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- Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom 2 hours ago:
For the H100 and up? They’re headless, basically compute only, as they don’t have enough ROPs to game.
I think the A100 technically can game, in the same way you’d use a laptop GPU not hooked up to the display. They’re kinda like giant RTX 3090/ though, so YMMV.
They’re great at GPU compute apps though, same as any Nvidia card would be.
- Comment on Iran war cuts off helium from Qatar, and shortages will start to bite in a few weeks, threatening chip supply chains that fuel the AI boom 13 hours ago:
No way. Nvidia will buy them back and throw them away so they don’t flood their market, like they did for crypto booms.
- Comment on How bad is bullying across schools in the US? 1 day ago:
My datapoint from a US private school: bullying was stratified. You had the very rich “in” crowd and then everyone else in clumps of niches.
But it was too fancy for much “open” bullying; it was more implied. Instead of a wall of text, well, it was this:
Literally this. Kids from the old money neighborhood would hang out the school atrium balcony.
- Comment on Great Tits 2 days ago:
Humans are a very fortunate size, aren’t we? A little bigger, and we’d be extinct like most megafauna. A little smaller, and our place on the food chain would be very different.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 2 days ago:
As others suggest, why stay attached to Manjaro at all?
CachyOS is very close “in spirit” if they want to develop modified/custom packages, but there are plenty Arch downstream distros with less toxic communities.
- Comment on Manjaro Linux Team Goes on Strike, Threatens to Fork the Project 3 days ago:
+1
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
And not under particularly bright indoor lighting.
- Comment on 3 days ago:
Predicting Earth’s future climate is a race against time. As climate change accelerates, improving models is essential to guide decision-making from governments, especially if we hope to control climate change.
…Do they really believe this?
Read the room. Doesn’t matter if they invent a freaking oracle, governments aren’t going to do squat as long as constituents are manipulated into not seeing it.
We are past the point of praying and hoping science will win an attention war. I feel like all this research is just pointless with the elephants in the room.
- Comment on Dumb glasses 3 days ago:
Better yet, a GenAI power virus.
Link it to a “cool looking AI app” which constantly thrashes the phone in the background generating AI porn to sell, which Google/Apple do absolutely nothing to stop because it’s AI and it makes them money. Use to extra cash to sell more tshirts.
…Maybe I went a little far, there.
- Comment on EXODUS Gameplay Clips Showcase Combat, Traversal, And Exploration 3 days ago:
Quite Mass Effect Andromeda-ish.
…Which is an under-rated game, IMO. Yes, the main quests and characters have the charisma of sticks, but it has some neat side quests, kinda like a BGS game. Counter to the “my face is tired” meme, the animations, graphics, combat and everything are all amazing.
- Comment on Microsoft wants devs to build Electron AI apps on Windows 11, says no need of native code, despite RAM concerns 4 days ago:
Fully verifiable programming is much “better” with LLMs. This recent one, for example:
huggingface.co/mistralai/Leanstral-2603
Leanstral is the first open-source code agent designed for Lean 4, a proof assistant capable of expressing complex mathematical objects such as perfectoid spaces and software specifications like properties of Rust fragments.
- Comment on Models warn Thwaites Glacier could rival entire Antarctic ice loss by 2067 5 days ago:
Woke liberal propaganda.
- American textbooks, soon.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 6 days ago:
It’s all a parody, though. That’s the point.
- Comment on Converting HDMI to composite 6 days ago:
Mmmm, yes, but for composite it’s not trivial like it’d be for S-Video. To quote some random Redditor:
old.reddit.com/…/is_there_a_known_working_way_to_…
You need a device called frame buffer. VGA signal are sampled (ADC) and store in a memory. This memory is read by another circuity, at NTSC/PAL frame rate, and RGB converted to NTSC/PAL. For a standard VGA (640x640@60Hz) a line converter (only a FIFO memory) can be used to convert to NTSC. More details here.
- Comment on Converting HDMI to composite 6 days ago:
Does it take VGA? And do you have a spare PCIe slot?
You can slap in an old GPU to power it directly, with no latency or conversion issues. I know my old Nvidia 980 TI supports VGA directly, albeit with a passive dongle. As a bonus, this would save VRAM for your other displays.
- Comment on Antiwoke Straight of Hormwin 6 days ago:
www.chinatalk.media/p/its-time
Now, I know what the woke deep state is going to say, and I want to save you the trouble of listening to them.
