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- Comment on Google confirms more ads on your paid YouTube Premium Lite soon 16 hours ago:
Moderately, it’s still not as good as Play Music it replaced, and frankly the only reason I use it is because it comes with Premium (and Lite gets ads so fuck that deal), otherwise I’d subscribe to something else for music (aside from growing my album collection on Bandcamp).
- Comment on Twitch is getting vertical livestreams 5 days ago:
Getting vertical video before modern codecs (AV1∨HEVC), and the same bitrate limitations since it was justin.tv.
It’s impressive how stagnant Twitch is, and how expensive it’s purported to be.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 1 week ago:
The ‘enthusiast’ side where all the university students and tinkerer devs reside is totally screwed up though. AMD is mirroring Nvidia’s VRAM cartel pricing when they have absolutely no reason to. It’s completely bonkers. AMD would be in a totally different place right now if they had sold 40GB/48GB 7900s for an extra $200 (instead of price matching an A6000).
Eh, the biggest issue here is that most (post-secondary) students probably just have a laptop for whatever small GPGPU learning they’re doing, which is overwhelmingly dominated by Nvidia. For grad students they’ll have access to the institution resources, which is also dominated by Nvidia (this has been a concerted effort).
Only a few that explicitly pursue AMD hardware will end up with it, but that also requires significant foundational work for the effort. So the easiest path for research is throw students at CUDA and Nvidia hardware.
Basically, Nvidia has entrenched itself in the research/educational space, and that space is slow moving (Java is still the de facto CS standard, with only slow movements to Python happening at some universities), so I don’t see much changing, unless AMD decides it’s very hungry and wants to chase the market.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 1 week ago:
That’s basically what I said in so many words. AMD is doing its own thing, if you want what Nvidia offers you’re gonna have to build it yourself. WRT pricing, I’m pretty sure AMD is typically a fraction of the price of Nvidia hardware on the enterprise side, from what I’ve read.
The biggest culprit from what I can gather is that AMD’s GPU side is basically still ATI camped up in Markham, divorced from the rest of the company in Austin that is doing great work with their CPU-side.
- Comment on Why doesn't Nvidia have more competition? 1 week ago:
Expounding, Nvidia has very deeply engrained itself in educational and research institutions. People learning GPU compute are being taught CUDA and Nvidia hardware. Researchers have access to farms of Nvidia chips.
AMD has basically gone the “build it and they will come” attitude, and the results to match.
- Comment on The plan for nationwide fiber internet might be upended for Starlink 1 week ago:
It was basically up to the states this time around, they could allocate BEAD funds more or less as they wanted and absolutely build fiber out to the vast majority of residences (look at North Dakota, it’s evidently possible) through models like municipal fiber.
Ultimately it’s a political issue more than anything else, Americans just can’t get anything done anymore, politicians would rather enrich themselves and voters only care about the culture war.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
For now, Google is clearly experimenting with baking ads into the delivered video streams, YT Premium members get served different endpoints already in preparation.
- Comment on Google Shared My Phone Number! 1 week ago:
Sort of hard to exist without interacting with Google at all (lots of the material I’m given in courses is hosted on YouTube).
Your best bet is to use separate isolated/siloed accounts for their different services, never let your GCS account be attached to Gmail or one of their consumer facing products for example, lest it get nuked because some automated system went haywire and now you’re scrambling to get the account back.
- Comment on California Bill Would Require That AT&T And Comcast Make Broadband Affordable For Poor People 4 weeks ago:
ISPs really tried to make plans specially that were covered in whole by these credits, because it meant they could get customers who otherwise they wouldn’t have at all, and of course for the ISPs that gave a shit, it was also just a good thing to do.
- Comment on Don’t watermark your legal PDFs with purple dragons in suits - Ars Technica 4 weeks ago:
I gotta admit this got a chuckle out of me, I’d allow it.
- Comment on The Machine Fired - No human could do a thing about it! 5 weeks ago:
This is pretty much on the money.
It even happened to me personally recently, Google nuked my (almost two decade old) YT channel for apparent adult content (Guess the AI hallucinated some crazy shit, since alls was on there was videogame footage) and of course, zero possibility of speaking to a human or any clue as to what’s going on, just a goodbye and thanks for all the adrev.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
Granted they’re not the growing and bustling places they used to be, but there are still both niche and “lifestyle” forums that are alive and stable. Other than this place, one of the latter is where I spend most of my online socializing time.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
Standards as in parts of the spec, as you said in the original reply:
the new MatrixRTC spec Which is a fork of the WebRTC protocol and another “standard” on top of the REST HTTP protocol.
I should have been more specific with my language, it is federated, but specifically messages (events) are a distributed DAG, and I find the Matrix protocol overly generic for a replacement for something specific like Discord.
The end goal of Matrix is to be a ubiquitous messaging layer for synchronising arbitrary data between sets of people, devices and services
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
Matrix has moved very very slowly and I’m concerned it’ll have the same fate as XMPP, where it’s a bunch of very complicated standards, with maybe one compliant implementation that nobody wants to work on.
I also don’t think it’s a particularly good protocol design for a Discord replacement, it’s not federated it’s a distributed message protocol, which is an order of magnitude more complicated and intensive than potential alternatives.
