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- Comment on Monitoring Students’ Chatbot Conversations Is Big Business Now 11 hours ago:
Sorry, kids.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 13 hours ago:
I mean, yeah, but in practice, the UN is structured the way it is, with the UNSC veto, to avoid creating World War III. That is, it’s aimed at avoiding great power conflict.
Taiwan was functionally removed and replaced by China, but that was really a recognition that Taiwan didn’t really de facto control China, which was who the seat belonged to.
Could Russia one day roll up to the UNSC and discover someone else sitting in their seat? Yeah, theoretically, but in practice, I don’t think that there’s a realistic chance that Russia would be removed from the UNSC seat as long as it’s running around with the largest nuclear arsenal in the world, absent some kind of hard counter showing up that renders that arsenal useless.
- Comment on YSK that in 1994, Ukraine voluntarily gave up nuclear weapons. Europe and the United States promised they would defend Ukraine if it was ever threatened. 15 hours ago:
The Budapest Memorandum committed the signatories not to themselves use force against Ukraine, but it was not a multi-way defensive alliance with all parties which obligated parties to fight against another party who attacked.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Budapest_Memorandum
According to the three memoranda,[9] Russia, the U.S., and the U.K. confirmed their recognition of Belarus, Kazakhstan, and Ukraine becoming parties to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons and effectively removing all Soviet nuclear weapons from their soil, and that they agreed to the following:
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Respect the signatory’s independence and sovereignty in the existing borders (in accordance with the principles of the CSCE Final Act).[10]
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Refrain from the threat or use of force against the territorial integrity or political independence of the signatories to the memorandum, and undertake that none of their weapons will ever be used against these countries, except in cases of self-defense or otherwise in accordance with the Charter of the United Nations.
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Refrain from economic coercion designed to subordinate to their own interest the exercise by Ukraine, the Republic of Belarus, and Kazakhstan of the rights inherent in its sovereignty and thus to secure advantages of any kind.
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Seek immediate Security Council action to provide assistance to the signatory if they “should become a victim of an act of aggression or an object of a threat of aggression in which nuclear weapons are used”.
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Not to use nuclear weapons against any non–nuclear-weapon state party to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, except in the case of an attack on themselves, their territories or dependent territories, their armed forces, or their allies, by such a state in association or alliance with a nuclear weapon state.[5]: 169–171 [11][12]
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Consult with one another if questions arise regarding those commitments.[13][14]
France and China were not signatories but apparently had similar agreements, which I have not read.
The UK and the US (and I assume China and France, if their agreements had approximately the same content) have fulfilled the Budapest Memorandum commitments — Russia broke her commitment.
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- Comment on Big Tech Wants AI to Shop for You—Retailers Want Your Data. Guess Who’s Winning? 16 hours ago:
I imagine that there are ways to game any AI shopping agents that we imagine might be used in the future, same way there are human shoppers.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 day ago:
There’s some company that has done some CGI videos making fun of the Boston Dynamics use of a hockey stick for separation, do videos that have humans pretending to be abusing a CGI robot.
kagis
Corridor Digital, as “Bosstown Dynamics”:
www.youtube.com/results?search_query="bosstown+dy…
e.g.:
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 day ago:
Context: www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H5uWRjFsGc
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 day ago:
tries running yt-dlp on the page to grab the URL of the actual video file involved
Try:
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 day ago:
I mean, yeah, but that’s wartime policy. Like, most countries are willing to take more risks and accept more costs if they consider is necessary to fight a war.
But as far as I know, doing this demo successfully isn’t something that Russia needs for any kind of war purposes.
- Comment on Russia’s first AI-powered humanoid robot AIDOL collapses during its onstage debut 1 day ago:
Frankly, if the thing is that untested, I’m not sure that I’d want to have the developers or the audience that close to it without shielding. And it should have a remote E-stop switch (though maybe it did here, and that’s why it froze up).
You know those Boston Dynamics videos? Unless the stuff is pretty mature, they’ve got those protective walls or are interacting with the robots with hockey sticks.
Ex:
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 day ago:
Not to mention that Steam does have competition as an app store, stuff like GOG. I mean, it’s a little bit obnoxious to use both at once, but really not that much of a hassle.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 1 day ago:
It’s built like an extra beefy gaming laptop.
Much better cooling, which is a limiting factor for the laptop form factor.
- Comment on Breaking: Google is easing up on Android's new sideloading restrictions! 1 day ago:
I mean, you can run a Linux phone now, but you aren’t going to have a large software library optimized for touchscreen/phone use, and the hardware options are pretty disappointing compared to Android.
!linuxphones@lemmy.ca
I still haven’t been pushed over the edge, but I’m definitely keeping my eye on it. I’m just not willing to develop software for Android. I know that GNU/Linux phones will stay open. I am not at all sure that Android won’t wind up locked down by Google at some point, and over the years, it’s definitely shifted in that direction.
