They've had those demos for years , decades even, and they still dont release it. Its not hard to escape the verdict that he's not telling the whole truth on this one.

Meanwhile the chinese EV makers have entire cities where you can literally get in your EV and it'll just drive you there, complete with RF interaction with traffic lights, automated battery replacement systems, the whole kit, in far more insane traffic conditions than the americans will ever have, thanks to vast amounts civilians on bicycles and scooters.

FSD isn't impossible But for whatever reason Tesla just cant seem to get it to work to the level it needs to. While the competition is

My point was more that politicized interventions in universities tend to fail miserably, because they ignore the economics of the sector and create perverse incenstives instead.

The FS itself is likely not being removed because it is one with implementations outside of MacOS (For instance my camera can be hooked to an HFS drive) But HFS Encrypted was always a take-your-life-into-your-own-hands thing. If you got a sector corruption, thats an unrecoverable loss of the whole FS. Whereas unencrypted, it just took a rebuiold of the FAT and you could at least recover the majority. It *highly* unlikely anything other than MacOS supported the encryption.

While its a PITA to lose that support, theres really not a lot to lose by doing so, whilst losing unencrpyted HFS breaks a lot of third party device integrations.

Its insanely tone deaf too. Almost everyone I know (I hang in a circle with a lot of professional photographers and artists) either have, or are planning to, removed their instagram accounts.

Meta grossly misunderstands the level of sheer animosity the photography and arts community , the people that built it, has towards a technology that has laid waste to the economy of the creative industries and put so many photographers and artists out of work.

I still like RTMark's idea from back in the day about this stuff.

If the courts insist that corporations are people, then the court should be willing to sentence a corporation to death when it kills people.

My little conspiracy theory on all this is Microsoft central put the order in that everyone has to use vibecoding from now on to write their code, and the ID engineers pushed back because theres no way even the high end Fable type models would be able to handle game engine kernel code. Fuckin thing cant even understand threading properly (At least in my experience) and so HQ decided they where "Unproductive" and fired them.

Management are in for a rude shock when it comes time to ask Claude to write the next IdTech engine and it shits the bed.

We need better ones who do their jobs instead of wasting their time being political activist

Well if I ever meet one I'm sure I'll pass that message on. But the vast majority of scientists are profoundly uninterested in activism. Which is a bummer. I work in climate science and most of those guys really OUGHT get political but its just not how the field rolls.

Oh man theres a comical tyrany of perverse incentives when it comes to government interventions in universities.

We had this turbo-conservative govt here in australia, John Howard, awful dude, but his govt tried to smash the humanities by adjusting how the uni fees work (We pay fees, but they become tax loans that start being paid off once income hits average wage. Its a fucked system, but there are more-fucked systems so, que cera. I *guess*).

Anyhow the plan was , was to massively increase the fees paid to do a humanities degree while slashing the fees for science degrees. The problem was, they lowered the fees so much that the universities couldn't afford to put on the more important science degrees, so universities started dropping sciences and focusing on the now highly profitable humanities degrees. It didnt effect much what students chose, because 17yos are rarely good at reasoning about money and future incomes, and anyway, statistically humanities graduates get higher incomes (science wages suck, trust me. Especially if you work in a field the govt actively wants to shut down like climate change, like I do.). So engineering, metalurgy, chemistry , *especially* physics which was always an expensive course to run, all those degrees started closing down and the "degree in surfing"* humanities degrees that the govt bitched about thrived.

So the govts idiotic attempt at market manipulation just made the whole thing even more skewed against their desired goal;- Stopping students from questioning their world.

*although ironically the "degree in surfing" the govt used as its example was refering to a unit in the sports medicine degree that dealt with injuries in water sports. It actually didn't do great because of those funding cuts to science.

I believe microsoft stopped enforcing those FAT patents a while back and actually donated them to the OIN mutual defence patent pool (Its a pool of patents designed to protect linux.)

The offending code was apparently a single file with some enums in it, that was a published part of the old AT&T C ccode that had long since passed into public domain. SCO never had a single line of code that it could point to and claim it owned.

