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Becoming "too big to fail" has become a viable market strategy.

See also how AI companies re trying to sneak in basically every level of infrastructure and public administration.

This, and the next generation of consoles being no less than 1600$/€ on day one.

Given they're moving to digital-only future I fully expect them to sell a "50$ + monthly subscription" dongle-like version of ps6 and xbox where you can play the game you buy as a streaming solution, or pay the aforementioned price for a "locally hosted" device on a console.

It's usually superseded by "don't piss on my head and then tell me it's raining"

Unless we're talking about figma-like web apps, Content is usually a different department than development.

I know it's becoming more and more outdated nowadays, but if a magazine or a news website is still written by humans rather than AI they need a way to provide formatted text and media, and preview the output.

On the other hand I should add that i've also seen an upward growth in CMSes like WordPress being used exclusively as Online Editors, with content ultimately being exported trough REST to completely different backends and frontends, like a Firebase/NextJS infra.

Counterpoint: The "AI Lords" as indicated in this article can easily ignore the permanent underclass, because once we realized we were close to a society similar to a pressure cooker with no release valve, we just built a more-steam resistant cooker, powered by Flock cameras, less privacy, less political voices and options, and more importantly, a police/military/authocratic class strata with somewhat better living conditions and complete control of the mass media.

We can already see in the French and Italian revolts of the last few days - Yes, a few shops have been destroyed but the narrative is fully in the hand of their respective governments, which are already planning towards a more militarized approach to policing.

They don't have to give up anything, the system is sufficiently sclerotized to keep going with a progressive worsening of the biggest part of society for years to come with no ill effects for those in power.

Decades of global warming will probably cause the societal issues expressed in the article, slowly, but I wouldn't hold my breath while things may or may not improve in the future.

> The sociopaths hijack the centralized assets while exterminating via reallocation all opposition. And the micromanaging from a distance produces catastrophic results.

Am I missing the sarcasm here? The difference from the current system would be...?

If this gets accepted we could get some rather "interesting" urls like https://www.index.php/index.php.

Or something like https://php.php.php/php.php.

Unfortunately I can't find an acceptable homoglyph for the trailing slash, leaving oh so many phishing opportunities on the table. /s

I think the game is simply hardcoded with a sensitivity curve and deadzone specific for the Dualshock 2 pressure buttons on a regular PS2. Some third-party controls aren't too great to use with PS2 GT games, too.

Patching that is possible I guess, but it would also require setting up some sort of calibration in the game.

> These days you can map analog triggers to the sticks for a modern experience if you want that.

It gets wonky if you press both analog triggers at the same time though. I've also tried mapping them to X and O to simulate the pressure, but the range is also somewhat off, with a way steeper curve (half pressing a trigger gives nearly 100% intensity of the OG buttons).

An alternate solution I've seen around is using a GMIX or similar devices and mapping the g29 wheel controls from the game to a modern Xbox/PS controller, but I've never tried it myself.

A better question: who would want to play Gran Turismo 3 or 4 without pressure sensitive controllers?

Even using the original ps2 or ps3 controller with the right drivers on PCSX2 doesn't really reproduce the same smooth acceleration/brake curve of the PS2.

Playing them on a keyboard or fully digital inputs is just a miserable experience.

The most outrageous sentence frankly is

"we can't ship your stuff because of some material restriction or let you pick up a box with some dignity, so we destroyed your stuff"

Really? never heard of anything like this even when I was in the states. If anyone tried this anywhere in Europe the case would almost certainly end up in a parliamentary questions session.

A more apt comparison would be the producer role (not the executive type, I mean the Project Manager type of roles). And to be honest, I've seen some amazing music A&R being the reason an album is a masterpiece without ever pushing a button or playing an instrument. But none of them would call themselves musicians.

Absolutely, I think fast fashion brands like Shein and TEMU-style shops are incredibly sad, toxic for the economy and the environment, and I've never bought anything from them.

He didn't say it's illegal (even if it's debatable and kinda loophole-ish, but lets pretend for now that society has fully embraced a world-encompassing copyright exception if you're named Altman or Amodei).

He said it's sad, and no matter how you want to spin it, it still is incredibly sad and depressing that we're hailing the age of "semantic photocopiers" as some sort of intellectual achievement.

Joking aside, a few early commercial Linux distro (Red Hat, Yellow Dog, SuSe, Corel Linux) had really nice packaging and media artworks. I'd love to collect them.

A Tailscale exit router with a small SFTP folder, and Seafile for public file access. Basically my own DIY file sharing for clients to avoid putting private stuff on WeTransfer.

This is an issue that is truly bothering me lately, given the alt-rightish slippery-slope that we're experiencing here in EU.

If I am getting arrested for taking part to an anti-genocide manifestation or anything related to climate change, I don't expect authorities to play by the book regarding my rights (Not taking a moral judgement here - they're taking care of their interests, i'm taking care of mine, I'm rather cynical about the whole endeavor) and let me easily get in touch with family or support groups.

