Hard disagree: LLM, sold as you're selling it, is a con. It is not a viable replacement for human beings over the long term. LLMs train on information that's created by human beings. There's zero incentive to create that content if LLMs will just gobble it up and sit between the end users and authors.

Be very clear on this: as we shift to LLMs being put in front of everything, the incentive to post answers to StackOverflow or Reddit, the incentive to post news, the incentive to post movie reviews, the incentive to blog, the incentive to write anything at all, tends to zero.

And that in turn means that, assuming this gets worse and we don't have those incentives back in place by, say, 2030, that LLMs will be based upon 2030s information.. in 2040, in 2050, etc.

That's just not sustainable or viable. It's not going to work.

And just to add insult to injury, LLMs are already being fed their own material. LLMs trawl the web looking for content, and an increasingly large amount of content is generated by LLMs. Nothing sane can come out of LLMs ingesting their own poop.

And YOU may be too short sighted to see that, but you can bet the fraudsters selling this technology are not. They will cash out eventually leaving the rest of us holding the bag.

China? China may do the same thing as well, but that's not going to mean they "beat us", it just means we'll all sink faster.

If I'm reading this correctly, this is to allow other services, eg YouTube "creators", to create their own AI slop based on Disney characters. So you can create a movie where Luke Skywalker battles Thanos with the help of Woody and Elsa using OpenAI's movie creation system. It'll be terrible, but you're now allowed to do it without suffering the wrath of the mouse. Just be warned you'll suffer the wrath of everyone else. Just Disney won't sue. Probably.

Perhaps you should look up "sarcasm" and figure out why I ended my comment in /s.

And FWIW, the current Opera has barely any relationship to the browser from 2004. It's a different code base, different people are behind it (it's a Chinese company now, no longer related in anything but corporate history to the Norwegian company, with development taking place in a variety of different countries.) Opera today is essentially another Chromium-based browser, as it's been since 2013 or so.

It's a shame, it was an innovative browser in its day. Now it's another AI slopfest.

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It isn't OK for the Swiss to do it. Who is telling you that other than white supremacists?

Asylum treaties exist for a reason. And the Swiss will shoot themselves in the foot if they ban skills-based immigration as the world doesn't evenly distribute skills across it.

And, in classic fascist style, it's a dumb law that proffers a simplistic, wrong, answer to a complex question, designed to distract you from the inherent corruption of fascist leadership.

I can't even figure out the mentality needed to post this comment, let alone mod it up. Even the attempt to reframe the proposal leaves the proposal as ugly and racist. And since when was invading a country by military force and imposing your own government the same thing as joining it organically, either because it has a culture you love and believe would thrive in, or because you're escaping persecution?

What a horrific mentality you guys have. What truly horrible people you are. You're not even making an attempt to understand the issues you pontificate on, you just believe the world is divided into "races" that should, for reasons you can't explain, never mix, and must always be in competition with one another.

Jesus.

It isn't OK for the Swiss to do it. Who is telling you that other than white supremacists?

Asylum treaties exist for a reason. And the Swiss will shoot themselves in the foot if they ban skills-based immigration as the world doesn't evenly distribute skills across it.

And, in classic fascist style, it's a dumb law that proffers a simplistic, wrong, answer to a complex question, designed to distract you from the inherent corruption of fascist leadership.

Yes, but unlike the $20 a month version with AI, it costs $40 a month... /s

You've completely made all of that up, even after having it explained to you that antifa just means anti-fascism. Yes, communists are antifa. So are anarchists. So are democrats. So are liberals. So are people who are merely pro-democracy. So are many people who are anti-democracy.

You've basically taken some Fox News coverage of anarchist protests where antifa signs were waved, somehow conflated communism with anarchism (maybe due to Fox News's own narrating) and then ignored the evidence of your eyes and ears after hearing so many people who aren't communists loudly proclaim they're "antifa", and decided to live in your alternative reality instead.

And the fact you uncritically accept a Fox News narrative suggests, given it's current support for an American fascist regime (big clue even if you for some reason think a gang of con-men who are scapegoating a powerless group, making a big show of treating them inhumanely, building concentration camps for them, and using the military to suppress dissent, is somehow not fascist: why would Fox News misrepresent what antifa means if they were anti-fascist?) you probably lean fa.

Think about that.

Antifa is not a group, it's a general position of being anti-fascist in thoughts and deeds. There may be groups named after antifa, just as there are groups with "conservative", "liberal", "anarchist", etc, but the concept itself is not a group. And unless you're a God-damned fascist, there is no reason to be opposed to antifa.

