The mod packs just keep coming and there has been a number of interesting packs since 1.20 was released.

Its got a billion accounts its the most played game in the world ever so its surprising to find it so far down this list.

The problem is the information asymmetry, there is always another person for a fraudulent company to exploit due to a dysfunctionally expensive court system. Its why we need market level regulations and public institutions that recover peoples money and fine the organisations for their breaches. This sort of thing works a lot better in the EU than in the US due to the sales laws, the ability to return within 2 weeks, default warranty on goods out to 12 months and expectations of goods to be as advertised forced onto the retailers. They work, they need more enforcement from regulatory bodies but retailers do follow them for the most part and quickly change tune when you go to take legal action when they don’t because courts know these laws inside and out.

When fake news as a concept appeared a bit over a decade ago it was all about the traditional media and the lies and narratives they formed in their articles. That same media tried to spin it as about the satire sites like newstrump and most recently their entire spin has been about social media being the cause. I think social media has caught more because its clear to see that some users are spreading a lot of misinformation and you can see others falling into the trap but really what legitimises it all is what the media does and does not platform.

They have to stop thinking that getting rid of Roddenberry’s rules is the way forward, the only way its going to feel like Star Trek is that they accept the positive optimistic version of the future where there is a stronger moral basis to human action. You can do a lot within those rules but you can’t do this type of movie and there are enough generic space movies like this and its just not Star Trek.

That sure is some bad framing. Nvidia is charging too much to squeeze out the AIBs or they all just want too much profit for their part in this. Either way its not that the MSRP is charity(!) its just high prices.

The level of production of CO2 is so vast that planting trees is not going to do anything meaningful. We need to sharply and rapidly stop producing CO2 immediately and work on viable scalable CO2 removal and storage methods with urgency.

I don’t think they would bother doing that much work at the core of the operating system. They are too busy playing with the UI and cloud integrations they don’t care about the algorithms the kernel runs on and they have a better driver situation currently anyway. I don’t see the route to this.

I have been working my way through Star Trek Voyager, Season 3.

The two trailers put out on the Star Trek Youtube channel definitely didn’t calm my concerns about this movie!

There is no need, nor is it Star Trek, to have a dark evil underbelly that does all the real work. The true beauty of Star Trek is it makes us reflect on how far away we are from a utopian future version of society. Its an optimistic picture of the future, its the essence of what Star Trek is about.

The UK wastes most of its graduate talent, much of it ends up in jobs other than what the degree is directly in. Despite quite a lot of great Computer Science and Engineering universities most of the reasonable paid jobs have historically been in finance. As inequality gets worse and worse the Uk is becoming a county of serfs and lords once again with a poor populace and very rich owners. Its what people keep voting for so its what they want but it confuses me everytime people vote to be lorded over.

What I don’t understand is why Intel was willing to lie so extensively. They knew they were going to get found out in a matter of months and that would do enormous damage to their brand. After the failures of 13th and 14th gen processors they weren’t likely to be believed anyway. It makes no sense.

The problem is we have done nothing about making businesses responsible for the mess they create, from CO2 to pollution. The public always ends up with the bill while private owners walk away rich. We have been doing it this way now for so long that we are genuinely going to destroy our habitat with climate change and no one is going to stop it happening.

Mine are only 25k hours or so, around 3 years. My prior set of disks had a single failure at 6 years but I replaced them all and went to bigger capacity. There is also the power saving aspect of going down to 2 drives as well, it definitely saves some power not spinning 4 extra drives all the time.

There is another big advance on the way soon called KPAP which changes the algorithm quite significantly and will allow quite a bit less pressure most of the time and should improve the way the therapy works. All the big manufacturers are involved in machines for it and should fix a lot of the issues APAP introduced.

I sub to channels and use Youtubes recommendations and new for you to find additional channels etc but I don’t watch them I use Metube and a browser plugin and download the videos to a directory. I don’t get all the privacy but I also am not giving them much watch data and I can avoid the ads.

Food is the big one that clearly has to change, its not possible to reduce the CO2 impact of meat and that will have to change. Its also going to be required to change the gas boiler for a heat pump or electrical heating, cars replaced by Electrical Vehicles and to stop using airplanes. The electrical side which is making progress is only about a third of the CO2 production and all the other producers also need addressing.

What a lot of personal CO2 calculators currently do is conflate primary CO2 production (your burnt the fuel in your device) and secondary (you bought from a company and they emitted) but things like meat and airplanes we know there isn’t a technical solution to reducing CO2 so even though they are sort of secondary uses we still have to count their impact and change out behaviour if we want a habitat humans. The same is not true for transit miles and other goods which often get included but which could largely be made with electricity given the transition that must occur, which is a cost that will fall onto business.

The war on the disabled that Labour is committed to will bring further shame to a country already getting called out for crimes against humanity against disabled people in the UK. Labour seems to be worse than the Conservatives in its treatment of the most vulnerable in our society.

The elites have been doing very well since 2010. They froze wage increases and broke the long standing history of them raising with inflation and pocketed an enormous amount of extra profit as a result. Most don’t benefit from GDP growth now, they just get poorer due to inflation further eroding their stagnate wages. GDP hasn’t been a measure that matters to the average person in 14 years.

Microsoft remains convinced we want clippy everywhere regardless of how many times we have rejected these solutions!

We don’t and we won’t.