glog78
@glog78@digitalcourage.social
We change constantly. Not sure what happens tomorrow and the past is something we learn from.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 3 days ago:
i can't agree with this general statement. i guess it's important to understand that a lot of the multiplayer games you wanna currently play have some kind of protection which makes it currently not suitable to run on linux.
just to give a different view mp games which currently seem to work ( checked protondb ):
- Eldenring Nightreign
- Dark and Darker (used to work)
- Helldivers & Helldivers 2
- Arc Raiders
- Counter Strike
- Overwatch
- DOOM in very different versions
- Quake Live
- Hunt Showdown 1896
- Dead by Daylight
- Warframewith all respect for the games you currently love so much, please don't make general statements.
A personal advice i want to give: Only change to linux if you are also willing to change yourself and adapt. Linux is not Windows like, Mac OS is not Windows , like a Playstation is not a XBOX or a Switch.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 3 days ago:
thanks for the answer. i remember there was a scene for sim racing at one point, but i am completly out of this one. Maybe @gamingonlinux has some ideas about racing.
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 3 days ago:
I would still like to know which and why. Usually there are alternatives out even for those multiplayer games. Example -> all the valve Games / Blizards Games are good too ;)
- Comment on Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet 3 days ago:
@ClydapusGotwald @1984
Can you give some more inside of what you game and specially why ? - Comment on LG Electronics unveils 2026 Gram Laptop line with aerospace composite - up to 50% lighter than macbooks 3 days ago:
The LLM's are not run on the gpu but rather on the cpu "AMD Ryzen AI 400" for the higher model and use therefor the system memory.
- Comment on It just keeps getting worse - Firefox to "evolve into a modern AI browser" 3 weeks ago:
My take is a little different. If people really want AI they should pay additional cost and AI should be a addon feature on your PC.
Additional Costs -> more powerful AI centered Chips ( as least as possible power consumption ) which can use local memory and much much more and fast as possible memory ( aka i think 256 GB should be in the long term the minimum ).
So local AI's needs to become a thing for privacy and long term costs and i guess in 99% local AI's will do the job fine enough.
Sadly noone will be on our side cause they want to put AI Usage / PC Usage overall behind a monthly subscription in the long term.
Right now we are just as always in the phase of making people depending on a technology.
- Comment on Why I Think the AI Bubble Will Not Burst 4 weeks ago:
@columbus the dot.com bubble bursted but some tech stayed. So it will be the same with AI ( even more precise different Machine Learning Stuff ). This has been around before the hype and there will be things after the hype.
https://datacentremagazine.com/news/ibm-ceo-questions-trillions-in-data-centre-spending
^^^ but this should make clear that the current way will most likely end in a big crash for capital IMHO.
- Comment on 5 weeks ago:
I personally think, that if your are gaming on linux you should value valve alot for how much money they have put into the linux ecosystem and it's not bad to buy at their store. But for real there is alot of gaming happing outside of steam (including things which won't make it to steam).
- Comment on YouTube is taking down videos on performing nonstandard Windows 11 installs 2 months ago:
As always on Linux you have different possibilities. Most big Desktop Environment's like KDE / GNOME / Cinnamon .... can mount devices automatically or on a click on the device. No need for additional entries in fstab.
If you however want a more general approach you can use systemd's automount or a fixed mountpount using fstab.
Most normal Desktop User's will be totally fine with the DE Solutions.
- Comment on It Took Many Years And Billions Of Dollars, But Microsoft Finally Invented A Calculator That Is Wrong Sometimes 4 months ago:
@dual_sport_dork @silence7 good times
- Comment on Why It's OK to Block Ads (2015) 4 months ago:
@Auth @floofloof
IMHO: Advertisment is another word for recommendation. While advertisment is seen as bad a recomendation isn't.So what advertisment never makde happen is making themself usefull to the consumer. Most consumer want maybe a !!! usefull recommendation !!! but not someone trying to force you to buy a certain product.
