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UndercoverUlrikHD

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UndercoverUlrikHD ,

It's "fluttering mouse" in Norwegian.

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Can't read the tweet as Twitter is blocked on Firefox, but my guess would be closer ties with NSA, i.e. NSA can exert more control and monitoring of the data openai collects.

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Genuinely surprised you haven't heard about HDR before.

It's not needed for office work, but for media consumption it has been a big thing for at least half a decade at this point. I'm not sure you'll find a modern TV that doesn't support it at this point.

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Just a few hours away from returning back to the dirt in the ground surely?

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The fact Microsoft keeps re-enabling features users are disabling isn't something to just ignore. Imagine if they were the silently turn on a feature like Recall.

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I was mostly referring to the search bar and I've seen multiple people report Microsoft updates reverting settings.

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Here's all of Switzerland's high level nuclear waste for the last 45 years. It solid pellets. You could fit the entire world's US' waste on a football field.

It's not the greatest challenge mankind have faced.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I don't think solution for storage would be a problem if politicians had more of a backbone with deciding a place for storage, and I frankly don't see a future without fossil fuels where nuclear doesn't play a key role. All of the US' nuclear waste could fit on a football field 3 meters tall. We got space for it.

As for energy security. Canada is a massive producer, and NexGen Energy is sitting on a massive deposit. Most utilities store ~4 years of material on site, and the fact it's so easily stored for many years is why Japan invested heavily in it in all those years ago. I don't think access to uranium is much of a concern.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

I'm speaking strictly of the mass. Most the volume on those containers are likely structure to make sure there is no accidental leak, similar to Switzerland.

I also misremembered, it was all of US' waste that could fit on a single football.

A social app for creatives, Cara grew from 40k to 650k users in a week because artists are fed up with Meta’s AI policies | TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)

Artists have finally had enough with Meta’s predatory AI policies, but Meta’s loss is Cara’s gain. An artist-run, anti-AI social platform, Cara has grown from 40,000 to 650,000 users within the last week, catapulting it to the top of the App Store charts....

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Capthchas haven't worked against serious actors for years and companies could easily pay for a user account. Anything a normal tech illiterate person can do, companies can automate. You sort of have to trust their pinky promise of not scraping content.

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Skimming through it it wasn't fully clear to me, is this just for their pdf editor?

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Thanks for clarifying

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Never heard about it in Norway

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That's because X means absolutely nothing. It's a letter commonly used to fill in blanks. It's an awful name for any company/brand.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

What sort of protection are you after? Your VPN should encrypt your data to make it more difficult to snoop on your activity. I wouldn't trust any random WiFi hot-spot just because you got a VPN encrypting your traffic though.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Autopilot turns off because the car doesn't know what to do and the driver is supposed to take control of the situation. The autopilot isn't autopilot, it's driving assistance and you want it to turn off if it doesn't know what it's should do.

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Sure, what meant though was that Tesla doesn't have self driving cars the way they try to market it as. They are no different than what other car manufacturers got, they just use a more deceptive name.

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What sort people are you trying throw off your trail? Genuine question as I'm not a frequenter of privacy communities.

Unless you're a investigative journalist, what are the odds details such as weather, car, type of job would be compiled by someone to identify you?

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Sure, but what random psycho would go through all your comments collecting data like weather on a specific day, car, job, etc... just to mess with you in real life. That's like one in a billion unless you specifically seek out those kind of people.

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There are regulations in place, and nuclear power plants do not leave toxic waste around them? They aren't like coal plants that simply dump the waste into the air.

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Got any sources for that happening in that domain? I doubt there are many politicians of the old guard that are comfortable relaxing nuclear power regulations.

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I appreciate the link, it's hard to trust what people say nowadays as their hate for societal structures makes them all regurgitate the same sentences without regard for context or nuance.

Your source however didn't touch on regulations being breached or removed by corrupt politicians. They only spoke about attempts of siphoning money from the public.

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I do believe nuclear power will always stay a unique exception to this, it's extremely tightly regulated on an international level due to the fear of nuclear bombs. It's far safer and better for the environment than coal plants or natural gas, which do poison the environment without much corruption needed to enable it.

The nuclear power industry is a whole different beast than what the California tech bros are used to.

After announcing increased prices, Spotify to Pay Songwriters About $150 Million Less Next Year (www.billboard.com)

When Bloomberg reported that Spotify would be upping the cost of its premium subscription from $9.99 to $10.99, and including 15 hours of audiobooks per month in the U.S., the change sounded like a win for songwriters and publishers. Higher subscription prices typically equate to a bump in U.S. mechanical royalties — but not...

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Gotta fund Barcelona's €240 million sponsor deal somehow

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Oracle can see the source code or the binary?

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It runs better, but VLC is much more user friendly

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

Tell your parents to set mpv to loop a video and see how it goes

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Impulse? Got a similar mail yesterday for my gym too, doubt I'll bother until my card stops working. Cards are simply more reliable than apps.

