Crozekiel
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- Comment on From F-Droid to emulators, here's who's hit hardest by Android's new verification rules 3 days ago:
does VoLTE work? Basically all carriers in the us use this and we knocked down all of the old tech towers. My understanding is the EU still has all the old towers up for just voice calls and don’t need VoLTE to work.
Quick web search suggests it is a “beta” feature at best currently :(
- Comment on 😐?? 4 days ago:
They are pointing out that the instructions are “Answer all questions.”
- Comment on The FCC Just Banned the Sale of New Wi-Router Models Made Outside US 5 days ago:
Won’t be surprised if the ISP provided hardware is going to be the only allowed stuff. For you and me, not for the gov’t or companies though. They specifically only mentioned “consumer grade” and also specifically state that products sold to or used by the federal gov’t are not restricted at all. Seems like that carve-out is backwards if these things are such big “security risks”…
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 6 days ago:
DLSS Michael is just Mr. Beast in a moustache.
- Comment on GrapheneOS refuses to comply with new age verification laws for operating systems — group says it will never require personal information 6 days ago:
It’s like 7 different states at varying stages of “passed” and Meta’s lobby is working on more for sure, wouldn’t be surprised if they were also work on a federal version too.
- Comment on MEGA FLAG 1 week ago:
Holy shit, please write that.
- Comment on We Spoke To Game Devs And All Of Them Hate DLSS 5: 'What The F***, Nvidia?' 1 week ago:
Even if it could work that way, I don’t think it matters… They used a system with TWO 5090s in it, one to run the game normally, and the ENTIRE OTHER 5090 to run the dlss5 AI rendering bullshit over the top of it.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Unfortunately, it’s not a win, mostly because enough people will think it is and stop thinking about it, let alone talking about it or pushing back.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
The slippery on that slope is there are already banking and government apps that refuse to work if your phone has enabled developer options.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Pig Butchering scams typically would rely on an app for the the “investing” portion of the scam. They use apps that are in the google play store, because that comes with a belief of some level of (completely false) security and legitimacy for people that don’t know better which makes people more likely to believe it is a real investing app and not a trap.
- Comment on Google gives Android users a way to install unverified apps if they prove they really, really want to 1 week ago:
Even if they did, TeamViewer isn’t a sketchy app only distributed through back-alley websites…
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
I think it is absolutely delusional to assume any of this actually has anything to do with security or safety of users. Google just wants more power and control over, well, everything they can get.
- Comment on Did we win? 1 week ago:
I’d believe that if most Pig Butchering scams weren’t using apps from Google Play already.
- Comment on How to install Windows on your Steam Deck 1 week ago:
“I hate that we invented the Orphan Crushing Machine, but I also dislike people who constantly hate on the Orphan Crushing Machine even when it isn’t actively Crushing Orphans.”
- Comment on Google Search referrals to the web have plummeted, AI links are 'less than 1%' of traffic 1 week ago:
I think the issue there is the data doesn’t tell anyone “why”, it only tells “what”.
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 1 week ago:
commons.wikimedia.org/…/File:Groan_Tube_1.webm
Apparently they are called “Groan Tubes”?
- Comment on In theory vs. in practice 1 week ago:
I want to believe they are giant versions of those tubes from the 90s that go “eewoooowooowoweeooooooowoo” when you tip them over.
- Comment on Digital Foundry's Video Follow-up to DLSS 5 is Much More Nuanced 1 week ago:
I, for one, am loving the “DLSS 5 Off/On” memes.
- Comment on What is your take on organ donation? 1 week ago:
I know it’s irrational, but there is a tiny voice in the back of my head going “what if the ancient Egyptians were right, and you’ll need your liver or eyes or whatever in the afterlife?” even though currently right now living and breathing I couldn’t tell you what my liver does for me other than I need it to stay living.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Jesus christ… A second top of the line GPU just to run the AI slop filter is one hell of a deluded announcement. I kinda feel bad now about all that hate Blizzard got for announcing a diablo mobile game.
