... as preferred delusion of crazy people everywhere.

Actually bollocks is it. The poor will be the ones most disproportionately hit by worse air quality.

GWM released the Ora Funky Cat car in Europe and it failed spectacularly. I would not be surprised if GWM has been doing a little price dumping of its own to get rid of them - selling them to leasing firms and the like at rock bottom prices to clear inventory. The car itself isn't awful, but its just not as good as the competition and it cost too much money for what it was.

Cyberpunk certainly had plenty of bugs and performance issues when it launched. But it was still a staggeringly large open world sandbox style game filled with decent content where you could spend hours doing significant side missions. When I was playing it I could feel the effort that went into the world building, story, and content unlike (for example) any Ubisoft sandbox game and I enjoyed it.

As for bugs, luckily CD Projekt provided highly significant updates that fixed them and also reworked things like police response, upgrade paths and other functionality. My only main criticism of the game and/or GOG.com, is when these updates arrived they were enormous - 20-30GB files. Whatever happened to the idea of binary patches?

So if there were a sequel I wouldn't have any qualms about buying it. But I would wait to see what the system & download requirements are first. And pretty please, learn to incrementally patch the game and don't make downloads unnecessarily large, e.g. by forcing people who don't need ultra quality textures to download them anyway.

Companies threatened with tariffs unless they relocate will make pretend they're building a plant in the US until Trump leaves office or dies and then they'll shelve those plans. Apple will be no different.

If AI companies had to ask permission they can seek it from the artists or their estates, or they can seek it from bodies representing artists, or they can wait for the content to enter the public domain. Same goes too for other content they plunder. That might involve paying money (shock horror) or providing attribution, links, references or other relevant information in the response. It should require affirmative consent, or a transparent revocable process which requires an AI company to make a best effort to obtain consent. But would it kill the AI industry? No it wouldn't. I'm sure these assholes could even write AI tools to help them deal with simplifying the effort for themselves.

OpenSSH is the best known OpenBSD project, but they also makes pf (used in pfSense, OPNSense, etc.), OpenBGP, OpenNTPD, OpenSMTPD, OpenIKED, LibreSSL, etc.

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Short of legislation companies will never, EVER, change their behaviour. The EU has such laws like GDPR and ePrivacy precisely to force companies to obtain user consent for data gathering and limit their ability to store and collect it except for the purposes intended. Consumers can also demand their data and the right to be forgotten. And there are heavy fines for companies that flout the rules.

There is no way that the likes social networks would do this shit otherwise that's for sure.

I can't say I've had many issues running Java on one platform vs another that wasn't caused directly by some assumption in the code itself, e.g. file paths. I suppose AWT was an issue back in the day but Swing is portable. So generally I take a JAR file built wherever and run it wherever and the expectation is it just works.

That isn't to say Java is faultless because tweaking heap and GC can be a pain in the ass and the language itself feels its age especially compared to more modern languages.

And the 2.x to 3.x debacle went on for a stupidly long period of time.

Apple will make noises about building a plant until Trump is distracted by something else and then shelve those plans. Because they know like everybody else that he is an abject, mercurial, moron.

People have screens to watch videos, take videos, browse. Remove the screen and you've just emasculated the device. And that's before considering the horrific privacy implications of allowing something fundamentally awful prying into your personal life, your emails and everything else.

I wonder if the glasses overlay the incoming fists with an AR augmented cartoon boxing gloves.

OMG governments subsidize things they want to happen and punitively tax things they don't want to happen!!!! You've lifted the curtain on something which everyone already knows and happens for obvious reasons.