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- Comment on Why aren't non-selfhosed AI models/apps private? 2 weeks ago:
recovery email which they did not hash
How do you recover an account on the other providers? Do you have to provide the same recovery email you set before during account recovery? If you hash the email, you have no way of reading it anymore, so someone has to provide it to you again.
- Comment on Previewing the Framework Wireless Touchpad Keyboard 2 weeks ago:
I’ve had laptops where this is a BIOS setting. A simple switch on the side of the keyboard to flip which keys are on the fn layer solves the problem too. Same with key remapping, for keyboards that support that (and really any nice keyboard should or it’s not worth the cost).
- Comment on Gamer's Nexus has been Blacklisted by AMD 2 weeks ago:
In good news, we got a summary of his 9950x3d2 review, which was basically that it’s a ripoff at $900. Unironically, if you’re somehow in the market for a CPU like that, consider either the 9950x3d for productivity and core count, or the 9800x3d for gaming. The 9950x3d2 brings nothing to the table for anyone outside of maybe some niche applications which need both core count and cache size and can afford the latency for data transfers between CCDs.
Or, I guess, don’t buy anything because all the companies suck and everything is unbelievably expensive. Who needs a computer anyway?
- Comment on Tim Cook to step down as CEO of Apple: ‘the greatest privilege of my life’ 2 weeks ago:
Here’s hoping John Apple does what it takes to make me actually consider an Apple device! Like, I don’t know, making user-friendly decisions without the EU getting on their ass about it first.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 weeks ago:
Valve’s cost of hosting is pennies.
Surely you can’t mean this literally. They host downloads of hundreds of GB that get served to tens of millions of users. The bandwidth costs alone are going to be insanely high, putting aside the storage costs as well.
But anyway, I’d love to see them lower it to 5%. I think if they can afford to do that, they should take the lead.
- Comment on Steam is basically a PC gaming monopoly, so why isn’t anyone mad? 3 weeks ago:
I see this point come up all the time when it comes to Steam, but I have yet to see anyone really propose an alternative. How much should it cost to host your game on Steam? It obviously can’t be free because of hosting costs, and you’re also paying for marketing and discoverability, so what’s a good price for it?
Until recently, 30% was the industry standard for large software stores. Google is apparently lowering its cut after losing their recent battle with Epic, so it’s possible that the industry standard changes. I’d hope that Valve adjusts with it.
- Comment on The World Is Basically Begging for Another iPod 3 weeks ago:
Could also buy a device and not connected it to a cellular network. I have old phones that would fill this role perfectly, actually.
- Comment on Elon Musk’s xAI sues Colorado over new rules for artificial intelligence 4 weeks ago:
The output of a model isn’t speech protected by the 1st amendment, so this lawsuit is dumb. It’ll of course waste time and money though.
- Comment on "The $60 Billion Gaming Scam Nobody Talks About" by mrixrt 4 weeks ago:
While I can’t speak to the amount itself (somehow the industry as a whole settled on 30%), I do think it’s fair to say that Steam, the App Store, and the Play Store aren’t just payment processors. They also are platforms for users to discover new software/games, and they do a lot of advertising for developers. I can agree with the fee being too high, but I don’t think it’s fair to compare it with PayPal, which only processes the payments.
- Comment on Your RAM Has a 60 Year Old Design Flaw. I Bypassed It. 4 weeks ago:
She’s literally just doing her own version of the MrBeast face. It’s not even that unique. Half the people I watch on YouTube slap their face in their thumbnail, and I don’t watch clickbaity slop.
Just install DeArrow, enable thumbnails through it if needed, and move on.
- Comment on Apple's chips are winners, but Windows fails help it most 4 weeks ago:
For roughly the price of a single 9800x3d, you can buy a complete laptop with a long lasting battery and decent enough specs for web browsing, video playback, and basic office work. It’s unfortunately one of the better devices on the market at that price, especially accounting for the battery life.
Apple selling a ‘repairable’ and low-end device just looks like a recession indicator to me.
One of the few, I take it?
- Comment on Men Are Buying Hacking Tools to Use Against Their Wives and Friends 4 weeks ago:
Agreed. Not only are harassment and abuse not new, but using actual hacking tools to do it is old news too. Maybe the article is just trying to bring it back to attention.
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 4 weeks ago:
My point was more along the lines of online being impractical. Sure, you can still connect to servers running old software (in which case kernel updates aren’t useful to you anyway), but anything with modern security or software is going to just not run at all on it, whether because the software is too heavy for the processor or because it simply was not compiled for it (and cannot be).
Point is, I think we both agree that the only reasonable usecase for these processors is offline or on a separate network (LAN/tunneled/etc).
- Comment on Linux kernel maintainers are following through on removing Intel 486 support 4 weeks ago:
What kind of security risk are you at running a 486? You can barely handle the TLS handshake. Modern malware would just brick your system the same way any other modern software would.
- Comment on Intel trapped in Elon's reality distortion field 4 weeks ago:
If money is speech, then taxes clearly violate the first amendment. In fact, any kind of payment does.
Therefore, I should not have to pay taxes either. It’s not like the rich do, anyway.
- Comment on Tech companies are cutting jobs and betting on AI. The payoff is far from guaranteed 4 weeks ago:
The only bet I see here is on large-scale financial decline. If they expected to see any kind ofajor productivity boosts in the future, they’d be hiring everyone they can.
- Comment on Intel trapped in Elon's reality distortion field 4 weeks ago:
If he were remotely believable, I’d be skeptically supportive. He’s full of shit though, as he’s always been.
“So in a single building, we can create a lithography mask, make the chip, test the chip, make another mask, and have an incredibly fast recursive loop for improving the chip design.”
