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vdaea··on Institutions try to preserve the problem to which they are the solution
>Failure to collect trash under certain conditions is not a failure of a trash collecting system.

Of course it is. If your phone fails to make calls under certain conditions, that is a failure of the system, and we try to fix it (for example by deploying more antennas, or by fixing software bugs in it).

If workers refuse to pick up trash, we can also fix that (ask Ronald Reagan).

vdaea··on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
Paying does not guarantee anything. It does not guarantee a more reliable service, it does not guarantee that they will hear you out when they change a feature or the design, ruining it, and it does not guarantee it won't shut down tomorrow. They will refund you, and you will have your money back, but you will have no service, and you will be back in square one.
vdaea··on Google helped destroy adoption of RSS feeds (2023)
>I may be misremembering but didn't Feedly step up very quickly? Even offering the ability to easily migrate everything over.

Other rss readers were either much different (think cards design, or too much whitespace everywhere, or whatever), or they had premium plans they were telling you about all the time, or they had premium plans and a low limit of rss feeds you could add, or they had no mobile apps, or the mobile apps required premium, or whatever.

Nothing was like google reader: free, information-dense, and reliable. When google reader was killed, rss died for me.

vdaea··on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
MOBO is MSI, setting was "cpu cooler tuning" which was set at 4096W and I had to change to 253W (the limit according to Intel)
vdaea··on Poverty in Argentina hits 20-year high at 57.4%, study says
You don't get to change a country's culture just like that.
vdaea··on A 'scam manual' written to help immigrants not become victims
I don't understand this. Why did they sign up for a $2000 loan if they could barely afford it?
vdaea··on Brave's AI assistant now integrates with PDFs and Google Drive
I don't know much about the WebExtensions api but it's likely the apis are already there.
vdaea··on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
I have a 13900K. The default BIOS settings set a maximum wattage of 4096W (!!!) that makes Prime95 fail. If I change the settings back to 253W, what Intel says is the maximum wattage, Prime95 stops failing.

Still, I don't know if I should RMA. I got the K version because I intended to overclock in the future. And all of this sounds like I won't be able to. I think increasing the voltage a little bit makes the system more stable. I have to play with it. (Really, if someone can say whether I should RMA or not, I would appreciate some input)

Edit: decided to RMA. I have no patience for a CPU that cost me +600€

vdaea··on Intel Processor Instability Causing Oodle Decompression Failures
I have a 13900K and I am affected. Out of the box BIOS settings cause my CPU to fail Prime95, and it's always the same CPU cores failing. Lowering the power limit slightly will make it stable. I intended to better refrigerate the CPU and change the power limit back to the default and if the problems continued I would RMA the CPU, but now I'm not so sure that the BIOS is not pushing it beyond the operating limits.
vdaea··on Google cut a deal with Reddit for AI training data
They are using a service that allows them to make their opinion public and publicised and to know other people's opinions. Or does that have no value now?
vdaea··on Google to pause Gemini image generation of people after issues
He didn't say "our society", he said "modern corporate culture in the US"
vdaea··on AI behavior guardrails should be public
You should try yourself. The bing image generator is open and free. I tried the same prompts, and it is reproduceable. (Requires a few retries, though)
vdaea··on AI behavior guardrails should be public
Bing also generates political propaganda (guess of what side) if you ask it to generate images with the prompt "person holding a sign that says" without any further content.

https://twitter.com/knn20000/status/1712562424845599045

https://twitter.com/ramonenomar/status/1722736169463750685

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/1ao1avd/why_did_thi...

https://www.reddit.com/r/dalle2/comments/1ao1avd/why_did_thi...

vdaea··on Show HN: Increase Your Attention Span
Enlarge your attention span
vdaea··on Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring
You need to have a certain amount of karma points to see the downvote arrow. I think 500 so you're almost there.
vdaea··on Job posts for workers without degrees are booming, but not the hiring
This is some bitter truth, hence the downvotes.
vdaea··on Big media publishers are inundating the web with subpar product recommendations
I searched for "Best Air Purifier for Pets" and I clicked on the first reddit result https://old.reddit.com/r/dyson/comments/1730x73/best_air_pur...

That post is 4 months old but someone posted this just 7 days ago https://old.reddit.com/r/dyson/comments/1730x73/best_air_pur...

Goes to show how little you can trust reddit comments these days, particularly for good google keywords

This is mentioned in TFA:

>Somehow the user has been banned from Reddit, but their comment is still at the top of the thread — we wonder how many other comments this user has published across different subreddits.

This occurs when a moderator in the subreddit has manually approved the comment.

vdaea··on Greener cities: A necessity or a luxury?
A personal car is only a luxury as long as you feel good about mooching off your friends whenever you need one.
vdaea··on EU opens formal investigation into TikTok over possible online content breaches
I've seen this done in Spain and basically it means all kids have to go through an entire year of progressive propaganda. Thanks but no thanks.
vdaea··on How to make a better default Firefox UI
Standard Firefox.

>I'd image that firefox developers actually use it as their browser too..

The graphic design of Firefox is not made by developers, it's made by designers who don't use Firefox.

vdaea··on How to make a better default Firefox UI
This is the same problem that modern Windows has: these systems are designed by 20-something year old designers who wear specs with thick coloured frames and who only use Mac and Safari. They don't give a shit because they don't have to use these systems ever; for them these systems are something they screenshot and put in their portfolios.
vdaea··on French telecom company Orange fined €650k for violation of GPL license
Definitely - I did not mean "infectious" in a disparaging way, since that's what the licence was written for. If you include GPL code, the licence "infects" everything around it.
vdaea··on “When you use a Walkman all the memories come back”: In love with old tech
I have used in the distant past DRM music files that counted how many plays I had left, but I remember not much of it. I think it was a Nokia phone. Maybe WMA files with PlayReady DRM?
vdaea··on French telecom company Orange fined €650k for violation of GPL license
Looks like Orange created something called "IDMP platform" (didn't find anything about it online) and used a library called Lasso that is licenced under the infectious GPL without releasing the source code to the "IDMP platform"
vdaea··on How China Built BYD
No environmental laws or worker protections? Is this based on truth or prejudice?

Subsidies and mandates are good when the EU does them but bad when China does them?

vdaea··on Apple Watch Ultra 2 Hacked
You just have to see how the media says 23andme was "hacked" when actually accounts were compromised using a password spraying attack.
vdaea··on EU to hit Apple with first ever fine in €500M penalty over music streaming
Microsoft had an almost complete monopoly of the operating system on personal computers market back then.

Apple doesn't even have 50% share in Europe.

vdaea··on Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
I'm trying the Windows version. What really sticks out is that buttons don't have tooltips. It's impossible to know what they do if you don't click them.

Also in the conversation view you have two buttons "New Chat" and "Add Chat" which do two different things but they both have the same keybind ^T

vdaea··on Ollama is now available on Windows in preview
AMD is the underdog, and that's what happens when you choose the underdog.
vdaea··on It’s Official, Apple Kills Web Apps in the EU
What PWA Can Not Do Today: stick out like a sore thumb.
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