But you know that, hence your attempts to pretend it is a group, and then point at random anarchist groups (most of whom do not have the word in their names, but who occasionally will describe themselves as antifa because of course anarchists are anti-fascist) and pretend they are that group.

And again, like the previous idiot, how pathetic is it that the modern conservative just stupidly and without even a moment of thought repeats the same lies about terms they've been trained to hate even after having it explained what it means and how they're also wrong about terms like "woke" and "DEI"?

What went wrong with you lot? In the early 2000s, you were not this dense.

Exhibit A ladies and gentlemen: A conservative who has so bought into the idea DEI is evil that even in response to a comment pointing out conservative stupidity and their inability to understand what it is, that points out it's an alternative to a quota system, he replies as if it is one.

This, ladies and gentlemen, is your average conservative in 2025. Stupid, homophobic, racist, and misogynist, to a level so extreme facts don't matter any more to him.

What a fuck up.

It's not a matter of the knowledge not existing, it's that in order to make an HDMI port you need to license a package of patents and agree to them. Random hacker might not care, but Valve, unfortunately, would be sued up the wazoo if it didn't license the package or broke the agreement that goes with it.

A DisplayPort to HDMI 2.1 dongle is the way to go, and honestly I'd either put it in the box, or if it's not legal to do that, advise people to order one at the same time, preferably using language along the lines of "to connect your console to a legacy television or monitor that doesn't support DisplayPort, you can buy this adapter here." If the HDMI group is going to impose arbitrary and nasty conditions, encourage people to switch to DisplayPort. It's better anyway.

There are plenty of dongles around that convert it, I'm kinda surprised they just didn't bundle one rather than add the port directly.

Here's one: https://ancillary-proxy.atarimworker.io?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FCalDigi...

My favorite is Gill Sans which, like Calibri, is sans but is extremely readable on both screen and print. It in turn is based on Johnston, the London Underground font, which had to be readable given it was being used for signage and notices throughout the LU system. British Rail also had a variant of Helvetica intended for the same purpose and again ability-to-read-quickly was considered critical.

The thing is the whole "Serif is easier to read" is more of a spectrum than a hard rule. There are very readable sans fonts, and God-knows some pretty awful seriffed fonts.

In addition to Rubio's motives (you want to make it harder for people with poor vision to read? What a fucking asshole), Rubio is fucking up for one other reason: In the mid-1980s Times Roman and Helvetica were pretty much the only fonts going that weren't computer fonts, thanks to the influence of the Apple Macintosh and Adobe Postscript. Variants came with most operating systems, and these were translated to Times or Helvetica. There were a tiny number of other fonts that also came with PCs/Macs but they were rarely useful for anything but logos and titles. Only a handful of people actually bought other fonts and used them.

The result is that nothing says "Tired, no effort" than Times Roman. Think of the reaction you probably have when you see a 404 message in Times Roman. Which is an absolute tragedy because it's a classic font.

So, that's what Rubio wants, America to appear lazy and tech illiterate, all to own the libs^H^H^H^Hsight impaired. What the fuck? I once voted for that asshole. I was impressed by his work trying to make a legal path to residency for Dreamers. I genuinely thought he wasn't a typical conservative, he was the type of conservative I wanted to encourage to thrive in that party. What a dumbass I was.

Yeah, Calibri isn't serifed but I believe a design goal was to make it readable on screen (hence sans) and off screen (hence more elegant lettering and differentiation of widths)

Rubio's a fucking idiot, but what do you expect from a group that constantly demonstrates it has no idea why woke (which literally just means "aware of racism") and DEI (which literally just means "Remove artificial barriers that discriminate against certain groups, rather than imposing quotas") are not bad things or even the things they claim they are.

Well, OTOH, they can't get their head around antifa either. Being against "antifa" is such an obvious confession I don't know why they get offended when we point out they're fa.

I said "Way North", not "Slightly North".

A typical basic package, sans Internet and phone service, from a typical ISP is well over $100. And that's for something that's all ads with the exception, maybe, of C-SPAN.

Now compare that to a bundle of ad-free streaming services. I can get HBO Max, Hulu, and Disney+ as a bundle for slightly over $30. That leaves Paramount+ and Peacock I believe, which maybe adds $30 to that if you don't want the ads, and much, much cheaper if you're OK with them. No cable package compares to that.

Like I said though, the streaming equivalent of basic cable is $0. There are many, many, free, ad-supported, services with huge libraries. Just add them to your Roku.