"Musk set up OpenAI as an OPEN SOURCE NON PROFIT because he is paranoid about AI."

OpenAI was set up as a nonprofit by numerous people, stop trying to pull a Tesla and turn Musk into the sole founder.

I mean maybe he's right, but I would always take with a grain of salt a software package creator's opinion on how awesome his software package is.

You'd think an experienced speaker would be able to adapt to the crowd.

What's the appeal on losing money to those with inside information?

Heh, back when I was a wee college freshman in the before times, one of my first jobs was helping a delivery company implement a new trial computer logging system for their trucks. Cadec. It had a steel computer terminal mounted on the dash with an LED display and numeric keypad and a slot for a large steel cartridge that contained the memory for the log. The truckers took the cartridges in the morning and handed them back in at night. I then downloaded the data to the, ONE, PC the delivery company had for logging and printing the nightly reports. That lasted just under 10 months when 80% of the systems broke the speedometers/tachometers in the trucks. Because they had spliced in the analog sensors to the cables... by design.

Huh, haven't seen a change in my Pro subscription. Though I hit the weekly model limit -- if that's not changing then it's not really a big deal.

Makes sense, Gamestop became a weird used goods store a while ago.

Opening a French video out of the blue and hearing some weird English translation no one asked for instead of simply adding subtitles is such an awful example of American exceptionalism...
I'm not necessarily going to set my browser to every language I want to hear with subtitles, but auto-voice translation is just wrong.
If you managed to get to Youtube, you can read and choose to activate it if you want, but stop with this English-centric view.

Everyone wants roads near their house. If you don't have a road going to your house then your house is worthless. Once the government has a right of way for a road, expanding the road might be expensive, but it doesn't get the whole community involved in a series of lawsuits.

The only people that want to live near the train tracks, on the other hand, are the people out in the middle of the California desert that would love to have a way to easily get to the parts of California that aren't a wasteland. In the nice parts of California, every home owner within visual distance of the proposed route has hired a lawyer and vowed to fight the tracks to the death.

This means that California has built a tiny bit of tracks out in the middle of nowhere (near Bakersfield but not in Bakersfield). It also means that every single foot from this point on is likely to get even more astronomically expensive. The homeowners involved know that houses that are far enough away from the tracks so that their home value doesn't plummet are going to get a windfall as their prime real estate will become even more valuable with decent public transit. The rail system is going to be a serious amenity eventually. The homeowners near the tracks, on the other hand, are going to see a serious drop to their net worth. Everyone in California wants more light rail, but only if it doesn't go through their neighborhood.

It could easily be that California real estate is simply too expensive in this day and age for something like this to be built.

There are decades of studies showing therapeutic uses for psychedelics. There is no legitimate excuse for keeping say LSD as a schedule 1 drug.

The problem is games distributed on physical media is a thing of the past and newer consoles have no disc drives at all. Nintendo has physical media with memory cards still but many of their newer cards are just empty cards with download codes for the digital copy (and you still need the card in the unit to play the game!).

It'd be one thing if you could download the title and be done with it but now they increasingly want you to stay connected to the mothership and re-authenticate your purchase.

I think RFK and Trump are deranged incompetent lunatics, but it is pretty clear FDA staff have an emotional and cultural resistance to psychedlics as treatment.

I'm trying to figure out why they're requiring a "check in" every 30 days to retain your digital software that you PURCHASED.

Is this some sort of piracy prevention so users can't copy the games out to other consoles? That kind of piracy can't be any worse than the physical game copying or yore so what kind of money could they possibly be saving by screwing over their customers like this?

[tik tik tik] - "Hi, I'm Clippy. It looks like you're being sacked. Would you like help transferring your 401k to a personal IRA? I can notify security to give you up to an hours delay before they escort you off the premises!"

Yeah, because when SpaceX loses equipment as they do a lot they just spin it as a valuable scientific learning experience and not a disaster at all, and the credulous press and even more credulous Elon fanboys on sites like Slashdot swallow it hole.