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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
When I used to do computer refurbishment, 'Boot and Nuke' was great for this. Load it up at boot, and write over the with random junk a few times.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Yes, but how much do people want to pay to use this stuff? That is the real question. It might be that more than $30 a month is too much and people stop using it. However, I suspect it would end up a fair bit higher than many would think. I
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
All that manufacturing demand led to enough free machinery to get those free Ubunutu CD's! ;)
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
That sounds reasonable but I suspect it was a little bit of both. Initially Covid slow down followed by large demand. A lot of older Nodes were shutdown (300-400nm) with the Covid slow down and a lot of chips ended up having to be moved ove
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
For all the issues with power use, I do grant it that a lot of materials and labor in needed at the same time. It isn't JUST burning up cash to make Sora videos. But by the same measure, the Great Egyptian pyramids would have been a hu
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Down in Victoria, Australia. Looks like the clouds should clear just in time for night fall and a decent show. Very cool.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
I love the spirit of working for free on a project of passion. But yes it only takes a few bad actors to totally exploit it.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Watch places like Amazon and Google suddenly stop updating and trying to find alternatives. Like how Apple stopped using up to date the GNU tools in 2008 because of GPL3. That moved showed me then that Apple did not want you to use your com
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
This is why many have warned against things like MIT licence. Yes, it gives you source code and does easily get incorporated into a lot of projects but it comes at the cost of potential abuse. Yes, GPL 3 is a lot ideologically but it was tr
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Not just you with this. Was hoping they brought back the mini instead we got iPod sock version 2.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Absolutely, I didn't think it was the TMS9918 but it had a clear lineage from it. Like getting a modern Ryzen processor and realising that old 486 instructions are in there.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
This is a problem if 'everybody' is using it but I suspect there will be a few groups. It will be a 'tortoise and the hare' situation. The LLM folks (the hare) will get the initial upper hand as it appears as though they
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Copyright in the context of LLM's is kind of weird. It doesn't explicitly copy others code but it does lean heavily on the structure of it. Is it evidence of copying prior work or is it fair use? Alas, we don't really have an
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Considering how energy intensive generative content is, there is a good chance that it is already becoming a sizable share of energy use for the internet.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Alas this is an issue of LLM generated code. Increased productivity but lessened understanding. If you can increase productivity while also increasing understanding then that will be a decent middle ground. All comes down to accountability.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
The old quote of, 'You can fool some of the people all of the time, all of the people some of the time'. There is the hope that in dumping so much slop so rapidly that it will break the bottom of the bucket. But there is the alter
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Since 1969 we have returned a total of 383KG of Moon rock, 382KG of that before 1972. And yet somehow we are going to suddenly turn this into a viable thing in the space of only a few years. Moon (and asteroid) mining is all well and good p
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
As much as we like to consider consoles as these closed exclusive tech kind of things, a lot of it was externally designed. With Genesis/Mega Drive, if a TMS9918 gets you most of the way there and it is better than what else is out at
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
They are banned here in Australia, unfortunately it has created a huge black market for these things. Almost every neighborhood now has a cigarette store that also sells gifts and US chocolates that are basically just fronts for this stuff.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Yep, this is one of those things where it is technically possible but economically not yet. There is a reason a lot of this stuff gets handled in the worst way possible, it is the only economics that work so far. https://www.bbc.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Like how folks cherry picks reports on health by focusing on fatalities rather than incidents. It is like how you can have a car crash much safer nowadays than ever before, doesn't make car crashes fine or good.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
An empire in every way except name.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Until it hits their wallet, they will not do a thing. Now if they were more concerned about longer profits and how this could impact their image, maybe they would change but it is rare you see that nowadays.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
I did the math a few years back on how long you would have to run old machines to (roughly) offset the carbon emissions instead of purchasing new hardware. This included all mining, refinement, manufacturing, shipping and electrical savings
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Congratulations, welcome to the dev team of Collapse OS. https://collapseos.org/ Now they are more focused on supply chain break down but your scenario would also be valid.
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
I mean to some degree it is true in that you have the luxury of forgetting stuff if you know where you can get that information in future. I think many can agree that having access to written and printed word even has been a big positive. &
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
It is a tough predicament we find our selves in. A totally free and open network is prone to exploitation by rampant abuse. A controlled and monitored network is prone to excessive restrictions. There is a middle way that can kind of muddle
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
I am just hoping they get on top of the massive trove of game ROM's before Nintendo's lawyers have a field day. Personally, I say they should be free for everyone, the lawyers however think the complete opposite and they have the
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
The last few years have really put to test copyrights limits and uses. As someone that falls more in line with Copyleft ideals (do whatever you want with my stuff!), it is very funny. I just grab the popcorn and watch from the side lines, s
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by PeaceTed 11mo ago
Yes but have you considered making a trapazoid wheel? Maybe it will work, or not...

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