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Yes and they could just make it(the rootkits) work on linux. It's more about the publishers/devs actively opposing linux.


Alternatively it's still a pretty small slice of the market that's not willing to dual boot for the major games that do require windows only anticheats so it's just not worth their dev and support time to try to serve that small slice. Valve's work on Steam Machines/Decks is the thing needed to actually push developers to supporting it by providing a relatively consistent target OS and a large enough install base to justify spending the money to support.


The major anti-cheats do support Linux, but it's opt-in on the dev side because they're significantly easier to bypass than the Windows versions. It's not even close, getting around the Linux ACs is child's play. It sucks but nobody really has a good solution yet.


The fact they don't already do that, sounds to me like the things produced by AI are not worth the investment. Especially since the output is not copyrightable, right?

If there was a lot of gold to find they wouldn't sell the shovels.


There is a lot of value in specialization. It allows capitalism to do its magic to elevate the best uses of your technology without yourself taking on any of the risk. Trying to inhouse everything often smothers innovation and leads to bad resource allocation. It can be done, but in fields with a lot of ongoing innovation it's extremely hard to get right

There is a reason that Cisco doesn't offer websites, and you are probably actively ignoring whatever websites your ISP has. ASML isn't making chips, and TSMC isn't making chip designs


But think of the Apple approach. And while all cloud providers started with mainstream hardware, they evolved to proprietary systems. The current AI phase may just be the „good old days“ with access just limited by financial power paving to be cut down once the dust settles and some model vendors lose.


I mean, yeah, his post seems like a good faith analysis without any insults.


Nah.A tomato is clearly a vegetable like all the other plant parts. "Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food." All other definitions are just arbitrary and there is no reason why a tomato should not be considered a vegetable.


The definition you cite is also arbitrary, and language changes over time, and over regions.

For what it's worth, I consider tomato a vegetable too, and so, I failed the level initially. Which, to be honest, mirrors my experience with real captchas - I usually have a disagreement with them, regarding what counts as part of the traffic light etc.


Stuck at level 4. "Everything except Mr. Potatohead is a vegetable" is the truth but not accepted. Apparently its some arbitrary definition of "vegetable"


Since when are grapes or bananas vegetables?


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

> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used, and is applied to plants collectively to refer to all edible plant matter, including flowers, fruits, stems, leaves, roots, and seeds. An alternative definition is applied somewhat arbitrarily, often by culinary and cultural tradition; it may include savoury fruits such as tomatoes and courgettes, flowers such as broccoli, and seeds such as pulses, but exclude foods derived from some plants that are fruits, flowers, nuts, and cereal grains.


> Vegetables are edible parts of plants that are consumed by humans or other animals as food. This original meaning is still commonly used

Well, the Wikipedia author who wrote this is clearly mistaken here. Sweet fruits like grapes are rarely called vegetables, so this definition uncommon, not common.


Good thing its not the Wikipedia but the dictionary definition then.


Not everything on Wikipedia is true.

In idiomatic British English vegetable excludes fruit except for those fruits that are treated as vegetables such as tomatoes, etc.

The definition is arbitrary, hard and tedious to specify but nonetheless most people I know agree on which side of the line most common edible plant parts are on.


So the meat of a banana would be a vegetable but not its skin? Never heard this definition.


That is some "every element apart from helium and hydrogen is a metal" taxonomy!


Pasting a screenshot into ChatGPT gave me the right answer immediately. Same for the minecraft thing for which I was clueless. We non-robots are already far behind for most of these tasks.


If you recategorize it as fruits vs non-fruits, it makes sense. Edible parts of plants that grow below ground and do not contain seeds? Not a fruit. Plastic children's toy? Not a fruit.


Frankly I expect this of all captchas. I routinely fail the "select all squares with x" types for some reason.


And that is incredibly annoying for the user and a problem Youtube should fix.


If YouTube stored the entire video in a cache people would yell and scream about that. Oh, I’ve got 2TB of YouTube cache that didn’t get cleaned properly, how annoying.


Well Im a liar. Checked just now and it changed since last time I was looking into this.

cache-control private, max-age=11722 (~3 hours) date Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:19:15 GMT expires Thu, 18 Sep 2025 14:19:15 GMT

it once again lands in browser cache. I remember a moment when it returned no-cache.

We are back to situation where:

- google doesnt get any info if user with adblocker keeps rewinding in that ~3hour window

- player refetches if you pause for few hours and come back, or decide to rewind 3 hour video to watch again

- your SSD is hammered with gigabytes of useless browser cache writes - might be good idea for Extension overwriting those headers to no-store/max-age=0


I would be surprised if browsers actually cashed the entirety of videos, even if the cash policy allows for it. That does seem like a way to thrash SSD.


They did before switch to no-cache, and I bet they are back at it now. Chrome used to roughly write as much as I watched at ~2-3GB per hour.


So you suggest western countries should get birthrates up and that will fix climate change by offsetting the main producers in the country? How is per capita relevant.


No, I think it would be most fair to split the remaining carbon budget (to the extent that there even is one) evenly, or maybe try and account for the fact that regions that have been industrialized for a long time have already used up a lot of the cap.

However, I think the fair plan is impractical and would meet a lot of resistance from major economies. So, out of pragmatism I prefer a carbon credit system.


Per capita is relevant because the atmosphere doesn't care about arbitrary political boundaries that humans draw on the map.

A ton of emitted CO2 does the same amount of harm no matter what person's activities cause it (directly or indirectly).


Where do you get all that from? Except for famous cases like the Rote Flora in Hamburg or i guess Berlin in general there's not a lot of squatting going on in Germany, or is there?

In Germany squatting laws dictate you have to openly live at a place for 30 years and the property needs to be registered to your name in order for you to be able to claim ownership.So here it can hardly be a measure anyone can take to get a cheap place to live.


I have several friends who have squatted abandoned buildings in Europe. I have other friends who live in otherwise abandoned buildings under agreement with the owner to prevent squatters breaking in to the building. When I moved into my house several years back it looked abandoned (because it had been before buying it), and when I invited friends over for the first time some assumed I was squatting there upon arrival. Squatting is really not an unusual thing. Squatters aren't squatting in order to claim ownership. Often they're students looking for a cheap place to stay.


No, there is not a lot of squatting going on in Germany. AFAIK, the only EU countries with rather active squatting scenes are Italy and Spain, but my information is probably 20 years out of date.


Same as in Spain. I know multiple cases of "okupas", not of what OP describes.


Eurodollar is cyberpunk. Don't you mean the petro dollar?(nevermind found Eurodollar instead of "euro dollar" now :) )


I don't mean petro dollar.

And you are more than welcome to use the internet if there are terms you don't understand: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurodollar (Edit: I see you found d the article, will leave the link for other who are in doubt :) )

They are different concepts.


The amount of random plastic bottle caps in nature proofs that you can not be trusted to screw the cap back on.

And if anything the limit on vacuums forced them to innovate. My Vacuum today is far more effective than my 2000 watt vacuum was in the past.


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