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utopiah

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  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • Admins of most services where data aren't encrypted can read data that is not public so I'd assume that by default.

    Now my question specifically is about "Joe public".

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • The lesson here is that your assumption about how the system works is wrong.

    That means can mean 1 important thing :

    • it was not explained clearly enough for you during your onboarding.

    Consequently I suggest you recall when you started using Lemmy, how you heard about it, how you then understood how it work and thus potentially update the documentation (or whatever you relied on then) accordingly so that others don't make the same mistake.

  • Why can people see who upvotes and who downvoted post on Lemmy?

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  • everything you do on here is fully public.

    Even DMs?

  • Microsoft Windows 365 goes down the day after Microsoft celebrates 'reimagining the PC as a cloud service that streams a Cloud PC'

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  • you would be surprised how much work a CPU under 100mhz can do when there isn’t an operating system/browser in the way

    Latest cool thing I saw : Doom on my earbuds https://doombuds.com/ which IMHO demonstrate greatly how much more powerful so many tiny things around us really are.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Sorry buddy but you are not "smart enough" to use that super powerful tool that supposedly can do everything extremely convenient for you! /s

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • Right, except that unlike Explorer or IE after that, it siphons everything it can to send it back to Redmond so even if one does not use it, it is STILL a problem.

  • Microsoft CEO warns that we must 'do something useful' with AI or they'll lose 'social permission' to burn electricity on it

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  • "bend the productivity curve" is such a beautiful way to say that they are running out of ideas on how to sell that damn thing.

    It basically went from :

    • it's going to change EVERYTHING! Humanity as we know it is a thing of the past!

    ... to "bend the productivity curve". It's not how it "radically increase productivity" no it's a lot more subtle than that, to the point that it can actually bend that curve down. What a shit show.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Right, sorry maybe I got a bit excited by my point. It wasn't about this HDD example in particular, it was about the broader consumer hardware trend.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Another interesting metric is piracy trends, checking a popular show, e.g Fallout and its latest episode namely S02E05 :

    • 1080p ~15k seeds
    • 720p ~3k seeds
    • 480p ~0.2 seeds

    ... and 2160p gets 50 seeds!

    Of course that's just 1 datapoint and it'd have to be replicated (maybe it was released after the other versions, maybe it's a show people do NOT want in high res, etc) but it's quite a big gap.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • I'm not arguing about prices. I wish prices would keep on going down but that's just my preference as a consumer. It has nothing to do with my argument though.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • I'd be curious to know if game size is increasing over time. My intuition is that we also peaked at 200GB installs. There are bigger games but on average I'm not sure we installation size keeps on growing.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Interesting, I'm not sure if there is a metric for it, maybe Steam most popular configuration could be used then see if it's average time does it indeed last longer? My intuition is it might indeed but I didn't check the actual data.

  • Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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  • Honestly I don't think it matters so much...

    I think we reached peaked IT few years ago.

    Nobody needs (that's the crux term here, need, not "want" or "desire" or "wish") a bigger hard drive. It's the same way nobody needs an 8K TV and they they aren't sold. Why?

    I'm glad you ask, it's all connected! If you stick to "just" a 4K TV, because you have normal human eyes, then the content you need is "just" 4K so a movie is just 2GB or so... and thus you don't need a larger hard drive, thus not CPU, GPU, memory, etc. The current setup is simply "good enough".

    I can already hear the steps of that ONE person who edits 360 8K videos for National Geographic preparing to argue "actually...!" and yes, they ARE right. Some people, professionals, DO need super high res, super high framerate, super high everything ... but that's NOT your average consumer. You average consumer STOPPED upgrading because they need to. Most consumer who still upgrade mostly do it because of habit, because they get coerced into it (e.g. MicroSlop Windows 11) but not because they genuinely need to.

    So... yes I "wish" I had better everything, including hard drive, but the truth is we "peaked" in terms of actually required spec a couple of years ago, same for phones that are now the same equivalent small slabs.

    My point is I'm wondering if this AI bet will have deeper consequence for the industry overall with the realization for most people (again, please before you reply : your average consumer, the person who browse the Web, watch a video of a TV series, play some games for fun, NOT a professional!) that the hardware they have TODAY is good enough.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • FWIW I do have 2 Linux phones and... they work. The problem IMHO is that non-software companies believe THEY can lock or profit their customers via an "app". If they only provided a Web page instead rather than a mandatory mobile application then it wouldn't matter so much.

    So, despite have working Linux phones (albeit far from perfect) I'm still relying on a deGoogled Android phone so that I can run mobile "apps" for only a couple of, quite important to me, services.

    To summarize, I don't think it's the OS themselves that fuel lock-in but rather apps that require those locked down OSes.

  • Jeff Bezos said the quiet part out loud — hopes that you'll give up your PC to rent one from the cloud

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  • TBH I don't think he's wrong, especially in HIS position.

    Namely I think having the flexibility of the cloud is amazing... but NOT at the cost of losing sovereignty.

    So when Bezos uses AWS he is actually smart because he remains sovereign. When anybody else though does rely on another system that they do not own for critical tasks then then lose sovereignty and thus agency.

    TL;DR: cloud or not, maintain your agency.

  • Bandcamp bans purely AI-generated music from its platform

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  • Neat, my current setup is :

    • stream from FIP.fr via cvlc
    • when I absolutely love a tune, buy on Bandcamp
    • if it's not available or I bought it elsewhere, e.g. old CD, then get from Soulseek
    • scp my ~/Music directory on my mobile phone

    I tried LMS for few weeks but honestly just plain VLC is enough for me.

    Anyway, point is, this decision makes me want to buy from Bandcamp even more.

  • What if the Internet Goes Down? - 15 Jan, 7PM CET

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  • Lot of complex discussions here about Ham radio operator, new hardware or protocol like Mestastic, SDR, etc so I'd start with "just" what people already have at home and only AFTER go there, if need be.

    If you have WiFi Mesh at home or IoT via ZigBee or Z-Wave you already are doing mesh networking. Sure you might not have Internet access this way but the principle is already there via your existing relative affordable infrastructure.

  • Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is NOT Going To Be Solved With Documentation"

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  • controversial take.

    Nope, I agree, and so far you get only upvotes so... we agree.