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Comment Re: Much ado about nothing. (Score 1) 30

I've done it. Have you?

No, nor do I plan to, have fun with that shit. I just want the option to have it repaired with any available part which will fit if I become dependent on it, and without having to worry about whether downgrading the bootloader will cause me some other problem. I've had a couple of raspis and had a bootloader update cause me issues with one of them.

Comment Re:free software trump strikes again (Score 1) 30

The FSF wants everything to be free.

False. They want everyone to be free. Having restrictions on what you can do with the software which you "purchased" or with the software embedded in or required to use the hardware which you really did purchase is the opposite of that. The FSF isn't against charging for services related to software, including its development. The GPL doesn't prevent that, it only makes rent seeking more difficult.

Comment Re: 64-bit vs IPv6 (Score 1) 34

Anything you are doing which involves shoveling data is faster with 64 bit because more data is shoveled per shovelful, plus you don't have register starvation. When amd64 was new it was typical that doing absolutely nothing but recompiling the same code as 64 bit could produce a 10-15% speedup in CPU-limited software. This is why the X32 ABI is so interesting for smaller programs which don't require large address spaces but could still benefit from the overhead reduction from processing 64 bit data types, and the fact that amd64 has genuinely general purpose registers— and a lot more of them than x86.

In the real world, ideally you hand video encoding off to something that's better at it than the CPU. Mainstream video processing software has been GPU accelerated for a long time now, and GPUs also handle the video encoding. For example with Nvidia, NVENC uses DMA and so does your storage device, so in a fully accelerated encode path there's no CPU instructions involved in any of the actual encoding parts and it's mostly directing traffic, unless there's encryption involved. Even the limited number of GPU cores in a typical embedded GPU can give good video encoding performance.

Comment Re:But in fact... (Score 1) 30

raspi or similar still makes sense if power consumption is a significant consideration. If you are running from battery you will want to look at ARM. If space is a serious consideration, likewise, like if it absolutely has to be very small. For all other types of install you're definitely better off with a used NUC. If you want some GPIO you can get it with a $3 nano.

Comment Re:Much ado about nothing. (Score 1) 30

Upgrading the ram on a Rpi isn't for the feint of heart,

Sure, for all intensive purposes.

if you can upgrade the ram and cannot reset the firmware you should hand it your geek card.

By "reset" you mean "downgrade"

This is a whole lot of hand wringing over a nothing burger.

It's OK, you can just say you don't understand the argument.

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Journal Journal: Paypal has become an AI-assisted identity stealing platform

I suddenly got notifications that my Paypal password had been changed, and a passkey added to my account. There was a suspicious transaction for one cent right before it began to happen. I then started down the most frustrating AI-assisted rabbit hole I've yet experienced.

Comment Re:So? (Score 1) 34

You sound like the sort of person who should set it to load at startup

You sound like an idiot. (checks username) Yep!

so you can stop whining

No, I'm complaining, you're whining.

Why are you trying to doomscroll the Steam product pages

Why are you making shit up to be mad about related to shit that I'm mad about? Are you one of the ACs on my dick constantly every day? Just can't get enough of following me around and crying about my comments?

Comment Re:Beware of knee-jerk reactions (Score 1) 62

At very best the LLM output is not actually copyrightable but it is being distributed as if it were GPLv2 and it's fraudulent to distribute on that basis. At worst it actually carries copyright from contributors and it will have to be removed and replaced later. Any project allowing AI code contributions is creating a minefield. It is just an absolute dogshit plan to accept them for this reason alone and I absolutely hate that this is happening to Linux.

Comment No they didn't, David (Score 1) 91

For more than a year, The New York Times followed recipients of a universal basic income program

It would help if the Slashdolt editors knew what words meant at all. It's not universal if everyone doesn't get it. Just because the Nazi-boosting NYT used the word in their article, that doesn't mean that Nazi-protecting Slashdot has to use the same word in the summary.

Comment Re: WTF is OP talking about? (Score 1) 223

Explain how you'd fake a 3000lb+ car made of non-magnetic metals being able to suspend itself upside down, do an in-place flip, a barrel roll, and an inverted barrel roll, and have a 0.8s quarter mile while being co-witnessed by no fewer than 4 cameras (including multiple fly-over drones) at a live event.

That's really easy. You don't make the car capable of doing the car things. It doesn't have to for a flying demo. Then you fill it with your rocket stuff.

That compares to the OP's claim that the car is CG how?

You have to read all of the comments in the thread. Things happened in between there.

Comment Re: This is interesting legally (Score 1) 27

It isn't reproducing the work, it only looks like it is, because the training data is fundamentally not in there. And the longer a piece you try to reproduce the more clear this becomes, because you get more errors. Even for a work it's overtrained on, it still struggles to do verbatim reproduction.

This still leaves open the question because it's based on recognizable elements and that's subjective.

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