So what was the time before ads ... it never existet ... even before tv radio had advertisment. Even back in this day people hated the advertisment and did music recordings cutting the advertisment and talking out.
Some old people might remember press record ... press stop ... rewind a little bit ... and all of this.
The alternative was to pay alot of money for music ...
- Comment on ChatGPT 5 power consumption could be as much as eight times higher than GPT 4 — research institute estimates medium-sized GPT-5 response can consume up to 40 watt-hours of electricity 4 months ago:
@themurphy @rigatti There is one difference ... LLM's can't be more efficient there is an inherent limitation to the technology.
https://blog.dshr.org/2021/03/internet-archive-storage.html
In 2021 they used 200PB and they for sure didn't make a copy of the complete internet. Now aks yourself if all this information without loosing informations can fit into a 1TB Model ?? ( Sidenote deepseek r1 is 404GB so not even 1TB ) ... local llm's usually < 16GB ...
This technology has been and will be never able to 100% replicate the original informations.
It has a certain use ( Machine Learning has been used much longer already ) but not what people want it to be (imho).
- Comment on Begun the kernel wars have 4 months ago:
That statement is to easy. It all depends on how much permissions you give the game and in what kind of environment you execute your game. From sandboxing to inmutable root file systems there is a lot possible to exactly prevent this to happen.
- Comment on Why using ChatGPT is not bad for the environment 4 months ago:
IMHO -> you wouldn't need to write up such an article if people would think that AI adds an value to their life which is in replacable.
Example:
As of now AI is a big toy which you try to justify the use. A google search / fulltext search is much more efficient than using a AI Summary which you should by definition check after anyway.You try to justify that we spending more electricity on a technology where we already have working solutions and will need those working solutions in the future too.
PS: I personally think the fundamental flaw in your article is that you define something can get replaced which is often not the case or you don't compare it to the current most used solution. Example -> Most books aren't printed anymore but only digitally published. The books which are printed needs to be printed as reference and to archive it long term or are printed for book lovers. So you can't say there will be 3000W less because it's not printed anymore.
- Comment on Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery 4 months ago:
@michaelmrose @swordgeek I 100% agree that Mozilla is important but it's also clear that currently their is not enough business to keep Mozilla going. I don't blame them for trying to make a Business , i blame them for not following their former values. You can make a business and still mostly follow values ( look for example to GOG ).
And for what i don't like is the change from opt in to opt out. Every new feature most users don't want and they know this and make it harder and harder to turn off. The last time it was hidden in a sub menu in the settings ( switching off sending data to their ad service ) now it's hidden in config:about.
I guess next time you need 3rd party patches and compile the browser yourself to switch a "feature" off. - Comment on AI industry horrified to face largest copyright class action ever certified 4 months ago:
I take a bold stand on the whole topic:
I think AI is a big Scam ( pattern matching has nothing to do with !!! intelligence !!! ).
And this Scam might end as Dot-Com bubble in the late 90s ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble ) including the huge economic impact cause to many people have invested in an "idea" not in an proofen technology.
And as the Dot-Com bubble once the AI bubble has been cleaned up Machine Learning and Vector Databases will stay forever ( maybe some other part of the tech ).
Both don't need copyright changes cause they will never try to be one solution for everything. Like a small model to transform text to speech ... like a small model to translate ... like a full text search using a vector db to index all local documents ...
Like a small tool to sumarize text.
- 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 4 months ago:
@theunknownmuncher i used a kvm not wine. My guess it requieres a certain level of HW Acceleration on the GPU Side to be runable ( the new AI Stuff in RB 7.x ).
Fun fact their support wanted me to install a amd gpu driver in my kvm ( i was laughing ) ... after telling them this doesn't make sense i got to some other support unit and they told me this isn't a supported environment and i should keep using RB 6 which basically is getting slower and slower with every release ... - 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 4 months ago:
@theunknownmuncher @TheFeatureCreature
Ok let's give you some more software which still don't work with linux
- recordbox
- serato
- traktor
- engine djWhile recordbox 6 still worked in a kvm environment ... recordbox 7 crashes even in this environment.
