HakFoo
@HakFoo@lemmy.sdf.org
- Comment on World’s 1st high-temperature superconducting tokamak built in China 1 week ago:
Source?
I’m more willing to forgive not getting Baizhu for the promise of unlimited cheap energy…
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 1 week ago:
I’m not there. You might try a forum like Audiokarma.
- Comment on Gateway 2000 Computer - Brand New - Free to a good home! 1 week ago:
Don’t toss the Technics reciever either.
- Comment on The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC 2 weeks ago:
I’m surprised nobody makes an affordable PCI or maybe even USB GPIO box.
To me, the RasPi served two purposes:
- if you wanted GPIOs and the associated ecosystem of hats/shields/capes/straightjackets but a less barebones experience than a bare metal MCU
- RiscOS, because an Archimedes is far rarer than even an Amiga or ST in the Rogue Colonies
- Comment on RISC-V adoption predicted to get AI boost — forecast shows 50% growth every year until 2030 for the open-standard ISA 5 weeks ago:
I think the appeal is that you probably don’t need a huge CPU for a lot of workloads-- just something to run an OS, handle talking to the outside world, and configure the GPU/NPU complexes.
I could imagine a something like a Quadro card that had a small RISC-V core built in as a freestanding device, no motherboard needed. Even if the CPU ran like a Core 2 Duo, that would be sufficient for purpose, but it will be a lot easier to license an appropriate RISC-V core than an x86 one.
- Comment on Says a lot about society 1 month ago:
No wonder DEC went broke. My VT220 didn’t come with any hunks crawling out of the screen Ringu style.
- Comment on we are in dire need of new memes to criticize marxist-leninists 1 month ago:
If they’re so awful, why do we need aggressive tarrifs to keep them off of American streets? I don’t think anyone was making people buy them over domestic alternatives…
(muffled sounds of discord)
WTF?! Xi Jinping himself busted down my front door, grabbed my debit card, and put down a deposit on a new BYD. And what’s worse, he picked one in that really insipid grey that you can never find in a parking lot.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Phones have unique phone numbers, why dont computers have unique computer-numbers? 1 month ago:
And before that, a bad firmware flash could garble the MAC.
- Comment on Ukraine unveils AI-generated foreign ministry spokesperson 1 month ago:
So next they’ll use AI-generated infantry?
- Comment on What anime do you like but are afraid/ashamed to admit it? 1 month ago:
Monster Musume. It’s far better than the premise would lead you to believe. Rachnera best girl, incidentally.
- Comment on Why people are boycotting Asus all of a sudden? Asus outrage explained 2 months ago:
I liked ASrock when they were in the ECS tier of quirky and weird. Got a Socket 939 board with the ULi M1695 chipset that was really nifty.
Then I had an awful experience with an AM3 board that claimed to run a FX-8350, until they edited their support list.
I grudgingly chose them for AM5 because it was $50 cheaper for the featured I wanted, and it’s been okay, aside from me breaking the x16 slot clip due to hamfistedly removing a shipping-container sized GPU.
- Comment on French Collection Society Wants A Tax On Generative AI, Payable To Collection Societies 2 months ago:
What’s sickening is that in some sense, this could be a way to solve a lot of legal hassles in one fell swoop. They get a predictable rate card, and then there’s a clearly defined legal window for generative-AI products, saving decades of fights in the courts.
But it won’t ever be that. The rights industry will never be satisfied, and it will just be the foot in the door to ever higher fees and restrictions. This is exactly the same fiasco as blank-media levies: they never fully evolved into a full “you paid once” sanction for free copying, so all it did was become a tax for a specific private beneficiary.
- Comment on Zilog Calls Time on the Venerable Z80, Discontinues the Standalone Z84C00 CPU Family 2 months ago:
The firm carrying the torch for thr 6502/65816 runs out of an office the size of a large house on a largely residential street in a suburb of Phoenix.
- Comment on [deleted] 2 months ago:
Putting on some asbestos knickers, I can see some merit in AI creation as a tool. Even if the machine can crank out pictures by the thousand, there’s still value in curation and selection, and that requires a different set of skills than drawing itself.
It might expand opportunities for people who avoided trying to express their creative desires visually because they lacked the talent. I can’t draw like (famous mangaka) given a blank page, but I can pick something out of a babbling machine feed that’s 90% what I want and finish it.
If it delivered on the marketing copy-- participate in stories and a community-- it could be an interesting take on the “play-by-email/forum RP/fanfic/collaborative writing” world, where it’s delivered more as a graphic novel style than text blocks.
But, definitely, I don’t expect this paeticular turkey to fly. Now, if someone fed an AI AO3 and DeviantArt, it could turbocharge the teenage fangirl industry.
