There are a handful of easily searchable lawsuits against flock cameras. I only say it that way because linking those is a pain on mobile and there’s enough examples that it’s easily searchable. Not trying to be defensive or deflecting.

I’ll concede that “the only option” was not good phrasing. However I still believe that it’s inline with going through proper channels. Even if the law comes through and bans flock, throughout that entire process, they are still recording. My belief is that this is a positive action and this person that risk his freedom is something of a hero.

I see your point of view and understand what you mean, but I just don’t agree with it. Sometimes anarchy is the answer, although I agree that it would be best done en masse rather than individually.

Hard disagree on the bags thing. Again, proper channel have been followed by other parties multiple times to no avail. The government is profiting off of flock cameras, so they will not change. That leaves one option, and that’s destruction. Putting a bag over allows someone to just remove the bag. If enough cameras are smashed and have to be replaced infinitely, then maybe they’ll get the hint or the cost will exceed the value. It has to be effort and cost for them to fix or replace them, otherwise it’s a minor inconvenience.

Destruction is the only viable path to freedom. Trying to get it done legally in a flawed system who’s bias is pro flock cameras is not an option as has been proven.

Sure it can give them ammo, but the alternative is not giving them an excuse to which they’ll continue unabated. At least this way they have to work for it.

If you think that flock cameras should exist, then we are just never going to be on the same page, because their monitoring and the ability to search a person’s location without warrant is illegal, and that’s what’s happening. It’s established that going through “the proper channels” is not an option. They will not remove them because have a corrupt government that is the enemy of the people. Given the above, what options are left? A bag over the camera is nothing, but the consequences are likely the same as if it were destroyed. That means if someone is willing to put themselves at risk, then the best option is destruction. If enough people got on board, there’s nothing the government could do. There’s way more of us than there are of them.

Sometimes legality and the right thing don’t align, and this is one of those times.

Except that burning down the black mailer’s house doesn’t stop the blackmailer. If the blackmailer were a computer, not a living creature, then it would be more like destroying the computer, but still a little different just due to the scale. Flock cameras violate everyone’s rights where a blackmailing computer, in theory, is affecting one person.

Further, the legal channels to silence a blackmailer have a history of success, probably because it’s not the government doing the blackmailing, so they aren’t trying to defend themselves. Compared to flock cameras where the government has a vested interest in keeping the running, so they will block and ignore legal challenges against them.

This is cornering people leaving the only option as destruction as other methods have failed. It’s acceptable to go outside the bounds of the law to correct injustice, especially on a scale as big as this. I believe that to be true about anything, not just this. Luigi is an example. He allegedly took action because the system failed. He solved one problem and temporarily created positive change at his own expense. Had he been able to burn down the company and destroy their process instead of allegedly killing a man, that would be better, but that wasn’t an option, so he allegedly did what he thought was necessary, and there’s a reason he’s got such significant support.

The government is the enemy of the people. They are installing devices that violate the rights of citizens. All legal action against them for flock cameras has resulted in no change, regardless of whether or not this person tried to go through those same channels. That leaves the people to defend our rights by whatever means are necessary to do so, including but not limited to disabling those cameras permanently.

If I see a person kidnapping a child, I can use force to stop them. I could call the cops and hope they arrive and stop the crime from happening, but for the safety of the kidnappee and the general public, doing it myself may result in the best outcome at the risk of my own safety. Disabling flock cameras is like stopping a kidnapper.

Business data doesn’t require the mega datacenters that are all compute for AI. Those types of datacenters won’t have the same issues with infrastructure for power and closed loop systems. If they do, they’ll figure it out because they have the money to do so. Someone will build them. DCs that have storage and racks for cloud compute are in a different category.

I agree and mentioned that talking heads will spin regulations in a way that convinces their idiotic base that there’s an issue. It’s not the regulations that are the problem, it’s the media. But the thing is, If it’s not regulations, it will be something else. It will be just as nonsensical, but something will fill that gap. Might as well do something good if the propaganda is gonna flow anyway.

Per itar regulations, government data already has to live in the US. They will never change that law in order to store it in another country’s DC.

And putting barriers on multi bullion dollar businesses is not the same as putting it on citizens. People aren’t going to vote a Republican because of regulations on a DC that makes the neighborhood quieter and cleaner, stops excessive water consumption for cooling, and forces them to build their own power infrastructure. They will vote Republican for a million other dumb AF reasons, including a conservative taking head telling them regulations are bad for DCs, but they won’t do it because of those reasons. They won’t even know what those reasons are

Coal is a miniscule and shrinking source of power in the US regardless of how hard Republicans try to bring it back. We may end up poor, but it won’t end in coal being a dominating force again, especially given the oil we can harvest and use for natural gas.

