ricdeh

ricdeh , 1 day ago (edited 1 day ago)

Edit: Changed introductory wording to be less belligerent. I am sorry if I have caused a significant level of offense.

Just wait for the nuclear shills to flood in and claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. Some people claim that nuclear fission is a sustainable and necessary form of power generation. It is not. Uranium extraction devastates entire landscapes, the construction of nuclear power plants is too expensive (even for SMRs, as the article explains), ergo electricity prices will climb, it is a hugely wasteful use of so many tonnes of concrete (concrete manufacturing is heavy on the environment too), it creates waste that will still haunt us for hundreds of thousands of years (finding geological structures that are guaranteed to be stable that long is difficult), and relative to the initial construction and set-up effort, they don't provide that much energy. We already have methods that can provide us plenty enough electricity that are entirely sustainable by leveraging large-scale atmospheric aerodynamics as well as the largest nuclear fusion reactor at our disposal (the sun). There's simply no need to go nuclear.

ricdeh , 2 days ago

As long as this digital infrastructure is developed by the administration itself, I find the idea of a digital bureaucracy great. But relying on proprietary products would undermine its purpose, imho.

ricdeh , 3 days ago

That's true. In a sense, few of Silicon Valley's software "innovations" from the 1990s and 2000s provided anything that was of actual value. Much of it simply enabled an even greater degree of mindless consumption of entertainment content.

ricdeh , 3 days ago

Sand is not per se the raw resource for integrated circuit production. More specifically, it is silicon dioxide, also referred to as quartz. Quartz is often found in sand, but sand does not necessarily include quartz. As far as I know, the quartz for semiconductor lithography isn't usually extracted from sand, but rather from proper pit mines.

ricdeh , 3 days ago

They knew of the product, but were not informed when it was released. The title of the article is a little misleading.

ricdeh , 3 days ago

That would be very difficult though for a site as large as the Internet Archive. They will most definitely have intricate defense strategies and lots of bandwidth. Cannot really imagine a teenager to be capable of that unless their parents are billionaires.

ricdeh , 5 days ago

nothing you're saying is contributing to a meaningful discussion

The difference between them and you is that they are indeed contributing to the discussion and attempting to propose solutions on how to handle the situation. You, on the other hand, seem hellbent on enforcing your point of view without the slightest willingness or empathy to consider the issue from their perspective.

ricdeh , 5 days ago

It saddens me that you are being downvoted for providing a detailed factual report from an authoritative source. I apologise in the name of all Lemmy for these ignorant people

ricdeh , 5 days ago

A probability of 10^-6^ corresponds to 10^-4^ %, not 10^-6^ %.

ricdeh , 6 days ago

Ngl, I genuinely find the Windows 11 wallpaper (which is not what this article is about) very beautiful.

ricdeh , 7 days ago

Can you read?

ricdeh , 9 days ago

Principally correct, but please note the difference between "open-source software" (OSS) and "free and open-source software" (FOSS). They are two related, but different philosophies, and principally, GNU/Linux belongs to the latter rather than to the former.

ricdeh , 9 days ago

For web browsing, that almost makes no difference. As long as the browser is being updated, the most important attack vectors are closed. Even if there are any exploitable vulnerabilities on the OS, that will stop malware from even getting to them.

ricdeh , 9 days ago

Yes, using the Wine translation layer.

ricdeh , 9 days ago

I don't want that kind of anti-cheat on GNU/Linux. It is invasive to the point of being all-seeing spyware. If one cares so little about one's privacy and system integrity, one should go back to M$ Windows.

ricdeh , 9 days ago

First of all, there are specialised Enterprise distributions of M$ Windows. Furthermore, what ground would any company have to sue M$ on what the latter put in their own operating system?

ricdeh , 11 days ago

My guess is that they don't sell to none incorporated entities at all.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

Yes, but people forget that our brains, and therefore our minds, are also "simply" statistics, albeit very complex.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

Read the article, the ads are part of Google programmes/partnerships with advertisers and are meant to present buyable products that are supposedly relevant to the user's query.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

First of all, it's not the "world's only chip factory". Maybe for some bleeding edge node like 2 nm, but most photolithography systems use larger feature sizes. Secondly, lightnings haven't been an issue anymore for more than a hundred years now.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

You underestimate how extremely complex semiconductor photolithography is. It is the most complex manufacturing process ever conceived by humans to produce the most complex systems ever built by humans.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

