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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Android gets a leg up from being built on a FLOSS base but I don’t think it was the community that pushed Android to where it is today. That’s taken a lot of money and resources from Google and it’s phone partners investing in the slightly more open platform than Apple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨China’s push for chip independence continues with its first RISC-V server CPU⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s not really true. Yes avoiding complex instructions makes the front end easier to pipeline but there are lots of smarts in the backend to do prediction and scheduling to keep the execution units fed. The ISA might be free to use but no one is sharing their highly optimised server silicon architecture designs.

  RISC-V’s challenge is can they standardise the software ecosystem enough that things just work across a multitude of chip providers or does everything devolve into specialist distributions taking advantage of each manufacturers “special sauce” custom instructions.

  Gaining design wins over Arm’s microcontrollers for bespoke hardware was the easy bit. Replacing stuff in the server space is much harder and something that took Arm decades to make inroads into.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google To Allow Double Serving Ads.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I pay for it so the TV and web experience is ad free. I use PipePipe on my phone because the native client won’t stop pushing shorts at you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Does Google scan yt videos to know what products appear in them?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Do you think there is information YouTube wouldn’t collect about you even if they could be better at selling ads to people based on it?

  Do you live somewhere with data protection laws? If so you could request a dump of all personally identifying data they hold on you.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google will develop the Android OS fully in private; Will continue open source releases.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not like Android is especially open to drive-by contributions anyway. I don’t think really changes much for the downstream consumers of the releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DOJ renews call for Google to sell Chrome, and Android could be next⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  We’ll go from Google sucking up all our data to another entity sucking up all our data and selling it to other people. How much funding does it take to keep Chrome running?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are some slow acting poisons?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It used to slowly drive haters insane, hence mad haters. There was a theory Napoleon was exposed to excess levels of Arsenic over time although that might have well been background exposure. Nevertheless over time it’s not good for you. Neither is lead.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft has pulled back on over a gigawatt of planned data center capacity, suggesting that they do not think there is a growth future in generative AI⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Context is king which is why even the biggest models get tied in knots when I try them on my niche coding problems. I’ve been playing a bit with NotebookLM which promises to be interesting with enough reference material but unfortunately when I tried to add the Vulcan specs it complained it couldn’t accept them (copyright maybe?).

  We have recently been given clearance to use the Gemini Pro tools with Google office at work. While we are still not using them for code generation I have found the transcription and meeting summary tools very useful and certainly a time saver.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever happened to QAnon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t doubt the a MAGA crowd leant into the Q conspiracy and were happy to co-opt it’s adherents into it’s electoral base. However is there any evidence that links its genesis to the like of Banon? Most of what I heard (from across the pond, indirectly) was more traditional wedge issues like anti-DEI and anti-trans rhetoric.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What ever happened to QAnon?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A corrupted Mrs Davies?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Now that Trump is getting real chummy with Putin where does that leave China?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You need to pair 1984 with Huxley’s Brave New World to see where we actually ended up.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What are the exact ramifications and consequences of the recent meeting with Zelenskyy and Trump/JD?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It didn’t work out for Littlefinger in the end.

• What ever happened to QAnon?
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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Apple pulls data protection tool after UK government security row⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think Google drive supports encryption.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨WFH with privacy? 85% of Brit bosses are snooping on staff⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I just spec a machine up to the defined limit and then buy it, install and claim back on expenses. I’m fact “do I have root on my machine” is one of my standard interview questions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨DJI will no longer stop drones from flying over airports, wildfires, and the White House⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ultimately it’s the drone operators responsibility to ensure they aren’t violating airspace rules.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Deadline to record historic footpaths to be scrapped⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  While I’ve been updating open street map I’ve also taken the time to report right off way violations via my councils web portal. The problem is most of the paths around here are permissive national park paths and there is no canonical catalog available digitally to cross check against. I don’t know if they should also be registered as a right of way?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Broadcom reverses controversial plan in effort to cull VMware migrations⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  What exactly is the USP for VMware that makes it worth the premium? Is it just installed inertia?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We already do - and play it with them on our family creative and survival servers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Roblox announces new measures to protect under-13s from other players⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I regret ever giving my kids access to Roblox. They haven’t had any bad interactions as far as I know but the content mill of poor knock offs is just depressing. They learnt the highlights of Squid Game from “games” that went viral on the platform.

  My youngest wants to graduate to Fortnite and hyper-monetisation aside I’ve agreed they can have it on the family playstation if they drop Roblox.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk May Have Made a Huge Mistake on Full Self-Driving That It's Too Late to Correct.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I can see the argument that visible light should be enough given we humans can drive with just two eyes and a few mirrors. However that argument probably misses the millions of years of evolution of our neural networks have gone through while hunting and tracking threats that happens to make predicting where other cars might be mostly fine.

  I have a feeling regulators aren’t going to be happy with a claim of driving better than the average human. FSD should be aiming to be at least 10x better than the best human drivers and we’re a long way off from that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Russia says it might build its own Linux community after removal of several kernel maintainers.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It depends what they want to do. They can fork and take on the burden of maintaining the whole tree in which case good luck with that, linux is too much of a fire hose to enable a 3rd party to assemble something similar making different choices about what they merge. Otherwise they can maintain a re-based fork that tracks the Torvalds tree and then congratulations you’ve just invented a feature tree that can do contribution with extra steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think algorithms themselves are to bland but what they are tuned for. While engagement/eyeball hours for the adserver is the prime metric the quality of experience will be subservient to it. If the algorithms could better measure your mood and stimulation levels and maximise for that the effect would be less toxic. Ideally if it realised you were just mindlessly consuming it could suggest maybe you’ve done enough today and to try something else. But that I fear that is not something the owners of the various ecosystems want.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  In all DRM devices there are private signed certificates that can be used to establish a secure authenticated connection. To get at them you need to crack/hack/file the top of the chip to exfiltrate the certificate. More modern “Trusted Computing” like platforms include verified boot chains so even if you extract the certificate you couldn’t use it because you also need to sign the boot chain to ensure no code has been altered.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What kind of special knowledge or equipment does piracy groups have?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Absolutely - modern pirates are extracting the digital streams with the DRM removed. However they closely guard the methods of operation because once the exploits or compromised keys are known they can be revoked and they have to start cracking again. They likely have hardware with reverse engineered firmware which won’t honour key revocation but still needs to be kept upto date with recent-ish keys.

  For example the Blu-Ray encryption protocols are well enough known you can get things working if you have the volume keys. However getting hold of them is tricky and you have to be careful your Blu-Ray doesn’t read a disk that revokes the old keys.

  For streaming things are a little easier because if you get the right side of the DRM you can simply copy the stream. However things like HDCP and moving DRM into secure enclaves are trying to ensure that the decryption process cannot be watched from the outside. I’m sure their are compromised HDCP devices but again once their keys get leaked they will no longer be able to accept a digital stream of data (or may negotiate down to a sub-HD rate).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Fallout 4 is a great game with big flaws⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Lemmy really needs to support post combining somehow so you can see the story once (and maybe even combine the threads in the UI?).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨xkcd #2992: UK Coal⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We still have a lot of slag heaps in the top of some of our local hills. They make for some interesting mountain bike runs but they aren’t exactly diverse in floor coverage. Some pits are now tourist attractions but I don’t know what ongoing work is done to maintain the abandoned ones.