Pedestrians will need to pass an annual inspection to make sure they have the proper high-vis gear, flame resistant clothing, and signal lights.

It’s nice to have ntsync, I’ve been using it for a few weeks. Knowing that the thread sync api is solid means one less thing to worry about when debugging modded skyrim.

I assume they do sometimes have feelings but it’s pretty hard to imagine how people who’d agree to work for Palantir would feel about literally anything other than being highly paid which they presumably enjoy.

arson, n. The crime of deliberately starting a fire with intent to cause damage.

The dictionary confirms my understanding that “unintentional arson” is a contradiction in terms. We must therefore find the defendant not guilty.

Your other doubts and concerns seem slightly biased, e.g. wondering what settings could be tweaked on only one of the systems being tested and then reminding us all that there do still exist some things that won’t run on SteamOS. It’s only that one that is outright ridiculous.

Did the author run the benchmarks few times to rule out shader compilation

Really grasping at straws there, eh? I’m no big fan of Ars but I hope we can assume they’re not quite that incompetent.

In the early 2000s I actually thought made sense to buy a console, since not many games would run on linux.

Sure, but don’t forget to include the basics such as the root name servers: Verisign(A), USC-ISI, Cogent, U of Maryland, NASA Ames, ISC, Defence Information Systems Agency, US Army Research Lab, Netnod, Verisign(J), RIPE, ICANN, WIDE

continued innovations from major players like Microsoft

MS using its massive reserves of innovation to acquire many of the major game studios.

Is there even a single OECD government that’s firmly opposed to what Israel is doing, firmly opposed to what Russia is doing, and firmly opposed to fossil fuels? Asking for that doesn’t seem like too much.

Similar things could be said about things like “real” and “official.”

After posting I instantly thought about whether I should’ve added to that last sentence “… in any society with a modicum of respect for liberty.”

Sounds like a good way to hone your horoscope-writing skill.

Paid and freeware but either way non-free, unfortunately.

As far as I can tell from what’s reported there it’s empty rhetoric based on nothing concrete. It’s presumably more effective in Italian.

I mean it’s better than nothing I guess but that is not what I’d call “freely available.” In addition to requiring that you use their shitty online viewer, it appears to require users to sign in to an account even to do that. It’s directly admitted on the website that they make it unusable in this way specifically because they rely on the revenue from selling real access to people who need it.

Sorry, but we can only get so much security by giving up your privacy, now we need the kind of security that can only be bought by giving up your security as well.

Microwaving is cooking. Vibe coding is to microwaving what staring at the food and pretending you have heat-ray vision is to microwaving.

Yeah it was a big milestone. Many related developments soon followed. It’s an interesting coincidence that linux was first released the same year. Strong end-to-end encryption has in common with free software that it’s taken an awfully long time for ordinary people to begin understanding that it’s important and worth the effort to use. Like free software, once it gets going it can’t be stopped.

The secret of how to do strong encryption is out, since 1991. You can’t erase it from everyone’s minds. Criminals can not be stopped from using it by passing laws against it. Its only law-abiding people who will be made unsafe by that.