avidamoeba
@avidamoeba@lemmy.ca
- Comment on Dell kills the XPS brand 3 weeks ago:
Weird. I thought XPS was a pretty well known brand.
- Comment on Meta’s AI Profiles Are Already Polluting Instagram and Facebook With Slop 3 weeks ago:
This is brilliant. They can create hyper-specific profiles to target specific eyeballs and feed ads from the profile itself. They no longer have to rely on users posting things others would react to. They can just write what they know will generate reactions.
- Comment on Half-Life 2 is currently 100% off for its 20th anniversary, plus a major update 1 month ago:
Do Black Mesa before that.
- Comment on What's next after Half-Life? 1 month ago:
Should have played Black Mesa instead of HL. It’s everything HL is but better. It was incredible even having played HL back in 1998. I recommend people who’ve never played HL to just do BM.
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
Yes I do and LFP has been manufactured and integrated at scale for a very long time.
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
How’s the density compared to LFP?
- Comment on A new generation of cheaper batteries is sweeping the EV industry 2 months ago:
LFP is not new. It’s been in cars since Fisker integrated A123’s batteries. CATL and other manufacturers have been churning out LFP in volume for over a decade now.
- Comment on Trump confirms plan to declare national emergency, use military for mass deportations 2 months ago:
Strictly speaking of productivity - labor shortage increases productivity. Cheap labor decreases productivity. Expensive labor forces capitalists to invest in new equipment and training to be able to produce the same output with fewer labor hours.
- Comment on Bluesky Social surpasses 19 million users as more celebrities leave X 2 months ago:
How many does Threads have?
- Comment on Post your setup. no matter how uggo 2 months ago:
What I took from this post is that every living room / home theater setup needs a server rack instead of a HiFi rack. Dudnt matter what you thrown in it, it looks badass.
- Comment on Comcast, Disney, and IBM Are Among Advertisers Returning to X After Ad Freeze 2 months ago:
This is beautiful! It’s like a textbook example for everyone paying attention to draw crisp conclusions for how the system works.
- Comment on Bluesky says it won’t train AI on your posts 2 months ago:
LMAO
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
Blueski
- Comment on The Great Migration to Bluesky Gives Me Hope for the Future of the Internet 2 months ago:
Honestly I don’t know what’s up with the mass delusion about Bluesky being oligarch-free. It’s understandable that most don’t know or haven’t looked into it, but then some folks that should know better are displaying the same ignorance.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
You lost me at shitting on legacy code. My brother in Tux, we don’t rewrite code that works willy-nilly in the FOSS world either and for a good reason. New code always means new bugs. A shit ton of the underlying code in your Linux OS was written one or more decades ago.
- Comment on Samsung: Exynos problems are due to "too short" 52-hour working week in Korea - NotebookCheck.net News 2 months ago:
This is because employees in South Korea can “only” work a maximum of 52 hours per week, including twelve hours of overtime. As a result, employees often have to leave work and go home even when important tasks have not yet been completed. For this reason, key employees of the Exynos team are reported to have worked unpaid overtime more and more frequently over the past few years, with the extra hours going unrecorded.
Why is SK’s birth rate in the shitter.
- Comment on Yep, it's me 2 months ago:
I see myself in this picture.
- Comment on How annoying is it to connect to VPN/use Tailscale instead of being able to access the service directly? 2 months ago:
Not noticeable with always-on Tailscale with the default split-tunnel mode. That is when Tailscale is only used to access Tailscale machines and everything else is routed via the default route.
- Comment on Qualcomm accuses Arm of anticompetitive conduct as its license is terminated due to 'repeated material breaches of Arm's license agreement' 2 months ago:
Google’s fine. They’re using ARM cores that are built on Samsung’s shittier manufacturing process. Next year they’re going TSMC which should improve power consumption dramatically. The lauded Dimensity 4000 also uses ARM cores, just newer and built on TSMC’s process. By the same token, newer Google SoCs should experience similar performance as they update the cores and manufacturing.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 2 months ago:
The parent asked how do you define at all. What I wrote is just the dumbest way which demonstrates how it can be done. This dumb solution holds up even in your scenario because new media doesn’t gain significant user base every other year. If the list is outdated, containing Facebook and Instagram alone, that would still capture a huge part of the problem already. You can probably figure a slightly less dumb alternative that wouldn’t require amendments just to add another platform. Folks talking about the impossibility of defining something or implementing something in law often ignore obvious solutions, existing working processes, and present this false dichotomy of a perfect solution vs impossible to solve. Sometimes it’s a matter of ignorance, other times it’s driven by (conscious or subconscious) libertarian beliefs.
- Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media 2 months ago:
Here’s one way to do it. The legislators define a list. Products in the list are social media. The list is referenced in the law.
- Comment on Bluesky Announces Series A to Grow Network of 13M+ Users - Bluesky 2 months ago:
Alternative Title: “Bluesky happy to use the standard playbook so long as there’s still bozos willing to contribute free labor for their profit.”
TFTFY
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
Wrong as in not sound. An argument can be valid assuming its assumptions are true. The argument is the model, which really is a set of arguments. It’s assumptions which are taken axiomatically are as you say impossible, therefore they are not true (which I called wrong). So the argument is not sound. I’m not saying anything different than what you said really, just used informal language. ☺️
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
For a firm that already have their own core designs that simply use the ARM instruction set, it might be easier to adapt to RISC-V. For a firm that licenses ARM cores on the other hand…
- Comment on REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets 3 months ago:
Are you telling me that the axioms behind the simplistic model are wrong??
shocked-pikachu.jpg - Comment on Meta’s Israel Policy Chief Tried to Suppress Pro-Palestinian Instagram Posts 3 months ago:
Jesus
- Comment on Why doesn't Signal forbid third party clients or at least offer a client certification program to ensure security? 3 months ago:
How do Signat stop the from connecting to their servers?
- Comment on TSMC's 2nm process will reportedly get another price hike — $30,000 per wafer for latest cutting-edge tech 3 months ago:
It is marketing and it does have meaningful connection to the litho features, but the connection is not absolute. For example Samsung’s 5nm is noticeably more power hungry than TSMC’s 5nm.
- Comment on Google looks to be fully shutting down unsupported extensions and ad blockers in Chrome, such as uBlock Origin – which might push some folks to switch to Firefox 3 months ago:
Doesn’t uBlock Origin already have a Manifest V3 version of the extension?
- Comment on “Extreme” Broadcom-proposed price hike would up VMware costs 1,050%, AT&T says 3 months ago:
/s