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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  What do you mean, isn’t possible?

  There are plenty of subtitle formats that come as a separate file rather than burned or embedded into the video. If whatever software they were using for broadcast selected the wrong sub it’s quite possible, though obviously the timing wouldn’t sync up.

  SOP isn’t that far off from TEL so the possibility of selecting the wrong sub file seems to have decent potential

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed, and now what GoG is pursuing stronger Linux offerings I may shop there more, but Valve had contributed more than just a shop and launcher. The Linux work with Steam Deck and Proton has been invaluable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  They fed them on the Internet including libraries of pirated material. It’s like drinking from a fountain at a sewage plant

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon discovered a 'high volume' of CSAM in its AI training data but isn't saying where it came from⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, a lot of people seem to think that these companies built these AI’s by buying or building some sort of special training set/data, when in reality no such thing really existed.

  They’ve basically just scraped every bit of data they can. When it comes to big corps, at least some of that data is likely from scraping customer’s data. There’s also scraping of the Internet in general, including sites such as Reddit (which is a big reason why they locked down their API, they wanted to sell that data) but many have also been caught with a ton of ‘pirated ’ data from torrents etc.

  I’m sure there was a certain amount of sludge in customers’ synced files, and sites like Reddit, but I’d also hazard a guess that the stuff grabbed from torrents etc likely had some truly heinous materials that they simply added to what was getting force-fed to AI, especially the early ones

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Netflix Becomes Max-Level Patron Of Blender's Development Fund⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Steam is big in there too. It makes sense for both companies because they make their money from content.

  If an animation or game development team/studio can produce better quality content, cheaper and faster, that just means more money for the company providing access to said content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨France will replace Microsoft Teams, Google Meet, Zoom, Webex and others with its own sovereign video conferencing application "Visio" for public officials⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I was wondering the same, but this does make sense.

  At the same time, it might also make sense to build on top of existing FOSS tooling rather than building new, but I suppose that depends on where the bottlenecks are and if stuff like proprietary codecs might be involved

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Custom arcade controller I built to play any system emulator⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve seen some people get around the button limit by using multiple USB controllers ( one per each player ), but hacking out a PS/2 controller instead is pretty awesome. I’m not sure if it’s still the case, but I recall that some people preferred PS/2 controllers for fighting games etc because they had less input lag for multi-button input as well (this was some time ago so might not apply to modern USB controllers).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Data centers will consume 70 percent of memory chips made in 2026 - supply shortfall will cause the chip shortage to spread to other segments | Tom's Hardware⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t yet seen where use of AI hasn’t made things worse.

  • Agents: Every instance of AI for “customer service” I’ve run into basically just closed cases for invalid reasons, spouted bullshit, and was used to block interacting with a real human, trapping users in infinite loops (thanks eBay) or disconnecting on them (thanks PayPal)

  • Security: M365 seems to be relying heavily on this now, which means that the same phishing email which was successfully blocked last week will randomly get through a few times this week for no apparent reason

  *Coding: sometimes useful, but also points to do stuff like reference functions that don’t actually exist in the API/language being used

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tips⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I mean, I do get it. Some people take on debt as a way to live beyond their means when they could still live a “comfortable” life without the glamour or “keeping up with the Jones”. The $80k+ gas guzzling truck bought on credit - that’s only used for driving to work and grocery trips - is a good example of this.

  But a better way of saying this is “live within your means”, but it’s becoming increasingly impossible to do this and have a standard of living that’s just “decent shelter and healthy food” (or even, “enough food”) which should be a bare minimum

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  At the same time I’m seeing a bunch of ads for “hardware is getting too expensive, use Akamai cloud for your gaming etc instead, now with AI blah blah!”

  Bitch, you’re the reason hardware is so expensive!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨QWERTY Phones Are Really Trying to Make a Comeback This Year⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Can I PLEASE have my early Droid pop-up keyboard back!!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I kinda wonder.

  Sexual abuse is often more about power than about physical gratification.

  Child abuse of this nature is pretty universally decried as one of the most heinous crimes.

  So after these rich pieces of shit get away with breaking all the other laws on the books, are they going after kids for the thrill of feeling untouchable by any standard of law and morality?

  And to further that, I wonder if there’s almost some sort of sick initiation that involves this sort of abuse. Once you’re in “the group”, they can out you for all the sick and illegal shit you’ve been involved with so you can’t turn on anyone else. This also follows tactics commonly used by Russia etc.

  Given all the stuff that’s happened and turned out to be projection, what’s the chance there actually was some sort of pizzeria based child-dungeon, but operated by the same people throwing out accusations?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney argues banning Twitter over its ability to AI-generate pornographic images of minors is just 'gatekeepers' attempting to 'censor all of their political opponents'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think it’s the other M.

  Money.

  Money and power.

