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- Comment on Texas governor signs online safety law in blow to Apple and Google 1 day ago:
It’s a decent enough plan, Watch his support crumble and seconds.
Hi, Verizon I need a phone that’s not running Android or iOS…
- Comment on The sun is killing off SpaceX's Starlink satellites 2 days ago:
So the article says that it can reduce their lifespan by up to 10 days.
A quick check on the lifespan of the satellite, They claim they’re about 5 years.
I’d say the article title got done splainin’ to do.
In other news, how can we help the sun do better, 10 days is not enough.
- Comment on Microsoft set to pull the plug on Bing Search APIs in favor of AI alternative 2 weeks ago:
DDG doesn’t just use Bing, but Bing is one of the things they use.
I suspect that in time, all search reuslts will come from AI. I also suspect that it will eventually get good enough that it won’t matter from a finding what you’re looking for perspective. Ever since backlinks became passé, companies have been trying to do pretty much what AI is trying to do, get meaning from scraping rather than just programmatically give you the best word soup.
Where I really fear for our collective experience is the ability of the AI to sell us on things without it being an obvious sell. “board games 2025” becomes "return a list of boardgames that are popular in 2025, but give the results for pages that include wizards of the coast games near the top of their lists or that show them in a particularly positive light and be sure to include more negative results for game from other companies.
- Comment on EA employees "upset and confused" at return to office mandate 2 weeks ago:
You know what’s more effective at saving money than tax breaks? Not having a huge office you don’t need :)
just sayin’
- Comment on Nintendo of America might turn your Switch into an expensive paperweight if you mod your console or install any "unauthorized" games, new policy warns 2 weeks ago:
They’re just taking notes from the US tech companies.
- Comment on Showing your ID to get online might become a reality 3 weeks ago:
If you make it opt out by default, They could just design the software to not let you enter the page unless you opt in. Often get the page opt out get a nice advertisement for the service.
Even using cookies to help with load balancing is a pain in the ass these days. There’s a fuck ton of legitimate reasons to use cookies, If you want to stop tracking, Make it illegal to track people and sell advertising data based on it.
- Comment on Over 250 CEOs sign open letter supporting K-12 AI and computer science education 3 weeks ago:
All this AI pressure is coming from somewhere. I think Altman got to all the CEOs and convinced them the day I was the future and they’re all heavily invested stock-wise.
They’re all starving to get more AI and back to the office because their personal fortunes are tied up in those endeavors.
- Comment on Indian court orders blocking of Proton Mail 3 weeks ago:
Nah, they outed a French activist due to a court order. Maybe they’re learning though…
- Comment on Feds Threaten Wikipedia After Right-Wing Media Uproar 4 weeks ago:
No need
Install the free offline reader software from here
Then grab what content you want from dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/
Here’s English Wikipedia, with pictures from 2024 dumps.wikimedia.org/kiwix/zim/wikipedia/)wikipedia_en_all_maxi_2024-01.zim
names with maxi have all the pictures names with mini few pictures and abridged content names with nopic have no pictures and abridged content
if it says science or basketball, it’s just things flagged as science or things flagged as basketball.
- Comment on Yahoo wants to buy Chrome 5 weeks ago:
Sounds fine to me, I’ll continue to keep not using it
- Comment on Elon Musk Cuts Funding for Internet Archive 5 weeks ago:
Kind of sounds like a bot. Thing is, I agree with it so I’m torn.
- Comment on Meet Neptune, a TikTok alternative where creators can hide likes and follower counts | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
It’s possible that it’s just people managing contractors. You used to have to really blaze trails to make stuff like this happen But now, every part of the equation is a solved task. Most of the work is weaving together the APIs of a dozen different storage and hardware as a service companies.
It’s also possible that a stressed out startup doesn’t take time to update their about page beyond their management when they’re looking to get seed capital.
In any case, the likely either be sued or bought out before they get any kind of serious momentum. The broligarchs don’t take kindly to competition.
