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Arizona accuses Amazon of being a monopoly and deceiving consumers with “dark patterns” (www.theverge.com)

Arizona’s Attorney General, Kris Mayes, filed two lawsuits against Amazon on Wednesday for allegedly engaging in deceptive business practices and maintaining monopoly status. The first lawsuit accuses the company of using dark patterns to keep users from canceling their Amazon Prime subscriptions, violating Arizona’s...

eleitl ,

If you haven’t noticed, you’ve been not paying attention. I canceled Prime a while ago and they try very hard to get you back. And they try to sneak on you billed expedited shipping when over minimum gratis shipping quota. Dark patterns galore.

It would be a major pain for me to boycott them completely so I don’t, yet.

eleitl , (edited )

Ok, if you don’t use their web site you won’t see the UX dark patterns. Trust us, they there and fit with the overall garbagefication theme. Annoys the living shit out of me. At least no more Prime Video UI and ad trainwreck.

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I’ve never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be “no,” although I’m not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless...

eleitl ,

You forget that nation-states control your ISP. And of course you can choose your VPN provider or run your own.

iPad Pro with M4 chip boasts impressive performance jump compared to just-released M3 MacBook Air (9to5mac.com)

On raw performance might, the M4 really does live up to Apple’s promises, should deliver. Single core is up about 20% compared to all M3 chips and more than 40% compared to M2. The generational computational leap from the previous M2 iPad Pro is at least a 42% jump on single-core and multi-core.

eleitl ,

You seem to not be using open source software packaged for multiple architectures or which can be built for your binary target. Most people will be just using a browser and an office suite.

eleitl ,

No, that captures just the neuroanatomy. Not the properties like density of ion channels, type, value of the synapse and all the things we don’t know yet.

eleitl ,

You seem to trust Nvidia. I don’t.

eleitl ,

There are diminishing returns in semiconductor photolitho. Moore scaling is long over, absolute real estate see WSI with Cerebras, DC costs and power envelope are all sending a clear message. Quantization is there, so you can go from digital multipliers to analog and go spiking networks, but transformers and Co have little power there.

Also, the kind of economy that can carry Gen AI as business model is not a given, long term.

eleitl ,

Yes orders of magnitude, but not too many of them. The real estate of a 300 mm wafer is limited, the structure shrink is saturating and you can’t get too many layers. You still need a packet switched network on the wafer even if the rest is mostly analog. Perhaps spintronics can limit the power requirements too.

eleitl ,

A free running cellular automaton (CA) approach in hardware would work, but each cell would be a much souped up SRAM cell, the interactions would be all local and 2D. Considering Cerebras is 40 G SRAM on the 300 mm WSI and is about at the cooling limit I’m afraid you do not have 5 orders of magnitude. Perhaps reversible spintronics can help with the power draw, but you still have to splat a higher dimensional network so not just local interactions into a 2D array.

Need recommandations for a home server

Hey, I’m always searching a home server (already post here lemmy.ml/post/15083947), I was thinking about a Lenovo P500, but maybe the PSU is a bit too special… My budget around $140, will buy used parts and one of the most important thing is the power efficiency (don’t care about the peak wattage but want to stay around...

eleitl ,

Factor in power bills and heat and noise into your calculations.

eleitl ,

I would look into thin clients and Lenovo etc. tiny PC for office on eBay. I run old low power low noise rackmount Supermicros which are nice but hard to find at low prices.

eleitl ,

Neat. At 750 Wp I wonder what the EROEI of the installation is.

eleitl ,

Potentially double use for space launches.

eleitl ,

Without VPN or Usenet subscription it’s going to be difficult and/or illegal.

eleitl ,

Since most VPNs no longer have port mapping it’s a pure download which would make it technically legal e.g. in Germany.

eleitl ,

No port mapping, no upload, so technically legal where only sharing is penalized. IANAL.