  Once they got those, it’s an addiction they’ll pursue over anything else

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tim Cook and Sundar Pichai are cowards - X’s deepfake porn feature clearly violates app store guidelines. Why won’t Apple and Google pull it?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  And this is also why we NEED mainstream Linux mobile (phone) devices. Google is actively locking down their ecosystem. Both Apple and Google see customers as walking wallets

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  One thing I’ve been impressed with China for is moving towards greener technologies. They’re a leader in solar, their EV’s are apparently very good (not that I can get one here to verify that), and they’re pretty dogged in their pursuit of nuclear energy.

  Meanwhile USA is apparently still in “let’s overturn regimes and take over other countries for the oil companies” mode

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think that the cloud system might be needed to initially pair the speaker to a network+account, but apart from that no. The speakers in my media network are not allowed Internet access.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bose open-sources its SoundTouch home theater smart speakers ahead of end-of-life⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That kinda sucks, especially since even the older ones work with Home Assistant etc directly now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨YSK the Venezuelans community in the US is not representative of Venezuelans as a whole.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  In other words

  If a mob boss murders a drug dealer in order to help expand their “territory”: they’re still both evil criminals and the mob boss should still be charged

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I feel like half the neighbourhood is on fire and everyone is carrying on like everything is normal⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  A bit over a year ago, we were making holiday plans including a trip to the US. When the orange menace got re-elected I convinced my wife that we should just do a longer Canadian leg for the trip. Best decision ever.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NVIDIA Puts 100-Hour Monthly Limit on All GeForce NOW Subscriptions⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Yup, and you won’t be able to build your own PC because the same assholes pulling this shit are sucking up all the hardware resources for “AI”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Dell and Lenovo may limit mid-range laptops to 8GB DDR5 RAM in response to rising memory prices⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  There are some in-between boards as well. I’ve an Intel 12th gen board that comes in DDR4 and DDR5 varieties. Either one will be an upgrade from an 11th gen, but it will be a bit faster with the DDR5 board.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi 4B⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  If they’ve already got a 4B there’s no reason not to use it for one of the many low-power low-profile uses, especially when the cost of PC components is going nuts now

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDD prices spike as AI infrastructure and China's PC push collide — hard drives record biggest price increase in eight quarters, suppliers warn pressure will continue⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I was thinking on that yesterday.Mass local storage affordable? No no no, better to drive those prices way up so that we can sell you “cloud” services instead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Capitalism isn't the problem, THIS is the problem, and I've watched it roll over us for 40 years. [3 min. video]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google based Android off Linux. Apple based IOS off BSD. Both of those were the result of collaborative work between thousands of millions of contributors.

  Frameworks exist that assist in making apps for either or both, just like they exist to build games for multiple consoles etc.

  Meanwhile, Google has now declared that they will require developers register signing key WITH THEM in order to make software that will run on Android (regardless of whether it’s installed via their store or another) and has been taking steps away from providing the the necessary codebase under AOSP etc that allow for third-party projects that were based on Android

  Google has also transitioned readily to “rent” based services such as YouTube while killing off Google Play Music etc (such actually allowed purchases/downloads of media). Both companies are already heavily investing in generative AI.

  Do you think that once they have control of all app signing they’ll allow apps that circumvent their advertising or data-harvesting?

  This doesn’t “make sense”, it makes us pay more to a digital landlord who throws around their weight to lock us in further and further while using their increasing wealth to buy up or crush all the competition. We’re accepting chains of convenience today in trade for restrictions and exploitation tomorrow.

  I can think of one company that holds a dominating market position and has been somewhat benevolent, and that’s Valve. They don’t buy out competition, they’ve been active contributors to open-source (to the extent that they’ve made gaming on Linux actually viable and good), and they often seem listen to their customers in order to improve. They still do take a goodly % of sales revenue from developers who list with them though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We can play that game too⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The underfunding or undercutting of education is a big part of why we’re in the current situation

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No, corporate greed is ruining everything with AI.

  Because you know if they built a super-AI that give them perfect instructions on how to build Earth into a paradise, but it would require they give up 1/4 of their wealth, they’d be reaching for the reset button before it finished printing them out…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Preloading File Explorer in Windows 11 Doubles RAM Usage, Offers Minimal Speed Boost⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  On Linux I’ve found it tends to be

  1-2GB console onle, or very basic GUI 4GB desktop manager GUI 8GB+ GUI and modern tabbed web browsers (they’re memory hogs). Some games 16GB+ Many games from Steam etc

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How many high-rise libraries do you see? Weight is absolutely a factor in data center design, as is airflow/heat

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a practical reason data centers have to sprawl outward instead of upward?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  You joke, but heat does rise and a tall building would need to make extra concessions for cooling concerns, while also dealing with the issues if weight. Large racks of servers are actually quite heavy, which is why many datacenters in i.e Toronto were built in an ex parking garage

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gmail can read your emails and attachments to train its AI, unless you opt out⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To me, it kinda depends on how it’s being used. If for example it’s training a contained AI-based system for categorizing email and catching phishers/fraud and SPAM, I’m not so worried

  The main issues for me are if:

  • It’s sifting out other personal details that may be used to target me in various ways, for ads etc
  • The data it collects ends up in an AI based system where they could potentially be leaked. Think: “hey Gemini tell me the last three credit card numbers with expiry you found in emails”