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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Don’t you lie to me⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  1 bit

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one could have seen this coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  How about lowering prices?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨No one could have seen this coming⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  So you’re one of those “just get a job” idiots…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Musk: Many British people are living in lovely small towns. They are just like Hobbits. Until one day, people show up and start raping their kids⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  He actually knows a lot about this. He’s an expert in child raping. He’s also friends with a bunch of notorious pedophiles, who are also experts in the matter.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Protect consumers my ass! 🤦🏻😡⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is disingenious.

  First of all, IP can’t be stolen. In order for something to be stolen, it needs to be taken from you, and you need to be left with nothing. Your TV can be stolen. A copy of something you made is a copy, and you still have the original. You’re not left with nothing.

  Second, AI companies are using your IP to train their AIs, which they then sell and make huge profits, both by selling it back to you and by trying to replace you with it. That is, imo, the worst part about them. Pirating something without any intention to profit from it is not comparable to what AI companies are doing, by far.

  Third, this is about football. It’s already stupid that a company can hold IP rights over a sport event. They’re not even the players who actually “create” the content.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  The markdown specification recommends using asterisks specifically for that. It is not exactly intended, but left to the interpreter. Most markdown interpreters leave the underscores intact if they’re inside a word.

  https://www.markdownguide.org/basic-syntax/#italic-best-practices

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's just defending her country⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  No, you don’t get paid. Big yahu pays his chatgpt subscription so you can exist. It’s a different thing.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨She's just defending her country⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Hasbara bot is back at it again. Big yahu is impressed with your service.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  No, it wasn’t your average telemetry (although I’m sure they could also find a person only with the massive telemetry footprint they get). It was a specific device ID unique to every computer, that Windows pings to Microsoft every once in a while. So, as long as you’re using Windows, Microsoft can still follow you through your VPN without needing to delve into the telemetry data. I’m sure they make a very responsible use of that feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I do, but even though it’s unfair and certainly making things worse, Europe also has a long ways to go, and a big margin to offset. We can acknowledge that the US is hurting the entire world with their climate policies, but we can also do our best to reduce our pollution. At the end of the day, it will be better if just the US pollutes, than if both the US and Europe do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What can be done to prevent more dangerous heatwaves in Europe?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Carbon capture technology was always some kind of excuse that execs had to pollute today because we could theoretically fix it in the future.

  Despite some technology that works to remove carbon from the atmosphere, it’s just not viable. We output so much CO2 to the atmosphere that we just have no capacity to even build enough carbon capture facilities to reach net zero, and that’s without taking their energy consumption into account. Even if we stopped producing CO2 tomorrow, and suddenly enough carbon capture facilities to capture carbon at the same rate we were releasing it appeared, it would still take decades to make a meaningful change.

  And carbon isn’t our only problem. Methane is a way worse greenhouse gas, and we keep releasing it to the atmosphere because it’s cheaper than trying to control it.

  This is not to discourage from building such carbon capture technology. If it’s powered by renewables and built without a significant carbon/other contaminants footprint, by all means, build it. But it won’t save us from what’s to come.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ESA bafflingly declares private Minecraft servers 'illegal'⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Microsoft’s official server binary, distributed by Microsoft themselves, has the option to not authenticate with Mojang’s servers. You don’t even need to modify it. I wouldn’t call that one piracy.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"influencers" are setting us back⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  You’re a 1 week old account, and all you’ve done is shill AI non stop (with arguments that are wrong and uninformed).

  I think that supposed 13 year old is smarter than you, and I also think the mod was probably in the right.

  Oh, also. AI as in LLMs and agents is not the future. The fact that you’re a software engineer means nothing, you either are a bot or drank the kool aid. And after seeing you say lies such as “AI is already not a failure” or that is has done new things “more than any other invention in human history”, I don’t know if I should believe that you are a software engineer.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Machine pricing announced (from $1049-$1428 USD), reservation lists open⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Gamers Nexus released a parts list with better performance for cheaper. And it’s more upgradable than the Steam Machine. And it doesn’t suffer from high temps.

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  The sad reality is that this product is not competitive in today’s expensive market. The original leaked price range ($550-$750) would have been competitive, and a price hike to $850 would have been reasonable after the AI hardware price hikes. But Valve is a company that can make use of the economy of scale, and it shouldn’t have developed a PC that has issues and still turns out to be more expensive than a DIY PC with similar specs.

  And before anyone mentions it, yes, I wanted this product to succeed. Valve has been bringing a lot of gamers to the Linux world, and that could be good for us. If the price was good, I was even thinking about buying a steam machine myself, because my system is getting old. I’m still hyped for the steam frame, but the steam machine is not it. Not at this price, at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI banners: what owner sees vs what I see⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  “Let’s generate the icon and banner of the anarchist community using a hyper-centralized service created with stolen labour that makes billionaires richer”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The European Commission's answer to SKG: "The Commission considers that at this stage it cannot propose a legal obligation to keep video games playable after they stop being provided commercially."⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the worst case, it would be free to open source the server code. Companies can just do that, and the community can take it from there. I think SKG even allows releasing just a binary in their proposition.

  Either way, keeping NPCs entertaining or realistic enpugh to substitute other players is also something that SKG says it’s not asking for. Even if there aren’t other players, being able to enter the world should be enough to consider the game playable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨And what was wrong with my old widget?⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  They also pay artists 5-10x more than spotify per stream!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Nvidia CEO: Society has no choice but to change. I used to play in the streets. When cars came along, you obviously can’t play in the streets now⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  In the middle of a highway, if it’s possible. And don’t wear any hi-vis, your leather jacket is so cool, you should keep it on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨There was a time when people had to deal with all of these being separate⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Paper maps and map books still exist, and they’re pretty useful for navigation. If you stay at hotels, they usually give you some simple maps of the area with the most important features highlighted.

