This isn’t software that is exclusive to EVs.

Copyright is an arbitrary concept. If a country decides to ignore it, then they can do what they want with a publicly-visible resource.

Reducing the amount of data you need to send is an obvious factor for a service that sends a lot of data. Not much of a bet at all.

What really started the ad war was the endless drive for greater profits. Let’s say I accept youtube’s terms and sign up for premium. Sooner or later they will introduce ads into premium as well. We’ve seen this process happen with many other services before. I didn’t start using an ad blocker until quite a bit after pop-ups were rampant and malware-infested ads became an issue. There’s a point where it becomes too much and people will seek out alternatives. An entire generation grew up with convenient streaming services and they’re generally less knowledgeable about piracy than the generation before them. That will likely change as those streaming services continue to jack up prices while making the experience worse all in the name of profit.

Again, there is an endless supply of entertainment these days. If companies think they can endlessly jack up prices and/or worsen the experience, they’re contending with practically infinite supply, the consequences of which are obvious in when it comes to supply vs demand.

There’s always Linux.

I specified intrusive ads. They could have non-intrusive ads, like a little banner or something. Instead they put up multiple video ads before and during videos. No thanks.

I’d rather not use youtube than give them money for it or even sit through their intrusive ads. There are infinite ways to entertain myself.

I’m glad Nintendo is finally starting to realize the potential of playable Zelda. Her style of gameplay will put a fresh new spin on the series. I also hope to see somewhere down the line a game where you can choose to play as either Zelda or Link and your choice will give you a different experience and cause puzzles to have different solutions, which would be good for a replay. Such a game would also have the potential for two-player co-op with vastly different abilities.

Supposedly AI is going to take all the jobs and yet it still can’t do this task which it seems perfect for. Sure, eventually AI will get good enough to do it in the future, but there is just way too much hype given the reality of the current situation. This is a job that fast food workers are already required to do in addition to other duties, so it’s not like it’s labor saving from the company’s perspective either.

A process pool means extra copying of data around which incurs a huge cost and this is made worse by the tendency for parallel-processing-friendly workloads often consisting of large amounts of data.

Usually, but when it isn’t then you’ve got a bottleneck. Multithreaded performance is a major weak point if you need to do any processing that isn’t handled by one of the libraries.

That depends on what the application needs to do. There’s a reason why all performance-critical libraries for Python aren’t written in Python.

I’m still on PCIe 3.0.

So true, things were much better when we had three channels on the TV.

edit: In case it wasn’t clear, I was being sarcastic. Individualized propaganda isn’t any more dangerous to democracy than completely-controlled broadcasts. In fact, the completely-controlled broadcasts are more dangerous since it’s easier to control the message. It’s not killing democracy because we never truly had it.

That’s true to some extent. I don’t agree with hard censorship like that, but there is also the risk of getting astroturfed and brigaded like reddit, which had a clear example as far back as 2013 where Eglin Air Force Base, FL showed up as “most addicted city”. The goal of censorship is to give your own opinions more space, so I’m not exactly upset if other instances are moderated in a different way when there are plenty of other instances moderated in a different way. The fediverse offers plenty of space.

Clearly the American point of view is neutral, the default, and the truth, so it doesn’t count as propaganda.

The onslaught of fediverse karen posts about lemmy.ml continues.

Yep, it’s a system that relies on infinite growth and gets upset if there’s growth but it’s not fast enough or if there is any temporary setback no matter how minor or even if things level off for a bit. It’s ridiculous.

Nvidia is making tons of money now, but they’re still going to be in hot water with investors when they have to explain why exponential revenue growth cannot be sustained as revenues crash back down to the norm.

You mean like all the biden supporters on here defending his support for genocide?