Wispy2891
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- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 2 days ago:
I explain what I mean: those algorithms have no memory at all. Each request is made on a blank slate, so when you do a “conversation” with them, the chat program is actually including all the previous interactions (or a resume of them) plus all the relevant parts of the code, simulating a conversation with a human. So the user didn’t just ask “can you clear the cache” but actually asked the result of 600 messages + kilobytes of generated code + “can you clear the cache”, and this causes destructive hallucinations
- Comment on Google's Agentic AI wipes user's entire HDD without permission in catastrophic failure 3 days ago:
I have no experience with this ide but I see on the posted log on Reddit that the LLM is talking about a “step 620” - like this is hundreds of queries away from the initial one? The context must have been massive, usually after this many subsequent queries they start to hallucinating hardly
- Comment on Building the PERFECT Linux PC with Linus Torvalds 4 days ago:
The Elon burn was epic
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 6 days ago:
It is exactly why I’m an apple hater, as an owner of an iPad mini and Intel iMac. Both are basically bricks.
The iPad can’t even be used to browse websites because Apple it’s so magnanimous to tie browser updates to the operating system. Once the os is EOL, the browser is EOL, and all the third party browsers too, as Apple forces devs to use the system browser as engine (= Firefox, Chrome for iOS basically are glorified Safari skins). Apps for iOS almost all require the latest version and you can’t download a previous version unless you have a Time machine and you press download before the cutoff. Imagine on Android if apps required Android 15 and greater. Instead most of them can still run on Android 10 and even earlier.
The iMac, despite being a 4th gen Intel with dedicated AMD GPU, it’s also a brick. Every app (including Firefox, Chrome, etc) requires a recent MacOS version (here devs aren’t targeting latest and greatest, but still is annoying). Of course Apple still ties Safari updates on the operating system. Imagine on PC if apps required Windows 11 24H1. Because newer versions of MacOS don’t have the driver for my dedicated GPU, they can’t be tricked to install a newer version (I tried, it’s unbearable to use MacOS without GPU acceleration, with all that eye candy it’s a must have)
At least the iMac could run a different operating system… Debian shows a black screen and I would need an external monitor, Arch somehow turns off the USB ports on the back and I can’t use keyboard and mouse… I have to use Windows 10…
- Comment on Finding a private self hosted Google Photos alternative that doesn’t profit from my photos 1 week ago:
The short description seems to be written by a LLM, why?
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
In the GPU drivers
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Charging $200 for having 256gb of extra SSD space on a $700 computer (cost for them: $2) is textbook definition of scam.
The price is actually good for the Mac mini but clearly they sat on a table for hours discussing how they can fuck the end user like “and for the SSD, let’s make a board that LOOKS LIKE a standard M.2 drive, has almost the same dimensions and connector, BUT we don’t include a controller on it, so it’s not electrically compatibile with existing drives and we can charge a 10000x markup on it”. And all the marketing managers in the room started clapping
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
It is “cheap” because they are hoping that someone is stupid enough to pay the upgrades like $200 for 256gb of extra SSD. Or that it later leads to purchasing more Apple devices.
It’s a gateway drug
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
It’s not they don’t properly support opengl, is that they intentionally chose to stop any kind of development on opengl 8 years ago, so devs are forced to choose between using an ancient version of opengl or make a native “metal” build.
Their idea is that once devs spent thousands of hours on their “metal” engine, then they will focus exclusively or primarily on apple devices
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Wait, of all the tech companies in the world, you specifically chose Apple for the “don’t want to throw perfectly good computers” line? The same Apple that every single year is routinely removing perfectly good computers from the newest MacOS compatibility list using same bullshit/fake requirements as Microsoft did with Windows 11?
“Don’t want to throw your 8 years old 7th gen Intel PC because Windows 10 is EOL? Buy a new Mac and throw it after 6-7 years when MacOS is EOL for your device!”
