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Comment Re:So "justice" == social media platforms banning (Score 1, Insightful) 145

This is all to defend Russia from its detractors, per usual

FTFY.

Good luck going after the authors of content rather than the carriers when whole organizations of ransom-ware organizations can hide behind the skirt of Mommy Putin. I'm not against actions against Venezuelan speedboats. But if Trump wants to demonstrate his resolve, sink a few of Russia's shadow oil fleet as payback for shitposting.

Comment Makes no sense (Score 1) 84

Rust's new status in Linux hints at a career path that blends deep understanding of C with fluency in Rust's safety guarantees.

It would seem that adopting Rust, which is supposed to be safe by design, would relieve developers of the duty to write safe code. After all, its Rust. None of these nasty null pointers and buffer oveflows are possible. Just like Python relieves developers from the duty of formatting readable code.

Developers should now be freed to make higher level, more difficult to find logic erors.

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 1) 123

We know enough about physics to say there isn't going to be anything as impact as entering the age of stream, or the atomic age again.

Thank goodness we made those leaps in microprocessor design and software back in the 1980s. So there's no need for further incremental improvements.

Typed on my $2500 IBM PC, with 640K of memory. Using MSDOS.

Comment Re: The statewide corporate commission (Score 1) 43

Piling on, Arizona Corporation Commission races are indeed contentious. They bring out activists that desperately want to turn Arizona into a California clone.

And I doubt the ACC will try to force this datacenter on Chandler. If you wonder how our Democrat Governor thinks of things, she is busy celebrating an "Ag-to-Urban” Groundwater Conservation Approval", just to ensure 825 new homes can be built in Buckeye, which were blocked because metro Phoenix does not have sufficient assurances of water supply for the next 100 years to permit further growth in that city.

It's darned hard to oppose development in Arizona. Too many stakeholders want to make their profits. Even Katie Hobbs will bow to them. Oh, wait, she bows to whoever greases the skids.

Comment Re:Crrot and Stick (Score 2) 123

Looks at the hundreds of billions being funneled into AI research with no profit in sight

My guess: It's a scam, built on pre-existing 'bot technology.

When it's all done with, the "investors" will have a huge tax write off for their losses plus some neat new data centers, high end servers and utility resources to go into Bitcoin mining big time.

Comment Re:Bye Bye free Apps. (Score 1) 100

Yes. And no.

Free apps will continue. As long as they are actually free. Anything that owes (owed?) Apple that 27% of in-app sales or other revenue sources is either not free. Or written by a very generous developer. Apple gots ta' get paid.

I would expect "developers fees" to be considered at some stage

What do you think the current 27% fee is? Maybe replaced with a fee for Apple Store server space and installation bandwidth. That's what the now defunct Apple Tax supposedly covered. But the in-app sales revenue stream doesn't necessarily run through Apple systems. And presents no cost to them.

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