When I initially set up my media server I went with Jellyfin over Plex mostly because the idea of having to create an account on an external service to use software I was hosting myself rubbed me the wrong way. Since then the more learn about Plex the more baffled I am that anyone chooses to use it at all.

I don't know what it's using specifically under the hood, but in Street Fighter 6 Capcom recently added a new AI opponent you can fight that they say is trained on actual player ranked matches and fights more like a human opponent. You can even have it try to mimic your own playstyle if you've played enough.

It can do some odd things and its mimicry isn't perfect. But it definitely doesn't feel like the typical high difficulty CPU opponent which uses things like input reading to react faster than a real player ever could.

...it also has been seen teabagging.

As Edge comes pre-installed by default on Windows machines, users must navigate the Microsoft offering in order to download their browser of choice.

What's the actual alternative they want here? That users look up download URLs on other devices and download their browser of choice via command line using ~~cURL~~ Invoke-WebRequest? That ISPs provide browser installers on USB sticks?

Also, it's not like MS is cornering the market on browser share here. Even with this "unfair advantage" they've only scraped together a 5% slice of browser usage.

The dndmemes protests were a pretty incredible thing while they lasted. The mods changed the subreddit to "nsfw" because that disabled most of the monetization. Then Reddit admins told them the subreddit obviously wasn't really nsfw and to change it to accurately reflect the subreddit content.

...so the mods changed the subreddit rules to allow actual nsfw content and people went nuts. In multiple senses of the term.

Of course "accurately reflecting the subreddit" wasn't what Reddit really cared about. They wanted to preserve the advertising stream for a popular subreddit, and this did the opposite of that. Reddit admins soon after basically said "remove nsfw content, restore the subreddit to what it used to be, do what we say or we'll replace you with a mod team of our own choosing".

Kind of. The concept of simultaneity breaks down at distances where the speed of light matters. If we base it on what we currently observe and call "now" on the Sun the eight minute old state we currently observe then what does "now" on earth look like from the point of view of the Sun at that same moment? You can't reconcile a single "now" for observers in both locations.

An alternative take which is also consistent with observable physics is that the speed of light is infinite but it's causality itself that propagates at c.

Thinking in those terms also makes a number of relativistic effects more intuitive. You need infinite energy to reach the speed of light simply because it's infinitely fast. Time dilates when moving because you're encountering approaching causality earlier than you otherwise would have. Time "stops" for anything traveling at the speed of light because at infinite speed it just experiences literally everything in its line of travel at once and the concept of "after" becomes meaningless, encountering all future oncoming causality in a single instant.

This was a bit of a tangent but it's something that has fascinated me for a long time.

What is this person even talking about? There's no dedicated button to post screenshots. There's a screenshot button, but you had to go into the album menus to post them.

I had to look all of these up.

18 U.S. Code 31

Definitions section for U.S. Code Title 18 Chapter 2. Literally just defines terms used elsewhere. Contains no actual laws, regulations, or rights. It does not define "NOT FOR HIRE", but it does define "motor vehicle" as referencing only vehicles used for commercial purposes. They're probably trying to indicate that since they are not operating for commercial purposes then it is not a "motor vehicle" for the purposes of the law, but are choosing to ignore that these definitions are for chapter 2 only.

Importantly, nothing else they cite is from Title 18, Chapter 2.

42 U.S. 1983

Provides the groundwork for taking civil action in the event that your rights are violated. Specifies that any person violating another's rights is liable for that action. Does not at any point say anything about soliciting.

28 CFR 29.1

As mentioned by @darganon@lemmy.world, provides the Attorney General with the authority to implement a theft protection program that involves vehicle owners providing consent to have their vehicles arbitrarily stopped and investigated as a potential theft.

Literally the opposite of what these people (and most others, to be fair), would want.

18 U.S. Code 654

Specifies that US federal employees are not permitted to embezzle or steal property that comes into their possession as part of their jobs.

Has nothing to do with private property, its definition, or associated rights.

18 U.S. Code 242

Fairly colourful legal language that basically means people who claim or appear to be acting in accordance with the law still aren't permitted to violate your rights. Notable for actually being about what they say it is, an assertion of their rights when dealing with law enforcement.

Also a bit about racism and unnecessary violence in the name of the law being bad. Police probably could use a refresher on this one.

UCC 1 - 308

This one is actually hilarious on the heels of calling themselves "not for hire" to skirt the definition of "motor vehicle" under 18 U.S. Code 31, since the entirety of UCC is specifically about people engaged in commercial transactions.

Adding "all rights reserved" basically means that all your rights don't need to be explicitly stated in agreements or contracts, you have them regardless. It also adds that people can come to agreements outside of the original terms of their contract or rights and this is not a violation.

At the time of this post both the game and proton had been updated and the game was working again.

Adding DRM to a two year old already cracked game is still an insane decision, but the problem of it breaking the game was fixed relatively quickly.

Both can be true.

When you're cultivating a relationship with a real person their wants and desires also factor into your choices, assuming you aren't a psychopath. They will want different things from you, and keeping that to themselves and never pushing back just makes them miserable and builds resentment. Similarly, you don't want to impose unreasonable expectations on them. Whether that's related to their behaviour or their appearance, no one can reasonably expect to get exactly what they want 100% of the time, and that's part of a healthy relationship.

...but if you're constructing an artificial partner from a blank slate that's completely bespoke to you, to choose anything other than an idealized match for all your desires is frankly insane, and to pretend otherwise is simply disingenuous.

Honestly though if they just added "extract to {archivename}\" as a right click option it would cover more than 90% of my usage.

Have done this several times for content on Disney+. I have an ultrawide, HDR1000 display. The movie I'm trying to watch is in 21:9 and available in HDR. Why in God's name are you delivering it in SDR and in a letterboxed 16:9 which is in turn pillarboxed on my display?!

It is good, if the competing products/services are interchangeable and they need to compete on factors such as price, convenience, or reliability. For example, competing grocery stores, all of which offer by and large the same products. Or competing mechanics, all of which can perform service on your car.

Streaming services don't do this. They have carved up the market and "compete" by making you choose which products you want more.

Imagine two grocery stores, one of which had all the ice cream, and the other had all the chocolate, and neither could carry things that the other stocked. That is what streaming services are doing.