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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Amazon is shutting down Freevee⁩ ⁨⁨39⁩ ⁨minutes⁩ ago⁩:

  I think Wil Wheaton had something that was supposed to air on Freevee, the link his PR person gave him just threw you back into the Amazon video page, I’ve never actually seen any information about the service or a working video stream surface.

  It seems like a lot of places are ready to throw millions of dollars into system and just never freaking marking them.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  You can get a lot done currently with ARC. The mobile ARC versions share system memory, So if you get a mini PC with ARC and upgrade it to 96GB, you can share system ram with the GPU and load decently large models. They’re a little slow it not being vram and all, but still useful (and cheap)

  www.youtube.com/watch?v=xyKEQjUzfAk

  I have it running on a zenbook duo with 32GB so I can’t load the 70B models, but I works shockingly well.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI PCs flow into distribution pipeline, but who wants them?⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I certainly don’t wan to run windows on it :)

  I’ve been running llama keep my telemetry out of the hands of Microsoft/Google/"open"AI. I’m kind of shocked how much I can do locally with a half assed video card, and offline model and a hacked up copy of searxng.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s because crappy mobile game art looks like 1993 computer games :)

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Godot Engine 4.4 dev 4 released with interactive in-game editing⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  Oh damn, I just started learning Godot yesterday…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams⁩ ⁨⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  I worked for a healthcare / health insurance place some time ago. They monitored absolutely everything. They had everything. We ran appliances to Man in the Middle HTTPS sites, We had sneaky SMTP servers that would detect credit card numbers or social security numbers block the emails from going out and send them to a secure web portal. The recipient would just get a message that there’s a secure message waiting for them and they have to go login and retrieve it.

  These days if you run slack Enterprise, The workspace managers can get access to even the most private of chats. I’m not sure about teams I’ve managed to stay away from it. I believe you could do this in Gchat but it would probably require a lot of legwork maybe somebody makes an application for it already I don’t know.

  I didn’t mean to say that no companies would go for it has anybody even just running small business versions of software don’t have access to that kind of thing, The places that have any intent on decent operational security are going to want their tentacles into all the things.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Blizzard just quietly released Warcraft 1 and 2 remasters, and they look like Zynga games made by a blind duck⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  shrug

  Dunno, I was involved on some of the Zynga titles, so maybe I’m biased.

  Two looks really decent. Maybe One could have had a few more cosmetic upgrades. It looks to me like maybe they leaned in a little hard into HDR.

  If they were going to take the art much further than they did it probably would have been prudent just to make a new version.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Signal gets new video call features, making it a viable alternative to Zoom, Meet and Teams⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  TBF, the level of privacy afforded at work will never be usable in most companies.

  At scale, it’s a security nightmare. PII, HIPAA, PCI, If OPSEC can’t at the very least go back and see what happened in private channels, it’s going to be a hard sell.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Terrified friends burn to death trapped in Tesla as doors won't open after crash⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago⁩:

  A: the driver knows they’re locked from the inside

  B: they’re always locked form the inside, they didn’t just stop working because the car lost power

  C: lithium fire/smoke makes thinking more difficult than an ICE engine fire

  EV complicates it

  Tesla made it really bad by electric-only locks.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Lack Of Interest In The PS5 Pro Is Forcing Scalpers To Sell Them For A Loss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  sounds like if you can’t scalp it inside the return period, you probably shouldn’t have bought it in the first place.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Facial Recognition Firm Announces Way To Punish Retail Workers, Shoppers For Forming Relationships⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  “If you go into a shop and you pick up a few groceries, usually you would pick any of the cashiers that is around and you go scan your goods,” he said. “When someone is planning a sweethearting theft, they will always go to the same cashier, which is most of the time a relative of theirs, and this is an anomaly in the behavior compared to the other customers. Our system is able to identify this anomaly and alert on that.”

  I usually go to one of two cashiers because they are faster and actually know what they are doing. I will always return to them simply to save time.

  The system sounds costly. It’s merely another version of the “inventory robots” that never gained traction. They’ll end up spending six figures per store on hardware that constantly triggers false alerts until they eventually shut it down. Weren’t groceries supposed to be fully NFC by now, allowing you to scan everything at once on your way to the door?

  The managers know who’s gonna steal. They see them sweet-talking and complaining about fixed income.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Hacker says they banned ‘thousands’ of Call of Duty gamers by abusing anti-cheat flaw⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Had that happen once on a game. Guy was exploiting a bug for free currency, selling his service to add money to peoples accounts. Studio started banning people purchasing, Exploiter started giving away money to vast swaths of people.