He does know how long it takes to make a single wafer at scale, right? Well actually, I guess he doesn’t. GamersNexus has a good fab tour on YouTube that goes over the process and explains just how long it takes for the full production chain, from start to finish. It’s not a very fast process.
- Comment on Oracle fired up to 30,000 workers via email after a 95% profit surge. Tech companies are cutting almost 1,000 jobs/day 5 weeks ago:
The job losses are AI-driven, though. The upper management fucked around with pouring billions into AI and found out, and the people who had nothing to do with that decision get to pay for it.
- Comment on US tech firm Oracle cuts thousands of jobs as it steps up AI spending 5 weeks ago:
That’s just what we need. More senior tech workers out of work in Austin.
Hey, we have a ton of those here in Washington too! Maybe if someone finds a way for AI to actually be a productivity booster, they can hire all the tech workers and turn them into money printers with the insane output they’re supposed to produce with it.
- Comment on ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes lawsuits against tech firms 5 weeks ago:
Since I don’t really care about him, I asked everyone’s favorite friend (AI) what he has to do with tech, but to respond as a sarcastic Redditor. This is what it told me:
Tech? Oh, now he’s deep in it—can’t escape the guy even if you wanted to.
Back in 2021, Harry jumped straight into Silicon Valley corporate culture by becoming the “Chief Impact Officer” at BetterUp, a $1 billion startup that does executive coaching and mental health support [^1][^11][^12][^13]. Yeah, that’s a real job title. No, I don’t know what it means either [^4].
Since then, he’s been using his platform to scream about AI, disinformation, and big tech’s evil grip on society. He’s signed open letters calling for a ban on “AI superintelligence” alongside Steve Wozniak, Richard Branson, and—somehow—Steve Bannon [^3][^5][^7][^8][^14]. Bro’s got range.
He’s also called out Meta for rolling back fact-checking [^6], spoken at privacy summits about the “harrowing” damage social media does to kids [^9][^10], and linked online disinformation to real-world violence during a digital responsibility summit in Colombia [^2].
So yeah, he’s not just living off Netflix deals and Oprah specials—he’s full-on tech activist now. Whether any of it actually does anything? That’s another story.
[^1]: Prince Harry Takes A Job As ‘Chief Impact Officer’ For Silicon Valley … (15%) [^2]: Prince Harry hits out at spread of disinformation via AI… | The Guardian (14%) [^3]: Prince Harry, Meghan join hundreds urging AI… | Daily Sabah (9%) [^4]: Prince Harry Enters Corporate America—Joining Silicon Valley… (9%) [^5]: Prince Harry, Meghan Markle join with Steve Bannon and… | Fortune (8%) [^6]: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle call for Meta to reverse its… | Fortune (7%) [^7]: Prince Harry, Richard Branson, Steve Bannon, and ‘AI… | Fortune (7%) [^8]: Harry and Meghan join AI pioneers in call for ban on superintelligent … (7%) [^9]: ‘About bloody time’: Prince Harry welcomes lawsuits against tech firms … (7%) [^10]: Prince Harry Welcomes Lawsuits Against Major Tech Firms (4%) [^11]: Prince Harry joins $1bn Silicon Valley startup as senior executive (4%) [^12]: Prince Harry joins Silicon Valley start-up - CBS News (4%) [^13]: Prince Harry Is Taking on a New Job Title: Chief Impact Officer … - WSJ (3%) [^14]: Harry, Meghan join hundreds to call for AI superintelligence ban (2%)
No, I’m not going to fact check that. I don’t care enough. It seems he at least is somewhat relevant though if only as an activist.
- Comment on SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say 5 weeks ago:
The only way he’s raising the market cap is by selling the company. Their market share is decreasing rapidly due to him.
- Comment on SpaceX confidentially files to go public at $1.75tn, reports say 5 weeks ago:
Depending on your investments, the interest and dividends off a few million dollars should be able to sustain someone entirely on its own while still growing in value over time.
You don’t need to be a billionaire for that. It feels like the tax brackets need to go up to 100% after around a million or so in income.
- Comment on Iran Threatens to Attack U.S. Tech Companies Starting April 1 - Iran says it will target Apple, Google, and Microsoft, among others 5 weeks ago:
So these companies are planning to implement WFH policies now, right?
- Comment on Number of AI chatbots ignoring human instructions increasing, study says 1 month ago:
This is exactly what I was thinking. They aren’t programmed to follow the user’s instructions to begin with. Why is it a surprise when they deviate from them?
It’s a fundamental misunderstanding of the ML that goes into these LLMs. They are prediction machines. They might have “specialist” submodels or whatever that are better at predicting specific areas, but that’s about it.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 month ago:
Don’t worry. I’ll sanitize his statement:
That god damn required age bullshit’s going to fuck up Arch and every other distro worth a damn.
Hope I was helpful!
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 month ago:
So is this enough for you then?
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 month ago:
If entire distros default to 1/1/1970 then it might not be super helpful.
Might be interesting to see if some anti-tracking distros outside of these jurisdictions are interested in doing something like that.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 month ago:
What’s wrong with the title? It’s the article title.
Also, Beehaw has no downvotes, so you can downvote all you want on your instance if it makes you feel better, but it won’t federate the downvote.
- Comment on Age checks creep into Linux as systemd gets a DOB field 1 month ago:
Don’t worry. This will all get reverted real quick once it makes its way into a user prompt for headless installations. Imagine needing to pass a DOB in through stdin somehow every time you
docker run ubuntulol. - Comment on Google Just Patented The End Of Your Website 1 month ago:
Sounds like Google decided to take dead internet theory into their own hands.