FreedomAdvocate
@FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 1 week ago:
Pulling numbers out of thin air
No, 95% is Nvidia market share.
20%+ difference is massive. 10% is massive to many pc players.
and so are lots of people
Just a drop in the ocean compared to the number of people who are happy gaming on windows, and these differences are making sure that Linux isn’t gaining any significant ground. Nvidia may as well be the only player in the GPU market, and with how poorly their gpus work on Linux, it’s a huge problem for Linux.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 1 week ago:
It’s set at the user level, being able to log on to the computer with a current account means nothing.
- Comment on Valve CEO Gabe Newell’s Neuralink competitor is expecting its first brain chip this year 1 week ago:
I’m not sure neuralink could be considered a “fuck up”? It’s the closest thing we have to legit magic.
- Comment on A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It 1 week ago:
Missing a bit of context from the article, clickbait headlines tend to do that (not aimed at OP but at the article writer):
The person uploaded a bunch of AI training data to his Google drive account. That training data has CSAM in it.
Like it or not, he uploaded CSAM to his Google drive account, which is why his account was banned. Will they unban him? Maybe, but doing so would give pedos a loophole to let them upload CSAM to Google drive without getting banned - just claim it’s AI training data.
- Comment on Microsoft Teams is getting a new location tracking feature that lets bosses snoop on staff – research shows it could cause workforce pushback 1 week ago:
Admins can’t just log in to your Microsoft teams account.
- Comment on iPhone case with e-ink display lets users read books and comics without screen glare 2 weeks ago:
Why do you think nobody does it anymore? Because no one cared about it or used it.
- Comment on Digital ID debate: Privacy group warns of 'unprecedented tracking' and 'surveillance' 2 weeks ago:
The government: “That’s the point”
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 2 weeks ago:
Did you not look at the results when the user has a Nvidia GPU? Or when ray tracing is enabled? if you can even enable it on the Linux version, of course. Or when res goes above 1080p up to 4K?
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 2 weeks ago:
free and superior OS
Windows is essentially free too btw. 99% of people don’t need to buy a license, an unactivated copy will do just fine.
Superior? I guess that’s debatable, definitely not an objective fact.
What most people will overlook just to go “yeah suck that windows!” is the GPU market share - Nvidia has 95%! That means that Linux will be significantly worse than Windows for 95% of people.
- Comment on Microsoft is quietly walking back its diversity efforts 2 weeks ago:
Just hire the best person for the job, no matter what colour skin they have or what sex they are. Anything other than that will always be racist and/or sexist.
- Comment on RIP Windows: Linux GPU Gaming Benchmarks on Bazzite 2 weeks ago:
RIP Windows? Lol no, the tests all showed that at best Linux might get a few percent better performance if you have an AMD GPU, which virtually no one does, and at worst your games run significantly worse than on Windows, and you can’t play most of the big online MP games.
- Comment on Microsoft Can't Keep EU Data Safe From US Authorities 1 month ago:
Can’t. Legally.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 month ago:
Yeah, if it’s essential that the students prove that they can write a report/essay - in person, hand written or on a offline computer.
The other better option is that you don’t give assignments that are just written essays and book reports.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 month ago:
Bingo.
If a school keeps giving their students assignments that current tools can answer easily, the school needs to change their assignments.
- Comment on Tech companies don’t care that students use their AI agents to cheat 1 month ago:
Nor should they. It’s up to the educational institutions to move with the times and make assessments that make sense in the current world.
- Comment on YouTube Quietly Erased More Than 700 Videos Documenting Israeli Human Rights Violations 1 month ago:
Paywalled.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 1 month ago:
And you don’t have preview updates enabled unless you know what you’re signing up for, or you’re too dumb to understand what you’re signing up for.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
Ask it to divide integer 1 by integer 2. Explain to me why the CPU hands back 0 and not 0.5.
Because integers are whole numbers by design. You don’t get 0, you get 0 with remainder 1.
