I’d argue it’s a bit worse than PXE booting, since they talk about having the actual bootloader on a USB stick, whereas the same thing could have been done by having the boot process remote too.

This was not a vote for leadership. It was a vote for one of our houses. Unless the president decides to play nice (spoiler: he won’t), we won’t have a prime minister from any left party, causing things to be difficult for the right but not impossible, as there are provision to force some laws to pass for the prime minister, and outright impossible for the left to do anything because they’re unlikely to get support from a right-oriented prime minister, and are unlikely to get an actual majority vote on anything.

Basically, unless something really unexpected happens, this will result in a stalemate for a while. Which is, admittedly, the lesser of two evils, but kinda sucks anyway.

Probably yes. As long as it’s something that would reasonably not be ok to watch in public/family/work environment, it’s always better to be on the cautious side.

There’s a setting to just not blur NSFW tagged content, for people that are not concerned.

as Electron has no integration with the rest of the system,

You pretty much can use Electron to build an application and use native OS-specific features. It only requires thinking about it and a bit of work, but technically isn’t much harder to do than with anything else. And there are some things useful in windows for that, based on user login credentials.

But ultimately, if the developers didn’t care about doing that, it won’t happen, regardless of them using Electron or writing fully native apps.

I’ve seen live people actually starting a bonfire in their living room something like 20 years ago, so to me this is perfectly possible :D

This is not a subreddit, and this is the original article’s title.

Because some people think that getting high as a kite is a suitable way to not be depressed.

Sure you can. You can also spend time disabling intrusive telemetry, you can also spend time reverting half the UI changes (not the other half though), you can also spend time removing integrated services you don’t use but are still running, you can (regularly) change back some settings that gets reverted every once in a while, you can also block some IP to prevent intrusive ads, you can toggle off part of the “user experience” that bloat the lockscreen…

Or you could, I don’t know, not have to do any of that and still have a working system that’s not trying to bend you over.

I had the occasion to discuss with people involved with Microsoft a few times, mostly on the research front. Great people, with great ideas, and very knowledgeable about their field. Of course they had nothing to do with the lobbying and the windows OS. Microsoft is very large; the corporate drones are only a small part of it. Unfortunately, it’s the part that decides what gets done and pushed out :(

Journalist doing reports in front of their dildo collection: “hold my beer”

There’s a ton of great small scale things we can do with machine learning, and even LLM.

Unfortunately, it seems the main usages will be crushing people down even more.

Humans loves to see patterns in everything.

I believe the appropriate, corporate-friendly answer in this case is “go fuck yourself”

Yes, it is doable. But it also implies keeping track of individual sessions, to make sure you serve the right ad at the right time to the right people. Nothing impossible, but definitely more work to do per individual player, and on the scale of youtube this is quite a lot.

It’s costly; either you prepare encodes ahead of time with different ads and serve that appropriately, or you splice ads live for each request, which is also costly in resources. You can’t get away with just a few variation; ads are usually targeted. It also come with other issues, like, it is mandatory in a lot of place to clearly identify ads, so there should be an obvious marker somewhere. If it’s in the UI, it can be detected and replaced live by a video of kittens for the duration of the ad, so I suppose they also have to handle any signal in the video… (It’s speculation, I didn’t get any of these yet).

I’m curious to see if this will hold, and how we will run around it in the long run.

or write your windows ISO using rufus and check the “no MS account” checkbox.

Officially, the world is taking the second option in general.

We already have them. Just don’t touch any big corporation stuff and suddenly everything work without requiring the blessing of a corporate overlord. There’s already open source tools, either open or freely accessible models, and the tooling, while relatively knew, keep improving. All working locally.

Heck, even performances improves in unexpected ways. This week I ran a chatbot at an almost acceptable speed on a cheap CPU.

As long as some politician don’t come out and outlaw software as a whole (good luck with that) we’ll be fine.

Die, Rulph, said the reader.

(most) films and video games requires a bit of engagement from you.