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Vice President tells NASA to get to the Moon in 5 years.
atomheartbevo replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Daily Texan
A company making orbit on their first try is extremely impressive. Not just the first try of a new system or rocket, but Blue Origin’s first orbital attempt in the history of the company, period. Has that been done before? -
Some of these AI shorts…Uhura was..
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
An arrow burying itself into a human being hay bale makes a pretty satisfying sound. -
The thing that I think is missing from that compilation, and I think Swisher pointed it out one time elsewhere, is that Zuckerberg truly believes he is entitled to the user data on Apple devices, and Google and Microsoft as well. If Facebook is on a device, he thinks he should be able to have full access. Apple has teams dedicated to locking it down and they’ve publicly rebuked him, and it pisses him off so much. Apple sees the iPhone as the product and iPhone buyers as their customers. Zuckerberg sees the Facebook users as the product and advertisers as his customers, and the more user data he can vacuum up, the more revenue can come in. This is why he even wanted FB to make a phone back in the early 2010s (it failed quickly). And Apple has banned FB apps before https://techcrunch.com/2019/01/30/apple-bans-facebook-vpn/ https://www.cnet.com/news/privacy/apples-privacy-battle-with-facebook-just-became-all-out-war/
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Has Leon ever admitted to being wrong when it made him look bad? -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
The first rule is: Any area in a Bucee’s can be a public sex stall. If you’re brave enough. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Archery is even better. -
Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Not my favorite 1983 release from Bally Midway, but not bad and I liked the band’s digitized heads in the game I’d rather play the sequel, Journey Escape, that came out on the Atari 2600. For the youngsters, Journey was a huge rock band in the 80s. -
Interesting article on Jugband Blues https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/decoding-a-genius-last-stand-syd-barretts-final-pink-floyd-song/
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"Your money is on its way to China to pay for a golf cart to carry our finest soldiers into battle against those Ukrainian losers who are clearly not in Kursk and not dropping drones on our cities! After we rebuild all of our refineries that have been catching fire from people smoking and being careless with their cigarettes, we can pay you back!"
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I would agree except that the internet and travel within Europe in the 90s and 2000s shook things up, to the point where up to a million Russians and their families fled Russia when they became concerned they were going to be drafted in 2022/2023. Obviously it was probably wise of Putin to let them go, since they would have been the troublemakers Plenty stayed behind in the large cities thinking that either their jobs or their bank accounts would keep them from being drafted, and now that security is gone - this can’t bode well for the economy (hence their jobs) and if their bank accounts are gutted, they are not bribing anybody to get out of conscription.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
Musk wouldn’t know what to do if he found himself with another person in one of the private sex stalls in the Bucees bathrooms. Or a public sex stall for that matter. -
So does Facebook. And don't forget Orkut either. Google had Google Drive/Photos, YouTube (a bigger social media platform than Facebook), Blogger (which would have been an easy platform for individual user pages) and a bunch of other services, but Google is gonna Google. Somebody wrote a book that claimed it scared Zuckerberg and he forced the company to boost a lot of areas or add new features.
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Only if somebody else pops up with a major platform that mom and pop can use, that has everything that FB already has. AOL didn't make the leap to broadband provider, so they fell behind their competition fast. AOL was selling internet access over dial-up, and once broadband hit the mainstream scene, a big chunk of AOL's userbase no longer had a need for AOL - AOL would be yet another expense on top of their broadband bill (for many, AOL was their internet access until broadband came along). In other words, AOL didn't evolve, while FB has evolved over time with things like Instagram, marketplace, etc. AOL wasn't profitable in a way that FB is - their profit relied on people using their service sparingly, and when they started to fall behind the competition, they went from an hourly fee to a monthly fee in the late 90s, and it killed their profit margin when people stayed logged in trying to find horny men and women in Austin and Dallas. FB doesn't face that dilemma because their revenue increases when usage increases. Finally, the AOL-Time Warner merger completely turbofucked everything. Facebook is not merging with anybody at that kind of scale. There are very few things that can send FB the way of AOL. It would have to be a competently run platform that offers much of what FB has, just as AOL was wiped out by broadband providing better connection services than AOL. When broadband came along in a big way, people were willing to forego AOL for the better internet access, and would then go find AdultFriendFinder.com or whatever to bang hot ladies and dudes in Austin and Dallas. Apple, Microsoft, and Google are the only companies that could offer a platform at that scale that could compete with FB, and Google has made runs at it, and I'm not sure Microsoft can do that for a lot of reasons (and arguably they have a platform with LinkedIn, but it's no FB).