When I say shit the bed, I don’t mean from a business perspective, I mean I think he’s a toolshed for the crypto stuff, so in my eyes he shit the bed.

I think crypto is a cancer, so anyone that’s creating coins and actively pushing the tech is a douchebag. Even if they abandoned the idea, that doesn’t do anything for me. I’m assuming they dropped it because it wasn’t benefiting them enough to keep at it, not for some altruistic reason. Trust is hard to earn back. Wasn’t also NFTs not just crypto? NFTs are the dumbest tech ever invented, so anyone that was apart of that, on either side of burning or selling, is a dumbass and makes bad choices.

On top of all of that, the worst part of all of it, is he’s a Trump thumper and endorsed him. Anyone in that boat is bottom shelf trash, regardless of their business practices, and I will do everything in my power to not only not support them, but to lambast them at any opportunity. Shaming pedophile supporters should be an American past time, and I’m here for it.

I’m primarily c# and typescript. At work I have Visual Studio and VS code. At home I use jetbrains Rider and Webstorm. I personally prefer jetbrains, but I can’t give a reason. It just feels better to me.

When I did try to learn a little C, I used neovim for everything. Partly because I wanted to force myself to learn vim commands, and also because I wanted to just try coding in my terminal.

I lost all respect for Cohen when he went crypto. The meme stocks were a wild ride for a while, and he sounded like a good CEO when they brought him in, then he shit the bed. Good riddance.

100% of my lemmy takes place from my phone. I make typos all of the time, but unless I just grammatically fucked up, my message is understandable. Sometimes I’ll correct things, but usually I don’t bother reading back through to check. If my message is interpretable, that’s really all that matters.

Completely fair. Some fights aren’t worth fighting, especially since there’s no guarantee they’ll recoup the losses. I buy a few games a year on Steam, almost never at full price. It would take me a very long time to cover any subsidized machine, and I’m surely not the only one.

Honestly, a steam machine was on my radar because for about 10 years now, me and some friends have traveled to Dreamhack Dallas, and packing 5 men and our computer equipment in a big van and driving 13+ hours isn’t ideal. Something a bit smaller would be amazing. The price is a bit too rich for me since I do still have a functional computer.

My first thought was scalpers. But other than that, I agree with you. I think it would be good to limit sales to 1 or 2 units to prevent that and to give people that want to pay games a chance to buy one, then the people that want to cluster them or whatever can get their fix later. If someone wants to buy just one and modify it to do damn near anything, more power to them.

What you read may well be correct, but I wonder how that legal battle would play out. There are other PC manufacturers that can definitely build a competing product. Also, what sets this apart from being another console? It’s a custom built machine designed to play games, specifically from Steam. I’m not sure how that’s different from an Xbox that has access to GamePass being the only console that can do that. If Steam sold this as the Steam Machine Console, would that change things?

Yes. Stop using AI.

If there is a demand for ram, which there is in the consumer market, then it shouldn’t be a risk. If DCs get cancelled, then they should have contracts in place for at least a minimum buy, which should offset cost risk. If they don’t have that, then that’s just shitty business. Even still, they can just as easily slow down production if needed. If the bubble pops, either they’ll have inventory that the world will buy and they can throttle back prod, or they don’t have inventory and they will have to throttle prod anyway since demand for DCs as a whole has to be more than just the consumer market.

Idk, it’s probably just the cynic in me, but I think it’s likely this is just manipulation of the prices, especially given the history of these companies doing just that.

All of that sounds like it makes sense. I’m wondering how do you say buy a fortnite skin for a specific shaped character, then use it in a game where the character model is wildly different. I know very little about game game dev and even less so about how character art is made and turned into a 3d model. It just seems like the skins would have to be individually created for each game. That may not be too bad at first, but the bigger the game catalog, the more maintenance.

I’m very much not the demo for this kind of thing, but the tech behind it sounds interesting. I’m just waiting for them to say they’re doing it with AI to take my distaste for Epic and multiplying it tenfold.

It’s probably my lack of understanding of UR, but how do you have the same skin in multiple games for different character or items models? Are they going to update every game when there is a new skin released or is this somehow done dynamically?

LLMs are not intelligent. They never will be because they can’t be. The technology is all about drawing correlation between words, but they don’t know what the words means or even what words are. “Intelligence” is a misnomer. Yes LLMs will get better at what they do, but they will never be intelligent.

I live in a city where most of the bike lanes are just a dedicated shoulder. When I’m driving on these roads, 100% of the time if I’m following someone, they will drift into the bike lane. I also ride my bike in that lane, so I’m extra alert to it. Not so much a parking issue, but lazy and distracted drivers are a plenty.