meanwhile my gf bought Pixelmator Pro on sale for a one-time $20 license and that software kicks complete ass. it’s so good.

create something totally new

• demonstrates with crappy looking ai picture

It’s more than just chaos because in many ways this is deliberate self-sabotage directed from the top executive levels. Like trying to stop the spread of a wildfire by building wooden palisades to contain it.

With ollama and openwebui you can get a pretty featured experience.

Gamers go to the gulag. I make the rules.

She’s one of the very rare actually good points of the Biden administration.

I can only imagine SMIC is going to become extremely competitive in the next several years.

On an article about Meta on ArsTechnica I saw this comment and I realized… holy shit. Sad, but absolutely correct.

I didn’t think I’d be pining for the days of rainbow capitalism so soon. The masks sure were lubed and ready to come off, huh.

Normal Daggerfall or Daggerfall Unity?

Cosmetics is a wholly separate clown-show. Dota 2 used to be a few gigabytes in space. Now because of all the hats it’s like 30gb compressed.

obligatory https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-7o9xYp7eE

much prefer that he’s kinda cringe than a UHC CEO who lives

I think the energy-saving production is the real benefit, like you said.

According to calculations by Zhang and his colleagues, the new technology could improve the energy use efficiency of China’s steel industry by more than one-third. As it eliminates the need for coal entirely, it would also enable the steel industry to achieve the coveted goal of “near-zero carbon dioxide emissions”, Zhang’s team added.

Obviously it remains to be seen if this pans out. “Could” and “does” are different things, after all. I could just as well imagine every efficiency gain being wiped out by the Jevons effect.

the representative from israel is behind this ask?

Pop by NSYNC https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TWZKw_MgUPI

For those who conceived of it in the first place and pushed to make it so, it’s really working quite as intended.

Socialism with Chinese Characteristics Characteristics?

When your net worth goes over that $1B threshold you just automatically lose any shred of goodness you can possess as a human?

I like how the original publishing editor made the headline Is Communist China Coming for Your Turkey, Too? but then the preview snippet just says China has excellent reasons... that have nothing to do with the United States. So comically disjointed.

Elon Musk talks a lot of shit. This dude can’t even play the great games that already exist. See: Elden Ring.