cornonthecobra

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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Given xAI's gross disregard for environmental regulations in building Colossus, the reason for building datacenters in space seems obvious: there's no EPA in space.
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
The meaning of kilo, mega, giga, tera, etc. are unambiguous: SI prefixes defined as powers of 10, not 2. 1 TB is 10*12 bytes, not 2*40 bytes. The misuse of those prefixes as powers of 1024, while useful as shorthand for computer memory whe
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
It's because Microsoft isn't a software company. They're a marketing company that happens to make software and a few other bits. We're now on the back end of that, where Microsoft must again make products with independe
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Install the Youtube Control Panel extension by soitis. It's available for all desktop and mobile browsers, and does a lot to restore sanity on YouTube. If you want something lighter for Firefox Android. There is also the Background V
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Put on a good show, offer something novel, and people will gleefully march right off a cliff while admiring their shiny new purchase.
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
the only place i have one is a grocery store where their loyalty program price is listed on the shelf tag and is lower, often by quite a bit (a third to half off is common). even then, i use one of the meme phone numbers (local area code +
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Maybe a nit, but this isn't piracy. Windows has been officially free to download and install since Windows XP. That was when Microsoft switched to their Product Activation DRM, and the license key became the bit you paid for. Tangent
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
It's the private equity era. Much like how legislative behaviour is now dictated by the wealthy even to the point of contradicting the will/desire of informed voters, corporate behaviour is now dictated by private equity investme
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Speaking strictly about ZFS internal operations, the free space requirement is closer to 5% on current ZFS versions. That allows for CoW and block reallocations in real-world pools. Heavy churn and very large files will increase that marg
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
I think it's more that AI is the final straw for many. Social media exhaustion. Everything needing an account or (worse) subscription. The stupidity of smart devices/appliances. Software and media not being ownable anymore. Co
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
"Full" "Self"-"Driving" ("Supervised")
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
In this case, static text without the highlighter would have been better. Because the timing is so far off, the highlighter interferes with reading the captions for hearing assistance.
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
The caption highlight timing is very inaccurate. It looks like it just steps through each word on a fixed timer, rather than using timing information from the TTS engine?
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
and art. there are still a lot of artists on X. no, i don't mean the kind that autostarts HR cases.
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
You hire such people to introduce you to ideas and projects. You try some stuff, see what sticks. It's something you can do when you have money and time but no ideas.
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
Then why did he go back to Google /s
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
I really don't buy his explanation. Here's one of the world's smartest guys, with more money than Smaug, and he really couldn't come up with anything better than going back to Google to work on Gemini? What's the p
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by cornonthecobra 8mo ago
But if my git hashes are indivisible, how will people fork my repo? /s
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
Anyone read that thinking they're claiming the Autoped was an e-scooter? It used a petrol engine. It had a novel idea of pushing/pulling the handbars to engage the clutch/apply the brake. https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
News like this reminds me of what Linus Torvalds said on LTT when the topic of LoC metrics came up
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
Ya my router has to do tagged PPPoE through the ONT even though I pay for a static /28. At least I don't have to also do RIP for the subnet like Xfinity requires. Interestingly, if I pay for their IPTV service the internet side b
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
CenturyLink, an ILEC, only offers IPv6 using 6rd gateways. The IPv6 throughput is a fraction of IPv4 and has much higher latency. During peak times, the 6rd gateway saturates, forcing me to stop advertising the prefix to restore internet a
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
Even better, the reboot wasn't needed as the kernel didn't get bumped on this one. Just restart the rtsold service if you're using it and sanity check your resolv.conf and resolvconf.conf. As for noticing it quickly, add `fr
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
As long as I can deploy a pkg with the AI features completely disabled administratively, I'm fine with it. I'd like it a lot more if it was strictly opt-in, and they made non-AI LTS releases, but I understand that's at odds w
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
Three of the banks I use have their websites/apps go through CloudFlare. So does the electronic records and messaging system used by my doctor. A lawyer friend uses a secure documents transfer service that is protect by guess who. Wh
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
> Consider this - what is the likelihood of every certificate authority on the Internet having their private keys compromised simultaneously? Considering that CloudFlare has managed to MitM a huge part of the internet, I'd say that
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by cornonthecobra 9mo ago
It doesn't handle backspace correctly. The character is erased visually, but not removed from the buffer, so when you type the next character, the erased character reappears. Make one typo and you have to reload the page.
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by cornonthecobra 10mo ago
The World Wide Web is not the Internet.
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by cornonthecobra 10mo ago
As I was writing it out, I knew someone was going to complain. It's an abridged timeline. Brevity because the point is the date, not the fine detail. But since I don't care to argue on the internet... edited.
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by cornonthecobra 10mo ago
"we have been open-source long before it was fashionable" An abridged timeline: 1960s to 1980s: hobbyist and academic/research computing create thriving public domain software ecosystems (literally the birth of FOSS) 1983: Th

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