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Apple is the current and future enemy of Facebook and Zuckerberg has made that clear many times and has lobbied against Apple politically and railed against them publicly. I would not be surprised if he's quietly spent a lot of money on PACs that lobby Congress to look at Apple from an anti-trust/monopoly angle, but he's sure as hell made it clear to various politicians that Apple is the devil. It started four years ago when Apple, by default, blocked Facebook from tracking Apple users' web-browsing and app-using habits, hurting FB's bottom line. Zuckerburg just outright loathes Apple, and there are two reasons for it: 1. The most important - Apple spends a lot of resources on trying to keep Facebook and other platforms from accessing user data on iPhones, iPads, and Macs, including things like trying to make Safari more and more private and keep more and more of Safari's user-data away from Facebook, other platforms, and advertisers. There are people at Apple whose literal jobs involve keeping Facebook, etc. out of user data. Apple already offers a built-in VPN of sorts to all Safari users on all Apple devices through the "Private Browsing Mode" feature. Keeping that browsing data, as well as things like contact lists, text messages, etc. away from Facebook, etc. keeps a shitload of money out of Facebook's wallet. If Google went as hard at user privacy and blocking companies like Facebook, etc. from various data/metrics of its users, Facebook, advertisers, etc. would be in a world of shit, but Google can't do that as effectively as Apple because it has its own tracking it needs to do for its advertisers. Apple forced users to decide whether to let Facebook, etc. track their data/browsing across other websites and apps. Facebook spent tens of millions of dollars on advertising against that update, claiming it would hurt not only Facebook, but small businesses that rely on gathering user data from their browsing, purchases, etc. Facebook even tried to organize small businesses to band together against Apple's privacy restrictions. A friend who worked at Apple said Facebook was nasty as hell privately in going after Apple over those changes. 2. Long term - Apple has $162 billion in cash. Apple has a solid cloud infrastructure, with a lot of apps that synchronize their data across devices, and those apps include calendar apps, store/shopping apps, mapping apps, messaging apps, video game service (including matchmaking) Safari web browser, email, music, password apps, news apps, video and photo taking and organizing apps, video streaming apps, , etc., etc. If Apple wanted to, they could announce that they were creating a social media platform to be included in iCloud, that taps into their various apps, but that is focused on user privacy and that they wouldn't follow the FB model of advertising/user tracking and selling the hell out of user data. Facebook would be in an absolute world of shit if that happened, because plenty of people would be happy with that. That terrifies Zuckerberg, and Google has made runs, both overtly, but also backdoor-ish, at creating its own centralized social media platform, but it never quite gets it together, whereas Apple not only has the resources, but has all of the infrastructure to do it and could hire the right people to make it work, and wouldn't half-ass it.
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Prodigy (and AOL) were so innocent when you look back at them - they were just walled gardens meant to sell you a service, and they made their money from the service fees and advertisers who were doing the equivalent of a weekly grocery mailer back in the old days, before everything was micro-targeted to you in ways that would blow the minds of most Americans these days. FB, etc. give you ads based on a single web page you looked at last week, or a single purchase, but they also collate those website visits and purchases with visits and purchases you have made over the years and send you ads based on that data as well.
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Well 1.4 million rubles makes you a millionaire in Russia, which means that with $13,500 you can probably have 2-3 girlfriends, a Lada, and a decent house (I'm kidding, a thousandaire can easily have their pick of Russian widows). I am insanely curious about whether this really gets shit happening, because this is being done in view of the public and has to be freaking out a lot of the St. Pete's/Moscow/etc. crowd who actually have more than $13,500. Most of them blindly went along knowing that the "the war is going according to plan" talk was all bullshit because they were mostly unaffected outside of higher prices, but this should absolutely ramp up their paranoia that A) they are about to lose a big chunk of their life savings if it happens and B) if the Russian government no longer gives a fuck about keeping them content and mostly unaffected, then how long before they are drafted for the front?
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General Gaming Thoughts That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
atomheartbevo replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Video Games
If you are a big fan of IndyCar Racing II, somebody has put a lot of effort into a wrapper that upscales it to modern resolutions. Only $10 for the wrapper. Here's hoping they make enough to work on some of the expansion tracks. -
@SimonBolivar I’m not trying to spoil you, so don’t play this video. My kid has been listening to soundtracks, and was playing this on YouTube, and now I’m keeping an eye out on the Alamo Drafthouse website, because if TMP pops back up for a screening, We are going (me just for the theme). Just as John Williams’ score is The Superman Theme, I think Jerry Goldsmith’s TMP theme should be The Star Trek Theme. Although James Horner’s Wrath of Khan was a strong contender.
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Elon Musk: Nazi traitor piece of shit [Confirmed]
atomheartbevo replied to MaybeACoordinator's topic in Daily Texan
No. And I don’t mean Zuck fighting him, I mean seeing FB and Insta going full-tilt after Musk’s platforms. If Musk picked up TikTok, I could see Meta deciding that maybe Threads should be more useful and adding the (deliberately) missing features. -
I pride myself on having participated in a lot of various online communities going back to the BBS days, but I completely skipped AOL in its heyday, because I didn’t want to pay for it when I already had internet access. I kind of regret it.
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Liam Fucking Neeson.
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General Gaming Thoughts That Don't Deserve Their Own Thread
atomheartbevo replied to atomheartbevo's topic in Video Games
Anybody else playing Arma Reforger. Played it a a friends this weekend. It’s fun as hell, like I haven’t had that much fun since Battlefield 1942, at least vehicular-wise. -
Winter Weather 2025 - Arctic Blasts or Sweaty Ass?
atomheartbevo replied to NorthLoop's topic in Daily Texan
Fuck, Austin may have a nice little 36-hour period below freezing.
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