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Now I’m actually curious about how things would work in your perfect world.

The current gaming industry in the late stages, so it might be more productive to discuss the mid 2000s.

The vast majority of platform exclusives were made by studios/publishers owned by the platform. Exclusives were in turn a very big part of the value proposition of consoles, causing people to buy them in the first place.

If that had been outlawed by then, who would have produced the iconic games of each platform?

I bought it specifically because its soundtrack was absolutely amazing (not knowing anything about the game itself).

Unfortunately, it did not play as well as it sounded 😿

Left Australia a decade ago, so I’m curious what the price of vapes/e-cigarettes are.

I assumed all the smokers would move on to them because that’s what tobacco companies are pushing these days.

They pay like $700k/year. At that rate I could probably retire in 5-10 years and spend the rest of my life working on open source projects that actually improve the world full time!

Ended up declining the interview, but I considered it very seriously. So I can understand why other people might accept.

Microsoft’s focus is entirely on business customers. Xbox doesn’t align at all with any of their other business strategies.

I’m sure they’d love to sell it off, but it’s like one of the biggest (if not the actual biggest) publishers in the world so I don’t think there’s any company that can afford to buy it.

They could split it up and sell it off in pieces, but they’re not sure if Wall Street will reward them for it. So the best bet for them is to keep it as a buffer for layoffs whenever they need to raise their stock price.

The bullshit part it that our current economic system makes this the most logical path.

tl;dr: Instead of blaming Microsoft for doing layoffs, maybe we should be asking ourselves why we let 3 trillion dollar companies exist in the first place

what we actually have a shortage of is the underlying memory chip fabs. That is, the machines that can take the silicon and stamp them into DRAM/HBM/whatever else you need.

So, once the bubble pops and enough of those free up to (potentially) resume manufacturing DRAM sticks at the rate they were back in 2025, we’ll get regular inventory again, but there won’t be a surplus.

You can’t pluck out the silicon from an already built chip and shove it in another, unfortunately 😅, and I don’t think anyone will be able to build an adapter that lets you plug HBM into DRAM slots because they’re architecturally just different enough for that to be infeasible.

So that will leave all those AI machines as scrap the hyperscalers have to deal with, but won’t help the rest of us.

Try salmon/cod roe. It’s available in most Asian grocery stores and it’s quite similar.

Closest we’ve got is companies not actively union busting

Eh, it’s less about defeatism and more that I’m watching a fight between two assholes so I’m finding it hard to empathize with either side.

Like… Publishers regularly screwed over consumers, content creators, and tried to break the web multiple times. They can bleed for all I care

Unfortunately, we’re not going to get an over supply of DRAM once the bubble pops.

Most of the current production is HBM, which is juuust architecturally different enough from DRAM to not be useful for desktop computers

Here’s a pretty important one:

https://keepandroidopen.org/

I hate to break it to you, but we’re never getting rid of AI.

Like how we will forever have trace amounts of cesium and PFAS/microplastics in our blood, AI generated content is going to be around in most things.

The question is will you also use it for good, or just leave it for the bad actors only?

Eh, not being able to explain it elegantly on the spot in front of people understandable.

But if can’t come up with a simple explanation even when you’re by yourself with all the time in the world, then yeah you probably don’t understand it well enough.

It’s for people that say “it’s a complex topic. You wouldn’t be able to understand it”. Bitch, the human brain is amazing. People can understand anything they want to. You’re just too lazy to help them.

Nah, make a stop at the steam refund button on your way there

By default pull requests my new contributors require approval from someone with write-access to the repo before running actions.

These repos have specifically decided to change a setting to make them not require approval for anyone. The UI to change that setting explicitly warns you about exactly this attack, so this “article” feels like a non-item trying to farm engagement.

The core of the problem trickles down to weak CI/CD configurations that grant pull requests (PRs) more permissions than they should have.

How exactly do their competitors like codeberg do better in preventing that?

That’s a funny way to spell "our 401k"s.

Obligatory “Fuck Tim Sweeney!”