DDR5 was the first to be hit with 200-400% price increases, but DDR4 is also seeing similar price hikes as demand cascades to what’s available.

Yeah, but did you hear? Spez is a billionaire now! The last step of the business model! Great job everyone!

If ICE members know there will be no arrest and therefore no punishment, how will officers “stop” them?

Yeah, this 100% only works (but I think does work) with a reliable physical chain of trust, since we’re not yet in an age where you can Mission Impossible mask social engineer trust face-to-face. Not a great plan if this isn’t a USB drive handed directly to them, though.

You could always package them with everything they need to watch, like VLC (which should be able to read most formats anyway). Not clear if they are all on Windows, but perhaps you could include the portable VLC version that doesn’t require an install and make an obvious-named VLC playlist file for them to open.

My feeling is, it’s worse if we are one step closer to effective state-controlled media, but yes, all valid points

Oh, sure, if your horses are all in the same place.

Ah, the Centurion package.

As bad as this reality is, my first thought is at least it isn’t going to Larry Ellison and Paramount. Coming from Zaslov, this seems like about the same level of terrible.

I’d vote for Newsom if he’s the nominee, but I really hope he’s not the nominee (assuming, obviously, the relative utopian future where we get to vote in 2028).

I’m glad when his media exposure goals overlap with doing actual good things, but - and I may be putting too fine a point on it - he’s basically Hillary if Hillary had a penis and was super jazzed about it, and I am fairly confident I know the smug look he makes when he smells his own farts.

Since we’ve all enjoyed SaaS allowing us to pay monthly fees until death for everything from our word processor to our sleep tracker, get ready for Compute as a Service to take over everything else once none of us can afford home computing.

This is the internet, you can’t swear here.

They’re ending Fiscal Q2 2026, or end of February for them. Since the AI bubble seems pretty ready to pop, this seems really poor timing.

Ok, that is much closer to half (or, let’s just say effectively half) than I thought. I’ll go eat some crow.

That is so technically accurate, I love it.

Not downplaying that this is real dumb, but “half the US” is meant to be misleadingly attention-grabbing. The states that are doing this are not the most populous states. No law like this exists in NY or CA, for example.

I don’t know the amount of the population living under these laws, but it is not nearly half, even if half the states have passed such laws.

Did Larry Ellison get controlling stake in US Tiktok? I thought he was trying, but did I miss that happening?

The other 51% are either intentionally lying to themselves, are so financially secure that they didn’t notice the changes, or are immense idiots.

That’s a great summary of the Trump coalition, generally.

SWF vector animations are incredibly resilient, actually. I can still pull my saved SWF memes, and run them through Ruffle at modern resolution, or Swivel to get 60 fps 4K lossless MP4 versions, or bigger. Kind of cool.

This is only true with an embarrassingly coarse threat model.

Yes, every avenue that allows a user access in theory allows a hacker possible access. But the entire point of security is to create access that is as close to seamless for the user and as close to impermeable for the hacker as possible.

Think of the physical world. We secure a literal bank vault against thieves, customers and even employees with different threat and access models while officers and executives retain “root” access.

If you simply use an access and threat model that treats the user as a hacker, it’s both lazy and undermines the basic purpose of security. It’s just encasing the bank vault door in concrete.

But I don’t think you even realize what you’re arguing - you’re not advocating that nobody gets root access. You’re advocating that the phone or OS maker gets root access while the user does not. You really are saying we can’t own our phones rather than than we can’t secure them.