If once you do not succeed, just try again next year. They tried and backtracked putting heated seats behind a paywall not even a year ago see here.

Unless laws are made to make this fundamentally illegal, they'll just keep pushing until it sticks. And once one manufacturer succeeds, they'll all follow.

but it’s utterly useless.

That imo has been the issue with VR/AR for a while now. The Hardware as you said is pretty good by now and looking at something like the quest even afforable. What's lacking is content and use cases.

Smartphones had an easier time being adopted, since it was just moving from a larger to a smaller screen. But VR/AR actually needs a new type of content to make use of it's capabilities. And there you run into a chicken/egg problem, where no one is putting in the effort (and vr content is harder to produce) without a large user base.

Just games and some office stuff (that you can do just as well on a regular pc) aren't cutting it. You'd need stuff like every major sport event being broadcast with unique content, e.g. formula one with the ability to put yourself into the driver seat of any car.

By banning porn. Out of all the things that could motivate people to search for alternatives, this might be the most durable driving factor.

Outside of that I think it will be a slow decline in quality. Eventually quality content will decrease more and more, and low effort memes and bot content will take over.

Honestly, while I don't mind legal proceedings against Elon, the best thing the EU or any European government could do would be to start using alternatives to Twitter.

If they'd spin up their own mastodon instance and politicians, institutions and parties would start exclusively posting their statements there, then journalists would have to follow them and news organisations would also start linking those instead.

Twitter isn't as big here anyways, but doing that could imo make it even less so.

I don't think so. The degrading processors are certainly bad, but in the grand scheme of things won't move the needle. The reputation loss is probably worse than whatever fine they end up paying (and they will drag it out).

The split would be between design and manufacturing. And it would mean a massive shift, not business as usual.

The design side is probably in better shape and would increase their use of TSMC instead of using the now spun off Intel fabs.

The manufacturing side would have it rough. But we are talking about only one of 3 manufacturers of leading edge chips here (together with tsmc and samsung), not something you "conveniently let go bankrupt". They'd try to raise more money to finish their new fabs and secure customers (while trying to make up for the lost volume from the design side). But realistically I'd say that similar to Global foundries they would drop out of the expensive leading edge race.

A tiny badge with a spanish flag.

Her Spanish semi-final opponent in badminton injured herself during their match and had to withdraw. source e.g. here

In my opinion a tax write off should automatically make it public domain.

Wir sind uns aber auch im Klaren darüber, dass man irgendwann auf 59 oder 69 Euro anheben müssen wird

Ich würde jetzt Mal die These in den Raum stellen, dass man das mit genug politischem Wille nicht müsste

Doesn't fitgirl just repack stuff (compressing the game for smaller download sizes) rather than doing the actual cracking?

Dark Reader: Especially late at night white page background just burns out my retinas, no idea how I ever managed before.

If you are interested there are essentially 3 problems:

• the GPU fiasco: Where they didn't just bork a install. A small 2 man startup send them their (I think only or at least best) prototype for testing and even included the correct GPU to use it with in their packet. LTT for some reason tested it on a different one (obviously not working well there) and came to the devastating conclusion that NOBODY should ever buy this. Then instead of as requested sending it back they auctioned this prototype off at an event they hosted.

• the second problem that was also called out in the video published by gamers Nexus was a consistent pattern of publishing data errors in their reviews. And if such errors are caught, they would be inadequately handled. Maybe through a post under the video or by later replacing part of the video. If they caught an error before publishing they also often would just add a small onscreen text correction with an * instead of redoing that part. All problematic as many people will miss those corrections and thus be influenced by wrong data.

Those two points are especially problematic given the reach of LTT, since they are by far the largest tech YouTube channel. And thus influence a lot of people, especially beginners. Their initial response to these problems was also extremely bad.

• the third problem was a former employee coming forward with allegations of them being an extremely toxic place to work at. With sexual harassment, intense workload and so on.

That's one of the reasons companies love subscriptions. You'd think that people would cancel whenever they aren't using it, since it presumably is rather easy. But most are lazy or maybe have the irrational fear of missing out, even if they could easily resubscribe, should they ever need it.

Personally I wonder if one of the next steps of enshittification would be longer minimum subscriptions, but I guess with these kind of stats there isn't a need for it yet.

On that note they should also finally stop using it. If every politician, institution and public broadcaster would stop using Twitter and start using mastodon it would easily gain enough momentum to replace it as the default platform in Europe.

