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I wonder how you'd actually go about prosecuting that. What's the line between crass and illegal?

People have infantilization fetishes - where they wear diapers and shit. You can certainly imagine someone making a cartoon of that in a sexual way.

Adults often don't look their ages. John Mulaney famously had a set about resembling a child when he was 29.

What if someone generated an image that looked like a teenager, but there was a driver's license in the frame that said the person was an adult?

Real people have ages. Imaginary people are imaginary.

What about art from the antiquity when what we would call a teenager would have been treated as an adult? Surely someone painted people having sex before "the age of consent" was a well-defined term. Is it illegal to own that painting?

This is also why Steam hardware matters.

If something runs on a Steam Deck, you can be sure it will run on your >= Steam Deck-equivalent device.

Yes, but PDT = MST

Glad to see progress made on this.

In my 20s, I strongly considered taking some time off to create and drive petitions across the Pacific states to put us all on permanent PDT (matching Arizona). In my research, I saw it would take an act of Congress to make that happen, so I stood down.

It's tempting to sell a bunch, but then you've got cash. What do you do with cash when the government keeps printing money and assets are all overpriced?

The Rock Band guitars have a photoresistor for precisely this purpose: the screen flashes and the guitar responds when the light hits it. It helps make the otherwise very painful calibration process transparent.

It would be so cool to get that to work in Linux. I know the instrument code is in hid-sony. Here are some open tabs I've got in case anyone's curious:

- https://pascal.giard.info/techreports/nguyen-daniel-autocali...

- https://www.niangames.com/articles/reverse-engineering-rockb...

- https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/drivers/hid/hi...

As my dad told us every time we crossed a bridge when we were kids:

"Tolls are a ratchet - they only move in one direction."

The employee experience was very different 9y ago.

SteamOS got me to migrate from a Nintendo.

There's a lot that I love about it, but "choose which of these thousand settings permutations to get the game to look good without crashing" is a major chore.

One nice thing about Valve/Steam leading with hardware is that it gives console-esque performance targets. If you know your device is a bit better than a Steam Deck, you can probably start at the Steam Deck preset and adjust accordingly.

DirectX is losing ground too thanks to Proton and Vulkan

[citation needed]

My understanding is that Proton is effectively a distribution of WINE + DXVK, which does for DirectX what WINE does for Win32. Valve is even on record saying "make one good copy of your game and trust our compatibility tools to port to other platforms" which is effectively saying "use DirectX if you want - Proton will run it just as well."

Include "add" and other potential weasel words

I was wondering if this would be a worthwhile upgrade to my Legion Go Z1 Extreme.

Sounds like it's in the same vicinity for graphics power. Not worth $1k for a tiny bit more RAM.

I do wonder if this will give me any useful presets, in the same way the Steam Deck does. I have no interest in tweaking graphics settings one at a time.

or they might be legally obligated to post a job publicly, even if they’ve already identified the person they want to hire

Famous/obvious bug in the H1B process, but not sure how this legislation would address it. If they're legally obligated to post the role, won't they just say "we'll fill this job <whenever the H1B process says we can take this down>"?

There was an Amazon UXR study that floated around ~8 years ago that said the only things people care about from a voice assistant are music, weather, and alarms.

PMs keep trying to make them "smarter," and it just makes the core user journeys worse.

Surely they think they're inventing cars when we're griping about buggy whips. But it really feels like voice assistants peaked ~10y ago for the things people actually want them for.

My parents bought an Amazon TV at Costco that is surprisingly responsive for being a smart TV.

Roku's decision to get involved in streaming content at all

As I recall, it was originally a Netflix product that was spun out due to its potential to cause a conflict of interest in their main business. They didn't want devices like Chromecast and AppleTV to see Netflix as a competitor, and be reluctant to bundle the Netflix streaming app on their devices.

Is the flavor of Markdown (e.g. CommonMark) specified? Didn't see anything about it by perusing the first few pages, but that feels important for a spec.

My primary phone number has been a Google Voice account since 2010.

It's unclear to me how I'd be impacted by these new rules, but I don't believe there's any requirement to provide PII to get a VOIP number.

Are they actually made in the UK?

I'd presume they're shipped from China like most tech goods.

There's a whole big conversation to have about the bureaucratic state.

One of the things that appeals to voters is the argument that too many decisions are made by unaccountable bureaucrats. Trump has been as effective at fixing this as with "drain the damp," and our elected officials clearly haven't been great about writing policy either. But one of the grievances that gets people to vote is "look at all this shit that some guy in Washington just decided."

Here's the link to submit a comment to the FCC:

https://www.fcc.gov/ecfs/filings/express

Ran a quick search and found a whole bunch of news articles, but nobody includes info that makes it easy to route your comment. Feels like the beginning of Hitchhiker's Guide:

It was on display in the bottom of a locked filing cabinet stuck in a disused lavatory with a sign on the door saying Beware of the Leopard.

I was a teenager when 9/11 happened.

Until that point, I thought wars were a stupid thing that humanity realized were stupid and stopped doing.

If the referendum passes and the population crosses the threshold, Switzerland may need to remove itself from e.g. the Schengen area. All the remediations mentioned in the referendum are about suspending immigration.

In NY + SF, it's used for anything you might want to attend that would be organized by an individual - parties, meetups, food crawls, classes, concerts, local events, etc.

Partiful feels like it has replaced Facebook Events, Meetup, and the other formerly-popular hubs for in-person event planning.

He's right - that phrase evokes what he means better than many alternatives.

But this feels like an article where you get all the useful info in the title. The rest is just a rant about the modern internet being bad for your brain.

I feel like I heard this same rumor a decade+ ago.

Not a rumor when announced on a public market, but it's not the first time they've been perceived as a precarious has-been.

Glad to see movement here!

It's been so long since I've heard about Debug that I was afraid it was cancelled.

I remember when they first pivoted from multiperson multitouch tables to tablets. It sounded like a really cool device - even got me to walk into a Microsoft store.

Then I realized that it used the same shitty Windows with the same shitty registry that I had mostly avoided for my whole life to that point. I certainly wasn't jumping in on that tablet.

Is soon now?