Did you know that BG3 players exploit children? Are you aware that Qi2 slows older Pixels? If we wrote those misleading headlines, readers would rip us a new one

No, they wouldn’t. Those are the types of clickbait garbage headlines you use already.

Elfen Lied? I swear the only thing I remember about that anime was the controversy about its gore and themes.

Journalists should be funded by the public, as they perform a public service, while simultaneously they should not be required to report favorably upon the state.

And that’s the crux of the issue, isn’t it? You can’t let corpos piss all over journalism to turn it yellow, and you can’t let a state-run press dictate the citizen’s world view.

Information wants to be free, and that’s realistically the only way it can work.

Name the cases.

Posts article on social media. How ironic!

Or torrents. If piracy’s on the rise (again) as a replacement for streaming, you can sure as hell bet that it was already replacing sites like PornHub way before that.

Funny how that plays out, considering the data collection of LLMs have to dance around the copyright issue.

Not that I agree with many of people that say looking at a picture and adjusting weights is considered “stealing an image”.

Well, you’ll have to ask the person making that claim to begin with.

That implies I want to argue with somebody who is sealioning.

Linux Mint works great, but I’ve heard good things about Bazzite, too.

I agree. This time, it’s actually different. Big name streamers and YouTubers are showing their support. Not just people in the tech industry, but random channels like EmKay and PewDiePie.

Linux is better than ever. Steam is a breeze. Wine support has never been better.

Meanwhile, Windows has more nasty surprises, underhanded backstabs, and security nightmares than ever before.

Reserve your hate for Photoshop, the monthly subscription that is so overpriced they force $300-400 cancellation fees to keep them addicted. They are the only product in this space that deserves hate.

Why the fuck are you not using Jellyfin?

Seriously, the setup is really easy and it just fucking works.

They have to. It’s a requirement, or everybody would quit in protest.

Public tracker: You are the hero, getting a 30:1 upload ratio in a mere 30 days. “Wow, this shit is easy!”

Private tracker: “Please… can this torrent even reach 10% upload? It’s been an ENTIRE YEAR! I have 500 torrents in the same state!”

Perhaps not the most related, but it is sort of funny for The Intercept to cover this when they led to Reality Winner going to jail because they didn’t follow basic journalistic protection of sources.

It’s absolutely related. I will never trust that name again because of what they did to Reality Winner. And Snowden. And many others. They have a shit track record, and should get out of the business of security reporting.

My question for the last 9+ months has been, “how long can a market willingly ignore reality?”

How long did we kick the foundations out of the US dollar when we got rid of the gold standard, and just let it float on speculation and feelings? What, 60-70 years now?

How long has the stock market existed on the whims of people’s feelings over cold hard statistics and long-term analysis?

Markets have been ignoring reality for many decades.

So, use and support open-source AI models.

Supreme Court: What’s precedent again?

all artists will benefit because of the precedent that it would set.

No, these protections exist to maintain profits of large corporations. Copyright, patents, and intellectual rights were created under the false pretense that it “protects the little person”, but these are lies told by the rich and powerful to keep themselves rich and powerful. Time and time again, we have seen how broken the patent system is, how it is impossible to not step on musical copyright, how Disney has extended copyrights to forever, and how the megacorporations have way more money than everybody else to defend those copyrights and patents. These people are not your friend, and their legal protections are not for you.

It’s not really “your house connected to the Internet” as much as just connecting it together to a central hub. My lights dim and turn off at set times of the day using scenes, including a more dynamic sunrise/sunset time. If it’s stormy weather during the day, the front porch light comes on. I have a few colored lights that change colors with the seasons. Home Assistant brings down the garage door at night, if I forget. If the garage sensor is tripped, the garage light comes on. I have dumber motion sensors for locations where it makes sense, like pantries or closets.

I can control all of my interfaces from my phone. It can hook into local cameras, so that everything is centralized. HA can hook into any of the voice assistant systems, like Alexa. There are so many little conditions and automated switches I could create, based on either outside stimuli (like the weather) or internal sensors.