upboundspiral

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by upboundspiral 5d ago
every GPU since the 20 series (2018) ships with Risc-V. It's what enables their "open" kernel modules. All the talking to the hardware stuff is now done by the Risc-v core.
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by upboundspiral 6d ago
The government could pass laws that prevent advertising becoming mass surveillance and stalking.
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by upboundspiral 8d ago
Ideally we get some international cooperation and get an international clearing currency, and don't end up with the reserve currency being tied to a specific nation again. The different blocs could already start experimenting with this
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by upboundspiral 8d ago
Hopefully not. We've lived that movie already with currencies tied to gold. It significantly slowed down past WW1 reconstruction, and is in general makes it very hard to adjust the money supply to enable economic recovery. The ideal wo
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by upboundspiral 8d ago
"As the Mendocino Complex Fire, then the largest wildfire in California history, tore across the north of the state, Santa Clara County firefighters were called in to help... In the middle of that emergency, Verizon throttled their con
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by upboundspiral 8d ago
Very true. It's more of a personal choice based on my own values for myself: If I buy secondhand, I still provide value to someone (the used books store, etc). There is an "equivalent exchange".
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by upboundspiral 9d ago
Undoubtedly Republicans have done untold damage to the US. However not all Democrats made the right choices either as it was Clinton who set the stage for further breaking the US economy, opening wide open the gates to complete offshoring (
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by upboundspiral 9d ago
If there was a direct and maintained electric train route + stronger food regulation in the US you could dine on fresh local produce with a lower carbon footprint. International cooperation and trade is great, but in the US specifically the
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by upboundspiral 9d ago
I know many teachers who actually have respect for the profession, themselves, and the students. Thankfully that means they don't do this. Whether this is a widespread macro trend is another issue, and would be terryfying. If true, how
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by upboundspiral 9d ago
Not a law perhaps, but an ingrained neoliberal philosophy that is pervasive in certain management cultures in the US definitely.
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by upboundspiral 15d ago
Intended only for the President means that only carefully crafted half truths to influence the desired result are present.
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by upboundspiral 16d ago
But by torrenting you are participating and engaging with that culture... I get it, the big brands etc aren't very palatable. And some things get lost with no way to purchase because the companies don't care. But for things that a
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by upboundspiral 19d ago
There are multiple recordings of LG executives saying "we own the glass (the TV)", referring to the "LG household", and how they can serve targeted ads by recognizing every device on the network. Just watch the video...
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by upboundspiral 21d ago
If America had not forced the gold standard we might have gotten an international currency as proposed by Keynes. The idea was soundly rejected because it would have led to rapid post war reconstruction with a loss of American power (they w
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by upboundspiral 22d ago
Attackers only need to win once, defenders need to win every time. The game is skewed in favor of the attackers, and AI only exarcebates this.
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by upboundspiral 22d ago
Going from separate ports to one port, when its easy to yank the headphone cord and ruin the usb-c so now you can't charge your phone is great. I've tried those dongles and they are all a huge hassle compared to just having a head
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by upboundspiral 22d ago
I agree with the sentiment but I would like to push back against this a little bit. I think that there is a common set of human needs / principles that we can all agree are good, such as the golden rule, etc, etc. But here's what
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by upboundspiral 22d ago
To clarify: The attorney general said they wouldn't be pressing charges, and said that private individuals would need to press charges themselves. Source: https://youtu.be/Wst4wPBH-Cg It seems that now some individuals
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by upboundspiral 27d ago
The paper X86 considered harmful was about how the BIOS / Intel management Engine (now also AMD PSP), are completely opaque. If the lowest layer is hidden, proprietary, there are infinite vectors for state actors to include their desir
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by upboundspiral 29d ago
Hybernate is basically cold booting. At least in my experience it's not comparable to suspend + resume in terms of speed.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
The idea that trade decreases the risk of war is old. It dates back to pre-WW1. Think tanks around Europe were celebrating an "end to hostilities". And then WW1 happened. Trade does not prevent war. War is not always a rational co
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four-day_workweek "As of July 2022, more than 80 UK companies and organisations are recognised as having permanently implemented a four-day working week" "As 50% of workers
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
I agree that a sense of belonging is a foundational need for humans. I disagree that the fulfillment of this need must beget violence. If as a culture we de-emphasized dominion over others, de-emphasized reward and punishment, and instead e
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
the advantage of local infrastucture is that the local government can have input on the price of the good. If starlink does something you don't like good luck doing anything about it.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
It's all marketing talk, sort of. Our transistors are about 30 nm give or take. But we've found new ways of aligning them so that if we had continued using old techniques, the density we get would be "2nm". https:/
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
This is trivial to solve. Launch two parallel cases. One against Meta top execs for criminal behavior, the other one as antitrust against Meta for abusing their market position. Two cases at once gives you negotiating power and clearly sign
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
Executives mostly get jailed when there is large media attention + the executive was foolish enough to leave evidence pointing straight at them. For every case where an executive is jailed, there are 100 other cases where they aren't.
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
The people that have money and time to put into SEO are the people with ads on their websites. I bet a large number of them run Google ads. As such, it is not in Google's best interests to cut them out of search, regardless of how low
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
Agree. It sometimes feels like it gets forgotten in the wayland vs xorg divide. One of the nice things about flatpak (another contentious topic), is that for GUI apps where it matters I can trivially set whether I want to prefer xwayland vs
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by upboundspiral 1mo ago
For me zoom works out of the box on kde + wayland. But an app as popular as zoom working correctly for everyone is table stakes. The fact some people are encountering issues just means that something in the transition wasn't perfect. G

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