macOS comes with python already.

You might like your macbook's hardware more than you think. It's a pretty open platform with a standardized instruction set and on open bootloader than can run Linux with pretty good hardware support for such a new platform.

This Steam Deck is much less locked down. It's an x86 PC.

I do not want cloud gaming startups to succeed. I feel like I would own my games even less than I do now, and due to the laws of physics, games would be less responsive than playing locally. I am glad that Stadia has failed.

I believe the issue is cloud gaming is succeeding for a triopoly of companies, and only them. You can not want them to succeed, but that's further entrenching their dominance. If you're fine with narrowing who can license games to just a couple of companies, then I'm afraid that's there's a very real risk of no longer owning your games at all. This is a bit of a slippery slope, but that's just my concern.

The armchair defeatist appears

enjoyed the article, i wonder if the internet will become more or less regressive as time goes on.

The answer is yes.

They explain what the padding was used for and why it was initially introduced in the article. This isn't something that needs to be theorized on.

The article is only guessing at what 99% of the padding is there for.

Though both have the word "nuclear" in the name, nuclear power and nuclear bombs are not the same thing.

So people are stressing for no reason over wrong semantics for the (operating & abandoned) nuclear plants in Ukraine. Thanks for your valuable contribution.

In my experience, you have to search for things you like for a few months to give TikTok the data it needs for recommendations.

It is scary how easy and willingly we just give up our privacy and data away.

Truly the future is Brave New World, not 1984

How else would a recommendation algorithm work? I don’t see why it’s concerning that a company knows that I like to follow musicians, etc.

What’s the alternative? Never finding new things because I refuse to divulge what niches or hobbies I like?

Yeah. It should be obvious that recommendations to work somehow you need to track what you like. Or other alternative is to just recommend the most popular mainstream thing at the moment... Which then get also attacked for various reasons.

Yes, it is kind of weird to say "social media exists = 1984" but I think they were meaning that it's worrying how many people use it without realizing they're basically doing the NSA's job for them.

That’s not people below 40 say. They describe it as an instant drug.

While being locked in to a single app store without jailbreak isn't ideal, I'd rather have a native app on my phone than some lowest-bidder web app that downloads 10MB every time and runs terribly.