I think every three to six months I read people on HN saying the new X.Y model has finally broken the barrier and is the game changer that will forever transform the industry.

Don’t worry, governments will just use both

Being tired is normal and I can only understand the feeling, but if there’s one hope it is through collective action, not individualism. Any individual or family will inevitably lose against the overwhelming power of corporations or the state.

Step 1: make some kind of surveillance & control system that is voluntary

Step 2: make life for those who dont want it less convenient (you are here)

Step 3: make non-participation in the system be in itself suspicious and a cause for further investigation

I use yabridge for running VSTs and it is normally great, however it isn’t compatible yet with the newest WINE versions.

Depending on your needs and hardware, Linux audio can bring full satisfaction. The new subsystem, Pipewire (replacing both PulseAudio and JACK) is very convenient and still low latency. Applications are still catching up but the ecosystem has made major strides in recent years.

Yes you should, and it would be even better to use it as a template to write it yourself.

MEPs will pay more attention to messages that seem genuine and from their voters rather than mass-produced by foreigners.

In their world, resisting surveillance will be probable cause for arrest, because you must have something to hide and need to be investigated.

I just build stuff in vanilla solo creative mode yes haha

I can’t be bothered to mess with all the Microsoft stuff to install Minecraft these days so I just play Luanti to scratch that itch, it’s polished enough for me but my usage is very basic.

There is Luanti with the VoxeLibre plugin.

This is […] a strange marketing strategy by AI companies. Instead of selling products based on helpful features and letting users decide, executives often deploy scare tactics that essentially warn people they will become obsolete if they don’t get on the AI bandwagon.

Very insightful for me to read this. If AI in its present state was as useful as it is advertised, it wouldn’t need such apocalyptic language.

I have no proof but I suspect it is a mistranslation. The French legal term “bande organisée” literally means “organized crime group” but is simply the French counterpart to criminal conspiracy. That is to say, they are suspected not merely of breaking the law but also of having done so as a collective that knowingly planned for it.

I don’t have any statistic, but I would guess that the proportion of people wanting a Jack is significantly higher in the group of people interested in buying Fairphone that on the general population.

Fairphone literally does have that statistic. They spent effort to gather that info in order to inform their business decisions. And they report:

We also looked into the consumer data and Fairphone 4’s weight and thickness were more of an issue than the lack of a minijack

I’m unsure I get your point, how does waste prevent a shortage from becoming a famine ?

Also, both raw cauliflower and tinned tomatoes can be eaten almost as is.

Yes, I agree. OK, now let’s say 99% of users online agree that low quality content shouldn’t be posted online. And then imagine there is some kind of technology that allows the 1% of “bad users” (the ones who don’t care about low quality) to upload a thousand times more than other users can. It would follow that 90% of content online would be from these users that only represent 1% of the population. Do you see the problem?

A big issue with AI is precisely how just a few people can inundate the rest of us with their mass-produced slurry of AI content.

The fact they made it possible is impressive in itself. Sure it’s not competitive for the latest games or such, but society is more and more reliant on smartphones, so having a local option is valuable in itself.

It’s a bit like countries making their own planes instead of buying the F-35, which is better and cheaper. They looked stupid at the time, until Trump came back and it turned out strategic autonomy had value.

As for the price, probably it is due to small production ; but also simply underlines how we got used to not paying the “true” price of things, by moving production to places with cheaper costs & labor.

You’re missing their point, they’re saying from the point of view of those in power millionaires are middle class.

Although there are some that distinguish a “managerial class” that is in-between the middle class and the billionaires : people like CEOs and such, with net worth in the tens of millions but who are not those who benefit the most from the system and are culturally distinct. I think it’s a useful concept personally, as their interests aren’t necessarily the same as the owner class but they still have a lot of political power.

Loads of fossil power use gas turbines that do not involve steam :x