Off-and-on trying out an account over at @tal@oleo.cafe due to scraping bots bogging down lemmy.today to the point of near-unusability.
I am not particularly sympathetic, but there is a group that takes this quite seriously:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voluntary_Human_Extinction_Movement
The Voluntary Human Extinction Movement (VHEMT[A]) is an environmental movement that calls for all people to abstain from reproduction in order to cause the gradual voluntary extinction of humankind. VHEMT supports human extinction primarily because it would prevent environmental degradation.
I mean, that’s really true of products in general.
I think that there are some real consumer law issues to answer where someone buys a product and then a manufacturer can control the product subsequent to the purchase. Like, say I buy a BMW with the expectation that I am not going to be seeing ads, based on the way it acts at the time that I bought it. At that point, I’m locked into owning that BMW. Then the manufacturer degrades my experience, maybe to the point where I no longer consider the vehicle to be the one I wanted.
Like, what is my remedy here? If the vehicle has OTA updates, I can never know what it’s going to be doing down the line, so I can’t make an informed decision. Having informed consumers is one of the basic requirements for markets to be efficient.
Maybe I could say “Well, that’s just a case of let the buyer beware. We’ll rely on reputation…some auto manufacturers will piss off consumers and those will be avoided”. But…if someone doesn’t buy cars that frequently, that’s a long iteration cycle.
I’m actually more concerned about video games. Like, if I’m a publisher, once I sell a video game, I don’t normally have more revenue coming in from it. But if I do have the ability to update that video game down the line. And I can update it to go harvesting user data, which turns it into a revenue stream. A lot of video game publishers go defunct on a regular basis or sell IP or whatnot, so there, even the “rely on reputation” route is more questionable.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Xbox_360-only_games
This isn’t a list of “on XBox 360, but not PC” games, since there could be games that came out on multiple consoles but not on the PC, but it’s probably a reasonable approximation to get a list of what games might be involved.
I picked up a pack of UHD Blu-Rays of Alfred Hitchcock’s older movies — I’ve been buying some UHD Blu-Rays of these of various things that I’d like to watch, as I think that they’ll probably be the last physical media video format, and I understand presently also tend to beat streaming from a quality standpoint due to streaming bitrates generally being more limited. Watched Frenzy, which I’d never seen before. I was grinning at a number of times — Hitchcock keeps throwing the viewer’s expectations around for what’s going to happen over the course of the movie. Oh, and it has quite a bit of humor for a thriller.
I mean, that Walmart already is going to have had cameras all over the ceiling for a long time.
I’m a little annoyed by a local sandwich shop having their ordering kiosk — which had a camera added — recognize me and start recommending things based on my prior purchases there.
Now when I order at a kiosk, if I see something that looks like a camera, I put my hand over it.
The governors of Osaka, Fukuoka and Aichi have expressed interest. “Aichi Prefecture and Nagoya possess all the functions necessary to serve as a second capital. I’m the first in the nation to make a bid,” Aichi Governor Hideaki Omura said. Fukuoka Governor Seitaro Hattori added Friday: “We will aim for the designation as ‘all Fukuoka’ by working with municipalities and the local business community.”
For purely historical value, I gotta say Kyoto.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyoto
Kyoto is one of the oldest municipalities in Japan, having been chosen in 794 as the new seat of Japan’s imperial court by Emperor Kanmu. …The emperors of Japan ruled from Kyoto in the following eleven centuries until 1869…The capital was relocated from Kyoto to Tokyo after the Meiji Restoration.
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Aw yeah.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capital_of_Japan
As of 2007, there is a movement to transfer the government functions of the capital from Tokyo while retaining Tokyo as the de facto capital, with the Gifu-Aichi region, the Mie-Kio region and other regions submitting bids for a de jure capital. Officially, the relocation is referred to as “capital functions relocation” instead of “capital relocation”, or as “relocation of the Diet and other organizations”.[19][20]
In 2023, the Government of Japan moved the Agency for Cultural Affairs to Kyoto. This was the first time that a central government office has been relocated outside Tokyo since Tokyo was designated as the capital.[21][22]
Based on past history of various VR HMD makers, for at least Linux users, I’d bet yes.
But…that’s assuming that the user is going to get an HMD in the first place. Like, one “option” is to just not use an HMD, just use a traditional monitor and forego VR-only titles.
Diamonds are made under pressure
You can also do it with chemical vapor deposition!
It’s not very surprising. There’s a legal rationale behind it.
Certain classes of people are granted privileged communications.
Lawyers are permitted privileged communications with the people they represent, as those people need to be able to be honest with them about their situation. You cannot compel these communications to be handed over, and I don’t believe that there’s an obligation to report. The idea is that we donlt want communication to break down with lawyers, because thst causes other social harm.
