Something like 80% of Google's revenue is from ads, even with that 30% cut they get from everything on their app store. So their core existence deeply conflicts with a free and open web. And it's particularly unsettling because their web browser dominates the market, so they have the leverage to force us into their vision of the future. And this domination would be very difficult to counter. It's the default browser on Android phones, and it is constantly flogged on Google.com, which is one of the most popular web portals in the world.
NecessaryWeevil
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Looks like they’re using a bullshit excuse to funnel people into their mobile app.
”Don’t be daft. We’re in a warming phase.”
Yeah, here's what you tell them. Temperatures were at baseline when the industrial revolution began. That's just a handful of generations. We've now seen an increase of, what 2 degrees C since then? I don't know the exact number. The point is, this sort of increase is not present anywhere else in the geological record. It takes thousands of years for average global temperatures to naturally increase to a point like this one. There are literally no hard spikes--until the industrial revolution began. The only credible takeaway is that humans are the problem.
That looks like a solid build. A few things to be aware of, though. Since you've chosen a large air cooler, you'll need low-profile RAM. Corsair, Mushkin and G-Skill are popular choices. You also won't need extra thermal paste. The tube that comes with the AK620 will be fine.
Also, the 13700K is at the upper limit of CPUs where I would use air cooling, as it can pull up to 250 watts from the board. You may want to consider a 7800X3D because it uses about half the power, without sacrificing gaming performance. And AM5 boards are supposed to be compatible with the future 8000 series chips, or whatever AMD ends up calling those. I say this as the owner of a 13600K whose chip regularly pulls up to 200 watts when gaming.
Lastly, 3D rendering. Depending on how deep you get into that, you may actually need 64GB of RAM -- or more. The good news is that you have two more slots on that board, so you can always get more later. And I highly advise that you try to get an identical pair, for maximum compatibility. At the least, make sure that all four sticks are rated for the same voltage when set to their XMP speed. Also be aware that Intel memory controllers tend to be more robust, so if you do need to populate all four slots, the AMD option may not be able to handle the same clock speeds.
End of an era. Dude's 65 and worked his ass off for 20 straight years, right in the spotlight the whole time, without drama or scandal that I'm aware of. May he have a long and comfortable retirement.
There's always been a sociopolitical rift between artists and the corporations that hire them. The corpos would like nothing more than to send the hippies packing, and the corpos are the side with the money and the lawyers.
It begins with things like book covers and movie posters. And at some point, AI is trained on animation as well as artwork. Individual actors become created by AI, voices included. Feature film CGI sequences get produced by digital brains. It will be rough at first, but less and less intervention will be needed as the training models are refined, until it gets good enough to satisfy the suits and their bean counters.
Popular music as we know it will probably also come under threat. Various types of writing will also be tested. Anything that an AI can be made to sufficiently emulate is going to be tested by someone who wants to make more money -- or pocket more of the dividends instead of sharing it with stakeholders with a pulse. "Made by people" becomes a rallying cry for the creators who push back.
If I recall, it was a ghost town because Google was very stingy with its invitations. I don’t know if they were having problems scaling, or if they were trying to generate hype. But progress was so slow that Google Plus was unable to reach critical mass.
Reddit was the front page of my internet for about 15 years. It's felt like breaking up with an abusive partner. I get by now on a mixture of Lemmy and Discord. I also check out Apple News and Google News, but it seems like the bulk of the content is behind paywalls these days. On the bright side, I've found a new hobby as a visual novel developer. There's suddenly so much more free time to try things like that when I'm not surfing Reddit all the time.
I think Lemmy and other federated social platforms of this type will really take off when the mobile apps start popping up. I just hope that the moderation tools can keep up with the influx, and that people will have the appetite to donate to keep these instances running.
Fallout 76 is a bit different because it's a live service game, and it runs on an engine that was wildly contorted to make it usable in that form. That's presumably why it launched without NPCs and with all kinds of jank. Starfield, meanwhile, is Todd Howard's own passion project that he's dreamed about making for decades. I still expect a raft of bugs that will only ever be fixed by community modders, and it looks like the engine's reputation for poor framerates will continue, based on the Xbox 30 fps cap. But I don't think total cynicism is warranted. Yet.
Please don't "both sides" this. Fox News was created explicitly as a propaganda arm of the Republican party. The others are basically centrist news organizations.
Blocking ad blockers has to be the real reason behind this convoluted bullshit. Google gets the lion’s share of its revenue from ads. The whole thing is a Trojan horse destined to make things better for them at our expense. The mere proposal is already accelerating my shift away from their products.