RamRabbit

@RamRabbit@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  He doesn’t say anything about breaking a signed contract. Simply that Anthropic will be phased out and no longer used.

  As a corollary, I doubt Anthropic’s contract will be renewed when it the current one expires.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨President Donald Trump bans Anthropic from use in government systems⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Anthropic was taking a stance against their AI in weapons systems. The government wants that ability and therefore cannot use Anthropic as a supplier.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When Video Games were Brown. | Ahoy⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I would be interested in the graphs, but with Sports and Nintendo games removed. Nobody has accused them of brown.

  Did shooters specifically get more brown? Even with this analysis I’m positive they did.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's planned new AI trick for Edge will 'automatically open the Copilot side pane' with Outlook email links — and I can feel the hate already⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  All they had to do was make a copilot app that you install from the Windows store. Nobody would have disliked them for that. They probably could have even pre-installed it and people would have only groaned.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox Co-founder Says Microsoft is Quietly Sunsetting the Platform⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  I had to go back and read your post twice because I was getting Xbox One X and Xbox Series X confused with eachother. I even know there is a difference, but holy god are those names bad that it’s still confusing even when you know to look for it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Floating turbine towers above — the S1500 hovers to harvest wind at 131 feet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  These are a massive liability every storm. You have to winch them down and get them into a blisteringly massive hangar that can hold them. Then get them set back up after. Every. Single. Storm.

  Furthermore, you don’t save on land use, as you need the massive, expensive hangar for each right at their base.

  Ground-based wind-turbines just feather their blades and lock their gearbox. Very simple.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xbox’s leadership shift proves it: the gamer era is over, AI runs the show now⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I remember being very annoyed, for years, that Microsoft’s flagship gaming franchise, Halo, stopped releasing for their most popular platform: Windows. For years, only Halo and Halo 2 were released for PC, and Halo 2 was almost unplayable due to Microsoft’s massive cockup with Games for Windows Live. It wasn’t until just a few years ago where Microsoft released their most popular franchise for their most popular platform.

  I’m still salty about that.

  But, it’s fine, I don’t have an xbox or a Windows computer now. And it is almost entirely due to shit decisions by Microsoft that just kept compounding for decades.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Instagram boss: 16 hours of daily use is not addiction⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  spending 2/3rds of a day, 16 whole hours

  Even worse: if you get a proper night’s sleep, 16 hours is literally the entire day. Dude is saying if you are getting healthy amounts of sleep, it is perfectly acceptable to spend 100% of your time doom scrolling on their website. No eating, no going to work, no showering.

  It’s an absurd statement.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google criticizes Europe's plan to adopt free software⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Youtube + UBlock Origin is a good alternative to paying Google money every month.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Wendy's closes US restaurants and focuses on value to turn around falling sales⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Thing is, those are surprisingly easy to make at home. And with how expensive fast food has become, that is something I have been doing more and more.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Do you ever feel guilty for trying to sign up for government assistance programs?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As long as you are trying your best, don’t feel bad about using them. Just make sure you are doing your best to improve yourself and your income. Assistance programs are not meant to be permanent, they are there to help you get on your feet when you fall down.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨[deleted]⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  That graph doesn’t have very many years on it; and half are COVID, which always makes me suspicious. Found one from FRED that shows things are pretty average:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Whereas a more ephemeral approach that actually encourages people to ask questions? Yes, it does cause long term issues when someone is trying to debug a project that has been on life support for years.

  It also causes the problem that no fix is searchable. All fixes require a community member to respond.

  • For the user this causes significant delays. A problem that could be solved in minutes with a search now requires hours for someone to respond to their specific problem. A problem that likely was already solved 10 times before. And god help you if the server is active, your problem might get burred instantly.

  • For the support people, they have to answer the same questions over and over and over because there is no way for users to solve their own problems.

