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TechTakes @awful.systems

I am rich and have no idea what to do

  • I wish I could agree, but we're all AI fodder. AI companies will spend us and anyone who disagrees can get fucked because money. The ownership class is going to milk this for every damn cent until they get their returns, and if that means more murder-suicides in that pursuit, well then buckle up.

  • Look at the stats, fentanyl has always been rarely prescribed and even more rarely prescribed compared to other opioids. The fentanyl crisis is a crisis of economics: there is less profit to be made in creating, smuggling and selling other opioids compared to fentanyl.

    If you want to be accurate, doctors prescribed non-fentanyl opioids in situations where they weren't needed, often illegally, when those prescriptions ran out, that caused a heroin crisis. That heroin crisis became a fentanyl crisis when drug dealers stopped selling heroin in favor of the cheaper and much stronger fentanyl.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    US startup charging couples to ‘screen embryos for IQ’

  • Different OSes for different use cases. You have a job to do. Just use Windows.

    If you want to use Linux, use it on your own machines on your own time.

    That said, there are a few things you can do if you really want to use Linux:

    1. Test if the app works on Wine, Proton, etc. Even GPU accelerated apps can work, depending on the software/driver stack.
    2. Run a Windows VM and pass-through a GPU. That way you'll get native performance on the app that's GPU intensive. Use KVM and the CPU overhead will be negligible.
    3. If you're doing 3D modeling/rendering, SFX, video editing or ML/AI, there are a lot of options on Linux. Some options that exist in Windows also have Linux versions.
  • Insurance can still payout and people can still be made whole for property that's deemed uninhabitable. You do not have to "continue to rebuild in Florida", but you can make sure people's lives aren't completely ruined as a result of natural disasters.

  • Looks like Google is calling it Play Integrity these days: https://developer.android.com/privacy-and-security/safetynet/deprecation-timeline

    But it's this: https://developer.android.com/google/play/integrity

    It's an API that ensures you're running apps on the hardware and Android ROMs Google approves of. It can also ensure that apps are not running on rooted phones.

    Developers can integrate it into their apps. Banking apps do it, for example, and won't run in Waydroid as a result. More and more apps integrate it over time.

  • TechTakes @awful.systems

    In a rare moment, the orange site asks where the emperor's clothes are

    TechTakes @awful.systems

    "The concern with slavery is the innocence of victim. When that’s removed, it’s no longer controversial. At least it shouldn’t be."

    SneerClub @awful.systems

    Sam Bankman-Fried funded a group with racist ties

    politics @lemmy.world

    N.J. college cancels drag queen event to ‘respect comfort levels’ of employees

    politics @lemmy.world

    Proposed Missouri bill would make teachers register as sex offenders if found supporting transgender students who socially transition

    politics @lemmy.world

    Voters in a California beach town approved an LGBTQ Pride flag ban

    politics @lemmy.world

    Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules

    News @lemmy.world

    Portland bartender who shoved transgender woman in bathroom dispute guilty of hate crime, jury rules

    politics @lemmy.world

    YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol

    Technology @lemmy.world

    YouTube and right-wing creators are profiting from anti-trans vitriol

    politics @lemmy.world

    Response grows as Westboro Baptist Church plans protest at Owasso Schools

    politics @lemmy.world

    Libs of TikTok, other right-wingers lose it after X reinstates bans on misgendering, deadnaming trans people

    politics @lemmy.world

    Texas AG: PFLAG must provide names, details of trans members

    politics @lemmy.world

    State senator 'stands by' beliefs after calling LGBTQ+ Oklahomans 'filth'

    politics @lemmy.world

    Old Guard soldiers charged with stealing pride flags from Arlington home

    politics @lemmy.world

    New Hampshire town manager resigns after homophobic harassment

    World News @lemmy.world

    Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech

    politics @lemmy.world

    Florida’s new anti-gay bill aims to limit and punish protected free speech