- Comment on After Apple originally announced the first version of Halo in 1999, Xbox apparently called Bungie and said "'Steve Jobs can't have that. We're going to buy you.'" 1 week ago:
Maybe they should buy Crossover and make it part of macOS
Absolutely no! Previous acquisition prove that they’ll stop any kind of work on Linux (that means backports on Wine, codeweawer is a massive sponsor) and for almost nothing.
And the end result will be like Rosetta, introduce a perfect interpreter but discontinue and remove it from the operating system a few years later because you want to push developers to make native builds and push consumers to throw their perfectly working PowerPC and buy an Intel Mac
- Comment on Infosys co-founder once again calls for longer than 70-hour weeks - and no, he's not joking 1 week ago:
I do not understand his logic.
Paying someone 70 hours has the same cost as paying two persons 35 hours, right? (In my country technically no, because higher base taxation)
Someone working 70 hours is a mindless drone. This is how you get 13" iPads accidentally sold for 15€ “because the computer said so” (happened in a big box retailer in my country, no human involved in the process objected the price until WEEKS after the sale, when accounting noticed it, and they had to beg customers “pwease return our €1000 iPads and we give you a €25 gift card as a token of gratitude” and everyone just laughed about that)
Especially for developers, for the same price is better to get two that can do tasks with full attention rather than a single one that after 12 hours of job is just mindlessly clicking on “accept” on whatever a LLM is spitting out or half assing solutions because don’t have the right state of mind to think for a proper one.
- Comment on Plex’s crackdown on free remote streaming access starts this week - Ars Technica 1 week ago:
while not technically allowed by cloudflare TOS for the free plan, it’s possible to host jellyfin under a cloudflare tunnel
- Comment on Happens everytime 1 week ago:
Weird, no ai model recognized this, they pirated petabytes of porn for what, then?
- Comment on Immich Is Now Stable! 1 week ago:
It still doesn’t do chunked uploads, right? For who has a low memory proxy or uses cloudflare
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
I don’t think it actually needs the tpm 2.0 or even 1.1 as it’s only used for automatic bitlocker decryption
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
Also I definitely needed a broken start menu that doesn’t show any result when doing a search
- Comment on Windows 11's adoption is much slower compared to Windows 10, claims Dell 1 week ago:
You could install windows 10 on something designed for windows XP, provided it has enough RAM
The reason w11 needs a new PC is pure marketing, it doesn’t actually need some specific feature that is present on 8th gen Intel CPUs but not on 7th gen Intel CPUs
- Comment on Please tell me this is shopped. 1 week ago:
It matches, because clowns have oversized shoes
- Comment on There should be a "last used combination" faucet handle for sinks so you don't have to balance hot and cold everytime during winter 2 weeks ago:
When I bought the faucet for my bathtub, the regular one was 35€ while the thermostatic one was 60€. I wonder why they still make the regular ones
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
it ignores that and uses it anyway (according to the comments on the article, i did not test this)
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
Not in this case, this is the codec, but still, because it’s blocked in acpi, there’s no way to enable it again in Windows, even if you pay that dollar. Workaround: install Linux
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
No, they disable it before purchase, existing laptops still have the feature. Only the newer ones so they won’t have to pay the royalties from next year. But still an anti consumer move as nobody will notice until it’s too late for a refund. Normal people will never understand why their $200 phone can smoothly play h265 videos while their $1500 laptop is struggling with that. Everyone will assume that because hardware support is included in the cheapest processors from even a decade ago, it will still be present in the latest and greatest laptops from hp
- Comment on HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs 2 weeks ago:
The HP 16" EliteBook 665 G11 Notebook costs $1500. That means this $600k “cost cutting” measure starts to decrease revenue if only 400 people buy a laptop from a different brand.
