Yeah, they're essentially doing trials where Arizona fab provides small amounts of sillicon that's being validated against what Taiwan fab does. While it was planned for 2024 I'm guessing everyone thought it would be delayed. It's quite a big win for US, they're on track to secure domestic supply of fairly modern chips in case shit hits the fan in Taiwan.

How do you stand image scaling on 3DS? It's either poststamp sized or horribly mangled by non-integer scaling on a very low res display. It's the reason I keep DSi along NN3DS.

I too would like to see cars banned but it's just not practical yet.

There are obvious health benefits from making smoking as annoying as possible for smokers which will lead to long term medical cost decrease. Secondary smoke from ecigs outdoors is still neglible compared to cars, farts and people in general.

I find lots of things annoying outdoors but I guess it's not so common here to become an issue. Ecigs users are usually conscious enough to keep distance from other people. I hear it's getting pretty bad with disposable vapes but haven't seen much of that myself, likely a perk of not living in a big city.

Cigarettes, sure, but including ecigs sounds unreasonable? I quit smoking couple of years ago and regular cigarette smell makes me gag but Iqos and liquid vapes are not that offensive outdoors.

Scandalous attack on free speech

/s

I played countless hours of Cave Noire this year. It's a coffee break roguelite that released in 1991 on Gameboy.

I fuck around with old games a lot but there are not that many games I get really into these days. Cave Noire is similar to Desktop Dungeons where every attempt is a short puzzle so it fits pick up and play nature of Gameboy. Can't recommend it enough if you're into this kind of stuff.

It's only recently that EEE as a term started being misused and it's happening mostly in the Fediverse so I'm not giving up on correcting that.

Also, what I said doesn't mean I like any of the involved companies. I use Apple products but cheer whenever they're exposed for being dumb or greedy. Epic is only doing this because they missed the train on electronic storefront monopolies. AltStore took people's money and released a store that had like 2 apps total for months and only got some more only recently (and they're very middling). There's no good guys here but outcomes of their fight seem positive regardless.

Is step 2 really "extend"? I swear to god, nobody uses this term properly anymore, especially here. EEE is description of practice of attacking standards like file formats and protocols.

Epic has proven to be very spiteful. They're likely doing this just to hurt Apple with Altstore being accidental beneficiary. I very much doubt that Apple fee is going to remain in place, so this donation will carry Altstore through the interim period before EU forces Apple to comply.

Can you walk me through how Epic applies embrace, extend, extinguish tactic here?

LLMs on their own are not a viable replacement for assistants because you need a working assistant core to integrate with other services. LLM layer on top of assistants for better handling of natural language prompts is what I imagined would happen. What Gemini is doing seems ridiculous but I guess that's Google developing multiple competing products again.

That brief moment in time when we had dirt cheap Nexus phones, Google Now and Inbox was peak Google. Just 5 years later it was all gone.

So you're fine with tax collection being ineffective, got it. All taxation is theft and so on, right?

I have not seen once in my life a hotel that does anonymous leases. Because you could fuck up their shit and run. Where do you come up with those examples?

Wow, you found a universal tax fraud loophole that nobody did before - taxation is illegal invasion of privacy lol. You should consider career in accounting.

Ok, this is pointless, you're advocating for tax fraud outright.

Can you rent a flat anonymously? Doesn't that have to be reported for tax anyway? All of examples I'm seeing here are flat out tax fraud heaven.

I think you're on some ideological crusade, I'm more into pragmatism.

Seems like your solution costs more than it brings to the budget and all that you're gaining is false sense of privacy.

Have you ever bought a car? You can't do it anonymously, you have to register it.

All of you guys focus on some billionaires, mafia bosses etc but we're talking about 3k/10k EUR limits.

I'm asking how do you audit cash-heavy businesses doing petty tax fraud cost effectively?

3k EUR is not small income.

I'm not even sure what we're trading it for. Illusion of privacy from your own state?

It's an EU-wide thing now I think. Our car shops just say they can lower the price significantly if you pay by cash. Others just play dumb.

How are you going to audit cashless businesses that invoice one price and take another and how much is that going to cost? We're talking about likely widespread issue that needs solving systemically, not with adhoc actions.

Ultra rich should be taxed up to their tits or ears but let's not kid ourselves that 3k/10k EUR limit is going to affect anyone poor.

Ultra rich don't evade taxes, they avoid them via good accountants legally. What this is supposed to prevent is small/medium tax fraud which really adds up.

I wasn't talking about war on drugs, those should be decriminalized anyway.

What I keep seeing in my personal life is car repair shops, medical professionals and other businesses that usually charge a lot and then take cash only. It's obvious why.

Tax evasion and money laundering rob all of us. I don't like that we have to do this but it's a necessary change.

MacOS is relevant to this specific issue. It's an example of an OS that mitigated risk in a way that would be compliant with EU requirements Microsoft is blaming this on.

Linux has the same issue and was also affected by Crowdstrike earlier this year.

All that EU mandates is equal access to system features by the competitors.

What Microsoft is saying is that they would never fuck up like Crowdstrike did. That's bullshit - they are human too and need security enforced at an architectural level. The other thing that Microsoft is saying is that they could not prevent this. That's also bullshit because others did.

Windows and Linux allow third party apps to run at kernel / driver level and consequences of that are on those operating systems. It wasn't even the first time this happened. Crowdstrike was responsible for similar issue on Linux earlier this year and it was also caused by a kernel module crash.

Apple doesn't allow kernel / driver level access for apps and replaced those with API few years ago. It's no coincidence Crowdstrike didn't manage to break MacOS so far. There's nothing stopping Microsoft from implementing something similar.

Obviously Crowdstrike is at fault here but so is Microsoft.

How are the decisions taken by the highier-ups related to workers unionizing?

Fossil fuel sales.

I give up. Are you an American or something?

Done and shared where I could.

There you go: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cpwwyj6v24xo

At some point you're so entrenched in the market you don't have to do anything anymore. I was quite surprised that Valve somehow evaded EU Digital Markets Act gatekeeper criteria.

Rare case of Valve updating anything to 64-bit binaries. Now do the client and not just server.

I'm accelerating late stage capitalism by being critical of monopolies? What???