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squaresinger

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  • California moves to exempt Linux from its upcoming age-verification law after backlash over forcing operating systems to collect users’ ages

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  • Tbh, this is just a massive stack of misguidedness.

    First, look at what the original law does:

    • OS needs to know the age.
    • OS itself doesn't do anything with the age
    • OS needs to provide the age to apps and services asking for it
    • Apps and services need to block content based on the age provided with the OS
    • If the OS doesn't provide an age, apps and services have to block as if the user was a toddler

    Removing the requirement for the OS to provide an age doesn't change anything at all, because someone running an OS that doesn't provide an age will just be blocked everywhere. That's not a solution, that's a joke to appease idiots who don't know what the law does.

    This is just as misguided as the backlash against systemd who added an age field to the user account to allow people to be still able to access age-restricted content.

    The actually relevant part that people should be combatting is the requirement for apps and services to do age verification using the OS-provided age. The OS age field doesn't matter.

  • The coming coordination calamity

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  • Can you maybe post the text.

  • The coming coordination calamity

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  • Is anyone actually productively running multiple agents at once? All the context switching in such a short time span feels like a great way to completely forget what you are doing and losing tasks in the mess.

  • 99% of CEOs Expect AI-Driven Layoffs in the Next Two Years

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  • Including Nvidia in the revenue figure is like asking "Is playing in a casino profitable" and including the revenue of the house in the stats.

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    60% of PC gamers have no plans to build a new PC in the next two years — AI pricing crunch on RAM and other components paralyze enthusiast market

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  • Yeah, the hope isn't dead.

  • Welcome to the vulnpocalypse, as vendors use AI to find bugs and patches multiply like rabbits

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  • The last line is the key factor and exactly what's the issue.

  • Over 92,000 tech layoffs in just 5 months of 2026: AI replacing jobs faster than expected as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon job cuts trigger fear in US

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  • You mean your story of buying an unnamed "Microsoft" headset at least 5 years ago and using it so little that you could still return it? Ok. Yeah. That kind of "user story" is pretty insubstantial.

  • What are the most flexible/elastic resins for printers? Are there any easily accessible additives that could make standard resins more flexible?

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  • That is really harsh... Good way to harm one's own economy unless there are equivalent local products for absolutely everything.

  • Over 92,000 tech layoffs in just 5 months of 2026: AI replacing jobs faster than expected as Meta, Microsoft, Amazon job cuts trigger fear in US

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  • VR did not take off, but for wildly different reasons than what you state.

    A steam deck or a games console also need expensive special equipment (in form of the console) that has no other use. Still they are thriving.

    They also need expensive powerful graphics hardware for good quality. (Also, standalone VR totally exists and is pretty good nowadays, to the point where I don't see much of a reason to pair my headset to my PC, and I am still rocking a Quest 2. Considering you are quoting "a headset at the Microsoft store", I venture to guess that you haven't tried VR in over half a decade.)

    You don't need special equipment if you wear glasses for most headsets, you just wear your glasses inside the VR headset. Source: I have been doing that for years. Glasses compatible VR headsets are a thing and quite common.

    VR doesn't cause migraines, migraines are something different. They mainly cause tension headaches and motion sickness. Headsets with better balance (e.g. ones that move the battery to the back of the head or ones that are lighter) reduce tension headaches a lot, and motion sickness differs between people and with practice.

    The wide open space is the only actual problem you identified, but also there, VR also works in sitting or stationary standing positions. Full roomscale VR is only required by rather few VR games or apps.

    The real issues are:

    • VR doesn't have advantages for working. Like, none at all. Meta focussed a lot on working in VR, and that just doesn't work. No advantage means no reason to do it.
    • VR works for games, but the inability to develop cross-platform between VR and other platforms means that it's almost completely restricted to VR-exclusives. There are a few non-VR-exclusives with a VR mode, but they usually don't actually take advantage of VR, since they have to work on a flat screen too. This means, not a lot of games and the ones that exist are super low budget.
    • Local multiplayer is very difficult for VR. If I want to do local multiplayer on a flat screen console or PC, I need another controller and a place for the second person to sit. For VR I need to buy a second console (headset) and need more floor space. VR multiplayer in the same room often leads to people hitting each other, so to play together it's best to separate between rooms.
    • Gaming is often used as a relaxing, chill experience. That doesn't really work in VR, since VR games require you to move. You usually can't just chill on the couch while playing VR.
    • VR software and UX is still in its infancy. Compare that to flat screen games, which took about 20-30 years to actually become really good in therms of UX and gameplay. VR hasn't had enough time yet to get there, but it's also not something that can just be forced with more money.

  • What are the most flexible/elastic resins for printers? Are there any easily accessible additives that could make standard resins more flexible?

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  • 96%? Uff, that's harsh. Where do you live?

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • If you want a standard unit of measurement, I trust you can re-read the title and find "9GW" in there. That is a proper standard unit, but to most people a number so mindbogglingly huge makes no sense at all, so they added a comparison to something people are more likely to being able to even roughly conceptualize.

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    Kevin O’Leary’s proposed 9GW "hyperscale" AI data center in Utah will consume double the state's entire electricity usage and generate the waste heat of 23 atom bombs a day.

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  • The 9 GW are already there if anyone needs a proper value, but without anything to compare it to, 9GW means nothing to most people. Hence the comparison.

  • W Social uncovered: the reality behind the hype

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  • "Weh, never heard of it. I only have doppiavu."

  • Google's next-gen reCAPTCHA system could spell trouble for de-Googled phones - Android Authority

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  • There will likely be an iOS implementation, and Google doesn't care about the rest.

    They want you to get in line and install Google Play Services already (or buy a phone with it installed).

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    "Notepad++ for Mac" release is disavowed by the creator of the original

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  • Yeah, you can also run it on Windows. It has replaced all text editors for me on any system.

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    Hyundai Reportedly Demanding ‘Tens of Thousands’ of Boston Dynamics Robots ASAP

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  • That's what they are building the military robots for.

    If 40% of the population aren't useful any more, and they have the means to stop it, all they need is an excuse to do it.

  • The jokes generate themselves.

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  • Parthenogenesis only makes sense if the unfertilized offspring is male. Because that way one female can create males to fertilize her to make females.

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    Why Reddit blocked my daily visit to its mobile website.

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  • General Motors Europe? Yeah, that's a bad word on r/fuckcars.

  • The jokes generate themselves.

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  • The other day when asking about the sex ratio of chickens, it told me that fertilized eggs turn into male chickens while unfertilized eggs become female chickens.