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Python team was ~10 people I think

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Black Mesa goes beyond being a simple HD version of HL1, the xen world is brilliant in Black Mesa

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Not if German/French/Italian car manufacturers can make a profit on it

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We Europeans often share our view on US's business, and you want to gatekeep Americans from sharing their view on European's stuff? The whole point of a link aggregator with comments is people sharing their view.

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Anything motorised that's used in traffic should have license plate to be fair. Kudos to the Swiss

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It's not really a zero sum game is it

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How do you imagine that would work?

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So essentially destroying one of US' most important companies going into the future. Their chips are so highly valued that the US government are creating sanctions specifically to stop the sale of their high end chips to hostile nations. I can't imagine the US shooting themselves in the foot like that.

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If you think that would destroy nvidia you're selling them quite short. Other companies in the market are following that exact business model: Don't produce your own boards, actually document the hardware / have FLOSS drivers.

Nvidia not producing their own boards wouldn't solve anything but complicate matters for Nvidia. Ask Asus or EVGA what their margins are on their Nvidia GPUs. Nvidia opening their stack to the competition was the only half realistic suggestion.

but you come here and throw national interest into the mix.

Why do you think the whole 4090 D debacle happened? The US government have obvious interests in limiting the compute power China has access too. Nobody cares about their gaming GPUs, it's the ML chips that are making the waves, and those are of obvious national interest to the US government.

How the fuck would nvidia losing market share to AMD damage US national interest it would strengthen its standing by having independent options.

Brush that chip off your shoulder, not sure what's making you so angry. And why are you bringing AMD into the picture, they aren't even the biggest threat to Nvidia's ML hegemony. I was also specifically referring to how dismantling Nvidia would be counter productive to US interests, not Nvidia's market share.

It might even enable Intel to secure their foot into the market, remember, the only one among RGB to actually produce their own chips. In the US.

Neither AMD nor Nvidia are into the foundry business so I don't see how that's relevant. Intel is decoupling their foundry so nothing is stopping either companies from porting their chips if need be.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

There is no monopoly. If Nvidia doesn't play it right in the coming years they won't hold on to their current position. Nvidia aren't getting into custom chips just for fun. If the major cloud providers end up using their own custom silicon, that's a major blow for Nvidia.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

And I hope they get punished for it, but that is not the same as Nvidia having monopoly.

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It's both. Jensen himself has said they aren't a GPU company anymore, highlighting their software stack. CUDA was not built in a day.

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Nvidia could only fuck them over like that because they were able to produce their own boards: If they have to rely on board manufacturers to sell their chips, they have to be nice enough for board manufacturers to actually bother doing that.

Margins wouldn't change. GPUs are brand sellers, OEMs would try to make their margins on other products. E.g. if Asus were to stop producing graphic cards for Nvidia, their mindshare would plummet

...and market share going to other US companies would hurt that interest in what way exactly?

You are the one bringing up market share into the discussion. I haven't said anything about Nvidia losing market share hurting US interests

AMD shmahemde. There's a gazillion US startups in the space which could make it, or not, and/or be bought up by AMD or Intel, both certainly have their eyes and products on the market. The US' national interest is hurt by nvidia's unfair business practices limiting bringing innovation to market.

You're acting as if they're the only actor in the market, but there is competition from multiple sides. You don't dismantle a company purely on them having a dominant position.

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CUDA was initially released in 2007, and Aegia was acquired in 2008. It would be extremely dishonest to not say that CUDA is what it is today due to Nvidia.

I get that hating on big corpos is cool on this platform, but there's no need to warp reality just to talk smack about them.

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I disagree. Most of the big actors in the cloud/AI space got their own silicon that they are working on which is a big enough concern for Nvidia that they are looking into providing custom solutions. If the CUDA moat breaks, Nvidia will be in a much weaker position.

The search engine landscape is completely different, although I don't think you meant that those markets are really directly comparable to be fair.

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists. (gizmodo.com)

You Don’t Need to Use Airplane Mode on Airplanes | Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.::Airplane mode hasn't been necessary for nearly 20 years, but the myth persists.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

You'll have 4G and possibly 5G throughout the whole flight inside Norway. It's not uncommon to see people browsing Netflix on their flight.

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The country, not the company. I don't think Norwegian got 4G cell towers strapped to their airplanes

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Does the US have decent coverage? Over 85% of the land area in Norway is covered, 99,9% if we go by where people live, so you'll have coverage even deep into fjords or mountains up here.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

That's wild. You got to be in a very remote place for that to ever happen here. Granted, there is a fair bit of competition between the three main telecom companies, and data coverage has been one of the biggest topics between them for over a decade.

UndercoverUlrikHD ,

It's certainly smaller than any American state, but for our population it's fairly big. The topology of the country also isn't very friendly to cell signals. 90+% of the country is mountainous/fjords. It's why coverage has been a big selling point, a bunch of people live on some random mountain side in the middle of nowhere.

From what I've heard, there isn't much competition in the US though, so I guess that plays a part. We got three companies independently building out their own network across the whole country.

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