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Comment Re:Why not put a generator on the engine? (Score 1) 18

I can't really see many companies looking at this hybrid design and deciding it makes economic sense though. You have all the downsides of a fossil fuel engine, all the weight and maintenance and consumables. The electric part is mediocre.

Maybe it makes sense in countries with really shitty infrastructure where supplying electricity is hard or expensive, but in Europe every time sometimes under-estimates battery electric progress, time always proves them wrong.

Comment Two of the most powerful men on Earth (Score 3, Interesting) 61

Are bickering like children in public. At a certain point you take the gun away from the children. That gun is the stupid amount of money that they have.

You don't have to take the gun away from the child but you don't get to complain when the kids shoots you.

In this case the metaphor means they are going to load your 401K with bogus crap stock that's going to collapse and you're going to be working until you drop dead.

Comment Re:Always the wrong answer (Score 2) 88

Define "working society". Are you including the people who shoplift/steal items and make their living selling them at popup flea markets?

Boosters are risking their freedom and even their lives. If it was easier for them to find work then they'd do legitimate work instead of boosting. Selling at flea markets is a job itself, so they're clearly willing to work.

Comment You're thinking is completely broken (Score 1) 22

You can only think in terms of individuals owning individual property for individual reasons. That's where you're broken. You probably picked it up from old Cold War propaganda. If you're not in your 60s you're acting like you are...

United States has gobs and gobs and gobs of land and we have these things called power lines where we can have the power generated in one place and used in another. We could easily build massive wind and solar farms that would be quiet, no matter how many times orange people tell you don't kill birds, and could give you all the electricity you could ever want for so little money that it's effectively free because the economic output from that much cheap electricity far exceeds the cost of the taxes needed to maintain it.

That's the other thing I can't seem to get folks with your line of thinking to understand. Yes it is free. If I do something to cost me $100 and I make $1,000 because of it that's free. The laws of thermodynamics don't apply in A system that isn't closed.

And that is the other problem with your thinking that is being exploited by people who want to steal your property. Rich people who want to steal your property. You're thinking in terms of black and white and simple straightforward cause and effect and results. You've been encouraged to think like this. By the aforementioned Cold War propaganda.

Comment Claire obscura had a budget under 20 million (Score 0) 54

I've seen a lot of different figures thrown around but it's definitely under 20 million in total. Wildly successful game, no Wall Street doubling the budget so they can pocket 20 or 30 million dollars off of somebody else's work.

The problem here is we have parasites who have taken over our economy. Grifters like Elon Musk. The scale of the grift has gotten too big. Kleptocracy combined with kekistocracy. It's not sustainable. You can't have a trillionaire who is never invented anything in his life and has a team of people at each of his businesses whose job is to prevent him from making decisions. That kind of incompetence is basically Nero burning Rome.

At some point we are either going to have everything collapse after everything is taken away from us and our property is stolen or we're going to put adults in charge again. Boring annoying frustrating adults.

Comment Sit inside are worthless nonsense (Score 0) 54

It's a holdover from the 60s. It was one part of a much broader movement that included a shitload of effort fighting voter suppression.

The current tactic for the corporations and the Epstein class is to just prevent just enough people from voting to get whatever the hell they want.

Because of winner take off first past the post voting all they have to do is get 51% of the vote and they can have anyone they want running the show and it doesn't matter what you think or what you want.

About 30% of any given country is batshit insane. There are studies showing why basically it's overactive fear responses. Another 15% can easily be confused by propaganda. From there you just need 7 hour wait times to vote, periodically arresting people on minor drug charges and taking away their rights, and a small army of old people with nothing better to do challenging signatures and registrations illegally. Blammo you're at 51%.

So politically it literally does not matter what you do or all you're dumb little protests. But shit those protests are fun aren't they?

I see this from the left wing all the time. They throw a block party and they call it a protest and they act like they've actually accomplished something. Remember those new Kings protests? The only thing anyone remembers from those is they got to work late that day....

