Occasionally occurring issues are so annoying. I lived with these issues for years before becoming able to reliably reproduce them by accident and thus making a good guess on the cause:
My system would randomly freeze for ~5 seconds, usually while gaming and having a video in the browser running a the same time.
Then, it would reliably happen in Titanfall 2 and I noticed there were always AHCI errors in the Windows logs at the same time so I switched to an NVMe drive.
The system would also shut down occasionally (~ once every few hours) in certain games only.
Then, I managed to reproduce it 100% of the time by casting lightning magic in Oblivion Remastered.
I had to switch out my PSU, the old one probably couldn't handle some transient load spike, even though it was a Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium.
Ensuring that a critical mass of people use remote attestation[0] capable devices.
The next step is a browser API[1] for this so that content owners can exclude devices capable of storing the content, or stripping out ads/tracking, etc.
Sure, there will be a cat-and-mouse game where people will figure out how to fake the attestation for some period of time, but general computation[2] is probably on the way out.
I cannot confirm this behavior. With a router running FRITZ!OS:7.57 configured to use Google's DNS (in the router only) I get the following on Windows 10
Update: the connection does have the DNS suffix, so according to the superuser answer linked in OP (which is the first result when looking up what a DNS suffix is), it should get appended to lookups on windows, but it looks like it isn't in my case.
> ipconfig
[...]
Connection-specific DNS Suffix . : fritz.box
I noticed a lot of comments explaining the same thing, but also some confirming my observations. So far it appears the issue is mostly present if you have configured a separate DNS server in the DHCP settings, e.g. DNS is resolved somewhere outside the Fritz!Box. I will investigate further and update the article.
> A company should have every right to deny service
Plenty of utility companies are already being forced to provide service. As the EDPB opinion says, a lot of big tech is
> decisive for participation in social life or access to professional networks, even more so in the presence of lock-in or network effects
> Untargeted advertising pays 90+% less than targeted advertising
I don't think that such a large difference is rational. "Untargeted" advertising can still be based on the content being viewed, just not on surveilling the viewer.
> If they lose money by serving a user content because they denied targeted advertising, they should be able to deny them service or have them pay up.
As I understand it the opinion does not categorically rule this out
> Controllers should ensure that the fee is not such as to inhibit data subjects from making a genuine choice
That is why NOYB also focuses[0] on the fact the the fee is disproportionate:
> The current average revenue for programmatic advertising in the EU is € [1.41] per user - across all websites per month [...] visiting the top 100 websites can already cost more than € [1500] per year if you do not consent to tracking
I feel like commenters in this thread are talking past each other.
Some are saying "of course sites are still tracking you in incognito!", but is is unclear to me what they mean by this. I see the following interpretations:
1. Sites can still use local storage so they can track you for the duration of your incognito session, but they cannot connect this tracking to your regular session or other incognito sessions as incognito sessions start with empty local storage and discard it at the end of the session.
2. Sites do not rely on local storage, instead using fingerprinting via a combination of IP, HTTP headers, information they can query via JS, etc., so incognito has no effect on sites' ability to track you.
3. Google has special privileges in Chrome to track you when you are incognito.
> It is possible. Don't give them money and only provide basic shelter
In the EU you would have to reduce your welfare state to that level for your own citizens as well. The ECJ says[0]:
> It follows that the level of social security benefits paid to refugees by the Member State which granted that status, whether temporary or permanent, must be the same as that offered to nationals of that Member State
Then maybe refuse to register them, like the Hungarian authorities do? Understaff and reduce migrant registration offices to a bare minimum like the French are doing with immigration offices.
Hungary and Poland have repeatedly boycotted and vetoed the EU's migration policies. If this gets support from a country like NL, there is hope to change the EU's ill suited Merkel/Juncker policies on migration.
The alternative is right wing populists like Wilders winning elections in more EU states. Consider LePen's FN winning the French elections for instance. In the German government there is already consensus on a stricter migration policy in order to stem support for the far right.
Russia is also using migrants to put pressure on Polish, the Baltics' and Finnish borders. We shouldn't allow this.
In my experience, people are sensitive to different aspects/weaknesses in game graphics.
For instance, I don't really notice any difference between 60 and 120 FPS.
I am also not very bothered by traversal stutter.
What I AM sensitive to however, is temporal instability - it just draws my attention and hurts immersion.
Here DLSS makes a huge difference, as shown here[0].
Therefore it is sad that Bethesda chose[1] to deliver worse than possible image quality for 80%+ of their PC customers[2].
[2] https://archive.ph/mqPLK, nvidia has 75% market share here, but you have to look at the higher end parts only and exclude Intel as Starfield does not run at all on their GPUs[3]
I am not optimistic that the de-facto end of general computation can be prevented, or that there will even be noteworthy opposition.
There are so many powerful interests that stand to gain from preventing e.g. ad-blocking and content capture.
Thanks to Windows 11 requiring TPM, it is just a matter of time until hardware support for remote attestation is ubiquitous even on desktop computers.
Meanwhile, our (including myself) attention is (perhaps justifiably to some extent) on the latest news about $EXISTENTIAL_THREAT and how $THE_OTHER_SIDE did $EVIL_THING fed to us by the algorithm.
Organizations that used to effectively fight threats to freedom like this (FSF, pirate parties, CCC, EFF, etc) have lost a lot of their support/influence and clarity of purpose over the last decade.
My system would randomly freeze for ~5 seconds, usually while gaming and having a video in the browser running a the same time. Then, it would reliably happen in Titanfall 2 and I noticed there were always AHCI errors in the Windows logs at the same time so I switched to an NVMe drive.
The system would also shut down occasionally (~ once every few hours) in certain games only. Then, I managed to reproduce it 100% of the time by casting lightning magic in Oblivion Remastered. I had to switch out my PSU, the old one probably couldn't handle some transient load spike, even though it was a Seasonic Prime Ultra Titanium.