tomalley8342
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- Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops 1 week ago:
That’s what the T14s is for, no?
- Comment on Highguard will permanently shut down on March 12th. 1 week ago:
Peak players is sampled at a point, the 2m number is probably cumulative.
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 1 week ago:
I read it which is why I was surprised, because the front page gives the impression that unrestricted free access is kind of its shtick?
- Comment on 390TB video game archive being taken offline due to skyrocketing RAM, SSD, and hard drive prices — AI-driven supply squeeze results in closure of one of the largest online video game archives 2 weeks ago:
- Comment on It's rude to show AI output to people | Alex Martsinovich 2 weeks ago:
It costs nothing.
Except for an opportunity to practice getting better at the thing you recognize is an issue.
And, at 52, I write the way I write.
Although I guess you’ve already given up on the getting better part.
- Comment on Firefox 148 introduces the promised AI kill switch for people who aren't into LLMs 2 weeks ago:
Infinite money Google keeps trying to push shit to the standard so all other browsers end up needing significant dedicated resources to keep up or risk getting blamed for broken sites.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
Why are you telling me “It can’t be done without corporate involvement” like it’s some kind of persuasive point 😭
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
This entire announcement is literally about an creation of a for-profit company to deliver hardware attestation in linux as a product 🤣
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
I unfortunately accept the reality of our corporate dominated technology landscape, I’m just confused about your downright enthusiasm for the same.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
How is systemd somehow taking away freedoms at the behest of corporations who asked such a thing?
RedHat putting their thumb on the scale providing full time engineers on this project to gain market share and become the defacto standard that they control doesn’t sound like a problem? How do you feel about what chromium is doing to the web?
UEFI is an open standard, buddy. Microsoft is the only player fucking that up
Microsoft is the only player “fucking that up” right. And the other corporations have some sort of god-given goodness to them that make it impossible for them to follow suit?
“Trusted Computing” has existed in the very hardware you own and run for almost 30 years now. Literally nobody but cellphone makers use it in the way you describe. Seems you’re still using it though, so nobody seems to have made the apocalyptic decisions that bring your fearful future to bear.
Nobody but (half of the entire consumer device market) use it in the way described, and this company comes in offering tools to do the same thing to the other half, and you don’t see the problem?
A “Trusted Computing” framework - and this is how I know you don’t understand any of this - is only present. It takes software to interact with it to “take your freedoms away” as you put it.
Software that these people are developing.
“…we just provide the tools…”. MY GOD. Where do I even start with this? I can name about a hundred different FOSS tools that break encryption. You mad at the people who made the FOSS encryption tools, or the ones who the FOSS tools to decrypt it?
I’m wary of the people that provide turn key solutions to deploy it at scale
The only people who want this are people make and produce hardware platforms that ship out into the world so they can ensure they are T2B secure. It seems you don’t know much about security, so I’ll let you in a little secret…(If it claims to be secure, it means there are hardware controls in place)
And if the user (that’s what we call the person who owns the device, if you don’t know much about these things) doesn’t want it?
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
We know from systemd that these people are willing to use corporate resources to snuff out grassroots alternatives to grow their market share, and we know from the sorry state of boot chains on basically every device that isn’t x86 UEFI that corporations are salivating at the idea of implementing trusted computing at the expense of user freedoms, and we know know from the above quotes that the best assurance the founders of this companies have is “we just provide the tools, it’s up to the corporations to decide how to use it, teehee!” The only mystery here is people like you here who see all this and think “surely things will go different this time. these are good boys”.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
He’s very CLEARLY illustrating his intent to prevent the very thing you’re shutting your pants about
It will always be up to the distro
We don’t really have any control over what Microsoft decides to do
where is the prevention brother?
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
“Found to be better” because of commercial resources and support pouring in and outcompeting grassroots alternatives to gain market share. Do you share the same lukewarm acceptance for what chromium is doing for web browsers?
