Like all “streaming” services it’s just a big fuck you to artists/developers and just money in the pocket of executives.

Spotify isn’t the only one that underpays the artists in their catalog.

Enshittification incoming, GamePass enjoyers.

Staying alive, apparently.

Bristol Myers Squibb also makes my cancer drug, Sprycel, which has a similar price tag at just over $18k a month without insurance.

They also make my mother’s heart medication Eliquis, which is similarly costly as well.

I did the math when this happened, they were absolutely banking on losing customers, but they misplayed their hand. They figured they would still be making money with the price increases even if they lost nearly third of their US gaming audience. By my back of the napkin numbers, as long as they lost less than 30%, they would be making more profit.

They must have lost more than they planned if they pulled a reversal or the price increase was a trial balloon to gauge response and whether people would come back for reduced prices.

These companies are of course happy to treat their customers like one big psychological experiment.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grupo_Industrial_Ramirez

Mexico has been making automobiles since the 1960’s and used to having a booming auto manufacturing sector of their economy, including many foreign automakers having factories there. Ford was building EVs there 10 years ago.

This EV is a very cool development, but Mexico and South America in general already has a history with converting older vehicles to EV standards since most of the country has older vehicles. I am having trouble finding the article from a few years ago, but there was a whole cottage industry dedicated to converting classic cars to EVs down there.

Finally, we’ve been exporting labor to Mexico for decades to reduce labor costs, most of it in manufacturing. To act like they don’t have such industries already flies in the face of the history of American and Mexican industry, and how they’re intertwined.

Don’t use corporate services.

The vast majority of the ethernet, cable, and fiber that connects people is owned by a corporation.

I hate this argument because it misses the bigger point that the infrastructure of the internet is not publicly owned but is privately owned by corporations.

Build community LANs that aren’t connected to the internet. Use sneakernets to share information via USB. Use encrypted LoRa for messaging among community members.

It’s not supposed to be an image, it’s supposed to be a link? Weird. But I also like that it shows failed to load, that works too! I am so used to putting image links I accidentally made it an image link first before I made it a normal link, maybe the edit hasn’t propagated to your instance yet.

My muscles:

I wish there was a possible way to run an authoritative DNS yourself. The best I can do is a recursive server blah.

It’s not even that Bitcoin is a honeypot, it’s that it isn’t actually private at all, and through good ol detective work a wallet can be connected to a person, as well as their inflows and outflows and what wallets they’re sending or receiving money from.

I am basically a script kiddie and Anthropic Claude helped me design a small app for myself that was way beyond my own capabilities and it even went as far as documenting in comments what each bit of the program did for me, to help me understand the logic.

I only have access because I got a free year of Perplexity.ai because I had a paypal account (barf, had to have it to get paid for gig work).

I see it as very useful for anything technical, it helped me through some troubleshooting a hardware issue with my monitor I was having trouble pinning down by browsing forums.

I would never purposely divulge personal info to an LLM, anything that’s shared has had personal info stripped.

I know your example is the opposite, but any service that is run and hosted in the US.

It’s one of the major issues with Signal.

I died laughing at this trailer.

“No one believed me when I said the newest Belmont would be a giiiiiiiiiirrrrrl.”

Was this written by a twelve year old? I’m fucking dying. This is clearly an adult woman. To have that as an actual line in the game, let alone the trailer itself. It even trails on the word girl like they’re going to follow up with “ewww cooties!” I’m fucking dead.

EDIT: Especially because most Castlevania fans are in their fucking forties and fifties (I’m glaring at you Adi Shankar)! Oh yeah let’s call this adult woman a girl because this game is totally aimed at *checks notes… the 40+ demographic.

Mostly pretty good, but I can’t find anything in the settings that clearly mimics those scanlines from interlaced video

Actually, the Aristocrats.

This question is basically tailor made for the UK.

Rude. But not inaccurate.

Can an atheist get the same exception by saying we don’t believe in Roko’s Basilisk so we won’t help bring it into being?