The_Decryptor

The generic HEVC decoder was never free, what was free was the OEM version that comes pre-installed when you buy a new computer (Because the price is included in that).

But you always had to jump through hoops to get that version installed, it wasn’t ever something intended for end users.

We’re also facing a shortage of the materials for PCBs.

https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/iran-war-disrupts-the-circuit-board-supply-chain-raises-costs-tech-firms-2026-04-27/

Alongside the existing helium shortage, we’re going to see higher prices for every part of a computer, even without the chatbot hype buying.

I fucking hate Musk but in what world is SpaceX unprofitable?

Ours?

SpaceX made a loss of $4.9bn in 2025 on revenues of $18.7bn, so it is being priced on arrival on the US Nasdaq market at almost 100 times those revenues.

That’s the reason the S&P 500 index isn’t buying their stock, they’ve got a rule that the company has to be profitable first.

I’d assume it’s for things like (e.g. Pixar) films, or stuff like GTA6 where there obviously isn’t any actual people in the end result but hoping they’ve actually spelled out that constraint in the law.

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.

AMD’s supported it since 2015, but it’s not something a normal app would use anyway (They’d just ask the OS for it).

More likely for the app to get it wrong though, generating unpredictable random numbers (Which is all you realistically need) is pretty easy, not screwing up and making them more predictable is hard.

Gitlab is also going all-in on AI.

It’s because he’s an idiot.

And my major takeaway, beside the point they’re trying to make, is that the California law has taken the asinine step of redefining the word “user”.

They don’t, they’re just providing a definition of the term for that specific bit of law.

As an example, this bill, it defines a relative to be “an adult who is related to the child by blood”, doesn’t mean that suddenly people under 18 are no longer considered relatives, just that for this one specific part it doesn’t apply to them.

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.

Give Every Door a try, StreetComplete is mostly about filling in missing data, every door lets you create/update stuff arbitrarily.

I disagree. If I want to use drugs that hurt me, I should be allowed to, for example.

That’s what I said though, if you want to do something to yourself, go for it.

But companies shouldn’t be allowed to knowingly sell harmful drugs.

I think adults should be able to do just about anything they want, even if it harms themselves, as long as it doesn’t harm others.

Then they can go lay on the beach or something, shouldn’t let companies offer products and services that are known to be dangerous and unhealthy.

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.