I’ve been waiting for prices to go up on video games for about 7 years and am surprised they haven’t gone up more, this is pretty fair imo.

They’ve been ~$60 since 2002?

China “open sources” a lot of their technologies. They treat it as a form of competition, we’ll show you how to do x but you show us how to do u and whoever is better at both wins out, there’s a lot of short videos on how BYD taught other Chinese EV manufacturers and even Ford how their automated manufacturing plants work. The end result, everything becomes a highly optimized process. Glad to see they’re also adopting this framework with open sourcing AI development.

This is also a reason why there’s a hugeee cultural clash with US IP theft.

Great commentary on modern day humanity as a species

I spent a lot of time trying to find an open source self hosted tool to replace mint and ended up just moving to Monarch and paying. Honestly it’s been a really great experience as if long as you don’t mind the annual $50.

This smoke screen around LGBTQ+ and anti immigration has been stoked for nearly 30 years in order to veer away from the actual discussion and laws around wealth inequality, healthcare, etc. It’s all a guise against minority groups who can’t fight back. Sometimes positive sometimes negative, but at the end of the day billionaires stoke the fear around these minority groups and they get to keep growing their billions without restriction.

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Ended up setting this up and it was fairly straight forward, thanks for the recommendation!

Having conversations around how ineffective voting is, is not equivalent to discouraging voting.

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Everything was freshly installed and updated including the OS (PopOS as I’m running it on my gaming PC)

Whether Gaza is entirely rubble in 2 years vs 4 years, it’s still rubble.

Whether Billionaires and corporations make 50% extra profits or 100% profits via exploitation of workers, it’s still exploitation.

If on day 1 of a presidency you can effectively have nationwide ICE raids and deportations, the previous administration allowed and helped in that in at least some capacity.

As another mid 20s dude this is most likely because they’re at Berkeley. You’ll find a much different answer in some other crowds who don’t have the luxury of being able to be ignorant

The Overton window has shifted so much in 4 years that 2024 democrats were definitely running on 2016 Republican platforms.

I don’t believe apathy is the solution but let’s not kid ourselves, they are effectively the same in regards to the proletariat. They just operate on a 50% societal deterioration as opposed to Republicans 100%

These next few election cycles

It’s very hopeful to assume there will be another set of elections in 4 years or even midterms in all 50 states. We should be operating as if there won’t be.

Do the second and third one have absurd product placement like the first one does? It really took me out of the movie in the first one.

My Dutch Usenet provider has been DMCAing a lot more content lately. Seems EU is putting quite a bit of investment into anti piracy lately.

I’ve been a heavy competitive gamer for 10 years now, kernel anticheat has been an incredible blessing developed these last few years despite every non-player calling it malware. Meanwhile all the consistent players rejoice and newer players don’t have to deal with constantly wondering if someone’s hacking every single lobby.

You can see just how much this has directly impacted high elo League of Legends players via Riots dev blog after their implementation. The most notable:

more than 10% of Master+ games had a cheater in them.

The idea behind federation is great but in practice it’s splintered communities far too much to serve its purpose at a large scale.

Yeah 3.5 was pretty ass w bugs but could write basic code. 4o helped me sometimes with bugs and was definitely better, but would get caught in loops sometimes. This new o1 preview model seems pretty cracked all around though lol

Not sure entirely where this fits into this conversation, but one thing I’ve found really interesting that’s discussed in this Convo w Dr. K (I don’t have a timestamp sorry). Tai Chi has much more significant affect on all health perspectives than typical Western running/jogging/yoga etc.

And research papers can note this, but as soon as researchers start attempting to dig into the actual mechanical process behind why it has such a significant affect, their papers will be rejected because it dips too far into Woo/Spiritual territory despite not describing what the woo is, just acknowledging that “something” is there happening.

I think it’s interesting we can measure results and attempt to explain what we’re seeing but western research tends to be so tied to physical mechanisms it has almost started hindering our advancement.