TheGrandNagus

TheGrandNagus , 15 days ago to Technology in Internet Archive forced to remove 500,000 books after publishers’ court win

That was clearly in jest lol

TheGrandNagus , 15 days ago to Technology in Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps

It's not even worth explaining because it's so obvious that they do. If you said that eating chicken raw is good for you I also wouldn't bother explaining why that's not true. I'd just call it out as nonsense.

You insulted me first, dipshit. Quit advertising to the world how stupid you are. I don't know what kind of brainrot you're experiencing, but you should get it looked at.

You're honestly arguing that companies aren't incentivised to do things like make profit? Or retain employees? You are brain-dead lmao

TheGrandNagus , 16 days ago to Technology in China's AI-Powered Sexbots Are Redefining Intimacy, But There Will Be Limitations - Are We Ready?

I think that's just the nature of male sex toys needing to be made out of a much softer material, unfortunately.

TheGrandNagus , 17 days ago to Technology in Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps

No, not correct, because your take is insane.

Of course governments, companies, and other institutions have incentives. Maybe if your thinking we're just a bit more agile (translation: if you were a bit less stupid), you'd recognise that.

TheGrandNagus , 17 days ago to Technology in Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps

Governments have no incentives. People working in them have some.

By this logic, companies also aren't incentivised to do anything, just the people working in them.

Governments do have incentives. Saying they don't is absurd.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago to Technology in Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom

It exists and has already been benchmarked, it works just as well as Rosetta 2.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago to Technology in The Framework Laptop 13 is about to become one of the world’s first RISC-V laptops

They did, almost immediately after it became a known issue.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago to Technology in Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom

They have something akin to Apple's Rosetta 2 that's pretty much the same hit performance-wise.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to Technology in Snapdragon X Elite Reviews are Out: Solid Performance and Great Battery Life | Beebom

Internally, AMD got pretty far along in making an ARM architecture called K12, but it got scrapped because they didn't have the money to make two architectures, so they focused on Zen.

And AMD is likely working on ARM stuff right now.

Reportedly, they recently restarted their efforts on an ARM SoC design in order to try to get Nintendo to switch (heh) to them for the Switch 2. Nintendo stuck with Nvidia because they could guarantee 100% backwards compatibility with the Switch and AMD couldn't.

Again reportedly, AMD didn't shut their new ARM group after this, seeing that Microsoft is opening up Windows to non-Qualcomm ARM SoCs (believe it or not, MS did give Qualcomm an exclusivity deal for Windows on ARM). AMD wants in on that before others take up a piece of that pie.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago (edited 17 days ago) to Technology in Majority of Japanese support government-run dating apps

In some ways I can see this being potentially problematic, however...

For-profit dating apps (i.e. all dating apps) are shit.

Not only do they aggressively restrict a lot of basic features behind shockingly expensive paywalls, but they also mess around with the recommendation algorithm to make you feel like you feel like you have to get the premium tier in order to even be seen sometimes.

Plus they're literally incentivised to keep you on the app - not match you up with someone permanently. And once you've proven you're someone who's willing to pay, they really won't want to let you go.

A publicly-owned dating app shouldn't have these issues. Japan is incentivised to make good matches - they want to boost birthrates and curb the loneliness pandemic they're experiencing.

I just hope Japan is a country that takes privacy and security seriously.

E: btw I mean publicly owned as in owned by the Japanese public, not as in publicly traded.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago (edited 18 days ago) to Technology in Apple Reportedly Suspends Work on Vision Pro 2

No.

At 770,000 sold, it is Nintendo's lowest-selling standalone console and the only one to have less than one million units sold, seconded by the Wii U's 13.6 million units.

The Wii U was seen as a complete and utter sales flop. The Wii U outsold the VirtualBoy 18:1.

TheGrandNagus , 18 days ago to Technology in How One Chinese EV Company Made Battery Swapping Work

Well yeah but the comparison here should be against a typical BEV. ICE cars are already being phased out regardless.

TheGrandNagus , 19 days ago to Technology in Proton is taking its privacy-first apps to a nonprofit foundation model

Only to the data they have access to, which isn't much as pretty much everything is E2EE and logging is minimal or in many cases non-existent.

And "I won't support any company that complies with the law" is certainly a take.

TheGrandNagus , 19 days ago to Technology in Share Your Story: The Impact of Losing Access to 500,000 Books

Perhaps you only care about the wayback machine, but there's more to the Internet Archive than that, and they shouldn't be expected to roll over and take it whenever some awful company decides to do a bit of digital book burning.

TheGrandNagus , 20 days ago (edited 20 days ago) to Technology in Chinese firm sought to use UK university links to access AI for possible military use

You post a lot of pro-china stuff. Strange.

And the Imperial College of London is one of the top universities on the planet, certainly in the top 10, as are Cambridge and Oxford (shit, those two are probably in the top 3). Pretending otherwise is stupidity.

Clearly the university did have stuff China wanted, otherwise China wouldn't have targeted it. You don't have to be educated at IC to figure that out.

And partaking in American nationalist chest-thumping while at the same time being someone who regularly defends China is pretty interesting. You'd think they'd be mutually exclusive.