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linearchaos , 3 months ago

I wouldn't pay $36 for an HP printer that they didn't monitor much less per month

linearchaos , 3 months ago

5%? I get that 700 ppl is a big number but 5% is pretty tame for the games industry. AAA sheds more than that after a big title releases.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I mean I'm game if you are. :)

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Heh, That's fair. I wasn't presuming gender or orientation, mostly just for the LoLs.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Yes it's still useful and it's basically how we made our last couple of jumps. An AI training on AI generated data being graded by another AI. We've hit diminishing returns though.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I don't know how in the hell they let it go as wrong as they did. They had all the eyeballs of the internet. They had all the Google search traffic. They had an API that encouraged tons of other people to make applications that link with them to display their content.

All they had to do was light touch monetization, and slightly stroke the egos of the mods. Every new phone, car, light bulb that ever came out had a place where it could be directed right at the people they want to sell it to. All they had to do was disguise it as an unboxing or a slightly pithy review. Hell, they could have gotten competitors to bid against each other. Chevy could have been on there dissing forward, Ford could have been on their dissing Dodge. They're so many opportunities there for monetization. They have control over their own algorithm.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

A degree for developer just means that they know how to learn.

I've seen some straight a solid developers come straight out of college enter the enterprise sector and bomb right out.

Why aren't you using Python, why aren't you using inheritance. They're walking into these places with 20-year-old code bases and nowhere near enough money to rewrite any of it.

And the problem is, even if they get the opportunity to rewrite it, they try so hard to optimize it and put so many little smart decisions in there that becomes very difficult to maintain.

linearchaos , 3 months ago (edited 3 months ago)

Apple can't compete in that space. Their schtick is producing moderately inexpensive nice looking goods for exorbitant prices that are designed to be impossible to repair by anybody with them.

Tesla has already corned the market.

Trying to block people from repairing? check, trying to block sales of used items? check. Getting rid of all the buttons for all the interfaces and making you work with a tablet in the center of the car? Check.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I don't love it, but they're probably trying to stay away from extra controversy that will get them canceled by the government.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/set-up-windows-11-without-internet-oobebypassnro/4fc44554-b416-4ecb-8961-6f79fd55ae0f

linearchaos , 3 months ago

If anyone needs it and doesn't know

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/insider/forum/all/set-up-windows-11-without-internet-oobebypassnro/4fc44554-b416-4ecb-8961-6f79fd55ae0f

linearchaos , 3 months ago

If it's plagiarizing, so are Google search results summaries.

It's not like it doesn't cite where it found the data.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I've been blocking bots for 6 months now, it's a neverending stream of new garbage.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Fwiw, put /tmp on its own partition and mount it with noexec

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I mean, yeah for many decades car theft was worse. But it kind of got sorted out. Now with the current, honestly inexcusable vulnerabilities, theft has gotten worse again. There were a number of years with keyless cars they're just fine.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

If the end user was getting 10 gig I wouldn't even be all that mad about it.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

It's tricky though, do they advertise their maximum speed in all areas? Or the minimum speed? Or the average speed?

If you have 50 megabit service in New York City with multiple millions of people can you then offer 3G speeds to the rest of the state and still advertise it is 5G?

I get 45 in town, is it a birthday party the other day and I could barely get 1.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

You can't tell me they didn't work out a plan the last time this happened. Deflate it slowly with a laser, tow it to a secure area with a drone and reverse engineer it. Seems like a solvable problem.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Damn, $5 sounds too cheap. I can't imagine ride to store, pick up at store during busy times and ride to the delivery to be less than 20m. That's barely minimum wage. Prob better off at $8 or $10. Still undercut rideshare rates. Then drop only if there's competition.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Yeah, he's biking, assuming he's doing maintenance himself you get a LOT of miles out of a bike for very little upkeep. If he were driving it would be a losing proposition from the start.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

PiHole+:

 * Firefox with uBO, Privacy possum, Sponsorblock as primary, BypassPaywallsClean
 * Brave with shields up and fingerprint resist for when I need chrome, with BypassPaywallsClean and privacy badger.

When a site blocks or is otherwise slow on FF, I use Brave. When a site is slow or blocks brave, I use FF. Brave really stays on top their YT ad blocking so they're a good fallback even if I'm selling my soul to them a bit.

I regularly blow away bookmarks in Brave and reimport from FF to keep all my browsers synced.

If a site doesn't work in FF, then it doesn't work in Brave, I'll open it in vanilla Edge to sanity check but I generally don't open edge otherwise.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Oh, that's good now do Microsoft

linearchaos , 3 months ago

That's a little clickbaitey they're just moving the rest of pay into wallet.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Nah, it's cyclical. We can figure one for a few years, then try out a new promising distro then we can figure that one for a few years...

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Oops, Plans changed, I guess I could update my home assistant while I wait.

The following 14 plugins are no longer configured by configuration.yml......

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Never seen a rusty de lorian.... just sayin'

linearchaos , 3 months ago

All storage has issues with bit rot. There haven't been any studies to show that SSD is disproportionately affected.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

There's a caveat there. We've had some new tech in SSDs come out very recently, new enough not to be in those charts will still have to see.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Concept is, end user reports misinformation, fact checkers at the company take the reported information and check it against the database. If it's listed as false in the database It gets squelched and the AI gets a little tuning to make sure that it stays squelched. If it's in the database and it's true the user is informed that it's not false information. If it's not in the database, That's when it's dicey. Does the team of people moderating the posts make the call, does it go to another team to be classified. At what point do you block it? If one details wrong if two details are wrong if half the post is wrong. Do you squelch mostly true? Or do we just get disclaimers everywhere for 6 months.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I'm not about to downvote you, but, I seriously don't miss paper maps.

