tekato
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- Comment on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates 1 day ago:
Cloudflare can’t be forced to censor anything because CDNs are not actually needed by the internet, they’re just nice to have. The only place where they could actually do anything is in the registrar business, where any foul play would just result in de-accreditation by ICANN.
AWS, Azure, and Oracle do have too much power over the internet, but that’s a different scenario.
- Comment on Keeping the Internet fast and secure: introducing Merkle Tree Certificates 1 day ago:
Why is Cloudflare bad for the internet?
- Comment on Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it 2 days ago:
A sustainable scene wouldn’t have dropped from a $40M prize pool to $4M. The issue is that the esports scene was not self funded, it was funded by a percentage of the base game economy.
The reduction in prize pool being related to the removal of battle pass shows that fans never cared about supporting the esports scene, they only wanted the battle pass for the skins or whatever it is that you get from it.
Even if the Dota 2 esports was sustainable, that would be one game out of dozens.
- Comment on Capcom doubles down on its decision to go pay-per-view during the Street Fighter League despite the fact that nobody really likes it 2 days ago:
They know nobody is going to purchase the pay-per-view, but I guess they don’t care since the alternative is not getting any money anyways. Esports was never sustainable because fans refuse to spend money, so they rely on shady sponsorships from gambling sites and Saudi money.
- Comment on Setting up VoIP on my matrix server 1 week ago:
You have a higher chance of solving this issue if you ask in #webrtc:matrix.org
- Comment on OpenAI wants to stop ChatGPT from validating users’ political views 2 weeks ago:
The reason why I can’t stand LLMs is because they congratulate me before replying to anything I say. This could be a good thing.
- Comment on Mozilla's Firefox adds Perplexity's AI answer engine as a new search option | TechCrunch 2 weeks ago:
AI has money and Mozilla needs it. Are you going to pay for Firefox development?
- Comment on Supporting the future of the open web: Cloudflare is sponsoring Ladybird and Omarchy 5 weeks ago:
Cloudflare blocks VPNs at the request of whoever is running the server. There are tons of websites running on Cloudflare that work with VPNs.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
Do you actually expect journalists to have any integrity these days?
- Comment on Campaigners urge EU to mandate 15 years of OS updates 1 month 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 month 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 month 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 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
Let’s see OpenAI’s numbers
- Comment on 96,000 UK Police Bodycam Videos Lost After Data Transfer Mishap 2 months 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 2 months 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' 2 months 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' 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago:
“Vote” and “emperor” don’t go in the same sentence.
- Comment on Microsoft suddenly bans LibreOffice developer's email account, blocks appeal 2 months 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 3 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 4 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 4 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”.