elucubra
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- Comment on Sony says it’s not done making Xperia phones just yet 6 hours ago:
Sony has generally made awesome stuff. The number of groundbreaking concepts or tech is incredible, although they have been outputting less “wow stuff” lately. I get the impression that their marketing sucks balls lately.
- Comment on "ok, imagine a gun." 1 day ago:
My kids say “Chewbacca!”
- Comment on Google search boss says AI isn’t killing search clicks 2 days ago:
I run sites for a major NGO for addiction recovery. We often ask people how they found us. More than half now say AI. We don’t have ads in our sites, but for people monetizing their sites this must be dramatic.
- Comment on Imagine if Amazon and all jobs out there were cooperatively owned? 5 days ago:
Anybody saying that co-ops don’t work or whatever should check Mondragon which thrives in thoroughly capitalist Spain.
- Comment on Windows 11 is a minefield of micro-aggressions in the shipping lane of progress 1 week ago:
So, we essentially need a non evil company to put together a curated distro, with a solid wine solution for most windows shit, something businesses can trust for their day to day, and then people, being familiar with their work linux would come over to the light side of the force at home.
Seteam OS for non-gamers?
- Comment on Avatar (the one with the blue aliens) is such a weird franchise 1 week ago:
Anticapitalist that made over 2 Billion dollars…
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
Merriam Webster seems to agree with me.
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
it genuinely seems like this guy hates developing duckstation at all.
I don’t think you get it. He probably enjoys creating, and achieving something awesome. He has no obligation to deal with entitled users of what he gives away
- Comment on Duckstation(one of the most popular PS1 Emulators) dev plans on eventually dropping Linux support due to Linux users, especially Arch Linux users. 1 week ago:
If I give something for free, it’s my rules. Simple as that. Don’t like it? don’t accept it.
Linus is often a dick. He even acknowledges it. Don’t like it? Well, there are other OS.
I’m not like that, I like being helpful, I actually do many volunteer hours a week, but… I do hate entitlement. I don’t see these people giving Microsoft as hard a time.
Lets keep the Karen constrained, please.
- Comment on Polish Train Maker Is Suing the Hackers Who Exposed Its Anti-Repair Tricks 1 week ago:
I was just thinking this. I imagine that there is only a few hundred train operators in the world, so they can all be reached easily, and would pay attention to the Polish rail operator.
Simply explain the whole ordeal and bullshittery, and let them know what will happen to them.
It’s unlikely that Mowag would get another sale. They are fucking with mainly state operator, who have a LOT of time and resources.
If I were the Polish operator, I would have found a new hobby.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 1 week ago:
Sure, but I imagine that the volume thing still applies. I’m guessing here.
- Comment on Startup Claims Its Fusion Reactor Concept Can Turn Cheap Mercury Into Gold 1 week ago:
No, my friend. Gold is an incredibly useful material, often not used because of price, unlike diamonds, which are mostly useful for abrasion/cutting.
- Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived 1 week ago:
Most parents are way less literate than their kids. Most censorship/site restriction, can be circumvented easily.
- Comment on Nvidia plans to boost presence in Israel with multibillion-dollar tech campus in north 1 week ago:
The Arc 850 is apparently a banger of a midrange card. The mid range, I imagine, is the sweet spot for volume and profitability
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 1 week ago:
Hammers have been perfected over millenia. Cars over a century, with regulations and testing for safety getting stricter by the year.
- Comment on Home sales are down. So why are prices at an all-time high? 1 week ago:
Sticky prices probably play a major role.
“Sticky prices” refer to prices that remain fixed or change very slowly despite shifts in supply and demand or changes in the overall price level. This phenomenon is also known as nominal rigidity, and it contrasts with the theoretical expectation of prices adjusting quickly to market conditions. Sticky prices can be upwardly sticky, meaning they are resistant to falling even if market conditions suggest a price decrease." (Gemini)
- Comment on Some people think that proprietary software for a 3d printer is a plus? 1 week ago:
I’m OK with this as long as there is a way to “root”.
Think Android->custom ROMs, or Apple->Linux.
If there is no way to change firmware, and/or easily mod hardware, no thanks.
- Comment on OpenAI Seeks Additional Capital From Investors as Part of Its $40 Billion Round 1 week ago:
Maybe another tech bro o ketamine, like Musk?
Would you give money to that?
- Comment on On Tuesday afternoon, ChatGPT encouraged me to cut my wrists 1 week ago:
But I’m also getting really tired of people purposely putting extreme effort into tricking the LLM into saying something harmful if someone were to follow it blindly, just so they can make a clickbait headline out of it.
That’s called testing, and the companies behind these LLMs should, before launch, put a very important amount of their resources into testing.
“Product testing is a crucial process in product development where a product’s functionality, performance, safety, and user experience are evaluated to identify potential issues and ensure it meets quality standards before release” (Gemini)
We are literally using alpha/beta software to deal with life altering issues, and these companies are, for some reason, being able to test their products on the public, without consequences.
- Comment on Smart option 2 weeks ago:
When I lived with my ex-wife, I always ordered more or larger, and when at home, Id make more of whatever. Always. First couple of years i simply got annoyed, then I realized I couldn’t fight it, so samity prevailed.
- Comment on Google, Microsoft say Chinese hackers are exploiting SharePoint zero-day 2 weeks ago:
Agree. I work with an org that uses SharePoint, I don’t. When they share docs with me, I can’t directly transfer (or maybe I haven’t found how) to One drive. I mean, they are both MS Cloud. Why?
- Comment on Linux Reaches 5% Desktop Market Share In USA 3 weeks ago:
Nice try mr. dipwepie
- Comment on xkcd #3115: Unsolved Physics Problems 3 weeks ago:
There is no cure for baldness, else Bezos would have a mane.
- Comment on How to dry silica gel 3 weeks ago:
While pure silica gel should not be very toxic, colored silica gel has compounds that produce that color change.
You’ll notice that silica gel is not sold as “pure”.
The thing is that none are food grade, so it’s perfectly legal to have impurities, and from what I have read, the coloring agents are toxic. Usually not worrying in the amounts used in the hobby, but still, what I warn people is about heating, breathing, etc products or materials which produce suspensions, aerosols, vapors for which we have little research or data.
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
Yes I remeber Deathstars. However, these past years I perfunctorly peruse Backblaze’s yearly drive failure reports, and have noticed a trend, which is that most drives are fine, but every year there are a few that stand out as very bad, and they usually Seagate/WDC.
Exceptions yada, yada
- Comment on egg 3 weeks ago:
Not to be confused with the ping pong ball eater snake, or the larger basketball eater snake
- Comment on Feds in Catalonia, Spain think everyone using a Google Pixel must be a drug dealer 3 weeks ago:
Pixel has a market share of 1.5%, so they kind of stand out. Also, there is no such thing as “federales” in Spain. Spain is not a federation. If they are talking about National Police or Guardia civil, they go through a pretty hard entrance exam, and then have a minimum of one year instruction. Executive ranks must have a university degree. Generally reasonably competent. Mossos (regional) and local police are another story. They are quite a bit less competent.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 3 weeks ago:
Precisely what I do
- Comment on Say Hello to the World's Largest Hard Drive, a Massive 36TB Seagate 3 weeks ago:
Makes me shudder. I have to replace a drive in my array, because it is degraded. It’s a 4TB. Imagine having to replace one of these. I’d much rather have a bunch of cheaper drives, even if they are a bit more expensive per TB, because the replacement cost will eventually make the total cost of ownership lower.
- Comment on You can still enable uBlock Origin in Chrome, here is how 3 weeks ago:
Edge is also killing Ublock