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
better than reading the damn article, here are the weasily corporate words directly from mr daan the founder 🤣
So adding all of this technology will certainly make it more easy to be used for either good or bad. And it will certainly become possible to build an OS that will be less hackable than your run of the mill Linux distro.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
Yes, this commercial entity founded by people who have a literal track record of doing exactly that Image
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
Yes, that’s correct, the last 5 years should have made clear to anybody that the “actual needs of an entire industry” and the needs of the people are diametrically opposed.
- Comment on The creator of systemd wants your entire system validated by SecureBoot 3 weeks ago:
I can’t imagine anyone sane would hold onto the belief that it will remain just “a nice feature to enable” after looking at the historical encroachment of commercial interests in mobile boot chain setups. I tell you the truth that after widespread adoption this WILL turn into a “not nice feature that you cannot disable”, and you can forget about enrolling your own keys as well.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
They can’t definitively pin a particular purchase to a particular serial-defiled firearm, but the fact that the government knows that you purchased a firearm on such and such date is probably enough of a concern for a lot of people. It’s a lot easier to gather a stockpile of parts without drawing much attention.
- Comment on California’s New Bill Requires DOJ-Approved 3D Printers That Report on Themselves 3 weeks ago:
Serialized parts have their purchases recorded and restricted, other parts are (usually) unrestricted.
- Comment on Saying that hardware price increase is good cause it forces the devs to optimize is not as good as it seems. 3 weeks ago:
Do you have an example or a snippet in mind for a piece of modern game engine code that would have been done better in the “old ways”?
- Comment on Tesla Robotaxis Reportedly Crashing at a Rate That's 4x Higher Than Humans 3 weeks ago:
Nah, that one’s on Elon just being a stubborn bitch and thinking he knows better than everybody else (as usual). Image
- Comment on Thanks a lot, AI: Hard drives are already sold out for the entire year, says Western Digital 4 weeks ago:
It’s good to get a variety of manufacturers + manufacture dates in your build anyways, to avoid the risk of getting bad manufacturer batches or issues with particular models that haven’t been discovered yet.
- Comment on In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't tell the difference between audio signals sent through copper wire, a banana, or wet mud 4 weeks ago:
But if you have high quality FLAC or Opus sources (or really high-end analog), you do not have to be an audiophile to tell the difference
The analysis showed that there was no statistically significant difference in quality between the un- compressed signals and AAC-LC 320 kbps compression, which means participants did not perceive difference between two formats
- Comment on AI spurs employees to work harder, faster, and with fewer breaks, study finds 4 weeks ago:
“but not me, I’m built different” 😅
- Comment on Intel announced plans to start making GPUs, challenging NVIDIA's dominance 5 weeks ago:
This article was based off what the CEO said at the Second Annual AI Summit, following the news of their new head of GPU hire who says he “will lead GPU engineering with a focus on AI at Intel”. The AI pivot is the actual news.
- Comment on PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting 1 month ago:
The kinds of communities you align yourself with is up to you, I suppose.
- Comment on Outsourcing thinking 1 month ago:
It is kind of embarrassing that I read all of this and the only thing I have to say about it is “I agree completely”. My own self from back in university days or even high school would be shocked. I guess churning through your thoughts and being able to express them effectively really is a skill you can lose over time.
- Comment on PeerWeb - Decentralized Website Hosting 1 month ago:
Sounds like I2P without the privacy.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 month ago:
Copilot business subscriptions have fairly granular usage tracking, so they’d probably just replace you right away with someone who isn’t quite so reserved. Looking at the comments here and in other places, there is certainly no shortage of such people.
- Comment on GOG job listing for a Senior Software Engineer notes "Linux is the next major frontier" 1 month ago:
Job Requirements:
Active use of AI tools in daily development workflows, and enthusiasm for helping the team increase adoption
Nice to have:
Passion for games and game preservation
AI Mandatory, game preservation optional. Glad they got their priorities straight 😅
