MalReynolds
@MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 11 hours ago:
Over my cold, dead hands. Fuck you and your shitty worldview,
- Comment on Ad blocking is alive and well, despite Chrome's attempts to make it harder 16 hours ago:
Better be. Also, fuck chrome.
- Comment on Unsealed Court Documents Show Teen Addiction Was Big Tech's "Top Priority" 1 day ago:
Yah, their fallacy is false dichotomy.
- Comment on Addicted to the algorithm: New research exposes how Big Tech lobbies to keep us hooked on social media 1 day ago:
Tobacco industry take two.
Yay! Capitalism!
- Comment on Australia said to grant US access to Australians’ biometric data 2 days ago:
stopping terrorism
More like I’ll spy on your people, you spy on mine (which is illegal / unpopular), swapsies.
- Comment on CEO of Palantir Says AI Means You’ll Have to Work With Your Hands Like a Peasant 2 days ago:
First against the wall.
- Comment on LG joins Sony and TCL in abandoning 8K TV market 2 days ago:
And it’s also insanely expensive to get the proper hardware to drive it at full resolution.
The shame being 8K (as 2x4K or even more) is awesome for VR headsets, but the only things capable of really driving them are stupidly expensive (thanks NVIDIA) or dual card setups (thanks Mobo producers for making that bad, and CPU manufacturers who insist consumers only need 20-24 PCIe lanes to artificially segment the market, sigh).
- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
How about 5000 $200 books written by their own AI (preferably for free, cheapest printing in existence) ?
- Comment on Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company 3 days ago:
TLDW: cooling’s fine if you use starlink V2 size and power (which is not very suitable for AI ‘datacentre’ use) because it works already.
This is not about a few huge datacentres, it’s about a million small ones. There’s 99 problems with this (see Kessler syndrome !, radiation, …), cooling isn’t (much of) one.
Doesn’t matter anyway, it just has to be vaguely plausible for a stock IPO pump (and dump) scheme while sweeping all that xAI debt under the rug.
- Comment on SpaceX is seeking FCC approval to launch 1M satellites into space; SpaceX claims the fleet will orbit the Earth and use the sun to power AI data centers 6 days ago:
Not a few huge datacentres, a million small ones ~ starlink v2 size and power, mostly solved. There’s 99 problems with this (see Kessler syndrome, radiation, …), cooling isn’t (much of) one.
- Comment on Meta's latest subscription move is an attempt to offset its AI bets 1 week ago:
Why the fuck
did they ever ?
(trust Zuck, “dumb fucks”)
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
Yup, my comment wasn’t about your good math, it was about my low expectations of the source :)
- Comment on TikTok uninstalls are up 150% following U.S. joint venture 1 week ago:
Assuming cnbc clickbait headlines can math of course. Bold assumption.
- Comment on This New Android Smartphone Is For Everyone Who Misses the Blackberry 1 week ago:
Wake me when there’s a slider.
Lengthwise, with a smaller screen (actually this is 4", that’s one box ticked, prefer 5" tho), and a bigger battery, and an open OS, and sd card expansion, basically an anti-todays-phone I guess…
- Comment on Huang declares Israel Nvidia’s “second home” with record-breaking campus investment 1 week ago:
The chips are made in Taiwan (TSMC), this is likely for chip designers, (and marketers and executives and sundry other hangers on of little worth), water is irrelevant. Evil on the other hand…
- Comment on Meta’s Reality Labs cuts sparked fears of a ‘VR winter’ 1 week ago:
Getting Meta’s walled garden fingers out of the VR pie can only be a good thing, perhaps long term, but given Steam Frame incoming, probably not.
- Comment on r/Silksong joins lemmy! (And a new lemmy instance) 1 week ago:
Bot to worry, plenty of room for two, remind 'em to cross-post though.
- Comment on Google won’t stop replacing our news headlines with terrible AI | It now says AI headlines are a ‘feature,’ not an experiment. 1 week ago:
Check out soulseek, next gen napster with FLAC…nicotine is a good client (use a VPN obvs)
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
amount of gas in an AC system is insignificant compared to the CO2 generated just making the AC system in the first place.
Let alone running the damn thing (on fossil fuel electricity).
- Comment on US | Trump withdraws Canada's invite to join Board of Peace 2 weeks ago:
Well done Canada!
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
Ye canna change the laws of physics, Capkin.
- Comment on A new cooling technology freezes food without warming the climate 2 weeks ago:
How do you separate it?
Fractional distillation of liquid air I believe (like separating petrol and diesel).
- Comment on Android won't kill sideloading after all, but new verification rules will make it harder 2 weeks ago:
Credit card in your phone case, use your banks’ website, 95+% of people right there.
- Comment on Ebike ‘swarms’ descend on roads and parks across Australia as meet-ups gather pace 2 weeks ago:
require pedaling and are top speed limited to 25km/hr.
Those aren’t the ones that are at issue, it’s the (already illegal, no need for new legislation, just enforcement, but gov gotta be seen doing something (performative)) 40+km/hr thumb accelerator jobbies that are the risk, and yes they should be considered motorbikes (or mopeds depending) and are legally already (but usually don’t meet safety standards).
TLDR: Just enforce the laws in place.
- Comment on Micron Says AI-Driven Memory Crunch is ‘Unprecedented’ 2 weeks ago:
You’re not wrong, but when/if (joyously, apparently, often it’s more profitable to destroy things for the tax break than to sell them) a significant surplus appears, adapters or new motherboards will appear fairly soon. Even things like H200s can probably be made into co-processors (hopefully running at a sane wattage for home users), as u/tal says there’s already ways to integrate into the linux kernel as (very fast) RAM, I doubt the compute will be left on the table for long.
H200 PCIe5 x 16 card anyone?
- Comment on Some hacker in thigh-high striped socks should take one for the team and release the Epstein Files 2 weeks ago:
Tut, decent hacker shouldn’t need to take one, how about they get off scot free because no one knows who they are.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
historical context Luddite
means the actual Luddite movement, not luddite the word as used today, there’s a bit more nuance there. Go on, read the wiki…
- Comment on New study shows Alzheimer’s disease can be reversed to achieve full neurological recovery—not just prevented or slowed—in animal models 3 weeks ago:
Which don’t get Alzheimer’s. Mice lie, monkeys exaggerate.
That said, this study is cause for cautious optimism. The mechanism they’ve targeted cleared symptoms in 'two of these mouse models: One carried multiple human mutations in amyloid processing; the other carried a human mutation in the tau protein. ’ Mosreso, it does it by modulating NAD+, long a target of interest in AD. From the paper
Nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD+) homeostasis is central to cellular resilience against oxidative stress, DNA damage, neuroinflammation, blood-brain barrier (BBB) deterioration, impaired hippocampal neurogenesis, synaptic plasticity deficits, and neurodegeneration.
As such it is not only of interest to sufferers of AD but the aging population in general.
- Comment on 3 weeks ago:
A historical context Luddite would probably be destroying datacentres presently, we might have a thing or two to learn from them.
- Comment on Australia should reconsider alliance with ‘fiercely unpredictable’ US, former foreign ministers say 3 weeks ago:
Narrator : But they didn’t.
(or maybe there was a significant shift to Greens)
I just hope we finally say no when Trump tries to drag us into a war.