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- Comment on Is the Memory Shortage Intentional? 7 hours ago:
It’s OpenAI in particular trying to screw everyone else. The wafers they contracted from Samsung and SK Hynix are something like 40% of those companies’ production. There isn’t enough production volume for the other AI companies to over order like that.
- Comment on Xbox chief Phil Spencer is leaving Microsoft 6 days ago:
So much of the Verge is paywalled these days it’s completely understandable for someone not to bother clicking through.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
Comparing mu whitelist to the suggestions I’ve found online, I can only come up with api2.branch.io, saa.paramountplus.com and tags.tiqcdn.com; I might have also deleted something from the blacklist. There’s a few Paramount+ whitelists, like this one, that you could look at if none of those work.
- Comment on Star Trek Removed From Amazon Prime [TNG & Voyager Refunded] 1 week ago:
When the app wouldn’t save my watch history, I eventually found that I needed to unblock a domain in pi-hole to make it work. Are you using anything like that?
- Comment on You probably can't trust your password manager if it's compromised 1 week ago:
Since the summary doesn’t say which three popular password managers:
As one of the most popular alternatives to Apple and Google’s own password managers, which together dominate the market, the researchers found Bitwarden was most susceptible to attacks, with 12 working against the open-source product. Seven distinct attacks worked against LastPass, and six succeeded in Dashlane.
- Comment on Ars Technica Pulls Article With AI Fabricated Quotes About AI Generated Article 1 week ago:
Benj Edwards, one of the authors of the offending article, has posted an explanation, taking the blame and clearing his co-author.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
Benj Edwards handles most of their AI coverage. I wouldn’t take his use of AI as a sign of what the rest of the staff is doing.
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
- Comment on Ars Technica makes up quotes from Matplotlib maintainer("An AI Agent Published a Hit Piece on Me"); pulls story 1 week ago:
Benj and Kyle were the authors of the article; Dan’s name wasn’t on it.
- Comment on TV Execs Warn FCC: NextGen TV DRM Could Turn Free TV Into Gambling and Pay-TV Platforms 2 weeks ago:
I expect that not only will the current FCC decline to do anything about this, the complaint may have given Trump a new business idea.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney supports the $900 million lawsuit against Valve, arguing Steam is "the only major store still holding onto payment ties and 30% junk fee" 3 weeks ago:
However, Epic Game Store only actually exists on Windows, and it’s on iOS in the EU.
Your information seems to be outdated. On the EGS download page I get an “Install on Windows” link with text below it “Also available on Mac OS, Android, iPhone (EU only) and iPad (EU only).”
- Comment on TikTokers are heading to UpScrolled following US takeover 4 weeks ago:
The git repo has a server installation guide.
- Comment on If you have one, how much do you pay for a domain name? Any cheap registrar recommendations? 5 weeks ago:
$24.95/yr seems high. Are you looking at a specialty TLD? I paid around 10 USD/yr for a .com with Cloudflare, and 12 CAD/yr for a .ca with Canspace.
- Comment on AI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns 5 weeks ago:
Perhaps it should have been wide adoption that led to a boom, instead of a boom in hope of adoption?
- Comment on [Very minor Academy spoilers] Does anyone else think the marketing undersold Holly Hunter as Chancellor Ake? 1 month ago:
They started filming the season 2 finale this week. I think if she wasn’t going to be in season 2 we’d have heard something by now.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 month ago:
The away team braclets are programmed for at least a couple of different modes, and switching is pretty quick. I would think if they could use programmable matter to make a multi-mode tricoder, it would be standard.
At any rate, I assume they can’t program matter into dilithium, because that would have made recovering from the Burn a whole lot easier.
- Comment on Episode Discussion | Star Trek: Starfleet Academy | 1x01 "Kids These Days" & 1x02 "Beta Test" 1 month ago:
Re: limits of programmable matter:
On Discovery away teams wore programmable matter flashlight bracelets that could turn into a phaser, and I think even a phase rifle, but from these last couple of episodes it seems they can’t make a tricorder that turn into a medical tricorder.
- Comment on Annotations for *Star Trek: Starfleet Academy* 1x01: “Kids These Days” 1 month ago:
The Doctor mentions he put an aging program 5 centuries before to put organics at ease, which is obviously the Watsonian explanation for why Robert Picardo looks older.
That should also establish that he’s not the Doctor backup from VOY: “Living Witness”, who wouldn’t have been online 500 years ago.