“The Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty?” Never ratified it. Even if we did, who cares. Next.
“The environmental impact?” Mr. Secretary, Iranian oil is leaking everywhere. Tankers are on fire near Fujairah. This approach is constructive destruction.
“Radiation?” Radiation is the most overblown left-wing conspiracy since climate change. The Plowshare’s 1962 underground Sedan test fallout reached South Dakota in 1962 and South Dakota is fine. Went for Trump by thirty points. Plus, the residual glow keeps Iran from trying anything funny near the new channel.
The views expressed above do not necessarily represent those of anyone with brain cells.
This is hilarious. Heh.
I don’t buy Gingrich’s earnesty. He must be trolling too. Most Republicans are doing it on Twitter now, so it fits the pattern.
- Comment on Asset reuse in videogames is essential, and we need to embrace it, says Assassin's Creed and Far Cry director: 'We redo too much stuff' 6 days ago:
The message is “Games need to get cheaper to make, not shittier and more expensive.”
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 6 days ago:
uBlock Origin is the gold standard, but you need something that supports the full version. Plain Chrome (and most forks) are not good enough.
Firefox, Helium, and/or Orion would be my top picks.
- Comment on The 49MB Web Page 6 days ago:
On top of three letter agencies, basically every cybersecurity expert that publishes a “basic tweaks” article recommends uBlock Origin.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
The results are awful though. Over the past few years, I can hardly even think of a single search where SEO quickly brought me to “the page I was looking for”; searches end in either a wall of spam, or me getting frustrated and more directly finding what I already know I want. Sites I used to love have withered and died, buried from the lack of traffic.
In other words, what does it matter if SEO is “improved” if the results are junk?
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
Bender’s Big Score, the first one. I was thinking of the scammer aliens.
- Comment on PC upgrade woes 1 week ago:
^
As proud as we are, Lemmy isn’t immune from the misinformation epidemic. My experience is we just drive by, upvote, and internalize the headline’s claim without much skepticism, kind of like Reddit, and we largely don’t seem to want to do anything about it.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
No, you’ve got a point… Actually you’re right. To an extent.
But I’d argue the “bad” part of SEO is just too tempting. It’s clearly winning out, across the entire internet, unless you can look at me with a straight face and say “Google search is fine.” Or that discoverability of small genuine services is fine. It’s definitely not; it’s a miracle any business is surviving as a pure web app anymore.
- Comment on Digg’s open beta shuts down after just two months, blaming AI bot spam 1 week ago:
When the Digg beta launched, we immediately noticed posts from SEO spammers noting that Digg still carried meaningful Google link authority. Within hours, we got a taste of what we’d only heard rumors about. The internet is now populated, in meaningful part, by sophisticated AI agents and automated accounts. We knew bots were part of the landscape, but we didn’t appreciate the scale, sophistication, or speed at which they’d find us. We banned tens of thousands of accounts. We deployed internal tooling and industry-standard external vendors. None of it was enough.
I love how the SEO industry pretends they’re anything but a caustic cancer, fucking up literally everything.
- Comment on Streaming didnt exist in 1970 1 week ago:
I mean, a YouTube creator is neck-deep in streaming.
It’s probably more unhealthy than long-form TV.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Nuh uh. No way they “open up” iOS to be more OSX-like, as that would spoil their cash cow (the App Store).
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Eh, but will they? There’s a whole lot of OSX legacy Apple would have to throw away.
I mean, I guess they could; they’ve done it before with architecture transitions. But this is different in that stuff on existing devices would stop working, whereas Intel or PPC Macs keep chugging along.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
Well, technically, System76 and a few other white box laptop makers did. But they don’t actually make laptops.
And to be fair to big OEMs, “it uses Linux!” was a much harder thing to market before. I can see (outside of the Framework, which caters to enthusiasts) they only dabbled with it but didn’t invest.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
As I always say:
…Most people need an iPad with a better keyboard.
That’s honestly all they use their computers for. They don’t want to mess with filesystems or specs or any concepts like that, they just want to add text to their kid’s picture or send an email or read a PDF, or do things like banking or streaming that are honestly better supported as iOS apps anyway.
And that’s basically what the Neo is.
- Comment on Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry 1 week ago:
It’s basically iOS at that point.
