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graphe··on The xz sshd backdoor rabbithole goes quite a bit deeper
Wrong.

There’s no money or benefits in solving crimes. It could be done easily in many cases but nobody cares about certain people like gang members. Lots of cases where the murderer tells everyone but nobody cares.

graphe··on WinBtrfs – an open-source btrfs driver for Windows
What is the purpose of using this in production? I thought people just ssh into Linux if you need it to just work. For my own purposes I used to use an ext3 driver on Win7, never failed on me, just switched to Linux.
graphe··on Facebook caught snooping on Snapchat users. What is going on?
Engineers at Facebook don't think they're slurping up BIG data?

You make it seem so unknown or abstract for engineers today, claiming that Nazis knew the "scope" with no evidence, as if engineers knew the millions they were killing.

graphe··on Daniel Kahneman has died
His life is filled with tragedy, like his father dying in Vichy France and his wife preceding his death. Imagine living forever where everyone you know and love dying before you.
graphe··on Speaking without vocal cords, thanks to a new AI-assisted wearable device
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_english this communicates English efficiently with 850 words. I don't think it's basic English is any good but I can see them making simplified English the lingua franca to boost 'literacy rates' in the future.
graphe··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
I've never heard of it, but it sounds like a very easy fix.

You can get debug info. I have copied my crash logs.

If your wife's using a 3rd party keyboard they are treated worst and may crash. Android has always gotten better with their interface but they are locking more and more stuff. I would use Android if i didn't always get audio issues, I would rather use a computer with a phone, but not if the phone makes me unlistenable. Hope your Android issues are nonexistent or manageable.

graphe··on Why Is the Sea So Hot?
I agree. I knew the climate models were wrong so I dismissed the climate scientists. I did not know how wrong they were and on what measurement. The data on human causes is perplexing, as lower car emissions warmed the planet as the co2 scattered less light causing the temperature to rise, however this would cause acid rain and other issues even though the temperature lowered.

Temperature is like reading the Ghz of a computer, it could mean many things. Acidification, chemical dumping, and extreme weather patterns can occur with deadly effects with or without readable measurements in temperature.

Be ready for 'it' human caused or not.

graphe··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
Never heard of it or seen it documented anywhere. What is an "error loop installing apps" and where did you see that documented?

> The internet is full of threads of people with this exact problem but there's never any documented way to fix anything in an iPhone, it either fully works or good luck.

Is that hyperbole? There's a video of a guy putting a headphone jack in an iphone 7.

graphe··on Why Is the Sea So Hot?
I watched Sabina Hossenfelder talk about historical predictive models being wrong and too cold on their predictions due to the way they looked at the clouds and the scattering of the light (quantifying the amount of water vapor in the clouds). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4S9sDyooxf4

Climate scientists are disagreeing over the hot climate models. This is not a debate on the human effects, simply the way to interpret the data.

graphe··on Debloat non-rooted Android devices
Nope, it is just worst. Want a smart-phone? Get an iPhone. Want a mobile Linux computer you can make calls from? Android.

Android does not do the 'phone' part right. I constantly complain of a friend with his new expensive s23 or whatever that acts like a cheap phone whenever he gets in a group call and my whole group complains of the ear shattering noise and artifacts from his side immediately (nothing at all wrong with all of our iphones). It was bad enough we couldn't do higher quality facetime audio together, but the expensive phone's hardware on wasn't even good for various apps we tried to talk through.

From another thread they aren't even good at web browsing. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39729397 the entire ecosystem of Android is a mostly poorly cobbled together mobile Linux computer aiming to lower costs as much as possible to sell you ads. Notice how older iphones with worst specs are still working fine?

Still my Samsung S3 with it's forward thinking 2gb of ram in 2012 (4x the 512 in the iPhone 4s) is still sometimes being used as a Linux computer for me in 2024. Awful mic on it then as well.

graphe··on Plastic Found Inside More Than 50% of Plaques from Clogged Arteries
Plastic is commonly found in canned food and drink. The foods are boiled inside plastic lined containers to ensure safety. Feed is sometimes ground up human waste aka moldy bread with plastic that's been ground up that the animals eat.

Here are more ways you can ingest them. https://www.earthday.org/you-are-what-you-eat-plastics-in-ou... Apples and carrots were not expected to be the most contaminated.

graphe··on Apple terminates Epic Games developer account, calling it a 'threat' to iOS
From it's issues I bet you it's infighting from a group trying to kill the vision pro from apple.
graphe··on Generative AI and the widening software developer knowledge gap
Like they used cheap Indian coders to save money and now everything is better?

It'll be a test of try to pay less and probably a bunch of spaghetti code fixes after.

graphe··on European crash tester says carmakers must bring back physical controls
You did buy a car without a dipstick, what do you expect? BMWs are fun to drive and are horrible too maintain. I remember helping someone because the radiator melted a reservoir tank, such a terrible design I never looked at another one!!

They should need forced to make dipsticks but the EU doesn't care when it's a European company. The EU is more anti American companies than actually caring.

graphe··on Gem12 Pro Mini PC: Ryzen 7 8845HS, Mini Screen, and OCuLink eGPU
I agree. I've never gotten the Intel NUCs either from your logic, it was an overpriced desktop that is only maybe suitable for Kowloon walled city or Singapore apartments.
graphe··on The KDE desktop gets an overhaul with Plasma 6
It's safer as every program is isolated but it crashes more often because programs are isolated and expect not to be isolated. I often switch back to x11 whenever I try it I think nice it's fast and has bells and whistles but there basics aren't there. It took x11 a LONG time to be usable so I expect the same with Wayland.
graphe··on Nokia is replacing Huawei at Deutsche Telekom sites in Germany
In regards to Africa, China is indisputably better than the US at foreign policy as a fact.