My list would also include:

- Lawyer;

- Any relative, friend or acquaintance in a position of authority who I can trust;

- Any journalist friend I can quickly get in touch.

The question then quickly becomes: What information to relay? And how? Also, how to conceal that to whoever is waking you up at 1:00am to bring you in your pajamas to a police station to be questioned at 3:00pm of the following day?

> An iPad could give a similar experience with local compute if only Apple would let it.

It does, it's called the MacBook Neo.

iPad sales have been rather stagnant in the last few years, while they made bank with their low-cost laptop. On a purely conceptual level I don't think they're gonna merge the two anytime soon, even if they will probably start sharing the very same logic board from their next revision.

Sorry, I thought it was obvious I was just pointing out that probably none of the previous management team (and consequently decisions) are still left. You can switch "people" with project plan, platform, google interests, etc. That's besides the point.

Chromebooks is on a legacy path, and whatever "promise" was made seems to be void. Realistically ran their numbers and are fully aware that the worst possible outcome is a 25$-voucher class action for a few thousand people.

Still way cheaper than having to support OS security and updates for ten years.

I mean, yes... in theory.

In practice, if there has been some kind internal restructuring, the infrastructure required to keep those previous promises probably isn't there anymore. Try contacting Google support, I guess.

Also, unless such promises were put on paper in some kind of contract AND without the ever present "We reserve the right to change the terms of this agreement partially or fully in the future" fine line, it was just some kind of wishful thinking by whatever manager was in charge of the Chromebooks project at the time.

Let's be honest, I wouldn't be surprised if the product EULA says somewhere "This device is licensed to you, not sold. You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to use the device for your private, non-commercial use."

Are the people who made the promise even still at Google?

It reminds me of those sketchy companies on Amazon promising "lifetime guarantee" on their products when they know already they're gonna close shop and reopen on a completely different brand the very next year.

They are not - at least not in the way we commonly think; they simply have other priorities. They simply couldn't care less anymore about telling better lies than their predecessors.

And yet the profit argument went straight out of the window when it came to supporting DHH pet project with a 1 million dollars donation.

Which, please forgive my skepticism, seems more likely a public demonstration of support of DHH recent... "political positioning" than anything to do with Omarchy itself.

> Can you please provide written proof?

Was wikipedia too much of a hassle?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pythagoras_(freedman) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elagabalus

If you can understand italian I can suggest you Alessandro Barbero's Podcast, it's a pretty famous historian, there are several episodes about the topic.

I know where you're getting at - Not really the modern equivalent, only for the rich part of the population, contrasting opinions from historian at the time, etc.

But frankly the same objections could be raised even about the equally famous "did Ancient romans have running water in their homes?" question, and yet for some weird reason it's a far less controversial topic.

We have historical proof of homosexual marriage dating back to imperial Rome. IIRC the latest acknowledged homosexual union before modern times goes back to early 1500, before it started being prosecuted more aggressively by the catholic church.

Intolerance, of any kind, does not care about praticality. It's the infinite scream of a child, saying "but I don't like it!".

I have no proof, but I really wonder how much of the current resurgence of regressive ideologies (the correct word would be "conservative", but truth is this is a phenomena we can observe across all of the political spectrum) is the byproduct of the glorification of infantilization and nostalgia in our society.

"I want my old movies, I want my old games, I want my old white neighbourhood, I want my parents, I want my old society, I want my youth back".

> The reason Wine/DXVK/Proton works so well is because it didn't fracture itself into a thousand downstream forks to fix one specific game.

Well... it sorta did, on the other hand the scope of the project is just too big for any of those forks to survive more than a few releases. There's a multitude of various Proton releases with a single-game support. The android-oriented builds are even a bigger of a mess.

> AI allows players to have decompiled and in turn ports of games to new platforms, enhanced versions of the game, etc.

We're ten years too early to do what you're suggesting. You need a really, really good understanding of the decompiled codebase and the original game and platform to port or implement new features.

You can't really ask "Claude, make Ocarina Of Time Widescreen" and expect it to work.

It's sad that the community isn't exactly doing their best to separate developers using AI to debug poorly understood quirks and bugs of their emulation projects from those screaming "computah! Decompile me a Super Smash Bros".

MAME is doing some amazing reverse engineering work on some more recent arcade boards by using AI[1] that would've taken decades to do so by hand, and it's being conflated with some rando committing to github the result of 5 hours of Claude stirring over the Golden Eye N64 rom and then publishing on twitter "Done, here's my Patreon link, please and thank you".

[1]https://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/2026-working-with-what-we-hav...

But if you bring everyone down with you, You don't have to pay anything to anyone.

It's not like Donald Trump didn't use this exact strategy already when he had to get out of debt from his private ventures.