HakFoo

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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  But it does do the force-a-Microsoft-account thing that doesn’t work without a network.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My friend is buying a new PC and he is deciding between air cooler and AIO, which should be get?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I have a 7900X3D and the Peerless Assassin 120 worked well. I swapped for a Zalman CNPS20X because you could get it for next to nothing at the time; it’s not much better (the RGB fans look neat but it’s so big it doesn’t fit well in some cases and the fans are prone to chattering noises at specific speeds)

  The benefit I can imagine for an AIO is that it reduces cramping around the CPU, so you can essily release RAM or the GPU slot clip. But I suspect VRM cooling suffers; some vendors made an add-on fan to compensare IIRC.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Report: Microsoft quietly kills official way to activate Windows 11/10 without internet⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Even with the internet “available” you can get in chicken-egg scenarios like “the network card is not supported on the OS disc, and it won’t let me complete the OS installer so I can install the driver from external media later.”

  Even Windows 10 got pretty testy about that in late releases.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Grindr CEO Says App Will Be “AI-First” and “Not in the Business of Politics”⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It smells more like Facebook than Steam to me. they can print money for now because they have established scale and customer base, but it feels a bit slimy to where it might not be that appealing to new users. Dating services in general have a bad vibe-- bot problems, low quality matches, dark patterns, so authenticity is a big selling point, something AI drives a huge stake into.

  I’d expect that thr gay community, after decades of being a target for abuse, tends to be a bit more sensitive of red flags and looking for truly safe spaces. The Facebook comparison breaks down there, as it has 700 million Aunt Martha users whose most politically sensitive post is in defence of Miracle Whip on salads.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨SODIMM-to-DIMM adapters offer a workaround for DDR5 price hikes⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the next generation of memory will only have a SO-DIMM pinout so they don’t have to split limited supply. Maybe larger “desktop or highend laptop” modules will be physically longer like 2230/2280/22110 SSDs

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft Edge Pushes an "All in One Browser" Message on Chrome’s Download Page⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft was probably the only firm with the resources to keep a Chromium fork current while uneinding Google’s enshittifications. But their incentives are too similar for that.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨posting an actual shitpost each day till I stop seeing regular news posts here #1⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Giant isopods. Thry’re the big, ocean dwelling version of the little segmented crustaceans you find under rotten wood who ball up for defence.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Judge hints Vizio TV buyers may have rights to source code licensed under GPL— Tentative ruling signals a potential win for SFC’s copyleft enforcement push⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ll say one word: WRT54G.

  You put the hackers in control and otherwise mediocre hardware can become iconic and shape the future of your brand. (It’s funny that you now see the second-gen “looks like a low-poly WRT54G” routers in thrift shops due to wi-fi churn)

  OTOH will it be harder with video, if every third party integration is demanding DRM blobs, than with RF which is justjust a federal offense if misused?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Remain Klingon!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  What’s interesting is that we sort of have a counterpoint already with The Orville’s Moclans, who have interpreted their warrior culture fixation as mandating force-transition to suppress females. This results in an interesting cameo by Dolly Parton playing her own hologram. The Klingons are at least more progressive there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨They're watching you.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  He’s so cute! He can monitor me any day!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Major Bitcoin mining firm pivoting to AI, plans to fully abandon crypto mining by 2027 as miners convert to AI en masse — Bitfarm to leverage 341 megawatt capacity for AI following $46 million Q3 loss⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Aren’t most miners running ASICs that are pretty much only useful for mining specific coins? I was hoping we were past the last “people are buying off-the-shelves GPUs for crypto” bubble.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What’s something society normalizes that you quietly disagree with?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Let’s require far less training to put a 16-year-old at the helm of three tonnes of Detroit Death Machine than you need to cut hair commercially.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The bourgeoisie could technically unintentionally end capitalism...⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The Orville has a great take on it too.

  There’s an episode where they bring in someone from a scarcity-era planet and she’s freaking out about how they have replicators and future medical tech, and the crew explains to her that if the technology were airdropped on her world, thry wouldn’t be socially ready for it and it would just become a means of further stratification.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Gran Turismo 2 Beige Edition: Teaser Trailer⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I see a Roadmaster wagon. To the used-games store!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨You mean there's a better way‽⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It can’t be a real “as seen on TV” product because they didn’t use the phrase “in the palm of your hand”.

