Disclaimer: European here.

This nonsense has been going on for too long already. Going all EU GDPR with fanfare and then the authorities themselves go and host their stuff in the US cloud that couldn't give a rats ass about GDPR. Yeah, just effing great you effing dimwitts.

Gladly there are enough EU FOSS advocacy groups making noise and the politicians here are slowly catching on. Some good news at last.

M$ tools undercut IT efficiency? You don't say.

It's M1cr0s0fts entire business model to undercut efficiency. Otherwise the Wintel coalition couldn't sell you new hard- and software twice a decade like they've been doing since going into business.

That of all Amazon noticed this just now is quite hilarious. After all, they run similar business tactics.

... don't say they can't be (really) useful.

... running at 180hz?!?? Aside perhaps from some high performance VR setup that probably costs 50k of it even is available for regular people.

4k at 60hz is luxurious. At a regular living room distance humans can't even make out single pixels with 4k.

Honestly, at this point I'd be waaaay more interested in edging up color bandwidth and brightness contrast than increasing resolution by yet another iteration. There is still room there and while my cheap ass 27" 1080p business display is perfectly fine for me I do like the experience colors and contrast on my Samsung tablet with AMOLED display. They should work on making that larger and cheaper.

... can have the occasional advantage, I guess. Not sure if I would want to live in one though.

I use AI regularly, at least once or twice a week. It's a real productivity boost. It's completely replaced searching for me. It's basically an API expert I can talk to and get answers from in 20 seconds. Good stuff.

Example: I'm working on a bad code base of a legacy application. The backend is quite a mess which I don't really like to touch, so I push a lot of my new logic into our Postgres DB. I don't really like SQL and anything beyond one or two joins I'd usually avoid. With progbuddy AI I'm doing triggers, procedures, functions, variables, etc. in SQL like a champ, sometimes 30 lines or more. Getting this good in SQL would take me at least a year of systematic practice.

The AI still does some mistakes or talks nonsense, but I catch those mistakes easily because that much I do know about SQL and coding in general. I'm the sole programmer in a company of 70 people and still manage to get off work at 5 o'clock whilst doing everything on my own.

So, yeah, AI definitely is a sold productivity boost for me and my work.

I'm your type A 80ies computer kid and have been programming since my teens, starting out with Sharps Basic and Opcode on a portable pocket computer (called "handheld computer" back then). However, I didn't study CS but did a performing arts diploma with 5 years of full-time training instead, because my creative streak was stronger. Performing arts sure did help me with my career. Giving presentations and talking in public is no sweat for me whatsoever and it sure does help with office politics having stood on stage in front of an audience and done complex choreographies.

I made my money in the last 25 years doing professional software development and digital design work because art doesn't pay, but given todays rapid pace of innovation I am now really glad I went the path of some obscure stage-craft. I know where ever I go it will still be very helpful in gaining traction in that field. And, curiously enough, I am way better at presenting myself than my job peers with academic degrees which in turn has helped build a big project portfolio that often outbids simple degrees when I apply for senior positions these days.

Bottom line: Should AI really come for us, performing arts is actually a way better deal than CS, or so it might turn out to be. Good for me, I guess.

... as is a redo of the Web itself. We need decoupled namecoin/blockchain bases DNS combined with some WebFS-style offline capable thing. Perhaps even a redo of HTML and Web renderers themselves, they are a historically grown mess. Most of the Web and E-Mail (over 90%) these days is just trackers, scam and juck-ridden garbage.

"Oh, okay. You don't want to be known for your body. Very well then. Just act, and we'll put an AI body that we own, over your body, which (for now) does the acting."

Absolutely hilarious. Love it. ... And why wouldn't AI give it all away? It couldn't care less, especially if we can just shut it off at a whim. This article absolutely made my day. LOL!

Current gen consoles are too damn expensive to appeal to their usual customer base. When a portable premium tablet with 16+GB of RAM and .5 TB of storage costs less than a meager video-game console that isn't portable and requires a screen to be useful, then the console market has clearly painted itself into a corner. I have no pity for either PlayStation, Xbox or Nintendo at this point.

Make consoles affordable again, then sales will go up again. It's that simple. Meanwhile, I'm glad that at least Xbox is backwards compatible meaning I'm still doing quite very fine with my last gen XBox One X still chugging along and delivering excellent entertainment at fluid framerates with 1080p, which is more than enough for me. It's interesting to see that the refurbished One X still sells for 250 Euros these days. IMHO it hits the sweet-spot of what a console should cost today.

Not an actual starship clone. Minor detail, but not insignificant.

Like this is going to stop _anyone_ from building and releasing a 100% compatible FOSS alternative within a few hours. Isn't actions just a runner for YAML / JSON based CI/CD scripts? A 10th-grader should be able to rebuild that without breaking a sweat.

... trades by passing then through a large spool of fiber before they go into the server, deliberately slowing trades down. It's quite popular with mid-range enterprises and corporations. I'd be trading by stocks there if be I were to IPO a corporation of mine.

EOM