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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You won’t open the content, and you’ll have absolutely 0% privacy because all of your processing and data will be on somebody else’s system.

  AI will go from making cute GIF’s to fully automated surveillance and ensuring nobody uses those systems for anything not approved by the regime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is the Memory Shortage Intentional?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah PXE boot has been a thing for decades, and with network speeds going from 10/100, gigabit, and now potentially 5-10gbit it’s pretty viable for home environments. It’s great for common libraries, and mine has an emulator plus a bunch of GoG etc games which I’ve been tinkering to make run nicely.

  My preference though is still “thick” clients which use the network for boot and OS/storage, but still have their own CPU and RAM.

  Other than storage and networking, the server side requirements aren’t huge. My plan is to make a portable environment which people can patch into and play classic games together.

  (If anyone has experience with OpenSpy and getting it to work sans-Internet I’d love to pick your brain, as I really want to get BF2142 and other classics running fully without internet)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Asus and Dell announce new mini PCs for Windows 365 | Goodbye local OS⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Don’t worry, to make it work,he’ll only need to open the firewall to the Internet for dozens of MS subdomains and thousands of IP’s in ranges that can randomly change from day to day. Totally more an issue for systems which might have been segregated from the Internet before!

  /s

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨3D Printer Reviewers: Being honest in this industry will put you out of a job.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah ironically one of the reasons I used an Anycubic, because while they may have issues with FOSS compliance, the firmware I did load on there (Rinkhals) isn’t

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Just waiting for them to bring back Clippy as an AI agent…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  To play games coded by a shitty AI, full of bugs and as many microtransactions as possible …

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon BUSTED for Widespread Scheme to Inflate Prices Across the Economy— Amazon, its vendors, and competing retailers are price fixing, hiking up prices for consumer products⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like that even try to hide a lot of the shit they do.

  Stuff like:

  • locking authors into exclusivity contracts with Kindle Unlimited/Audible (monopoly abuse/anticompetitive*
  • Advertising items as “on sale” - especially around Prime Day/Black Friday etc after jacking up the price a few weeks in advance
  • Items with “free Prime shipping” but the exact same item without Prime is less about the shipping cost
  • Stuff like Kindle ebooks shown with a discount price when no other medium exists, it was never sold at the listed “regular price” to begin with, and/or it’s only available from Amazon in the first place
• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facebook is absolutely cooked⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Second to worst for that is the excessive use of Google stuff, including Chromebooks replacing PC labs, and a bunch of G-software

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Guinness wasn't proud of this one.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Their dick probably didn’t look much better. Even with lube that’s gonna chaff after awhile and probably took off at least a layer of skin

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Valve’s Steam Machine has been delayed, and the RAM crisis will impact pricing⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah my first thought was that Frame should be ok since my intended use-case was “connected to Steam PC via the wireless transceiver” but then I AI remembered it can run standalone so would also need storage, RAM, and a strong enough processor to handle all that.

  Now I’m kinda thinking it would be cool if the Frame was more like an updated Index with wireless, local tracking etc etc and an optional daughter-board - for standalone gameplay functionality - that could be connected later or even allow upgrades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Kate Mulgrew Defends ‘Star Trek: Starfleet Academy’ And Captain Ake From “Disrespectful” Online Attacks⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t watched STSF yet but yeah there’s ton of stuff in Trek that would quality as “woke” right back to ToS, as well as a bunch of stuff that “broke” from an intellectual level.

  I think my biggest issue with Picard is the latter… with the “fireworks in space” celebration (complete with sound of course) just making me want to bury my head in my hands.

  It’s never been perfect, but it’s still entertaining.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon's Ring and Google's Nest Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Frigate with a cheap “AI” accelerator (running visual models) FTW!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My muddahs wake. Jeeshush Chrisht!⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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'⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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