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 days ago:
I’d think that you could set them to whatever in Steam Input, if you’re playing a Steam game.
steamcommunity.com/app/…/597397396010388899/
You can set the touchpads to nothing in their menu. Just delete the command in settings and that will solve it for you…
I believe that you can have per-game settings, so just enable them gor thst one game you want.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
You could probably put a 400 Wh powerbank in a backpack (search for “power station” on Amazon).
- Comment on Valve Announces New Steam Machine, Steam Controller & Steam Frame 2 days ago:
What controller from the 1980s looked anything like the Steam Controller?
I mean, the Sega Genesis controller was mostly black and had face buttons and a D-pad, but that’s about as close as I can think of, and that’a not much by way of similarity.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
depending on their sales expectations they could legit make this a loss leader.
I don’t think they will. The problem is that the hardware is open.
Closed-system console vendors can sell at a loss because if you’ve bought the console and don’t buy games from them for it, you’re going to have limited use of it. It’s maybe an expensive Blu-Ray player or something. Not a sensible purchase. You’re gonna buy games for it.
So they can just crank up the price of games and make their return over time from games.
But if the Steam Machine is sold at a loss to undercut mini-PCs, then people will also buy it to use it as a regular mini-PC, and Valve doesn’t make a return from them.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
Ah, gotcha, so it’s middleman overhead. Thanks.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
github.com/dessalines/thumb-key
Thanks, but I don’t think that it’ll do it for me. I’ve tried similar packages before, and the problem is that I also want the ability to input a bunch of Unicode characters and use keys in terminal emulators and so forth. I’ve considered doing a soft keyboard myself, even, but I just can’t work up the will to go develop for Android with Google slowly closing some stuff. I think that my long-run trajectory is to move what I can to a Linux laptop and hope that GNU/Linux phones eventually become a practical alternative to Android.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
That’s the normal mode of operation, but it can apparently also run games locally on thr Frame itself, which I guess gives people a portable — if less powerful — gaming option that they can haul around easily if they want.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
I think that for running games locally on the Frame, for anything other than games designed specifically to be gentle on a battery — and many games are not, unfortunately — you’re also really going to need to leave it plugged into a powerbank. The internal battery just isn’t that large relative to what the device can draw.
pcgamer.com/…/steam-frame-specs-availability/
The battery included on the Steam Frame is a 21 Wh model. The Snapdragon system-on-chip gobbles up around 20 W at full power—that’s how much it’ll likely use while playing a game locally in standalone mode. From this, we can expect around an hour of playtime without additional charge.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
Someone else in here commented on how it took a while for the Deck to come to his country.
I almost asked him, but since you’re the second one…I mean…wouldn’t you be able to just get a Deck or a Steam Machine or whatever from anywhere and use it?
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
I’ve seen other people request SteamOS-as-a-general-OS on here too, which also surprised me.
I’m thinking that it’s one of two things:
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People just want something that they’re sure is easy to use.
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People want an HTPC-oriented configuration.
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- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
I have it off on my phone at the moment because my soft keyboard is enaging in shennanigans, and I will say that I didn’t appreciate how many errors that I make on tiny phone keyboards that it fixes until now. I mean, damned if you do, damned if don’t.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
The steam machine sounds intriguing but there is already a big market for mini PCs and I don’t know if consumers would go out of their way to buy a steam PC box. I’m most skeptical about this one
You might not be the target audience. I’m comfortable building an HTPC and putting an OS and all on it and configuring it, but the benefit of a console is that someone just gets an all-in-one setup. Well, and that game developers are specifically testing against.
Like, if it weren’t a barrier, you’d probably just have everyone using PCs instead of consoles in their living room.
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
stressed
I think maybe based on the rest of your comment, you intended to write “addressed”?
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
- Comment on Steam Hardware [new Steam Controller, Steam Machine, and VR headset Steam Frame, coming in 2026] 2 days ago:
Dang. The new Steam Controller has a D-pad, buttons, thumbsticks, gyros, and trackpads.
And the thumbsticks are TMR (like Hall effect, but nicer).
As long as it’s comfortable to reach all that stuff, that’s gonna be a new bar for PC game controllers.
- Comment on Open Source Blackout 2 days ago:
Just loss of access to Web sites alone is pretty problematic in 2025, not even getting to open source packages.
If I lost access to Web search engines and Wikipedia, I’d lose a lot of important tools.
Ironically, software might be one of the less-problematic areas, as I have (probably out of date) local git repositories of a lot of software. But I don’t have local Wikipedia or local documentatation on a host of things. Maybe in 2025, local LLMs could act as a limited stopgap for some Web searching stuff.
- Comment on Why do so many services require email configuration? 2 days ago:
is a pain in the assn
is dependent on 3rd parties
Well, one of the two, at any rate.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Unless there’s a technology tie-in that I’m not seeing here, you might do better at !incest@lwmmynsfw.com.
