elucubra
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- Comment on Reddit sues Anthropic for allegedly not paying for training data | TechCrunch 3 days ago:
I thought we were going to get our share of the damages
- Comment on Front Brake Lights Could Drastically Diminish Road Accident Rates 3 days ago:
Liknks or didn’t happen
- Comment on So it begins... 3 days ago:
Either 5D chess or 1D checkers
- Comment on Telegram and xAI agreed a one-year deal to distribute Grok; Telegram will get $300M in cash and equity from xAI and 50% of subscription revenue 1 week ago:
How is Signal financed?
- Comment on Black Mirror AI 2 weeks ago:
Better yet. Share links to tarpits with your non-friends and enemies
- Comment on We poisoned the whole planet so our eggs wouldn't stick to the pan 🙃 3 weeks ago:
I’m more inclined to think that they weren’t willing, but rather that they just didn’t work on the implications. Occam’s razor. Don’t assume evil when stupidity, or laziness, or simple plain cost cutring can explain things.
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 5 weeks ago:
The other day, in another thread about eggs (damn we talk a lot about eggs lately!) someone mentioned a 15 egg pack. WTF is wrong with your countries!! The natural egg set is 12. a dozen! because, 12 is the logical… Because 12 eggs is… Hmmm. we don’t have twelve fingers, or toes… Why dafuq do we use dozens? I mean, even decimal months make more sense
- Comment on A completely useful compulsion I have. 5 weeks ago:
Yeah! Did yours sprinkle the shavings on top of your cereal like mine did, too?
- Comment on Chances for the fediverse? Elon Musk takes hit as Europeans ditch X in droves 5 weeks ago:
Facebook, Twitter, TikTok, or even Google. They give a shit about your wellbeing, as long as they profit. That’s delusional. The try to cater to what will keep you engaged, so that as much of the data you can generate can be milked. That’s like saying that agrobusiness cares about livestock’s wellbeing.
- Comment on Hundreds of smartphone apps are monitoring users through their microphones 1 month ago:
Right around the confinement my sister and I were talking about getting some seeds for my mom. Neither of us searched for seeds. From that point we both started to get ads for seeds, many for the ones we had talked about in particular. This thing was so unequivocal that it proved to me that our phones listen. Maybe they don’t analyze, but they definitely listen for words actionable for an advertising purposes.
- Comment on Tesla Slumps Below 50% Share of California's Electric Car Market 1 month ago:
And chinese EVs are still competitive in the EU. Tafiffs are effective, and can be positive, to prevent dumping and stuff, just not across the board.
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 1 month ago:
Tape presents its own share of problems. If not strored in some very particular conditions, like temp, humidity, and others that I can’t recall, they can stick to tbe adjacent layers, become brittle, curved, etc…
- Comment on Unpowered SSD endurance investigation finds severe data loss and performance issues 1 month ago:
Bog standard? They are more like “god knows what’s inside these” and cionsidering I have a solid suspicion there is no god…
There is a fairly reasonable theory floating around that no name drives have B quality chips, so these may have started with chips that were iffy from the start. Id like to see a test of this type , carried out by Backblaze, with thousands of drives.
- Comment on Bluesky has started honoring takedown requests from Turkish government 1 month ago:
Where is bluesky based? As far as I know you have to follow the laws of where you are based. Otherwisse we’d have to follow the lowest common denominator, like north korea, or afghanistan or the like
- Comment on There’s AI Inside Windows Paint and Notepad Now 1 month ago:
I tvink it’s useful to be able to talk about some nuances of gender, so maybe use woman for biological double the Ai?
- Comment on I can't believe it 1 month ago:
As a Spaniard I was going to comment that it is kind of overpriced dog food.
- Comment on How to use GPUs over multiple computers for local AI? 1 month ago:
Ignorant here. Would mining rigs work for this?
- Comment on In the latest Windows 11 preview build, Microsoft removed the “bypassnro” command, which let users skip signing into a Microsoft Account when installing Windows. 2 months ago:
I have to have Windows, a VM at least, for reasons.
A nameless install, decrapified with [Chris Titus’ decrapifier, installer and streamliner script]((christitus.com/windows-tool/) is actually decent
- Comment on Why I recommend against Brave. 2 months ago:
Is waterfox compatible with all or most firefox extensions? Also, can you import a firefox profile, and share between devices? I’m fairly invested in firefox, and would hate loosing functionality
- Comment on Plex is increasing Plex Pass prices and paywalling remote playback for personal media at $1.99/month or $19.99/year. 2 months ago:
They dont have to renege on anything. Just create a new variant, an let the original stsgnate. 5 years is an eternity in tech, so if an app is not updated in 5 years, it will be pretty useless.
- Comment on BlackBerry may have the perfect opportunity to produce a Canadian made cellphone to compet with Apple and other America brands. 2 months ago:
Phon-Eh?
- Comment on Too dumb to understand where the gas tank opening is 5 months ago:
This is souch baseless bullshit
- Comment on AT&T says it won’t build fiber home Internet in half of its wireline footprint 5 months ago:
Meanwhile, Spain, the second largest country by surface in Europe has completely phased out copper lines in 24. Yes I realize that the distances are a lot smaller than the US, but it’s not like talking about the Netherlands. You are guaranteed fiber in bumfuck La Mancha.
- Comment on DHL cargo plane crashes in Lithuania, killing one 6 months ago:
Boeing?
- Comment on Big, beige ’80s PC case started out as a joke, but it’s becoming real in Japan 6 months ago:
I’m going to guess that an old mid or full size tower could fit a modern GPU. With a bit of dremelling on the back you cold probably make it work. My son has been mulling such a mod.
- Comment on Microsoft is launching a $349 desktop PC that only runs Windows 11 by streaming it from the cloud 6 months ago:
- Comment on Solar modules now selling for less than €0.06/W in Europe 6 months ago:
I’m not a rabid anti-nuclear, but there are somethings that are often left out of the pricing. One is the exorbitant price of storage of spent fuel although I seem to remember that there is some nuclear tech that can use nuclear waste as at least part of it’s fuel (Molten salt? Pebble? maybe an expert can chime in). There is also the human greed factor. Fukushima happened because they built the walls to the highest recorded tsunami in the area, to save on concrete. A lot of civil engineering projects have a 150% overprovision over the worst case calculations. Fukushima? just for the worst case recorded, moronic corporate greed. The human factor tends to be the biggest danger here.
- Comment on D-Link refuses to patch a security flaw on over 60,000 NAS devices — the company instead recommends replacing legacy NAS with newer models 6 months ago:
I do SMB support. I recently replaced one at a customer , essentially because it didn’t support larger disks. Also because it was slow as fuck. replacing a 10 year plus device doesn’t seem that unreasonable.
That said, I don’t like Dlink.
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 7 months ago:
Wouldn’t a flatter form factor be better for rear mounting?
- Comment on M4 Mac Mini Power Button Has New Bottom Location 7 months ago:
I can get an I9 32gb 1Tb mini pc for under 500€