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Their last peak of subscriptions was when Trump got elected in 2016. It was a good time for newspapers and TV. The NYT is having an even higher peak now[1]. Surely the Sulzbergers aren't the only family competent enough to run a newspaper. Lots of papers aren't owned by billionaires and manage to do ok. Wapo didn't have games in 2016 and people still subscribed. It just lost it's value to readers, so people unsubscribed. I certainly did.

Bezos is literally just showing his incompetence at this point in running a paper, and the NYT is probably loving it. Sure billionaires can buy social networks and papers, but people can also subscribe to and use things not owned by billionaires.

[1] https://www.natesilver.net/p/the-sad-and-self-inflicted-decl...

Why doesn't he sell while he can still get something for it? Continuing the trajectory it has been on in the last two years will mean shuddering the paper or turning it into X hoping some users will switch.

The built-in matrix and irc client is pretty great too, hope they can keep building out these features. I donate every year to projects I use, and TB was among them this year.

Not rent-a-human?

A similar question could be asked of the banks too.

Gold being a good investment is about as glaring a sign as there is for the third-worldifiction of the economy by dictators and the rich.

The 27B is rated slightly higher for SWE-bench.

Looking back, I actually think the older the RAM the more likely you're able to notice bit-flips and they harm your workflow. EDO RAM was the worst in my experience (my first computer), SDRAM was a bit better, and random bit-flips atleast under load got very rare after DDR2. I think Google even had a paper comparing DDR1 vs DDR2 (link: https://static.googleusercontent.com/media/research.google.c...).

That said, memory DIMM capacity increases with even a small chance of bit-flips means lots of people will still be affected.

Exactly, people are going to be logged into these apps with trackable identifiers. You can see it with tracker control on android, download a new app and see existing apps report things to new trackers, which seems to be happening at the sdk level.

Sideload probably means use adb. It's like they're avoiding using the tool name for some reason.

I've been using Flare on f-droid, which integrates RSS and fedi, it's simple but pretty good.

Definitely they do, I remember not being able to sit because of the sleeper bed position, but people still smoking standing outside the cabin.

The one I took was a night train to/from Xian, and had fixed beds instead of seats. It makes sense for bigger cities to have this sort of a service available, but it would also make sense if smaller cities have these as daytime trains with proper seats.

These are night trains, or mostly night trains.

Term limits do prevent situations like the supreme court, where any institutional knowledge and length of terms can be weaponized for political gain.

Overall, if the objective was to have a non-identifying age flag in operating systems, this isn't the end of the world (though I would have preferred enabling other things I've mentioned here in the past like opening up OSes). If there were younger people in the legislature that tried to understand this better than octogenarians, I think term limits are working fine.

Hopefully parents can use the parental control tools built around this non-identifying flag for some good.

The solution is to get money out out of politics. Term limits are good for the exact reason you mentioned. For tech law, there should be some sort of tech committee that knows laws like this are idiotic.

When getting rid of actual performance bottlenecks is too hard or costs too much, just make something up.

XeSS is actually pretty great, played Talos Principle 2, a UE5 game on the Steam Deck at 800p 30fps thanks to XeSS.

Gamers chased high FPS, that's what they got.

This is cynicism or worse, the way to get more open hardware and software, is to buy it and use it, regulation and understanding will catch up. Sure people care more about things other than tech, that's never stopped me from pointing out how tech should work and advocating for it.

I've used Linux for 25 years, and never have I thought it has enshittified. It's only Android in the last decade that has, much like the iPhone, Windows and the big social networks defending their monopolies in court and even losing in some cases, though maybe not enough yet.

Well, mistakes like iPhones being closed have existed for decades, enshittification on modern computers is still relatively new. What makes no sense is people who should know better giving into fear based locked down computing for idiotic reasons.

And yet, these same people will install modchips on consoles, pay for VPNs, use ReVanced, and generally find ways to do what they want rather than what corporations want, and safely too.

People can learn about links to payment websites, self-signed apps/updates and unlocked bootloaders, because anything less is restricting computers for idiotic reasons.

So let's give Google more power.

The value is in awareness, it's easier to switch for some than others, but that comes after awareness.

If signing apps is required, then self-signing with your own key should be an option, in addition to a virus scan. Signing authorities have gotten things wrong, which is forgivable as long as they are learning from mistakes, but not letting people run and auto update the apps they want on the device they bought because of device restrictions, scare screens, or other roadblocks is the main complaint here.

If copyrighted materials are used, surely copyright allows for the maker to require disclosure that their content was used in training a model.

I did look up the name when I watched the show. The characters and plot are the fictionalized early days of computing made entertaining. Definitely worth a watch.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire_(computing...

Really bad chess might have been on to something here. Bughouse, chess960, and horde have been the alt chesses I've enjoyed the most.

The bigger problem is the rent seeking some registrars are doing now by increasing prices. Not sure what domain portability might look like (maybe requiring multiple registrars per tld), but something like it would solve this problem.

When some iPhone users try to get past their snobiness, but still can't without a timer.