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  • That of ServiceNow, whose tools help businesses automate various tasks, dropped by 13%

    If AI can kill ServiceNow, I'll happily praise our new AI Overlords. I'm sure ServiceNow can be really good. I've just never seen it in practice. Perhaps we just never paid for the "interface which doesn't suck" module.

  • Yup, I'd never consider Greene an ally. But, the enemy of my enemy is a useful tool against my enemy. The more conservative voices calling out Trump's corruption and self-serving, the better. The MAGA base is never going to listen to anyone who is politically to the left of Atilla the Hun, but someone like Greene may be able to peel a few of them off into the "disaffected, non-voters" camp.

  • When did Right Click -> Set as Wallpaper -> Desktop involve writing code?Yes, older versions of Linux may have had that setting buried in a config file somewhere, which required editing in a text editor. And that sort of UI was shit, is shit and will always be shit. But, if we're going to bring up old versions of an OS, let's talk about Windows Me.

  • What a shite take from the man who has no sense of real-world costs.

    He also has no understanding of inflation. Lowing interest rates with rising inflation will, almost certainly, drive up home prices. As there will be more dollars chasing a limited supply. The problem is that this sort thing has a bad habit of going poorly. Investors have just gotten addicted to cheap credit. The US Fed is supposed to be the adult in the room, but The Pedo in Chief is doing his best to undermine that safeguard.

  • A-fucking-men.I'm in a similar boat house. We bought in 2011, used a USDA loan and were able to pick our place up for a song ($160k). It now has a "value" of ~$360k. And all that extra "value" is doing for me is increasing taxes and insurance costs. I'm not planning on selling any time soon, so my home "price" going up is a net negative. Sure, we might sell in a decade or so, but today's price won't have a major impact on that.

    What I’m getting at is, this doesn’t benefit homeowners, it benefits housing investors, who are the group Trump really wants to prop up.

    What? You're telling me the pedophile, racist, Nazi sympathizer, billionare son of a racist, Nazi sympathizer who made the family's billions by wartime real estate profiteering is more interested in protecting real estate profiteering than helping people? Color me shocked, absolutely shocked, I say. Well, not that shocked.

  • I ditched cable TV over a decade ago for a simple antenna (and wrote a notable Reddit post on the antenna while I was at it). That was done because I was tired of my wallet being raped each month, because I had to buy a higher bundle to get the channels I wanted. I was stuck with cable internet for a number of years afterwards, as it was the only option in my area. Then T-Mobile offered up 5G based internet in my area at a low price. That was around 6 years ago and I haven't looked back.

    The cable companies sat on their laurels while the world moved on. They are now shocked that their terrible offerings for terrible prices are falling to real competition. Sure, I fully expect the new carriers to do everything in their power to enshitify their service offerings. That's the nature of business/ But, with the market open to competition, there is now a real opportunity for us customers to shop around and get a less shitty experience. Broadband internet is a commodity and is completely fungible. Prices should be falling and it was only rent seeking rules keeping the prices up.

  • I'd just be happy to see "evil" choices which weren't cartoonishly silly. So many of these game end up offering you choices like:

    • Kiss the baby, donate all your money to an orphanage.
    • Kill the baby, cook and eat it. in front of the mother.

    There's never anything like:

    • Kiss the baby, take over the orphanage, run an outward front which looks like a fantastic charitable organization while training the orphans to commit crimes for you.

    Really well done "evil" should be loved by the people, seem outwardly good while using that as cover to do selfish things. But that is much harder than "Press X to murder an innocent for no reason".

  • They are chopping the development teams and titles up into convenient bite-sized chunks. Ubisoft will hang onto the large titles in the Vantage Studios vertical, and the rest will be spun off or sold off. Any spun off studios will be saddled with crippling debt.

  • Eating their own dog food slop.

  • It tends to be much more focused on bringing products to market, but of course they do. The transistor, the base unit of all of the microchips which make this conversation possible, came out of Bell Labs. And, as much as we might hate them for it, you have companies like Monsanto doing a lot of work on chemical engineering and genetics. Much of the work on AI (for good or slop) is being done in private sector labs now. Aeronautics research happens heavily in companies like Boeing and Airbus, though they are often working hand in hand with government labs (e.g. NASA, JPL, EASA).

    Where Universities and Government really shine are areas like basic research and research which doesn't have obvious commercial applications. Which is why support for those organizations is so critical. Those areas of research often have long term effects and can result in entirely new areas of knowledge, research and products.

    It's easy to think of large corporations as soulless organizations hell bent of accumulating wealth at the cost of anything else, because they are. But they are also surprisingly good at focusing wealth and effort to find new ways to do things cheaper, faster and more efficiently. Specifically because those things make money. Veritasium had a video on a good example of this recently.