  These issues compound on each other as support staff burn out and users get tired of waiting. Leads to people just going elsewhere.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Non-US cloud storage for backup?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  A hard drive in a PO Box; data encrypted. Retrieve it occasionally to sync it with your local storage.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's your opinion on Ubiquiti/Unifi gear?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Are there any truly FOSS networking options?

  PFSense falls into this category for routers. Netgate makes hardware specifically for it, but you don’t have to buy anything from them to use PFSense. I only mention them because their hardware is good and you can buy anything from a normal home router to enterprise level gear.

  I had to sign in with my ubiquiti account first before I could make a local account

  I used to be pretty into ubiquiti, but this requirement really put me off. I have no desire to do anything ‘cloud’ with my router. This being a requirement sent me elsewhere.

  TruNAS … What alternatives are there?

  TruNAS has a community edition, so you could start there. Other alternatives are a standard Debian install, and use mdadm to setup RAID, then setup a network share in the OS, etc.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Is there a word, perhaps as 40-letter compound word in German, that explains this annoying social phenomenon?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Site Lets AI Rent Human Bodies⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  AKA: A job.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bethesda x Nintendo Switch™ 2 — Oblivion, Fallout 4, and Indiana Jones Coming to Switch 2⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Never understood why people rebuy Skyrim over and over. Buy it once on Steam and call it a day. (even works as a handheld via the Steam Deck)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  The ISS is one of the most expensive pieces of infrastructure humanity has built, it costs something on the order of $150B. My home I personally paid for, out of my own pocket, and it has 3x it’s power power supply of the ISS.

  How about this. You give me 10% of the cost of the ISS and that datacenter rack, and I’ll use the $15,000,000,000 to buy a big AC unit to cool the rack. We both make out. You saved 10x your money and got 3x as much power capacity, and I got FIFTEEN BILLION DOLLARS to service and maintain a residential sized power line.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”

  Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.

  The problem with space data centers isn’t the technology, we have the technology. It’s the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It’s simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  14 kW

  This is a tiny amount of power. My house alone can feed and service over 3x that (48 kW). Feeding my house with 48 kW and dissipating the heat is MUCH MUCH MUCH cheaper than doing this even once on the ISS, then twice, then thrice on this ISS…just to achieve what my home achieves right now.

  Space datacenters are a meme.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year, over >$10B in a single year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨VS Code for Linux may be secretly hoarding trashed files⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft managing to make even their Linux software not achieve basic functions like…deleting files.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 just lost 5% market share in two months despite Windows 10 losing support.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This was me. Hit the update to 11 button because I have always liked new things. About a week later went back to 10, then about a year ago saw the writing on the wall and jumped ship to Mint. Shoulda done it earlier!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Legal action over 'unfair' Steam game store prices given go ahead⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  alleges Valve “forces” game publishers to sign up to conditions which prevents them from selling their titles earlier or for less on rival platforms.

  Given Epic is gives away games for free. This assertion about Valve is laughable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What is the optimal handle to chain length for a flail?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I second bottom right as the best pictured, but the chain is still too long. Below is the correct length of chain. Maximum control and damage. Best against armored opponents that one needs to bludgeon.

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft lost $357 billion in market cap as stock plunged most since 2020⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Windows is a core driver of many of the other services. Linux certainly isn’t pushing OneDrive ads and Copilot ads like Windows is. Hell, Microsoft doesn’t even make a OneDrive Linux GUI for some reason. Their share on Linux is probably trash. The more people switch, the more those customers move to Dropbox or w/e.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a strong feeling they won’t be removing the spying, AI everywhere, ads, and bloatware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Four FINAL FANTASY games have arrived on GOG in the Preservation Program⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I haven’t played 4, 7, or 9. Any opinions on which one is most worth playing?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How/why does Microsoft teams exist?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Because they don’t have to. The next quarterly report is better. Copilot use is up (because it was shoved into yet another app) and costs are down (because they layed even more people off). Businesses are locked in for the near future, so sales will remain high.

  It doesn’t matter desktop Linux use is drastically increasing. That doesn’t affect this quarter. This quarter is all about cutting costs and pushing AI.