CompactFlax

@CompactFlax@discuss.tchncs.de

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Data centres should be considered civilian infrastructure

  You don’t get to make that decision if you also hosts military services.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Hey, that’s true!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Iranian missile blitz takes down AWS data centers in Bahrain and Dubai — Amazon reportedly declares “hard down” status for multiple zones⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is so low on the list of things to care about in the current situation it’s ridiculous.

  Unless it’s the only datacentre hosting critical infrastructure, then you can care, but not on a weekend.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨"At this rate, why make game art at all?": Nvidia DLSS 5 demands a sale damaging and stock tanking fightback, argues New Blood boss⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  As if nvidia and nvidia’s shareholders considers gamers to be customers in 2026.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The worst timeline⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s way more profitable to audit corporations than fight Eastern European crackers and Asian “distributors”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Block lays off 40% of workforce as it goes all-in on AI tools⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  To be clear, Muskrat blew holes in the hull of a sinking ship when he took over, but they absolutely had too many people.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨First highway segment in U.S. wirelessly charges electric heavy-duty truck while driving⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Conceptually neat, but the reality is that wireless charging for even small devices like phones is a pretty significant waste of energy, at scale. The amounts of energy involved with wirelessly charging a heavy truck - or even car - would be unconscionably large.

  It’s a bit like uber with their not-a-bus bus service. Humans already invented a solution that works really well. It’s called a pantograph.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Waymo says its self-driving taxis will take customers on freeways for the first time⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Liability.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OpenAI losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in AI company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’m not sure where it will land. MS and Google are funding a lot of it so they stand to lose a lot of money.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft's OpenAI losses hidden as part of $4.7 billion 'other' expense — stake in AI company still doesn't turn a profit as companies grapple with ongoing contract negotiation⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  “Stake in OpenAI doesn’t return profit”

  And I don’t see how it could. Sell copilot at a loss, which consumes ChatGPT (sold at a loss) which runs on Azure (exchanged at below cost for stock in OpenAI).

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder how it compares in functionality - to be clear, there’s no functionality I’m aware of that would require cloud (perhaps historical data).

  Still, they’re wildly expensive.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AWS crash causes $2,000 Smart Beds to overheat and get stuck upright⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I’ve heard these beds are actually quite effective at helping you sleep and then wake up more naturally.

  But they have wrapped entirely local events (it’s all just timers, folks) behind a cloud-exclusive subscription and the product is useless on a sunny day like we had yesterday.

  They’re enormously expensive and the subscription serves no useful purpose other than to line the pockets of the investors.

  I have a strict rule of no cloud dependency in my house. Otherwise, I’d be interested - if the price was remotely reasonable.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Electron apps are causing system-wide lag on MacOs Tahoe⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Indeed! It must be a lot of lag to notice a difference.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨AI experts return from China stunned: The U.S. grid is so weak, the race may already be over⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  China decided to end their dependence on foreign fossil fuels.

  The USA decided to double down on oil.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Windows 11 Start Menu Revealed as Resource-Heavy React Native App, Sparks Performance Concerns⁩ ⁨⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I wonder if the new right-click menu is also part of this “improvement”, because it too is slow. Actually, a lot of stuff that used to be really fast in Explorer is now not nearly as fast.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Microsoft is putting AI actions into the Windows File Explorer⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Because explorer is already so performant in windows 10+.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨The AI Hiring Pause Is Officially Here⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  After they laid off the senior people a couple years ago, AI’s terrible ideas are indistinguishable from the terrible ideas their junior senior PMs come up with. That, and MS is trying very, very hard to make AI a thing, because they totally missed mobile, invested insane amounts into OpenAI, and don’t have any other ideas.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Duolingo said it just doubled its language courses thanks to AI⁩ ⁨⁨11⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I am not a biscuit.

  The owl has a menu. I do not have a menu.

  How much worse can it get?