micka190 @ micka190 @lemmy.world

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Nothing, but it'd still be a win for the consumer because then we'd have repairable/customizable laptops across the board?

We've also seen other brands aren't interested in it because it's harder to make smaller/thinner laptops when they need to be customizable. Also they make more money from having people throw out their old laptops and buying a new one.

There are uBlock Origin filters that exist purely to filter out certain SEO spam sites from search results. I've been using this one to filter out sites that basically copy/paste answers from popular dev sites that just completely clutter Google search results. I used to have one that included things like W3 Schools and Quora but I can't find it anymore, unfortunately.

EA did this thing a while back where they saw people were still playing Bad Company 2 on PC on community servers. They updated the game to require a login to EA's server on boot, then took those servers down. Always online is cancer.

Man, I know people love to throw the word "dystopian" around, but holy shit is that description dystopian as fuck.

Amazon Mechanical Turk (MTurk) is a crowdsourcing marketplace that makes it easier for individuals and businesses to outsource their processes and jobs to a distributed workforce who can perform these tasks virtually. This could include anything from conducting simple data validation and research to more subjective tasks like survey participation, content moderation, and more. MTurk enables companies to harness the collective intelligence, skills, and insights from a global workforce to streamline business processes, augment data collection and analysis, and accelerate machine learning development.

We already have text prediction that works more efficiently (from a power and computing point of view) by using things like trees.

There's very few use-cases I've seen where AI is more efficient than an algorithm, and it's mostly in areas where it does a bunch of tests/research/simulation inputs by throwing random shit at the wall that users wouldn't normally try really fast.

AI is basically useless when you're doing something that's easily repeatable, because it's easier to actually implement tools that use algorithms to do that kind of thing.

Making the tags make their jokers free is such a welcome addition! The amount of times I skipped, won, and then had a joker be ridiculously expensive for the early game has made me ignore these tags unless I'm already rich (at which point I probably have all the jokers I need anyways).

Whenever someone brings this up, someone also brings up the fact that ads are proven to work in general not on everyone. So I guess it's my turn today.

I was early on a few high-profile videos, I guess.

Seriously. AI aside, if you're doing anything 3D-related you're basically shooting yourself in the foot by not going Team Green. The difference in render time/quality is exponentially better. I'd kill to see AMD or Intel pull a Ryzen in the GPU market.

It'll just get ignored. I saw a fucking padding: 0.0.3rem at work today, and it just broke the one class.

Either 0 difference from digital or worse due to skipping/bad record quality. Rap records are especially bad and I stopped buying them.

Personally, I buy them because my internet is unreliable, it makes for some nice decoration and it's nice to actually own something in 2024 (especially since Spotify keeps deleting random artists/songs from my playlists).

Is it actually good? I was planning on getting it, but the reviews seemed a bit mixed on release. Everyone seemed upset about some kind of broken promise or something? It's been a while, I'm not sure what it was anymore.

To be fair, the left images are from Halo 2 and the ones on the right are from Halo 1, so this exact screengrab wouldn't really be possible to begin with. I'm pretty sure the "doom" meme is a really old Tumblr shitpost that got reposted with different IP/screengrabs over the years (and the RvB one became the popular version?).

The whole Bloodgulch chronicles are forever etched into my mind.

"It's a sniper rifle, asshole. It's is a long-range weapon."

"What were you gonna do: mail him the bullets?!"

Digg still exists but it’s a shadow if its former self and nobody cares about it

As far as I'm concerned, so is Reddit. The only reason to go there anymore is for Q&A that get SEO spammed on Google. All the communities I was a part of either died after they changed the API (the only people left are the lurkers and low-effort posters) or had their mods replaced by boot lickers who immediately proceeded to not moderate the subs (which made them dead or full of spam).

But hey, now it sure looks like Reddit is alive and well! Just look at all those ads, bots, AI replies, totally legit user posts!

No, and everyone keeps recommending extensions and hacky workarounds. Wish Mozilla would gets its head out of its ass and just add a damn button that runs the firefox -p [profile] command in the browser itself so we wouldn't need to use keep a desktop shortcut instead.

The UI in this trailer is on fucking point. Damn!

Only if you have the appropriate level of privacy settings enabled (and extensions installed) in your browser. Your IP address actually has very little to do with ID-ing you, since most trackers will use hundreds of different fingerprinting methods to create "shadow accounts" of you using things like your system information, screen resolution, installed locales, etc.

This doesn't mean a VPN doesn't help, though. Just pointing-out that you probably won't be asked if you're a bot if you go on Google while logged-in to a Google account, regardless of whether your VPN is on or not.

Disclaimer: This is speculation, because I haven't read the actual law (and I'm not Italian, so it's not like I really have a reason to).

I would assume that they will handle it like this:

To be able to sell your VPN service in Italy, you'll have to get accredited. Since you're now taking Italian customers' money, your company's dealings in Italy fall under Italian law. They might be able to extradite you, depending on what country you operate from, but realistically most businesses don't want to get involved in that kind of stuff, because even if you don't get extradited, no one wants to be put in a situation where they need to actively avoid a country.

This leaves free VPN services, right? Well, since ISP and "legal" VPNs need to conform to the new law, the Italian government could blacklist those VPNs' websites (which all ISPs and legal VPNs are required by law to block within 30 minutes of them being added to the block list). So now, you're in an awkward position as an Italian if you want to get a VPN that doesn't follow those laws.

I'm not sure at what extent this law goes, or how they handle people who are paying to circumvent it (because you might have bought a VPN before this), but they might simply require that banks refuse to process payments from VPN providers that refuse to get accredited.

Obviously, they can't really block this thing without going the Great Firewall route (and even that has ways of being bypassed), but that's not really their goal here. Their goal is to establish a stranglehold on what the everyday citizen does. It's to put a framework in place that allows them to quickly and efficiently block content they deem you shouldn't be able to see. It's a disgusting display of a government overreaching and censoring what their citizens' have access to on the web.

I've had an RPI3 running for 7+ years (currently running Home Assistant on it). Still uses the original SD card that shipped with it, too. These things are durable and reliable as hell, as far as I'm concerned.