The article is all speculation about RAM availability, but somehow doesn’t even mention AI.

My comment is speculation too, but Nvidia almost certainly has one of the most reliable supplies of RAM. This would suggest they’re doing the obvious thing and putting their supply in enterprise AI products, while leaving the gaming community (who they owe their success to) fighting for price-gouged scraps.

Yes, but last election we could only muster two years of campaigning. We have to keep extending the election news cycle, since we build up a tolerance, and so it takes us all longer to create detailed suicide plans.

This is the correct list, having lived through it. BBS services in the mid-1980s were the start of Razor1911, Paradox and other distro and cracker groups. I’d edit 2 to include FTP which is what BBS evolved into with secret dropsites for new releases.

IRC is 2.5 on this list. You can group that alongside the pre-web internet services, like AOL which had slightly IRC-like chat rooms dedicated to serving warez and videos in the same way (requesting a list from a chatbot, and then requesting sequential files).

Some light history here, though like all warez-related scholarship, there’s a ton missing that you had to have seen to know:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez_scene

https://archive.org/details/b904a8eb-9c98-4bb1-bf25-3cb9d075b157/

I don’t know if this meme is fully ironic, but kind of strange to think “torrenting” is considered the OG piracy method now.

The Chinese national security law is bogus for many reasons. A general but incomplete list is here: https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2020/07/hong-kong-national-security-law-10-things-you-need-to-know/

If it’s a bogus law, the charges are bogus. Cultural relativity is not an excuse for arbitrary authoritarian oppression.

Every time I see one of these Trump posts, I’m like, “The only thing that could make this comment more unhinged was if his profile picture looked like he was run over squarely across the face by a Ford F-350 with American flag tire treads dripping wet with paint at the exact moment he completes a bowel movemen- oh wait, nope, they got it.”

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Interesting. So you have *arr set to auto-download from certain lists and see it in Plex for the first time, as options? What kind of lists? How do you cull content you don’t end up liking so it doesn’t fill up your server?

Yeah, I’m assuming Weiss, the opinion commentator cosplaying as a journalist with a $150 million costume David Ellison bought for her, didn’t try to clarify that earlier statement from Kirk.

But it makes sense. The whole point of Weiss’ “moderate” schtick is to normalize right-wing ideas and people. Her purpose is to pull the Overton window to the right from the middle, so kumbaya-everyone-see-fascists-are-just-like-us was certainly her editorial goal here.

Megan Waldron, a second graduate student who teaches the course alongside Curth, agreed with the grade. “Everyone has different ways in which they see the world, but in an academic course such as this you are being asked to support your ideas with empirical evidence and higher-level reasoning,” she wrote to Fulnecky, according to the screenshots.

Yes, “I think there are only two genders” isn’t an empirical statement. This isn’t hard. This “student” is someone who has no business being in a science class.

Fulnecky has said because they only communicated online, she did not know Curth’s gender identity until the Turning Point USA chapter pointed it out on social media. She told The College Fix, a conservative media nonprofit focused on universities, she thinks Curth should be fired if she can’t separate her personal feelings from grading assignments.

The sheer audacity of gaslighting here, I can’t even. The MAGA student’s religious feelings were not sufficient for the coursework, so clearly the teacher is the one who can’t separate her personal feelings from the assignment.

In short, the right wants to prevent cancel-culture when people are objectively awful, hateful bigots, but supports cancel-culture when they do their jobs neutrally and objectively; they want to claim the left acts based on feelings and can’t accept reality, but when they call their own feelings “beliefs” then expect those feelings to supersede law and empirical reality; and they constantly claim victimhood from positions of decisive (and unearned) power.

Despite the preceding paragraphs, I’m actually dumbfounded by this story - the above is as effective as a wordless guttural scream since none of what I said comes close to expressing the disappointment and frustration with how much power stupid bigoted people have right now.

Bari Weiss doing what she was placed at CBS News to do, I see.

What? Do you have a link? That’s a gut punch if so…

CD-R and CD-RW discs use different methods of data encoding, and were never advertised as having similar longevity.

I mean…sorry, but this is wrong. Mitsui CDRs for example are still being sold on retail sites advertising 100+ (and sometimes 300+) year longevity. Similar to bitrot, internet rot makes it hard to find advertisements from the 90s, but I am comfortable that was true then too and not limited to “gold” high quality discs like Mitsui.

Remember that CDs, CDRs, and so on were originally pitched as surviving 100 years. Turns out they last a highly variable amount of time but potentially as little as 2-3 years before they degrade, depending on the construction.

So I’ll just say, this is clearly a theoretical value.

Edit: Words.

Children are a fixed cost, and all fixed costs become insignificant exponentially fast as you become super rich.

$200,000 to raise a child until age 18 is four years’ wages if you make $50,000 a year, and after living expenses, unsustainably unaffordable.

Elon Musk makes $24 million an hour. He can afford 120 more children through age 18 every hour.

Even with surrogacy costs added, it’s next to nothing to billionaires, just more assets and a different kind of wealth they can create.

On the one hand, this is objectively grotesque and there should be laws that better prohibit this kind of misuse of surrogacy.

On the other hand, I don’t trust that the WSJ didn’t develop this story with top-down ulterior motives - namely to shift public (and possibly actual Justices’) attitude in favor of Trump’s executive order ending birthright citizenship ahead of the Supreme Court case.

Subsidies are coarse and indirect, and unfortunately unless you build in explicit price controls (and would either party even consider that?) the market will not stop charging prices that now people have demonstrated they will pay.

At best they will slightly lower prices but nowhere near as reliable as tariffs raised them, and also inefficiently divide that benefit of the subsidy with the business that will skim extra profit now at the expense of taxpayers. I.e., a citizen still paying more for less.

And even if the tariffs were revoked today, prices are effectively permanently higher. There is no mechanism to lower prices in the way tariffs have raised them.

JD: Why won’t they stop doing it? I specifically demanded it.

Two observations:

1. He always denies more strongly when criticisms are true. This seems to be reflexive, probably stemming from his Roy Cohn, escalate-everything training. So I take this as evidence he has serious health issues.

2. Whenever he uses words outside his normal vocabulary, it’s because someone has used them to him recently. Since reporting has confirmed Bondi is preparing a report on “anti-American” terrorism (presumably at Trump’s direction, even if he remembered to send that message privately this time) that Ken Klippenstein has evidence will just be criminalizing opposition, we may actually be approaching the phase of fascism where people are arrested and charged with treason for criticizing Trump.