Alphane_Moon
@Alphane_Moon@lemmy.world
That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it’s the nature of life to be hazardous—it’s the stuff of living.
- Comment on Bandcamp's alternative Mirlo to recieve a grant from NLNet to implement federation 1 hour ago:
They got bought out by Epic (Fortnite or Unreal from way back in the day) and then got sold to some random sketchy American company.
I like Bandcamp, but a product-focused service must be:
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Not based in the US (preferably no Americans involved and unless there is public data that shows they are not into crime)
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Have a legal and/or technical approach that either makes acquisition by criminal types impossible or irrelevant
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- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 10 hours ago:
How is performance though?
And honestly ARM isn’t that much than x86 in terms of freedom and competition.
- Comment on Microsoft's ancient icon library still lurks deep within Windows 11 1 day ago:
I get feel good, happy vibes when I see those icons.
- Comment on AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright 2 days ago:
You’re asking for trouble if you bought a “smart” bed that requires an internet connection to function.
- Comment on Are We Living in a Golden Age of Stupidity? - Slashdot 2 days ago:
And it was posted in this community recently.
- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 6 days ago:
A 6 year depreciation schedule seems unrealistically long for a GPU.
Even in gaming terms (I know this is completely different use case), a 2080S from 2019, a high end SKU, would struggle with many modern games at 1440p and higher. A profession streamer would be unlikely to use a 2080S.
Then there is the question of incentives. An objective look at American technology and VC suggests they are far closer to criminal organizations than their treatment by media and US institutions would imply. They very much can be expected to engage in what is essentially accounting fraud.
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- Comment on The AI that we'll have after AI (Doctorow) 1 week ago:
I can strongly recommend the arricle from the OP blog post about marker dynamics and use of what is essentially accounting fraud by major companies involved in AI:
Lifespan of AI Chips: The $300 Billion Question
I am looking forward to reading the research paper they are working on.
While the author takes a relatively neutral tone, the analysis is brutal in its portrayal of major market players (Nvidia, Microsoft, Amazon, Google); they come of more as oligopolists who are happy to engage in what is de facto in an attempt to undermine true market competition.
- Comment on Two New Windows Zero-Days Exploited in the Wild — One Affects Every Version Ever Shipped 1 week ago:
They will continue to releases major security updates for Windows 10 as long as it has double digit installed base share.
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 1 week ago:
The Creator Program wasn’t just a feature, it was a full blown movement that rocked Reddit, on the blockchain no less. You all built communities. You created art. Your art became memes. You put a cone on it. You even got paid (a first!). At the end of the day, you all made magic.
- Comment on oh no! reddit gives up on totally not NFTs! 1 week ago:
Laugh.
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- Steve Jobs unveiled the NeXT Computer on this day in 1988 — 'The Cube' would be used to develop the WWW, Doom, and Quakewww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 10 comments
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
We have a war on, so probably not the best destination right now.
- Comment on Alternative app store AltStore raises $6M, connects with the fediverse | TechCrunch 1 week ago:
I would prefer if they were not based in the US, both for jurisdiction reasons and cultural reasons (no offense to sane Americans).
- Comment on Why isn't Lemmy doing anything about issues where the propagandists/spammers can be seen spreading staged or AI-generated propaganda, such as "This is Gaza, Unfiltered"? 1 week ago:
No, I said ADL is not to be trusted, there are clear reasons for this.
They deny the Armenian genocide because it’s convenient for them.
- Comment on Why isn't Lemmy doing anything about issues where the propagandists/spammers can be seen spreading staged or AI-generated propaganda, such as "This is Gaza, Unfiltered"? 1 week ago:
The link you cited isn’t convincing in the least.
ADL is not to be trusted on this issue.
- Cambridge University launches project to rescue data trapped on old floppy diskswww.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 0 comments
- Converted school bus turned into mobile retro computing museum — historic array includes Sinclair (Timex) ZX Spectrum 48K and Commodore 64www.tomshardware.com ↗Submitted 1 week ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 2 comments
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Your continue in the same style and doubling on victimhood polemics.
Of course free speech includes a variety of viewpoints.
I am pointing out that “FreedomAdvocate” has a comically performative view on free speech. Not being able to use the slur “tranny” is not free speech issue and shows that FA doesn’t actually care or believe in free speech.
It’s all theatrics to try and show how allegedly independent he is and how is an alleged free thinker.
Embarrassing really.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
It’s funny how the most loud free speech warriors have the most superficial, performative understanding of free speech.
People get beat up by security services in authoritian regimes for reporting on corruption, but for “FreedomAdvocate” here, free speech is about the right to use slurs on Discord.
There is almost an abstract beauty to this level of debasement and regressivness.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
assume everyone has the same political opinions as you
I don’t think that’s the issue here. You can be conservative and not support the “great replacement theory” or think that all muslims are bad.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
I might be wrong, I am just going by the sources posting in the Framework forum thread.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
I am being an edgelord and I am going to call them Hyperland.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Sure, but it’s typically done in a more subtle and PR friendly manner.
For some reason DHH’s tone and wording makes it seem surreal (might be just my own interpretation).
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
The DHH fellow almost seems like an elaborate parody. Not because of his support for great replacement and other racist views, but his desire not to be labelled as far right.
You want to report all non-whites from the UK and yet you claim that you are not far right?
Seems surreal, it’s like a parody of a far right extremist.
- Comment on Framework supporting far-right racists? 2 weeks ago:
Hyperland sounds more like edgelords.
The DHH fellow is a full on Nazi-style racist.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 weeks ago:
I still think personal responsibility (as outlined in my post above) is a far better option that a fine.
A fine is the cost of business. I don’t think a senior Deloitte partner or manager would like to say do a 6 month mandatory de-mining community service program.
- Comment on Deloitte will refund Australian government for AI hallucination-filled report 2 weeks ago:
And a partial refund at that.
Better option would be to require the senior Deloitte partners and manager to do real community service program (live-in junior janitor at homeless shelter or a hospice) for 6 months (with an assets freeze for the duration of community service).
- Submitted 2 weeks ago to retrocomputing@lemmy.sdf.org | 4 comments