Cocodapuf

@Cocodapuf@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'Signal' President and VP warn agentic AI is insecure, unreliable, and a surveillance nightmare⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised to learn that the CEO is not Moxie Marlinspike, my understanding is that he created the signal protocol. Perhaps he has nothing to do with the apps that implement signal?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Never-before-seen Linux malware is “far more advanced than typical”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, noted. Troll identified and blocked.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No fire sale for firewalls as memory shortages could push prices higher⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Man, that headline is… forced.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Copper? Is there really a copper shortage?

  I mean, the supply is pretty large for that. You’d think that electrical rollout in developing nations would have a higher impact than all the ram in the world.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨After RAM and SSDs, PSUs and CPU coolers are next in line for price hikes⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I have to agree. I mean come on, cpu coolers? There’s nothing proprietary about them, nothing particularly high tech or difficult to produce, it’s a heat sink and a fan… Fancy ones may have a coolant loop, but still… I just can’t see any reason that prices would go up noticeably for such easy to manufacturer, commodity parts.

  I’m just saying, it seems a little early to start screaming “the sky is falling”.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Let's end Anti-Circumvention. We should own the things we buy!⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t know, it sounds like a pretty convincing argument to me.

  And it’s a strange take to say “you’re waiting your time trying to get legislation passed” I mean, that’s one of the primary ways you change things in a country…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You could say that of any infrastructure. Bridges are expenses, ongoing maintenance for them is a burden our children will have to bear. But I expect they’ll be willing to do it.

  The fact is, most of what we do affects the next generation, we just don’t think about it, or can’t quantify it. The only difference with nuclear is that we can quantify it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is true, the waste issue is different with these two technologies, but I don’t think it’s all that significant in either case.

  Fission produces some awful waste, but what I like to point out is just how little it produces. My favorite example is nuclear submarines. Nuke subs have to come to port every so often for food, equipment, supplies, etc, but not because they’re low on fuel. They don’t carry a lot, about 500kg (half ton) and that lasts them a very long time. So how often do they need to be refueled? Once, most subs are refueled just once in their ~30 year lifetime. Some subs will be decommissioned before ever refuelling, using just one set of uranium fuel rods for their whole life.

  Given the tiny volume of waste produced over such a long time… We can figure out the storage. Even if the solution is costly, there’s really not much to store, this is very manageable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Pet Peeves with Games?⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  When you’re watching a dramatic cutscene, but then someone needs your attention, so you hit esc… which skips the cutscenes instead of pausing?! What the actual fuck? The button that pauses the game in every other context now (surprise!) skips the cutscene? Why would you do that?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s ‘artificial sun’ breaks nuclear fusion limit thought to be impossible⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I gotta be honest, as amazing as the promise of limitless fusion energy is, I’m really not optimistic that it’ll be a major or even an important technology for the energy sector, at least for the next 200 or so years.

  The thing is, we already have fission power and we’re struggling to use it right now. And fusion has almost all the same strengths and drawbacks, but bigger. I do believe we will achieve sustainable fusion, probably soon. But I’m certain that while it will “work”, it will also prove to be the most expensive form of power generation with the largest upfront costs that the world has ever seen. And I don’t expect those prices to come down for a very long time.

  Personally, I think anyone who expects fusion to be some kind of miracle technology is kidding themselves. And if people really want a miracle technology in the energy sector, look at geothermal, that’s the only tech I see that has any potential to become cheap, limitless, and constant.

  I do think fusion will have good applications, but it will likely remain niche for a while. I definitely look forward to seeing spacecraft propelled by ion drives and powered by fusion, it would be amazing to be able to get to Jupiter and back in on tank of (xenon) gas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How we get to 1 nanometer chips and beyond⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, quantum computing is more about using the quantum properties of particles to do computing in ways that you simply can’t with traditional computers. If you write your program to accommodate this kind of computing, you can essentially design programs to test all possibilities simultaneously - a pretty neat trick.

  Right now we’re talking about photonic computing, simply using photons as the circuitry within a processor rather than electronic circuits using elections.

  Though I’m not an expert on either, so I’m probably the wrong person to ask for more information on the subject.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cory Doctorow proposes how to break free from US digital domination⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  You don’t think Linux is a Disenshittification solution for PCs?

  Because that’s essentially what we’re talking about. You want to run a custom android os, perhaps security and encryption oriented, or perhaps drm defeating is your goal. That all becomes possible if it’s simply legal to do whatever you want with your devices and your software.

  Disenshittification isn’t something you wait for companies to do, it’s something you take for yourself! And it’s a whole lot easier to organize and do that if it’s officially legal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The whole "toilet seat up, toilet seat down" gender debate could be solved by everybody putting the seat and lid down.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s what we do in our house, I decided it was the easiest way to be sure my son actually lifts the seat. If he has to lift the lid, he’ll just lift the seat at the same time.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I totally understand where you’re coming from and I mirror the sentiment, 100%. I’m tired billionaires, and especially tired of musk, I hope I never have to hear about him in the news ever again.

  That said, I think your take is misguided. For all that I hate musk, spaceX has achieved some truly astonishing things. And not only have they achieved their goals, but they’ve done it at an unprecedented rate and at a shockingly low cost. SpaceX is developing technology at a similar rate to NASA way back at the beginning, during the Gemini and Apollo programs, except back then NASA was getting 4% of the federal budget. SpaceX has not had anything close to that level of funding. In fact, though they have most definitely taken government contacts, for the most part, they’ve been able to foot the bill themselves (and with investors) for the majority of their development costs. When you compare costs and outcomes directly - what spaceX delivered vs what it cost us against any other launch provider, the difference is astonishing.

