“Crime rates” aren’t the right metric. The right metric is the incidence of oligarchy after the beheading of the aristocracy.

Wouldn’t help—there’s no deterrent effect, because people like this have too much ego to even consider that they might be caught.

That is a testable hypothesis.

IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A JOKE

It’s funny 'cuz it’s true!

The problem is they overreached with this undercooked technology, gambling on it getting better.

Which is a bold move after the death of Moore’s Law, BTW.

or threaten the broader imperialist policies meant to protect US hegemonic capitalism

Restricting export of GPUs is one of those policies.

Your ex-wife is Lisa Su?

From the linked press release:

Governor Kathy Hochul and New York Attorney General Letitia James today announced an agreement with T-Mobile USA, Inc. (T-Mobile), requiring the company to improve and expand the home internet service it offers eligible New Yorkers under the New York Affordable Broadband Act (ABA).

As a result of OAG’s investigation, T-Mobile will remove the data caps associated with its ABA plans and deliver 25 Mbps download speeds to all ABA plan subscribers, unless network congestion requires temporary reductions. In addition, T-Mobile will offer ABA plans in all areas where it provides home internet service and make its ABA plan webpage discoverable by search engines.

WHERE’S THE MOTHERFUCKING PUNISHMENT?! All I see is where they’re making T-mobile pinky-promise to start following the law they’ve been breaking all this time, while being allowed to keep every single goddamn penny of their ill-gotten gains!

NO mention of prison time for executives.

NO mention of punitive fines.

NO mention even of restitution to wronged customers, which is less than the bare fucking minimum!!!

The only even slightly useful part of that press release is this at the bottom, because every New Yorker should be absolutely livid about this weak-ass corporatist shit:

Contact the Governor’s Press Office
Contact us by phone:
Albany: (518) 474-8418
New York City: (212) 681-4640

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This isn’t in defense of Nvidia (not by a goddamn long-shot: I haven’t bought an Nvidia product in 20 fucking years), but everyone should assume everything new enough to contain an IME or AMD PSP is compromised.

Frankly, even if you stick with older hardware, the only way to be sure would be to build your own computer from scratch using discrete logic and then boostrapping your own custom C toolchain on it to cross-compile for your real computer in order to avoid the Ken Thompson hack.

“Security” and getting rid of that pesky copyleft licensing in order to make it so corporate users have to give back as little as possible.

Just confirming what I’ve suspected: the point of the space datacenter thing is to keep the tools of oppression out of reach of angry mobs with torches and pitchforks.

Sounds about right, given that its previous business model was MITMing ads in order to extort website owners to buy its crypto.

Then don’t be surprised when microslop will use your computer passively–it will likely happen.

We need a Free Software cooperative peer-to-peer thing to do that first.

It used to be that a PoE HAT was a huge percentage of the total price and therefore kinda not worth it, but I guess not anymore…

I’ll admit that being a cheap way for adults to learn is plot-adjacent. But at its core, Raspberry Pi was intended to be the spiritual successor of stuff like the BBC Micro, Alan Kay’s KiddieComp/Dynabook, and OLPC.

(The shared purpose and British heritage of the BBC Micro is part of why the Raspberry Pi people picked ARM instead of x86, by the way.)

The entire point of them was to be a cheap, open, educational computer for kids. Even the hobbyist/homelab use-case lost the plot, let alone the commercial bullshit they’re targeting these days!

The key phrase there is “if they suspect you of shoplifting” which means they need to have actual fucking evidence and merely refusing their rent-a-gestapo bullshit doesn’t cut it.

Otherwise, they’re the ones committing the crime of false imprisonment.

I do know retail theft has skyrocketed the last 5 or so years.

Nobody should give any fucks whatsoever as long as it continues to be dwarfed by wage theft.

Also, there is zero fucking reason to let Walmart check your receipt or your bags. With a warehouse club like Costco it’s written into the membership agreement, but a normal store has no authority to hold you, especially without probable cause. Exercise your goddamn rights, people!

Most people will fold and get the account

Well, except for the (apparently) vast swathes of long-time users who get permabanned for bullshit reasons (or no given reason at all) and then can’t make a new account because of “ban evasion.” I guess they just aren’t allowed to experience Reddit at all, even lurking.

I know it isn’t the same cross-sectional area. I was just suggesting the same as how my local government does tree recompense.

They should be forced to replant the same number of trunk diameter-inches. (Or diameter-meters, I guess, being in Finland.) In other words, for every 1’ diameter tree they remove, they should have to plant 12 1" saplings (either back on the same site or elsewhere when they run out of space).