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- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 16 hours ago:
Growing an ecosystem takes time. I’ve been using open source software since 1980s. Now I can use open source on tablets and phones. All my apps work because they’re open source.
The ecosystem would be now even better if more people would have put their choices that way. They didn’t. That was a choice, whether they realized it or not.
- Comment on Gmail users warned to opt out of new feature - what we know 1 day ago:
That’s what the consumers collectively wanted. Whether they knew it, or not.
- Comment on UK wind farms generate a record 22.7 GW of power on a single day 2 days ago:
Much more interesting than peak power at a certain moment is energy generation over a meaningful period.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
G factor is highly correlated with real-life achievements. I make no other claim.
- Comment on Sam Altman and husband reportedly working to genetically engineer babies from having hereditary disease 5 days ago:
High IQ would be sure nice, but has a large number of genes involved. Not that you need a high IQ as a farmer in a low technology future.
- Comment on German Balcony Solar Boom: A Million Apartment Dwellers Fighting Climate Change | Happy Eco News 6 days ago:
My 2 kWp DIY is on the roof.
- Comment on Race to the Bottom - What do the union struggles of IT workers in India tell us about the present crisis in the global tech sector? 1 week ago:
AI is primarily threatening junior level positions, since it allows a senior to offload tedious/elementary work to automation. This increases productivity but makes checking for AI confabulation/hallucination necessary.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 week ago:
I suggest something more physical.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 week ago:
Do not take a mobile device on demonstrations if you can’t verify it respects airplane mode. E.g. GOS does, but I’m not aware of any other such.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 week ago:
I use hardware TAN generators but my bank’s app works on LineageOS and GrapheneOS. If my travel service doesn’t accept printed out documents then it is not a travel service I will use.
- Comment on CHAT CONTROL 2.0 THROUGH THE BACK DOOR – Breyer warns: "The EU is playing us for fools – now they’re scanning our texts and banning teens!" 1 week ago:
This has not yet happened even in the most authoritarian jurisdictions, with the possible exception of North Korea. The Internet is built with open protocols so any restrictions will have to be implemented on the network edge. There is no vendor locking for on-prem routers in multiple countries. As long as all purpose computers are not illegal you can still use strong encryption and anonymizing services on your end devices on your own network. So any mandatory surveillance and tracking will have no power there.
- Comment on 28-pound electric motor delivers 1000 horsepower 2 weeks ago:
Simplicity, no transmission. As to unsprung weight, designs like these have a ridiculous power density, so add only very little. Advanced suspensions are active anyway, so just part of the wheel robot.
- Comment on What We Talk About When We Talk About Sideloading 3 weeks ago:
I call it “installing software”.
- Comment on Here’s what ads on your $2,000 Samsung smart fridge will look like 3 weeks ago:
There are tablets with docks available. E.g. I could use Pixel tablet with the hub for that, even with privacy-supporting GrapheneOS.
- Comment on China releases 'UBIOS' standard to replace UEFI — Huawei-backed BIOS firmware replacement charges China's domestic computing goals 4 weeks ago:
OpenBoot at Sun and Apple had a ggo thing going for a while. Too bad they didn’t release it as open source. In theory you could deliver architecture-independent drivers that ship as firmware on device.
- Comment on Microsoft wants you to talk to your PC and let AI control it 5 weeks ago:
Microsoft has no say what happens on my workstation, and never had any.
- Comment on Selfhost an LLM 5 weeks ago:
The GPU used to but they dropped ROCm support for Radeon V and VII some time ago. Have to look at that Strix/AI thing I guess.
- Comment on Selfhost an LLM 5 weeks ago:
Is Radeon V with 8 GB HBM worth using today?
- Comment on YouTube to give banned creators a 'second chance' after rule rollback 1 month ago:
Why should one give YouTube a second chance, though?
- Comment on Head of the Signal app threatens to withdraw from Europe 1 month ago:
Central server only gives you metadata. Therevare altrrnative clients if you don’t trust the official one.
- Comment on Brave browser passes 100 million monthly active users 1 month ago:
Ironfox works fine for me.
- Comment on Hey Google, meet Gemini: the new voice of your smart home 1 month ago:
Which asks for captcha.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 month ago:
We are already running out of fossil fuels (particularly diesel) so that’s a given. If we are going to see significant green hydrogen generation, it will likely be in advanced dirigistic economies like China.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 month ago:
It is expensive though, so not a self runner in a free msrket economy.
- Comment on [deleted] 1 month ago:
zfs has been working nicely for me for many years, for diverse operating systems including zfs all-in-one for internal NFS mount.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 month ago:
Well, yeah, the hydrogen solution to build out renewable overcapacity and storing production surplus as green hydrogen in natural gas caverns is dead in the water. So private households better start budgeting for sodium-ion backup for hybrid solar inverters which are island and black start capable, for when planned load shedding events start.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 month ago:
You need a buffer with at least 60 TWh in case of Germany. There is no economic electrochemical energy storage system for that capacity.
- Comment on Renewables blow past nuclear when it comes to cheap datacenter juice 1 month ago:
Except you can’t power 24/7/365 with renewable alone, so you still need gas turbine backup.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 month ago:
Most vintage I have is a dual-socket 1U Sparc.
- Comment on How do you secure your home lab? Like, physically? From thieves? 1 month ago:
It would take hours to pull the servers from a mostly full full height rack. And then you’d get a bunch of heavy obsolete servers with zero resale value.