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Micrococonut··on America.gov
I'm also sure 47 would be unhappy that they are using AI at the top of the page, going against his latest royal decrees.
Micrococonut··on 'That's so AI ' What gen Alpha's biggest insult tells us
So you're saying either way, we are going to get a polished turd? lol
Micrococonut··on Uproar in France over award-winning author accused of using AI
Three black people in a year across the literal entire planet’s population and you are convinced it’s a racist conspiracy?
Micrococonut··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Automated scripts that target everything they can. Isn’t that one of the core lessons to take away from the last year? As hacking becomes commoditized and the cost per attack shrinks, it becomes more profitable to cast a wide net, and everyone will become a target.
Micrococonut··on OpenClaw 2.0, Accidentally
Accidentally indeed. Im sure it’s tough to do anything intentionally when you are sieving through the slop heaps.
Micrococonut··on Flock CEO gets his house blurred out on Google Maps and Zillow
Indeed. This mass surveillance should have been stopped long ago.
Micrococonut··on Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos
Back then you didn’t want to sell out or be a poser. Now we are a society of posers.
Micrococonut··on Apple announces changes for apps in the European Union
The extreme discomfort of eye tracking based interactions for power users is what kept it off of my head. You have to maintain eye contact with the ui element you want to touch throughout the entire gesture. It’s kind of miserable for someone who is fluent with computers.
Micrococonut··on Every Fucking Website (2020)
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sink-it-for-reddit/id644987363... Here is an iOS safari extension that helps mitigate their bs. Just putting this out there for people.
Micrococonut··on More than 10 firms pay up to $100k a month for access to Truth Social posts
Republicans don't even try to put on an appearance of lawfulness anymore. Their supporters revel in the criminality. They worship it.
Micrococonut··on Mark Zuckerberg attacks 'closed' AI rivals as Meta returns to open models
Sounds good. We can stop conducting business online and get back to being humans.
Micrococonut··on Windows 11's built-in Weather app wastes more than 1 GB of RAM
Should be able to get by with using system graphics
Micrococonut··on Star Just Ate a Planet, and It's Not Done Yet
Well said
Micrococonut··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
I feel like the level of discourse on HN has fallen to that of reddit recently. I used to expect more of people on this website. When the rebuttal to home nuclear energy generation being an obviously horribly bad idea is “oh well we have cars too and those are dangerous. Guess we just live in baby world. Little baby world where little baby’s aren’t allowed to own their own nuclear reactors”, it’s just like man. What are you even doing here haha.
Micrococonut··on What's slowing down the AI buildout
Except most people don’t have industrial levels of arsenic, LSD, or other highly toxic substances stockpiled in their homes. Nor do they have a way to obtain it without triggering a visit from a swat team. Which is exactly what this comment chain is discussing. The potential for harm when you don’t have to go anywhere but your own basement/a few neighbors to obtain enough enriched uranium to create a superfund site.
Micrococonut··on EU Parliament greenlights Chat Control 1.0
Well when it comes to ending encrypted traffic, I would assume if they can’t read your traffic you will be in violation and the police will show up at your door to kindly imprison you for a few years
Micrococonut··on Grok 4.5
Ah yeah I remember that day. It was when he went on stage and started popping off sieg heils with the intensity and ferocity of someone who really meant it.
Micrococonut··on Meta's glasses will turn off the camera if you tamper with the privacy light
The ultimate solution is banning these pedo-oriented spy products.
Micrococonut··on Android Developer Verification: Threat masquerading as Protection
Your bank doesn't have a website?
Micrococonut··on OpenAI unveils its first custom chip, built by Broadcom
I think it would just be an opportunity to sell another chip a few years down the line. If the utility curve flattens out on the performance of models I can see a future where you are buying an up to date chip every few years to upgrade to the latest and greatest, while providing up to date context as part of the user input. Like if I have a programming task and I supply a copy of up-to-date documentation alongside my input, I would think that I could still get good output out of a dated model.
Micrococonut··on Malware developers added nuclear and biological weapons text to to their spyware
Built a nuclear contamination engine. Died of a fentanyl overdose. American as apple pie.
Micrococonut··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
Not sure what you mean by this but I use 1password on my home computer (bazzite) without any issue.
Micrococonut··on Linux gaming is faster because Windows APIs are becoming Linux kernel features
Do not let anybody lead you astray. If you want to just game without any bullshit install Bazzite.
Micrococonut··on I love Linux, but I can't quit Windows
I switched to bazzite-dx for my personal computer ~6 months ago. i7-13700K / 5070 Ti / 32GB DDR4 / 5120x1440 240Hz HDR

