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by m4rtink 8mo ago
It looks like Mirai has no future after all... I am sorry. ;-)
512.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
The name still kinda reminds me of the self replicating murder drones from Screemers that would leep out from the ground and chop your head off. ;-)
513.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
This has been unfortunatelly an issue at least since Caesar times. :P
514.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
It would be foolish to depend on that & far harder to get ridd of it if they put it in place. There needs to be clear statement and verification method to make sure they really are backtracking. Anything else won't do.
515.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
The whole point of using Android for most users is that they have no other choice if they need a mobile phone. Google killed every other competition via dumping and shady business practices. Sure, you can go to iOS, but that is even more cl
516.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Maybe "intelectual property" is really imaginary property given how the same big companies just gobble data from other people and companies wothout permission to feed their AI models (Facebook with books, recently NVIDIA with mili
517.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
And original bottle caps on all plastic bottles! (Like seriously, it turns out to be pretty useful in practice. :) )
518.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Copilot is also eating office, at least branding wise. :)
519.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Looks like VRChat is using persona as well - multiple mentions here: https://wiki.vrchat.com/wiki/Age_Verification https://hello.vrchat.com/blog/age-verification And quite a few discussions about
520.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Jitsi does usable conferencing and Matrix is mainly text but has some support for calling or integration with Jitsi. IMHO the bits all exists, it just needs to be all integrated in to a distribution that people can easily setup.
521.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Its just works to get your groups of friends together - up until the point the damned thing starts to asking them "papers please!" a they start leaving.
522.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Reportedly they are plan in IPO & the latest identity verification crap they are pushing seems to be related. So yes, it looks like the money has run out and rather than pushing for direct monetization they try to turn to shadier stuff
523.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Fair enough but I still prefer people would be more concrete and really call it "open weight" or similar. With fully open source software (say under GPL3), you can theoretically change anything & you are also quite sure about
524.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Can those be even called open source if you can't rebuild if from the source yourself?
525.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
I think the main reason was Discord basically doumping free server hosting with VC money to eliminate competition. Now that money has finally run out, it looks like things are reverting back to normal.
526.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Discord "won" because it provided free voice chat and then also text channels with image upload, all powered by VC money dumping and hosted for you. Of course it was also clear that eventually the investors will want to cash out &
527.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Sure - the question is how long they can remain high-paying. Looks like all the money reserves big companies have been sitting on are gone. Circular money deals are in full swing & now it looks like some companies are now looking for lo
528.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
So at least for HDDs it is unlikely they will have super custom "AI HDDs" like thay have with custom High Bandwidth Memory displacing regular RAM in fab output & being harder to reuse later. So hopefully once they all go bust,
529.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Strip it for usable parts (DRAM/VRAM/NANAD chips, maybe also some of the controllers), then recover any valuable metals (copper heat sinks, gold on contact pins), simple as that. :)
530.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
That is a very good point! Still, at least in the short to medium term, there are many companies, institutions and individuals that are used to getting new hardware that is under warranty - developer hardware refreshes, store hardware updat
531.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Looks like at least Discord is recently decided to finally fix the issues caused by having users & are trying very hard to not have any going forward through insane identity verification mandates enforced by the most toxic partner compa
532.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Looks like we need a computer hardware reserves the same way there are regional reserves for food, fuels and other critical commodities? And for the same reason - to avoid the dominant players going "oh shiny" on short term lucrat
533.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Agreed, but basic things like sanity seem to have left this hype cycle long ago. Thankfully real world and physics has the final word, so we can at least plan what to do once the whole thing runs into a wall of reality & make the best o
534.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
I guess you could at least mine the boards from defunct AI companies for memory chips ? Latest videos from Gamers Nexus showed it is apparently not that hard to transfer memory chips from board to board. Then you can leach precious metals f
535.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Do they really think they will get some money from the AI ponzi scheme ? Well, at least they might still have a product to sell once the AI bubble pops, unlike with NVIDIA which does seem to kinda forgot to design new consumer GPUs after ge
536.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
While the ore other factors that make Lunar observation satellites harder to do and more expensive (harder to communicate with due to distance, different thermal environment, no protection from radiation by the Van Allen belts, etc.) one bi
537.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
Then potentially people die - like they died when there were reckless helicopter flights in front of a DC area airport, until a helicopter collided with an airliner, killing all on board.
538.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
And maybe that's why we have the problem that is being discussed ? No third party that would audit and build extensions from source.
539.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
At least some vengeance has been already done in blood, although indirectly, given how oversized has been dutch support for Ukraine compared to other similarly sized countries.
540.
by m4rtink 8mo ago
If the RPM/deb comes from a Linux distribution then there is a good chance there is a separate maintainer and the binary package is always built from the source code by the distro. Also if the upstream developer goes malicious there is

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