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- Comment on Petition calls to ban Elon Musk's X in Europe 2 days ago:
And it’s fine to continue to operate in the US.
But if it doesn’t abide by EU laws then it can’t operate in the EU.America doesn’t set the worlds laws
- Comment on The return of Trump means Britain must rethink its defence strategy – and role in the world 6 days ago:
I’d vote for the EU in a heartbeat.
I’d be fine with the euro, actually going full metric. - Comment on When people say the AI bubble will burst, what exactly does that mean? 6 days ago:
Back when Blockchain was first a huge hype bubble, there were companies that added “Blockchain” to their name, or announced a pivot into Blockchain tech, and watched their stock value soar by a few hundred percent (with market value being many times their revenue).
I had googled a list of news articles, until I found this:
www.sciencedirect.com/…/S0165176519301703A noteworthy example: cnbc.com/…/long-island-iced-tea-micro-cap-adds-bl…
Anyway.
That’s the bubble.
Over-valuation. People taking advantage of the hype. People jumping on any opportunity to “not be left out” or to “get in early”.AI has uses.
Everyone is throwing things at the wall to seeing what sticks. Not much of it will.
Marketing are capitalising on the hype. - Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 3 weeks ago:
My phone case has a magnet in it (so it mildly sticks to metal surfaces).
I’ve put it on a laptop and accidentally triggered the “lid close” sensor - Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
It’s not difficult to define.
It’s about people’s choices.People can choose to own a gun, choose to want to own a gun, choose to own a whole armoury.
I think owning a gun is stupid. I live in a country that successfully regulates guns.
Saying “I think gun owners are stupid” isn’t hate speech because they have chosen to own a gun.
If I said “gun owners should use their guns in themselves” that becomes hate speech because it’s wishing harm on them.People choose to be Republicans, trumps choices in life are why he is where he is.
Hate trump because of what he does, not because he has blonde hair.People don’t choose to be gay, or be trans, or be Jewish, or be black, or be short or whatever.
Which is another way opinions can become hate speech.
If I said “I think gun owners are stupid” that isn’t hate speech.
If I said “I think black people are stupid” that becomes hate speech because it is grouping people by something they have no control over. - Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
Porn is performed by consenting adults and consumed by consenting adults.
That’s why porn made from human trafficking, revenge porn (ie leaking nudes of an ex) etc are illegal in most sane countries.
The idea being that porn doesn’t hurt anyone.Hate speech is harmful. It’s purpose is to hurt people.
So yeh, it should be illegal.
I have no issues discussing hate speech. I do have issues with hate speech being used. - Comment on Reddit says it is not covered by new Online Safety Code as it has moved its jurisdiction to the Netherlands 4 weeks ago:
It requires them to restrict certain categories of video, so that users cannot share content on cyberbullying, promoting eating disorders, promotion of self harm or incitement to hatred on a number of grounds.
Yeh, fuck censorship. Let’s all be shitbags and do that stuff instead!
- Comment on Internet Archive breached again through stolen access tokens 4 weeks ago:
4 years ago (best number I can find, considering IAs blog pages are down) IA used about 50 petabytes on servers that have 250 terabytes of storage and 2gbps network.
From this, we can conclude that 1 TB of storage requires 8mbps of network speed.
Let’s just say that average/all residential broadband has spare bandwidth for 8mbps symmetrical.
We would need 50,000 volunteers to cover the absolute minimum.
Probably 100k to 200k to have any sort of reliability, considering it’s all residential networking and commodity hardware.In the last 4 years, I imagine IA has increased their storage requirements significantly.
And all of that would need to be coordinated, so some shards don’t get over-replicated - Comment on Keir Starmer pins economic growth hopes on British Hollywood with new tax relief 1 month ago:
Brollywood is an excellent pun.
British Hollywood - a portmanteau.
Brolly Wood - brolly is an umbrella in British slang.Sorry for dissecting this frog. I just want to make sure everyone can appreciate how delicious the pun is.
- Comment on From a cyber security aspect how hazardous are random mini PCs from Ali Express/Amazon if you are starting with a fresh OS install? 1 month ago:
Server hardware does.
I think dell Rx30 are only just getting to EOL, and it was released in 2015.Although, buying an Rx30 before 5 years ago would be in the 10s of thousands.
Refurbished Rx40 and Rx50 are somewhat affordable. - Comment on Trump calls for prosecution of Google over search results he says favor Harris 1 month ago:
Oh, I thought it was hair die that was dripping down his face.
Make sense it was ichor leaking from somewhere - Comment on help on setting up home lab (networking) 1 month ago:
If you want remote access to your home services behind a cgnat, the best way is with a VPS. This gives you a static public IP that your services connect to, and that you can connect to when out and about.
If you don’t want the traffic decrypted on the VPS, then tunnel the VPN back to your homelab.
As the VPN already is encrypted, there is no point in re-encrypting it between the vps and homelab.Rathole github.com/rapiz1/rathole is one of the easiest I have found for this.
Or you can do things with ssh tunnels.For VPN, wireguard is very good
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
Yeh, axis was the wrong term. I was thinking degrees of freedom.
However, I misunderstood the concept.The extra dimensions are basically optical manipulation, like the other comment says with the red and blue lenses.
I thought it was more about the crystals attitude. So in addition to x, y and z, you also have alpha, beta, gamma.
Which would be 3 dimensions/axis with 6 degrees of freedom - Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 1 month ago:
Seems more like 5 axis than 5 dimensions.