- Comment on 12TB for $80 - serverpartdeals.com 2 months ago:
I have a similar one, different seller and possibly submodel, but also a refurb HGST 12T enterprise drive. It sounds like I left a soda on my desk most of the time, subtly popping and ticking.
- Comment on Unreleased preview of Microsoft’s OS/2 2.0 is a glimpse down a road not taken 3 months ago:
I used it in a necromanced college laptop… 486DX2 at 40MHz, no L2 cache, but admittedly 20Mb of RAM. It was slower to boot than DOS, but reasonably usable. By 3.0 they included half-decent pack-in software, while Windows still had just Write (not even Wordpad)
- Comment on James 3 months ago:
Classic sulcata assholery.
- Comment on [deleted] 3 months ago:
Or deliver the UBI as a basket of subsidized services and goods.
If, for example, we chose socialized medicine instead of a $5000/year UBI, a landlord can’t very well say “Your rent is going up 30 tablets of lisinopril this month.”
- Comment on o.O Make sure you hit accept. 3 months ago:
That’s potentially a viable attack route: register a billion dead accounts to fill up the database. Reaping them if they never complete an activation step like confirming a ToS or email verification would help protect the server.
- Comment on Rakuten launches cloud storage with unlimited file transfers, targets businesses and individuals, with free 10GB storage 4 months ago:
Oh, boy! As an American consumer, I’m even more perplexed what the hell they are.
Like 15 years ago, Rakuten seemed to be a normal ecommerce site. I think they bought buy.com or something to get a foothold in the US market. Then they pivoted to being some sort of cashback referral service.
I’m not really sure why that would lead customers to think “yeah, I want cloud storage from the people who made a weird janky digital simulation of the Piggly Wiggly Value Club Card!”
(AWS made it work because they could say “we have the infrastructure to host one of the busiest sites on earth, it’s good enough for you”, but Rakuten does not have that credibility in the US)
- Comment on What’s a “sovereign citizen “? 4 months ago:
Sovereign citizens are to civil lawyers as alchemists are to chemists.
They both invented their own lore to try to make the universe do what they want, except the alchemists actually strived to move towards more reliable and accurate science.
- Comment on 8 bit era but with 3.5" floppy drive? 5 months ago:
Some higher-end MSX machines had 3.5" drives as an option.
- Comment on Not even poor Notepad is safe from Microsoft's AI obsession 5 months ago:
The more I look at modern UIs, which seem to have decided the best way to use the metric crapload of screen space a modern PC has is with gratuitious whitespace, the more I like 1990s UIs.
- Comment on Plummeting interest rate 6 months ago:
As a Qiqi main, I support your life decisions.
People don’t even bother to ridicule me.
- Comment on Gonna need a few rewrites 6 months ago:
There’s a case to be made for dueling what is essentially a post-scarcity socialist Federation against the embodiment of capitalism-as-cult.
Conversely, the Borg are in a way aspirational-- growing and assimilating knowledge and improvements seems a bit higher of a goal, but their presentation comes off ham-fisted.
I feel like there’s a missing explanation of why “assimilating the diversity” of a civilization needs to be a total stripmine rather than taking a few (potentially willing) representatives and regularly coming back in case anything new evolved, like binge-watching a civilization every few years. The stripmining aspect seems necessary to make them recognizabily villianous-- the enemy of sacred individuality rather than just data hoarders whose homelabs turned into giant cubes.
It does feel like Latinum is very much a MacGuffin for undermining a huge amount of “we have virtually infinite free energy and can replicate anything we need” worldbuilding; they needed a way to make 24th century capitalism seem remotely plausible.
- Comment on Old RTX 3080 GPUs repurposed and modded for Chinese market as 20GB AI cards with blower-style cooling 6 months ago:
Aside from anything else, the cooler looks spiffy. Not an over-the-top RGB monstrosity, and it’s obviously designed to be compact.
- Comment on The only thing that matters 7 months ago:
Point completely taken, but they at least managed to provide some window-dressing that they were advancing the state of science and knowledge.
- Comment on The only thing that matters 7 months ago:
It feels like one of the few positive outcomes of the Cold War was the Sputnik shock.
The public and politicians suddenly got very worried about actual scientific competitiveness and winning a competitive race on something other than bombs.
I wish we’d have a similar moment when it came to China and infrastructure.
This is a country that was built by railroads. Even today, you can see the strings of towns spaced to the size of a steam locomotive’s water capacity. But what do we see from that legacy now? The Acela, an effort that would barely be competitive in the 1970s, on a minimal set of routes. Meanwhile, the Chinese are laughing from the windows of their 300kph trains.
(Yes, I’m aware that American freight rail is efficient and impressive, but somehow almost every other industrialized country has figured this one out)
- Comment on I'll have the, um... 7 months ago:
Not really. Their menu is just permutations of seven ingredients. So only finite diversity and combinations.