I use Firefox's Live Bookmarks. I don't see a reason to change that, unless the feeds start disappearing.

This would be huge if they really have fixed it. The Japanese have been working on it for decades, for their conventional high speed trains. Their speed is currently limited due to noise issues, and the maglevs are twice as fast.

I remember they tried adding a concrete structure to the tunnel exit that was supposed to be a bit like a silencer on a gun, but it wasn't as effective as the Chinese are claiming.

Could be game changing, not just for trains but for long distance travel in general. Maglevs will start at 600kph and go up from there. There is potential for things like low pressure tunnels, and of course they run on electricity so can be very clean. The Chinese ones use a more complex levitation system than the Japanese ones, with the latter requiring wheels for operation below 90 kph, while the former float at all times.

Same experience here. Feedly has issues, but not enough that I can be bothered to replace it. I have an exit strategy if they ever enshittify it too much.

Server side has been tried but it doesn't work very well and is prone to false positives. Players who are very good get accused of using aim-bots or seeing through walls. Have a look at this guy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

Pretty difficult to tell that apart from an aim-bot just by looking at the mouse movements, accuracy, speed and so on.

There are cheat systems that take the HDMI video output, and feed back in fake mouse movements to auto-aim. Detecting those locally is hard enough.

Every few years some new controller appears that gives players a big advantage, and often client side detection is the only way to stop them. Recently it was keyboards that auto-cancel key presses to reduce the time it takes for your aiming accuracy to return to its lowest. Before that, joysticks which replace the stick with buttons and break games that can't cope with you inputting left and right at the same time. Way back Japanese Mario players all used autofire and didn't consider it cheating, but Western players did.

I'm not defending the intrusive and damaging anti-cheat tech, or the business practices, but I also know what it's like to be up against cheaters online and it's why when I very rarely do multiplayer, it's on console.

China claims they already found one, so ask them maybe.

Seriously though, Nvidia server GPUs can communicate directly with the ConnectX network interfaces. Apparently it has benefits for AI workloads and that kind of thing, where bypassing the CPU and system RAM to load data directly into the GPU is helpful.

So it wouldn't be difficult to hide something in the GPU firmware that can exfiltrate data through that network interface, or add in secret commands that can be sent through it.

To be fair, the UK destroyed much of its rail infrastructure in the 1960s and 70s, and it would be very difficult/expensive to replace it now. And even if we try to fix them, eventually we will get another Tory/Reform government that destroys all the progress anyway.

In places that have really good public transport, it's ideal. Never bother renting a car in Japan, for example. But for countries like the UK, outside of a few places like inner London... I'm not sure it's ever going to be possible to make public transport work well enough that we don't need taxis/self driving cars.

It's technology theft. Europe has the tech, Taiwan has the experience. Trump is trying to do what he keeps accusing China of - forcing a partnership with a foreign company so that America can steal their technology.

Europe, Taiwan, and China all have an interest in making sure this doesn't happen.

But then you would get JD Vance.

Those numbers are measuring completely different things.

A defensive gun use does not necessarily prevent a crime, much less a homicide.

A gun owner successfully deterring a mugging would could as a very successful defensive gun use, but the benefit would only be in them keeping a few hundred dollars worth of property.

Again, a sanity check. Do you really think it's plausible that the US's homicide rate would triple without guns?

Personally, even if a few additional crimes are prevented I don't think that's worth the large number of excess deaths created by US gun policy.

He will run again. He's making billions in bribes.

He will get the nomination. Republican primary voters think he's the second coming and the GOP has no bench because nobody wants to challenge Trump except DeSantis and people hate him.

The Supreme Court will let him run, because they're corrupt as hell.

Our entire media is owned by billionaires who won't allow anything bad to be said about hair fuhrer. I watched a dozen or so journalists dog walked for going against King Trump.

Overwhelming propaganda + sane washing will get him to 47% and voter suppression will make up the last.

Trump gets a 3rd term and our Republic dies.

The only ones that can stop it are the left wing & centrists.

The Centrists don't believe it's gonna happen because they trust voters (I'll wait for you to stop laughing).

The lefties hate the centrists too much to do anything about voter suppression. They hate centrists more than fascists.

So we're doomed. Trump probably won't die, he's got too much medical care and his parents lived into their 90s.

The only question now is which Trump will succeed him on the throne. My money's on Barron.

The 1% are trying to shift their tax burden on to you and it's working.

Is wrecking our economy. It takes a while for the damage to really show up. But when it's this extreme we're not even going to make it through to the midterms.

The last time Trump was in charge he had a few relatively sane people holding him back and the heritage foundation didn't think they were in a position to do all the really crazy batshit stuff that they are doing now with wanton abandon.

I suspect most people here will be able to weather it for about 3 or 4 years. But within the first year of Trump's third term people are going to start losing their houses to Banks.

It's not hard. They'll jack up the prices on the medicine that keeps you alive and you'll have to pay it or you will die and then they get your property anyway.

Eventually you'll run out of money and your mortgage your house to pay for the medicine or the surgery you need to live. I know half a dozen people who are only alive today because of a combination of stents and statins.

It'll take a little while because the old farts around here have a lot of money left over relatively speaking but 4 and 1/2 to 5 years of this crap is all it'll really take.

Some of the older people will die before they have everything sucked out of them but if you're under 65 you've got homelessness in your future. If you're lucky one of your kids might let you crash in their apartment.

But like how the dmca works they can still be ordered to take down illegal content. They just aren't going to be punished for having it hosted in the first place

The problem is as a matter of practicality there's too much illegal content to be taken down that way bit by bit.

And I am not personally willing to give up s230 in order to get at deepfakes by holding platform holders legally liable for hosting them. Section 230 along with net neutrality are the two pillars that make a free internet work in the first place.

Now I think there is one way that you can overstep s230 and get in trouble. If your algorithm is actively promoting the content then you are now exercising direct editorial control. You're essentially publishing it at that point.

But that is so gray area because of how those algorithms work that I would be extremely hesitant to see that applied here. Again section 230 is something we shouldn't risk giving up lightly. Or hell forget lightly at all. Especially when we know it's under active attack because the right wing extremists and billionaires have basically taken control of all other media besides a handful of internet sites now.

As a result I do not know how to deal with deep fakes when the platform holders are owned by billionaires who are actively out to get us all. Zuckerberg and musk are not your friends. Their interests are not your interests. No matter what lies they tell you

We have a market cap measured in trillions. Go ahead and sue will buy off the Supreme Court and win.

Our legal system is now less about the letter of the law and more about who can outbid who on bribes.