That said, many non-perfect things have achieved widespread success, so I’m at least hopeful that Matrix/Element are able to catch on in a wider capacity.
- Comment on Discord co-founder and CEO Jason Citron is stepping down 1 month ago:
As someone who runs a Mumble server (and has for over a decade) – it’s really not a replacement for the user experience that is Discord.
People want a unified UI, the ability to create communities with some amount of customization, embedded/live content, plus voice and video so they can chill and play games together. Mumble is just voice, and while it’s a very good implementation of that, it’s not even in the same user space as Discord.
- Comment on The Social Network That Can't Sell Out: Understanding Mastodon vs. Bluesky 1 month ago:
I think it’s “the algorithm”, people basically just want to be force-fed “content” – look how successful TikTok is, largely because it has an algorithm that very quickly narrows down user habits and provides endless distraction.
Mastodon and fediverse alternatives by comparison have very simple feeds and ways to surface content, it simple doesn’t “hook” people the same way, and that’s competition.
On one hand we should probably be doing away with “the algorithm” for reasons not enumerated here for brevity, but on the other hand maybe the fediverse should build something to accommodate this demand, otherwise the non-fedi sites will.
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 month ago:
There can be theoretical audit or blame issues , since you’re not “paying” then how does the company pass the buck (SLA contracts) if something fucks up with LE.
- Comment on TLS Certificate Lifetimes Will Officially Reduce to 47 Days 1 month ago:
Ironically the shortening of cert lengths has pushed me to automated systems and away from the traditional paid trust providers.
I used to roll a 1-year cert for my CDN, and manually buy renewals and go through the process of signing and uploading the new ones, it wasn’t particularly onerous, but then they moved to I think either 3 or 6 months max signing, which was the point where I just automated it with Let’s Encrypt.I’m in general not a fan of how we do root of trust on the web, I much prefer had DANE caught on, where I can pin a cert at the DNS level that is secured with DNSSEC and is trusted through IANA and the root zone.
- Comment on Elon Musk, Jack Dorsey Call For Abolition Of All Intellectual Property Laws, Arguing There Are 'Much Greater Models To Pay Creators' 1 month ago:
IP law need overhauling, but these are the last people (aside from Disney et al) I’d trust to draft the new ones.
- Comment on China has stopped exporting rare earths to everyone, not just the U.S., cutting off critical materials for tech, autos, aerospace, and defense 1 month ago:
The US manages to store 1.5B tons of cheese it doesn’t do anything with, I think China can handle constructing some warehouse to hold what it digs up from the ground.
- Comment on Python Performance: Why 'if not list' is 2x Faster Than Using len() 1 month ago:
if not x then … endis very common in Lua for similar purposes, very rarely do you see hard nil comparisons or calls totypeof(last time I did was for a serializer). - Comment on NVIDIA Makes PhysX & Flow GPU Code Open-Source. 1 month ago:
If only, this is “modern” PhysX, we’d need the source to the original Agea PhysX 2.X branch to fix it properly.
- Comment on AI crawlers cause Wikimedia Commons bandwidth demands to surge 50%. 2 months ago:
The amount of stupid AI scraping behavior I see even on my small websites is ridiculous, they’ll endlessly pound identical pages as fast as possible over an entire week, apparently not even checking if the contents changed. Probably some vibe coded shit that barely functions.
- Comment on Automatically Crack Safes With This Autodialer 2 months ago:
Man this reminds me of the lockers we had in middle school that used dial locks, cheap masterlock jobbies that despite having notches between the major numbers, just being within 2 of the actual number would register.
Plus it felt like they’d slip internally so if you dialed too quickly (because class starts in 3 minutes at the other end of the building) you’d have to start all over. - Comment on Power is not energy: why the difference matters [Technology Connections] 2 months ago:
Yeah, electric motors are what I notice the most. Be it on washers/dryers, garbage disposals (which range from 1/3, 1/2, 3/4, 1HP) and more.
- Comment on Musk 'Pressured' Reddit CEO to Silence DOGE Critics, Leaving Moderators Outraged: Report. 2 months ago:
Reddit is becoming such a shit hole anyway, the site barely functions on mobile browser now, half the time it has API errors or fails to load.
- Comment on Internet forums are disappearing because now everything is Reddit and Discord. And that's worrying. 2 months ago:
Further hampered by the Steam “discussions” that are an incredibly unmoderated cesspit.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
If they were a small or free service I wouldn’t have much issue, but they do charge, I don’t think it’s too much to ask that they at least attempt to scrape the wider web.
Building their own database seems the prudent thing long-term, I don’t doubt they could shore up coverage over Bing. They don’t have to replace the other indexes wholesale, just supplement it.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
They have smallweb and news indexing, but other than that AFAICT they rely completely on other providers. Which is a shame, Google allows submitting sites for indexing and notifies if they can’t.
Running a scraper doesn’t need to cover everything since they have access to other indexes, but they really should be developing that ability instead of relying on Bing and other providers to provide good results, or results at all.
- Comment on Kagi search engine now has a Fediverse search option. 2 months ago:
Small web always returns 0 results for anything that isn’t extremely broad, unfortunately.