Sounds like a slice through the crystal that can be moved up and down and rotated through 2 angles (eg roll and pitch) - Comment on What interesting things can I do with my home WiFi network? 1 month ago:
You can set a static IP on the router, disable it’s DHCP, and have pihole manage DHCP with the routers static IP as the gateway
- Comment on Google has been blocking many tools/IP ranges that try to synchronize with YouTube 2 months ago:
The financial insensitive to ensure only paying users can access the content offsets the cost of the different infrastructure.
YouTube needs to make money as cheaply as possible. They can’t afford the processing to guarantee ad delivery and secure content like that.
If the infrastructure/delivery cost of securing content goes up, streaming services can raise their prices.
YT can’t really serve more ads. The platform is already pretty packed with ads - Comment on American tourists visiting the EU, what do you think of it? 2 months ago:
In France, no one spoke English even though I spoke loudly and slowly
Haha, reminds me of a holiday ages ago in France.
Someone left their handbag behind or something, and my friend said “I’ll sort it out, I know French”. To be fair, he did. But when I went back to tell him where we ended up, he was speaking slowly and loudly to the poor french person.Which reminds me of another time in France, having breakfast. I ordered “orange juice” and the waiter looked confused. So I said it again slower, and his face lit up and said “ah, jus d’orange”.
- Comment on The air begins to leak out of the overinflated AI bubble 2 months ago:
I feel like for a long time, CUDA was a laser looking for a problem.
It’s just that the current (AI) problem might solve expensive employment issues.
It’s just that C-Suite/managers are pointing that laser at the creatives instead of the jobs whose task it is to accumulate easily digestible facts and produce a set of instructions. You know, like C-Suites and middle/upper managers do.
And NVidia have pushed CUDA so hard.AMD have ROCM, an open source cuda equivalent for amd.
But it’s kinda like Linux Vs windows. NVidia CUDA is just so damn prevalent.
I guess it was first. Cuda has wider compatibility with Nvidia cards than rocm with AMD cards.
The only way AMD can win is to show a performance boost for a power reduction and cheaper hardware. So many people are entrenched in NVidia, the cost to switching to rocm/amd is a huge gamble - Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
Yeh, seems not
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
I felt like adding something about the specific case of 180° between edges and a vertice.
Makes sense.
And I guess too many vertices means an open set of edges (ie not close, this not a shape).
I was kinda hoping for a strange edge case, like a mobius strip or Klein bottle.I guess a mobius strip is a 2d representation of a 1d paradigm. And a klein bottle is a 3d representation of a 2d paradigm.
It would be too much to ask of a 1d representation of a ??d paradigm. - Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
I feel my comment adds to the discussion and wants more details.
But it was too simply phrased.
I guess the details of such a question should be obvious. And if you need the details, the question doesn’t actually add the the discussion… It just seems idiotic!I felt like there might be a really cool scenario where a vertice isn’t considered a vertice.
Like, there actually might be some case on a 2d plane “where actually” applies.
I’m fine being wrong - Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
What if it had 3 corners and 4 edges? Or 4 corners and 3 edges?
- Comment on Is this a triangle? 2 months ago:
Just wait until you learn about the etymology of triceratops
- Comment on Mozilla removes telemetry service Adjust from mobile Firefox versions 2 months ago:
What is your home page that you need access to it so conveniently?
Besides, new tab can be set to a webpage instead of a blank tab - Comment on Balatro: Friends of Jimbo – Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
Discarded cards can’t be played again until the next round. Essentially destroying them for that round.
Hitler is fairly well known for blaming Jews and working on their genocide.It is a reach. But I saw the castle painting in The Gentlemen series, and thought it looked familiar.
Unless there is something else about the word castle, or that artwork that is relevant? Considering how on point so much else of the artwork and names are - Comment on Balatro: Friends of Jimbo – Reveal Trailer 2 months ago:
The attention to detail is amazing.
I think the Castle joker (seen in the trailer) resembles Schloss Neuschwanstein ( …wikipedia.org/…/File:Adolf_Hitler_-_Schloss_Neus… ). Painted by Hitler, the whole discarding cards to gain more power takes a bit of a sinister turn.
There are loads of other awesome art details
- Comment on Google is no longer asking — feed the AI or you’re not in search results 2 months ago:
AI is hype.
They’ve recently signed a deal with Reddit for AI parsable data. Reddit reciprocated by allowing Google to be the only indexable search engine.
Google now thinks it can do the same to literally everyone else.
Googling is pretty damn mainstream.
Don’t give Google your data, then don’t be included in googles search results. It’s like a flip of their previous trade with reddit, except it’s not a trade. It’s extortion. - Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I get what you are saying, but the balance is off.
YT premium is more than a streaming service per month.
There are no industry leading movies or series released exclusively on YouTube.
YouTubes benefits of premium is “not being delivered ‘skip after 5 seconds’ live streams” that play indefinitely (or at least for hours).
Also, streaming services provide much better series discovery. Ie, find a show you like and easily discover the start of that series, then binge watch the entire series in order.
YT premium is basically a “play next” queue, 1080p, and no ads.
It doesn’t (AFAIK) support creators any more. It’s literally just a fee to not-be-inconvenienced, and it’s not great at that - Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
I remember watching some video, falling asleep for a few hours, then waking up to a livestream of an ad. One of those “skip after 5s” but it was a livestream, so it just kept playing. I couldn’t believe it!
- Comment on YouTube is Losing The War Against Adblockers 2 months ago:
As a recent YT premium-tryer, it’s amazing how many ads they put in that aren’t obviously adverts.
Not sure I’ll keep YT premium beyond the free trial, until I find more decent content producers. Even then, it’s skipping their paid promotions.
So it’s like paying for a streaming platform to not get ads… But still getting ads