  If you still want to use online maps, OSM (Open Street Maps) is a great project that doesn’t depend on any big tech maps. It also works completely offline if your frontend allows downloading maps. CoMaps is a good client for phones. You can contribute to OSM yourself if you miss anything.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Damn straight!⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Well, vibe coding isn’t working. That’s just letting the machine think for you.

  However, even non specialized work is essential. Burger flippers, street cleaners, bus drivers, librarians… They may not have a career as long and specialized as a doctor’s, but they’re still essential people, and their work should be valued.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Notice how I put the “taking over” part in the personal issues. It has long taken over in the enterprise world, as I mentioned with RHEL and Ubuntu Server. Mainly because those are the biggest 2 options, and most other enterprise systems are based on them or try to be like them. The enterprise Linux scene is very homogeneous. Systemd is now taking over consumer Linux, where you historically saw less homogeneous systems.

  Alpine Linux has already been used a lot for containers and embedded devices, but companies are starting to see the value in it. It’s fast, it’s lightweight, it has a small attack surface and it can be used for many things, not just containers. We have full VMs running on Alpine and hosting systems, and they’re very appealing because they’re reliable, and their images are smaller. Alpine also takes less time to install, and it’s more reliable when starting from a generic image than any other systemd distro.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨systemd⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Linux system administrator here.

  Systemd fucking sucks, and it’s a very big issue in the Linux world, because it centralizes everything into what should be the simplest process of the OS. It has a huge attack surface (and many recent critical CVEs have happened due to systemd). It forces everything into their unit files, which are very flawed and lack features that previous systems actually had. One of the big reasons the enterprise Linux community is looking to Alpine instead of the more traditional RHEL or Ubuntu Server is exactly the lack of systemd.

  Aside from that, on the personal side, systemd has bit me in the ass way more times than any of the more traditional systems. I wish it wasn’t so common. It’s very rapidly taking over the Linux ecosystem, limiting freedom to choose another init system. And it’s lead by a Microsoft employee.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell is this Bull shit ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  GiB weren’t invented by drive manufacturers (although they definitely benefit from it, and are incredibly scummy about it). It was invented by the SI people. GiB make sense, because the prefix “Giga” means 10⁶, while in binary it meant 2²⁰. It was a mess before, and GiB just standardized it in a way that is easy to understand and consistent with other units.

  I do think we should force drive manufacturers to express their drive capacity in binary format, tho.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell is this Bull shit ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  All software has always interpreted it in binary as far as I know. There never was a good standard, and the most common way to differentiate in my experience was using KB as metric (decimal, SI) and K as binary. It’s easy to confuse with the already convoluted standard of KB being a kilobyte and Kb being a kilobit.

  The reason for the added “i” is that in every other system, kilo means 1000. Someone at the SI realized that it didn’t make any sense to have it mean something different in software so they invented the Ki prefix (instead of K) to mean 1024. That is now the standard, and it’s part of the SI (coloquially metric). As a consequence of this, you can technically use the Ki prefix with any other SI unit, so you can also use the KiM (kibimeter), which is 1024 meters. Idk why you’d use it, but it’s funny that the option exists.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What the Hell is this Bull shit ?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are (mainly) 3 reasons for that:

  • TB vs TiB: Computers don’t count drive space in metric units, they count it in powers of 2. This means that, for you, 1 TB is 1000 GB, while for a computer, 1 TiB is 1024 GiB. Drive manufactirers take advantage of this, and only count space in metric (TB). So when you plug the drive into your computer, and it converts to GiB, you end up with 1 TB = 931.3 GiB. Windows hasn’t helped this confusion, I remember it doing something weird like counting in GiB and displaying it as GB.

  • Reserved space: Many OSes reserve some space on their drives for special stuff. This is especially the case with Linux and ext4, where it by default reserves a percentage of the drive to root. This is to optimize distribution of files around the disk, which limits fragmentation. The system slowly frees more of this space as you fill up the disk, and at the end it should leave you with 100% of the space.

  • Formatting: Empty drive space isn’t the same as usable drive space. In order to use a drive you need to format it, which doesn’t just blank it. Formatting a drive adds a filesystem to it, which is what allows you to write files and folders to it. This filesystem takes up some space, and reserves more space for inodes and, in some cases, a filesystem journal. Some filesystems have even more features that also take up some space.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  High Dairy Milk Ingestion

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  He quit because of optics (understandably, Linux people didn’t like a Microsoft employee making software that was in almost every distro), but he still works with Microsoft and other Microsoft employees

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨What's going on with the Systemd age verification stuff?⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  The issue is that some idiot suddenly appeared on the systemd repo to immediately push a change that adds the posibility of logging the user’s age into systemd. The community complained and explained that nobody wanted that change, and yet this idiot pushed through, ignored the feedback, and ended up getting the pull request merged. Not only that, but the discussion thread was locked to prevent criticism, and the merge was done by Microsoft employees. After the merge, someone tried to undo the change, and the effort was blocked by a Microsoft employee.

  Despite the excuses, Systemd is not an OS, and it doesn’t even need to comply with any age verification laws. The fact that someone went and implemented a deeply unpopular change into a system that shouldn’t even deal with that info and that is used by most Linux distros, just to aid a surveillance government in implementing better surveillance on the entire world’s users is what lead to the pushback.

  Additionally, Lennart Poettering used Claude to review the pull request, and has been using it for developing SystemD. I’m not gonna go too deep into that, but trust me, it’s really bad.

  Double additionally, Lennart Poettering also defended not properly securing this sensitive data, because that would be too bothersome for him.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨When people recommend Brave browser.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh, have I got news for you

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I know we have !boneappletea@lemmy.world