The_Decryptor

The best numbers I can find are from 2024, when Starlink made a total of $72 million in profit.

Not great numbers though, as the article explains. It only talks about the cost of the end user hardware and providing the service, so the profit is against those expenses. It doesn’t factor in the cost of launches and satellites.

Microsoft announced these price increases back in April, this shouldn’t be a surprise to anybody.

Give Marginalia search a try, see how well it works out for you.

Moltbook is already a thing unfortunately, even owned by Meta.

Think about what technology looked like 20 years ago.

20 years ago I had a 64-bit PC with a dual-core processor and 8GB of RAM, now I have a 64-bit PC with a 6-core processor and 32GB of RAM.

Sure, it’s an improvement but consider the same situation from 1986 where it would have been a 386 (The first 32bit x86 chip!) with 1MB of RAM. The rate of computer technology improvements is slowing down, not increasing.

Edit: Thinking about it, 20 years ago I had a GeForce 7600 GT, which I replaced with a 570, that with a 980, and finally with a 3070. So 4 GPUs across 20 years, and they all used the same bus on the motherboard.

I wish people actually read the california law, it’s rather short, and covers a lot of the “gotchas” people are coming up with (e.g. No it doesn’t apply to servers).

I don’t like age verification laws (Especially since I live in a jurisdiction with one already in effect) but at least argue against the law itself rather than a strawman version people heard about via social media.

Gitlab is also going all-in on AI.

It’s because he’s an idiot.

Another victim, Angelica Montano, came forward with a similar story to that of Vigil. She said she had been held captive by Ray after Hendy invited her to the house to pick up a cake mix.

… Montano convinced the pair to release her along the highway. She was picked up by an off-duty law enforcement officer and told him what happened, but he did not believe her and left her at a bus stop. She also later called the police about the incident, but there had been no follow-up.

Yep, sounds about right.

That the developers chose to add it at the same time as all the age verification stuff was starting is too much of a coincidence.

It’d be weird if they added it before the laws were passed, but not that strange to implement it afterwards, but before the deadline.

Depends on the point of the wiki I feel, if it’s project documentation it should be in git alongside the code, if it’s a generic “document store” then yeah there’s better storage backends than git.

Yep, there’s a reason they turned Office into a web app. Even if companies switch to Linux or macOS, MS can still sell them a subscription to Outlook/Office/etc.

Company wants to move their servers to Linux as well? Well Azure also provides cloud based Linux servers, MS doesn’t care what you run as long as they can make money off it.

That’s just the cover page, you can see the source files here.

The print out is “bundle_2”, while the actual compliable source is in “86DOS.A86”, you can see where the code starts and the header ends.

CP/M is already open source, so I’m not sure the surviving devs will mind.

By claiming that you own patents on technology used by said format.

The “open royalty free” aspect applies to companies that are a part of the AOMedia group, if you’re not involved with them you’re not covered by the patent grants and restrictions in place, and can charge whatever the courts say is cool.

The best part of the article is the very end, even if the site makes it look unrelated.

Avanci’s Video pool and Access Advance’s Video Distribution Patent pool are both now seeking content royalties from streaming services for the use of HEVC, VVC, VP9, and AV1. Access Advance’s rates are capped at roughly $63 million per year, and Avanci has published rates of 1.6% to 2.0% of revenue or $0.12 to $0.15 per user per month.

$4.5 million max for H.264 is rookie numbers vs. the $63 million max for AV1

If there’s slop in the code base, that will be harder to avoid than whole modules that you can just not install.

Unfortunately, that ship has sailed.

There’s BlackSky now, the first full outside server setup (Things like relays and PDSs are just smaller components of the larger required stack)

So you know, they’re at 2 total instances currently.

I remember seeing that years ago, wanted to make like a photoresist mask to etch it into metal.

These days you could probably feed it to a laser engraver, get some nice depth on a thicker sheet of e.g. aluminium, would be a nice display piece at least.

It’s not just bug reports; in the last month, AI driven development has actually gone from slop to reliably better than the average human.

Funny, I heard that same claim about 6 months ago.

And I’m sure I’ll hear it again in another 6 months or so.