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• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Raspberry Pi prices rise again, along with a new 3GB Raspberry Pi 4 announced⁩ ⁨⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago⁩:

  There is a 16GB one too. It sells for like $300 right now though.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨New Company Hopes to Build Age-Verification Tech into Vape Cartridges⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Ike’s solution is to leverage blockchain technology in the chip on the e-cig cartridge. It would use a camera to scan some form of ID and then also take a video of the user’s face. Once it verifies your identity and determines you’re old enough to vape, it translates that information into anonymized tokens. That info goes to an identity service like ID.me or Clear. If approved, it bounces back to the app, which then uses a Bluetooth signal to give the vape the OK to turn on.

  I just cannot begin to describe how stupid this is. You know what? I’m not going to even try.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Plague Inc: Evolved is getting a big new Aliens & Anti-Vaxxers DLC and free update⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  The DLC will introduce the new Xenolith: The Alien Crystal plague

  Green glowing alien crystals that kill you. Hmm, where have I heard this before?

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Bluesky leans into AI with Attie, an app for building custom feeds⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  You can run — but you cannot hide. Eventually you will get tired — we need no rest. There is no escape — you will be integrated!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Imagine GTA with AI-generated characters "just going along with whatever insane thing you say," muses Valve writer, absent-mindedly spotlighting what terrifies me about genAI⁩ ⁨⁨6⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  I just want Skyrim where I can have actual conversations with NPC, instead of them repeating the same lines over and over again.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨FCC Bans All New Routers Not Made in America⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  This is hilarious.

  Nonetheless, the move forces the manufacturing of routers to be moved to the U.S. rapidly, particularly since it’s not clear that any consumer routers are currently made in the U.S.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Split View in Firefox: Two tabs side by side, right where you need them | The Mozilla Blog⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago⁩:

  Unless you are using a tiling window manager it is not same thing. You have to spend time dragging and resizing the two windows with your mouse in order to put them the way you want. And while it may not sound like a lot if you are doing it pretty often it adds up.

  If on the other hand you can open a link in split view with the current tab just as effortlessly as middle clicking to open on a new tab, I can see myself doing it all the time. This is one of the reasons I was testing out the Zen browser recently, which is a Firefox fork that has the feature.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I know it’s not using them without my input, what I’m saying is that there should be a local option.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla announces switch to disable all Firefox AI features⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  And even if you enable it, it should work with local LLMs. And at least from the article it doesn’t appear to be the case.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨ChatGPT Go subscription rolls out worldwide at $8, but it'll show you ads⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I don’t, my employer does though. Assisting with certain coding tasks is pretty much the only thing it’s good about it.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨RAM may be abominably expensive, but hey, at least SSD prices are also exploding⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  At least we can still buy HDDs. Oh, wait…

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mosquitoes' stabby suckers may find use in high-res 3D printers⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Yeah, good at sucking!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why won’t Steam Machine support HDMI 2.1? Digging in on the display standard drama.⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I really wish I could buy big ass dumb monitor at the cost of a similar size smart tv.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Our back-end to your rear-end.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Oops. Cryptographers cancel election results after losing decryption key.⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  That’s amazing! I have the same combination in my luggage!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Being too nice online is a dead giveaway for AI bots, study suggests⁩ ⁨⁨4⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I like how it has a frown on the link preview and when you open the article it has a smile.

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

  Smart products themselves are not the issue. The issue is making everything cloud based. The solution is companies designing their products so they can be controlled over the network.

  It’s a fucking bed! It doesn’t need a persistent connection to some server. The problem is that they also want to mine and sell your data.

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

  There is special category for Internet of Shit devices, that not only are cloud based but also require a persistent connection to a server to even execute basic functions.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Xubuntu website hijacked to serve malware⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  To be fair, I doubt that someone who even knows how to verify a hash when would see an exe instead of an iso would think that this looks fine.