All you need is a lot of caching and to not be stupid enough to allow anonymous users access to a lot of dynamic content. captcha your search and login. That won't stop a determined attacker from DDoSing you but it will keep down the automated crap looking for low hanging fruit.

"scabs" ... "their"

I do not think you know what these words mean.

Those subs belong to reddit. Those volunteers aren't paid. They chose to do that work (it's not a job) for free. Can't be a scab if they're not taking your job and depriving you of income. Can't be their sub if they don't have a contractual agreement.

Choosing to run your forum on Reddit is like choosing to run your web presence on Facebook.

In order for Xbox to be a loss leader, it would have to be drawing people in to the platform.

But it isn't doing that any more, people only use Windows due to inertia and because it's bundled with the hardware they bought. And that bundling is anticompetitive because it's arranged through the usual coercion, where the computer companies can't afford to stop buying the licenses.

Windows games have a slight effect on loyalty for home users, but they don't really matter so much to Microsoft any more. Windows is less than 10% of their income now, just like gaming GPUs are [way] less than 10% of Nvidia's revenues* so Microsoft doesn't actually care about the desktop very much in general. As well, the home desktop is no longer important to their control of the corporate desktop, because of lock-in. They don't need familiarity at home, so they really don't care about home users.

* This was true before the circular financing. You might reasonably argue that their doing that cancels out their enterprise GPU profits since they're not getting that money back... but if you don't, then gaming revenue is just noise.

That's what I find too — Gemini orients itself against facts.

Every time I talk to it, more than 50% of the claims it makes are clearly false and of course it agrees every time you point this out.

Its citations are also almost never citations. So why even provide the links?

If Gemini is better at facts than other LLMs, then they're all shit.

The word is rein. Don't use words you don't understand, it makes it obvious that you talk about things you don't know about. In particular mullenweg is upset that WP engine is using the license correctly for the code that he can't relicense because it's not his. What a crybaby.

Should have hanged all of the slavers.

I'd prefer Nazis follow Hitler's final example instead of his final solution.

Not what I'm in fact saying. The kinds of functions which are centralized there generally need to be. We do need to have minimum education standards, it's too bad Rapeublicans have shat that up so they could fuck up children's minds like the do their bodies. We do need to have environmental standards, Rapeublicans used to believe in protecting at least parts of it while raping the rest (they called themselves "conservationists"!) and the EPA was founded even under Nixon — he was a thief, but he could recognize a beautiful country when he saw one he could steal from.

Like the AI psychosis product industry isn't risky? Microsoft has nothing in that space worth mentioning. They have to buy or rent it like usual. Every time Microsoft buys something they immediately enshittify it, which they have done with a long long list of products which they turned into Windows features, most of which I thankfully cannot even remember anymore (Save, for some reason, Wolfpack -> WLBS. Weird.) and will not look up, thanks.

Maybe they could give gaming customers a discount if they'll let them use their power to run software on their consoles. I'm sure that would be a terrible idea on a lot of levels, so there should still be people who would go for it.

It's always weird when people bring up Cuba, which we've been shitting on for decades, and then try to look smug about it.

They call what we have in the USA Democracy when it isn't actually operated that way, why is it hard to understand why that's only a reason why you need a functional government with meaningful safeguards no matter what form of government you choose? For me that's direct citizen involvement at all levels of government, because that's what it takes for people to be engaged and for the government to in turn engage with The People. When someone tells you they want to run your Communist future for you, that's an obvious warning sign that they are full of shit, but that's also true of Democracy.

Population collapse is not a real problem because more than half of us are doing bullshit make-work that doesn't need to even fucking exist except to support the two-winged bird of the MIC x The Poverty Industry. The benefits for a massive glut of old people are trivially paid for if you just don't do everything in the worst fucking way.

AFAICT we will not solve these problems, because doing so requires making things better. Instead we will mostly focus on ourselves all the way down the drain. But having 8 billion people doing a bunch of unnecessary bullshit in inefficient ways, which is very much the status quo that most of us can see trivially just by looking around or at most going outside and looking around, is fundamentally unsustainable. And I'm talking about the climate change here that you somehow haven't noticed I've been ranting about here voluminously since before you arrived.

Did your closing sentence sound clever while you were writing it?

No problem, there's a bunch of religious people out there with like eight kids in their family. You can identify them at a glance because all their kids have biblical names and there's a shitload of them.

Lots of people aren't sane. For example, some people think they know what everyone else is thinking and feeling.

It's ok, we don't need 8 billion people. 4 billion or so was fine.

And those places with cheap rents have no jobs.

And no culture.

That's fine if you stay indoors all the time and are retired or can work from home...