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- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 1 week ago:
No, just laminated ones. Closed at one end. Easy enough to make or buy. You can even improvise the propellant.
- Comment on At Amazon, Some Coders Say Their Jobs Have Begun to Resemble Warehouse Work 1 week ago:
Amazon was always a sweat shop. A place to work just long enough to be able to cash in your stock options and put Amazon on your resume.
- Comment on Why 3D-Printing an Untraceable Ghost Gun Is Easier Than Ever (Podcast 18mins) 1 week ago:
I never understood why they never just bundled a bunch of carbon composite front loader barrels with electric ignition along with a laser pointer. No need for any metal nor 3d printing.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 week ago:
My phone runs open source ROMs. I don’t have TV, but I do have an nVidia streaming box – I don’t assume anything I watch there is private. My doorbell is an electromechanical device hooked to a simple wire.
- Comment on ‘Alexa, what do you know about us?’ What I discovered when I asked Amazon to tell me everything my family’s smart speaker had heard 1 week ago:
60% of people in UK are certified morons. Slightly higher than I expected.
- Comment on Software for Homeserver router combo 1 week ago:
You can run a router VM but I run my opnsense on a thin client directly.
- Comment on Realtek's $10 tiny 10GbE network adapter is coming to motherboards later this year 1 week ago:
Just use DACs within the rack. Single mode fiber patches and SFP+ optics are also cheap and easy to find.
- Comment on Duolingo deletes all its TikTok videos after AI backlash—and then returns with a strange message 1 week ago:
I have 5 person annual plan which is still useful if you’re not limited to English – e.g. French is a bad match there. But I will be checking out Mango for sure.
- Comment on Duolingo CEO says AI is a better teacher than humans—but schools will exist ‘because you still need childcare’ 1 week ago:
Duolingo has gotten worse since they fired their human staff and started embracing AI slop.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
Just develop fully autopoietic artificial photosynthetic systems. Piece of cake.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
May I interest you in this resource? escholarship.org/uc/item/9js5291m
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
You might have heard of these fossil fuels we’re busily running out of. And fossil is still 80% of primary energy use so there is no renewable energy transition, and renewable infrastructure is being built almost exclusively using fossil fuels.
So this means future energy rationing. What’s the business case for AI?
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
They won’t.
- Comment on We did the math on AI’s energy footprint. Here’s the story you haven’t heard. 1 week ago:
Do you know how much energy you need to launch a kilogram into Earth orbit?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
What luxury, it came with floppy drives!
- Comment on The Windows Subsystem for Linux is now open source. 2 weeks ago:
Just buy a single 45" curved one then.
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
TRS-80 and TI 99/4A presumably?
- Comment on Still booting after all these years: The people stuck using ancient Windows computers 2 weeks ago:
I ran Linux 1994ish. Amiga OS before. Amstrad CPC 464 before. A friend ran Sinclair Z80, that was the first system I had access to.
- Comment on Apple executives ban Fortnight from the App store 2 weeks ago:
If you care about freedom, use open source operating systems, and only buy hardware that support it.
- Comment on Insight: Rogue communication devices found in Chinese solar power inverters 2 weeks ago:
Unnamed security researchers refusing to name the vendors or even show the evidence.
It’s not even a story.
- Comment on Reddit Plans Extra Verification Steps To Detect The Human-Like AI Bots 3 weeks ago:
I read only one community on old.reddit.com, with VPN on. The moment they start asking for login there will be the moment my last contact with that site goes away.
- Comment on I installed Linux on this 8-inch mini laptop, and it's my new favorite way of computing 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, lots of young people apparently. After the second 24" screen started dying I’ve ordered a
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 4 weeks ago:
GrapheneOS does have modem isolation, and when it tells the modem to be off, then it’s really off.
- Comment on 13 Creepy Things Your Smartphone Knows About You 4 weeks ago:
Pixels are okay hardware-wise. Lifecycle is not much of a limit, since you’re relying on the upstream for patches anyway.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 weeks ago:
I block ads both on DNS blocklists and browser plugin level. Vanadium unfortunately doesn’t have uBlock origin so I’ll have to improvise something when I start using GrapheneOS on mobile – I don’t get out much.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 weeks ago:
With open source ROMs like LineageOS and GrapheneOS the admin is you.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 weeks ago:
This is why I run GrapheneOS and LineageOS.
- Comment on Your Phone Isn’t Eavesdropping on You to Show You Ads (It’s Worse Than That) 4 weeks ago:
Your phone is showing you ads?
- Comment on An Alarming Number of Gen Z Ai Users Think It's Conscious 5 weeks ago:
Young people are always ignorant, relatively. They haven’t been around long enough to learn much, after all. However, the quality of education has been empirically declining over many decades, and mobile devices are extemely efficient accelerants of brain rot.
- Comment on Windows 10 LTSC – the version that won't expire for years 1 month ago:
CIFS or NFS?