UnderpantsWeevil
@UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world
- Comment on [deleted] 5 hours ago:
“I saw you burning incense and assumed you’d be into this Hindu flag”
- Comment on [deleted] 5 hours ago:
This feels more like “Both Sides” centrism.
- Comment on Student Parking 7 hours ago:
Schools with good public transit are a real blessing. I remember living off campus at UT Austin and missing more than a few classes due to the miserable bus schedule. A big chunk of that was the result of the bumper to bumper traffic through central Austin. But it’s a problem the city/state knew existed for decades and refused to address.
Commuter schools are even worse. They straight up don’t provide student housing, then get mad when you need student parking.
- Comment on Fixed that for you 9 hours ago:
The real secret to wealth. Just have a back line into the Fed Credit Window.
Any dipshit can become a billionaire while paying the prime rate on unlimited borrowed money
- Comment on Fixed that for you 10 hours ago:
Would solve a lot of problems.
- Comment on Fixed that for you 10 hours ago:
I’m fully willing to believe Elon Musk will officially become a trillionaire, go on a bender, get lost, and be homeless for - like - a week.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 10 hours ago:
It’s Cold War propaganda.
- Comment on I've wondered since I was a youngin 10 hours ago:
The price of empire
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 1 day ago:
I don’t think Zhang wrote the headline.
Sort of the dig with these stories. Universal problems get spun as Uniquely Bad Country problems and “Chinese engineer gives his fellow enthusiasts good advice” becomes “Don’t trust hardware from Bad Country”
- Comment on 1 day ago:
Can’t embarrass a country with no shame left.
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 1 day ago:
I’m a Millenial and use lol and lmao
My Greatest Generation grandmother also used them, particularly in her waning years
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 1 day ago:
lmao
This seems to be the bottom of every “America Good, China Bad” argument.
Just 😂🤣🇺🇸😹. It’s Obvious, Idiot. Just Think Logically.
Its not that Chinese tech is any more secure fundamentally
Is it? Is this worth interrogating, even slightly? Is there any actual difference between industrial models or design philosophies?
No. Lolz. Roflcopter.
- Comment on a man of many minds 1 day ago:
I don’t see Sam Harris growing out of his face, but Christopher Hitchens is already a bad look.
Dude probably vapes like a fucking chimney
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 1 day ago:
Americans are going to be so fucked when the only companies producing consumer hardware at scale at labeled “Bad China Companies”.
I remember people hating Japan and Korea back in the '80s, before Sony and Samsung killed Magnavox and strangled Phillips.
I guess time is a flat circle
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 2 days ago:
Are you truly implying it’d be more secure to buy Chinese tech then US specifically
Only if your primary concern was US-centric surveillance. If you cared about Chinese surveillance, idfk. Big hanging question mark as to whether American native systems are more compromised than Chinese native systems. All I can say for sure is that American systems are confirmed compromised by both US-friendly surveillance and Chinese hacker groups.
That’s quite the take lmao.
It’s very easy to believe “Thing from China bad because China Bad”. But once you look into the actual security schema for these tools and applications, you discover Americans did an excellent job of leaving their hardware exposed to domestic infiltration and a terrible job of securing it against foreign intrusion.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
You think the USA is going to start WWIII?
Greenland does. Venezuela does. Iran does. I’m just observing what other people are saying.
You know what the best evidence is for “China Bad”? They promoted and endorsed Donald Trump
Honestly, where do you even get this shit? The people who promoted Donald Trump were Americans. And they’d been promoting him since the 1970s. Nobody in China gave a shit about Trump until January 6th, 2017.
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 2 days ago:
Sure. But to say the American entrenchment around American tech companies is some kind of buffer to Chinese spying clearly hasn’t born out in practice. Americans have pockmarked their tech with security vulnerabilities and Chinese hackers have waltzed right through them. You aren’t safer from the CCP because you’re on American hardware. Just the opposite.
- Comment on aspirations 2 days ago:
They think they invented “random” humor
Do they? Most seem to know damned well that they got it from their parents / older siblings.
- Comment on aspirations 2 days ago:
Can’t believe a bunch of college freshmen would be into porn and masturbating. When I went to college it was totally different. We were all chaste as nuns and modest and church mice.
Oh whoa is society! The Youngs are ruining everything! Would that they behaved in the way I remember my generation doing it - diligent, virtuous, humble, and perfectly in every way.
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 2 days ago:
The argument - that goes back to the Bush “War on Terror” anti-China tech policy - is that any hardware produced outside the NATO sphere could leave domestic users vulnerable to foreign surveillance.
