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Riskable

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Father, Hacker (Information Security Professional), Open Source Software Developer, Inventor, and 3D printing enthusiast

  • Someone At YouTube Needs Glasses: The Prophecy Has Been Fulfilled

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  • You jest, but if conservatives have their way, you'll soon have to verify your ID by uploading a video every time you visit the site (if not logged in). Even for non-adult content!

    Because the reason for the ID isn't to "protect the children" or anything like that. It's about control. Conservatives want the power to decide what people get to see and ID verification systems are just a small part of that.

  • Trump Declares Biden’s ‘Autopen’ Turkey Pardons ‘Invalid’ at Thanksgiving Ceremony

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  • This is fowl play!

  • Man in Taiwan somehow gets 8cm by 6cm ceramic cup in bottom, claims it got there 'by accident'

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  • A "minor slip-up during a 'bottoms up moment'" fits this problem to a tea.

  • What does it mean to be massively against AI?

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  • Whenever I hear someone hating on "AI" I think, "Wait: What are they even talking about?" Because it's far, far too ambiguous.

    Will they get mad at me because I used gpt-oss:20b (on my personal GPU) to help me summarize the architecture of some code that I didn't write? Do they even know that such things exist?

    Will they get mad at me because I used ComfyUI (on my personal PC) to combine two images into one?

    Will they get mad at me for using speech recognition to write something out on my phone?

    Do they get mad whenever forecasters use hurricane path prediction/modeling?

    All these things and a whole lot more are "AI".

  • 'Embarrassing' for Trump: Halligan’s job as US attorney is toast after Comey ruling

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  • It's good to know that incompetence is still the guiding principle of the Trump administration 👍

  • functions

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  • Doesn't matter: Nobody uses right shift for anything but pinball games!

  • functions

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  • Related: Every Fn key on a keyboard is a missed opportunity! That's not fun at all!

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  • Magnolias with beetle pollination FTW! 😤

  • GOP barrels toward ObamaCare cliff as prospects dim for subsidy extensions

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  • To summarize:

    • The Republicans have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they've thought up so far is an even bigger handout to Visa and MasterCard as well as other rich/incredibly profitable/unnecessary middlemen companies that handle Health Savings Account plans. Note: The more money you make, the more money you save via HSA plans!
    • The Democrats have no real plans to fix health care. The only thing they've thought of is to extend the Republican band-aid known as Romneycare the Obamacare subsidies which will only slightly delay the inevitable, on-going collapse of health care in the United States. AKA the death spiral: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Death_spiral_%28insurance%29

  • HP and Dell disable HEVC support built into their laptops’ CPUs

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  • What should be illegal is patents like this!

  • What are some things you put a ton of effort & work into, but it pays you $0, and you wish there could be some reward for all your hard work?

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  • Open source software. Sigh.

  • Linux PC Occasionally completely freezes

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  • The same thing can happen in Windows. Only difference, really, is that Linux tells you that there's a problem and the Event Viewer doesn't. You just end up with a hung Windows PC or a screwed up USB port that won't work anymore after it happens enough times.

    Oftentimes what causes it is undocumented firmware "features" that need to be turned on via a proprietary driver (for your USB device). The vendor "supports" Windows but not Linux so they never bothered to submit any patches to fix issues like that. It's that Linux fault? Not really. It's the fault of the shitty vendor.

    It's always some bargain basement piece of shit Chinese-made USB device that causes these sorts of problems. The type of thing that can happen when even the vendor of the product didn't know a counterfeit chip ended up in their device.

  • Trump's Republican Party insists there's no affordability crisis and dismisses election losses

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  • To be fair, "avoid change at all costs!" Has been the Republican motto for a long time now. It's right up there with, "ignore reality."

  • Microsoft: We see all the backlash and we know we have a lot to fix in Windows

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  • Too stupid to notice? No. Too meek to do anything about it? Yes! That sums up Windows users in a nutshell.

  • TIL Brazil received nearly 50% of all African slaves in the Transatlantic slave trade

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  • The History Channel isn't a history channel!

  • Linux PC Occasionally completely freezes

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  • I had this same thing happen a while back. You know what it was? A bad USB device!

    I had a little USB debug probe that went bad (somehow) and it totally screwed up my USB hub's ability to... Stay stable? Haha, that's the best way to put it.

    Anyway, the fix was to remove the device and disconnect the USB hub (and its power) for a few seconds. If I ever reconnected the probe, the problem would recur within an hour or two.

    Here's how you can check for something similar: Run dmesg and look for regular messages like, "unable to enumerate device". It'll tell you which bus and port it's on but that's not easy to figure out so just keep unplugging things until you get the one matching the device that's regularly throwing errors in dmesg. Keep it disconnected, power everything off (PC, USB hub's, etc) for a few seconds and then try running without that device for a while. It might be the culprit!

  • A Small Town Is Fighting a $1.2 Billion AI Datacenter for America's Nuclear Weapon Scientists

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  • You know they're just buildings full of servers, right?

    I mean, I'd rather have a data center than some toxic chemical factory or a busy warehouse in my neighborhood. Data centers just... sit there. They use a lot of power and some use a lot of water, but if your region doesn't have power/water problems it's not really much of an impact.

    A nation's supercomputing power used to be something people celebrated. Especially one owned and operated by a place like Los Alamos National Laboratory.

  • AI adoption in US adds ~900k tons of CO₂ annually, study finds

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  • So... Basically nothing. That's something like 0.01% of our total emissions?

    The way the news reports about AI data centers you'd think they're like nuclear bombs that destroy entire cities worth of energy and water everywhere they go up.

    The solution is to require them to use renewable energy! Just regulate them, already! The big AI players won't give two shits about that; they'll upgrade their designs and move on. Just like with every other environmental regulation that's come along.

  • ‘REPORT TO WORK IMMEDIATELY’: Trump threatens to replace absent air traffic controllers with ‘true Patriots’

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  • No. You misunderstand: Jesus is an undocumented immigrant but because he works for a big corporation, he gets left alone until he complains. Then they get rid of him... Along with his entire family.