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- Comment on MidnightBSD Bans Users in Brazil and California, Warns More Regions Could Follow 1 week ago:
That may be the best thing to deal with the potential legal liabilities introduced by this unmitigated abject idiocy.
Good thing everybody can still torrent whatever they want from where ever they want. Or use IPFS. Or IRC DCC. Or Usenet. Or just a VPN.
- Comment on More than 400 people dispersed from illegal rave 1 week ago:
Damn straight!
- Comment on More than 400 people dispersed from illegal rave 1 week ago:
Ahh. It’s good to see people are still keeping ye olde traditions alive. Remember kids: It’s not a proper rave before the police chase you home.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Looks suspiciously at the cold remains of my last cup of coffee.
…Yeah, probably.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Sucks teeth. I suppose that would be a rather tall order without tool assistance. On a completely unrelated note, I just had the oddest flash of somebody having welded a golden(ish) bull to the front of a surplus APC ramming the resultant amalgamation into the nearest stock exchange and / or AI data center. No idea why.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 1 week ago:
Okay, okay. I’ll admit it: Occasionally it’s 2.3KHz. It depends on what I’m doing with resonant all-pass filters at the time.
- Comment on What's your favorite band? (Of frequency that is) 1 week ago:
1.4KHz.
- Comment on OpenAI on Surveillance and Autonomous Killings: You’re Going to Have to Trust Us 1 week ago:
No, I don’t think I will.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
Of course you did. Or else.
Drink a verification can to continue, consumer-slave.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
At least that way I’d get to enjoy it while dying from my aneurysm.
- Comment on Microsoft patents system for AI helpers to finish games for you 1 week ago:
What’s going to be their next trick? Launching a service that’ll watch the latest Netflix series for me and give me a summary when it’s done?
- Comment on Oracle Layoffs: Tech giant to slash 30,000 jobs as banks pull out from financing AI data centres | Company Business News 1 week ago:
It’s Oracle: It’s not like they deliver value either way.
- Comment on YSK: You Don't Actually Have A 'Lizard Brain', Evolutionary Study Reveals 1 week ago:
Did anybody ever actually take that metaphor literally?
- Comment on The Pulse: Cloudflare rewrites Next.js as AI rewrites commercial open source 1 week ago:
Was the headline AI authored?
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 1 week ago:
I had torrents in mind. You could host them directly I suppose, but discoverability would be an issue.
- Comment on What to selfhost if you have a lot of bandwidth 1 week ago:
Linux installer ISO images. Perfectly legal, and very helpful.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 1 week ago:
I agree, and there are a number of other biases to consider. Here’s some I can think of:
- Firefox will mainly be running of desktops, laptops and smartphones. I would expect QA to be significantly better for this type of device than, say, consumer grade routers or TV boxes. But more concerning to me is stuff like cheap ATMs, industrial control systems (although Siemens have great QA) and elevator control systems etc. Infrastructure, not consumer toy, and Mozilla obviously aren’t the right people to say anything about the state of any of that.
- While Mozilla is currently estimating approximately 200 million installs, some of those - especially on Linux - will have disabled telemetry. I know I do. With that said, I can’t recall the last time I had a FF CTD (crash to desktop) but I suspect when I did, it wasn’t even a bug but an OOM (out-of-memory) kill because I was browsing on something like a 2Gb RAM micro-portable with insufficient swap. FF is one impressively stable piece of software these days.
- Firefox usage is not evenly globally distributed, and I have no way to reliably assess whether FF has a larger or smaller proportional usage in regions that may rely more on older or refurbished hardware, which I would expect to have higher HW error rates (although I cannot prove that either - I can’t find any good public aggregate data for RAM MTBF trends over time, but I’d be very interested if somebody else knows where to find authoritative answers on that).
(Un)fortunately, this may be the most Mozilla can provide in terms on insight. Their users tend to be particularly sensitive of perceived or practical privacy violations, so I understand - and appreciate - their caution in gathering data.
- Comment on Cockroaches that eat each other's wings become exclusive partners 1 week ago:
This does nothing to endear them to me.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 1 week ago:
Fair question. I find it unnerving, because there’s very little a software developer can meaningfully do if they cannot rely on the integrity of the hardware upon which their software is running, at least not without significant costs, an, ultimately, if the problem is bad enough even those would fail. This finding seems to indicate that a lot of hardware is much, much less reliable than I would have thought. I’ve written software for almost thirty years and numerously platforms at this point, and the thought that I cannot assume a value stored in RAM to reliably retain it’s value fills me with the kind of dread I wouldn’t be able to explain to someone uninitiated without a major digression. Almost everything you do on any computing device - whether a server or a smart phone relies on the assumption of that kind of trust. And this seems to show that assumption is now merely flawed, but badly flawed.
Suppose you were a car mechanic confronted with a survey that 10 percent of cars were leaking breaking fluid - or fuel. That might illustrate how this makes me feel.
- Comment on 10% of Firefox crashes are caused by bitflips 1 week ago:
Well, that’s unnerving.
- Comment on Microsoft Confirms 'Project Helix,' a Next-Gen Xbox That Can Run PC Games 1 week ago:
Um…when it comes to desktop OS’s, they ARE the top, and always have been.
I think you’re talking about market share and the person you’re responding to is talking capabilities. Best is not equivalent to most popular, and seldom if ever has been.
- Comment on How to I prove to someone that the U.S. moon landing wasn't staged? 1 week ago:
- Comment on Microsoft Copilot to hijack your browser... for your own convenience 2 weeks ago:
Laughs in Linux.
- Comment on Big tech companies agree to not ruin your electric bill with AI data centers 2 weeks ago:
LIES.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 weeks ago:
For those wondering how cheaply this one sold himself: A scant five thousand quid.
- Comment on I LOVE EATING STIR BARS 3 weeks ago:
And implanting them all over the place, apparently.
- Comment on Nvidia delivers first Vera Rubin AI GPU samples to customers — 88-core Vera CPU paired with Rubin GPUs with 288 GB of HBM4 memory apiece 3 weeks ago:
Goodbye, sweet hardware. You deserved better and so did we.
- Comment on The Egg Nebula from the Hubble Telescope 3 weeks ago:
That looks unhealthily energetic.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 1 month ago:
He’d best hope the work those hands ends up doing isn’t pulling him by the hair to the scaffold.
- Comment on Adobe Animate is shutting down as company focuses on AI 1 month ago:
Good thing Blender Grease Pencil is a thing then. That it happens to be free and cross-platform is rather nice too.