- Comment on Jensen Huang says gamers are 'completely wrong' about DLSS 5 — Nvidia CEO responds to DLSS 5 backlash 1 week ago:
Wait, is that real? I thought the entire point of previous versions of DLSS was to get “better” performance out of “less” hardware? I had suspicions that running every frame through an AI image generator wasn’t going to be an improvement to performance, but that’s even worse than I was expecting.
- Comment on Sam Altman Thanks Programmers for Their Effort, Says Their Time Is Over 1 week ago:
And yet, if you walk into any discussion about LLM use in coding, devs come out in droves to defend and even champion its use…
- Comment on Dumb glasses 1 week ago:
Why do you assume it is only happening in public? Since it is hidden cameras, in glasses, they can be recording anywhere (and even if the user hasn’t asked them to record explicitly, they are probably sending data back to their servers anyway - we know they have been doing that with microphones for literal decades already).
- Comment on Blocking the Internet Archive Won’t Stop AI, But It Will Erase the Web’s Historical Record 1 week ago:
I wrote one of my representatives once to tell him I disagreed with his stance on some tech-related bill or another several years ago, and urged him to reconsider. I got a canned response from his office thanking me for “my support” and basically “agreeing” with me that the rep’s original stance is correct and good and just, with a little sprinkle of obviously not understanding the bill at all dusted throughout. He is still my representative like 12 years later. I still get his newsletter in my e-mail regularly because his “unsubscribe” link doesn’t work (never mind that I never subscribed to a newsletter, I e-mailed my representative…).
Our system is far more broken than anyone wants to admit.
- Comment on A sudden epiphany. 1 week ago:
Yea… This was the basis for my first existential crisis in my life… All through small town public school I was basically the smartest kid in the room (sometimes smartest person - we had some really bad teachers). Thought I was god’s gift of intelligence to humanity. Went out of town to a really good engineering school and holy shit I was immediately humbled. I was clawing my way to try to reach “average” and couldn’t quite reach.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 1 week ago:
I was honestly asking, I constantly see artists and writers wishing AI didn’t exist because all it makes is garbage… But I also regularly see developers lashing out at AI hate, fighting tooth and nail to keep it and get more of it. That’s a really strange dichotomy to see “in the wild”.
- Comment on Lutris now being built with Claude AI, developer decides to hide it after backlash 2 weeks ago:
AI is actively destroying the environment and harming people. Data centers have been caught using methane burner generators (which are banned for use by the EPA) which significantly increase health risk to residents that live nearby (cancer and asthma rates already significantly increased). Then you have the ridiculous effects it is having on computer hardware markets, energy and water infrastructure and prices.
Then after all of that, the AI themselves are hallucinating somewhere in the neighborhood of 25% of the time, and multiple studies have found that people that use them regularly are losing their own skills.
I can’t figure out why people would choose to use them. I can’t figure out why programming is the one place where people that might have otherwise been considered experts in the field are excited to use them. Writers, artists, lawyers, doctors, basically every other professional field that AI companies have suggested these would be good for, they get trashed by experts in the fields for making garbage. I have a hard time believing the only thing AI can do well is write code when it sucks so badly at everything else it does. Does development suck this much? Do developers have so little idea what they are doing that this seems like a good idea?
- Comment on [Zack Freedman] You can copy and 3D print perfect spare parts! (Legally) (Probably) 2 weeks ago:
I think this is exactly why several states are trying to pass laws to basically kill the 3d printer market… It’s never about safety, it’s about right to repair.
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 3 weeks ago:
I like Jello! My favorite flavor is Lime, how about you? 😃
Also, 4G was the dominant mobile technology for over 10 years, there are probably close to 10 BILLION 4G phones on the planet, WOW! 🤯 It sure seems like someone was able to make a phone with such hardware!
- Comment on This Espressif ESP32-Powered 4G "Smartphone," Programmed in the Arduino IDE, Packs The Essentials 3 weeks ago:
but it is about software, not hardware.
Hey Bestie! Sorry, but you are absolutely wrong here. 😊
There are several options for free and open source software for mobile applications, and it only works with a teeny tiny sliver of the available hardware because almost none of the hardware is even remotely open. 😭
At this stage, it is absolutely about hardware that actually supports the OS community, because all the software imaginable is useless if it can’t run on any available hardware! 😁
Kthx, Lots of Love! 🤩