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• ⁨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.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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’⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  looks around

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Developer of PlayStation 1 emulator DuckStation threatens "removing Linux support entirely" but not yet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ 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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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 ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨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.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’d argue it makes more sense for digital distribution, once the sale has been made in a physical store, there’s no ongoing cost for them.

  A digital storefront has the ongoing cost of downloads and updates, as well as the distributed storage costs (Steam many copies of games all over the world to mean downloads are quick)

  Data transfer costs back in the mid 00s mean that every install of a game like HL2 cost them a dollar or two. If a user ever uninstalled and reinstalled more than a couple of times (a lot more common back then with the limited storage everyone had), couple that with ongoing update transfer costs and most of the profit from a full price sale could be gone. If they never made any profit from the sales, Steam never makes it past its awkward years.

  Data transfer is definitely cheaper these days, but then games are bigger and they probably spend a lot more on datacenter space than back in the day

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Epic reduce their cut to 0% for the first $1 million in revenue for devs on the Epic Games Store⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  30% has been industry standard across any digital storefront until Epic found out they couldn’t beat steam by just paying for exclusivity deals. Then they decided to go down this race to the bottom strategy.

  Steam is good because of that 30%.

  Firstly, data transfer and storage isn’t free and is an ongoing cost for Steam even after purchase. How many times can you think that you installed a game, then deleted it and ultimately downloaded it again—Steam doesn’t get any more money, but that costs them. They could have done all the limited number of downloads or transfer speed limiting shit that used to be more common.

  The profit they make on top goes straight back into Valve. They are a private company without shareholders to please and pay dividends to. This has allowed them to keep reinvesting into Steam and making it the best experience for the consumer they can—they’ve been rewarded with a load of goodwill and market share following that. You can guarantee that we wouldn’t have proton or the steam deck without the money valve made from steam sales.

  Epic doing this is just another attempt to try and tempt developers to choose their store and not list on Steam. They have no interest in actually improving their offering, their only strategy is to try and find ways to put Steam users at a disadvantage and hope that people go “well I guess I’ll go for it on epic if I have to”. They don’t have any problem getting companies to list their games on Epic, this is 100% about manipulating developers to not list on Steam.

  GoG is the alternative to Steam, and offers something that benefits consumers to compete with Steam in DRM free games.

  Friends don’t let friends reward Epic for anti-consumer business practices.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft teases pay-to-patch plan for Windows Server 2025⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  FWIW windows server already is priced by the amount of cores you’ll use. Not saying that isn’t a bit silly, but it’s existing fuckery at least.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨USB 2.0 is 25 years old today — the interface standard that changed the world⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Super old school Apple networking IIRC

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Shenmue beats Doom as the most influential game of all time in BAFTA poll⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah 100%

  This was a public poll after all so it smells a bit like fandom bandwagoning

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The Wipeout-like racer BallisticNG gets Steam Deck Verified⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Wait this game has been around for 7 years and I’m just now finding out about it?!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This seems like it could be huge from an e-waste perspective, particularly regarding electric car batteries

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5.2 brings fixes for Alpha Protocol, The Sims 2, Borderlands 2 and more⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Kinda crazy that Linux can support some older Direct X games better than Windows these days

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Steam Winter Sale 2024 Has Begun!⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Colorado Santa brings the gift of games, your bank balance is the cookies and whisky