The irony is that, at least here in Europe, practically all the windmills are heavily subvented and are literally worth nothing when running at any decent power because whenever it's windy, the electricity spot prices are near zero.

Source: #TrustMeBro.

"According to BYD's corporate filings, the company reported receiving 12.47 billion yuan (~$1.8 billion) in government subsidies for its daily operations in 2025, up from 10.66 billion yuan in 2024."

"Historical Direct Grants: Studies by research groups estimate that BYD received roughly $3.7 billion in direct state subsidies between 2018 and 2022 to scale up electric vehicle (EV) production and research, including about $2.2 billion during 2022 alone."

"Types of Support: The funding encompasses direct cash grants, R&D rebates, tax incentives, preferential financing, and local government infrastructure assistance. While critics and international trade officials (such as in the U.S. and EU) argue these subsidies give BYD an unfair price advantage, analysts note that the company's cost competitiveness is also driven by vertical integration (such as in-house battery production) and massive domestic scale."

Yeah, no subsidy. Trust me bro.

> BYD is under cutting everyone with decent products.
They're undercutting everyone in price because they're funded by the government.

Chinese are doing a great job of killing western industry and people like you are helping them do it.

They haven't blocked installing other OS on their _computers_ since Intel systems came out, they won't do it now either because they'd come face to face with EU.

So can my home LLM and it costs nothing. What's the big deal here?

Oh yeah and the sandbox was turned off.

Such stocks! much wow!

"omfg Claude found a ton of bugs! critical! high! buy our credits so you can find bugs from your own software! STOCK VALUE PUMP!"

Reality:
Success Rate: Claude attempted to write exploit code for these bugs. It produced 2 working exploits.
Real-World Viability: Zero. Anthropic’s own Red Team lead (Logan Graham) admitted these exploits only worked on a "test version" of the browser.

Mostly "assertion failures" (code that doesn't follow its own rules and crashes) and "logic errors" that traditional fuzzing (automated random input testing) had missed.

I wish Slashdot still had editors that actually understood what they're copy pasting.

So they'll bleed even more money because tons of free users will make their servers bleed from the back fans.

I wonder how long the whole circular circlejerk economy is allowed to go on until it all burns down.

> Haha only... there's a healthy-sized Australian TV industry with some very good shows.
Then why do they have to force non-Australian companies to produce shows if there's a healthy Australian tv-industy? Is this one of those "Australia has an army!" things?

Personally I'd just make a few hours of AI generated aboriginals spouting hate speech at the Australian government as a middle finger for each day.

Amiga Soundtracker had this in 1987 - a fair bit earlier than Windows.

Not to mention Amiga had visualizers before people even knew what Windows was..

All of these news can be summed up by; "My source is that I made it the F@#& up".

Watching people here celebrate the death of someone, whilst calling them "heartless" and "evil" is another level of irony.

I'd make a poll about the political leaning of each of those people but I don't think we need to.

> It's why Konami got out of it. You can have a bunch of talented people with a ton of money and even a good chunk of time and the end results and still flop.
If they're talented, it's not a flop. Look at Baldurs Gate 3, Elden Ring, Astro Bot, Hollow Knight: Silksong and so forth.

If you treat your playerbase right and the game is good, you'll sell. If you push out garbage AAA/AI/DEI slop, it won't: look at Dragon Age if you want to see the difference.