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- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 13 hours ago:
Did the feds charge the other people caught in the same sting? I'm not seeing any articles about the fed vs state charges.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 13 hours ago:
China spending 1/20 of what the US does to subsidize cars isn't relevant? Sure thing buddy.
The whole point of all of these "china is only dominating in EV sales due to subsidies" comments is to throw shade on China's impressive progress. A contrast with their subsidies vs other countries in the same space, motor vehicles, is entirely relevant.
- Comment on Tesla sales plunge 40% in Europe as Chinese EV rival BYD's triple 13 hours ago:
You should learn about US fossil fuel subsidies. The US alone pumps almost 800 billion/yr into subsidising the industry.
China tossing 40 Billions/yr into EV subsidies is basically pocket change comparatively.
- Comment on OpenAI Says It's Scanning Users' ChatGPT Conversations and Reporting Content to the Police 14 hours ago:
They haven't refused to charge him. He has a hearing scheduled on September 3rd.
- Comment on A hacker used AI to automate an 'unprecedented' cybercrime spree, Anthropic says 23 hours ago:
They will undoubtedly start offering their own Ai based "anti ai" security product shortly.
The shovels must flow.
- Comment on From Snoop Dogg to Lap Dogg 4 days ago:
He came out and said him and Trump are solid. I think he performed at his inauguration too.
- Comment on Best Practice Ideas 5 days ago:
OP, If you dont have a proxmox vm template ready to go, here is a great option using cloud-init:
- Comment on The original Splitgate will live on with player-hosted matches 6 days ago:
Im glad for it, but it still feels PR puffery from the "make FPS great again" company bankrolled by turbotax.
- Comment on How Kenya Is Becoming the World’s Geothermal Powerhouse 1 week ago:
The video is 2 years old. Any new developments?
- Comment on Vampire: the Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 Pre-Order Trailer 1 week ago:
People said good shit about cyberpunk 2077 at release. Take games journalism with a grain of salt. Even the very largely honest ones generally only get the first "X minutes" to demo, which designers pack impressive moments into for the press, but then the rest of the game is half baked or a slog.
No preorders is always right.
- Comment on Teddybears - Punkrocker 1 week ago:
Hes canonically also said he hates cops that worship him because they are supposed to be the vanguard of law and order, not murderers. I think he then went on to kill those cops, to really just nail the whole point home.
Surprise surprise, it didn't take.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 1 week ago:
It was a free update that came out at the same time as the DLC, but yup they lined right up.
- Comment on Lies of p has been really good! 1 week ago:
Have to give lies of P lots of credit for adding "on the fly" difficulty settings. Most souls-likes wont budge here, likely due to the rabid fan pushback, but it is someone who dislikes the punishing genre mechanics but likes the game itself, it made the game buyable for me.
- Comment on Have you watched masterpiece named "Happy"? 1 week ago:
Blood, trash and Tarantino? "From dusk to dawn" called, and it wants to fuck pulp fictions feet.
- Comment on Game prices should have increased with every new generation, former PlayStation US boss says 2 weeks ago:
The huge win in digital for them was killing the resell market.
No used games means no competition from previous owners. Prices can stay at $60/70/80 forever without any user market forcing prices down.
Every media vendor wants digital only to cut production costs, but it's really to own the market. Consoles did exactly that for decades. The shift to subscriptipns for not only online at all but also to "sont own games, just gove us a monthly oart of your invome forever" was them pushing this advsntage to its maximum conclusion.
Only now, with falling sales and falling interest due to "quick media" like tiktok/instagram/etc, is microsoft giving up on its console moat and sharing all games across devices. Only a loss of relevance as an entertainment medium is forcing them to open the market up again.
- Comment on Steam Beta: Wider store pages; Video support for written game descriptions 2 weeks ago:
Looks like you still can't adjust the font size with either control+up or directly in the settings.
Steam: the billion dollar storefront failing to implement an insanely common accessibility feature browers have had for 20 yrs.
- Comment on They will remember 2 weeks ago:
Apparently the antonym of clanker is "wireborn." It's bouncing around the "ai relationship" forums.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 weeks ago:
The author posts transcripts of his video. Here is this one.
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 2 weeks ago:
CATL first uses for the tech are literally car batteries. Your info looks to be outdated.
