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- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 day ago:
Hmm
My immediate reaction is “stay in your lane, Gabe”
- Comment on RAM is ruining everything 1 day ago:
The ram cartel produces exactly enough ram to keep prices stable, increased demand means the produced supply is not sufficient so prices rise
This is not a capacity issue, it’s forced scarcity and collusion laid bare
- Comment on How Snapchat manipulates its users through notifications 3 days ago:
Facebook did this shit too when I last had the app installed
You’d get a notification about one of your friends and clicking it just took you to some random brand’s main feed page
- Comment on YouTube experiments with messaging and video sharing inside its app 3 weeks ago:
I look forward to in 5 years time where my 2 factor Auth app finally adds an arbitrary DM function no one wants
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode 5 weeks ago:
That’s not the same unless something has recently changed. The scheduling just stops it from scheduling them during the day, it doesn’t make sure everything downloads in a single night.
And even then, that’s not a “do all it right now” button
- Comment on Steam Deck gets a new low-power screen-off downloads mode 5 weeks ago:
Now it would be nice if they could add a download all button (if only for Steamdeck)
Going into that download screen and telling 20 games to download now before I’m going on a flight or something is a pain in the arse
- Comment on DirecTV screensavers will show AI-generated ads with your face in 2026 1 month ago:
Damn you guys are sprinting towards cyberpunk dystopia over there aren’t you?
Shame you won’t even get the cool aesthetic as a silver lining, just more tacky gold if anything.
- Comment on RyzenZPilot - Intelligent Power Management for AMD Ryzen 3 months ago:
Holy shit who puts ads on a GitHub.io page?
Was interested, but not with poor judgement like that on display
- Comment on Bluesky now platform of choice for science community 3 months ago:
My brain always processes upside down twitter logo as the sonic team logo
- Comment on CATL announces sodium batteries that cost as little as $10/kWh, a massive price reduction compared to the current average of $115/kWh for lithium-ion batteries. 3 months ago:
Aren’t the current models only about half as dense as lithium Ion?
Taking up twice the space for a tenth of the cost seems like a pretty acceptable trade-off for the house scenario
- Comment on LAPD Eyes ‘GeoSpy’, an AI Tool That Can Geolocate Photos in Seconds 3 months ago:
Surely it would be better for the environment, at least, to hire one of those GeoGuessr guys
- Comment on Go on the hunt for or a simple pilsner in a world full of craft beer in Dude, Where Is My Beer? A New Hop 3 months ago:
Love the art style of this
Wishlisted
- Comment on The New Yorker Asks: Is the A.I. Boom Turning Into an A.I. Bubble? 3 months ago:
It’s been a bubble since GPT2 guys, get with the program.
There is zero chance even half of all these AI product companies still exist in half a decade.
Now if you don’t mind I reckon I’m gonna Alta Vista search for CDNow and then webvan something from pets.com
- Comment on High-severity WinRAR 0-day exploited for weeks by 2 groups 3 months ago:
Maybe some of you finally paid for it, this wouldn’t happen!
… Who is still using it in 2025, though, really?
- Comment on iRobot’s future isn’t looking up 3 months ago:
Oh wow, so somehow I’ve entirely missed Roborock’s existence until now—cheers for the recommendation!
That one with the robotic arm on it is crazy
- Comment on iRobot’s future isn’t looking up 3 months ago:
I’m not in the market for one today, but I’m probably getting a robovac or two in the next couple of years.
Anyone have any recommendations for a good one that can be regarded as relatively trustworthy. I’ve got a home assistant setup already and don’t mind some minor mods/soldering, if that’s the best option, but off the shelf with no faff is obviously ideal.
- Comment on Encryption Made for Police and Military Radios May Be Easily Cracked 3 months ago:
Well I’m sure if you’re a criminal trying to access police radio and you figure it out, it’s not really in your interests to let everyone know about it
- Comment on AOL will end dial-up internet service in September, 34 years after it's debut — AOL Shield Browser and AOL Dialer software will be shuttered on the same day 3 months ago:
Kinda sad in a way
Our first ISP was AOL back around 1995
- Comment on Truth Social’s new AI search engine basically just pushes Fox News 3 months ago:
Wow, perplexity wants their logo on this?
- Comment on One Third of the Web Will Stop Working in 4 Days: Massive-Scale CDN Compromise Starts Wednesday 4 months ago:
Blogs and misreporting research to drive clicks
Name a more iconic combo
- Comment on ChatGPT dissidents, the students who refuse to use AI: ‘I couldn’t remember the last time I had written something by myself’ 4 months ago:
The standard degree course is 3-4 years
I think this year’s intake will be the first where everyone at the uni will be post-chatgpt.
Between the pandemic and LLMs, I honestly reckon my uni experience from the end of the 00s is completely alien to those doing it today
- Comment on AI slop is ruining all of our favorite places to scroll 4 months ago:
looks around
- Comment on Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet 4 months ago:
There’s also a maintained fork called Swanstation that is related to the retroarch project
- Comment on Look Mum No Computer is a musical twin-stick shooter action-RPG that looks wild 4 months ago:
!!!
I had no idea this was a thing!
Big fan of LMNC, so I’ve already bought it
- Comment on VMware reboots its partner program again – and it looks like smaller players are out 4 months ago:
And VMware goes for another rotation around the drain
The fact they won’t sell you a perpetual licence for a hypervisor you run on your hardware, is possibly the most ridiculous subscription model I’ve seen so far
- Comment on Reddit’s UK users must now prove they’re 18 to view many types of content 4 months ago:
I was gonna say all this is going to do is make a load of people start using VPNs, who would have otherwise had no reason to
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 4 months ago:
Not necessarily, been a little while since I checked on it, but my understanding was fuchsia was Google’s home grown replacement for the Linux kernel.
It’s in use already on some of their nest devices IIRC and there’s always been speculation that eventually they may introduce it as an alternative kernel for Android (or chrome OS, though obviously less likely now) one day
- Comment on Google Plans To Combine ChromeOS and Android Into Single Platform 4 months ago:
Lol bit of a blast from the past with the old logo in the thumbnail image
- Comment on Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI 7 months ago:
Potentially related: velvetshark.com/ai-company-logos-that-look-like-b…
- Comment on Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store 7 months ago:
Surely the sales are an equivalent there? Both ultimately mean the total price goes down and the store’s cut goes down accordingly.
Don’t get me wrong, they’re definitely profiting these days. $11bn is a massive amount of revenue* for a company with the number of staff they do. But Steam are going to have disproportionately high datacenter costs compared to most other companies. As a rough comparison: Watching an hour of netflix at HD quality is about 1GB of transfer or so, Call of Duty is something like a quarter of a terabyte. Someone who downloads call of duty once would have to watch 250h of netflix to cost them the same.
Then remember they’re likely paying their staff very well, I would not be surprised at all if well over half of their revenue just goes to operational costs before any reinvestment.
*Checked the figure was revenue and not profit.