Blindly saying such issues can be overcome is, imho, the truly stupid statement
I’m not saying they definitely will be - I’m saying that blindly saying that they definitely will not ever be overcome is stupid.
- Comment on The age verification effect: adult site traffic plummets, VPN use soars 1 month ago:
You’re talking about America, which has nothing to do with the UK doing this.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
There is always going to be a need for some people to have personal vehicles and electricity is a damn sight better than gasoline.
When that electricity is generated from solar panels and wind turbines that require endless mining of non-renewable sources, and create endless landfill, no, it’s not a damn sight better than gasoline. It’s causing significantly more environmental damage than gasoline is.
The point is that sometimes you want something that cannot be directly profitable but which is of a certain benefit to society.
You want that to be publicly owned, not lining the pockets of private enterprise. If a private company needs subsidies to exist, it should be left to fail. If it needs subsidies, it should be publicly owned.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
Technological impossibilities exist all the time.
This isn’t one of those times. We’re just scratching the surface of AI. Anyone saying anything absolute like it’s impossible for them to not hallucinate is saying “No one should listen to me”.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Public service spending isn’t a subsidy.
Nothing about EVs are “renewable”. The government subsidies for “renewables” are one of the biggest examples of corruption we’ve ever seen.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
They don’t subsidise the purchase price of petrol cars.
Should the oil industry be subsidised? Absolutely not, they would still be extremely profitable without the subsidies. It’s pure corruption by politicians who want to help their mates, help keep the donations flowing, and want to position themselves for cushy exec jobs and board seats when they leave politics.
The EV market is different though, as this situation shows. The oil industry doesn’t need subsidies. The EV market, as well as the “renewables” market, do.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
What computers do now was considered “impossible” once. What cars do now was considered “impossible” once. That’s my point - saying absolutes like “impossible” in tech is a giant red flag.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
Because corruption, mostly.
Oil however is a bit different as the world would literally collapse without it. We have no replacement for it. We need it.
- Comment on GM cuts thousands of EV and battery factory workers | TechCrunch 1 month ago:
If a product can only exist with huge government subsidies, it’s probably not ready for the market. These cuts are because of the government cutting federal tax rebates for purchasing an EV.
I love EVs, and my next car will likely be one, but if you can’t make an EV at a price point that people will buy them at without the government essentially using taxpayer money to discount them, then you shouldn’t be making EVs.
- Comment on LLMs Will Always Hallucinate 1 month ago:
It is, therefore, impossible to eliminate them
If anyone says something like this in regard to technology they’re raising a red flag about themselves immediately.
- Comment on Microsoft Task Manager now tasking PCs with running multiple copies of itself 1 month ago:
Oh no!
The issue, which turned up in the non-security preview update for Windows 11 (KB5067036)
Oh so it’s nothing. Don’t join the Windows Insider program unless you are ok with getting bugs, and when you do get bugs - report them. That’s what it’s for! It’s NOT for regular everyday Joe Blow to run on their personal machine.
- Comment on Microsoft's decision to axe Windows 10 is driving Apple PC sales growth — users buy Macs instead of AI PCs despite Microsoft’s push for Copilot+ PCs 1 month ago:
The problem is that Windows 11 guts the muscle memory that older consumers have built up from using prior generations of Microsoft Windows.
What on earth are you talking about? lol
- Comment on Twitter says passkey reset isn't about a security issue – it's to finally kill off twitter.com 1 month ago:
“To clarify: this change is not related to any security concern, and only impacts Yubikeys and passkeys – not other 2FA methods (such as authenticator apps),” X Safety stated.
“Security keys enrolled as a 2FA method are currently tied to the twitter.com domain. Re-enrolling your security key will associate them with x.com, allowing us to retire the Twitter domain.”
Physical security key currently tied to the twitter.com domain won’t work when users attempt to authenticate from the x.com domain, so they must be re-enrolled in preparation for what sounds like a sunsetting of the Twitter domain.