Check out the passport rankings to see who objectivity has the best foreign relations. https://www.passportindex.org/byRank.php surprised to see Syria and Pakistan lower than "Palestinian territories".

graphe··on Almost an open-source boot chain for Rockchip's RK3588
How is it in terms of usability? I read there was support, tried a rockchip sbc and found support lacking. Judging from the functionality of various pine products and support, is this any different?
graphe··on Researchers use electron beams to eradicate forever chemicals in water
https://www.space.com/air-pollution-reentering-space-junk-de... immediately made me think of where all burn up space ‘junk’ goes.

> Sensitive sensors in the nosecones of the planes analyzed the chemical compounds diluted in the thin, pristine stratospheric air, which is out of reach of Earth-based air pollution sources. The researchers found traces of lithium, aluminum, copper and lead in the sampled air. The detected concentrations of these compounds were much higher than what could be caused by natural sources, such as the evaporation of cosmic dust and meteorites upon their encounter with the atmosphere. In fact, the concentrations of these pollutants reflected the ratio of chemical compounds present in alloys used in satellite manufacturing, the researchers said in a statement.

graphe··on Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave
It's also algorithmically based. My number was likely shadow banned and I got basically no good matches ever. My friend used my number since he ran out and determined it gave him less matches, less quality, and even overseas it was terrible with HIS photos and my number.

The funny characteristic was that the number also matched me with my long term girlfriend and got him a single girl that he was interested in. I generally agree with your assessment, but I'd say out of 20% you still couldn't determine the AI user's intentions.

I've texted for my friends and I could get them a date or hookup but honestly when there's no motivation for them to do it themselves, it's a waste of time, they were not interested except to determine their conversation skills were the issue and not their looks.

graphe··on Tinder Owner Signs ChatGPT Deal. Enjoy the AI Dating Tidal Wave
If you believe in morals you'd believe so. They're filtering a person's thoughts when dating. Dating itself can be seen as immoral, especially in hookup culture.

If someone feels like they're speaking to grammarly, or a generic response from google they heard before, they revert to judging you by your looks as usual. If you are ugly none of the AI crap will work.

graphe··on Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay
Thank you for telling me about the behind the scenes creation of your site, I will show it to my friends. It is a very lightweight, easy to use and mobile friendly site. I hope you will post it in it's own topic and it gets more interest.
graphe··on Show HN: GPU Prices on eBay
Thanks for the script Alex, it's a very usable site much more so than the topic one. The site navigation, and sane options instead of clicking 512mb, 64mb and 1mb ram was a welcome feature. What did you do to generate this site? I noticed the was another one yesterday with prices as well, is it a new scraper or framework?
graphe··on Tyler Perry Puts $800M Studio Expansion on Hold After Seeing OpenAI's Sora
That's exactly what they do with cameras, you aren't allowed them, and in venues where you're legally allowed to have them thru confiscate it. You can't take a photo of the Eiffel tower either.
graphe··on Stable Diffusion 3
I disagree. It will be better because it's driven purely by passion. Art runs in my family even today, I am fully aware of its value as well as cost. It is not a career and artists knew that then and now, supplementing their decadence on expression of value through film purchases, luxurious pigments, toxic but beautiful chemicals, or instruments that were sure to never make back their purchasing price. Someone (not my family) made Stonehenge in his backyard but it had no commercial value, it still is a very impressive feat and I admire the ingenuity. Art without monetary value is always the best, and previous problems such as film costs and paint prices are solved digitally, so the lack of commercial interest shouldn't hurt art at all.

Commercial movies have lots of CG, big budgets and famous actors while small budget indie movies have been exploding despire their weaker technical specialities. Noah's ark was made by amateurs while the titanic was made by experts.

graphe··on Stable Diffusion 3
I definitely feel more empowered, and making imperfect art and generating code that doesn't work and proofreading it is definitely changing people's lives. Which specific artist are you talking about who will suffer? Many of the ones I talk to are excited about using it.

You keep going back to value and finances. The less money is in it the better. Art isn't good because it's valuable, unless you were only interested in it commercially.

graphe··on Stable Diffusion 3
Computers and drafters had their work taken by machines. IBM did not pay off the computers and drafters. In this case you could make a steady decent wage. My grandfather was trained in a classic drawing style (yes it was his main job).

He did not get into the profession to make money. He did it out of passion and died poor. Artists are not being tricked by the promise of wealth. You will get a cloned style if you can't afford the real artist making it and if the commission goes to a computer how is that not the same as plagerism by a human? Artists were not being paid well before. The anime industry has proven the endpoint of what happens to artists as a profession despite their skills. Chess still exists despite better play by machines. Art as a commercial medium has always been tainted by outside influences such as government, religion and pedophilia.

In the end, drawing wasn't going to survive in the age of vector art and computers. They are mainly forgettable jpgs you scroll past in a vast array like DeviantArt.

graphe··on Stable Diffusion 3
They have already used "AI" with success to give people loans and they were biased. Nothing happened legally to that company.
graphe··on Stable Diffusion 3
WHO exactly worked hard over a lifetime with no compensation?
graphe··on The killer app of Gemini Pro 1.5 is using video as an input
Certainly! Here is a list of great thinkpads.

The x230 is a popular and interesting thinkpad with a powerful i5 processor suitable for today’s needs.

The T60 can also suit your needs and is one of the last IBM thinkpads. It featured the latest Intel mobile processor at the time of its release.

If you want the most powerful thinkpad the T440p is sure to suit you perfectly without leaving your morals behind.

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