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misk , 1 month ago to games in The N64

Every piece of hardware in a given budget is ultimately a product of compromise. 3D capabilities of N64 are way beyond what PS can offer - texture filtering and Z buffer just put Playstation to shame. No CD is equally embarrassing to N64. The controller… well, it was a weird time.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok safer

Apologies, I misspoke. Yes, western social media has been banned since forever and China requires local majority stake for joint ventures.

What I was getting at is that in March China announced they are moving from Microsoft, Intel and AMD for government PCs. I imagine US is quite angry to be losing so many backdoor vectors. US and China are trading big blows now with 100% tariffs on EVs and TT ban.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in How the U.S. ignored a chance to make TikTok safer

US doesn’t care about your data on TT that much, it’s just a trade war. China recently banned a slew of US platforms so US has to respond tit for tat. I’m kinda confused why they’re trying to sell it as something that looks like a major hypocrisy.

misk OP , 1 month ago to aboringdystopia in Homeless people are being sent out of Scotland's capital to make room for Swifties

I see you got bored of the dystopia.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

That’s a really weird thing to get angry over. Advertising as a term is much better at conveying what they wanted to.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in You Think You Know How Misinformation Spreads? Welcome to the Hellhole of Programmatic Advertising

In case of paywall: archive.is/EWaBS

misk , 1 month ago to technology in Everyone Except Nvidia Forms Ultra Accelerator Link (UALink) Consortium

Amazon is missing too.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

Thank you for your effort.

Couple of takeaways:

I think we can use Bitcoin difficulty chart to approximate how much crypto weighs in the AI / crypto mix. BTC difficulty stopped increasing in 2024 which could be partially explained by both competing for same resources. The other big one, Ethereum moved to proof of stake fairly recently and I think it’s an attractive proposition for other crypto given the above. With this in mind it’s fair to say crypto won’t be a big factor compared to AI growth and I would expect researchers to come to somewhat similar conclusions.

As to how good AI is at things:

• Effectiveness of AI powered search is debatable but it’s a subjective thing so I don’t want to get into it.
• Translation tech was one of the early ML implementations and it’s good to see it improving even more. Transcription is one of the great uses but how many people need that on frequent basis?
• I remain unconvinced that many multimedia generative AI use is legal due to how training data was obtained. We’re in a limbo until this gets decided by US / EU etc.
• As you’ve mentioned there is concern that we’ll see a lot of wasteful applications of AI. I was horrified when Googled demoed assistant that would find your car plates by scanning your photo library.

The last one is key I think. Since AI is the current buzzword companies will try to shoehorn it everywhere, regardless of it making sense.

misk , 1 month ago to piracy in Why Do You Pirate Music?

I’d go one step further and say pirating music is too big of a hassle in general. Apple Music and Tidal do loseless compression, have huge catalogues and are so dirt cheap I don’t understand why you’d make your life so hard on purpose. Once effectively unlimited mobile data became a thing music piracy lost most of its purpose.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

Lmgtfy

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misk , 1 month ago to noncredibledefense in Soon...

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misk OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

It’ll be a coal-powered Dyson sphere sustaining data center tasked with generating pictures of celebrity porn, Jesus, flight attendants, babies and seafood. By then AI will enjoy them as much as my mother does.

misk OP , 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

Microsoft and other big tech already power their data centers with their own renewables, and they will continue to do so. In the latest quarterly report from MS they admit they didn’t anticipate AI boom to be this big and so they have to buy more power externally. This is not good for them and they wouldn’t do this on purpose. They will catch up because it’s profitable thing to do.

misk , 1 month ago to nostupidquestions in Is lemmy now what reddit used to be 10+ years ago?

Lemmy now is in many ways already the same as reddit is today when you consider social dynamics. This is mostly due to how all of social media using traditional formulas devolved into competition in unproductive cynicism.

Check out Tildes if you want to see how reddit was back then, it’s the closest thing.

misk OP , 1 month ago to technology in US Slows Plans To Retire Coal-Fired Plants as Power Demand From AI Surges

AI is not an excuse to burn fossil fuels. AI exploded and it’s energy consumption exploded, there’s lots of data to back it up. You’re saying if not for AI there would be some other excuse. What excuse would that he? Would fossil fuel industry have to invent something that would consume this much energy?