But scratch the surface of this critique and you find something very different. It’s the US technology that’s riddled with backdoors.
According to reports, the hack took advantage of systems built by ISPs like Verizon, AT&T, and Lumen Technologies (formerly CenturyLink) to give law enforcement and intelligence agencies access to the ISPs’ user data. This gave China unprecedented access to data related to U.S. government requests to these major telecommunications companies. It’s still unclear how much communication and internet traffic, and related to whom, Salt Typhoon accessed.
The problem with Chinese technology is that, in many cases, American surveillance companies haven’t penetrated it. A domestic market with Chinese phones and routers and other online gadgets riddles the Five Eyes Panopticon with blind spots.
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 2 days ago:
All the major telecoms are heavily exposed to the computer hardware market.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI splurge 2 days ago:
Sure, the majority aren’t seeing a payoff. But we only really care about the Magnificent Seven and their increased revenue from government contracts (particularly Pentagon and public-private surveillance deals).
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
Lol Volkswagen, the company that actively rigged diesel cars to pass the tests… ?
That’s the one. They’re run by absolute pieces of corporate shit, but they do still seem to recognize the market driven writing on the wall.
The German car manufacturers are hopelessly late at EV because they wanted to drain every last penny out of their ICE.
The pool in Europe is a lot shallower, especially in the wake of the Russia/Ukraine war. They don’t have the same access to cheap fossil fuels that the US enjoys, so they’re being forced to pivot to EVs entirely due to their regional limitations. They’re also competing internationally in a market with a growing Global South demand. Many of these countries are undergoing electrification far faster than they’re seeing a petrochemical expansion, in no small part thanks to the high installation costs of pipelines and processing plants relative to electric grids and renewables generation.
The Volkswagen id (EV) sales numbers are so disappointing they had to lower production and make employees stay home.
The entire EU economy has stalled out with the war. But they’ve seen a double-digit upswing in EV sales in Latin America, Africa, and the Pacific Rim.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
There’s definitely an element of reflexive “China Bad!” in these predictions of imminent collapse. But I do feel like I’m talking to a KHiver doing the High Hopes dance in late October 2024.
The irrationality of the China Hawks feels endless. This country is simultaneously about the launch a Third World War on every regional neighbor and mere weeks away from complete societal implosion.
The sentiment seems to parallel people predicting the end of the AI bubble, people predicting that Trump will keel over and die from Oldtimers in the next few days, and people insisting they’re holding a winning lottery ticket two days before the drawing. Just total divorce from material conditions.
- Comment on EU phase-out of high-risk tech targets Huawei, Chinese companies 2 days ago:
Don’t hold your breath on either one. The attempted phase out of Chinese electronics is its own self-imposed economic drag, especially as China’s semiconductor industry takes off while the western manufacturers are hobbled by their fixation on AI.
When CPU and RAM prices get high enough, you’re going to see some very lucrative black markets for sanctions evasion.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
Did you also know solar panels have a theoretical limit of 33%
Did you know fractions are predicated on a base value?
So really we’re talking about pennies on the dollar at the end of the day
That’s definitely an aphorism.
- Comment on DRAM shortage fuels fake GPU scams as China-based fraudsters exploit the supply crisis — RTX 4080 GPU sold at cut price was actually an RTX 3060 mobile chip with fake VRAM 2 days ago:
In one case, the graphics card in question was the Gigabyte GeForce RTX 4080 16GB Aero OC, a custom variant of the GeForce RTX 4080 that retailed for around $1,199 at launch. The seller claimed the graphics card was not functional and wanted to offload it for just $143.50 on Xianyu, a popular second-hand marketplace in China.
So this isn’t even an American retailer carrying bad cards? It’s a Chinese second-hand seller peddling admitted non-functional cards for refurbishment. I guess the general advice is good and knowing what to look out for is useful, but it feels niche.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
Australia’s economy has been in a tailspin precisely because China hasn’t been buying enough coal.
Fortunately, India has picked up the slack at the prodding of fossil fuel interests.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
Funny thing. Cloudy and rainy days tend to be windier than sunny days. So, with a bit of battery reserve or net metering, it all balances out.
- Comment on Trump Is Obsessed With Oil. But Chinese Batteries Will Soon Run the World 2 days ago:
however what then when there’s no sun out or it’s cloudy?
You’re not going to believe this, but solar panels will still work even when the light is reflected or partially blocked by clouds. Rain actually helps to keep your panels operating efficiently by washing away any dust or dirt. If you live in an area with a strong net metering policy, excess energy generated by your panels during sunny hours will offset energy that you use at night and other times when your system isn’t operating at full capacity.