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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insider trading, but make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Social Media is its own beast, but there people can talk shit near anonymous, talk is cheap… With these betting sites, people are putting money in front, which people don’t do without some inside info.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Insider trading, but make it worse⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  This is huge opsec issue from now on. Basically you can start seeing military operations before they happen.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There is every OS released in last 40 years running in these air-gapped OT networks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  They killed it on enterprise too, we have not been able to activate in half a year, the phone number just stopped working…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft kills official way to activate windows without internet⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  There are offline environments that cannot do it online, this is bullshit. Working with critical infrastructure in OT networks, Microsoft is basically saying that Windows should not be used anymore in those.

  Problem is that OT is full of legacy shit, so switching to Linux is more easily said than done.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Music is music⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  No one mentioned Lorna Shore - Pain Remains, wtf? Especially the music video brings me to tears.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Google Deploying Huge CO2 Battery Facilities with Company Energy Dome⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  I work in electricity and heat production, to me this sounds mainly green washing. Why use CO2 and plain pressure?

  Storing this magical 200MWh, would require stupid amount of volume and pressure. We have better gasses, and hundreds of years on knowledge in heat pump tech with better efficiencies.

  To my ear it sounds that they just picked CO2 for news articles/investors, not for science reasons.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨same shit every day, on god⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  All large cities in Finland are heated by combined heat and power (CHP) power plants.

  These power plants first make super heated steam (like 800°C, 1500°F), runs that through turbine to make electricity, then send the cooled down water (80-150°C, 170°F-300°F) to all homes through district heating grid.

  From that water the home is heated and hot water is used.

  Now that we have the district heating network, when electricity is cheap, we can also use electricity to boil the water and send it through the grid.

  Smaller cities use just heat plants, were there is no turbine for electricity generation, just the heating of water to district heating grid.

  Most plants use biomass as power source in the power plants, historically they were coal, but it has been now almost completely phased out.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  The problem is that it can only be speculated how they work, because they have not published it. That is quite suspicious in my book.

  I personally would avoid reolink and use rtsp + frigate + ha, to have full control with known open source selfhosting solution.

  I understand that people like the easy setup, but if you already do selfhosting, it isn’t that big jump.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cams, anyone?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Be careful with reolink, their P2P solution is pretty suspicious. No body really knows how it works and who it shares the data with.

  You can disable those features, but it will stop reolink app from working. For the app to work, it needs to push this information to their cloud storage.

  Better to selfhost frigate and just rtsp cameras there.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨How could AI be better than an encyclopedia?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Google is so shit nowadays, it’s main purpose is to sell you things, not to actually retrieve the things you ask.

  Mainly you see this with coding related questions, they were much better 5 years ago. Now only way to get results is to ask LLM and hope it doesn’t hallusinate some library that doesn’t exist.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mommy, Why is There a Server in the House?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I must admit, my home server runs hyper-v, it is free and I have MSDN. Of course inside the hyper-v I run ten linux boxes.

  Proxmox really didn’t exists before and I didn’t want to use VMware.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Solar panels in space could cut Europe's renewable energy needs by 80%⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Deathray!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨i just think they're neat⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There could be some sense figuring first out using plant as water bottle. Old saying is that human survives few minutes without oxygen, few days without water and few weeks without food. Water > Food, and as hunter gatherer, food is around you (berries, roots, game) and you can carry them with you. Drinking water is more scarce and it’s storage is not so easy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Did you miss that open ai released the oss model few days prior to gpt5?

  Larger model: huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-120b Smaller model: huggingface.co/openai/gpt-oss-20b

  They seem to be quite good

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Using a bad translation/transcript as base for professional translator is still better than nothing. Like I said, translators are still going to be needed, but lots of the heavy manual work can be now automated.

  Also often when very domain specific language is used, the translation made by human can be bad, because they don’t know the proper terms. Of course good professional translators will ask these. It is also something that must be done with these dummy LLM models, you cannot just throw text into it and expect good results.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Elon Musk seeks to sell power to UK households within months⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No no, he announced that we will be on Mars at 2022 originally. He is now promising 2030. He is vaporware sales man where future is always next year.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Stunning new data reveals 140% layoff spike in July, with almost half connected to AI and 'technological updates'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That is probably true in many case, buy to be fair there are some jobs that have had huge impacts due to LLM’s, like translation.

  These jobs have been changing quite a lot before this AI bubble mainly because advances in speech-to-text, but I see the LLM’s as final step. The translator need doesn’t fully disappear, but the workflow changes quite drastically and some labor heavy parts are going away.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Southern USA core.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Both can be true! (Being siblings and cousins at the same time, requires bit of inbreeding ofc)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Internet Was Like in 1998⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Ah, just <table> layout, not this <div> css nonsense. Having rounded corners as images on a table, perfection.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 has finally overtaken Windows 10 as the most used desktop OS⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  No Internet Explorer

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨We need to stop pretending AI is intelligent⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Calling these new LLM’s just if statements is quite a over simplification. These are technically something that has not existed before, they do enable use cases that previously were impossible to implement.

  This is far from General Intelligence, but there are solutions now to few coding issues that were near impossible 5 years ago

  5 years ago I would have laughed in your face if you came to suggest that can you code a code that summarizes this description that was inputed by user.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  EV6 is probably the best in tech, like the 800V system.

  Have you had the issue with iccu? They are unfortunately quite common, friend of mine had it. They will fully fix it, but it takes up to month to fix because they don’t have spare parts.

  I have Seat Mii, and I also think it is best car purchase that I have ever made

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All those are unfortunately so expensive here that I can only dream

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Only heard good things about them, but aren’t they few generation’s old no w. Not that next gen is always better, but EV’s have gone quite big generational steps.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I currently drive Seat Mii, which is good small EV for city, but for long ranges VW and BMW are behind. Audi’s EV have been disasters. Cupras look good, but because I already have small EV, it doesn’t fit my use case

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Tesla's European car sales nosedive for fifth month as customers switch to Chinese EVs⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Currently only proper options for EV is either Tesla, Korean EV’s (KIA, Hyundai) or Chinese. European and japanese EV’s are imo shit at the moment. Teslas I will avoid like plague, due to Nazis. KIA’s and Hyundai’s are so hard to get, so I am really considering getting BYD, Polestar or XPeng.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨'I've been turned into an AI train announcer - and no one told me'⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t think this is particularly AI issue, more like corporate greed issue. Some company have fooled her to write contract that allows them to use her audio recordings to do this without her. This happens in many different industries.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Good boy⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, he is one of the doge kids

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI CEO – Replace Your Boss Before They Replace You⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  If you generate CEO through this service, there is info button that states: “Does not actually use AI, powered by the souls of interns.” So this is probably ethical enough to replace the CEO