- Comment on Google Cloud’s so-called uninterruptible power supplies caused a six-hour interruption 1 month ago:
Happened at a non Google data center near me years ago. Even though the PDUs were powered by the battery matrix all the time, the sense on the switchover relays from utility to generator were miswired after some critical hardware maintenance was done.
At the next generator test, when the generator shut down at the end of the test the battery is refused to switch back to utility.
It was a really big data center, and a really big power feed. There was no easy way to manually fix it because the contactors were so big that it was an arc flash danger. They lost a good portion of a day getting a power engineer on site to confirm the state of everything and get them reconnected.
- Comment on 4chan hacked and taken offline. Hacker reopens /qa/ and leaks all admins emails. 1 month ago:
techcrunch.com/…/notorious-image-board-4chan-hack…
The’re kind wild west about Doxing people. They’re all about to be doxed.
There’s a lot of Alt-Right on there.
- Comment on Shopify CEO tells teams to consider using AI before growing headcount 1 month ago:
All these CEO’s are getting cold calls from OpenAI, sitting through a 30 minute high pressure sales pitch that tells them they can do 3x the work with 1/3 the staff for a small monthly fee that scales with work done and they’re all slobbering to buy it.
- Comment on Perplexity wants to buy TikTok and open-source its algorithm 2 months ago:
Somebody is looking for video training data?
- Comment on Will an AI Bot Decide if You Get That Job? 2 months ago:
Hell No, We use pickerwheel.com
- Comment on Undocumented 'Backdoor' Found In Chinese Bluetooth Chip Used By a Billion Devices. 2 months ago:
Sounds like the attack is Bluetooth based itself.
So if somebody has command and control over any IoT device with Bluetooth…
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
I lived through those, once was enough, thank you.
- Comment on Brother accused of locking down third-party printer ink cartridges via forced firmware updates, removing older firmware versions from support portals 2 months ago:
Oh Brother.
Seriously though, they were like our last bastion of sane printers.
We may have to concede that the home printer market is no longer sustainable.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 2 months ago:
I so love me some VLDL. thanks for the share.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 2 months ago:
You have a schedule And it’s a pipeline
When design calls for a change, you need art and dev to do more.
If CI takes forever and devs are fighting for perf, everyone gets backed up.
You can see in the releases, gameplay often takes a backseat to pretty.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 2 months ago:
We don’t. But I am in the games industry and I can make some pretty solid guesses.
There’s a hell of a lot of titles coming out with years and years of development time. They’re having to port the engine two or more times during that development cycle only to come out to moderately shitty reviews
They’re killing themselves on 4K, high refresh rate, dynamically lit games like the beauty of a game is going to make up for it being shallow and boring.
I hope it comes out and knocks it out of the park. But if it doesn’t knock it out of the park, I hope they didn’t spend another couple of years trying to make it look pretty only to end up as being yet another mixed review release.
- Comment on The Senate Passed The TAKE IT DOWN Act, Threatening Free Expression and Due Process 2 months ago:
My own summary
The bills stated purpose: The bill is meant to speed up the removal of non-consensual intimate imagery, or NCII, including videos that imitate real people, a technology sometimes called “deepfakes.”
The bill suffers from overly broad definitions and contains no protections from griefing. (Like YouTube takedowns from people that don’t own content)
The bill has been passed by the Senate but can be stopped by the house
- Comment on YouTube says it will show fewer mid-roll ads that it thinks will interrupt sentences or action sequences, and more at “natural break points” like pauses or transitions. 2 months ago:
I am absolutely certain at some point they will give us a well encrypted multiple key change per minute mpeg stream At real time bit rates only. I think that’s their final form. It’s also possible they could just run the commercials on 2/3 of the screen while our streams are running.
Our final form will be to use desktop apps and calm skip to take the commercials out of the stream or block them on the picture and picture page and host our own preferred viewership on our own media servers for our own consumption. Or maybe a torrenting community springs up around this and YouTube content is now just torrented.
