tekato
@tekato@lemmy.world
- Comment on 6 hours ago:
Do you actually expect journalists to have any integrity these days?
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 2 days ago:
If the EU is going to pay for the developers, sure. I’d even go higher and say make it 50 years. Otherwise make your own OS or use Linux.
- Comment on 'An embarrassing failure of the US patent system': Videogame IP lawyer says Nintendo's latest patents on Pokémon mechanics 'should not have happened, full stop' 1 week ago:
Capcom should start their patent for 2D fighting games and see what happens to Super Smash Bros
- Comment on Nintendo Wins $2 Million Lawsuit Against 'MiG Switch' Distributor 1 week ago:
You’re better off committing tax fraud and admitting to it in court than ignoring a cease and desist from Nintendo. People never learn. They probably don’t even care about the $2 Million, they just do it for the love of the game and to make an example out of you.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 1 week ago:
You need more power than what regular people use. You would need the signal to go through walls into your home, and then read whatever comes back out through the same walls, so it’s a lot more attenuation than you typically expect.
- Comment on UK government trial of Microsoft's M365 Copilot finds no clear productivity boost 2 weeks ago:
I don’t see where a government would need a chatbot. Anyways, chances are that half the staff was already using some form of LLM before this trial.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
The article you cite states that accuracy drops to 60% if the enrollment and testing data were collected at different sessions. I imagine the effects of coffee or walking on heart rate would make that even worse.
- Comment on WiFi signals can measure heart rate—no wearables needed 2 weeks ago:
Your neighbors WIFI signals are too weak to matter in this case. Even if they were strong enough, this is a receiver-transmitter setup, so it would still be impossible to do unless you connect to their network. Even then, they’d have to assume you’re the only person present between the transmitter and the receiver.
Presence detection through WIFI was already garbage enough, this one is plain unusable.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 3 weeks ago:
No. That’s G-SYNC compatible, G-SYNC monitors require an “NVIDIA G-SYNC processor”.
- Comment on Framework unveils a second-generation Framework Laptop 16 with a swappable Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU, an industry first, shipping in November 2025 3 weeks ago:
They are not the same thing. GSYNC requires the monitor to be embedded with an NVIDIA controller.
- Comment on In a first, Google has released data on how much energy an AI prompt uses 4 weeks ago:
Let’s see OpenAI’s numbers
- Comment on 96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap 4 weeks ago:
Surely judges will rule against the police on every case that involved one of the missing recordings.
- Comment on Report: Microsoft's latest Windows 11 24H2 update breaks SSDs/HDDs, may corrupt your data 4 weeks ago:
The reporter’s own “test” proves this is caused by faulty drives unable to sustain the speed they advertise, not Windows.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Yes. That’s why cryptocurrencies won’t work in a physical store because the customer would have to stay in store for several minutes until the merchant can release the product.
But this is not an issue for online marketplaces like Steam. Customers should be willing to wait 10-20 minutes to get their video game key, or for Amazon to start processing a delivery. Faster cryptocurrencies like Litecoin actually take around 3 minutes to confirm transactions. Mullvad’s model is pretty good, where your account doesn’t get updated until the transaction is confirmed.
It sounds like a good compromise, unless dealing with payment processor policies is not as bad as they make it sound.
- Comment on Steam payment headaches grow as PayPal is no longer usable for much of the world: Valve hopes to bring it back in the future, 'but the timeline is uncertain' 4 weeks ago:
Your debit card transaction does not happen in seconds, it actually takes days to complete.
- Comment on GitHub is no longer independent at Microsoft after CEO resignation 5 weeks ago:
If they claim it’s dead every year they’re bound to get it right.
- Comment on Microsoft no longer permits local Windows 10 accounts if you want Consumer Extended Security Updates — support beyond EOL requires a Microsoft Account link-up even if you pay $30 1 month ago:
If your PC doesn’t support Windows 11 then it makes sense to switch to Linux. But staying on an EOL OS when you could upgrade is plain stupid.
- Comment on OpenAI’s new model can't believe that Trump is back in office 1 month ago:
“Vote” and “emperor” don’t go in the same sentence.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 1 month ago:
Empty story with clickbait title. Wouldn’t expect any less from modern “journalists”
- Comment on Trump’s tax bill seeks to prevent AI regulations. Experts fear a heavy toll on the planet 2 months ago:
The only way AI wipes out humanity is if they put it in the control system for nuclear bombs, hallucinate (as usual), and blow everything up. Not due to some “eliminate all humans” mentality or whatever they’re implying in that website.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s SpaceX Starship explodes on test stand 2 months ago:
enginepatrol.com/two-gr-corollas-caught-fire-toyo…
Here are two Toyota vehicles randomly bursting into flames. Toyota makes shitty cars (ranked 3rd most reliable by consumerreports.org, btw). consumerreports.org/…/who-makes-the-most-reliable…
- Comment on Matrix is cooked 2 months ago:
Today I learned that VC funded companies are not allowed to invest in open source projects. Matrix would be nowhere near its current state if it wasn’t thanks to Element. It’s not the best, but it’s far from “cooked”.
- Comment on Why does Apple make a minority of developers finance the entire App Store? 3 months ago:
- Comment on AI is rotting your brain and making you stupid 3 months ago:
Add it to the list
- Comment on Self hosted Teams alternative? 3 months ago:
You can allow guest accounts, although it’s disabled by default in synapse.
Call supports depends on the client you’re using. Element is usually ahead in features implementation, but you can get a list of clients and filter by features in the matrix website.
Also I’m not sure what the other person meant by easy to setup. Matrix servers are notoriously hard to setup when compared to anything most things you would find yourself selfhosting, specially with WebRTC/TURN. I think there’s an ansible playbook somewhere, but I never tried it.
- Comment on Algorithm based on LLMs doubles lossless data compression rates 4 months ago:
Interesting how they forgot to go over the architecture for LMDecompress.
- Comment on Tesla confirms it has given up on its Cybertruck range extender to achieve promised range 4 months ago:
- Comment on Looking for Creative Uses for Jellyfin Streaming Clients running Debian at Friends' Houses 4 months ago:
You’d make a great tech CEO.
- Comment on Reminder if you're leaving Discord for this Revolt server ( Linux + Steam Deck devs / creators) 4 months ago:
Just in: Orange farmers are part of the police state because they sell oranges to the government, including policemen.
- Comment on Framework ships RISC-V board for its 13" laptops along with "boardless" laptop chassis. 7 months ago:
You could make an ATX form factor ARM or RISC-V machine with a lot of processing power and run Linux on it, but who would buy it and for what? That question is why no one makes such a thing.
The same people who buy ATX form factor x86? The only thing making these platforms different is software support, which is getting better for RISC-V everyday. You wouldn’t buy a RISC-V computer today for high performance gaming or scientific computing, but it definitely works as a general purpose machine (web browsing, office apps, watching videos, etc.) This year shouldn’t see much progress in hardware since RVA23 just came out (maybe some RVA22 + V), but you can expect some nice things to come out 2026-2027 since now you have all you need to build a competent RISC-V CPU.