It's the difference between professionals and hobbyists. The people in this article are just hobbyists having fun. So they are completely ineffective because they're using tactics from the 1960s that are opposition adapted to in the 1970s.

What's frustrating is the sheer number of people especially around here who somehow think they're in the in group. Everybody keeps forgetting, it's a big club but you ain't in it

Comment Re:Solar fricken roadways all over again (Score 1) 100

Beyond LEO requires more fuel and a bigger rocket to launch, meaning more cost. It creates greater latency due to the greater distance. Also, they want these satellites to have a 5 year lifespan because terrestrial ISPs and cellular providers and datacentre operators are continually upgrading their hardware. So they will probably want to de-orbit and replace them anyway, because moving them to a graveyard orbit will result in the graveyard getting very full very quickly.

It also causes issues when satellites malfunction, because they won't naturally de-orbit in a practical amount of time. Failure to reach the intended orbit, resulting in an uncontrollable satellite, is one of the most common modes.

Comment Re:CGNAT (Score 1) 25

My browser shreds cookies as soon as I leave a site in most cases, as well as all other site date. These days the tracking works based on multiple signals, so even if you delete the cookies, if the IP address and browser signals like user agent and screen resolution match, they will re-associate that identity with you. You need to screw with a lot of metrics to throw them off.

In my country a spam lawsuit against 50 people where only one of them is possibly "guilty" of a civil offence with a relatively small financial loss isn't going to fly. They have largely given up suing people here because such speculative invoicing scams tend not to stand up to judicial scrutiny. At best an IP address identifies a subscriber, who may not be the person who downloaded the file, and who isn't under any legal obligation to help determine who it was, and who can't be held liable as there are no reasonable means for them to prevent such "abuse".

Comment Re:Cosmic is not ready for prime time (Score 2) 34

This is a shame; the features sound compelling enough to make me consider switching desktops (especially the "stacking" feature) but those bugs sound like more than I'm willing to put up with. I can accept a few bugs here and there but unfortunately those are serious enough to be deal-breakers. For now.

Submission + - OpenAI has a rough 24 hours

An anonymous reader writes: 1. Top Executive Departure
Fidji Simo, who served as OpenAI’s CEO of Applications (effectively the company's number two executive), announced her departure on July 10, 2026. She is transitioning to a part-time advisory role due to health reasons.
Fidji Simo steps down from OpenAI's number two job

2. Shutdown of Browser Tool
OpenAI announced it is sunsetting its Atlas web browser, which it launched nine months ago. The company stated that the lessons learned from Atlas are being integrated into their new "ChatGPT Work" desktop application, rendering the standalone browser unnecessary. Access to Atlas is scheduled to cease on August 9, 2026.
OpenAI is shutting down its Atlas web browser

3. Sued by Apple for Trade Secret Theft
Apple filed a lawsuit against OpenAI in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California on July 10, 2026. The 41-page complaint alleges that OpenAI orchestrated a scheme to steal hardware trade secrets, specifically naming OpenAI's head of hardware, Tang Tan (a former Apple executive), and former Apple engineer Chang Liu, who allegedly retained confidential files after joining OpenAI.
Apple sues OpenAI, alleging the AI company stole trade secrets
Apple sues OpenAI alleging theft of top-secret information

4. Selling Products to Chinese Firms
Investigations have revealed that OpenAI and Google provide advanced AI services to subsidiaries of Chinese companies (Alibaba, Baidu, and Tencent) that are on the U.S. Pentagon's "1260H" blacklist. While the companies maintain they do not operate in mainland China, these Chinese firms have been accessing the technology via subsidiaries in Singapore, a move that critics argue exploits a loophole in current U.S. export controls.
OpenAI and Google are selling AI to blacklisted Chinese firms
OpenAI, Google Sell AI Models to Blacklisted Chinese Firms

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