Just your typical internet guy with questionable humor
To me, mostly convenience. I do that with anime and, if the show doesn’t grab my attention by halfway of the first episode, I won’t feel like I wasted extra time waiting for the full episode to be downloaded only to decide that nah, not worth it.
Pretty sure youtube still runs on deficit. Storage costs alone would probably bankrupt some small countries.
There are plenty of cliffs in deserts :)
I’m counting on these changes actually making our platforms better
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The Meta boss was defiant in downplaying the possibility of a mass exodus of users.
I mean, he’s probably not worrying too much about the US/EU markets, since in terms of MAU, Southeast Asia probably represents over 70% of that. Does anyone know what has been the general reaction to his bullshit over there?
Mary-Frances Makichen, a Threads user who has 253 followers, lamented that Meta and Zuckerberg “are counting on the fact that it’s too hard for people to leave Threads and IG.”
Pretty much. It’s probably actually impossible to fully delete the accounts, fuckyzucky lives off users’ data.
Linux, after all, already runs on the Grace Blackwell Superchip. Windows doesn’t.
And why is that?
Project DIGITS features the new NVIDIA GB10 Grace Blackwell Superchip, offering a petaflop of AI computing performance for prototyping, fine-tuning and running large AI models.
With the Grace Blackwell architecture, enterprises and researchers can prototype, fine-tune and test models on local Project DIGITS systems running Linux-based NVIDIA DGX OS, and then deploy them seamlessly on NVIDIA DGX Cloud™, accelerated cloud instances or data center infrastructure.
Oh, because it’s not a fucking consumer product. It’s for enterprises that need a cheap supercomputer
From my limited knowledge, you’d need one account on each instance and have all of them boosting the original post, which would make them more visible in their local instances.
Copy-pasting a comment from Aurich (Ars Staffer):
I set up the Ars Mastodon instance, and speaking as a relatively educated and technically savvy person I found it extremely confusing. And the more I learned later the more I don’t feel remotely bad about being confused, it’s honestly pretty messy.
I put Ars on the main instance, and I think it was the right call. We’re not going to maintain our own, at least at this time, and trusting a random instance that’s very difficult to vet is kinda sketchy.
We ran a guest editorial a while back that I think really clearly outlines the various issues:
But you know, it’s really okay. It doesn’t have to be big, or popular or mainstream. As long as it survives and people like it? That’s good enough.
I think going into an era of balkanization of social isn’t the worst thing.
One of my complaints with Mastodon and similars is that you can’t search only for posts of a specific instance, or temporarily mute a single instance from your feed. There’s also some sort of “invisible wall” for Pleroma users (niche of a niche), as their public posts simply don’t show up in public Mastodon searches, though I don’t know whether that’s a problem with Mastodon or Pleroma.
Hey guys, I just found madcat’s CSAM stash on Google drive! There’s also a video of him masturbating to it!
Hey, I’m just using my right to free speech! You can’t censor me!
Yes, even bad people should not be censored. When they misbehave, they should be barred from the place they harmed, ideally not forever, but for a week or so maximum.
“Won’t somebody please think of the spam bots?”
The problem is that this childish 'murican view of free speech and censorship has poisoned the entire discussion, because it assumes every speech is equal. It’s not. To think a group of idiots screaming on megaphones with the sole intent of causing a ruckus is the same thing as a 1 on 1 conversation is stupid. To equate a snake oil salesman with someone trying to sell a table is also stupid. Not all speech is done in good faith.
Censorship happens at any group, because it’s all about maintaining social cohesion. Remember when trump was first elected and several family ties and friendships effectively ended? That was RL censorship, because trying to mend the social cohesion wasn’t worth it. Why would you be close to someone who makes your life terrible?
So it’s ok to say that zuckerfucker developed mental illnesses due to excessive zoophile orgies
but lets just say they use a super underpowered graphics card. or very little ram, or hard drives too small to install most games on etc
That’s why PC games have always had minimum hardware specs listed. Potential buyers will have to keep that in mind if the device they’re getting happens to be too weak to run something like CP2077 or Horizon Zero Dawn.
While I find it unlikely to happen, I can totally see an OEM doing that, the “absolute bare minimum SteamOS” (AMD A6-7000, 2GB RAM, 16GB HD), but the bang for the buck might make it a total sales failure, because unlike a general use computer (such as those walmart cheapo win10 with no usable disk space), buyers of any steamdeck-like devices have a very focused use case of games, so the minimum acceptable specs will probably always be halfway decent
People working at evil company surprised that evil company hires horrible human beings, doubly so when criticism was silenced. I mean, what the fuck did you expect??
Yes, we all need to pay bills and etc, but if you work for an evil company, don’t act like you care about morals or ethics.
I don’t think hardware vendors will use chips or parts that lack decent working linux drivers, which would make the “too many hardware variants” point moot.
Then again, higher ups are known for taking stupid decisions.
The moment I read “no transaction fees”, I immediately wondered why that would be listed as a feature. Turns out it’s because it uses crypto, though I don’t understand why. Free domain names?
I think the author’s point on this wasn’t so much that “nobody uses PC anymore”, but rather the concept of a Personal Computer, which you fully owned. There’s also the irony of the first Apple computers being personal computers you could open, fix and modify. Software is where few people feel like they own their computers. Free software being sold to shady companies isn’t new, even FOSS projects have been bought. That’s the main problem the author wants to point out, which is essentially the same as Cory Doctorow’s piece on enshitification.
The author also left this: