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vivaldi_bt··on Fable 5.2 one-shotted my nephew's dream game
Arguably, the music industry has been in this state for years, at least since 2010's or even 2000's when it became possible to make quality sound with relatively small investments. I feel like AI music didn't really change much for an average listener.
vivaldi_bt··on Every Windows 11 app should kill Electron, and Discord just showed why
I never really understand this attitude. It isn't really hard it took one or two evenings to understand how native libraries work and you close this problem forever.
vivaldi_bt··on Basically no one is using AI agents for their DoorDash orders
>like chilling with netflix

For me cooking is meditative enough that it can be included in "chilling with netflix". :D

vivaldi_bt··on AMD expects to outsell Intel in Q4 for the first time in history
It somewhat (maybe) had sense for HDD caching but I don't think HDDs in 2026 are used in cases where separate cache is needed.
vivaldi_bt··on The US added a record 20.2 GWh of battery storage in just 3 months
AFAIK, it is not really true. But you need several things to do a pumped storage: a big source of water (and it better to not be a salt one), a place where a reservoir can be made and an elevation difference between them. So I'd assume that the most of the places that can be easily used to make a pumped storage already have one.
vivaldi_bt··on Firefox Enterprise
>just install the fucking extension

...and this is/was the true Firefox way. You don't need to get some other browsers on the same engine made by shady companies. You have powerful plugins.

vivaldi_bt··on Citroen revives the 2CV for an electric age
And Dongfeng EX1 is basically Renault kwid (but electric) so we have a Renault recursion here.
vivaldi_bt··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
>Oh wait, let's just look it up

You folks have some weird beliefs about the world and of course it always leads to conspirology. Usually you need to have intent to be accused (depends on the crime though, crimes of omission exist too). If you wrote a virus that causes damage it is a crime, if you wrote a bot crawler that accidentally DDoS'ed some company it is likely a civil case. And a virus is a tool that serves a specific purpose, like you can't say to a judge that a functional machine gun you made in your basement is a paperweight.

But "superintelligence that can casually hack government services while solving puzzles" is a completely new problem and of course crime codes don't cover it. What will be next? I hope AI tech lobby loses and "accidental AI hacking" will be criminalized.

vivaldi_bt··on Why aren't AI companies being charged for hacking?
Yep, but "our bot accidently hacked your infrastructure" wasn't really a big problem earlier so there was no criminal laws around it. But things can change.
vivaldi_bt··on Fable Took My Job
But how long that "much longer" would be? 5 years? That is the time you usually need make at least some entry career. In the past you usually could say that career variants can be safe. But now is seems there are no safe variants.
vivaldi_bt··on Fable Took My Job
People in software engineering were delusional a lot time ago. There was too much talks about code and too little about SRE's place in software production.
vivaldi_bt··on Steam Machine launches today
If they were sell it without margin people would buy it as a general purpose mini-PC.