Similar is also true for certain other relationships, like husband-wife.
Doctor-patient.
And I guess there priest-parisoner; priests often provide a similar counsel-and-advise role.
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Privileged communications exist because society values the privacy or purpose of certain relationships. The established privileged communications are those between wife and husband, clergy and communicant, psychotherapist and patient, physician and patient, and attorney and client.
These relationships are protected for various reasons. The wife-husband and clergy-communicant privileges protect the general sanctity of marriage and religion. The psychotherapist or physician and patient privilege promotes full disclosure in the interests of the patient’s health. If patients were unable to keep secret communications with psychotherapists or physicians relating to treatment or diagnosis, they might give doctors incomplete information. If doctors received incomplete information, they might be unable to administer health care to the patient, which is the very purpose of the doctor-patient relationship.
The attorney-client privilege exists for roughly the same reason as the physician-patient privilege. In order to secure effective representation, a client must feel free to discuss all aspects of a case without the fear that her attorney will be called at trial to repeat her statements. Likewise, to retain the client’s trust and do his job properly, the attorney must be allowed to withhold from the court and opposing party private communications with the client.
A communication is not confidential, and therefore not privileged, if it is overheard by a third party who is not an agent of the listener. Agents include secretaries and other employees of the listener. For example, a communication between a psychotherapist and patient would be privileged even if the psychotherapist’s secretary happened to overhear it. In such a case, the secretary could not be forced to testify about the communication. However, a communication between a psychotherapist and a patient on a public elevator occupied by third parties would not be privileged and could be used in court.
404 means that a web sever doesn’t have something at the URL you requested.
Search engines build an index periodically by looking at what’s on a website. That’s what provides your search results. They aren’t informed if a web server removes or moves content, though eventually, they’ll have a bot that checks, notices the change, and updates the index.
They — well, Google, and I assume most — will update major sites more frequently, so this is probably more common if you’re pulling something off a small, backwater website.
The limiting factor is not raw materials to make memory chips, but the production facilities to convert said materials to a finished product.
It takes about four to five years to roll out a new fab from scratch, even if you are an existing manufacturer.
It’s absolutely worth requesting your data to be deleted regardless of where you live by claiming to live in California…
I do think it’s possible that some of them won’t delete your data upon request, failing to comply with the law
That’s not failure to comply with the law if you don’t actually live in California.
People have a legal location of residence in the US.
If you want to establish legal residency in a state, you’re typically looking at doing something like spending the majority of the year there.
EDIT: I’d also be pretty confident, though the article doesn’t talk about it, that California won’t normally have jurisdiction for California state law unless a data broker is doing business in California, and that that will also be a constraining factor. Like, if a data broker company is only doing business in, say, Russia, the US will not enforce rulings against them regarding California state law in general.
Because AI has become so lucrative, the three major RAM manufacturers have shifted from mostly producing conventional DRAM to focusing more of their capacity on HBM, which is what AI data centers need.
The author probably wants “DIMMs” rather than “DRAM”. HBM memory is DRAM too (well, I guess theoretically you could make non-DRAM memory with an HBM interface, but…)
Well, optimization takes dev time. You can use dev time for other things too — debugging, improving performance on systems with enough memory, adding features, improving security. Or not use the dev time and cost less. So it’s a tradeoff.
Not to dispute the broader point that it’s not common, but to nitpick, it’s apparently a little more.
The UK internal affairs authority has told at least 100 people that they were given residency rights “in error”
the3million campaign group has been told that 95 people were contacted in March alone.
Yeah, I currently have a pen with about a 50% water-Nitrogen mix. It sheens less like that, but at least it isn’t infuriating to use as a regular writing ink that way — doesn’t hard-start if I stop writing for a handful of seconds.
I pretty much entirely use fountain pens for writing, not doing decorative signatures or whatnot. Being pretty is really just a fun plus for me; what’s most-important is that it be pleasant to write with. Having the very-most-sheeniest of inks isn’t really terribly important, just fun.
Nitrogen seems like a very light Cyan that is super saturated, so diluting it might change the underlying hue to something you won’t like.
It shows up as maybe a medium-dark blue at the 50% dilution point for me. Not far off the Sea of Okinawa ink, somewhat darker.
This experience did inspire me to pick up a Opus 88 Jazz so that I have one eyedropper pen as well, to mix things directly into the pen with a syringe. The TWSBI Eco I did the water-Nitrogen mix in was approximate, and I wasted ink to do the dilution, dipping the thing in water to suck some up, given that the ink was already in the pen.
I bet you could strip it down. Like, replace Windows Explorer as the Windows shell with emacs or something.
Thanks again, SimplyGreg (I was the one not happy with Nitrogen). Appreciate it!
If you’ve already played Ace Combat 7, and are not yet familiar with it, you might look into Project Wingman.