Especially since the actual unix code SCO did have the rights to *actually* belonged to Novel and Novel where NOT happy with SCO running off and breaking its licensing agreement with Novel by launching unauthorized lawsuits.

The fact Zuckerberg wasnt chased away from facebook by angry investors with pitchforks over blowing $80 Bil on fantasy bullshit is pretty clear proof that the market isnt just irrational but actively insane.

The halls of power are patrolled by lunatics.

what is godot game engine and why should I care?

Google is RIGHT THERE dude. Theres no need to be so lazy.

Good for the MAGA morons, because they can claim "unemployment is down".

Not necessarily. While that is absolutely what the administration will do, and is doing, for a lot of the "angry boomer" set, they will be feeling this on the ground and in their community, and it can lead to one of the cardinal rules of politicking being violated;- "Dont tell the punters that the thing they are experience isnt what they are experiencing". When politicans say "The economy is great, look at this GDP!" but people are feeling like everything is more expensive, their kids cant find jobs, their own job is becoming more insecure, and the rent or mortgage payments keeps going up, then people just get angry and feel like they are being lied to and betrayed, and its that sense of being lied to and betrayed that lead to so many people going "Well this trump guys kind of an asshole, but at least he's honest".

Now, you and I know that "Honest" is literally the opposite of what trump is, but when Trump was out there campaigning that washington technocrats where letting people down, well he wasnt wrong. The institutional Dems and Republicans where very happy to stick with a status quo that had been getting worse and worse for average people ever since the sub prime mortgage crisis. Obama promised hope and change, but other than a marginally better health care system, not much changed. Biden seemed content to just try and fix some, but not all, of Trumps damage from his first term. People where angry, because the technocrats where telling them that "Everythings fine, America is America-ing, everything in its place" , meanwhile jobs where still fleeing offshore, grandma cant afford her diabetes meds, and wages where pegged while inflation ran rampant. Trump promised to fix that. Trump DIDNT fix that, and in fact made it worse, but the promise not the reality is what got him in the door.

There are lessons for Trumps opponents here, but the biggest is, the people on the fence about MAGA and the people who where marginally MAGA *can* be reached, and when the Dems get back in power, they actually need to concretely resolve the anxieties that caused Trump to get in in the first place. Because if America was working, Trump would have been impossible.

Tell us more about how you're smarter than the experts who actually did what you say they didn't do

Re-read my post. I literally work in climate research so dont go fucking argument-from-authoritying me, you wont win that fight if we have to start pulling out our credentials lol

I am straight up telling you climate scientists are always being asked to tone down findings and make them seem less dire than they are by government funding bodies. That in practice has led to a pretty cautious approach thats lead to the public not being fully aware of just how dire some of this really is. Thats not saying that scientists are *lying* and hiding the severity of climate change, but rather that when tuning models theres an bias against models that predict the more catastrophic outcomes. When I was working with the CSIRO some of the models where up with predictions that basically have us venusing the planet. We tended to not go with those, because our intuition was that if the planet *could* do that, it *would* do that. But we dont know if thats a sane assumption, so those models dont make the cut for publication.

So yeah. we could end up venusing the planet. Probably unlikely, but just so you know. My most educated guess is the full permafrost scenario isnt a complete venusing but rather a 10c rise. Which isnt particularly compatible with human life, but life finds a way. Lets hope we get a grip on things before we DO completely melt the permafrost

Technically its supposed to be the workers seizing the means of production for it to be communism. However in practice this rarely ends up whats happening.During spains brief flirtation with communism prior to getting smashed by Franco, the anarchist CNT-FAI controlled territory was doing this, and by all accounts it was a pretty great thing. But whe spanish communist party territories where just doing state control. But yeah authoritarian-marxist parties historically have not shown a great history of being particularly ... marxist.... about it all,

Also, whats happening here is more Corporatism than Communism. Its more about trying to appease dear leader than it is about sharing the wealth with the country.