If you don't have a disc then you don't own the game. A download only model is not a price for ownership, it is a rental fee.

As much as I use stuff like Steam (probably 800 games in my library), I also am forced to admit that I don't own any of those games. The moment some companies buys Valve and alters the deal, I lose access to my games.

There are almost no guard rails with these agents. I got sick enough to write a small CLI that uses Landlock and container-like namespaces to isolate agents. Because the way they run in Claude CLI and VS Code is wide open.

The mainstream AI agents are set up the way they are for maximum functionality, maximum convenience. I learned from my sandbox system that it is very inconvenient to use. But given that the first time I used Claude ultracode, one agent deleted the remotes in my got config claiming another agent was trying to push (that command is already blacklisted in my Claude settings.jaon). Then when I asked to restore the config, the agent apologized because it forgot what the remote actually was.

You should add more antennas and pump our some disruptive signals to blind this tech

Sounds like an argument for degrowth, which has growing support in Europe.

There's a lot of expensive shit that is basically mandatory for your business these days: Google, AWS, Quickbooks, MS 365, Cloudflare, etc.

That's a very hand wavy definition of "human life"

When the Atlantic Gyre quits, Wester Europe is going to have cold winters. Ever compare the latitude of the UK and Quebec?

People use Orin in the previous generation of self driving cars. It has compute and inference subsystems on the chip and in the software. Difference between Jetson and DRIVE are things like canbus and a safety microcontroller, and jetson board is smaller and significantly lighter weight.

For example, if you run Google ads, you are paying a rate of anywhere from 66 cents to 5 dollars per click. If you don't like it, then you don't get to use Google's platform. That's a difficult think for a business to avoid though, so larger businesses are paying for at least the lower tiers of sponsored links.

Apple is, as part of the agreement to use their platform, expecting a cut of the links that users are clicking on that app developers are collecting. It all ties back to advertising and who is getting paid.

Unfortunately for Apple, they did poorly with their case with Epic Games. And have a burden that no other major tech company has to deal with. The law is being inconsistently applied, and I believe the way it is applied to Apple is unreasonable and confusing compared to how the rest of the tech industry is treated.

I remember an interview of Tim Berners-Lee (of www fame) in the early 2000's on his paper (or was it a book?) the Semantic Web. And he discussed that people would one day interact with "agents" to handle much of their software needs. Rather than with applications themselves.

I dismissed this as nonsense. That people would always want to interact with software. And that we as software developers need to improve our UIs to make software better, more elegant, more powerful, and easier to use. Because who would want to talk to some crappy speech-to-text system, that's noisy and slow. And we already accepted that most people don't want to use a command-line interface to interact with software. So agents seemed like a really backwards and stupid idea to me.

I don't think I could have been more wrong.

These guys never cared about hypocrisy, they don't appear to feel shame and relish the idea that some liberal might be upset.

The system that prepares students for college is no longer functioning properly. This is about giving unprepared students a soft landing, so hopefully they can adapt and avoid dropping out early.

All my thoughts would be about guillotines.

The main way that the US has projected its culture throughout the world has vastly diminished. We're in a setting sun empire, and it's unfortunate that self-decsribed patriots choose to bury their head in the sand and deny reality itself. Effectively the greatest anti-American threat we have faced as the people who insist that nothing is wrong, and that we should go back to the good old days, regardless of where the rest of the world is today. A bunch of isolationist weirdos that are convinced they can run a tiny hermit kingdom better than the last half century of liberal economics and massive growth under globalization.

Can we punish people for uploading to the cloud. And punish the cloud for retaining, redistributing, and reselling what appears to be illegally obtained videos? Is that too much to ask?