> DRM exposes an API that user-space programs can use to send commands and data to the GPU and perform operations such as configuring the mode setting of the display.
> User-space programs can use the DRM API to command the GPU to do hardware-accelerated 3D rendering and video decoding, as well as GPGPU computing.
The Direct Rendering Manager is useful for any Linux user who wants to display things on a monitor (unless you're happy with like 640x480 VESA, in which case maybe you don't need it)
Are you going to take away all of Zuckerberg's vast personal fortune, and all the other execs at Meta? What about all the folks who've wokred as engineer and product managers? Otherwise they're still making out like bandits.
The Sackler family ultimately had to pay $6.5b of ~$10b they took out of the Purdue Pharma in its last decade of control.
It'd be more than fair that Zuckerberg has to pay 65% of his personal wealth gained by preying on adolescent insecurities.
And anyone else who was in a leadership role at Meta.
The deterrent is not allowing "Oops, I created a bad social outcome, but I'm keeping the profit I made from it" to be a viable way of getting rich.
And at least plant some doubt in folks doing evil that retribution might claw back their wealth in the future.
1. Facebook knew its products were addictive.
2. They knew this addiction had negative effects on its users.
3. After knowing the above, they tried to make them more addictive to make more money.
Cigarette companies who as part of the 1998 MSA (1) are banned from television and radio advertising, (2) are banned from outdoor and transit ads, and (3) have print media, retail displays, and sponsorships federally regulated.
Most of these regulations apply to vapes, if they're owned by a legacy MSA cigarette company. With more regulation teed up for the new vape companies (i.e. JUUL youth marketing lawsuits).
If we treat social media companies like tobacco companies, I'd be perfectly happy.
$0'ing the shares would probably spread the punishment roughly proportionally with the harms they did. It's not a perfect solution (people who previously sold their equity would be missed), but better than most.
The linked article up top makes much more sense after reading the one you've linked! I had felt like I was getting a fascinating peek into a strange little corner of the internet I did not understand, but now I think I understand what the author was getting at.
Thanks a lot, Sam Altman / OpenAI. Their little $100bn war chest being used for obstructive / destructive purposes will wipe out multiples of that amount via economic ripple effects. All in an attempt to keep a stranglehold over AI via competitive resource starvation. Basic.
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