Just randomly encrypting your application executables and forcing you to run the application inside a Windows VM on Azure - and paying for it, a.k.a Execution as a Service (or EaaS for short)…

I’m not even joking, that could happen.

You’ll have Euro Truck Simulator running in your brains.

…well of course they did, LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft.

Aaaaw, so cute ^_ This is what they’ll have running inside your brain when they put us all into capsules. You’ll have cables up your butt, but your capsule will also be a suppository that might be shoved up into the hive minds sphincter, which tightens and loosens depending upon optimal dopamine distribution, so that millions of others can also benefit from your heightened cortisol levels. Lucky you.

Nicely written - even though it reads “like a writer who is in love with their thesaurus”… he said, writing allegorical poetry in the abstract, like an a absolutely self indulgent toss pot.

No joke, I was writing one of those the other day and was reminded of a scene from - of all things - a whodunnit, where one of the protagonists is forced on a date to sit through an hours long epic poetry reading called “an epithon”. The other protagonist who doesn’t want him to go on this date says “serves you right”…

And as I’m writing this abstract imagery using symbolism and metaphors, my eyes roll into the back of my head, because suddenly I envision myself as the one reading that epic poetry, dressed in a turtleneck and blazer, sitting in an egg chair, reading from a tomb thicker than a slab of concrete.

Moma, I should have written show tunes. I don’t know what I was thinking. Now I write beautifully structured poetry that no one will ever read because they don’t know what a thesaurus is. Smh.

Well of course it is… you gotta render the service paid for lol let the Russian oligarchs get their money’s worth.

Gamers to game Devs: “oh sweetie, let me hold you…”

Gamers to game publishers: “you donkey!”

As it should be.

Your mom is easy… said the deep-pocketed founding member of the Rust Foundation.

Removed by mod

I put peepee in the doodoofard.

I’m guessing it’s the Wifi business that’s going to be sold. Also, the prefabs might be spun off. But Intel still needs a GPU division, if at the very least just for integrated GPUs, but we might see the end of dedicated Intel GPU’s as they pivot to compete against AMD’s APU’s.

That’s my take, at least.

haha no.

China: yes, we’re a communist, capitalist, nationalist country… we will have our central kingdom, BY BELT AND ROAD!!!

Thanks, China. Defying western brain rot and proving that you can have all the worst things under one umbrella. Good job.

What’s Meta need a bunch of fascist Christian nationalists for? It’s not like they have an overlapping demograph-oh yeah, ofc.

Mark Zuckerbot sure is a shrew bastard. Elon Musk wishes he had his computational brain.

Listen, if there isn’t a server you can download maps and umods on that allows you to fly a shark in the sky with redeemer rockets over a Burger King, then I’m not interested…

UT99 was too good for us.

Ext4 is faster, but I love BTRFS not just because of CoW, but subvolumes as well. You could probably get something similar going with LVFS, but I prefer that to be baked in, hence why I’m waiting for bcachefs, because it’ll up the ante with tighter integration, so that might translate to better performance.

Notice my use of the word might. BTRFS performance is not so great.

The problem with automating everything is that suddenly consumers have no money to spend on products and services… you know what that means.

Universal Basic Income

That, or an oligarchy class keeps a distance between themselves and 99% of the people via privatised security, or even national security.

So socialism, or a return to the aristocracy. Take your pick.

It’s either that, starve their conscripts or end up breaking certain conventions, which means Ukraine gets more money, and Russia gets more sanctions.

I’m going to switch from BTRFS at some point, but at this point that’s going to be a few years down the line.

This, and Bangladesh. All places that rely on wage slavery, child labour and unethical working conditions, because that which is unethical is also very cheap.

You can’t really compete with slavery, because again: it’s very cheap, and the way the Chinese state leads Chinese farmers and villagers into social lock-ins, whereby they legally become stuck in an area where there’s only grueling, deadly, soul crushing and back breaking labour that leads to a life of poverty becomes a problem for the rest of the world if it’s used to manipulate the markets.

I do of course realise this article is about “too big to fail” companies that corner every market, but I also think that the west and the east needs to think about what it means to partake in a race to the bottom where wage slavery is part and parcel of the market. It creates conditions whereby competition involves who can make the most horrible living conditions in the world, and do you really want that?

There are Chinese labourer families who have been trying to “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” for generations now, and it’s all thanks to other nations enabling the Chinese regime - especially the west.