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lobf··on Police are using AI to pull over drivers for 'suspicious' behavior
Gross
lobf··on Apple's new 'Switch to Safari' campaign details why you should ditch Chrome
Where do you run in to this? I switched from Chrome to Safari about 5 years ago and can count the number of websites I’ve had issues with on one hand, I think.
lobf··on Trump administration is suspending Microsoft from a green card program
>For instance, what labor laws apply?

The laws of the worker's locality is generally how it works. In the film industry, a production company based in LA might do a shoot in NYC- they have to follow NYC's labor laws since that's where the workers are and the work is being done.

The workers at the home base in LA have the LA laws applied to them.

>And who enforces them?

The local government.

lobf··on California farmers are struggling to sell grapes as demand for wine drops
What is “active marijuana?”
lobf··on MongoDB CEO resigns to join Meta
There’s some weirdness with the UFC’s struggle at the time.

The Fertitta brothers are who actually bought it. Before owning the UFC, Lorenzo Fertitta was on (maybe the head?) of the Nevada State Athletic Commission- the very body who were refusing to sanction UFC events at the time, and the most important governing body in the combat sports world.

Obviously the UFC was hurting bad at that time since they couldn’t be sanctioned, were getting booted from arenas they booked, and were getting dropped by Pay Per View carriers. This decimated their value and the Fertittas scooped up the company for a song.

All of a sudden, now that they owned it, the sanctioning bodies agreed on a set of unified MMA rules, the UFC was re-sanctioned, and they started selling PPVs again.

It was actually quite a success from the very beginning. Their troubles were likely imposed on them by their prospective buyers in order to get the sale done, and all they and Dana White did really were take their foot off the company’s neck.

lobf··on Border agents can search cellphones without a warrant or reasonable suspicion
The constitution applies to all people under US jurisdiction. It only specifies a few citizen-only rights, like voting.
lobf··on Ex-FTC boss Khan: break out the handcuffs for AI CEOs, citing 1934 precedent
I think you misread. There is nothing transformative about bittorrent automatically sharing parts of a file you're downloading with your peers.
lobf··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
I don’t think you understood the question.
lobf··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
Is their membership in this silly club the defining characteristic of either man? What does this have to do with their presidential platforms?
lobf··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
Giant Douche vs Turd Sandwich, the epitome of "both sides are the same." John Kerry would not have invaded Iraq on false pretenses. He wouldn't have perma-fucked the budget with his massive tax cuts for the rich. The GWB administration was a disaster and these guys pretended they were equivalent.

ManBearPig lambasted the very idea of climate change as laughable, and anyone who cared about it was a pussy liberal loser. They have recently walked this back, but the damage is done.

Overall they contributed to the perception that sincerity and earnestness are lame and the only way to appear cool and enlightened is to be a cynic.

lobf··on Trey Parker and Matt Stone Are Changing the Name of South Park to South America
This is why I stopped watching as well. They really set the table for conservative populists to feast. I resent them tremendously.
lobf··on Discovery of a new OpenAI agent message board
You would need radiators that are like hundreds of miles wide to cool a data center in space.
lobf··on The Death of Physical Media
Matrix green on black? What year is it?
lobf··on The Death of Physical Media
Bizarre article on a bizarrely designed website.
lobf··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Very interesting, thanks for the read. Your comment touches on what I’m talking about- specifically the massive new challenges introduced by rapidly increasing graphical abilities of computers and the demand from consumers to see that in all new titles.
lobf··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
This is a trade secret, which is a very different category.
lobf··on Apple reveals 'shocking evidence' from ex-employee's MacBook in OpenAI suit
What are you referring to?
lobf··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
Why do you think this?
lobf··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
This is one of my favorite eras / subjects in tech history.

I was just recently reading about the history of the Ultima series and you’re describing Richard Garriott. As games were pressured to be bigger and prettier and use 3D graphics, suddenly the lack of managerial experience (partly) caused the later games to spin out of control and they were forced to release a series of bad titles that brought the whole franchise down.

It’s busy really interesting how fast that industry changed, and the massive scale involved compared to just 10-15 years prior, depending on where you measure from.

lobf··on Dwarf Fortress' creator says the industry's in shambles over AI
>For example, you give a drug researcher a patent on their discovery, that discourages innovation on making that new drug cheap and readily available

Which is why there is famously no market or money to be made on generic medicine.

lobf··on Dwarf Fortress is getting the mother of all magic updates
Both of these are still true.
lobf··on Felony Bench
Who got charged with a felony for scraping?
lobf··on Project Cybersyn (2022)
Please elaborate.
lobf··on Should DayQuil Be Legal?
I simply do not take acetaminophen because of this risk.
lobf··on 30-year sentence for transporting zines is a five-alarm fire for free speech
Well regardless, the obvious answer is that you simply turn your zines in to slurry in a bucket or sink, you don’t drive them anywhere.
lobf··on Old Computer Challenge
This just reminds me that I have my old MicroATX HTPC (remember that term?) that I built in about 2010 sitting in a closet. I bet I haven’t booted it since 2014. I wonder what’s on it…
lobf··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
Yes, the 2006 one is the one I'm talking about. From the opening of the article:

>Prey was a commercial success, selling more than one million copies in the first two months of its release and leading to the abortive development of its sequel Prey 2.

lobf··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
I think the "John Romero is about to make you his bitch" campaign in particular was an incredibly bad call, especially in the "gay panic" era, and made people want to see it fail.

Not that it needed any help, but I think that contributed to the glee around the spectacular crash-and-burn.

lobf··on There are a few things that I look back on as my mistakes in the early days
Prey was vaporware? It sold a million copies on release and got a sequel... Are we talking about the same game?
lobf··on The deadly rise of giant trucks and SUVs
You missed a chance to say he's been "mothballed"
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