You can to a certain degree avoid maybe serato or traktor and use "engine dj in a kvm" but recordbox for preparing usb sticks is a must for nearly every dj. - Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
@arc99 the same way as you did encrypt it ??? with ggp ?
???? the needed certificate are exchanged by for example a matrix / telegram or personal ????
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
@arc99 you still don't understand end 2 end encryption. Yes man in the middle decryption can be done. First for this to happen you need to accept the certificates of the firewall ( which in terms of a home PC you can't force anyone to do ). Second even if you can encrypt the https packets , you can still put an additional layer on top which only you and the reciever has the keys too.
To give you an example you can easy write down a base64 encoded binary blob in any text field on a website. If this binary blob has been encrypted before noone will be able to tell what is inside.
So breaking https is useless if someone really wants to hide informations. So no your deep packet inspection is totally useless in this case besides you know someone did put strange stuff in a text on a website.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
I said (picture) your deep inspection falls short to real end 2 end. You said your firewall can break end 2 end ... nope they can't and never will and you exactly said this in your last post too. (Sidenote -> i can gpg a text and post it public even with https .. for 99% it will be giberish and only the person who got the right key material will be able to read it ) ... so using deep package inspection to identify something you want to protect kids from is just a lie ...
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
@arc99 but end 2 end encryption is not by default https traffic ;) ssh / vpn are protocolls ( end 2 end encryption, decryptio) and this firewall can't deep inspect while this protocoll can easy tunnel other tunnels.
- Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
@arc99 please inform yourself about end to end encryption and decryption.
All i say is you haven't understand what is happening on this firewall and what this firewall can do and what i can't do. - Comment on UK households could face VPN 'ban' after use skyrockets following Online Safety Bill 5 months ago:
@arc99 @SpaceCadet thats basically allowing the Government to force ISP to build a solution which is able to sensor every content. Sorry there is alot of reasons why you should be against it.
- Comment on A Blunt Message Against Collective Shout 5 months ago:
@Canconda @ToxicHolyGrenade ;) i think you can google yourself for the special scenes in Dragon Age: Origins , The Witcher , GTA 5 or Leisure Suit Larry ... that are the 3 games out of might head wich had alot of publicity because of this topic. With the same argumentation those groups might try to remove or change those games too ...
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 months ago:
@network_switch @Jackhammer_Joe oh on a sidenote -> https://www.theverge.com/2021/8/27/22641095/onlyfans-sex-work-ban-online-porn-payment-processing-controversy << just a reminder ...
- Comment on Itch.io is delisting NSFW games due to pressure from payment processors 5 months ago:
@network_switch @Jackhammer_Joe even authoritarian states doesn't like dependencies which can tell them what they have to do. So those companies are a risk for their independence... my personal feeling europe's right people might not like porn but they probably would rather fight for porn then let a none european company tell them how they have to handle business ;)
- Comment on Adblockers stop publishers serving ads to (or even seeing) 1bn web users - Press Gazette 5 months ago:
@DarkSideOfTheMoon @1984 and all this additional JavaScript and Elements and makes the side's just horrible slow. Compare this with CSS+HTML only sides omg how good they can feel ... I also prefer nowadays text mode browsers again, cause a good readable font + focus on what is important ... the content itself. I really get pissed if websites with public content can't be run anymore without javascript (wtf is up with you guys ?) ....
- Comment on Old gamers don't understand what mobile gaming has become 5 months ago:
@Screen_Shatter @atomicpoet Imho everyone who talks about quality in games should define how they define quality ;) I for example value story and game mechanics over graphics and usability perfection. So Balatro / Knights of the Pen and Paper or alot of the Square Enix Classic Releases on Android still are high quality games for me. My advice would be before you argue you start to define what quality means. After this you can much better measure and argue.
- Comment on Steam Summer Sale 2025 has begun! 6 months ago: