Bjornir

@Bjornir@programming.dev

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft’s controversial Windows Recall feature is coming back in October⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Well you don’t know that, they’re telling you that. First issue.

  The second is that it can and will change in time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Which is precisely the reason you shouldn’t use an AV apart from the one packaged with Windows

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨‘Sinkclose’ Flaw in Hundreds of Millions of AMD Chips Allows Deep, Virtually Unfixable Infections⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you have kernel access you can already do almost everything so a vulnerability on top of that isn’t that bad since no one should have kernel access to your computer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Even Apple finally admits that 8GB RAM isn't enough⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a VPS that uses 1GB of RAM, it has 6-7 apps running in docker containers which isn’t the most ram efficient method of running apps.

  A light OS really helps, plus the most used app that uses a lot of RAM actually reduce their consumption if needed, but use more when memory is free, the web browser. On one computer I have chrome running with some hundreds of MB used, instead of the usual GBs because RAM is running out.

  So it appears that memory is full,but you can actually have a bit more memory available that is “hidden”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨But how would they be able to live on that?⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  They can do what they already do and use their unrealized gains as collateral for a loan and use that to pay the tax of they don’t want to realize the gains. This is already how they spend their money without realizing gains. I don’t see the issue with them doing the same for taxes as they do for their yachts and private jets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Are there any genuine benefits to AI?⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Medical use is absolutely revolutionary. From GP’s consultations to reading tests results, radios, AI is already better than humans and will be getting better and better.

  Computers are exceptionally good at storing large amount of data, and with ML they are great at taking a lot of input and inferring a result from that. This is essentially diagnosing in a nutshell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ultraviolet light can kill almost all the viruses in a room. Why isn’t it everywhere?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ozone is also used to disinfect, that’s double the disinfection power!!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Airlines say they found loose parts in door panels during inspections of Boeing 737 Max 9 jets⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Why do airlines still buy Boeing? New airplanes they make are clearly dangerous, and they don’t seem to be able to fix it for the next one, as we are already at the next ones…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Starlink loses out on $886 million in rural broadband subsidies⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Or maybe don’t go there and then complain about the obvious shortfalls of the place. The rural exodus happened for a reason.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Ubisoft Allegedly Interrupts Gameplay with Pop-Up Ads⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That excuse only works for people who have no ideas how programming works. New features can’t appear because of a glitch.

  The only thing that can indeed happen is the feature was developed and tested, and it was enabled by a glitch. But the feature necessarily was developed intentionally, because things don’t just appear like that in a program.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨OpenAI brings Sam Altman back as CEO less than a week after he was fired by board⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Proof n°1093866 that being rich has nothing to do with being smart.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s true, but that’s because of a different loophole : we only count poor people’s income as income. Meaning salary.

  We simply have to consider all monetary gain, including non liquid assets as income, and the issue vanishes. So shares are counted for example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Rich people aren’t necessarily smart. These are two unrelated metrics. See Elon Musk for a counter example.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Telegram restricts access to Hamas channels on Google, Apple stores⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  At this point any web service is encrypted because it uses https then. Technivamly true but as everyone is doing it it doesn’t mean anything anymore, so the meaning has changed to mean E2E encrypted.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨College Students Dump Dating Apps as Bumble CEO Steps Down⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yes but why stop to the new adults when you can keep your user base? More growth more money.

  That is the end of the reflexion for companies.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft now pops up a poll asking why you'd want to use another browser when you download Chrome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Edge is based on chromium, so yes you can say it’s just a reskinned chrome, the only other rendering engine now is gecko, which is what is used by Firefox and it’s forks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Toyota nears mass production of solid-state batteries⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Commercial fusion is not a few years away, and I’ve never seen the claim apart from deranged individuals on Twitter. If everything goes to plan, commercial fusion won’t be here for a few decades.

  What the claim may have been is experimental fusion, which does exist right now, we have generated power using fusion, and we even made more power than we put into it recently. It’s moving, but it’s slow, as planned for the last few decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Many workers are faking knowledge of AI to make sure they aren't left behind⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a poweplant for you to run, it’s near a casino it will be great!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Some veteran YouTube staff think Shorts might ruin YouTube⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  I have the exact opposite problem? I can skip around just fine in shorts, but can’t in reels… Is this due to A/B testing or am I dumb?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My self-hosted home setup⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That is a great quality post! Congratulations and thank you

  Your home network is not too shabby either ;)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's not just you — no one is posting on social media anymore⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotal evidence, but in my group of friends, the only platform where people, me included, post regurlaly is bereal and I suppose it’s because it’s more like a group chat when you only watch what your friends post. We are older than teens though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  NFT aren’t monkey pictures.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  www.hongkiat.com/blog/nft-use-cases/

  It is just a tool, it’s what you do with it that gives its worth. Monkey pictures… Well that’s not worth anything

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A key feature of NFTs has completely broken / Web3 was supposed to make sure the original artist always got paid. Not so much anymore.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There are uses for NFT, but it is clearly not what they are famous for.

  NFT aren’t pictures of monke, they are a way to authenticate something in a decentralised way, so no trust in another entity needed. The picture isn’t the NFT, and that is why you can just right click-copy it.

  You can’t however just copy the NFT, the actual token. Having a token that’s verifiably owned by someone is useful for certain things. It’s like a certificate of authenticity, but digital.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨From Napoléon to Macron: How France learned to love Big Brother⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  There is between 75 and 80% of the French population that disapproves of Macron, the rest will probably all be dead in 10 years. So no, France does not love big brother, the old boomers do, and impose it to everyone else.