Hamartiogonic
@Hamartiogonic@sopuli.xyz
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
That’s true. If something doesn’t directly make money, it can still exist because of taxes or another arrangement like that.
- Comment on How rental ‘libraries of things’ have become the new way to save money 3 days ago:
So, the key is to run your business for loss. Wait, that’s called a charity, not a business. How is this thing supposed to work?
- Comment on Rabbit was once an NFT company that it wants you to forget about 5 days ago:
In the early days of laser development, it was seen as a solution seeking a problem. A few decades later, it actually turned out to be really handy, but it would have been tough to sell this idea to anyone before that. Imagine how hard it is to find funding for research that solves a problem that doesn’t exist.
- Comment on ‘Meta is out of options’: EU regulators reject its privacy fee for Facebook and Instagram 1 week ago:
Sounds to me that Meta defines privacy in a very particular way. You’re still going to give all of your data to Meta, but anything other than this transaction is in the realm of privacy where you can have rights and settings.
- Comment on Roku explores taking over HDMI feeds with ads 2 weeks ago:
I recall watching a defcon speech given by someone who used to make malware. He opened the speech by apologizing and saying that he knows that he will burn in hell.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 3 weeks ago:
So, do you think that quantum computing has a much longer way to go?
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
And when Xitter starts posting NFT trash in your name, you can restrict the spread of those posts by spending some Xitter Turds, which you can get from the lootboxes.
Oh and the cooldown timers! After every post, you have to wait 24 hours, but you can cut that wait in half by spending some Xitter Turds again. Let men tell you, it’s going to be unlike any service before it. EA and Ubisoft have so much to learn here.
- Comment on MKBHD - Do Bad Reviews Kill Companies? 3 weeks ago:
Generally speaking true. However some companies manage to get the hype train going which leads to people buying bad products. As a result, a company can still survive by selling bad headphones or bad water bottles. Bad reviews can balance things a bit, but if their marketing budget is as big as the defense budget of a small country, there’s not much a bad review can do.
Obviously, this doesn’t really apply to small startups with only pennies to spend. Their marketing consists of sending samples to reviewers, and if that gamble backfires, for any reason, things aren’t going to look very good for the company. Maybe the product was bad, and they had it coming. Maybe the product was ok, but the review sample was broken. Who knows.
- Comment on So much for free speech on X; Musk confirms new users must soon pay to post 3 weeks ago:
Add lootboxes and timers.
If you don’t pay to post, there’s a 50% chance of your post getting deleted after anyone sees it. Pay some money to get more favorable odds. Oh, but you don’t but that stuff with money. You gotta use xitter turds first that, and some times you can get those from xitter boxes. In order to buy the lootboxes, you have to spend real money.
If you haven’t bought any lootboxes in a month, xitter will take control of your account and start automatically posting flat earth nazi crypto trash.
- Comment on Commodore 64 claimed to outperform IBM's quantum system — sarcastic researchers say 1 MHz computer is faster, more efficient, and decently accurate 3 weeks ago:
Same thing with fusion reactors.
All the current machines out there are for research purposes only. Nobody can currently power an arc furnace of a steel mill using only fusion power. Sure, there’s been some progress with fusion and quantum computing, but it takes a while to get to an actual practical application of the technology.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Yeah, there’s garbage too, but I don’t subscribe to any of that. Just watch Linux and electronics tinkering videos instead.
- Comment on YouTube’s ad blocker crackdown now includes third-party apps 3 weeks ago:
Better start preparing for the coming exodus. Try Odysee, Peertube and Nebula and see what works for you. Once the enshittification hits critical mass, you’ll be ready to let go of that sinking ship.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
LabVIEW pulls off visual programming pretty gracefully. It feels like, it’s written by, and for, electrical engineers, so if you’re not familiar with circuit diagrams, it’s going to take a while to wrap your head around it. However, it proves to me that programming can look very different too. Let’s just hope that eventually someone does something similar to matrices, dataframes etc.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
Oh, it certainly has infuriating quirks. Like, if you copy a cell from here and you plan to paste it into 15 different places here and there. Somewhere along the way, you’ll accidentally add some text to another cell, and you lose the content of the clipboard. You need to copy that thing a second time in order to keep on pasting in the remaining places. Like, why is this a feature? Editing one cell suddenly kicks out whatever you had copied earlier? Why?