- Comment on Fable has been delayed until 2026 because the studio needs more time, says Xbox 2 months ago:
I don’t know, maybe we should stop trying to exactly recreate real life in every game and spend 9/10 of that polish time one gameplay and fun…
- Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads 2 months ago:
Then you might as well just host your own PeerTube instance
Your average person is not capable of setting up, hosting, backing up and maintaining a proper Peertube instance. A large part of my dayjob is in hosting and infra, and I have set up a PT instance before. Honestly, even as far as average hosting goes, their setup is kind of needy. Most dockers are like start, port, go these days. As soon as you mandate that they have DNS and a working 443 upfront, you’re kicking most people out before they start.
The standalone app you talk about probably doesn’t work in practice.
There is no challenge there that cannot be overcome by application architecture. I don’t see anything that is a deal braker, and there is definitely a need out there, but it’s a damn big project and the makers of PT aren’t just doing straight up charity.
What happens when the user shuts down their computer? Indexer loses heartbeat, content shows up as unavailable. Configurable by admin to disappear from searches after x time. Current watchers: If enough people were watching the stream currently/recently, they’d keep going from each other’s cache as peertube will actually peer. (I’ve tested the peer part, it does what’s on the tin) If no one has future segments, they’d get kicked out same as if the server went offline. Most content creators would be pretty careful not to do this. It would also be an interesting thing to explore the mirroring functionality and have small creators team up and mirror each others data, doing a kind of remote replica between friends thing.
What could work is a 2-in-1 solution, where a content creators video backup also functions as a peertube instance.
That’s actually kind of my point. It’s mostly Peertube, but without users trying to deal with nginx/apache, redis/postgres, port 80/443 ips issues, SMTP, DNS and SSL. Someone who is capable of dealing with those parts just stitches them on as remote content. The servers don’t pay for storage or most of the networking and they help the clients with visibility and getting around ISP limits.
If we try to setup end users with the whole shebang, they’re going to run into issues when the Redis goes RO from running out of space/memory, or when they have disk issues and the postgres goes tits up. (or god forbid PT needs a DB upgrade or something) They don’t know about services and recovery, they’re not capable of setting up backups or running restores.
Hell maybe the app is also the consumption part as well. You watch peertube by running the PT desktop app. Then we can deal with self signed certs. run people on sqlite and local shared host memory instead of redis. We’d still need remote trackers to help orchestrate the DHT.
I duuno, it’s big, it’s pain. I think if it were available, big tech (and honestly big brother) would be shitting themselves.
- Comment on Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan 2 months ago:
I mean there are 18-650’s as well, but they’re bulky and cylinders suck for packing efficiency.
I’d like to lightly armored, rectangular pouch cells the half the width and thickness of a deck of playihg cards. Standard sized, replacable in phones/laptops/tablets. Something like the old nokio batteries, but with upgraded chemistry, and maybe twice as thick.
- Comment on Twitch is limiting streamers to 100 hours of highlights and uploads 2 months ago:
The server itself is great, splitting services out is FAB. The content mirroring… chefs kiss.
To be entirely clear, what’s missing and what we need is a Mac, Windows and Linux stand alone app. (low configuration) You point it to your videos from local storage/network and they become a locally hosted resource (torrent like), You then connect to a real hosted server, where your indexed, media and meta are populated. Your app gets port forwarded, so the public server is just indexing you and pointing people to you.
If something happens to the public server you’re on, you point to a new public server and all your content still exists. Pirate radio style.
Since you log into the public server as a user, they can still moderate you as they see fit, block your content, or mirror your content to their server with the already existing features. If you don’t like how they handle you, you can move to another server, or host your own somewhere.
This puts the onus of base storage and the first hop of network connectivity on the content maker. But disks are cheap, and the network is peer-based, so if you get popular, your own watchers will help each other out.
- Comment on Chinese researchers develop method to revive lithium batteries that significantly extends their lifespan 2 months ago:
I’d love to see a situation where we have a standard gum stick battery and everything just runs on multiples of those that we can replace.