x3sphere

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by x3sphere 4mo ago
I ditched reCaptcha and switched to Cloudflare Turnstile recently. It’s been a lot more effective. Not sure about this but I won’t be switching back for the time being.
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by x3sphere 9mo ago
It's just insane that a gift card redemption can trigger this. What's the rationale? It would make more sense if they just locked the person out of redeeming gift cards or something, not the entire account. But reading horror stor
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by x3sphere 11mo ago
Even if you are buying at the low end, hardware simply doesn't age that quickly nowadays. Comparing against of the M series chips, I'd be surprised if anyone found an M1 Air unbearably slow in a blind test. In contrast, there was
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by x3sphere 2y ago
Same here. I got really sick the second time I had Covid (despite it being a more “mild” strain - Omicron I believe). Was bedridden for almost two weeks and had a rebound fever. With Paxlovid however, most of my symptoms subsided after a fe
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by x3sphere 2y ago
Well, let's also ban alcohol consumption since it's bad for you. Let's also ban all forms of violent media since that could potentially be bad for you when viewed in excess (similar to porn). It's a slippery slope. At wh
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by x3sphere 2y ago
Wordpress.com would be the equivalent. That said, they don't exactly offer an unmodified WP experience either at least not without upgrading to the higher tier plans. The base plan has plugins disabled for example. Not even sure how it
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by x3sphere 2y ago
I agree it’s not as important. There have still been some rather high .com sales though… Ai.com sold for 11M recently. Now personally, I have never accessed ChatGPT through that domain and never seen it even linked from that.
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by x3sphere 2y ago
Looking at sales of other domains I don’t think 10M is insane for the right buyer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_expensive_domain_... , Beer.com sold for 7M in 2004.
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by x3sphere 2y ago
MSFT went sideways for like a decade too. Who knows... Intel is doing something the others aren't with building its own fabs. Which arguably carries a lot of risk but it could pay off.
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by x3sphere 2y ago
Yeah, they should really unlock the virtualization capabilities. That IMO would make a lot of power users happy. I would love for them to also offer some sort of dual boot option for running macOS on bare metal but that's likely not go
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by x3sphere 2y ago
They should just unlock the iPad's virtualization capabilities. That would let power users run a desktop OS without them really needing to support it. Also I don't particularly care how any of the touch stuff works in a hypothetic
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by x3sphere 2y ago
The irony is Meta have a draconian stance against site scrapers, and have been known to sue over it. Yet they go and do this. Which is much worse than just scraping public pages.
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Well, I hold crypto, but admittedly it's kind of failed as far as payments are concerned. I used to use BTC quite regularly for payments back in like 2014-2015. But now, it's too expensive to move around due to fees so I just hold
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by x3sphere 3y ago
I think E3 was on its way out regardless. Nintendo dropped out of E3 years before COVID even happened. I attended a few years and it seemed like the bigger publishers such as Activision kept downsizing their presence at the event. COVID acc
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Wages are definitely up, but if you factor in all the price increases of rent and groceries, I don't see how anything is better for the poorest. I've seen fast food places here hiring @ $20-25 an hour - that would maybe be enough
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Will they be able to buy though if they lose their job? Rate cuts usually come with a spike in unemployment, so... That said I still don't think there will be a collapse unless there is like, worse unemployment than 2008. But - prices
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Rate cuts are usually done in response to unemployment spiking. It could take things awhile to recover once they start cutting as that likely means the economy has entered a recession. That being said - it could be the best time to buy, but
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Yea uh... I don't think it's for telemetry. These aren't the original developers of the games and most aren't even professional devs, they probably just think it's cool to add those achievements.
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by x3sphere 3y ago
WordPress itself offers managed hosting plans on wordpress.com. They have a free ad-supported plan, and the cheapest paid starts at $48/year. That's what they are competing against.
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Too many people worth following still are using Twitter. Until they leave and there isn’t a reason to go on the site then there won’t be any mass exodus. I doubt the forced login is having a huge impact so far. Maybe Meta’s alternative will
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by x3sphere 3y ago
It ties in with Workspace nicely too, odd move for sure.
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by x3sphere 3y ago
We don't. But by the same token, these are just allegations so far. It is interesting however, the SEC purportedly has tons of evidence of wrongdoing at these exchanges but completely missed FTX which was a massive fraud. Color me skep
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Yep as long as you remain up-to-date I've never had a WP install hacked. Not saying the security is good - but there a lot of vulnerabilities reported with other similar software too. Don't know if I'd say WP is worse. Given
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Hard disagree with this. The current state of AI is impressive but it's not at the level of allowing everyone to program without prior knowledge. I suspect we're still a long ways away from that even though it seems close by all t
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by x3sphere 3y ago
I'm not sure AMD will catch up to Nvidia. Obviously there are a lot of traders betting on that right now, given that AMD has started to rally in response to Nvidia. However after all this time NV still commands like 80% share of the ga
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Yeah that's not surprising... to move many would have to give up a 2-3% mortgage. Unless the pay bump from relocating covers the extra I'd be spending per month with 6% interest rate and then some, it doesn't seem worth the
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Hmm, but when I log on Chase they are often advertising the JPMorgan side which offers 4% on cash. So… they are offering high rates, but seem to be keeping it only to specific segments at the moment. I guess most people that use the regular
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by x3sphere 3y ago
> But now we see that crypto was indeed bullshit all along. You say that, but crypto bubble hasn't really popped. At 30K, BTC is only down around 55% from the highs, that's about in the same league as many tech stock declines t
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by x3sphere 3y ago
He used to work at ATI during the 9800 Pro days. That was pretty much their most successful GPU.
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by x3sphere 3y ago
Wasn’t he an exec at ATI when they launched the 9800 Pro? Arguably one of their most successful GPUs, if not the most successful. So he has had some successful launches, which probably is why he landed these gigs… however yes, Vega wasn’t m

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