It's been perfect for me. The included Bazaar app store is very impressive compared to something like the apple app store. It reignited the lost joy of opening up the app store to find something new and interesting. A wonderful contrast to current meta of app stores just being a front to push expensive SaaS products, with platform operators taking their slice at gunpoint on the payment processing side.

It also includes a lot of development related packages by default, so you don't need to worry much about layering your basic tools with rpm-ostree. I generally found that most things I wanted as a developer and gamer were already installed or easily installed. The default KDE software is all good too. Perfectly functional utility software for viewing media, calculator, paint, remote desktop, text editor, filelight (so fast. way better than windirstat).

Flatpak is a treasure. With Flatseal you can view and manage application-system permissions with a level of granularity I have not seen in other systems. And most importantly Flatpak gives application developers a powerful common target to create a Linux bundle that will work on ~every~ distro. Downloading and installing my common apps like discord/.was extremely fast.

The singular deficiency I've seen is games that require anti-cheat. I'm not a heavy competitive gamer, so I simply do not play those games. I still keep a small windows partition around, should I fancy a game of league of legends, but I haven't booted it in at least two months. Last time I did all I could think was "holy shit. it really is this bad. it wasn't my imagination."

Nvidia drivers have been rapidly improving recently. HDR support in KDE 6.6 is really good. Better than windows actually. I have less HDR related problems on Linux now than I did on windows 11.

Old game compatibility is OUTSTANDING. On Windows I literally could not play CivCity: Rome with my ultrawide. With no windowed mode option, this 1280x1024 game was stretched across my entire screen and I couldn't stop it. On Linux the gamescope tool provides a custom isolated graphics context to any game you designate at your desired resolution/refresh rate. I can simply add "gamescope -W 1280 -H 1024 -r 60 -e -- %command%" to my steam properties for CivCity: Rome. And I get a properly sized window in borderless mode running at the correct frame rate for the game. Mouse jitters are fixed. Resolution size is fixed. Game runs perfectly.

As a longtime dabbler, the Linux ecosystem has made crazy progress in the last few years in bringing about the fabled "Year of the Linux Desktop". For me, that year was 2026. At this point I don't see why I would ever go back.

Fedora + KDE feels like coming home to windows 7. Anything else, YMMV.

Micrococonut··on The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
Yea I don't know if that's true or not. I'm just saying that is what they are getting at.
Micrococonut··on The old world of tech is dying and the new cannot be born
The analogy is implying that the revenue generated by providers is dwarfed by the total expenditure on inference & continuously training the next best model. These providers have large operational costs and the presumption is that they are providing a dollar ~worth~ of product for 10 cents. Worth being calculable based on the actual capital & operational costs of providing the service.
Micrococonut··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
Look at the notifications in the middle of the landing page for iOS 17. https://www.apple.com/os/ios/ It is immediately awful. I hadn't even seen the keynote yet when I went to apple.com to see what had been announced and my very first thought was "Oh no"
Micrococonut··on Apple introduces a universal design across platforms
The fact that it ever made it to this stage is troubling. It was quite literally the very first thing I thought when I saw their landing page for ios 17. https://www.apple.com/os/ios/ Look at the notifications front and center in the very middle of the screen. It's unbelievable. How are these the decisions being made at one of the biggest tech companies on the planet.
Micrococonut··on Instagram deals reveal Meta is offering TikTok creators as much as $300k to post
People are very aware that American tech companies want to control and exploit them as much as possible so there's really no difference to them between a Chinese app and an American app. Big tech trying to use its political power to force users into their platforms is an assault on our freedoms. You call it a bratty thing but I call it the only way the people have left to protest the enshittification of their digital lives.
Micrococonut··on Hackers are spoofing themselves as GitHub's Dependabot to steal user passwords
Just one more reason to actually read the article instead of just assuming its contents say whatever you want.
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