  But that’s all business stuff. What spaceX has done that impresses me is the technical stuff. They developed a relatively inexpensive rocket engine with a 184/1 thrust to weight ratio. That’s the best thrust to weight ever achieved by an orbital class engine, like by a lot. Before that, I believe the record was held by the F-1 engine that powered the Saturn-V and took us to the moon, it boasted a 94/1 ratio.

  For their next major rocket engine spaceX developed the raptor, a full flow staged combustion engine, running on methane. Explaining why “full flow staged combustion” is impressive is probably outside the scope of this comment, but please believe me, this is a huge technical achievement and it provides some very real benefits. And running on methane is a good choice for reusability, it burns cleaner, and there’s potential for producing it off earth.

  And of course most importantly they changed the industry by landing rockets. That’s not a small feat, some of their competitors called them foolish for wasting time even trying, the industry was very much not moving in the direction of reusability. Now that SpaceX has proven the viability and in fact the huge advantage of reusable rockets, there are many rockets being designed for this, from Rocket Lab, Arianespace, Stoke Space, Blue Origin, Relativity Space, eXpace (a hilariously named Chinese company), and probably many more; this is now the way the industry is going, that’s a big deal.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s my understanding that the idea of a dense asteroid belt (the kind Han Solo might try to hide in) is basically pure fiction, they don’t exist. However… that is essentially exactly what some parts of a planetary ring system may look like up close. So perhaps Han could hide in a planetary ring.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Alright thanks, those are some good suggestions. And don’t get me wrong, the nas does technically work, I can do whole drive images, just not the differential file-level backups. What I really wanted was to be able to restore a single file quickly and easily. That was the dream 🙄

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easier to rhyme in Mandarin than in English⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I see, so the simplified/traditional specifically refers to the written characters. I appreciate all the extra context as well!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨NAS decision paralysis⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, so I’m going to weigh in here because I have first-hand experience, but keep in mind I am a relative novice at self hosting.

  I’ve been using a machine that has evolved over the years from primary gaming PC, to backup server, to Bitcoin rig, to Plex server, etc. Well I finally got tired of complex raid backup solutions and bought a 4 drive Synology nas. I figured I might as well just go with the name brand because I’d probably pay a bit more, but everything would work right away.

  Everything did not work right away.

  I fought so hard to get incremental backup working… So hard. But it just refuses to copy some files. It actually struggles with filenames! It can’t handle names that have too many characters or use certain characters. (Filenames that Windows and the MacOS have no problem with). So if I want that backup to work, it appears I have to rename hundreds of files on that PC and hope nothing breaks… While their hardware seems fine, I am thoroughly unimpressed with Synology’s software.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's easier to rhyme in Mandarin than in English⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Ok, it’s a bit off topic, but can I ask a naive question?

  What the reasoning behind the different terminologies for the Chinese languages? Usually I see them then referred to as Mandarin and Cantonese, but sometimes I see the terms “simplified Chinese” and “traditional Chinese”. Or have I totally misunderstood what those terms mean? (Entirely possible)

  Please forgive my ignorance.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Except it kind of is.

  It can’t really happen at very low earth orbit, where the majority of satellites are, as any imported space junk would deorbit relatively quickly. And it can’t really happen at geostationary orbit, where most of the rest of them are, because when you go out that far there’s just so much space between every single object… The only way you run into something out there is on purpose and after a lot of calculations.

  So there’s medium orbits and higher LEO those are the only areas we need to be really careful with.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hell yeah! Actual useful industrial endeavors are the way we finally get humans off the planet, this is the way to the future. Once there’s a reason for industry in space, there’s a reason for support industries, construction, material supply, fuel supply, maintenance, etc. With those support services comes reasons for people to start to actually live in space, where they work. And from there, we can start to spread our legs and really “move in” to solar system, and the story of the human race truly begins.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Made in space? Start-up brings factory in orbit one step closer to reality⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s like the rings of Saturn: the likelihood of a collision is so remote that they didn’t even consider it when we had a satellite move through it.

  I didn’t realize that, what mission is this your talking about? Cassini?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wow, that is technically impressive, very cool!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nearly all of Spotify has been scraped and is available via torrents⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  How many full seeds are there? I mean how many could there be? Who has 300 Tb to throw at this?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Maybe the RAM shortage will make software less bloated?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Wouldn’t that be nice! Yeah I think it’ll totally work. Hey I think I see someone now switching from writing in Python to assembly. Hey buddy, don’t forget to clear that register! And don’t forget you’ll need to write this all over from scratch to get it to work on any other platform!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Jason Schreier's List of the Best Video Games of 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  If you like his taste you should totally listen to his podcast, triple click.

  It’s basically the only way I find out about new games. And it’s honestly super insightful.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You had multiple AI subscriptions…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The biggest video game stinkers of 2025, according to Metacritic⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hunter x Hunter: Nen x Impact could be written more simply as Hunter^2 : Nen x Impact

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Through gritted teeth, Apple and Google allow alternative app stores in Japan⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  … and it destroyed their company right? Their entire business model broke down and it impacted the security of their customers who complained constantly about the decision. Right?

  Right?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We’re All So F’d | NVIDIA x Palantir, Global Surveillance, "Pre-Crime" Arrests, & AI [GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer]⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We should boycott them

  How? They aren’t selling to us anymore, remember. They’re ramping down their consumer products because the AI specific products are more lucrative. Hell, not buying their consumer products just proves that point. We’re behind fucked at this point.