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  • Elon Musk's role as Donald Trump's fall guy may be coming to an end

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  • I figured that when the DOGE fiasco imploded, he would scream "treason' and make Musk the fall guy to placate people. Wouldn't roll back anything but a few symbolic changes, but it would let him look the hero.

  • OpenAI declares AI race “over” if training on copyrighted works isn’t fair use

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  • But what data would it be?

    Part of the "gobble all the data" perspective is that you need a broad corpus to be meaningfully useful. Not many people are going to give a $892 billion market cap when your model is a genius about a handful of narrow subjects that you could get deep volunteer support on.

    OTOH maybe there's probably a sane business in narrow siloed (cheap and efficient and more bounded expectations) AI products: the reinvention of the "expert system" with clear guardrails, the image generator that only does seaside background landscapes but can't generate a cat to save its life, the LLM that's a prettified version of a knowledgebase search and NOTHING MORE

  • Elon Musk’s DOGE is growing desperate for a “win”

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  • Do cults inherit well?

    The leadership of the DPRK transitioned across generations, but there was plenty of institutional alignment and wheel greasing.

    Trump will be trying to negotiate with the reaper for six months after he's dead. I can't imagine he considers his mortality, let alone in the context of anything that has to survive after his departure. There will be a free for all to grab his mantle.

  • A Comic Wherein I Would Rather Be Playing Slay the Spire

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  • This reincarnation loop definitely needs roguelike elements. Every playthrought is just born-crusehed by capitalism-die.

  • my u2 spy plane doesnt fit the u2 slot rule

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  • Not to mention I bent all the pins on my Cyrix MII ttying to get it in that stupid socket.

  • If scientists could make you immortal but could only do it by transferring your consciousness into a single video game for ever, which game would you choose?

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  • Doom. I'd make an adorable Cacodaemon and by the nature of Doom, I will be everywhere, blasted across the universe as programmers port me to anything that can oscillate between a high and low signal level.

  • Chinese-Made Patient Monitor Contains a Secret Backdoor

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  • As someone who has to deal with PCI compliance issues, there's plenty of noob mistakes, out-of-date thinking and outright "let's log this data for debugging purposes even though if any regulator found out they'd nuke us from orbit."

  • Chinese-Made Patient Monitor Contains a Secret Backdoor

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  • There are valid questions, many of which revolve around how and why it's used.

    Some systems have brain damaged approaches to diagnostics/logging, license enforcement, or remote service/update systems that create security holes but are not intentionally malicious.

    Security is hard and we should remember Hanlon's Razor.

  • Specifying file paths

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  • I understand pre-OS X Macintoshes used colons.

  • Linux 6.14 Adds Support For The Microsoft Copilot Key Found On New Laptops

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  • I tried custom laser engraving caps, some of my favourites:

    'Attack 0' and 'Attack 1', actual key legends on some '80s Casio home computer

    'Run Stop' from Commodre machines

    The "diagonal half full box" inverse video key from Atari XL/XE keyboards.

    I suspect the various Jolly Roger designs from either fictional or real pirates would work well. Or various "spell type" or "faction" logos from games.

  • Maybe someday

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  • A forced sale guarantees ByteDance gets a fire sale price. If there's any way forward that allows them to sell not-under-duress, there's a chance for far more upside.

    That works even for pure economics game theory, aside from wanting to continue in what they built on principle/commitment/interest in the project.

    Would Zuck give up Facebook for the right price? Would he give it up for a highly discounted price of a rush sale?

  • Goth girl

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  • I wish I could get into the accessorizing. I bought studded bracelets and got a rash :(

  • SHAKA

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  • The house was built by a 12 year old named Kyle.

    They are compelled biologically to make bike ramps even if they've never seen a bike.

  • What fantasy thing would you like to happen to you?

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  • Holding out for a vampire prince. So far, the prospects have been enthusiastic but anatomically illiterate.

  • TIL about powerships, special purpose ships on which a power plant is installed to serve as a power generation resource until a local power plant is built or until high demand in power supply is over

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  • Old diesel locomotives have been repurposed similarly, since they're literally a 3000hp generator and fuel tank on wheels.

  • Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems?

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  • Well, the example I gave above-- in the early Socket 754/939 days, ASRock sold a bunch of boards with an extra slot that would take a daughterboard that contained a Socket AM2 and DDR2 slots which would theoretically allow a significant upgrade on the "same" mainboard. Not sure anyone ever bought it, since it cost as much as a new mainboard.

    The most famous example of this style of weirdness was the ECS PF88, which could be equipped with a Socket 939, LGA775, or a Pentium M depending on daughtercard choices.

    But there was also some novel features-- motherboards with tube amplifiers on board (AOpen AX4B-533), a few generations of "instant boot mini-Linux environments", and some more sophisticated debug tools (I recall some firms trying small LCD displays and voice prompts to replace 7-segment POST code displays-- considering a 128x32 all-points-addressable OLED costs like $1 in quantity of 1, why are those not standard when the motherboard costs $300+?!)

  • Are PC Hardware Companies Slowly Driving Technology into Restricted Closed Ecosystems?

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  • They used to make zanier products (the stuff with ULI chipsets and CPU upgrade slots) back in the 2000s when they were a lowend brand competing with ECS. The feature set between boards is less diverse these days.

  • Holding back China's chipmaking progress is a fool’s errand, says U.S. Commerce Secretary | Tom's Hardware

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  • It's a no-win for them.

    They lose the war and pull the trigger, and everyone from the janitor on up is prosecuted by the PRC as saboteurs.

    They win the war and have blown up the factory? Goodbye #1 export product.

    Its only value is as a hindrance to peaceful negotiation. The threat is actually more useful as a "we'll pull the plug if you abandon your defence commitments" rather than "we'll pull the plug when attacked". That bludgeon prevents Western powers from seeking a managed, Hong Kong/Macao sryle reunification strategy.

  • Faith-based cost-sharing seemed like an alternative to health insurance, until the childbirth bills arrived

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  • At one point it appeared cheaper than conventional insurance; dome people might have been chasing that instead of religious kookery.

    When I worked for a firm too small to offer insurance, and there was still a mandate with teeth, a broker I visited suggested it because it was ~$250 per month compared with 400 for real insurance.