Sell the CEO private jet if they really need the money
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
I agree that managing nextcloud for hundreds of users is a mess but in my example it just needs the shared space, not any specific plugin, that means it can be replaced by any other cloud solution like paying onlyoffice to do the managed hosting for you at $8/user and doing work chats with anything that’s not Microsoft teams
Btw I find Debian+smb4 as a “set and forget” solution that needs to just be checked once a year as it requires less troubleshooting than Windows server. Only exception when Microsoft a couple years ago forced a different encryption on Windows 11 and clients couldn’t login anymore. It was patched two years earlier but Debian is “stable” and didn’t get the patch. Otherwise can pay ucs2 for commercial support
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
Average office worker won’t even notice the difference between using a spreadsheet in onlyoffice shared with colleagues in nextcloud vs using a Microsoft® Excel document over onedrive.
Nextcloud talk with the php backend sucks but compared to Microsoft teams isn’t that awful anymore
And using smb4 as active directory server is completely undistinguishable from a windows AD server. It uses the exact same Windows-based tools and GUI for adding new users, groups and policies. It’s just slightly more complex to install. A new windows server license costs $1200 + $55 for each employee in the company. Put that money towards a Linux consultant paid $200/hour to install and configure it and it’s the same. 2/3 hours to setup and 1 hour per year for maintenance. And anyway the consultant that is paid to install and configure the windows based active directory server isn’t much cheaper, just easier to find.
- Comment on challenge 2 weeks ago:
Plot twist, you’re teleported in a room that will be set on fire if a switch isn’t pressed within 2 hours and broken door hinge blocks you from pressing it
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
Steps to slowly escape are this:
- Install Debian + samba 4 on a server, configure to run it as an active directory server
- Join that server to the work domain as a backup domain controller
- Install onlyoffice on all computers and set it to use onedrive
- Meanwhile install nextcloud and get used to that with a small part, with onlyoffice.
- Migrate the users that don’t use too much Microsoft 365 to nextcloud instead of onedrive, onlyoffice+nextcloud instead of office, nextcloud talk instead of teams
- Start to decommission one windows domain controller and let the Debian domain controller do its work.
- The escape door is open, start to escape
In the short term, even if it’s free, having someone do this work will definitely cost more than paying the license for windows server + all the user CALs + the office 365 subscriptions but I think ROI in 5-7 years
- Comment on Windows 11 could actually become the same kind of mistake Sony made with the PS3 2 weeks ago:
I think it’s more comparable to say the same kind of mistake that Microsoft made with the Xbox One. Sold at a $100 premium over the playstation 4 because Microsoft assumed that everyone would love to get a bundled Kinect when actually nobody did.
Also when they announced the stupid DRM that they wanted to use on the Xbox One (console must be always online to work, games on disk to become single use gift cards that get redeemed to a Microsoft account and can’t be used on a different console) Probably Sony won the console war with this single 20 second video even if Microsoft backtracked immediately: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWSIFh8ICaA
With windows 11 Microsoft is doing similar mistakes:
- With x86 processors, assuming that everyone has the money to buy a new computer even if their old one could work perfectly for what they need. Last week I went to visit an elementary school in my country and at the wall in the computer room they still had a poster comparing Netscape and Internet Explorer. They definitely don’t have the funds to throw and buy again 30 computers. Time for Linux to shine?
- With arm processors, making it an exclusive for the expensive snapdragon x. Result: those laptops cost even more than comparable x86 ones, while could be cheaper. Look at the recently launched Minisforum R1. A full desktop computer with 32gb RAM and an ARM CPU that is comparable to a core i5-10400F while costing only $500. But because Microsoft chose to support only the most expensive snapdragon processors, this brand new computers can exclusively run Linux. Time for Linux to shine?
- Comment on 🔥Leaked copy of the Epstein Files🔥 2 weeks ago:
In a kakistocracy like this where everyone is literally the most incompetent person that could cover a specific position, I hope the redactions are made with the black highlighter tool of Microsoft Word (can still be copied/pasted when selected lol)