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Fining Big Tech isn't working. Make them give away illegally trained LLMs as public domain

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Re: Small thinking

Aristotle is dead, FYI.

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Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American

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Re: Un-American?

Presumably Trump will deport him?

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What about laws? Don't they have them in USA?

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Are Copilot+ PCs really the fastest Windows PCs? X and Copilot don't think so

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Re: Well, I'll be darned. . .

The original computers were people doing calculations for tables. So a.calculator would qualify.

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Re: Hang on a minute

Wasn't that sarcasm?

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What? People expect ads to be truthful? That's a new one.

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Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle

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Re: "APPL shares tank after researchers confirm Chinese backdoor in all products since 2013"

That bit actually is mostly true.

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UK ICO not happy with Google's plans to allow device fingerprinting

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Worse than what? Acts?

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The tin hat still isn't working?

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"Like all advertising technology, it must be lawfully and transparently deployed"

Must it be deployed?

How about some laws?

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Ten years under Dr Su: How AMD went from budget Intel alternative to x86 contender

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I don't remember any "rot with Bulldozer"? I know there were a few years when progress was stalling a bit, mainly because Zen was in development.

But prices were good.

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More performance for the money. By far.

You can buy a 15 year old system (probably get it for free), and then you'll have very cheap computing, like you asked for.

So I don't understand your complaint?

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If you take inflation into account you get more for your money now. Far more.

Also, imagine what the prices would be without competition... (Not to mention the much slower progress in performance.)

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Bit hyperbolic.

AMD was always very good value, and I've used them for 20 years for decent gaming platforms.

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'Best job at JPL': What it's like to be an engineer on the Voyager project

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There's no arguing with that sentiment!

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NHS major 'cyber incident' forces hospitals to use pen and paper

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For once it's a benefit that the NHS systems are disjointed and a bit of a mess.

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Judge decides not to block Musk's $1M election giveaway

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Re: So Musk really *can* buy an election

It's a great opportunity to piss on someone you don't like.

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Microsoft starts boiling the Copilot frog: It's not a soup you want to drink at any price

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In the end, humans will just be a stepping stone to silicon taking over. Enslaving ourselves voluntarily.

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Apple drops soldered storage for 2024 Mac Mini

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Re: "The SSD card is currently a proprietary Apple format"

I watched the video at

https://youtu.be/cJPXLE9uPr8

and that's some serious soldering. I solder a lot, and do some SMD work as well, but BGA soldering like this I would never attempt.

The solution is to have someone producing compatible modules with the NANDs already on. Seems likely it will happen.

Installing macOS on the new NANDs also seemed quite a challenge. So perhaps that will end any aspirations to have after market upgrades.

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Re: Why is power button controversial?

Nice conspiracy theory, but the reality is that you never use the power button on a modern Mac. Do you own a Mac?

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Re: Sympathy void

Sell it. They command good second hand value still. Although the M4 Mini will affect this a bit due to the 16GB RAM entry point.

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Re: Power on the bottom

You mean Wh (Watt Hour).

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Re: Power on the bottom

Boeing implements MCAS, and you worry about a modern Macbook in sleep mode?

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Re: Power on the bottom

That would mess with the thermal design, and be a bad idea.

Anyway, you pretty much never need to turn off. Do you own a modern Mac?

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Wel, no. I would buy the entry level cheapest M4 Mini and bring it up to 1TB or more myself.

I'm sure many technically inclined buyers would do that too.

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NASA fires up super-quiet supersonic X-59 aircraft

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Re: Meanwhile the planet burns.

"And there is a 13% chance that he'll die in office anyway."

A disappointingly low figure.

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It seems emissions isn't an issue any longer.

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The US government wants developers to stop using C and C++

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"Take Rust in Linux, for example. Even with support from Linux's creator, Linus Torvalds, Rust is moving into Linux at a snail's pace."

This is about using Rust in the kernel.

Using it for applications shouldn't be a problem.

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Mozilla Foundation crumbles as third of staff cast off

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Non-profits with fat cat bosses always make me suspicious.

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Arecibo telescope might have failed because of weak sockets

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So actually checking on the state of them wasn't considered? Just relying on a meagre safety factor of 2?

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Thanks, Linus. Torvalds patch improves Linux performance by 2.6%

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Re: Fractional Gains

"Once again, a carefully curated hive mind shows itself superior to proprietary authoritarianism. There is a general lesson here, methinks"

That the Borg were/was right, all along?

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Windows 10 given an extra year of supported life, for $30

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Re: $30 Per Year is Cheaper Than a New Laptop

I'm sure it will be.

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Re: $30 Per Year is Cheaper Than a New Laptop

You seem to take kindly to being extorted?

I would just not pay and seek alternative solutions.

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Right...

So you have a security issue, which is your fault, and you fixed it, but won't give it to me unless I pay you more?

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US Army should ditch tanks for AI drones, says Eric Schmidt

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Re: Full spectrum dominance

Because of risk.of collateral.

Of course the Jemenies could be blown to kingdom come.

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Re: Tanks and drones are obsolete

Oh, dear.

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In war you need a diversity of options. Various systems are needed to support each other.

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VMware by Broadcom lifts storage allowances and prices for vSphere Foundation

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Whatever. Don't trust them, and just leave.

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Combustion engines grind Linus Torvalds' gears

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"the cost of buying EVs or the price and lack of infrastructure to charge them."

This varies greatly depending on where you live.

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Intel losses hit $16.6B in Q3 and Wall Street is … loving it?

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Holy cow, that's a lot of money!

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Hugging Face puts the squeeze on Nvidia's software ambitions

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Hugging Face?

I thought it was called a Face Hugger?

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Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims

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News Corp "reporting facts"? Really?

Anyway, Perplexity seems to have never heard of copyright?

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San Francisco billboards call out tech firms for not paying for open source

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Re: Open source confusion yet again

May I suggest not commenting on things you know nothing about?

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Re: The trouble with money

Well, it's open source...

If you want to add backdoors, you better not do it in open source,

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Re: If you don't have to...

Now you're just talking "liberal" nonsense! [Sarcasm]

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If they are an organisation hiring someone to run it (a CEO), then it's time to not donate.

I don't donate to wining beggars like wikipedia either.

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You aren't required to take money if you don't want it.

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Re: Fools

Lived under a rock for 30 years?

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"But you can fork it and have your own developers fix it "

You can try. Quite often this fails. Have you ever been in a development environment? Developers skills vary vastly. Some (most?) will make things worse.

And your "leftist" nonsense invalidates your argument anyway. Common sense isn't "leftist".

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"You decided to undercut your competition by releasing your software free of charge"

This is a BS argument, and you probably know it?

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