deegeese
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- Comment on Matt Mullenweg temporarily shuts down some Wordpress.org functions 1 day ago:
A judge told him to stop using his nonprofit to actively sabotage a competitor to his business and he goes crying to everyone that it’s “free labor” to not block them.
- Comment on YouTube “Enhances” Comment Section With AI-Generated Nonsense 1 week ago:
They’re trying to get more viewer engagement for “free” from already burned out video creators.
Imagine if replying to comments on YouTube videos was a part of your actual job, wouldn’t you look for new ways to half-ass the fan service?
- Comment on FFmpeg devs boast of up to 94x performance boost after implementing handwritten AVX-512 assembly code 1 month ago:
Probably some BS market segmentation move.
I imagine they noticed only certain server customers were using those extensions, so decided to limit them to high margin server SKUs.
It would have been a smart move if there weren’t competitors putting that instruction in every CPU.
- Comment on Caption this 2 months ago:
Did they ever fix the orientation?
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Don’t make me show you the wikipedia article.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Yes Mr smarty pants, if all copies of data are corrupted the data is lost. More redundancy is more protection.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Use the checksum to correct the read, just like always. You don’t repair damaged ROM anyway.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Checksums are redundancy.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
So?
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
Why would it be any different from the real data? Checksumming is basically just writing extra copies with math.
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
IT’S A FAKE!
- Comment on Indestructible quartz crystal can store 360TB of data for billions of years 2 months ago:
They say “billions of years” but that sounds like just the sort of thing a stray cosmic ray would ruin.
Maybe they’re planning on using a checksum for error correction like they do with RAID.
- Comment on Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge 2 months ago:
Go read up on CAFE regulations and then tell me weight doesn’t matter.
- Comment on Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge 2 months ago:
False comparison. Smart phones are volume constrained, cars are weight constrained.
- Comment on Ideas for storing electrons or light in a container 2 months ago:
Proposes a new sort of battery powered by magic, then claims it’s a source of free energy.
- Comment on Transparent solar cell technology could allow smartphones and cars to self-charge 2 months ago:
Weight is extremely important in automotive applications, and I see no info on how this compares to the weight of conventional auto glass.
Most “solar on cars” doesn’t get past the gimmick stage because of unfavorable power to weight ratio.
- Comment on GM cuts 1,000 software jobs as it prioritizes quality and AI 3 months ago:
The same GM that dropped CarPlay and Android Auto from all their cars for GM’s home brew infotainment just fired the guys who are supposed to build it?
- Comment on Windows is Now Officially Supported on OLED Steam Deck 4 months ago:
Eww…
- Comment on [Game] Fix For Jackbox Megapicker Corrupting Steam Decks Released - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
I heard Southwest Airlines is migrating from Windows 3.1 to Steam Decks.
- Comment on [Game] Fix For Jackbox Megapicker Corrupting Steam Decks Released - Steam Deck HQ 4 months ago:
I hope it’s a case of the writer glossing over details, like it corrupts its own files in a way Steam can’t understand or recover.
The implication that a malicious app can break the whole OS is scary.
- Comment on Microsoft looking to restrict kernel level access after CrowdStrike incident might help us with our current Anti-Cheat dilemma 4 months ago:
Apple implemented a kernel API for security software and made it good enough that they forced their own tools to use the API.
MS’s own tools depended on kernel access but they tried locking out 3rd party vendors without building a replacement like Apple did.
McAfee and Symantec correctly pointed out how this would be using monopolist powers to block competitors.
Microsoft needs to shut up and do the work to make their kernel secure.
- Comment on Phish-Friendly Domain Registry “.top” Put on Notice 4 months ago:
A .zip TLD does not exactly scream ‘legit’ either.
- Comment on Google URL Shortener Links Will Return a 404 Response 5 months ago:
The responsible way to shut this down without causing link rot is to stop redirecting but return a non-clickable URL so they inconvenience users enough to encourage migration, while not breaking abandoned sites.
- Comment on Sony is killing off recordable Blu-ray, bidding farewell to disc burning 5 months ago:
I don’t think I’ve burned a DVD in 15 years. Sick of hunting for disks to swap.
If it’s worth keeping, it lives on a RAID.
- Comment on Micro LED monitors connect like puzzle pieces in HP multi-monitor concept 6 months ago:
Printer is out of magenta, monitor is disabled.
- Comment on Reddit reintroduces its awards system 7 months ago:
Selling stickers like it’s Facebook in 2007
- Comment on AT&T paid bribes to get two major pieces of legislation passed, US gov’t says 7 months ago:
ATT bribed legislators to cancel their COLR obligations as a monopolist, then had the gall to complain that California would not cancel COLR like in the states where they bribed regulators.
If I did this, I’d be in prison. Why do we allow organized crime to operate in plain sight like this?
- Comment on Asus won’t say if the ROG Ally’s SD card reader will ever be truly fixed 7 months ago:
Which explains their refusal to answer ANY of the reporter’s questions.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 8 months ago:
Read the article. This is about taking shared spectrum and walling off a portion of it for the services that pay extra.
Once that’s allowed, the portion left for net neutrality can be whittled away.
- Comment on ISPs can charge extra for fast gaming under FCC’s Internet rules, critics say 8 months ago:
Remember when the cable companies tried shaking down Netflix?
This is net neutrality all over again.
Next they degrade service for anyone not paying for “positive discrimination“.