slazer2au
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- Comment on [deleted] 2 days ago:
Just going to ignore rule 7 and 8?
- Comment on How Many Users Can a 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM Server Actually Handle? 5 days ago:
Because the entertainment industry set that as a standard. Oh look a popular programme, let’s make the same one but just different enough to not be a total ripoff.
- Comment on How Many Users Can a 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM Server Actually Handle? 6 days ago:
I swear I watched a YouTube video on this exact thing a couple days ago.
- Comment on Dutch regulator fines Uber $966m for automating driver suspensions 1 month ago:
Meta, Google, Apple and Amazon all face multiple fines, though headline fines are often reduced or reversed after years-long appeals processes. Donald Trump has criticized such fines.
Boooooo!!!
- Comment on Welcome To The Resistance: Meet The Workers Dodging (And Sabotaging) Their Employer's AI Mandates 2 months ago:
I do that by referencing the other company policy that says I am not to stick customer information into ai systems, and the customers policy of external contractors are not to export their data outside the EU. as I only work with customer systems my hands are tied both ways.
- Comment on Trump says Exxon and Chevron made ‘too much money’ off high oil prices during Iran conflict: ‘I don’t like it’ 2 months ago:
But will he do anything about it? Nope.
- Comment on Airbus moves critical apps off AWS to a French cloud 2 months ago:
Hope the didn’t go with OVHCloud in a shipping container.
- Comment on What Features Matter Most in a Secure Team Communication Platform? 3 months ago:
This seems like an advert hiding as a question.
What other platforms have you ruled out that are not run by a megacorp?
- Comment on What are you all buying during the Steam summer sale? 3 months ago:
Finally got around to buying Capitan of Industry.
- Comment on US | Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data 3 months ago:
Meta made $56 billion in the first 3 months of this year.
Google made $109 Billion in the first 3 months of this year.
Massachusetts population is about 7 million.
Assuming all 7 million people complained and the max fine of $5K was applied that totals $35 billion. That is a best case scenario. We all know that the fine will be less then $1K per person and they would not apply all 7 million people. - Comment on US | Massachusetts votes to pass new privacy rights bill that bans sale of precise location data 3 months ago:
And watch as every company in the world ignores the law because what are you going to do about it?
- Comment on Underwater Data Centers Are Real, But The Hype Is Getting Ahead Of The Engineering 3 months ago:
Then you look at the engineering and go ’ oh wait, they are way better at this then me and know how to do it properly ’
- Comment on Lasagna dreams, spaghetti reality 4 months ago:
Been a while since I played space ninjas.
- Comment on An Experiment Put LLMs in Charge of Radio Stations. You’ll Never Guess How It Went 4 months ago:
You’re saying language models can’t run a business? Who knew? Apart from Anthropic who did the vending machine business and failed, or Microsoft who failed to correlate account data.
- Comment on Windows 11 looks and runs better without transparency or animations—here's how to disable both 4 months ago:
Hasn’t windows always run better with those disabled. I remember turning off a bunch of that stuff in XP.
- Comment on Woman’s Talkspace Therapy App Sessions Exposed in Court 4 months ago:
And this is why you don’t use apps for PPI.
- Comment on Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors 4 months ago:
That’s a known thing though. Sovereign tech is more about the software then hardware.
Microsoft admits that if it receives a data request from the US government for data stored in a European Azure region owned by a European company with no US presence they will have to comply. Intel, AMD, Seagate, NetApp don’t have that problem.
- Comment on Americans keep moving to Texas and Florida — but one other red state is growing even faster 5 months ago:
It’s South Carolina. Saved you all a click.
- Comment on Fortnite developers can make AI characters now — just don’t try to date them 5 months ago:
I had no plan to.
- Comment on Websites that hijack your back button must stop by June 15 or face Google's wrath 5 months ago:
Pressing the back button must take you back to the previous page you were on or else google will lower your page rating.
- Comment on UK government delays AI copyright rules amid artist outcry 6 months ago:
This is something the US has got right, copy protection should only apply to works by humans.
- Comment on Spotify puts the brakes on Developer Mode with stricter API rules 7 months ago:
Because in order to get to that stage you have likely signed away some rights to your music.
- Comment on Majority of CEOs report zero payoff from AI 8 months ago:
PWC: Have you tried (latest buzz technology)? Your competition, does and you don’t want to be left behind. It costs $30M over 5 years and will save you 12% of your employee costs.
Business: Sign me up!
3 years later.
Business: PWC! Buzzword tech isn’t working. It costs more then you said and cost us more in employees.
PWC: Have you tried (latest buzz technology)? Your competition, does and you don’t want to be left behind. It costs $40M over 5 years and will save you 13% of your employee costs.
- Comment on Start-up plans to use terahertz radio frequencies for communication between servers instead of copper or optical connections 9 months ago:
They are reinventing physical multiplexing with waveguide…
One of their cables has 8 waveguides inside. Sounds like mpo based QSFP.
- Comment on GeForce Now’s 100-hour monthly limit goes live in 2026 9 months ago:
Ah yes, 1st of Jan 2026. In 4 days…
- Comment on Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama. 10 months ago:
And here are those companies making that decision
- Comment on Criminal court ditches American software giant– Can Dutch universities do without Microsoft? 10 months ago:
Look at Airbus.
The are in year 7 of an 18 month migration from Office to google workspaces.
theregister.com/…/microsoft_airbus_migration/ - Comment on Scammers using AI to impersonate real lawyers on Fiverr 10 months ago:
People go to Fiverr for legal advice?
- Comment on Simple new engine sucks power from the night sky 10 months ago:
The upshot is that this arrangement allowed the engine to produce 400 milliwatts of power per square meter
Right… And solar is 150-300 watts. While a neat poc it likely won’t go anywhere.
- Comment on Windows insider creates Windows 7 install measuring just 69MB — system boots, but has been pruned so severely ‘virtually nothing can run’ for now 11 months ago:
So is that Alpine Windows or Arch Windows?