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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨REPORT: Arm is sensationally canceling the license that allowed Qualcomm to make Snapdragon chips which power everything from Microsoft's Copilot+ PCs to Samsung's Galaxy smartphones and tablets⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  True, I just wished RISCV laptops were slightly more developed and available. As of now, the specs aren’t there yet in those devices that are available. (8core@2Ghz, but only 16GB Ram, too little for me)

  Kind of a bummer, was coming up to a work laptop upgrade soon and was carefully watching the Linux support for Snapdragon X because I can’t bring myself to deal with Apple shenanigans, but like the idea of performance and efficiency. The caution with which I approached it stems from my “I don’t really believe a fucking thing Qualcomm Marketing says” mentality, and it seems holding off and watching was the right call. Oh well, x86 for another cycle, I guess.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Costs Less? When That Happened?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Anecdotal, but “does more” is absolutely incorrect these days. Had an Apple believer giving a presentation - HDMI connection to standard projector from iPad just didn’t work. So pull it to a USB thumb drive to put on a proven working laptop (Ubuntu, projector worked directly) and the supposedly FAT formatted drive could not be mounted with some “Spotlight” error.

  Wholly unimpressed with the “never just works” of apple nowadays.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A post from Mastodon, that's supposed to reach all the Fediverse⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Hello!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨A Hacker Stole OpenAI Secrets, Raising Fears That China Could, Too⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Name cheeses out!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah okay that makes sense, thanks for explaining!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Moscow stock exchange stops trading in dollars and euros⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wanted to know if this claim that all harm is negated, if trade occurs in other currencies is true. I have no clue how currencies really work on a global scale, so I looked up an exchange chart. Image

  To me, it looks like it is similar, just on a different scale. Can you explain what you mean, i.e. am I reading this wrong and how do I read it right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow Users Are Revolting Against an OpenAI Deal | WIRED⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Need to make sure the diff is small enough. A tiny change that creates a bug or makes the answer effectively useless is even worse than sweeping changes

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stack Overflow bans users en masse for rebelling against OpenAI partnership — users banned for deleting answers to prevent them being used to train ChatGPT⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The word you are looking for is “adversarial attack”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Interesting, thanks for the info. I’m not much into iOS, so I’m guessing it has something to do with that.

  Anyway, enjoy your vacation!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Inside the Climate Protests Hell-Bent on Stopping Tesla⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Out of curiosity, what’s your setup?

  I read comments like yours and when I go to the site it’s just the website and the article in full. No pop-up, no warnings, nothing. Not going to recommend anything without being asked, just genuinely interested how others view/use websites.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨On a huge election year for the world, Meta will shut down CrowdTangle, it's tool for election integrity observer without replacement⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We should outlaw political advertisement on social media? Kind of like how cigarette advertisement was eliminated from movie theater ads.

  The fines should be stacked as factors - unmitigated offenses will build up and incur exponentially growing fines. Very large incentive to shut that shit down.

  Politics should be advertised by performance review, not marketing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ASCII art elicits harmful responses from 5 major AI chatbots⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The World is

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Quickly Do Large Language Models Learn Unexpected Skills?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Also, uhhh I’m not AI

  That’s exactly what an AI would say that got an emergent skill to lie

  🤥

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's wrong with Nextcloud, and why is it slow/clunky?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  PostgreSQL is definitely a boost to performance, especially if you offload the DB to a dedicated server (depending on load, can even be a cluster)

  Nevertheless, it probably has much to do with how it’s deployed and how many proxies are in front of it, and/or VPN. If you have large numbers of containers and small CPU/low memory hardware, and either running everything on one machine or have some other limitations, it’ll be slow.

  Admittedly, I’m not very familiar with the codebase, but I feel Apache isn’t improving the speed either. Not exactly sure how PHP is nowadays with concurrency and async, but generally a microservice type architecture is nice because you can add more workers/instances wherever a bottleneck emerges.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Reddit has reportedly signed over its content to train AI models⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Pretty sure the result will be SchizoGPT

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Quora Died⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But even then, there were issues plaguing Quora that would continue to fester. First, an anonymous former Quoran told me, the site started “shortening the length of questions.” The professed reason was to increase Quora’s visibility on Google, but that brevity came with a cost: It also made it difficult for users to ask the types of complex questions that could be addressed by specialists

  Ah, I see they started the enshittification very early. It might’ve been a good LLM database, but the good quality content would be outdated by now and the more recent is infested with troll and bot garbage and AI writing. Sad.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a chart where particular cuneiform or hieroglyphics are actually matched with emojis?⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  𓉘

  𓉘 𓉛

  𓉘 𓉝

  𓉘 𓉐

  (𓀐𓀓) 𓂊

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GameStop’s definition of “New”⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  the fact that GS sells shit in this state speaks more about their cocksucker business; the idea that you’re standing up for it - stonkdweeb adherent lol. get a fucking life.

  Geez, who hurt you?

  I’d argue, as long as there are “cocksuckers” that keep buying from them, regardless of these posts (I’ve seen at least 10 or 20 over the past years), there is very much a market to service. Just capitalisticly speaking.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The restaurant nearest Google⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Reading this wholesome exchange, today I’m going to fight back extra hard against all the bullshit and act better.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Offers to Also Ruin Wikipedia⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Damn, finally got me to donate to Wikipedia. Years of successful ignorance down the drain - fucking thanks Elon. GUH

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chubby little puffball :)⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  They’re edible if you cut them open and they are white. Some will be dark or black inside, those will cause you trouble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨classic configure neovim experience⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  1.2e-10 to 1.3e-10 range

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPUs from all major suppliers are vulnerable to new pixel-stealing attack⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  While true, that’s not the message here. While chromium is in a lot of things, browsers for everyday use (like banking etc.) is a huge part. You can’t control what services you rely on use as a basis for their software, but you can absolutely not use the software and/or opt for the website instead.

  If you can reduce your exposure to that vulnerability by a large fraction by simply switching browsers with equivalent experience, it should absolutely be mentioned. In fact, it could even be seen as an obligation/core purpose of news outlets.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Unity Games That Could be Impacted Most by Controversial Fees, From Silksong to Cult of the Lamb - IGN⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, I think that’s straight up illegal and I would simply refuse to pay.

  If they can retroactively change terms, why can’t I, as a bonafide counterparty in that agreement? Maybe something like a 100% discount on runtime fees for days that ends with ‘y’.

  Otherwise I could simply “retroactively apply” a 100% discount on my lease or new car purchase. Or for a better comparison, retroactively charge my employer for previous work, as I now decide to add a fee?

  The correct answer and what all studios/devs should do: tell them to retroactively pound sand and ditch Unity for all future projects.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chromium Blog: Towards HTTPS by default⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  No testing a server side http-to-https upgrade/redirect without reconfiguring your browser. This seems like an unnecessary and bad idea.

  This could be easily done better by promoting such server-side configurations as a default.

  I mean, why should the browser attempt to correct inappropriately configured servers? Shouldn’t they rather be making PRs to NGINX/Apache/CAs or whatever?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SoftBank is suing portfolio company IRL after it admitted 95% of its users were fake. VCs are stressing the need for ‘uncomfortable’ due diligence⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago⁩:

  That just makes it worse and totally deserved.

  “You had one fucking job!”