Every time there's a new neighborhood somewhere you have no freaking clue where a road is because you need to go out and buy the latest paper map.

I'll just use open street map thanks.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

My neighborhood has the same problem. There's absolutely nothing for the teens to do. But all they do is complain in the forums about how the teens are wandering around causing trouble. They're on the playground, they're biking on the sidewalks, they're playing chicken with the cars. Yeah, they're f****** bored. The last thing you want in your neighborhood is a bunch of bored teenagers.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Win+d, I wasn't even aware there was an icon for it. If it's not the date, Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, or VPN, I'm all keys

linearchaos , 3 months ago

All my keyboards have Media keys for up, down and mute. The only reason I going to the tray volume if I need to turn the volume down on a single application that doesn't support volume up and down.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

You could do a pi pico project and make yourself a little three keyboard. :)

linearchaos , 3 months ago

You mean you have to remove the plastic label before you throw the bottle into a recycling bin which gets dumped into a landfill never to be seen again.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

But, but, but, they're going to eventually mine all the plastic out of the landfills because at some point will be swimming in so much energy and time that turning it back into the little bit of oil that was used to make it Will be our sacred duty as humans. Tomorrow us will definitely mine all that back out and turn it back into oil right?

linearchaos , 3 months ago

Some people are returning it because they had expectations that using VR would be immediately comfortable. The headset is heavier and more poorly strapped/distributed than 'alternatives' but it's also graphically far more stunning. I honestly hope they stay in the game and push the competitors to up their game. maybe we can get pancake lenses, foveated rendering and eye tracking in a $1500 package.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

The problem we have is energy density. Gasoline is pretty damn dense energy-wise. Storing 20-30 gallons of gas in a tank That's easy and safe to refill is hard to replace.

Lithium ion and lithium iron phosphate batteries are slow to refill.

Hydrogen is kind of neat. You can make it from splitting water with solar or nuclear. It's also a byproduct of the oil industry. And you can fill a tanker up or even an entire train and move fuck ton of hydrogen from one place to another. You can pipe it, people can generated for themselves and get a byproduct of pure oxygen.

But alas, it's still hydrogen. Give it access to the air in a little bit of fire and it makes a big boom. The infrastructure is very expensive to build out, and we're not swimming so much and renewables then it makes sense to bottle it up and sell it to people.

linearchaos , 3 months ago

I really wanted to see solar to hydrogen storage and then a hybrid fuel cell plus battery powerwall. Use all the solar that you get in the morning and not have to burn a battery pack out every 5 to 10 years.

You could do the same with the car, throw a small fuel cell plant in there a couple liters of hydrogen and a decent but not too big battery pack. When you park your car at work or at home it just sits there and slowly charges when you're not paying any attention. If it gets into a true low state or you know you're going to need it the next day to go further you can plug it into your home electric. It's just absolutely reasonable to put enough solar on a lot of houses that you could be completely sufficient from the grid.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

Yuck. I had always envisioned Gattaca to be how we slipped into 1984. I did have screenshotting workstations and having ai make constant reports on users on my bingo cards.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

Ohh no, it's a real article, if you have bypasspaywall clean you can read it

I'll give em a little credit, the article is by Cory Doctorow

But then we have this:

"The internet isn’t more important than the climate emergency, gender justice, racial justice, genocide or inequality. But the internet is the terrain we’ll fight those fights on. Without a free, fair and open internet, the fight is lost before it’s joined."

it costs a dollar to read the article.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

CD is a beast. One hell of a great guy.
I have actually donated money to some of his more worthy causes before.

Ft It's kind of a s*** hole though. And for the paywall to abruptly block you outright not a single word not a hook, which is kind of weird because it's a little bit against what he stands for I know it's not apples to apples...

I read the article. It's kind of disappointing, somewhat of a Nothing Burger.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

They do actually have to re-license their online audio books every so many listens. They have to pay for the same audiobook over and over.

That's why it's a lot better for them to lend out the CDs, a few people are coming in for that.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

It does seem to be some differentiation, I can't walk into my child's school and check out a book. At least I don't think that would fly. It would definitely not be the norm.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

I'm more worried about their definition of buy ;)

linearchaos , 4 months ago

They probably get better metrics off of you running corporate logins and edge. Edge is equivalent to Chrome It supports all the same plugins.

It's probably just secops picking the low hanging fruit dissuade you
subverting network security.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

When I say that Edge is equivalent to Chrome, I don't mean that Edge is exactly Chrome It's not what I said and it's not what I meant. I mean that for all intents and purposes you can use edge for anything you want to use Chrome for. Major differentiation is that you're giving all of your data to Microsoft in lieu of Google. And you could look at all the other chromium base browsers and say yeah you could do the same thing with those but in this case we have a business user. There's businesses are probably already running Microsoft networks. They might very well already have Microsoft SSO. Edge is going to have all kinds of great tie-ins to active directory policy. So secops/it is going to try to force you to use Edge, instead of say Firefox with a barely have any control over or maybe brave where you're going to try TOR or IPFS and just basically be a stain on their HIDS board.

linearchaos , 4 months ago

Jesus man I just explained it to you. Welcome to my block list