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dschuetz··on Democracy Dies Behind Paywalls – Paywalled
That's essentially the point, it's ironic that they've put an article that already criticizes paywalls in the headline behind a paywall.
dschuetz··on [dead]
I have flagged this, as the linked website appears as if empty. Rather use this link: https://ci.rocm.debian.net/packages/r/

And, much more surprising to me: https://salsa.debian.org/ci-team/debci Was not aware that Debian have their own test automation system!

dschuetz··on [dead]
ROCm is AMDs AI framework/platform for its RX7900 cards, I think?
dschuetz··on Germany just legalized recreational marijuana
There are age restrictions similar to alcohol consumption, and there are areal restrictions around schools and similar facilities, sporting sites etc, where minors gather. Unlike moonshining, in Germany it will be legal to grow your own pot.
dschuetz··on The London office where swinging pendulums keep cyber threats at bay
"They’re not even connected to anything, but their perpetual swinging action is what keeps the internet safe(r) from hackers and protects your online transactions from fraudsters."

That sentence triggers me on so many levels. Down below in the article it says that cameras are sampling the motion. So, ultimately the setup is connected to something, and it is being actively used as a quality source of entropy for cryptography. Brilliant, actually, but this is not what "keeps the internet safe". Strong encryption is a source of trust, nothing more. Proper security needs to rely on a few things that we have to assume to be unbreakable. Only then we can build on top of that. Sadly, even unbreakable encryption, if used incorrectly, can bring the whole thing down. I really don´t like articles that sensationalize "neat details" and by that distort the bigger picture.

dschuetz··on The Matrix Trashfire
Can we please stop submitting click-baity titles?
dschuetz··on VirtualBox KVM Public Release
VirtualBox, as absurd as it is, needs a proprietary, licensed "extension pack" for basic things like today standard USB2/3 drivers, encryption and webcam. I don't care about backends as long VirtualBox frontend has "Oracle" slapped on it. So, kudos! for perpetuating Virtualbox' existence!
dschuetz··on CERN aims to build €20B collider
Cern makes physicists look bad.
dschuetz··on You Don't Need Health Insurance
Good luck with living and surviving after cancer. Might outright rather die than having 200k in debt for getting sick once.
dschuetz··on Sci-Fi Interfaces: Hackers
Who else is hearing the legendary soundtrack seeing those screengrabs?
dschuetz··on Quantum particles can feel the influence of gravitational fields
What the hell are "quantum particles"?
dschuetz··on Snaps. Why? Please Stop
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_hell

Seems like I am not alone. If the problem does not affect you much, does not mean it does not exist.

Yeah, the usual "works for me" attitude has had never helped anyone. So, good for you.

dschuetz··on Snaps. Why? Please Stop
Why? Because of Dependency Hell. Apt sometimes even tries to solve "circular dependencies". Ridiculous.
dschuetz··on YouTube punishes ad-blocker users with slower videos on non-Chrome browsers
If I was a stakeholder in YT I would be worried about users and creators leaving the platform, because YT has become increasingly and more aggressively anti-consumer. I do not mind if the creators incorporate sponsor ads into their content, but what YT does to the user experience is just awful. Inserting multiple, low quality, loud, long unskippable ads into one video, who the heck would want to watch that?! It's clear to me that Google is pressing on to make users buy subscriptions. It's basically a dark pattern, closely resembling coersion.
dschuetz··on OpenAI's employees were given two explanations for why Sam Altman was fired
I do not understand what the heck is going on there anymore. Everyone is acting irrationally, like kids playing monopoly, but with real money and with real jobs at stake. WTF
dschuetz··on Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI
There: https://www.wired.com/story/openai-staff-walk-protest-sam-al...
dschuetz··on OpenAI staff threaten to quit unless board resigns
Who needs to buy out a 80bln dollars worth AI startup when talent is jumping ship in their direction already. OpenAI is dead.
dschuetz··on Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI
The board of directors trying to get Altman back after firing him effective immediately, failing, and giving the job to their second choice underscores the level of incompetence and lack of professionalism at OpenAI. They seem to be in a bit over their heads with a company that is supposedly worth 80bln dollars. Not with that board it's worth that much.
dschuetz··on Emmet Shear statement as Interim CEO of OpenAI
to be fair, it's a bit out of context - however, it shows that they are somewhat overwhelmed with the whole situation
dschuetz··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
Oh yes, it's called WEI as in Web Environment Integrity -https://www.theregister.com/2023/07/25/google_web_environmen... some of its code landed in production Chrome, leading to an outcry. V3 Manifest and WEI are all part of Google's push to make Chrome mandatory to be able to use their services.
dschuetz··on YouTube slows down video load times when using Firefox
For now.

Google is working on making a premium internet based on their services that permeate the whole web which they plan to serve only to "trusted devices" running Chrome - I do not think this is going to work out well for them.

dschuetz··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
I agree AI is useful, but not to that extent to what it is valued on the market. I do not think that AI companies can deliver as much as they promise. With the driving core at OpenAI basically gone, I bet they will soon implode under the weight of their promises. Which means, investors will start pulling out their stakes. boom
dschuetz··on Three senior researchers have resigned from OpenAI
Are those the first cracks in the AI market bubble?
dschuetz··on Xbox will block third-party controllers to "preserve the console experience"
I wonder when Microsoft start selling ad pop-ins on Windows and Xbox. You know, for better and enhanced user experience.
dschuetz··on YouTube's Anti-Adblock and uBlock Origin
I'm also kinda amazed that in order to avoid YT's anti-adblocker you just have to logout from Google's account and you're golden. Basically, Google is indirectly destroying their own userbase that way. "Oh Google, you're blocking me now? lol what am I needin ya for anyway?" What genius came up with the idea anti-adblock flagging Google accounts?
dschuetz··on Bandcamp's Entire Union Bargaining Team Was Laid Off
Bye-bye bandcamp.
dschuetz··on Intel Meteor Lake Architecture
The article (or Intel) do not disclose up to how many cores that new architecture is designed for, and I am certain Intel would say something like "With our P-, E-, LE-cores designed architecture(tm) the core count does matter anymore".

Also the SOC with built-in AI engine. Oh boy, I wonder how long it will take for AI-assisted malware, or botnets to emerge. Exciting times!

dschuetz··on Unity has seemingly silently removed its GitHub repo that tracks ToS changes
And possibly illegal.
dschuetz··on Unity plan pricing and packaging updates
Today I've deleted my Unity-Account. They've got that EA stink after announcing those nonsensical pricing plans. Gee, I wonder why their CEO dumped Unity shares months prior.
dschuetz··on Intel shows 8 core 528 thread processor with silicon photonics
This seems more like a proof-of-concept CPU rather than a marketable product, highly specialized, problems and workloads that it solves yet to be found.

I anticipate that photonics will be introduced to general-purpose computing in the years to come, even if only to get a handle on the rising excess heat problems. Most notable is the 10 -> 7 nm process.

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