  One day they’ll need to sell a larger product and be forced to hire actors with freakishly gigantic hands.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨m2 to sata adaptor board suggestions?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Some mainboards have very few PCI-e slots.

  I ended up with a similar adapter because the onboard SATA on my board was flaky with optical drives and I rip CDs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How Many Phones Sport a 5 and 1/4 Diskette Drive? This One.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  A Greaseweazle mihht be another angle; you could image discs at lest.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI Startup Flock Thinks It Can Eliminate All Crime In America⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I want to see the camera that will stop white-collar crime.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m surprised there isn’t more of a crowdsourced solution-- community maintained block/allow lists and pluggable tools.

  Part of the reason filters suck right now is that they’re sold to turboprudes and people pushing compliance solutions that will placate litigious turboprudes. So you get blocking all of Wikipedia and .edu/.gov because three pages have an anatomical diagram of a breast. The kids are frustrated, normal parents have to keep unblocking legit stuff, and nobody wins.

  If you could pick from easily managed lists sponsored by groups you personally trusted, with responsive appeals systems, people might be more willing to use them.

  The ad-blocker ecosystem has a lot of precedent for how to work this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Age Verification Is A Windfall for Big Tech—And A Death Sentence For Smaller Platforms⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  We need to reframe the discussion from “it’s for the children” to “it’s for lazy parents”.

  People are keen to scapegoat parents, and here it’s the truth. They don’t want to use existing opt-in controls, or put the damn computer where they can keep an eye on Little Timmy while he uses it. Make the entirery of the legal system do it for you!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨HDMI⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s clearly DisplayPort.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Taco Bell Says 'No Más' to AI Drive-Thru Experiment⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a remarkable entitlement.

  Let’s say I’ve never dealt with your restaurant before. Why would I start my relationship with you by installing your lowest-bid spyware on my personal device? You have yet to even convince me I’ll ever want a Quesachalupa Wrap Crunch Bellgrande (the same as “taco, add tomatoes”, but $3.72 more) again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Trying to repair an SA610 Pioneer amp⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How do you know it’s shorted? Does the protection relay click?

  If you can find the service manual you could try looking at various checkpoints in the circuit to see where the voltages go wrong.

  You might try Audiokarma, they’ve got a very deep knowledge pool for this stuff.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Techcrunch reports that AI coding tools have "very negative" gross margins. They're losing money on every user.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d suspect the low “density” of context makes it prone to hallucinations. You need to load in 3000 lines to express what Python does in 3, so there’s a lot of chances to guess the next token wtong.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s a quick way to say that the emperor still has no clothes.

  We’re boiling the oceans to train the models, and these are well-publicised failure modes. If they haven’t fixed it, it seems to suggest they CAN’T fix it with the tools and architecture they have. So what other problems is it whiffing on that aren’t trivially checkable?

  If marketing boxed in the product and said “it does these ten things well”, we might be willing to forgive limitations when we leave its wheelhouse. Nobody kvetches that Microsoft Word is an awful IDE, after all. But that would require a retreat from a public that’s been promised Lt. Cmdr. Data in your pocket, and investors that have priced it as such.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The other satellite players (Hughesnet, Viasat), the fixed 5G boxes (although places sufficiently rural to seriously consider dialup may not have 5G), probably some smaller boutique dialup ISPs.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Political Views⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  How about pseudoscorpions? One landed on my arm a few weeks ago (probably fell out of the AC ducts) and it was charmingly silly proportioned for a tiny little thing waving pincers.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨My latest hyperfixation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The 487 was just a full 486DX with a pin that told the motherboard to deactivate the soldered-on 486SX.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨heaven⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know that Grok went Nazi but Gemini going fundie wasn’t on my bingo card.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Human civilization won't last forever; someday there will be a last movie ever made⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  And the reanimated corpses of lawyers will rise if that squid looks too much like Minnie Mouse.