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utopiah

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  • Ordinary WiFi can now identify people with near perfect accuracy

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  • Arguably that's a bit difference because to do that you have to explicitly do it (room setup) and you view the result (visual preview with semi-transparent triangles over your place). You can also read the ToS and I believe in some case specify if you allow the information to be sent back to the Meta. I'm not saying it's OK, only that it's explicit and it's part of the "normal" usage of the device.

  • Privacy-preserving alternative to Ring cameras (Raspberry Pi Zero 2W)!

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  • Sousveillance

  • Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout

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  • Ah my bad, thought you were questioning their decision to do so whereas you're actually saying it's perfectly normal, right?

    I guess they meant to highlight that they are "all in" and not looking back.

  • Nvidia really doesn't seem to care about gaming GPUs anymore — the company won't even bother to break down graphics sales in its big investor reports

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  • Yep. In fact I wrote a blob somewhere (will link back if I find it) that for most users I believe we reached "peak good-enough" compute few years ago already.

    Sure for some very VERY specific use cases, it's never enough (e.g. super high res video editing, photo realistic rendering, weather simulations) but for the average Joe with normal eyes... at some point you just browse Website that show photos and text, even 4K videos... you don't NEED 8K or a more powerful CPU when you are jolting down your 5 family holiday options. We got into a habit that year after year we would get significantly better hardware but... you can store your entire life of text, photos, documents, etc in a microSD that fits in your wallet and costs you the price of a meal.

    It's weird that we needed the AI bubble to realize it but that's OK.

  • Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout

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  • Why would they keep their USD if they don't spend it anymore and they clearly do not believe the country is going down a good path?

  • Vibe management

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  • But... it'll NEVER cost less!

    This is such a weird take because we are comparing apple and oranges, again. It's like saying a ruler is more precise than using your own thumbs. Sure, that's technically correct, but you still need people to use that ruler to measure stuff.

    We ALWAYS use better tools. Even in mass production we automatize the heck out of everything... and yet you still need staff to maintain it, design improvements, etc.

    So... I don't get this kind of comparisons.

  • A drone for handicapped birds offers one more chance to experience flight

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  • Gosh well that's inclusive, kudos!

  • Empty rooms and Fifa cancellations - US hotels fear World Cup washout

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  • They decoupled, they don't have to follow US news and for each bad news hurt both psychologically and financially.

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • Starting to worry we're talking past each other.

    Yes, RISC-V isn't used at scale in data centers. Now though that NEW criteria are taking into account, namely sovereignty, they precisely might despite their limitations, including performances. If though it's just political signalling without any actual will and subsequent advantage and in reality only performance matters, they still won't be used.

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • Because those components are (theoretically) sold as equivalent. If you sell me cycles in a data center, one for 10e/h and another for 100e/h (because it's 10x slower and thus must have ~10x more instances) and you don't give me any details on why, I'll take the 10e and of course it won't be competitive. FWIW I do buy compute time in data centers and I'm also aware (but not involved with) https://www.top500.org/ and how none of them are RISC-V based, it's not my point. My point is that the metrics to compare will never make it competitive if we exclude its raison d'etre. RISC-V was never proposed to be the most efficient and powerful architecture (even though of course it'd be nice if it'd be).

    It's like apple versus orange then complaining that the apple doesn't taste orange-like enough. Sure, that's correct, but also pointless.

    Edit : it's not an "anecdote" it's a proof of existence, again RISC-V works today. It's not set of blueprints. It does compute, easy as that.

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • Depends entirely on the metrics you use for comparison. In terms of performances yes of course it's slower than others, nobody is contesting that. In terms of openness it fairs better than most. My point was solely that it's usable for some use cases and thus that it's not a theoretical architecture in 2026. It works. Yes it's slow but for use use cases it doesn't matter.

    If you don't care for openness then it's not competitive. Being competitive depends entirely on your constraints.

  • Elon Musk Explains Why the SpaceX Board Must Be Powerless to Fire Him

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  • Damn, the same way Tesla reaches FSD next year, thanks Elon for saving the World one promise at a time! /$

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • Nothing because it depends on the workload? I mean if you run a static Website to few people it's more than enough. If you're trying to predict weather or render high definition 3D graphics in real-time it's not... but also nothing is so...

    Was it a rhetorical question and if so what were you implying?

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • reverse engineer American technology

    Like what? Which technology are you talking about?

  • Europe built sovereign clouds to escape US control. Then forgot about the processors

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  • RISC-V is decades away

    Eh... what? I have a RISC-V SBC and it just works, running Debian on it in minutes of setup and it cost me peanuts.

    Sure it's not a state of the art CPU ... and if I wanted to run anything demanding on it, I'd have to be patient. Heck it's not even made in the EU but in China... but it works, today, it just depends on what your workload is. So yes it's not the fastest or has the best efficiency but still, it exists already.

  • EU browser choice rules send millions more users Firefox's way

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  • it’s so easy to install apps on smartphones right now

    Providing choice as a default is precisely about people who are influenced by defaults. It's NOT about how feasible something technically is.

  • Reddit Starts Blocking Mobile Website, Pushing Users to App Instead

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  • Perfect, I might even set my UA for reddit to mobile then, I need an "excuse" to keep on using it less. I still browse it without an account but I should lose the habit.

  • What is your policy on letting a child use the internet?

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  • crontab, it's enough to :

    • kill any add during specific period
    • accumulate usage per app
    • check if tabs are opened

    and it's pretty straighforward to configure, e.g. 

     
        
* 8-17 * * 1-5 killall SlayTheSpire && date >> ~/shame
# prevents from playing during weekday working hours

    or for accumulation (which can be reset daily, weekly, etc by simply deleting the minutes file) 

     
        
pgrep mpv && >> mpv_minutes; if [ $(wc -l mpv_minutes) -gt 1000 ]; then echo beyond threshold; fi

    That works also for turning up/down network interfaces.

    PS: I use this on myself. I'm not a child but I don't have perfect self control. It works.

  • GrapheneOS patches an Android VPN bypass that Google decided to leave alone

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  • Because Linux phones with proper hardware are sold at 1k and hundreds of people want to but that, not thousands or millions and thus they don't actually get built. Couple of attempts just lasttear didn't pan out.

  • Privacy @lemmy.world
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    Dangerous Apps - How They Trade Your Data - (2026 ARTE 52min documentary)

    www.arte.tv /en/videos/123951-000-A/dangerous-apps/
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    39C3: Power Cycles - media.ccc.de

    media.ccc.de /c/39c3
  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Interoperability between self-hosted services

  • Selfhosted @lemmy.world
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    Help request : Docker service (PeerTube) doesn't work on new server

    framacolibri.org /t/docker-migration-from-a-server-to-another-ui-api-fine-but-only-download-working/30577/5
  • Technology @lemmy.world
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    Meta Quest 3/3s XR headsets finally rooted after 2 years

    github.com /FreeXR/eureka_panther-adreno-gpu-exploit-1
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    SplinterCon Taipei Video Archive

    peertube.eqver.se /w/p/95aJcuPHPiofU91NxKes6g