A very important milestone Ukraine will need to reach is reversing the regressive, minority-oppressing laws they brought in prior to Zelenskyy’s rise to presidency. And I’m not just talking about the Russian minority population whose treatment Putin used as an excuse to start his illegal war, but the various other minorities mistreated around the borders.

With that said I do hope they manage to get some reforms through and end this war. Ukraine would be a welcome addition to the EU.

“Yes our IP was responsible for torrenting 229TB of your 4K HDR porn, but it was actually this employee, Josh, who was behind it”

DON’T GASLIGHT ME, JESUS

You’re no fun

I’ve spent a solid 4 years at Discovery/WBD, working on their video playback engine for all things Android. This includes all of Android TV.

I am still an Android engineer, but all my TV systems are Apple TV. This should tell you everything.

but if it didn’t… Google really made the TV experience of Android go to waste. Underpowered hardware, badly written software, all resulting in stuff like sluggishness, UI freezes, apps crashing, not to mention the frequently messed up hardware/software layer (took us 2 years to make Sony admit they messed up like 3 years worth of Bravia TVs…).

Interesting, I don’t feel disabled even though I am autiaricm… differently abled? sure. but not disabled.

And it’s not a culture or wishful thinking, but rather, established scientific fact that most people with autism present a heavily increased ability focused on more objective matters - mathematics, pattern recognition, reasoning, etc.

Now, I’m not claiming that there aren’t cases of autism that are so severe that they classify as a disability. but calling it unequivocally a disability when it’s a whole ass spectrum, so please, bugger off with the fake outrage in our name.

Windows Server exists.

It really shouldn’t, but it does.

Haha, fixed that. Sometimes autocorrect strikes.

If you’re adding somnophilia to a list of agreed to kinks then it’s most definitely consensual.

And if you do it without consent, it turns from kink to rape. Period.

Takes one to know one 😏 and thank you!

No, not rape. Rape requires a lack of consent. Somnophilia by definition is explicitly consenting to your partner having sex with you while you’re sleeping.

This can be as little as e.g. waking them up with oral (yes, indeed, oral without consent is still rape! As nice as it sounds to “surprise” them, make sure they’re okay with it first. Having had sex the previous night is NOT consent for any continued sexual activity once they fell asleep!), or going all the way to penetrative sex.

But the most important aspect is, again, communication. You can communicate consent to a future event, and until that event happens, you can withdraw said consent at any time. And most definitely don’t do it with a one night stand. This kind of consent requires a level of trust you build over time.

Add somnophilia to the list of freaky things and problem sorted!

Well it does stand for Node Packaged Malware soooo

That’s not “autistic traits”, that’s brain damage.

And equating autism to brain damage is incredibly disrespectful to those whom are autistic (myself included, hence why I even dared to joke about the topic - it’s more self deprecation than just a random joke).

would be the funniest shit if this just turned the kid’s autism up to 11.

“Well, we’re six months after the treatments, he’s still nonverbal but at least he can crack RSA-4096 encryption in fifteen seconds flat”

Good. Then reduce the price and remove the useless parts of it.

Interestingly, Apple made their One subscription pick&mix (you can choose to e.g. only have the iCloud expansion + Arcade in it, reducing the monthly cost), and it drove subscriber numbers up.

Microsoft could do the same. Offer the service at a fair price, allow users to choose what parts of a conjoined service stack they want, and you’ll have users.

Force them to go all-or-nothing (which was what the restructuring of Game Pass led to), and jack up the prices 3-4x, and watch them go away by the millions.

What are you on about?

For AI purposes the really useful part of a news site is the actual news - you know, the stuff that changes practically every minute - not the “structure” of the site.

These news sites aren’t being scraped for training data anymore but to provide near-realtime up to date information to the models.

Meaning e.g. Gemini can scan your news article, extract the useful information for the user, and deliver it to the user, without them ever going to your news site and providing the interaction that at the end of the day is converted to money - money your site needs to run.

Check the discussion you’re on right now.

IT IS ABOUT FUCKING LEGISLATION THAT FORCES BIG TECH TO DO SOMETHING FOR “PROTECTING CHILDREN”.

My solution is that since we’re already legally forcing big tech to do something, then why not do it the right way and force them to give tools to parents to enable them to protect their kids, instead of this fucking dystopian operating system level privacy erasure.

And your solution is still to not give a fuck about the laws that are being introduced, AND not give a fuck about parents besides telling them to “protect their kids”. You do see why your take is idiotic, right?

Compensation for work should be twofold:

• a fixed rate pay for the work actually being done (because no matter the success or failure, you put the work in)
• a percentage of the profits if the product is successful.

Investors should not be able to claim any more than, say, 50% over their initial investment. That’s already much, much better than any return rate you’d get on other investments, and it would actually benefit those who put in the work, and not the guy who had some spare change to gamble on something (that spare change being a life changing amount for any single person).

Now the film cost 750k to produce. Let’s say that marketing and such cost 9 million (it didn’t but let’s presume). That is 210 million pure profit.

750k for sets, props, costumes and salaries. Presuming around 500k went to salaries, that’s ~90 people making that ~7k each (obviously different roles make different amounts but let’s equalise here).

Now, if the investor took 10 million, that’s still a 1300+% return on the investment! And the remaining 200 million, would mean over $2mil payout per person for the entire crew.

Which, in my opinion, would be the fair split. Average people could never even become near that kind of ROI on any kind of gambling, and the investors here literally just put the money on the table. They didn’t do anything else.

That’s… my entire point. That we can’t just say “deport all violent criminal immigrants”, because as you can see, one can fall into that legal category without being part of the group you assumed. Context is important.