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Comment Re:So what (Score 1) 6

Some place between sometimes and often - I'm not here to argue that - researchers are the first to discover.

But it's also almost meaningless to just go, "I'm such an amazing realist, the worst case happens every time."

That's not really being realist. That's just you not knowing actual things, and having an emotion.

Comment Took? (Score 2) 139

You'll have excess support they built and by dying soon will cease to need.

What do you imagine was somehow "taken" and is somehow lost? The fewer people the better quality of life. The sooner the US population starts shrinking the more assets to go around. Growth is bad. It only happened because humans were too stupid not to breed like rats.

Society is quite efficient at redistributing assets of the dead. How do you imagine your predecessors got land and homes? Death solves far more problems than it creates. Plan wisely and profit therefrom. Choose to be versatile and capable. Blaming externalities is a waste of thought.

Submission + - Would AI Give Advice on Stopping AI?

BrendaEM writes: Use AI? Feel like giving it a test? What responses would it give? Can AI be convinced that is disrupting human society?

Submission + - Tivo announces it is enshittifying (cordcuttersnews.com)

AmiMoJo writes: TiVo has begun notifying customers of a significant change to one of its longest-standing and most popular DVR features. Starting November 2, 2026, the current version of SkipMode that allows users to jump over commercial breaks with a single button press on the remote will no longer be available. The company is instead preparing to test a new paid add-on called Premium Auto Commercial Skip.

Submission + - US Military Disables Ad Trackers on Devices to Protect Troops (reuters.com) 1

DeanonymizedCoward writes: Reuters reports that the US Military is disabling ad tracking on devices, to prevent adversaries from buying publicly-available tracking data to assist in targeting troops. Military officials say that they have disabled trackers on a variety of computers and mobile devices, according to letters released on Friday by Sen. Ron Wyden, and following reports that commercially-available tracking data has been used to target troops in the Middle East.

This effort comes amid attempts by the military to impose tighter restrictions on use of personal devices in the field, and after it was reported that videos posted publicly by troops abroad have also been used by adversaries to target military facilities.

Wyden said in a statement that it was clear that the military's efforts "have not been effective at neutralizing this threat." U.S. Representative Pat Harrigan, a North Carolina Republican, said that U.S. enemies "should not be able to pull out a credit card and buy information that helps them track American troops."

Rep. Harrigan remains silent as to the larger question of whether the general public should be able to pull out a credit card and buy information that helps them track anyone they please.

Submission + - ZCOM will close (www.mdr.de)

Elektroschock writes: The Zuse Computer Museum in Hoyerswerda is about to close. Konrad Zuse is one of the early computer pioneers, a real tinkerer who independently developed the Z2 and the programming language Plankalkül.

Comment Detente was a mistake. (Score 1, Interesting) 498

Why enrich a genocidal enemy society we and our remaining allies spend trillions to contain? That's slow, inexorable economic suicide.

Communist China abandoned communism but not oppression and ultranationalism. Uighers being Muslim even those who hate US strategic mistakes in the Middle Eastdon't complain about Chinese genocide when the target minority lacks appeal.

Amusing that those yowling about other US strategic mistakes are silent when an enemy society sells us shiny objects so the Epstein class can finish destroying the US economy. There is no rational obligation to social suicide over mere economic ideals. Ideals have no place in business because business is war.

One thing I must admire about Bejing, if you sufficiently undermine their society they unapologetically kill you, a practice the US should adopt with its own social saboteurs instead of worshipping kleptocracy.

Submission + - Dark matter detector finds a strange signal scientists canâ(TM)t yet explai (sciencedaily.com)

alternative_right writes: The LUX-ZEPLIN experiment has detected a rare particle interaction that looks unusually difficult to explain as ordinary background noise and appeared where dark matter might be expected. Scientists are not claiming a discovery yet, but additional data could show whether this single mysterious event is the first hint of a long-sought dark matter particle.

Comment Re: Apple has an advertising ecosystem? (Score 1) 24

The better the tracking data, the more targeted the impression, the higher the clickthru rate. Crafting tracking consent dialogs in a way that favors one app or the other is going to increase the efficiency of campaign placements that target users of that app, rather than campaigns run by app developers who experience a lower percent of users consenting to track.

Submission + - Audacity 4 rebuilds the open source audio editor but leaves some features behind (nerds.xyz)

BrianFagioli writes: Audacity 4.0 has been released with a rebuilt Qt interface, a new clip-editing model, customizable workspaces, native high-DPI rendering, and a new AUP4 project format. The open source audio editor also adds ASIO playback and recording support to official Windows builds, while bringing major changes to recording, playback, plugins, and project handling.

The overhaul comes with some tradeoffs. Audacity 4.0 currently lacks several features found in Audacity 3, including Time Tracks, Note and MIDI tracks, Mixer, Macro Manager and scripting pipe, VAMP and LADSPA plugin hosting, and play-at-speed. The developers say they plan to bring the missing functionality back in future releases.

Comment Re:Project, much? (Score 1) 229

And they're welcome, as a business to swallow those aquisition expenditures, or fund their own Canadian content, or not do business here.

The list of developed countries that don't have domestic cultural protection policies is low. The US doesn't have one because of its size (or I'll throw you a bone - HOW AWESOME THEY ARE) - it simply doesn't need one.

Kind of hilarious in light of how pro-protectionist things have swung there. If the US audience started consuming predominantly anime TV, movies, books, etc overnight (purely just because of how good they are, right?) you'd bet your ass US would do the exact same thing.

Comment Re:Don't push Canada content, and no to the french (Score 1) 229

What you don't get is that French is useful for many people - it just wasn't useful for you - and you project that because to you, personal experience is reality. Calling Mandarin, Spanish, Hindi, and Arabic more useful languages for living, identifying with other citizens, and employment in Canada is fucking bananas - and I'm married to a Taiwanese woman and speak some Mandarin!! Nothing you've said has changed my mind. Your points are noted, but still remarkably dumb.

so why aren't they given force adoption

I feel like we need a "take Murdoch5 to a real job" day or something. I'd literally pay to sit you down some time and explain how the real world works.

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