year or so before investors want answers like that.

Google was "free" for years, great, useful and very popular, but had to then basically pivot into the advertising business to survive.

Before we redesign how we do everything and get locked into buying this stuff and making things dependent on it... it would be nice to know how you intend to fund it when investors start demanding a return.

I mean, obviously, if it was actually real AI it would be making its own money, just like any intelligent being. Has ChatGPT got so much as a Saturday job yet?

And how did just googling do?

Because the "AI" is still really nothing more than a glorified search engine wrapped in a nonsense blurb-spouter.

Quote:

"NOTE: The operatorâ(TM)s average FTTP build rate is currently 81,000 premises per week (c. 1 million per quarter) and their network has a take-up rate of 35%. Openreach has so far covered almost 17m UK premises."

"theyâ(TM)ve also expressed an ambition to reach up to 30m by 2030"

So you have only 35% of 17m premises actually using it - and they will cover less than half the country by 2030. Don't forget that "premises" is a rather odd definition too, because that treats HMO's and flats etc. very differently.

Two thirds of places aren't using these FTTP products even when they are available, and half the country still won't even have the possibility to use them before 2030.

Plus, just becuase an FTTP product exists does not mean it's sensible.

e.g. BT Wholesale Exchange Checker tells me I can only have "FTTP on Demand". Which is basically a poor-man's leased-line product.

- field survey charge of £325.00 + VAT is payable in advance and is non-refundable.
- BT connection charge of £495.00 + VAT will apply to each order.
- A connection charge of £545.00 + VAT will apply to each order.
- 900Mbps : £108.00 Monthly
- Minimum contract 2 years

Which is why the take-up rate is so poor - often that's you're only choice. £1,638 just to get the connection, and then £3,110.40 committment over two years. That's basically ten times what I'm paying for VDSL for the first two years.

https://www.ispreview.co.uk/in...

You need to read the fine print on that CD sleeve.

"Not for public performance".

Same on DVDs.

"Not for use on oil rigs, in schools, ..."

Your alleged "ownership" of that CD means nothing when it comes to copyright, any more than photocopying books and handing them out to everyone for free.

Dumb paywall, but for reference, "full fibre" is not fully fibre still.

FTTC for the most part. 80+-year-old telephone lines for the rest.