Comment Re:Probably meltdown related (Score 1) 95
Windows selling Win11 makes them look bad. they don't need underpowered CPUs for that.
Also this. What happened to mod points?
Comment Re:Amazon Echo too. (Score 1) 249
Amazon Echo became progressively worse in the past few years and it is barely usable even as a voice controlled light switch anymore.
Got a new one from my company as a gift, the thing turns itself off by itself and it takes literally hours off the charger to get it back online. Asked it to find updates, not deal. Had to return it and didn't hear anything back
Comment Follow the money (Score 1) 225
How about getting rid of all the scammers disguised as shops in Instagram? Over here it's like 11 shops out of 10 selling stuff that never arrives, the shop only exists in Instagram and you can't complain to anyone
Comment Re:Woke game with masculine GIRL-BOSS. BOYCOTT it. (Score 1) 49
Ofc there are always differences of opinion (and the game have some 36 different endings) but after the end in the Blood & Wine expansion most in the community was convinced back in 2016 that the next game would be focused on Ciri and that Geralt would be retired at the Corvo Bianco vineyard together with Jennifer. He was constantly complaining that he was too old and tired of the Witcher life.
I don't have mod points but this basically nails it, mod parent up
Comment Re:Google Pot Calling the Microsoft Kettle Black? (Score 1) 17
"Firms that compete with Microsoft in renting out cloud servers, including Google and Amazon, want to host OpenAI's artificial intelligence themselves so their cloud customers don't need to also tap Microsoft servers to get access to the startup's technology, this person said."
Remind me again: How does Google let one host Google Search, Gmail, and Docs on Azure and AWS servers?
And while at it, let me run PowerBI on premises o the same price tag Azure licenses it.. oh, wait
Comment Re:fuck off (Score 2) 205
Now taking odds on whether they'll run it again *today*.
Damn, we could start betting some money around this stuff
Comment Re:If they are heating it up that hot anyway.. (Score 1) 31
Lunar regolith is composed of a significant fraction of alumium oxide and silicate mineral, meaning it can be thermally fused into mullite glass.
https://www.lpi.usra.edu/publi...
https://www.nature.com/article...
If they are heating that shit up with a thermal source anyway, why carry the sulfur up there in the first place?
Martian regolith is more... varied... in its composition. I can see the need to consider bringing a binder up with the mission to get started...
But the moon?
Just laser sinter that shit in-situ.
Given the amount of Iron on Mars, couldn't we use it instead?
Comment Re:Find out phase (Score 2) 92
Basically, with the possible exception of Microsoft and Apple, anybody who could afford it is almost certainly not someone who could be trusted to own it, and Apple wouldn't want it, because they already have Safari, which broke from Chrome under the hood over fundamental philosophical differences.
That leaves exactly one plausible buyer: Microsoft. And you'd just be replacing one monopolist with another at that point, so why bother?
And after recent f* ups on ads, ignoring people preferences and downright in-the-face forced stuff in Edge, I would move away from Chrome if Microsoft starts managing it
Comment Re:The FBI is furious (Score 1) 42
I do not think it was sarcasm. One indicator of things starting to get really bad is when sarcasm and comments on reality start to sound very much alike.
-1 Funny
Comment Re:Typical windows sysadmins! (Score 4, Insightful) 86
It's even worse. Certain security requirements/ certifications require updates to be pushed to all machines within 2 weeks of release to all machines. EVEN IF if the update is 100% broken and results in regular bluescreens.
Looks like who wrote those requirements or mandated that kind of certification needs to review that or be fired
Comment Re: Dark Matter (Score 1) 179
me, i like democracy, it inflicts people with the governments they deserve
greedy, irresponsible and selfish people get greedy, irresponsible and selfish governments
just saying
Wish I had move points to mod you up. It's been a while...
Submission + - Open-Source AI Definition Finally Gets Its First Release Candidate (zdnet.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Getting open-source and artificial intelligence (AI) on the same page isn't easy. Just ask the Open Source Initiative (OSI). The OSI, the open-source definition steward organization, has been working on creating an open-source artificial intelligence definition for two years now. The group has been making progress, though. Its Open Source AI Definition has now released its first release candidate, RC1. The latest definition aims to clarify the often contentious discussions surrounding open-source AI. It specifies four fundamental freedoms that an AI system must grant to be considered open source: the ability to use the system for any purpose without permission, to study how it works, to modify it for any purpose, and to share it with or without modifications. So far, so good.
However, the OSI has opted for a compromise regarding training data. Recognizing it's not easy to share full datasets, the current definition requires "sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system" rather than the full dataset itself. This approach aims to balance transparency with practical and legal considerations. That last phrase is proving difficult for some people to swallow. From their perspective, if all the data isn't open, then AI large language models (LLM) based on such data can't be open-source. The OSI summarized these arguments as follows: "Some people believe that full, unfettered access to all training data (with no distinction of its kind) is paramount, arguing that anything less would compromise full reproducibility of AI systems, transparency, and security. This approach would relegate Open-Source AI to a niche of AI trainable only on open data."
However, the OSI has opted for a compromise regarding training data. Recognizing it's not easy to share full datasets, the current definition requires "sufficiently detailed information about the data used to train the system" rather than the full dataset itself. This approach aims to balance transparency with practical and legal considerations. That last phrase is proving difficult for some people to swallow. From their perspective, if all the data isn't open, then AI large language models (LLM) based on such data can't be open-source. The OSI summarized these arguments as follows: "Some people believe that full, unfettered access to all training data (with no distinction of its kind) is paramount, arguing that anything less would compromise full reproducibility of AI systems, transparency, and security. This approach would relegate Open-Source AI to a niche of AI trainable only on open data."
Submission + - Trackberry: Running X86_64 Game Servers On ARM With Box64 (interfacinglinux.com)
VennStone writes: I’ve seen people using Box64 to play x86_64 games on ARM devices, it got me thinking: why not apply this to game servers? While native Linux games were scarce over the past two decades, there was no shortage of closed-source Linux servers.
I thought it would be fun to see if I could build a super low-power Trackmania 2 server using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
I thought it would be fun to see if I could build a super low-power Trackmania 2 server using a Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W.
Comment Re:What's the point? (Score 1) 67
Why
The UI-side of things has no official Linux counterpart, no Winforms, no WPF or the new-ish MAUI
Comment Re:Epic are standing in the way of the Epic app st (Score 1) 59
No one wants to use the Epic launcher on Apple, PC or anywhere else but are forced to use it if they want to play any of their games on those platforms. I know people that refuse to buy any Epic games at all because of the requirement to do so.
Yeah, I don't have anything from them or anyone witch forces you into some kind of "launcher". Got pretty burned up similarly by EA play or whatever is was called at that time, that thing should just burn in hell. Also in the list: windows/driver only anti-cheat systems that (barely) works in windows only.
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