I would say this is a little too pessimistic. Legislation in the EU and California have both forced tech companies hands, it’s why we can download all our data and delete all our data (supposedly, doubtful in reality) on the large tech platforms. The issue I see is getting legislation that attaches itself to a standard controlled by the W3C. You are right that it won’t be something done by the US federal government though.

Why not just reply “Oh we have milk!”. Why is deleting messages the best course of action when you can just communicate that you were misinformed?

Agreed, and you know they have a record of these deleted texts internally for their own reasons.

Drinking just lowers inhibition so you say what is on your mind. While the results of such might not be desirable, it is what you thought in that moment.

I still drinking and I don’t like this feature, ya said what ya said. Also anyone who cares keeps records.

Tragic, the line didn’t just go up because one investment was really good.

Disclaimer: I have no experience with Bazzite. A quick web search shows that it’s a distro based on Fedora Atomic. That being said, if you did everything according to the documentation, this is probably a bug that should be raised with the developers.

The first line states /init: error while loading shared libraries: libsystemd-core-256.11.1-fc41.so: c. This is basically the issue, for whatever reason the shared library for systemd (which if being used, is basically the backbone to your systems startup) isn’t available. The next place I would look is whatever tool/command you use to upgrade/build your system, this might of spit out an error related to why this library could not be built or why it’s inaccessible on the next boot. If the solution isn’t obvious from those logs, I would report this to the distro developers as a ticket in their bug tracker.

As to look at the positives, you have discovered the beauty of immutable/atomic distros. You can just go back to the working version instead of cussing at your PC.

Centralization is a weakness. These services can be targeted by governments that want to limit communication. Free speech is a commodity, and servers host this free speech. If a hostile organization, such as a government, targets a channel of free speech such as those hosted on a platform that makes it easy to setup a mastodon instance, this become an easy target that will affect a large portion of users. If you are serious about freedom, you have the freedom to self-host your own platforms.

Edit: I realize my post doesn’t answer the question proposed, but it’s more of an argument against such services. I would argue self-hosting doesn’t rely on paying third-parties to host your software, but I guess this is in the eye of the hoster.

Then the menu is a broken webpage with “old” prices and the restaurant tries to charge you more than the menu prices. I thought the point of these were to be easily updated.

If anything I think they’ll keep the games price low, as to get people into online and spend the money there. GTA Online has been a huge cash cow for Rockstar, and I don’t have exact numbers but based on this article I would say most of the profit comes from online play. I would guess they’ll go with the $60-90-120 model or something similar for different versions, probably with some bonus content for online included with the “ultimate” editions. Only Rockstar and maybe some kid who is hacking them knows for sure though.

When I say residential IP addresses, I mostly mean proxies using residential IPs, which allow scrappers to mask themselves as organic traffic.

Edit: Your point stands on there are a lot of services without these protections in place, but a lot of services are protective against scrapping.

As a hobbyist programmer/game developer, ya basically hit the “as a programmer” part on the nose as in it’s why I care. In my opinion the issue is because we have faster and faster chips, we don’t care as long as it runs which means it’s using as much of the device as possible which means higher energy consumption. Also, DLSS has to be trained so you can lump it into how AI is causing more coal to be burned and water to be wasted cooling data centers designed to train AI.

Is it just me, or is it depressing that modern gaming has succumb to requiring AI gimmicks to run performant? Why does every new AAA title require DLSS and why would I want AI generating 75% (as I perceive the DLSS 4x, correct me if wrong) of the frames that induces artifacts like halos and blur anyway? What is it about these games that some optimization wouldn’t be warranted for them to run without some AI layer on top to get 60 fps, let alone the 144+ fps that consumers now expect?

I mean it’s true, in the same sense that in some countries you don’t flush the toilet paper as it will cause plumbing issues. It’s all about design of the plumbing at that point, and in places where you flush toilet paper it shouldn’t be that big of a concern unless they skimped on the plumbing.

Also as my grandma taught me, there is such a thing as a courtesy flush before ya wipe.

Well, that’s something I learned today, didn’t know these were a thing.

a bidet a better investment

Edit: A sports water bottle can provide a strong stream of water. That’s all I going to say

That’s why I treat it like a Chuck E. Cheese ticket machine and use about 50 tiles a wipe.

I don’t see the word “autism” anywhere in this post, besides where you said it.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/technology/tech-companies/elon-musk-endorses-post-suggesting-americans-are-too-retarded-to-do-skilled-jobs/ar-AA1wxXfp

The only way I can think of is require users to authenticate themselves, but this isn’t much of a hurdle.

To get into the details of it, what do you define as an AI bot? Are you worried about scrappers grabbing the contents of you website? What is the activities of an “AI Bot”. Are you worried about AI bots registering and using your platform?

The real answer is not even cloudflare will fully defend you from this. If anything cloudflare is just making sure they get paid for access to your website by AI scappers. As someone who has worked around bot protections (albeit in a different context than web scrapping), it’s a game of cat and mouse. If you or some company you hire are not actively working against automated access, you lose as the other side is active.

Just think of your point that they are using residential IP addresses. How do they get these addresses? They provide addons/extensions for browsers that offer some service (generally free VPNs) in exchange for access to your PC and therefore your internet in the contract you agree to. The same can be used by any addon, and if the addon has permissions to read any website they can scrape those websites using legit users for whatever purposes they want. The recent exposure of the Honey scam highlights this, as it’s very easy to get users to install addons by selling users they might save a small amount of money (or make money for other programs). There will be users who are compromised by addons/extensions or even just viruses that will be able to extract the data you are trying to protect.