Die Idee, dass Menschen ab 70 Jahren ihre Fahrtauglichkeit alle fünf Jahre durch einen Gesundheitstest nachweisen müssen, wurde verworfen.

Bevor ich den Artikel gelesen habe dachte ich es ginge vielleicht um irgendeine bürokratische und ausufernde Lösung, durch die Fahrschulen nochmehr überlastet wurden. Aber eigentlich ging es hier ja nur um minimal Forderungen.

Ab 70 sollte man doch eh mindestens alle 5 Jahre mal in irgendeiner Form zum Gesundheitscheck. Bei der Gelegenheit Reflexe und Sehfähigkeit testen wäre eh nicht schlecht. Selbst die Lösung durch einen Fragebogen mit Selbstauskunft (und dadurch Implikationen in Schadensfall) würde wahrscheinlich dem ein oder anderen zu denken geben.

Rentner sind echt unantastbar in unserer Gesellschaft.

Man müsste noch nichtmal neue Steuern einführen. Einfach mal anfangen bestehende Schlupflöcher zu schließen und Steuerbetrug konsequent zu verfolgen.

Cum-Cum/Ex steht da natürlich immer im Raum, aber auch Dinge wie dass Vonovia bei der 20mrd Übernahme der Deutschen Wohnen wohl keinen Cent Grunderwerbssteuer zahlen muss, wenn ein Mathias Döpfner über eine mrd an Aktien steuerfrei geschenkt bekommt oder Unternehmen die mit einer Hütte im Wald Steuern umgehen.

Aber es geht halt garnicht darum effizient Geld einzusparen oder Einnahmen zu erhöhen, sondern nur ums Drangsalieren und Ausspielen der ärmeren Bevölkerungsschichten gegeneinander.

To be fair that is true for many jobs. Anytime you are working around heavy machinery for example.

What gets me is that their whole profession is about getting a known dangerous task and figuring out if/how the scene can be performed in a safe manner. With time in advance to prepare, and mitigate risks.

And yet they still cut corners.

I'd say the most recent major influences were the IPO and the emergence of LLMs.

Reddit becoming a publicly traded company and the preparation to do so certainly initiated a major shift in its priorities.

Ai and large language models make it easier than ever to create shiny, but low quality content.

And the rest is just reddit becoming more mainstream leading to an overall shift towards banal rather than niche topics.

Ich muss gestehen, dass ich mich nicht wirklich mit der Materie auskenne, und lasse mich deswegen gerne eines besseren belehren, aber ich stehe dem ganzen sehr negativ gegenüber.

Letztlich kann FlixTrain hier doch einfach Rosinenpickerei betreiben und sich nur die besten und profitablen Strecken und Zeitslots heraussuchen. Falls sich eine Fahrt als unprofitable heraus stellt, bietet man sie nicht mehr an. Das kann die Bahn nicht, denn sie muss gesellschaftlichen und politischen Zielen folgen.

Wenn der Lokführer der DB vorher eine andere unprofitable Stecke bedienen muss, kann es dadurch zu Dominoeffekten kommen. Ein weiteres Problem das es für FlixTrain nicht gibt.

Und ich bin mir 100%ig sicher, dass wenn FlixTrain als Unternehmen doch auf die Nase fliegen sollte, dann werden sie sofort Wettbewerbsverzerrung schreien und entweder Schadensersatz verlangen oder, dass die Bahn ihren Service verschlechtert.

with 85% of the promised functionality no longer functional

To be fair 85% of threads retracting doesn't seem to translate to an equal amount of functional loss. The article mentions

Neuralink was quick to note that it was able to adjust the algorithm used for decoding those neuronal signals to compensate for the lost electrode data. The adjustments were effective enough to regain and then exceed performance on at least one metric—the bits-per-second (BPS) rate used to measure how quickly and accurately a patient with an implant can control a computer cursor.

I think it will be impossible for us to asses how much it actually impacts function in real world use case.

It seems clear that this is a case of learning by trial and error, which considering the stakes doesn't seem like the right approach.

The question that this article doesn't answer is, whether they have learned anything at all or if they are just proceeding to do the same thing again. And if they have learned something, is there something preventing it to be applied to the first patient.

Die vermummten Täter waren Zeugen zufolge mit Holzknüppeln, Schlagstöcken, Quarzhandschuhen und Reizgas bewaffnet.

Die Neonazis hätten gezielt gegen Köpfe geschlagen

Warum wird daraus jetzt "zu Boden prügeln" und nicht "versuchter Mord"?