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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
In Dell machine from that time (like the XPS 9550) is pretty easy to upgrade the Ram, the storage or replace the battery. On some models you can sacrifice battery life (using a smaller one) for a second ssd.
On some model also the keyboard is pretty easy to replace. - Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 2 days ago:
If (and is a really, really big if) this open the door to a better understanding of this type of pathologies and a way to somewhat cure them, I would say that it would be for the better.
But of course I am sure it will not end this way…
- Comment on Needy Programs 5 days ago:
No, no updates needed unless I encounter a bug or they add a new feature I really want.
Fine, but maybe the update fix a bug that hit other users and that still not have hit you, be it for sheer luck or any other reason.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 6 days ago:
I would be terrified of using a bluetooth mesh network in a situation where private, encrypted communications are illegal. That would be literally walking around transmitting your intent. It’s a great idea in a free country though.
You have a point but that would means that the only other solution is to fall back to personal comunications, every electronic channel is unusable in such situation.
In a dystopia, you want to blend in.
Or you can simply have so much irrelevant data that the few important bits are lost in a sea of randomness if you don’t know where to look.
Something like deltachat has the right idea there - you have to look like boring email on the network. Maybe even layer on stenography -sending boring emails with cat pictures, but your messages are hidden inside them.
The main point of using bluetooth is to not rely on a centralized server that can be compromised and/or shut down.
If you still use email as transportation layer you could just write an app that really has e2ee, plausible deniability or any other feature you want since in the end you are relying on the same centralized infrastructure.Honestly, I would probably go with sneakernet. A microsd card can be hidden very easily, are difficult to detect electronically, transport virtually unlimited text, and be encrypted in-case the mule gets caught to prevent networks being exposed. The latency is just a necessary evil.
The latency is not the problem, it is already known that to move large quantities of data the fastest method is to send an hard drive (or whatever else).
The real problem here is where the mule can go. - Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 6 days ago:
Which would not be that much of a problem if not for the first 2 weeks, until someone put out a GUI to do it, with integration with app stores to download automatically the app…
oh wait…
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 week ago:
Switch to mesh networks could be an idea. It is not that difficult to send messages with bluetooth, problem is adoption: a system like that works only if there are many people using it.
- Comment on The Economist on using phrenology for hiring and lending decisions: "Some might argue that face-based analysis is more meritocratic" […] "For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing" 1 week ago:
Last time did not end well for about 6 million people…
- Comment on Passkeys Explained: The End of Passwords 1 week ago:
Obviously not the personal password, but sometimes you need to share a password. Think about the password for a remote desktop your team may need to connect to for troubleshooting a problem for example.
- Comment on God ****** dammit, here we go again 1 week ago:
If someone can gain physical access to your PC you are done anyway, he van simply copy the file or do whatwver he want
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 2 weeks ago:
Yes, I was thinking of it but wrote down wrong.
- Comment on 3D design software for 3d printing? 2 weeks ago:
FreeCAD aside, if you want to go somewhat commercial there is “Moment Of Invention”. I tried the free 90 trial and it was really powerfull and somewhat simpler than FreeCAD.
Additionally, no subscription, no cloud, just the software.
- Comment on The Value of NVIDIA Now Exceeds an Unprecedented 16% of U.S. GDP 2 weeks ago:
Do you really think that they can pay 5 trillion dollars, or even the 20% of this, to the the shareholders ?
- Comment on International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative 2 weeks ago:
Let’s hope that this process will continue even after Trump
- Comment on Revealed: Israel demanded Google and Amazon use secret ‘wink’ to sidestep legal orders 2 weeks ago:
Make the companies pay dearly for this
No, not the company, this would only put in in danger the employees (guess who would be fired in case of downsizing).
You need to dearly punish who signed the contract. - Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
Partially, if OpenAI lose 11.5 billion, someone get 11.5 billion, the money is used to pay something it did not vanish in a cloud
- Comment on Microsoft seemingly just revealed that OpenAI lost $11.5B last quarter 2 weeks ago:
I wonder how long it will be before investments start getting pulled back because of a lack of ROI.
Just wait for the next hot thing to come out
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 3 weeks ago:
“We’ll give you some money if you promise to keep the blacks out of your organisation”
I suppose that this would be against the other part, the one relative to the federal anti-discrimination laws.
- Comment on Python Foundation rejects $1.5M grant with no-DEI strings 3 weeks ago:
For the record, it also say that they should not violate any anti-discrimination federal laws.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
Well, Discord is available on Linux, Archlinux for example has the package and I suppose this is true for many other distros.
- Comment on As Microsoft Forces Users to Ditch Windows 10, It Announces That It’s Also Turning Windows 11 into an AI-Controlled Monstrosity 3 weeks ago:
Dual boot is an option, but I would go with 2 machines, one with Windows with only the Autodesk products and the other with Linux and all the other software.
- Comment on Has anyone sold or otherwise handed off their 3d printing business? 3 weeks ago:
He can do both.
He can sell the STL to someone willing to print the thing himself and there are people who prefer to let someone else print the thing. One thing do not exclude the other - Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
Partially true. Old generation is used to do things, I would bet that it would have easier anyway.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
I think that you overestimate the capacity of the yourger people to solve problems without any access to any form of online informations.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
Not really, sorry. Only problem would be the freezers.
- Comment on Are we living in a golden age of stupidity? 4 weeks ago:
Point is that most people who read on Internet have not the experience to do somthing without Internet since they never lived without internet.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 weeks ago:
With a bank investement I get something back, even if less than what I invested. Could OpenAI pay back even half of what received ?
Which send us back to the starting point: what will happen when the VCs will start to ask for their money back or for their share of the revenue ? Inevitably the bubble will pop.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 weeks ago:
I think that this is just a technical difference based on what you are investing into.
A personal bank’s investement is a different thing than a investement in a startup, with different level of risks and revenue. - Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 weeks ago:
I would think that this warning, in a way or another, is true in every kind of investment, even my bank’s personal investment have something like it.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 weeks ago:
I don’t think it, I was only pointing out that he was comparing two different things.
I know that there is no way the two events have a compatible frame of reference but that does not means that you can compare the two values.
- Comment on Is the AI Conveyor Belt of Capital About to Stop? 5 weeks ago:
You are right, but you are comparing apples with oranges here, what was the Great Depression economy contraction ? Or what was the unemployment rates in 2008 ?