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
That was a weird article. The simplest fix would be to keep your apps updated.
Although, in typical MS style, the error message will probably be either vague and cryptic or otherwise completely useless. If you stumble upon an update problem like this, troubleshooting it doesn’t sound fun.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
😂
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
Yeah, and the headline is supposed to maximize the clicks, along with your fear, hatred and rage.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
Can’t complain about that conclusion either. It fixes all your Windows problems once and for all.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
Rule 1 in Reddit: never read the article
Since we’re on Lemmy, I thought I might get away with breaking the rules.
- Comment on Microsoft reveals costs of Windows 10 end of life security update — and it might be more than you'd expect 4 weeks ago:
As someone who uses Excel on Windows and Calc on Linux, I can totally understand. There are some big differences so there’s a valid reason for sticking with Excel. Casual users won’t notice anything big, but advanced users will.
On the other hand, if you’re an advanced Excel user, it usually means you’re trying to make it do stuff that it isn’t very good at. If you want stuff that Calc can’t provide, it’s a clear sign you should have written that calculation in R or Python a long time ago.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
DeskModder noted that it wasn’t as simple as blocking an app based entirely on its name; for example, while VLC is listed in the big list of services and apps that are disallowed, it’s specifically listing a Windows 7 version of VLC.
Sounds like Windows has a problem with really old versions only. I guess you should be fine as long as you keep your apps relatively fresh.
- Comment on Microsoft won't update your Windows 11 PC if it has these apps 4 weeks ago:
Ok, so a newer version should be fine I guess. If that’s the case, the title should be: “If you’re still running these prehistoric software, Windows won’t be able to update“
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 4 weeks ago:
Well, the idea is that anything and everything can be hacked. It’s just that the difficulty varies wildly; some being trivial whereas others are impossible until someone finds an exploit. If you’re working with a total black box, you’ll have to make many assumptions, which means that figuring stuff out may take a while. If there’s at least some documentation, such as a patent, you won’t have to guess absolutely everything. That doesn’t guarantee that it’s going to be easy. Maybe the patent doesn’t go into much detail, but it still manages to describe the product in just enough detail that the company can sue anyone trying to come too close.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 4 weeks ago:
Oh, but the board directors might want to replace the CEO anyway.
- Comment on AI will reduce workforce, say 41% of execs in a survey 4 weeks ago:
As soon as we’ve managed to make a computer that can simulate an entire brain in real time. Who knows how many decades or even centuries will that take.
- Comment on Roku has patented a way to show ads over anything you plug into your TV 4 weeks ago:
If it’s patented, it can also be hacked more easily.
- Comment on Google might make users pay for AI features in search results 5 weeks ago:
Had to leave out so much from this version. Maybe there should be a director’s cut, part 2 or something. 😁
- Comment on Google might make users pay for AI features in search results 5 weeks ago:
Once upon a time, in the vast land of the Internet, there was a magical library known as the Web. The library had many librarians, but a wise old owl by the name of Google was the most popular one. Everyone in the kingdom of knowledge loved him. People asked him questions, and Google gave them the answers. Life was good.
However, in the dark corners of the Internet, in the swamps of greed, there lurked an evil litch queen Seo. She only wanted to watch the world burn, and so she cast an evil curse on Google. The curse of Seo made Google give completely wrong answer. As chaos, ignorance and lies spread cross the land, queen Seo laughed in her castle.
The end.
Good night, sweet dreams.
- Comment on Opera is testing letting you download LLMs for local use, a first for a major browser 5 weeks ago:
But what if you have an AMD APU. Doesn’t that use your normal RAM as VRAM?
- Comment on Court Bans Use of 'AI-Enhanced' Video Evidence Because That's Not How AI Works 5 weeks ago:
Optical Character Recognition used to be firmly in the realm of AI until it became so common that even the post office users it. Nowadays, OCR is so common that instead of being proper AI, it’s just another mundane application of a neural network. I guess, eventually Large Language Models will be outside there scope of AI.