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Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” (www.theverge.com)

Arizona's Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona's Consumer...

eleitl ,

If you haven't noticed, you've been not paying attention. I canceled Prime a while ago and they try very hard to get you back. And they try to sneak on you billed expedited shipping when over minimum gratis shipping quota. Dark patterns galore.

It would be a major pain for me to boycott them completely so I don't, yet.

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Ok, if you don't use their web site you won't see the UX dark patterns. Trust us, they there and fit with the overall garbagefication theme. Annoys the living shit out of me. At least no more Prime Video UI and ad trainwreck.

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...

eleitl ,

You forget that nation-states control your ISP. And of course you can choose your VPN provider or run your own.

eleitl ,

Nobody is using MMF these days even for local runs. As to sfp, check https://fs.com and pick a matching pair that is cheapest. These days it makes sense to use 10G or 25G rather than 1G. Some people run 100G for their homelab, but even used it's pricy and noisy.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

eleitl ,

You seem to not be using open source software packaged for multiple architectures or which can be built for your binary target. Most people will be just using a browser and an office suite.

eleitl ,

There are diminishing returns in semiconductor photolitho. Moore scaling is long over, absolute real estate see WSI with Cerebras, DC costs and power envelope are all sending a clear message. Quantization is there, so you can go from digital multipliers to analog and go spiking networks, but transformers and Co have little power there.

Also, the kind of economy that can carry Gen AI as business model is not a given, long term.

eleitl ,

Yes orders of magnitude, but not too many of them. The real estate of a 300 mm wafer is limited, the structure shrink is saturating and you can't get too many layers. You still need a packet switched network on the wafer even if the rest is mostly analog. Perhaps spintronics can limit the power requirements too.

eleitl ,

A free running cellular automaton (CA) approach in hardware would work, but each cell would be a much souped up SRAM cell, the interactions would be all local and 2D. Considering Cerebras is 40 G SRAM on the 300 mm WSI and is about at the cooling limit I'm afraid you do not have 5 orders of magnitude. Perhaps reversible spintronics can help with the power draw, but you still have to splat a higher dimensional network so not just local interactions into a 2D array.

eleitl ,

Secure has no meaning.

eleitl ,

Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.

eleitl ,

I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

eleitl ,

There is a reason 1984 was written by a Brit.

eleitl ,

Neat. At 750 Wp I wonder what the EROEI of the installation is.

eleitl ,

LineageOS with Jerboa over Mullvad VPN here. Not many options on mobile devices.

eleitl ,

Things definitely changed. 15-20 years ago you actually got good search results instead of unusable crap we get today.

eleitl ,

Gen AI is a net negative for the moment, since the deluge of generated low-quality content outweighs convenience of topical results generated by LLMs with natural language queries.

eleitl ,

Good luck with that.

eleitl ,

An L3 switch is a router. Though most of them don’t have enough resources to take a full BGP routing table, at wire speed.

eleitl ,

I use video projectors. Many of them, typically the better ones do not have any built-in smarts requiring an Internet connection.

In general, smart devices are a major security risk, and need to be firewalled off.

eleitl ,

There is no reliable risk assessment for truly intelligent, autonomous systems. Let's stop pretending that it can exist.

eleitl ,

Try neovim or something. Codium if you like GUIey things.

eleitl ,

I'm not a power yaml user by any means, but syntax highlighting and linting pipelines do help.

eleitl ,

Paywalled.

eleitl ,

Look up overshoot of the ecosystem carrying capacity.

eleitl ,

If you can't censor it easily, it's "controversial".

eleitl ,

What is "4000ac"?

eleitl ,

Still works for Mullvad.

eleitl ,

Why not postfix?

eleitl ,

Pepperidge farm remembers.

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    eleitl ,

    Why? Did something happen to all the volunteer mods? I wonder what it could have been.

    eleitl ,

    We're kinda using it right now. Strange how all the good things that persist are community efforts, huh? Makes you really think.

    eleitl ,

    Anyone can make a Lemmy instance with the equivalent. And some instances will defederate from it.

    eleitl ,

    You can run your own instance or join a permissive instance.

    eleitl ,

    "about to become" my ass.

    eleitl ,

    Who cares?

    eleitl ,

    That eula is not valid in the EU.

    eleitl ,

    Complain to your respective GDPR enforcement officer. I should, too.

    eleitl ,

    Please tell us whether you'll get a response.

    Linux distro for selfhosting server

    So I have been running a fair amount of selfhosted services over the last decade or so. I have always been running this on a Ubuntu LTS distribution running on a intel NUC machine. Most, if not all of my services run in a docker container, and using a docker compose file that brings everything up. The server is headless. I...

    eleitl ,

    Proxmox with Debian containers.

    eleitl ,

    It's a NUC so sufficiently poweful. Proxmox isn't fat by any means. If you run your stuff in containers then Proxmox (I aways install it on top of Debian) is your hypervisor is your base system. You typically don't install stuff on your hypervisor, though I do some very select things.

    eleitl ,

    I hear you, but Proxmox does a great many more things than just run containers. Admittedly, many selfhosters won't need these.

    eleitl ,

    I know it already does, at least in newer Lancets. Expect this in fpv type devices soon.

    eleitl ,

    I am aware. The 3 mm calibre difference has no impact on fabrication costs.

    eleitl ,

    In terms of bucks per kill the West is doing an order of magnitude worse.

    eleitl ,

    There are cheap continuous operation 2 kW fiber lasers for material processing which could be enough for the flimsier slower drones.

    eleitl ,

    Realtime person detection and following it with a drone? Difficult for me, certainly, but there are enough people out there who have done it.

    eleitl ,

    The point of modern deep learning approaches is that they're extremely easy on the developer skill. Decades ago realtime machine vision needed a machine vision expert, these days you throw the hardware at the problem at learning stage, and embedded devices to run the results are stupidly powerful (doesn't even take a Jetson board), if you compare to what has been available even a decade ago.

    eleitl ,

    The small drones do not require a long range use, since you are going to detect them only late, and need to terminate them within few seconds.

    I have seen an improvised optics on a Youtube channel where a 2 kW continuous operation fiber laser had enough energy flux at 100 m or farther.

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