  • So, the layoffs didn't cause the change to smaller expansions. The change to smaller expansions made the layoffs easier.

  • Vice News did a bit on 3d printed firearms a while back. It was really interesting and gave a realistic demonstration of the ease and difficulties of 3d printed firearms.

  • Right, but have you considered that no one actually cares about Greece?

  • This is it exactly. I made a hard cut with Reddit, but I'll admit to missing the sysadmin subreddit. The place was full of very smart, helpful people and also cranky. The PowerShell subreddit was another great resource. I haven't been willing to go back, but those sorts of communities only exist when you hit a certain mass of people on a platform.

  • That would probably be the FGC-9. Or Luty's Expedient Homemade Firearms. That said, getting into a gunfight with armed federal agents seems like a quick way to commit suicide.

  • I'm curious about helium leakage from the envelope and how that will be managed. I can understand why they chose helium to lift it, but it is notoriously hard to contain. If this scales up, they are going to need a constant source to replenish losses.

  • Steam is certainly in a dominant market position. They had a large first mover advantage and have also done a lot of work to make and keep gamers happy with the platform. That said, I can understand companies being upset at the 30% Steam tax on sales. It's a pretty large cut and other stores (e.g. Epic) have tried to compete based on that cost. The problem being that many games have massive Steam libraries and want to keep everything on one place and they aren't really affected by the cost to the devs; so, without a significant reason to change, they won't. It also doesn't help that some competitors (e.g Epic) have been user hostile in the past and so don't have a high level of trust. Steam has also built a lot of goodwill with power users for their work on Proton.

    While I do think there needs to be healthy competition for storefronts, as long as Steam resists the temptation to enshitify their dominant market position, I don't see them losing market share in any meaningful way. Perhaps it would be better if Steam were spun off from Valve, putting them Valve on equal footing with other devs. But, video games aren't really fungible. It's not like I'm going to say, "oh darn, Kingdom Come is too expensive, I guess I'll buy Half Life instead". They are just fundamentally different games and if I want to play the first one, I'm not able to get that by buying the second. So, the price of one of them isn't really a factor in pushing me towards the other. Though, Valve might use Steam to push one game over the other, and that could be something that is a problem.

  • hmm

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  • At a previous job, we had to deal with scientific equipment (oscilloscopes, at the like) running on Windows XP (in the lat 2010's). On the positive side, we were able to kick them off the network entirely. On the downside, nearly every single one of them was infected with Conficker and we'd get alerts when the operators used USB drives to move data between the equipment and the production network. By the time I left, we'd gotten a few of the devices reloaded with a factory image and then turned off autorun, but I'm sure the problem is still widespread. And, of course, upgrading beyond Windows XP wasn't possible and applying OS hardening to the devices was a pipe dream. There should be a special place in Hell for the management of companies which create these sorts of devices. They are happy to charge vast amounts of money, but do fuck all to ensure the security of them.

  • I'm in, though I'm curious what "turns you into a reptile" means. Does it just mean I become cold blooded. I'm fine with that, it just means I'm moving somewhere tropical. Do I grow scales and a tail? Certainly not ideal, but I could probably live with it, especially if the tail is prehensile and if I get claws in the mix. Do I get a really long, controllable tongue? Can't think of any uses for that. Nope, none at all...

    Attraction, sex and reproduction would be interesting questions as well. Do I still find human women attractive, or is my brain rewired to want a lusty argonian maid? What does my new plumbing look like? Are there others of my new species around for me to do the monster mash with?

    But overall, yes I'd probably go for it. I don't delude myself into thinking that I will somehow continue to exist after death; so, not dying seems like the better alternative. Sure, if the downsides are really bad, I can accept that death is a better outcome (e.g. you live forever, but have locked-in syndrome forever). But, living as a lizard person doesn't seem too horrible.

  • Mildly Interesting @lemmy.world

    Arrows vs. Armor 3

  • Self-hosting @slrpnk.net

    Self-hosted blog options.

  • Lemmy.world Support @lemmy.world

    Request to take over c/virginia

  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    Infill percentage versus stiffness

  • News @lemmy.world

    Winchester man reveals name of soldier who created massive peace sign in Vietnam at height of war

    www.winchesterstar.com /winchester_star/peace-out-winchester-man-reveals-name-of-soldier-who-created-massive-peace-sign-in-vietnam/article_fcfa789d-cf73-569a-9920-1df2eb32bead.html
  • 3DPrinting @lemmy.world

    Horribly inefficient party favors