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maxinstuff , 14 days ago to Technology in Valve runs its massive PC gaming ecosystem with only about 350 employees

Hint: none of those companies need all of those employees.

maxinstuff , 16 days ago to Technology in US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining

For years crypto investors were warned that it was the wild west, and after everything that’s now happened do people still actually believe this?

maxinstuff , 16 days ago to Technology in US Government Launches New Attempt to Gather Data on Electricity Usage of Bitcoin Mining

We all know the answer - too damn much.

maxinstuff , 22 days ago to Technology in Qualcomm spends millions on marketing as it is found better battery life, not AI features, is driving Copilot+ PC sales

Linux support also appears to be coming along nicely (though not ready yet).

maxinstuff , 27 days ago to Technology in Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag

There’s an aphorism, “give me 10 engineers and I’ll build it in a year, give me a hundred engineers and I can get that down to just five years.”

maxinstuff , 27 days ago to Technology in Telegram says it has 'about 30 engineers'; security experts say that's a red flag

The count of engineers means absolutely nothing.

maxinstuff , 30 days ago to Technology in Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

Is this their way of asking Google for money?

maxinstuff , 30 days ago to Technology in Announcing the Ladybird Browser Initiative

Must be planning on actually shipping something

/s

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

I'm running Ubuntu on a Surface Laptop Studio.
I really like it, though I have not yet gotten the touchscreen and pen working.

If I figure it out (and I remember) I'll let you know.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Bill Gates says not to worry about AI's energy draw

Iceland figured this out some years ago, and now they make heaps exporting computing power to international AI compute buyers.

They do it with a naturally cold climate, and loads of geo-thermal power.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Zuckerberg disses closed-source AI competitors as trying to 'create God'

I think Zuck is right about this, insofar as the comments in the article are concerned.

OpenAI have done a brilliant job of selling the dream - but there will not be one "god model," - there will be many specialised, smaller models.

You can already see it going that way with new hardware shipping with NPU's. These workloads are expensive to run and shipping them to your device is a top priority.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Microsoft has gone too far: including a Game Pass ad in the Settings app ushers in a whole new age of ridiculous over-advertising

For me it's a pragmatic desire to share information with as few megacorporations as possible.

I deal with MSFT for so many other things, not all by choice - and Edge does everything I need it to do.

As with many such questions, it's about the trade-off you are prepared to accept.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Cognify: Revolutionary Prison Concept Uses AI and Brain Implants to Fast-Track Criminal Rehabilitation

This can’t be real?

First of all it’s almost certainly torture and human rights violations.

Secondly, never mind freedom of speech - now you can’t even have your thoughts to yourself.

Fuck. That.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Unfortunately they care more about spying on us themselves.

maxinstuff , 1 month ago to Technology in Shopping app Temu is “dangerous malware,” spying on your texts, lawsuit claims

Do you know if there people who have gone this far analysing the TikTok and WeChat apps?