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davidgro ,

But since it takes 10% of the space (vram, etc.) sounds like they could just start with a larger model and still come out ahead

davidgro ,

... I've never seen that attributed before. Wow.

davidgro ,

To prevent that, just add a magic license statement to the end of all your comments.

/s (sadly, this actually needs it.)

davidgro ,

Well, there's this. Source: The YouTube video in another comment here.

davidgro ,

Wow, the SSD can hold the charges perfectly while unplugged for ages? Amazing.

Yup. Before flash memory, devices like video game cartridges which had game saves actually needed a battery to power the memory holding the saves.

davidgro ,

Technically correct, but 7 and 8 were part of Windows 9x.
The last standalone version was 6.22

davidgro ,

C compilers (at least on personal computers) weren't great at optimization back then and every kilobyte mattered - the user only got 640 of them, going beyond that required jumping through hoops.
Similar for MHz, hand optimization was important for performance since there was so little CPU time to go around.

davidgro ,

Someone explain please?
(I got the title, but not the comic)

davidgro ,

The image says they also exclude + and -.

davidgro ,

I think it's about moderators

davidgro ,

Been done IRL.

https://ghostinfluence.com/the-ultimate-retaliation-pranking-my-roommate-with-targeted-facebook-ads/

I'd like to interject for a moment. (lemmy.ml)

What you’re refering to as Windows, is in fact, GNU/Windows, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Windows. Windows is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another closed component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising...

davidgro ,

GNU'nt

davidgro ,

As far as switching out Explorer goes, it's not actually the window manager, that's Aero since Vista - but it is the shell on desktop editions of Windows... But not all editions. Some server editions ("core") and some specialized other ones have the shell set to literally just a cmd window. There's no taskbar, no Start, no desktop icons, etc. There's a cmd window that if closed triggers a reboot. Of course other things can be started from it.

I'm not sure if there's a setting that could be changed to make a desktop edition behave like that or vice versa.

davidgro ,

Hmm. I like the concept but think there are practical issues: Suddenly everyone who owns apartments or other rental property in a major city immediately sells it (even if just to be demolished) and kicks out the current renters. Mass homelessness affecting disproportionately those worst off. Perhaps the cost of Buying a home would drop due to all that property for sale - especially if the apartments can be sold as condos, but I'm not sure if it would compensate enough, and would be a huge mess for some time.

davidgro ,

What I mean is that they couldn't afford to keep it in any way and may end up selling it at just the land value (if that)

davidgro ,

Let me know when I can check it out without owning an iPhone. Web access would be fine.

Doesn't strike me as a company that cares about openness if they are being that exclusive.

For that matter how will federation work with them showing ads and having paid posts like they promise (to 'reward the creators')?

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    davidgro ,

    Exclusive to iPhone. Not even a Web sign up.

    davidgro , (edited )

    Web browsers.

    Edit: Nevermind, I don't know what this even is.

    davidgro ,

    I guess I don't know what you mean by "authenticating transactions".

    davidgro ,

    Interesting. If they do that in the US some day, I would absolutely much rather buy that device than unroot my phone.

    davidgro ,

    It's a Chromebook. That's just the real answer to OP's issue regardless of where they ask about it.

    davidgro ,

    I feel like this is (well, the first two steps) basically how Stable Diffusion works.

    davidgro ,

    Somehow I forgot I can just do that. Thanks for the reminder.

    davidgro ,

    Both wobbly and colorful

    Amazon Subscribe & Save percentages not adding up (lemmy.ml)

    I only needed one more item to "unlock extra savings up to 15%", so I added an extra item to see what the savings would be. I didn't think the savings matched what was advertised, so I removed an item to see what the difference was (making sure to screenshot before/after this time). Turns out the price of 3 out of 4 items is the...

    davidgro ,

    They add to your 'discount' without changing the final price

    Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say (www.businessinsider.com)

    Some AI models get more accurate at maths if you ask them to respond as if they are a Star Trek character, ML engineers say::Researchers asking a chatbot to optimize its own prompts found it was best at solving grade-school math when acting like it was on Star Trek.

    davidgro ,

    There is also This transparent aluminum (linked in that same article) and it's been used in phone/watch screens also.

    davidgro ,

    While I strongly agree with the idea behind your comment and gave you an upvote, at the physical layer it's not strictly true - especially for optical discs. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eight-to-fourteen_modulation for example.

    That said, capacity listings should always be the capacity of the data that can be stored and retrieved as seen by the user, and that data would be in 8-bit bytes.

    X suspends account of Navalny's wife (news.sky.com)

    X suspends account of Navalny's wife::The widow of Alexei Navalny, Yulia Navalnaya, has had her X account restored after it was briefly suspended for unknown reasons. Meanwhile, his brother has been put on Russia's wanted list. Listen to a Daily podcast special on the Russian opposition after Navalny's death as you scroll.

    davidgro ,

    Heh, it took me a minute to think of a third one after Mastodon and Bluesky.

    Totally forgot about Meta's thing.

    davidgro ,

    Also applies to the Lemmy theme of constantly wishing for capitalism to vanish.

    davidgro ,

    Back to ChatGPT for that.

    davidgro ,

    Hadn't yet really started on the users, so we'll be getting it first

    davidgro , (edited )

    Installing almost anything* on Windows requires the equivalent of sudo, same as Linux.

    Determining if it's a normal install or adding a kernel driver wouldn't be feasible just by watching the installation. (On either OS if they are not showing terminal output)

    EDIT:

    My context here (which I should have been explicit about sooner) is: "ordinary user is installing a closed source commercial large game" (with its own installer) and doesn't know if they are also getting a free rootkit.

    They are going to just click Next without changing defaults, and are not going to extract and inspect anything.

    davidgro ,

    My context here (which I should have been more explicit about) is "ordinary user is installing a closed source commercial large game" (with its own installer) and doesn't know if they are also getting a free rootkit.

    Sure when it's something you compile yourself and you have some knowledge you can ./configure it to go under your home directory and not need sudo to make install later, but a game with a script or binary you need to run is likely to ask for root on launch (Especially on Windows) and maybe asks later or has command line options for a single user install, but we can assume the user does whatever is default.

    However once installed that does NOT mean the package always has sudo access.

    I didn't suggest that it would (although it Could if it's malicious - on Linux that would be as simple as the setuid bit. Or ...back on topic... installing a kernel driver on either OS)

    davidgro ,

    I get it for Linux and Windows (though I don't know how MacOS does it) my context here (which I should have been more explicit about) is "ordinary user is installing a closed source commercial large game" (with its own installer) and doesn't know if they are also getting a free rootkit.

    Sure when it's something you compile yourself and you have some knowledge you can ./configure it to go under your home directory and not need sudo to make install later, but a game with a script or binary you need to run is likely to ask for root on launch (Especially on Windows) and maybe asks later or has command line options for a single user install, but we can assume the user does whatever is default.

    davidgro ,

    Since this keeps coming up, I edited the post you replied to. TLDR is that we are assuming different contexts.

    davidgro ,

    They (like myself) mostly downloaded SMT apps from the Play Store, and of course just update them without looking at it since then.

    The store page doesn't have anything suspicious looking about it even now (who's going to notice the missing 's' at the end of "Offered by Simple Mobile Tool") and it still says it's open source.

    davidgro ,

    The people also have the AI look

    davidgro ,

    No answer here, but I just want to point out that according to that graph, you can gain an extremely high skill level in Bacula in a very short time!
    It would seem to be the easiest to learn based on this one cartoon.

    (Related: the phrase "steep learning curve" means the opposite of the way it's usually used)

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