Yeah but the players aren’t deleting stuff, they’re spamming complaints and using bots to do so.

The developers may be nuking their own service to clean up, but that’s not what the title says.

Yeah, I think you’ve nailed why the headline bothers me. Nuked would be deleted whereas here they’ve swamped them with criticism. Tarkov players raided, the developers nuked in response.

Woah they NUKED it, is that like almost as hard as SLAMS?

Wind and renewables in general already out-compete oil. If you think about a traditional power plant, the costs can be lumped into 4 categories:

1. Construction
2. Maintenance
3. Demolition
4. Fuel

Over the life of the plant, fuel has always been the dominant cost. With renewables, there are no fuel costs. Sure, the other costs might be slightly higher (wind farms are in remote areas, you have many small generators as opposed to a few big ones - solar is still dirt cheap though) but the fuel cost being non-existent easily overrides that.

The biggest travesty is that we basically have renewable energy sold at oil prices, creating insane profit margins for renewables.

Also I have no idea what you mean by the IRA and keep wondering what Ireland has to do with all this.

“I hate wind,” Trump told the executives

And yet that’s all he produces.

Neither is the UK one, it’s “under review”.

Frankly that seems like an intentional thing they’ve done to try and kill petitions, which often get most of their buzz in the initial weeks.

I really wish Jitsi had taken off during lockdowns. MS Teams I can understand, businesses all use Microsoft, but Zoom is just vile shite.

It is a hidden transaction. They try to argue it both ways, that it’s an exchange of access for data, but then they hide the data in the fine print. When you buy something, the price isn’t in the fine print, it’s front and centre. When you buy insurance, they have to provide a “key facts page” where they detail what you’re paying for in general terms. The key parts being exchanged are supposed to be at the forefront, not hidden in the terms and conditions.

People don’t understand the value of their product because businesses hide that part in the terms and conditions to inhibit their ability to properly assess the value.

In your analogy, you asked them to send your nuts and bolts for free. In exchange, they advertised stuff to you. Then they started collecting the addresses of your clients… that was not fine. Now, they’re throwing nuts and bolts from multiple people into a box and selling it as a “sampler kit”, nuts and bolts you did ask them to send for free.

I didn’t ask them, they advertised their service in bright lights saying it was free. Then, the fine print at the point of entry says they can pick the pockets of their guests.

You really are trying to advocate for the devil here, and I think if you take a step back you’ll see that you’re just parroting the same arguments they make. Such arguments have not been properly challenged yet, but if you stack them up against the core principles of contract law - through which all trade is conducted - they are clearly wrong.

The EU is trying to legitimise it, which is completely the wrong take.

I think one of either two courses of action should be taken by lawmakers. Either:

1. Data collection must be made open, such that anyone can access the data (but processing of data can be proprietary), or,
2. Websites should pay people for the data they take.

Data has value, it is completely unacceptable that this value is taken without consideration.

Class actions need to be made. Not just against AI, but Facebook, Google, Microsoft, banks… Basically anyone who collects data for profit while slipping it in as a secondary transaction in the terms and conditions, without providing any consideration.

The data brokerage industry is a $400bn industry, yet there are only 8bn people in the world. Even if we assume everyone is online and everyone’s data is of equal value (both are far from true), that means an individual’s data is worth at least $50 per year on the market. These are just people buying and selling data, and does not include companies that keep proprietary datasets and only sell advertising, or the value of peoples’ written works online (which is likely of even greater value). Businesses are now selling off our copyrighted work for far less than its worth, all the while not paying the creator their rightful dues.

It simply isn’t the case that data is traded for access to the website or service. That isn’t how the transaction is presented. Front and centre, the services are offered free of charge (or sometimes, eg with Microsoft, you already pay for the service) and then a second transaction is buried in the fine print in obscure language. The entire purpose of this is deception, so the user does not understand the value they are giving up, and so as to deny them a fair opportunity to assess any supposed value exchange - because it isn’t an exchange, you’re giving it up for free, just like they give you access for free. It’s two separate transactions deceptively run parallel.

You can’t build a car without paying for the nuts and bolts. They steal the nuts and bolts we produce and then sell them on as their own products.

Edit: weird formatting issues from posting with low signal.

Aww man, I thought it was a new game for a minute there.

Shock horror. The famously corrupt industry that gets paid both to take waste and to sell their byproducts is corropt and doesn’t deal honestly.

Also, FYI biodegradable plastic is a con. Plastic is polyethylene, which is a long chain of repeating ethylene molecules. To make it biodegradable they just put starch molecules in the chain every so often. Bacteria break down the starch leaving tiny microscopic ethylene chains you can’t see - aka microplastics. Biodegradable plastics are in fact more polluting.

I’d second the one about work laptops having powershell scripts for whatever the IT wants them for. However if it’s your personal property then it could be just about anything, maybe something innocuous you’ve installed that you wnat but maybe something malicious…

Personally, I’d take this as a sign to do a fresh install of the entire OS. That can feel like a chore, sometimes, but it’s the best way to be nearly absolutely sure your computer is clean.

This ice is purer and difficult to spot in the water as it’s completely transparent, and known locally as “black ice” for this reason.

Lol black ice is a common term anywhere that deals with cold weather. It’s commonly the most dangerous type of ice because you can’t see it, so you’re more likely to slip on the pavement or the road when you go over it.

Nah I don’t think that’s it, rather the app data is tied to that specific phone via a number Google assigns to it. So, if you go to a new phone, or even factory reset your phone, you cannot restore data - even using root and apps that would backup the app data folder. Like I say, it used to work, it hasn’t for years.

What we need is a more reliable ability to restore data to apps, particularly across phones. This used to be possible with 3rd party apps, but they borked it a long time ago.

Even still, surely the laws preventing them from refusing to invest in coal and other fossil fuels are uncosntitutional?

Yes but ultimately covid 19 had a relatively low fatality rate. It’s still high compared to things like cold and flu, but low compared to many other diseases. Before the vaccines, young people generally didn’t die, it primarily affected the old and vulnerable.

While it absolutely is a concern - in particular that China is developing these things with apparent malicious intent - there is likely going to be some sort of engineering trade off between fatality and transmitability.

Even then, a 100% fatality rate likely has very poor transmission.

Also, this is China, so claims of effectiveness should be taken with a grain of salt.

I’ll be honest, I’m still tired from last night lol, too much so to go digging. We’re also talking about something that has been the norm for more than a decade now - Google have long since established their processes for dealing with government requests. This may have started sometime around 2012, perhaps even earlier. I probably read it in an Ars Technica article, at a guess, but it could also have been something I stumbled upon on reddit.