Also if you don’t have port forwarding you can only connect to those who have. With port forwarding you can connect to every peer, so you get better download rates.

Yeah, the issue here in France is that you absolutely can’t trust people to do the right thing. A lot of them would skirt the rules and not wash properly.

Yeah, I’m not sure how this is implemented but wouldn’t it be trivial to write a patch or even an external script to periodically update the field to some random value?

I know there are, but there are no limits.

The fuck does that mean

All telegram messages are sent unencrypted by default. It’s possible to encrypt 1-on-1 chats by going through a convoluted process, but group messages can’t be encrypted.

If you care about privacy at all, don’t use telegram.

Shipping used to be the hard part. Eating caviar in Russia in a place with sturgeons nearby was easy enough, serving it at a fancy diner in Berlin or Paris involved insane logistics for the time.

Yup, billionaire who donated to Trump campaign.

Honestly long overdue, RAM manufacturers showed their hand as a cartel last year

Wasn’t it the other way around? IIRC they both got played by OpenAI because they didn’t know there was another deal going down at the same time.

(Not saying they didn’t massively profit from the situation in the end)

Not exactly, at the time he was able to hide his disdain a bit better.

At some point the price becomes the selling point. Cognac became hugely popular among US rappers and basketball players because they would go to a nightclub and order the most expensive bottle to show off.

It was actually worse until they open sourced their drivers.

Honestly it’s the same here in France, and I suspect everywhere… Most people only give a shit about criminal/immoral behavior from the elite if it confirms their political bias. If it’s their guy they’ll wring their hands for a couple of seconds and go “oh well, what can you do? They’re all the same anyways”, or even outright defend them.

Valve also needed to break its dependency on Windows, in case MS decides to go down the walled garden route like Apple. MS making the windows store the only supported way to install apps and games would be devastating for Valve.

Not exactly AAA, but…

Vapes don’t produce smoke but vapor, i.e. nothing “burns”. And inhaling smoke is by far the most harmful aspect of using cigarettes.

Not saying nicotine or vaping is harmless, but I’d be very surprised if vaping turns out to be as dangerous as smoking.

Maybe at first, yeah. But in 50 years, when almost nobody under 60 smokes and it’s prohibited everywhere, who would go out of their way to start this particular habit?

As a lifelong smoker, one of the hardest hurdle to quitting is going out, having a couple of drinks, then seeing other people smoke and resisting the urge to go buy an easily available pack.

They tried, the offer was rejected, so they came up with this alternative. Wikipedia has all the info if you want to know more.

Good question. From what I gather from infowar’s wikipedia article I guess it will be paid to infowar’s parent company which owns the IP. Before The Onion showed interest in acquiring infowars, the company was supposed to be liquidated with most of the proceeds going to the Sandy Hook families.

The New York times article actually says $81,000:

On Monday, Mr. Milligan asked Maya Guerra Gamble, a judge in Texas’ Travis County District Court overseeing the disposition of Infowars, to approve that licensing agreement in a court filing. Under the terms, The Onion’s parent company, Global Tetrahedron, would pay $81,000 a month to license Infowars.com and its associated intellectual property — such as its name — for an initial six months, with an option to renew for another six months.

There’s the child-raping, and then there’s the whole barreling towards a cyberpunk hellhole that Trump and the heritage foundation are engineering. This doesn’t seem like a difficult choice to make, I honestly can’t understand these people.