CeeBee_Eh
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- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
And not all anti-cheat is malware. I was referring to the kernel level anti-cheats.
- Comment on Linux gamers on Steam finally cross over the 3% mark 1 week ago:
As of now, you have to make an effort to find a game that won’t work through Proton, aside from games with malware (anti-cheat).
- Comment on China solves 'century-old problem' with new analog chip that is 1,000 times faster than high-end Nvidia GPUs 1 week ago:
much of it details technical reasons why digital is much much better than analog for intelligent systems
For current LLMs there would be a massive gain in energy efficiency if analogue computing was used. Much of the current energy costs come from stimulating what effectively analogue processing on digital hardware. There’s a lot lost in the conversation, or “emulation” of analogue.
- Comment on Study Claims 4K/8K TVs Aren't Much Better Than HD To Your Eyes 2 weeks ago:
I’ve been using “cheap” 43" 4k TVs as my main monitor for over a decade now. I used to go purely with Hisense, they have great colour and PC text clarity, and I could get them most places for $250 CAD. But this year’s model they switched from RGB subpixel layout to BGR, which is tricky to get working cleanly on a computer, even when forcing a BGR layout in the OS. One trick is to just flip the TV upside down (yes it actually works) but it just made the whole physical setup awkward. I went with a Sony recently for significantly more, but the picture quality is fantastic.
- Comment on Man Alarmed to Discover His Smart Vacuum Was Broadcasting a Secret Map of His House 2 weeks ago:
Then don’t buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you “can’t do that”, then there’s zero point in complaining. I’m not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.
- Comment on Sam Altman Says If Jobs Gets Wiped Out, Maybe They Weren’t Even “Real Work” to Start With 2 weeks ago:
I tried to demo an agentic AI in Jetbrains to a coworker, just as a “hey look at this neat thing that can make changes on its own”. As the example I told it to convert a constructor in c# to a primary constructor.
So it “thought” and made the change, “thought” again and reverted the change, “thought” once again and made the change again, then it “thought” for a 4th time and reverted the changes again. I stopped it there and just shook my head.
- Comment on 2 weeks ago:
Why would a company create a piece of media knowing it would be unpopular with it’s core demographic?
<Looks sideways at Disney and Star Wars>
But that’s a whole other bag of worms
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.
As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.
Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).
The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)
- Comment on Huge internet outage live blog: Amazon, Disney+, Hulu, HBO Max and more experiencing issues 3 weeks ago:
Can you name a more reliable alternative?
Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.
- Comment on On January 1st of 2026, Texas will be required to give ID to download apps from the app stores. It doesn't matter if it's NSFW or not. 3 weeks ago:
How many people in your city know what self-hosting even is, though?
WAAAAAY more than you’re giving credit for
- Comment on "Very dramatic shift" - Linus Tech Tips opens up about the channel's declining viewership 2 months ago:
They’re tech entertainers, and Linus is the clown jester.
- Comment on Microsoft Word documents will be saved to the cloud automatically on Windows going forward 2 months ago:
I don’t think that’s necessarily a bad idea.
No, this is a bad idea. It’s a terrible idea.
What you said is like saying “well, I need surgery, having the monkey from the forest come at me with a knife is better than nothing.”
Microsoft has proven themselves over and over to be the last company you should trust with your data. Even recently they’ve been responsible for losing a life’s worth of data because of OneDrive
They’re already uploading people’s data off of their computers to OneDrive without consent, then deleting the local copies.
Plus their tech work culture is lacking. When they screwed something up with Office 365 and Outlook wasn’t available for over 18 hours (for basically the whole world), their response was a tweet that it’s fixed.
Whereas CloudFlare messed up something for only an hour, they released a comprehensive breakdown on their blog of what happened, what the root cause was, and what they’re going to do to prevent it from happening again.
Which company seems reliable to you?
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 months ago:
My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 months ago:
Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 months ago:
Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.
AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.
Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.
It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 months ago:
without their explicit consent.
By signing up to this service you agree to allow us to alter or modify your content as we require for efficient operation or to increase content engagement
- Comment on YouTube secretly used AI to edit people's videos. The results could bend reality 2 months ago:
They don’t require AI neural networks.
Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.
Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
You’re putting words in my mouth. I was speaking in generalities about physical connections, not specifically about fibre.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Where? In the US? It’s already been paid for multiple times over, through government grants and subsidies.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
It’s still worthwhile.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Fibre deployment is getting cheaper and easier. Both in terms of cost of materials and in the equipment and labour skills.
It’s also much more secure from interference and disruption.
For populated areas, there’s zero justification to rollout wireless over fibre lines. And most major cities already have fibre in most, or many, areas. And the thing with fibre is that the physical lines can be used to deploy faster speeds with upgraded endpoints.
Tech bros would have you think physical connections aren’t a good choice anymore, because laying down fibre isn’t sexy enough for that VC money.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
With cable here I’m “supposed” to get “up to” 1000mbs down but my upload speed is at best 40.
Man, you get 40 up? I’m stuck on 30 up. And the funny thing is that just on the other side of the creek on the other side of my street is where they stopped the fibre rollout.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
somewhere, between you and the server you are connected to, the bandwidth is shared.
But the difference here is that on a fibre connection the shared portion goes over higher speed trunks which gives you most of that 1Gbps bandwidth. A wireless connection has a limited number of slices in the same band that it can share.
It’s the same issue with too many people on a single WiFi connection.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Musk wants control over the entire internet.
This is the number one reason my friend and I refused to even consider StarLink. We don’t live in the US and do not want all our traffic going through there.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
Technically, S0aceX should be nationalized by the US based on the volume of money they’ve received in contacts.
- Comment on SpaceX says states should dump fiber plans, give all grant money to Starlink 2 months ago:
it’s cell internet.
Physical lines first.
- Comment on Codeberg: army of AI crawlers are extremely slowing us; AI crawlers learned how to solve the Anubis challenges. 2 months ago:
Those were tech nerds. “Tech bros” are jabronis who see the tech sector as a way to increase the value of the money their daddies gave them.