eleitl ,

Interesting, wasn’t aware. It remains illegal in Germany then, as long as you seed. Notice in Germany you will receive a nastygram in any case as long as you’ve been identified as a member in a swarm, even if you do not seed. It would be interesting if someone would contest that, though you will likely lose since technical details don’t matter in most courts.

eleitl ,

360 km or 194 nautic miles is the inter-port distance.

eleitl ,

Nah. He’s that Youtube dude.

eleitl ,

Nb45Ta25Ti15Hf15 might be kinky. But it’s also rather expensive.

eleitl ,

Things definitely changed. 15-20 years ago you actually got good search results instead of unusable crap we get today.

eleitl ,

Gen AI is a net negative for the moment, since the deluge of generated low-quality content outweighs convenience of topical results generated by LLMs with natural language queries.

eleitl ,

Question is also whether antichinese sanctions are contributing.

eleitl ,

I use video projectors. Many of them, typically the better ones do not have any built-in smarts requiring an Internet connection.

In general, smart devices are a major security risk, and need to be firewalled off.

eleitl ,

Long term storage requires an ongoing migration strategy. The whole ecosystem for reproduction gone away your pristine media will be inaccessible.

eleitl ,

There is no reliable risk assessment for truly intelligent, autonomous systems. Let’s stop pretending that it can exist.

Don’t Be Fooled: Much “AI” is Just Outsourcing, Redux (www.techpolicy.press)

The promise of AI, for corporations and investors, is that companies can increase profits and productivity by slashing their reliance upon a skilled human workforce. But as this story and many others show, AI is just today’s buzzword for “outsourcing,” and it comes with the same problems that have plagued outsourced...

eleitl ,

There is no real AI out there, yet.

eleitl ,

Full human equivalent across all capabilities. Gen AI fails pretty much everywhere.

eleitl ,

Try neovim or something. Codium if you like GUIey things.

eleitl ,

I’m not a power yaml user by any means, but syntax highlighting and linting pipelines do help.

eleitl ,

What’s a reddit?

eleitl ,

Paywalled.

You are going to be trapped in a room for 12 hours with a mid 2000s office desktop with no internet connection and an external hard drive; what are you putting on the hard drive?

I’ve got some DOOM WADs I have been meaning to play so I would probably grab Trench Foot, Total Chaos, and the sequel to Ashes 2063, Ashes: Afterglow with a portable install of GZDoom to play them....

eleitl ,

Linux and a bunch of ebooks. Maybe Larn and Nethack.

eleitl ,

Look up overshoot of the ecosystem carrying capacity.

eleitl ,

If you can’t censor it easily, it’s “controversial”.

eleitl ,

What is “4000ac”?

eleitl ,

Why not postfix?

eleitl ,

Pepperidge farm remembers.

eleitl ,

Why? Did something happen to all the volunteer mods? I wonder what it could have been.

eleitl ,

We’re kinda using it right now. Strange how all the good things that persist are community efforts, huh? Makes you really think.

eleitl ,

Anyone can make a Lemmy instance with the equivalent. And some instances will defederate from it.

eleitl ,

You can run your own instance or join a permissive instance.

eleitl ,

“about to become” my ass.

eleitl ,

Good luck with that.

eleitl ,

Who cares?

eleitl ,

8 tons? I wonder how InP on mylar PV would scale up for power density to mass. It would probably be dual-useable as a solar sail too.

Linux distro for selfhosting server

So I have been running a fair amount of selfhosted services over the last decade or so. I have always been running this on a Ubuntu LTS distribution running on a intel NUC machine. Most, if not all of my services run in a docker container, and using a docker compose file that brings everything up. The server is headless. I...

eleitl ,

It’s a NUC so sufficiently poweful. Proxmox isn’t fat by any means. If you run your stuff in containers then Proxmox (I aways install it on top of Debian) is your hypervisor is your base system. You typically don’t install stuff on your hypervisor, though I do some very select things.

eleitl ,

I hear you, but Proxmox does a great many more things than just run containers. Admittedly, many selfhosters won’t need these.

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