- Comment on China's green energy boom could spell the end of the fossil fuel age 2 weeks ago:
Just use solar panels to power the ac to cool the water that makes the nuclear. Bonus points for floating solar arrays that cool the panels while shading the cooling water.
- Comment on Why don't these AI data centers build by the ocean? 2 weeks ago:
They dont even need to hook up and construct a geothermal heat system for a community, either. There are giant sand heat batteries in norway to store excess heat that they then tap into their community heat systems.
These data centers could be responsible to build the giant sand battery and then be done with it, leaving the distribution rest to the municipality or state, but they aren't even inclined to do that.
- Comment on Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist? 2 weeks ago:
Depends on what you're doing a bit. Databases? Hypervisors? Just files? If all of the above, its best to use an actual product this. Either foss like borgbackup or Urbackup, or something like Veeam which is a popular pay option.
If its a proxmox hypervisor, they have their own free backup appliance, but you need a second physical server to run it on.
If it's just databases, most have a built in way to take a backup. Just google the name and backup. Make sure it's running automatically and is moved to a separate server on each run.
For files, rsync is a great option.
- Comment on Setting up a server for a research team. What should be in my checklist? 2 weeks ago:
Backup is step one, or even step 0, of setting up a server. The amount of frustration and even job loss a backup can prevent is always worth the expense of time/money.
Backup can be setup scripts/config files/automation if the data doesnt matter, but you do need it. Also, even if they say the data doesbt matter, the data almost always matters. It may not now, but it will in 2 years when people use the server for real work and everyone just doesnt even begin to think about a backup until it fails one day and they lose all their grant and thesis data.
- Comment on Actors that have been the least believable scientist castings, I’ll start. 2 weeks ago:
Jessica Alba went on to make a few hundred millions selling soap, so shes got that goin for her.
- Comment on Broccoli Blooms 2 weeks ago:
This is called "bolting" in gardening terms.
- Comment on European Commission launching #Wifi4EU initative, 93k high-speed private access points across the EU, free of charge. 2 weeks ago:
15k for several distinct hotspots in a city is pretty reasonable, depending on what equipment they are using. Enterprise quality IT gear is expensive.
- Comment on Replaced my electric resistance water heater with heat pump, dramatic reduction in energy usage 3 weeks ago:
2-3x more expensive, but they normally pay off in about 5 years.
- Comment on Amazon is considering shoving ads into Alexa+ conversations 3 weeks ago:
Im sure they'll try to get you to order ammo as they explode.
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 4 weeks ago:
Your gmail notification point doesn't track, but its the most minimal point so i'll drop it.
I dont think Substack is specially just a Nazi platform. I think they are Capitalists that will use any kind of speech to make money. While bootstrapping, they found a niche in leftist independent journalism. Now, they view far right hate as profitable, both directly with Nazi commentors are being paid large sums to enshittify the platform from far right figures.
They dont care about racism or hate because they are rich and it makes them money. That does make them bad people, no matter how many leftist they also profit from. I absolutely expect they will follow a Twitter style path from here on out, with or without Musk at the helm. Once you let the Nazi's into the bar, they take over by driving everyone else out. Thats what they have done, and will keep doing.
I expect you make some kind of living off Substack? Maybe look into Ghost as an option. They take way, way less money even when fully hosted.
- Comment on There is a federation problem on Programming.dev 4 weeks ago:
Are you even reading the comment you're replying to? It doesn't seem like it.
Gmail doesnt "push notifications" for anything besides receiving email. Recieving a spam messsage, i.e an interaction with a federated service that anyone can run, is not at all the same as a company's app, that they full control, pushing a notification, that they fully control, from content on their site, that they full control. Comparing that to Gmail, which is in this case would be a neutral party to the content of the push notification, is not the same.
I very clearly pointed out that i expect the notification came from a computer fucking up. You should re-read the comment, because i made that very clear. I also made it very clear that if you have nazi shit on your platform, your computers may fuck up and push that that Nazi shit out to people. The best way to combat that is not having Nazi shit.
Either way, it's good to see you accepting that "Substack welcomes Nazis" is accurate now. Maybe it wasn't in 2023, the last time they made headlines press for paying Nazis tthat post on their platform, but it is now. I expect with the very recent 100 million cash influx from far right Trump supporters, that isn't going to change.
Maybe stop carrying so much water for a site that is clearly super cool with Nazis?