Krutonium

White box OEM, they make like 80% of the laptops you can buy.

Honestly that would be a decent way to become internet famous for a bit lol.

Private Equity vs Private Ownership

The first is a vampire looking to take what was publicly or even privately owned, extract every last dollar and leave the shell with the debt of buying the next victim.

Private Ownership is Valve or Porkbun - The people running the business want to make a profit but not to their own or their customers determent.

In my experience Linux can yeah.

I mean in this specific case, it did, at your behest even. These contracts would probably be even easier to enforce than Claude-signed ones!

Wouldn't you?

"I learned it from you, Dad!" but as hundreds of millions of stolen books.

Honestly I'd be okay with it if Google and Apple decided that the current administrations actions are not legitimate, as long as they can properly justify it.

Which honestly wouldn't be that hard.

I'm pretty sure they DID mention that they can remotely flip settings. So that's a thing for sure.

On the other hand if you re-arranged the room, it'd be neat to walk in to everything deploying!

On the contrary, rules and regulations are written in blood, and airplanes are manufactured stronger in different ways because pilots took risks. The Wings don't shear off when the pilot yanks the yoke left and up because someone did before, and the Wings either fell off or didn't - but until it happened, the wings were an unknown quantity. And that's just one example.

That's basically the job description of a Test Pilot.

For anyone not aware just how much: A quarter of it. A quarter of all US debt happened under Trump.

PE's end goal is never the health of the business.

Being bought by PE is a death sentence. Maybe drawn out by years, but a death sentence none the less.

ICE will release body cam video when required by the courts, and FOIA requests.

Just saying, you could FOIA so much video in about 2 months...

Right? People typically do work for money. That's capitalism.

If I could pay bills with happyness and contributions to society through working for a cause, I would, but that's not reality.

Also businesses seem to think we should be Undyingly Loyal to them without any reciprocity. It's wild.

I was gung ho to play Quake Champions, then the monetized the shit out of it and I fucked off.

UT4 was a tech demo.

Yea there's literally software that lets you put art into your commit history blog graph on github by making a repo with potentially tens of thousands of dummy commits.

Yeah that is very weird. Personally I even have some LED lights that are going on 15 years old, spent a bit more than I'd like on them at the time, but they were on sale!

I do want to note that my website has Anubis, and does not require Javascript. You can configure Anubis to test in other ways, JS is just the default.

The rest of the blog is fascinating as well, if you've ever been curious about VCR's, VHS, and specifically the maintenance of them. Oh and deriving correct calibration without known good values!

Huh, this would be a fantastic option for my Kobo Touch. It freely flashes whatever firmware you give it, and it'll boot from an SD Card besides.

Surely it should be the StackArr?

All I'm sayin' is that Searx exists and can provide JSON.

It's a not-opioid that just plays with the opiate receptors in your brain and can be purchased in a concentrated form at your nearest gas station in a lot of US States.

Good, Kratom (as sold in products like Feel Free) is fucking awful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLObpcBR2yw

serverHold is set by the owner of the TLD, not the registrar.

I still like it. People are having fun playing with their toy and tool. I have no problem with that.

This would amount to auditing the vast majority of open source code found on the Internet. Not even OpenAI or Anthropic seem quite interested in doing that.

Somewhat unrelated, Tom also did a great video where he was put in a low oxygen environment. Similarish effects, differentish cause.

And may it be used to prosecute them for the current bullshit they're doing with Android.

Can the EU force Google to divest Chrome and Android? They should.