The U.S. did not grant any "concessions" to Japan, the Japanese surrendered unconditionally, and rightfully so, it is good that the free world eliminated that maniacal genocidal regime.

ricdeh , 12 days ago

So what? You can do all that work on GNU/Linux.

ricdeh , 12 days ago

Even if that is so, you can simply run them through the Wine translation layer and still get native speeds.

ricdeh , 12 days ago

I wouldn't necessarily present that as a good thing. If operating systems become incompatible with old software, that means that such software cannot be effectively preserved and may be lost to time eventually without a committed maintainer.

ricdeh , 11 days ago

RISC-V is just an ISA, the same for ARM and other RISCs and CISCs. There's no guarantee that RISC-V will be any freer than current CPUs, because the actual implementation and manufacturing are the job of the OEMs.

ricdeh , 15 days ago

while Google continues to become increasingly fierce in trying to detect and block anybody with a rooted device

While that's true, I don't think that anyone is able to tell at this time whether such efforts will ever become effective. Atm, we have things like GApps, so this is a non-issue.

ricdeh , 15 days ago

There are so many way to adequately protect digital information from solar flares. That would be the least of our problems, the actually dangerous part of geomagnetic storms is the severe power outages and the severance of the electrical grid.

ricdeh , 15 days ago

The thing is, we can do better, it is not a technological problem as during the analogue/paper age with chemical degradation, it is a societal and legal issue.

ricdeh , 15 days ago

UniSuper was able to recover data from backups with a different provider after the incident.

ricdeh , 15 days ago

Yk, there are genuine conversations between adults and teenagers outside of paedophilia

ricdeh , 15 days ago

Revolt (it's FOSS)

ricdeh , 16 days ago

Because he thinks of him as a murderer?

ricdeh , 16 days ago

Lol where did you get that from? You can absolutely unlock the bootloader of every Samsung Android phone.

Edit: detail

ricdeh , 17 days ago

Hopefully, not all is lost. He has appealed and hopefully a greater authority will overturn this ruling.

ricdeh , 19 days ago

NASA SLS?

ricdeh , 19 days ago

Lol any kind of flash storage suffers from degradation over time, it doesn't matter whether you attach a computer to it or not

ricdeh , 28 days ago

You can be smug and feel superior all you want, in the end, any contributions you could make would be worthless anyway :)

ricdeh , 1 month ago

Not true. On Samsung devices, at least the Exynos ones, you can install FOSS operating systems like LineageOS or /e/OS. Of course there are still proprietary blobs for drivers, but that's no different than running GNU/Linux on an Intel microprocessor.

ricdeh , 1 month ago

You know though that the United States have "taken down" governments before? Americans do not have any right to feel superior on this issue in the slightest way

ricdeh , 1 month ago

Not my experience. They are usually instant, but you need a flagship device, of course. Otherwise it's comparing apples and oranges.

ricdeh , 1 month ago

It's from AOSP, so any device close to the actual Android baseline should support that. This means that you can enter that mode from LineageOS as well.

ricdeh , 1 month ago

But in the U.S., most people use iPhones :(

ricdeh , 1 month ago

Have the few brain cells of yours ever banded together and maybe considered that if you're conflating "white" with "negative effects for society", then maybe you are indeed a racist?

ricdeh , 1 month ago

I don't want it to have any JavaScript

That's not going to happen. I also don't understand why you wouldn't want JavaScript. All the concerns with it are about the times when you access a website by a proprietary software maker and encounter obfuscated and opaque code that you can only with great difficulty reconstruct what it does. But JavaScript "in the right hands", like on a FOSS website, is perfectly fine and even required to make a webpage that can actually do something more than simply display text or images.

ricdeh , 1 month ago

That's not the reason. The "PC" marketing term originated with the IBM PC, after which every non-Apple device attempted to make some name-wise connection to the former, spawning a series of so called "IBM PC Compatibles" that have principally lived on design-wise until the present day.

ricdeh , 1 month ago

Eternal September

ricdeh , 1 month ago

All modern integrated circuits have a limited life expectancy to them because of the natural decay of the photolithographically created microstructures and doping of the silicon crystal. The main driver behind this progressive loss of functionality is electromigration. For larger feature sizes, which translates to older and less capable technology, electromigration is a negligible effect, but it is particularly bad for high performance modern CPUs, especially those smaller than the 200 nm node. While Voyager's ICs are primitive, they are also old and it is very expected that they fail after several decades.