rastilin
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- Comment on The dirty little secret that keeps Australian housing wildly unaffordable 11 months ago:
I didn't read the article yet and this is basically what I expected. Hardly a secret, and a fairly good summary. The economy is going to downturn anyway because people just can't afford the new housing. For a two bedroom anywhere with people, it's 650,000 and up. At that point you have to be married to someone who also works full time to have any reasonable chance of being able to afford the mortgage. At the average interest rate of 6% you're paying $4,100 per month, which is about the average pre-tax income (~$54,000 per year, so ~$1038 per week). Of course, that leaves very little wiggle room to save, and if either of you were to lose your jobs or the interest rate goes up, you'd probably default.
- Comment on OpenAI investors' race to reinstate Sam Altman makes tech expert Gary Marcus feel 'sick to his stomach' 11 months ago:
I remember Yudowski being a thing like a decade ago, and people were making fun of his "AI" research even then. It's scary to realize that not only did some people take him seriously, but those people are at the helm of AI companies and making decisions affecting tens of billions of investment capital. I think there was a quote by Kurt Vonnegut that "true horror is waking up one morning and realizing your high school class is running the country".
For the other poster lower down, I'd almost successfully forgotten about his Harry Potter fanfiction, people kept praising it so I actually read through a bit of it, it's painful reading. He also wrote a Superman fanfiction and that's even worse. I think they both say a lot about his internal mental state and his perception of other people though.
- Comment on Unity CEO John Riccitiello is retiring, effective immediately 1 year ago:
Maybe, but I'm betting that the CEO who floated the idea that FPS players would be willing to pay per-reload didn't push back too hard against the board's ideas.
- Comment on Improved dGPU performance on Windows 11 laptops (CASO) 1 year ago:
Possibly. It also suggest you'd get all these benefits by just disabling one of the GPUs, because unless battery life is a concern for your gaming laptop the difference in power draw on the desktop will be fairly minor.
- Comment on Improved dGPU performance on Windows 11 laptops (CASO) 1 year ago:
This actually sounds like a really cool feature.
- Comment on Huawei launches Nearlink, a better than bluetooth competitor. The us won't benefit from it for now 1 year ago:
I've never had a bluetooth device that worked well and connected reliably.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
Absolutely. The security argument is used so often I'm surprised people aren't more cynical about it.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
They're not offsetting anything, they still charge money for the boxed copy sold in stores. This is pure profit for them.
- Comment on How to Actually Clean Install Windows 11 1 year ago:
I think they'll go even harder, making Windows only run stuff purchased through the Windows Store so they can completely lock in the market.
- Comment on Google quietly raised ad prices to boost search revenue, says executive 1 year ago:
Harsh but true. I also need to sell stuff to people, and I hate ads, I realize that other people hate ads too and that in fact ads generally suck. The solution is word of mouth advertising, not ever-more-intricate tools. The real truth is that what the ad companies are selling is the idea that ads are actually cost efficient and worthwhile, and the gullible customers are actually the advertisers, not the people who they're trying to flog stuff to.
- Comment on What is your contingency for when the ISP goes down? 1 year ago:
In some places you can get a home internet line that runs through the mobile phone data network, and they tend to be more reliable than cabled connections, they can get even better if they use a modem data plan and not explicitly a home bulk plan. It really hinges on how much data you use and what plans are available where you are. Of course if you do it this way you won't have a private IPV4, but if your ISP allows IPV6, that should be unique and directly accessible no matter what.
As the other poster mentioned there are routers that have a SIM connection as backup, and now they're being offered with a SIM and automatic fail-over as part of some fiber to the home plans.
- Comment on Chinese hackers have unleashed a never-before-seen Linux backdoor 1 year ago:
I think the fundamental protection is always going to be the firewall that blocks all incoming connections unless you explicitly open a port for a running server.
It's frustrating that the article doesn't have much information about the delivery method for this attack. Is it a remote connection, or you have to run it locally and it escalates privileges?
- Comment on Unity apologises. 1 year ago:
Anyone who still uses Unity for their new projects after this would have to be completely stupid. Of course they'll jack up the pricing again as soon as they can.
- Comment on Experts Fear Crooks are Cracking Keys Stolen in LastPass Breach 1 year ago:
Apparently very few people, somehow. Because the internet was filled with people explaining how it was actually much safer than writing them down in a book because "what if someone goes through your desk?". I'm told it's much safer to entrust your passwords to a third party over the internet.
- Comment on Japanese Newspaper Gigazine goes over the slow decline of technological freedom up to today. 1 year ago:
We can only hope. The Steamdeck is definitely making huge strides in Linux market penetration. I'm worried that companies like Microsoft and Google will be able to force their way through sheer inertia and apathy and forced updates.
- Comment on Japanese Newspaper Gigazine goes over the slow decline of technological freedom up to today. 1 year ago:
The mandatory DRM checks I think are 100% going to happen and I think that's the reason behind the TPM requirement for Windows 11. A completely secure bios->os chain is needed to completely lock out stuff like VLC.
- Comment on The absolute state of housing in Australia at the minute - rent a caravan in a driveway in a semi-rural locality, only $200/week! 1 year ago:
They may not be dreaming. Rent elsewhere can easily be $450 per week.
- Comment on OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. 1 year ago:
In this instance they're not even taking copyrighted content. I don't think random forum posts are copyrightable since they're not even being reproduced, it's just being read to create a derivative work.
- Comment on OpenAI finally admitted they're crawling the web to profit off of GPT. Block it from your sites using robots.txt. 1 year ago:
Yeah, I don't really care what they harvest either. I suppose if conversations showed up in chat that would be an issue, but the internet is a public forum anyway and there's no expectation of privacy here.