I think vc is voice chat in this post.

Obviously saw how well it worked in the UK when we fucked our public housing up too.

Surprised Reagan didn't cotton on to that one.

There's a bunch of newspapers already with the option between pay for privacy plus or accept tracking.

Fortunately there's a third option which is leave the site and never come back.

Plus most of the sites will ask you again after a period of time. Until you say yes. After that they can strangely remember your choice.

Probably because nobody was using it.

307 users over the last month is barely worth keeping the server running when mastodon.social is getting 249 thousand.

Are they not already at war with Hezbollah?

They've been killing each other pretty much non stop for 40 years.

What's that if not a war?

GDPR is a start, but we need to actually ban it, not just annoy people until they click Accept at the 20th popup of that tantalising offer to share your details with 1473 trusted data partners.

And all the CIA ones.

And then block all cookies and tracking.

Still rocking an i5-8400 and a 1060. It's fine for FFXIV and most other games.

Until GPU prices come down, the CPU is the least of my worries. I'll play anything that needs decent hardware on my PS5.

If you're not running the latest games it really doesn't matter at all.

My wife's family used to mop the walls as part of cleaning.

It wasn't until she moved out that she twigged that non-smokers don't have to do that.

We'd all put on our scruffiest clothes before visiting my granddad, because they'd be going straight into the washing machine the second we got back. No wonder he kept giving us money, he probably thought we were poor as dirt.

If this carries on, we'll have exploding semaphore flags by the end of the week.

Yeah, tone it down you Baby Murdering, Paedophillic, Freedom Haters!

Otherwise who knows what our followers will be driven to do when we insinuate they should?

AI + Ads = AIDS.

Just say no, kids.

He's white. They done fucked up now.

The problem with money being involved is it's an invitation to spam crap everywhere.

One of my relatives has recently taken up "AI travel videos" and "AI cute videos" as a "hobby". No doubt based on the first thing that came up when I searched for those things, a video titled "make $10,000 a month spamming up YouTube with your AI slop".

Oh, and it needs you to buy the AI slop generating tools that they happen to sell. How convenient!

I mean, this also happened with broadcast TV, where we suddenly went from like 4 channels filled with programs and things competing for space, to 200 channels, where the rush was on to fill the gaps between the adverts as cheaply as possible with reality show tat. And that's all YouTube is now.

Depending on his wife's level of patience, I give this guy at most two years before he gets divorce papers in the post.

That should go well, since the Secret Service are renowned for having a good sense of humour about this sort of thing.

Google Serves AI Slop as Top Result for One of the Most Famous Paintings in History

The point of Insta would seem to be the opposite of that. To splatter your inane life before the world in the hopes of becoming a viral millionaire influencer.

That was apparently a JSON handling bug.

https://nee.lv/2021/02/28/How-I-cut-GTA-Online-loading-times-by-70/

It's weird just how much he looks like Michael Keaton there.

Both?

I mean I'm no fan of Israel, but Hezbollah ain't exactly the Red Cross.

And everyone knows that can't be amended.

His goal is but another amendment away.

I could never get on with the weird shaped triggers.

Couple of billionaires die in a makeshift sub with a MadCatz controller, and they're still investigating over a year later.

2000 immigrants die every year crossing the Mediterranean, well who cares? They shouldn't have been there anyway!

I think it's because pagers (at least one way pagers) can't be tracked.

They receive only so there's no triangulation possible.

It's got to be the last one.

Makes you wonder how bulky you can make some electronics before anybody notices it's filled with C4.

It doesn't sound like the death toll is particularly high, but for sure it's put a lot of people out of action, and they're going to need a job lot of prosthetic hands.

"Pro-life"

https://feddit.uk/post/3160519

I did try that using Docker on Windows but it was an unmitigated hellscape. Just use the installers if you're using Windows for it.

The point is not how much it costs.

The point is that a poor person needs punishment, and if they're lucky, they might get to shoot somebody.

I suspect the suburb issue is one of car centric US suburbs where you can't even get out of it without a car, rather than somewhere like the UK, where I effectively live in what is now a suburb of a larger city (if I drove there, it's about ten miles, through an entirely built up area), but that "suburb" is also a town that's been here since medieval times with it's own shops and workplaces and facilities.

Seems to me the issue is less about low density suburbs, and more about the fact that there's nothing there apart from rows and rows of identikit housing.

In fairness Israel isn't struggling to beat Hamas. They could quite handily just carpet bomb the place to oblivion and kill 2 million people. It's not really any bigger than Grozny, and we saw what even the Russians managed to do to that.

But that doesn't tend to sit well with anyone, not even the US. Better to commit genocide by making the survivors leave and stealing their land, rather than going full holocaust on them.

Still, they've killed 2% of Gaza in a year. Give them 50 more and there won't be a Gaza Strip.

Take a look at the UK on Google Maps.

Pretty green, right? Plenty of space to expand those towns and cities.

Zoom in. It's pretty much all farmland. There's precious little nature in that.

Density isn't going to save nature. Having fewer people and sustainable farming will save nature. Density is useful for having things like efficient public transport, and reducing the need to have a car. It also localises noise, and I feel we don't value quiet enough.

At that price there would have to be some pretty compelling arguments to upgrade.

Half a generation for up to 40% more raytracing power isn't worth it.

A full generation for 2-3 times what a PS5 can do? Maybe.

Even then, there would have to be some damn good exclusives on PS6 to be worth your while. PS4 to PS5 was an easy argument, games ran at 30 pretty much all generation, mostly due to a comically underpowered CPU, and now they run at 60.

I'm struggling to even conceive of a worthwhile game that would bring a PS5 to its knees. I haven't really seen a good argument for raytracing yet. Sure, nicer reflections, more accurate lighting, but we were pretty good at faking those anyway. Cyberpunk and Metro look really nice with the RT only editions, but they were perfectly playable without it.

We should really draw a big line under RT once it reaches a certain level of power, and go back to affordability. Game devs can't put food on the table just catering to insanely high end hardware. My PC is still rocking a 1060. On the Steam hardware survey, there's only one GPU higher than the X060 series inside the top ten. Budget hardware has got to be the focus.

Tim may have had enough money personally, but it's always nice to not have to shut your studio and fire everyone if you release the odd stinker.

In my experience they mostly seem to watch somebody else play a video game.

You lose weight in the kitchen.

You gain muscle in the gym.

The first of those is honestly harder, which is why I'm still overweight.

Apparently he's trying to play this one off as a joke as well. You know like the "pedo guy" one. Just a funny joke.

High time this dipshit got to the finding out stage of fucking around.

I'll go with 99 apartments and one house on the other side so I can be as far from them as possible.