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Comment Re:Could this all be solved (Score -1) 27

Not sure what your point is. Are you disputing that the raw number of newspaper titles and/or the circulation counts haven't plummeted? Circulation, today, is less than it was in 1940. We're at.. maybe... 1/3 the circulation with 3x the population..

I live in the 8th largest city in the US. We had two local newspapers until.. 10 years ago (working from memory here). Now we have one and it's a thin pile of shit that's more ads than content. And... it's $2/issue... It's like they're trying to commit suicide..

The NYT is one of the few that managed to buck the trend.. Of course, with fewer and fewer newspapers, the market consolidates..

Comment Re:They will have to or will go bankrupt (Score 0) 25

This. This is a legal earthquake and existing law firms will pivot and new law firms will be created to dive into Big Tech social media settlement money. Plaintiffs will be groomed, "expert" witnesses will be retained for years, judges will get cushy property deals and non-show non-profit jobs for their clans.... the whole shebang is spinning up right now.

And "changes" will only mitigate (no preclude) future cases. This is all unprovable mental health stuff and "harm" can be attributed to anyone that's seen a post since facebook et al. was founded.

Comment Re:Looks like a robotic arm on a rail (Score 1) 40

This doesn't seem like particularly new tech, just a tweak on what the automotive industry has been using for several dacades.

I can tell you were desperate to comment without actually looking at the video. There are no rails. This is the exact opposite of the automotive industry where the part being worked on goes to the robot, not the other way around.

Please do everyone a favour and every so often educate yourself before posting.

Comment fuck them (Score 1) 110

They run as a rectangular banner at the bottom â" part of a widget that also shows news, the weather and a calendar.

Don't care. If your shit shows me ads, it's not getting into my kitchen. Note to self: Don't buy appliances from Samsung anymore.

Yes, I am vocal in how much I hate ads. I believe the CEOs of advertising companies should get one hit with a stick for every time their ad bothered someone even in the slightest.

Comment Re:Windows is crashing because? (Score 1) 183

Exactly what I'm saying.

The fact that users and enterprise customers are not demanding better software from Microsoft with the same fervor their ancestors demanded that the witch be burnt speaks volumes.

And I'm specifically talking about operating systems here. Software can crash for all I care. I'm fine software quality being all over the place, the market can sort that out. But operating systems are natural monopolies and the foundation for everything else. We should not accept shoddy quality there.

Submission + - World's smallest QR code, smaller than bacteria, could store data for centuries (sciencedaily.com)

alternative_right writes: Scientists have created a microscopic QR code so tiny it can only be seen with an electron microscope—smaller than most bacteria and now officially a world record. But this isn’t just about size; it’s about durability. By engraving data into ultra-stable ceramic materials, the team has opened the door to storing information that could last for centuries or even millennia without needing power or maintenance.

Comment $1B? (Score 1) 34

Altman and co. are dealing in investments of 10s and 100s of billions of dollars. Disney comes to the table with $1B and expects what, exactly? That OpenAI will be the firewall that protects Disney from AI predation? LOL. Disney will need to 10x or 100x that number at least, and they're still going to lose.

Comment Re:Thank you, AI (Score 1) 42

This isn't just AI. Since launch $100 would be accounted for due to inflation alone. Add to that Trump's tariff war which would have added over $100, and then add AI on top of that, and AI looks like the least of the actual contribution to price rise (it's not, to be clear AI = bad and hardware prices are out of control).

Also reminder that there's no connection between hardware price, and time in the console war. Consoles have never been priced according to hardware prices as (other than Nintendo) everyone else produced them as a loss leader to sell games. The idea that console prices go down over time caught COVID and died.

Comment Re:Use an Age-verified flag (Score 1) 169

He clearly meant morally

If he clearly meant morally he would have used the word morally. He didn't clearly mean anything. He wrote an ambiguous statement to be interpreted in a number of ways. If that wasn't the intention then he fucked up.

Frankly, you are a coward for avoiding his meaning.

Frankly you're an idiot for making assumptions, and an arsehole for labelling those who disagree with your assumptions. Be a better person.

Comment Re:advice to children (Score 1) 169

This isn't subservience. Subservience is the end user adopting something optional. It's no different than seeing two different downloads on websites in the early 00s when encryption was export controlled. The GP fundamentally screwed up due to not understanding how and why something was failed. The optional inclusion of something in a software does not help support nor defeat any legislation. That is up to adoption of the end users.

I pride myself on downloading the "US version" of software back in the day. Stick it to the man, showing that despite legal avenues I am in fact a rebel. The same applies here. Adopt Systemd with all it's age verification goodness and then demonstrate to the world how you give it the middle finger ignoring the field.

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