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Apple once advertised their new PowerMac G4 was so powerful it was classified as a munition and hence illegal to export. (this was stretching the truth a bit as the regulation allowing export of over 1 gigaflops machines had already passed)

Payments are all so fucked up. If you watch a lot of YouTube in your niche, what you really want to do is spread the amount of a subscription among the people you watch.

Flattr was the original attempt but it had a chicken/egg problem so nobody adopted it.

Patreon used to be great for this - by bulk billing all your patreons once a month they worked around the “a $1 charge means 30% goes in credit card fees” but they couldn’t be bothered to explain this to people and were too addicted to Apple/etc payments that had to change each patron subscription to separate charge so if you’re not supporting anyone at anything less than $5/month why even bother, you’re just funding the banks.

Credit card/banks could have innovated here but they’re too comfortable in their position.

Crypto could have solved micropayments if it wasn’t literally just all scammers scamming each other 24/7.

Ironically YouTube Premium is probably the best way since they take a 45% cut and then spread the rest among everything you watch by view time, but Google has zero trust among users so everyone assumes it’s a scam somehow. (edit: OK so Google just changed their cut to 70%, WTF ok now it is a scam, fuck Google)

Not any more!

Of course, the only people who have to make sacrifices for national, economic, and energy security are poor people

I like it. We need more specialization of services and less centralization. If Codeberg is the “human-made FOSS forge” then that means something when you see a project on it. If that’s not your project, fine, there is plenty of competition (and Forgejo is open source just run it yourself).

Would be cool to see someone make a “vibehub” and then you know when you see a link to a project on there what you’re getting (depending on your opinion, good or bad)

GitHub is a business making a profit from git hosting for corporations.

Codeberg is a non-profit explicitly for hosting free software projects (FOSS).

What is Codeberg? On Codeberg you can develop your own Free Software projects, contribute to other projects, browse through inspiring and useful free software, share your knowledge or build your projects a home on the web using Codeberg Pages, just to name a few.

I don’t think they’re delusional enough to think their mission is to singlehandedly kill proprietary software.

Would you be okay with a coding model that was trained only on open source software?

Would be definitely interesting to see a coding model trained only on GPL code, where that also made all of the output also automatically GPL licensed.

Can you link me to the settled law?

As soon as you set quotas, you get assholes suddenly exploiting them to the max, who didn’t before when it was “unlimited”. Anyone involved in hosting services sees this happen time and time again.

So this ship is obviously just an experiment in greenwashing, it sounds like the panels basically just keep the lights on.

But if the 10,800 cars were all EVs equipped with V2L and you had them powering the ship, how far could their batteries at 100% propel the ship?

10,800 * 80 kWh = 864,000 kWh. Another post said the engine output is 15,000 kW, so it could go full steam for 864,000/15,000 = 57.6 hours? Although I guess using an electric rather than fossil engine will be a lot more efficient (2x? 3x?) Still, the energy density of oil is amazing…

If broken slop apps crowd out the good, actually usable apps so the App Store just becomes a cesspool of useless garbage, they make no money as people wil abandon trying to find a tool for their problem.

Have you considered financing a Tesla???

Sadly, their car sales are back up in Europe since unfortunately nobody has morals anymore. The real answer is “blowing your money on the next grift - AI and robotics”

If your neighbor has an EV and you don’t, suddenly you’ve decided that you’re poor

As always, people have short memories, or just do not give a shit about ethics

www.nytimes.com/…/tesla-elon-musk-europe.html

Tesla’s vehicle sales rose 77 percent from January through May compared with a year earlier, the European Automobile Manufacturers’ Association said this week. In May, Tesla sold 22,000 cars in Europe. That’s more than Ford, Nissan or Honda, even when including their fossil-fuel models.

Many people seem to have put aside their personal feelings about Mr. Musk after Tesla cut prices for its entry-level models to levels that are competitive with comparable gasoline or diesel vehicles and inexpensive cars from China. In some countries, Tesla’s Model Y sport utility vehicles can be leased for less than 300 euros, or about $340, a month.

“Once you go down the pricing scale, people pay less attention to ethics or morality,” said Matthias Schmidt, an independent analyst in Berlin who tracks electric vehicles sales. “Tesla’s product has become so appealing from a price perspective, it’s almost too good to refuse.”

The article says they’re investing heavily in AI and robots, with nothing to show for it. Nobody gives a shit about Grok and the Optimus robots are vaporware