- Comment on The State of the 'Star Trek' Universe Coming Into 'Starfleet Academy' 1 month ago:
When Is Starfleet Academy Set?
Although the show is somewhat vague about it, Starfleet Academy is set in the late 32nd century—approximately around the year 3190, a similar timeframe to when Star Trek: Discovery‘s fourth season takes place, which had previously mentioned the reopening of the institute to a new class of cadets in its premiere. The show is, at the very least, set some time after the events of Discovery‘s third season, which saw United Earth rejoin the Federation after a century of independence, as Starfleet Academy itself—based out of the starship USS Athena—spends much of its time docked at the Academy’s ancestral home near the Presidio in San Francisco.
I thought it was obvious that the show is set after Discovery? In the fourth season the Academy reopened on the station/ship where Federation headquarters was; Earth agreed to rejoin the Federation at the end of the fourth season (not the third), and it would have taken time to finalize Earth’s re-entry and then more time to reach a point where Starfleet Academy would move back.
- Comment on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents' 1 month ago:
Reason #42 for open platforms: to shut down every politician’s incessant demands to all gatekeepers to censor all of their political opponents," Sweeney wrote in a first tweet responding to MacRumors’ report of US politicians requesting that Apple and Google remove X and Grok from their app stores.
Politicians want the offending apps removed from the app stores, and Sweeney thinks app store business is his business. He really ought to worry more about improving his own store.
- Comment on Copilot could soon live inside Windows 11's File Explorer, as Microsoft tests Chat with Copilot in Explorer, not just in a separate app 1 month ago:
Users: File search should not be this bad
Microsoft: How about this bad? - Comment on Microsoft Office has been renamed to “Microsoft 365 Copilot app” 1 month ago:
This renaming happened for the Office app a while back, but now they’ve applied it to Office itself? It is April 1st already?
- Comment on Windows 11’s 2025 problems are getting impossible to ignore 1 month ago:
Valve can’t even count to 3 and it makes plenty of money.
- Comment on Hackers threaten to leak massive 'Wired' customer database 1 month ago:
The hack affects all Condé Nast entities as well
It doesn’t affect Ars Technica:
The hacker also says that they will release an additional 40 million records for other Condé Nast properties, including our other sister publications Vogue, The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more. Of critical note to our readers, Ars Technica was not affected as we run on our own bespoke tech stack.
- Comment on Can someone ELI5 RSS/Atom feeds? 1 month ago:
NetNewsWire doesn’t have its own accounts, but it can still sync your read items through iCloud.
- Comment on Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan 2 months ago:
Pretty sure Apple’s newer phones are USB-C worldwide.
- Comment on Leak confirms OpenAI is preparing ads on ChatGPT for public roll out 2 months ago:
They’re already getting sued over ChatGPT helping people commit suicide. Imagine the uproar once the advice includes ads for rope, knives, etc…
- Comment on OpenAI says dead teen violated TOS when he used ChatGPT to plan suicide - Ars Technica 2 months ago:
“Our deepest sympathies are with the Raine family for their unimaginable loss,” OpenAI said in its blog, while its filing acknowledged, “Adam Raine’s death is a tragedy.” But “at the same time,” it’s essential to consider all the available context, OpenAI’s filing said, including that OpenAI has a mission to build AI that “benefits all of humanity” and is supposedly a pioneer in chatbot safety.
How the fuck is OpenAI’s mission relevant to the case? Are suggesting that their mission is worth a few deaths?
- Comment on A New 'Star Trek' Comic Gives Uhura the Full Spotlight 3 months ago:
Why the Civil Rights Movement, other than the immediately obvious reason? It brings things full circle with Uhura and her first actor, the late Nichelle Nichols, who initially planned on leaving the original Star Trek after a single season. It was a discussion with Martin Luther King, Jr. that changed her mind; as a fan of the show, he called her “our image of where we’re going. You’re 300 years from now, and that means that’s where we are and it takes place now. Keep doing what you’re doing, you are our inspiration.” And when she told him about her plans to leave, he told her, “You don’t have a black role. You have an equal role.”
TIL MLK convinced Nichelle Nichols to stick with the show.
- Comment on Affinity’s new design platform combines everything into one app | The Verge 3 months ago:
They have a pro version that adds AI features, no idea the pricing yet though.
The aricle says the AI stuff is tied to Canva’s Premium subscription, which is 120 USD/year:
Canva Premium subscribers will also be able to use AI-powered Canva editing tools like image generation, photo cleanup, and instant copy directly within the Affinity app.