Jason2357

For torrents specifically, I would suggest getting some friends together to rent a seedbox or VPS on a torrent friendly provider. You may have total monthly bandwidth limits, but you have much better speed because p2p works so much better with a publically routable IP and open ports anyway.

Its the last remnant of the various property owning/landed gentry/aristocracy control of government. They had to give up their exclusive right to sit in court and then "democratic" government, and then their exclusive right to vote.

They are holding on to money-as-influence, trying to convince us its fair because everyone can make donations (you get a great tax receipt!!). However, even donation limits are mainly just a way to cover up their thumbs on the scale, because all they require the rich to do is spread out their money.

Indeed. The propaganda around these new AI models was that they were so dangerous that they would break the security of everything.

Turns out the biggest issues were a couple of user privlidge execution vulnerabilities? I guess that is testiment to the actual human effort that went into everything.

I'm heartened that there hasn't been any arbitrary code remote execution vulnerabilities that would have actually caused major problems.

We have known for a while that user security is only one layer and shouldn't be relied on 100%. Thats precisely why people run anything remotely dangerous in a VM, not just as an unprivilidged user. If you are running a service in docker, sure this is bad, but only catastrophic if the service also has a vulnerability allowing remote execution AND that machine has access to something else sensitive.

I would love to hear a better noun representing comodified computer processing as differentiated from storage, or network bandwidth/throughput.

There are a few examples where they run turbine gas generators for power. In those cases the noise (and pollution) are in an entirely new class of problem. They just do so much compute.

We still pay a lot of civil servants to add value to the X platform across the province.

I would be fine with public agencies just publishing an RSS feed and newsletter. Communities can pull those posts in and discuss them, but it hasnt been a great use of civil servants jobs to manage social media platforms.

I do think the inflated valuations are in-fact existational threats to Microsoft and Google. Tech stocks are so over valued that they very well can go into a death spiral when investors no longer believe the company will grow exponentially. Its happened before, and will happen again. Thats why they are so desperate to hype AI. Thats the only illusion that have left to justify future growth.

I mean, the names will still be there, but you will have consolidation and buyouts and other changes of ownership. Some will continue as a shell of their former selves (like old school IBM), while others will just vaporise (Kodak). There's not really a reliable mechanism for a companies valuation to shrink by several orders of magnitude and just cut back and continue as a stable smaller company.

Obviously, the people at the top will get government handouts to stay rich and it will be all our pensions that get cleaned out. Thats how this works. Cheer the bubble bursting, but only because the earlier the less harm for all of us. Ram won't get cheaper either.

Not the above poster, but I would say the cost. Modern EVs are designed to replace cars, and so cost the same or more, while being not quite as convenient for long trips.

We could have all had lightweight, city-speed but cheap, short-range EVs for a decade or two already if that was the approach taken. The battery requirements for 60kph and maybe 100km of range are super minimal, even before you go lighter. Like an order of magnitude smaller.

Might have worked if the street infra and laws allowed it. Would have been super tough to pull off at the start, and a lot of people lack the parking for two different vehicles. I do remember some companies trying these, but there's no where appropriate to drive them.

Fediverse integration into feed readers seems like next step for them. Not just a link to share an article, but integrated discussion using your preferred Lemmy or Mastodon or whatever server. It would have to discover threads since you are getting the actual link from RSS.

Very little large capacity ddr2 was ever produced, so if people start wanting to put 16GB+ in old machines, the supply dries up quick. There are still enough 1g sticks around no one wants.

Honestly, Microsoft doesn't give a shit about anyone but enterprise customers. They were probably told to get bent by one too many large companies running fleets of thousands of old embedded systems or call centres packed with old desktops or something.