“Edge AI,” AKA running programs on your own damn hardware, instead of using a whole damn computer to act like a dumb terminal.

On a service that treats you as the product.

The Onion: “Heartbreaking.”

Something happened here.

(Centurii-Chan)

The spam.

It takes some dire context for me to read this headline and go - yeah, sure.

Wonder why.

I mean, assuming rape and murder rates are independent, you’re only fractionally more likely to be raped and murdered in Arkansas.

All this dunking pretends numbers have anything to do with fascists assaulting innocent protesters.

Extra fun on a laptop.

Listen honey, you’re going in a bag for three hours, immediately fucking now. You can either turn off nicely or get smothered by the power button.

what’s an Xbox even for anymore?

PC-ifying the console market, same as always. A task it has almost completed.

Sony exiting the console market would be failure. They’ve been using the PS1 playbook five times in a row - seven or eight if you count handhelds - and it’s worked, at most, thrice. Sony’s ideal market has games developed for a specific platform, and occasionally ported outside it, so each vibrant fiefdom has its own identity and culture. That made them a mountain of cash on PS1 and PS2 and then nearly killed the PS3.

Developers’ ideal market is making the game once and selling it to all customers. Platforms are an obstacle. Sony’s ideal was fucked as soon as RenderWare looked the same on any console or PC. Microsoft got the message and made the 360 a generic compiler target. Sony almost shipped the PS3 without a real GPU. It took them years to stop fucking around and offer libraries to make their tiny special supercomputer act like any other computer - and that got them better ports, and made them more money.

What followed was two and a half generations of lockstep releases for near-identical AMD laptops. You can buy the blue one or the green one. Yet I don’t think Sony really internalized what’s happened until the Helldivers situation. They suddenly demanded every PC player get in their console ecosystem, because they recognized how much money they could make being a generic publisher, and it scared the shit out of them.

Microsoft exiting the console market would be… what they’ve been planning for a decade, probably. Somewhere after the Xbox One, I mused that they could upset the console race by not releasing an Xbox Two, and just treat the upcoming PS5 as a slightly broken PC. They seem to be getting around to it. Albeit with a side of releasing a Steam Deck competitor, because they love showing up late to a trend.

“You absolute cowards,” wrote another player on X.

You tell 'em, guy who won’t leave the Nazi bar.

Fuck coy headlines that can’t name the thing they’re entirely about.

Apple switches to RISC-V in ten… nine… eight…

A redditor once said of the 1970s, “I cannot overstate how brown everything was.”

Damn, if only there was something you could do, like nothing.

Training is transformative use. Dreamworks has a legal right to limit the commercial use of Shrek - but they have never been able to stop you from drawing him, or writing about him, and keeping that shit to yourself. Copyright has absolutely fucking nothing on works that are never published.

So that ability in itself cannot be a problem for the robot that draws anything.

Commercial sports betting should be illegal.

Advertising as an industry can fuck off.

I have no strong opinion about Veo.

Not to be confused with the Venetian defense, where you drop a mortar on the knight’s head.

Burning down a sandcastle is some Spongebob shit.

Again, not even Atari itself went away entirely. A crash means line go down. It’s not a sudden and definite end.

This user struggles with absolutes.