It’s very hard to disagree with what he’s saying, imo

No. Zuck is just a bully bemoaning that some people still stand up to him.

I would play that.

Same, a 15 minute video is way too long. I would rather spend 15 hours debugging

I want that on a shirt…but if I buy the shirt, I’m afraid of the burn when my life partner will probably set the shit out for me to wear on certain weekends…

That is so fucking cool.

Fuck. Lol.

Even if you never run software that can benefit from it, you may get benefits indirectly, such as, if someone uses a quantum computer to help improve medicine and you later need that medicine.

Agreed absolutely.

They hard part to predict is whether there will ever be a quantum home device, since current home devices are already ludicrously powerfulv for typical uses. Maybe if we ever unlock true general purpose AI, some of that’ll need to run at home.

Cue the cast of Monty Python singing, ”Every sperm is sacred…"

I commented elsewhere in the thread that Casio is still a status symbol - just to to a different, more pragmatic, group of people. Then I saw this comment, lol.

I too love to rock a Casio, and recognize others who do as well.

Though lately I’ve been hooked on my PineTime Watch. It’s not as iconic as a Casio, but it costs about the same and does ship with a Casio immitation watch face pre-programmed.

I will stick with my Casio a158, thanks.

Lol. That’s a status symbol in different circles. Anyone I see someone wearing a classic Casio, I know we’re going to get along.

“… Don’t count XBox and PlayStation out”

Article proceeds to list item after item of damning news for Xbox and PlayStation. Lol.

• 80% of developers target PC vs much smaller numbers targeting anything else
• SteamDeck puts up substantial numbers, when left off the survey, as a write-in comment option

If Valve re-releases a “Steam Machine” console, Microsoft and Sony can look forward to their next console sitting next to the Atari Jaguar and Nintendo Virtual Boy on museum shelves.

Edit: What Sony could do is release PlayStation hardware that runs Linux and Steam. I would pay a premium for their hardware (including their best in class controllers) running software I already trust.

Lol. Agreed. I feel like Cory picked a controversial title for attention, and then did an odd logic dance to get there.

But I found some of his other analysis in the post thought provoking, anyway.

For some context, Cory is on a quest to change hearts and minds about Intellectual Property law

I had a subscription to Raspberry Pi Magazine when the Pi Zero was released. They celebrated by including a Pi Zero with the magazine in a little plastic bag glued to the cover.

I think it’s so fun to have lived through the moment in history when a full computer became so commonplace they could give one out free with a magazine.

I currently reside in his old home, where occasionally I make him breakfast forgetting he is gone and proceed to have a literal toast to him and eat it in his name upon correcting myself.

That sounds like a beautiful tribute. I hope I’m remembered that fondly when I’m gone.

I like my politics boring if it gets the job done and keeps improving and iterating on a better system.

Absolutely.

Of course, I try to stay aware that my ability to wait patiently for a better world is, in itself, a privilege.

There’s wisdom in carefully iterating forward.

But billionaires also need something to help them focus on cooperation toward a better world. They need to believe in some non-zero chance that the fate of some person they stepped on could randomly suddenly become their own fate.

I don’t have answers for how that happens, but history says it’s almost never been pleasant for anyone concerned.

I don’t know if we can all do better. I hope so.

The sweet spot is for the current ruling class to obey a set of rules out of fear of the guillotine or incarceration.

Exercising the guillotine or incarceration excessively would just be starting over to build the necessary fear with a new ignorant crop of ruling class.

It’s the thought that counts. My Putin expiration celebration will actually also be alcohol free, but it’ll taste just as sweet.

I’m glad we cleared that up. Someone should let the politicians know, as they seemed confused.

I thought this was a place to post Star Trek memes?!

Yeah. I’m surprised businesses haven’t been quicker to setup self-hosted Mastodon as their primary, and then mirror that to Twitter and Bluesky and such, for disaster recovery protection.

Mastodon doesn’t by design, so they’re gonna have a much, much harder time there.

In theory, yes. But what early switching folks are reporting is that the total impressions are much lower on Mastodon, but the total engagement is much higher, for the same effort.

Which is confusing unless we factor in what we know about Twitter farming bot account on purpose to create an inflated appearance of success.

Of course, there’s still the matter of Twitter genuinely has orders of magnitude more users. So as an either/or proposition, no way does it, yet, make sense to ditch Twitter for Mastodon.

But for the value-to-reach ratio, with the same effort applied to both, anyway, Mastodon is actually already a better value than Twitter.

All that to say, yeah, Twitter is better, purely due to the user base, and Mastodon’s algorithm actually treats creators better. Which we kind of already knew, as it was created by people fed up with Twitters abusive algorithms.