Cool. More options for reproductive agency are always welcome.

Any chance anyone’s up for sharing a pod? I need a hug.

Mostly two with a dash of five.

That’s why a said static webhost, i.e. paying for the ability to serve files, not run scripts or manage the webserver configuration. Sure, the hosting provider could be made responsible for the implementation, but now they have been encumbered with the burden and liability of policing which hosted sites needs this bullshit enabled and which are just a blog about making strawberry preserves or something.

Point is, it’s complete and utter twattery of the highest order. Never mind enforcement, I don’t even see how it would be reliably or consistently implemented.

And all that is in any case absolutely futile, because there’s still the matter of people being perfectly able of obtaining those self-same ISO’s from any number of other sources that are even more difficult to police, like the ones I originally mentioned, and about a thousand more where they came from.

Well, good for them. I’m not Australian, get to vote for Australian lawmakers or host websites in Australia.

Is Australia going to pay every single website admin for the burden of implementing this wonderful magical logic to detect a given source IP(v4) belongs to a VPN provider? What about IPv6?

If I host a simple static website on a static webhost in Denmark say, and provide some otherwise perfectly legal OS ISO’s for download, how would I implement any logic at all? Why the fuck should I be subject to Australian laws?

The cookie acceptance of the GPDR was already bad enough and ruined so much of the Internet with no appreciative improvement of the privacy of visitors. If every Tom, Dick and Harry are going to place spurious demands on every website, it’ll do nothing except raise enormous barriers to entry and ensure that only huge players with the capacity to comply with demands from legislators all over the world will even be able to “legally” run websites at all. And then we can’t have an Internet or FOSS for that matter.

Maybe legislators should stop writing half-baked laws the consequences of which they apparently cannot comprehend.

That may be the best way to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.

Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.

If I knew, I swear I’d tell you buddy.

Agreed, but with AMD apparently jumping on the “AI” bandwagon and Intel being… Intel, we aren’t exactly spoiled for choice right now. Besides, Nvidia’s financial shenanigans ultimately hits everybody right in the DRAM equally anyway.

God, as if the 21st century didn’t already suck enough.

Pity nobody can afford better cards from Nvidia or anybody else anymore then.

Amen, Professors. Amen.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zswap

Look, I’m not saying I’d gleefully burn Nvidia to the ground. I’m just saying I wouldn’t help put out the fire.

Originally released back in 1998 and set in a near-future dystopian world, SiN: Reloaded puts you in control of security consultant Colonel John R. Blade as you take on the seductively evil Doctor Elexis Sinclaire. When Elexis, CEO of SinTEK Industries, begins injecting the streets with a DNA-altering drug, it’s time to reassess the laws of morality by facing off against Elexis’ unholy army of genetically-engineered mutants.

If they hadn’t explicitly stated the year of release, the synopsis sure would have given it away. Oh, to have been a fly on the wall of that pitch meeting.

Looks suspiciously at the cold remains of my last cup of coffee.

…Yeah, probably.

Sucks teeth. I suppose that would be a rather tall order without tool assistance. On a completely unrelated note, I just had the oddest flash of somebody having welded a golden(ish) bull to the front of a surplus APC ramming the resultant amalgamation into the nearest stock exchange and / or AI data center. No idea why.

Really? Well, I haven’t read the paper yet, but according to this Scientific American article dated October 25, 2011, IBM’s research group in Almaden, California had managed to “completely simulate” the brain of a mouse, rat and cat using their “C2” cortical simulator running on Blue Gene.

Not that I’m saying you’re wrong. Perhaps they have a much more liberal interpretation of “completely” than the present research for all I know.

No, I don’t think I will.

Wasn’t IBM doing the same with Blue Gene? I seem to recall announcements of rodent and cat brain simulations.

Of course you did. Or else.

Drink a verification can to continue, consumer-slave.