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onlinepersona ,

A single folder and power consumption is important --> syncthing. It doesn’t have great power consumption, but since the devices aren’t constantly on, you can just start syncthing up on the portable devices when needed. You can configure syncthing to sync when connecting to a specific Wifi, when power saving mode is turned off, I think even specific times.

It’ll run fine on a server and can be configured .

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onlinepersona ,

Hmmm… 18,250M per year or 18.25B per year. For a trillion $ company, that’s 0.18%. Wasn’t that supposed to be more?

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onlinepersona ,

Ah, I thought 1T was their revenue. My bad.

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onlinepersona ,

Correct. Brain added one 0 to the trillion 😅

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onlinepersona ,

m$ just got away with another slap on the wrist. Being lax and purely driven by money is rewarded in the land of pseudo a capitalism.

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onlinepersona ,

C++ is a surprise CVE generator.

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onlinepersona ,

Meta programming is capable of that. People have written entire text-driven games that run in the compiler.

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onlinepersona ,

Maybe a buffer overflow?

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onlinepersona ,

League has been and always will be bad. They don’t allow mods like in DotA 2, barely change the map, don’t make huge “WTF is going on???” patches, won’t mainline URF, don’t allow the game to change (if you’re playing a support hero, it may not be used as a carry otherwise it will be nerfed), the game is just in general stale af. Seasoned players and eSports watchers can call nearly all picks and bans ahead of time.

The game is also grindy as hell. You don’t start out with access to all your champs and can’t just drop into a 10-20 minute match that doesn’t count and is a fun place to experiment. There aren’t tournaments for noobs and the lack of custom games also makes that less possible.

The toxic community is only beaten by DotA’s community. The only thing going for league is that it makes money and has a dedicated team on it. Valve has maybe 5 staff working on DotA, does no marketing, no ads, no widespread press releases, … The only new players it got where simps for new heroes from their awful anime.

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onlinepersona ,

I wanted to try Heroes of the Storm to play with Kerrigan and Doom, but they never made it cross platform, and I don’t think it was ever released on Steam. The idea of everybody levelling together instead of individually seemed like a great idea, but IMO that should’ve been a game mode instead of the main one.

Anyway, no MOBAs for me anymore. Hopefully OpenChamp will become something great!

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onlinepersona ,

As soon as there’s money involved, everybody loses their convictions. My question though is: why does Saudi Arabia recognise the importance and opportunity of eSports, but the west doesn’t? Saudi Arabia can get involved because there aren’t other countries and companies taking eSports seriously. A bunch of old dude still think that physical sports are the main industry and will be forever, but gaming makes more money than the entire filming industry and sports industry combined.

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onlinepersona ,

We are the problem

I absolutely agree. Customers are just endorphin (dopamine?) riddled animals waiting for the next opportunity for expenditure to drop.

I’m not even joking, this is the problem with pretty much everything. If we could pace ourselves, the world would look very different, but we just can’t stop consuming. I have colleagues who kill boredom with shopping.

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onlinepersona ,

Seed them on I2P and nobody will be in danger of getting sued. If those ROM sites were on I2P too, they’d probably still be alive.

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onlinepersona ,

That’s why I said “seed them on I2P” 😅

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onlinepersona ,

It’s especially for these kinds of dumb cases where they simply copy content wholesale and boast about it. With more people licencing their contents as non commercial, the “hot water” these companies get in could not just be trivial but actually legal.

Would be great if web and mobile clients supported signatures or a “licence” field from which signatures were generated. Even better would be if people smarter than me added a feature to poison AI training data. This could also be done by a signature or some other method.

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onlinepersona ,

Thanks for linking me 🙏 The makers of Maven probably set off a bomb now and people might ask for anti-AI features on the clients and servers.

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onlinepersona ,

Why do you think it won’t hold water legally? There’s a case going right now against Github Copilot for scraping GPL licences code, even spitting it back out verbatim, and not making “open” AI actually open.

Creative Commons is not a joke licence. It actually is used by artists, authors, and other creative types.

Imagine Maven or another company doing the same shit they just did and it coming to light there were a bunch of noncommercially licences content in there. The authors could band together for a class action lawsuit and sue their asses. Given the reaction of users here and on mastodon, I wouldn’t even be surprised if it did happen.

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onlinepersona ,

Just like a corporate entity. Good job Mozilla, for standing strong on the freedom and privacy front of the internet.

But fuck Russian dissenters, right? They don’t need that shit.

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onlinepersona ,

I bet the majority will continue watching YouTube and accept the ads. But I do wonder if yt-dlp and other downloaders will still cut into their ad revenue. All those injected add won’t ever be clicked on, or the clients will change to automatically click them thus rendering the ads meaningless.

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onlinepersona ,

If it’s public, it’s because of investors.

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Microsoft announces a disc-less Xbox Series X console in white (www.theverge.com)

The new console option won’t include a disc drive, and will be entirely all-digital. Inside it’s identical to the Xbox Series X, with the same performance for existing Xbox games. This new white model will be available with 1TB of storage later this year, priced at $449.99....

onlinepersona ,

Aka a non portable console? What’s the point of this? Just buy a PC and install SteamOS on it.

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onlinepersona ,

however it’s going to be a pain, there’s a LOT of X86_64 software out there that is hard to get running on ARM with decent performance

That was Mac when the M1 dropped, buy their problem is most of the stuff isn’t open source and one has to wait for the publisher to recompile on an ARM device. I expect a bunch of software to just be recompiled remotely or locally if you have such a distro (Gentoo, Arch, NixOS,…) and not even notice a difference.

A lot of stuff already has ARM builds because of the raspberry pi. Many docker images have ARM versions too.

This isn’t going to be the clusterfuck it was on Malus chips, except for maybe gaming because it’s in the same place. Asahi Linux is dealing with that right now too (donating can help).

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onlinepersona ,

Malus fanboys buy anything the marketing department sets in front of them. They thank Malus for ripping them off and attack anybody who says otherwise. Malus can do no wrong on their opinion.

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onlinepersona ,

Might as well install Linux Mint. It’ll use less resources than windows and you won’t be spied upon. Plus it will be supported longer than windows 10, which ends support somewherr in 2025 (max a year from now).

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Top EU Court Says There’s No Right To Online Anonymity, Because Copyright Is More Important (www.techdirt.com)

This is a good example of how copyright’s continuing obsession with ownership and control of digital material is warping the entire legal system in the EU. What was supposed to be simply a fair way of rewarding creators has resulted in a monstrous system of routine government surveillance carried out on hundreds of millions of...

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Guys and gals, use I2P. Make systems that are built upon it to make it faster and more diverse. If it becomes as popular as torrents nowadays, we won’t have to fear slow speeds and takedowns, nor courts or police - unless they make using anonymous networks a crime…

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onlinepersona ,

C and C++ are way worse than mid. Had rust been invented at the same time, C and C++ would’ve disappeared in obscurity and only been taught at university to explain pointers.

They are nearly on the same level of bilge as COBOL.

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onlinepersona ,

I am utterly perplexed by the HDR talk, honestly. Why does it even matter? I’ve been consuming media on Linux for more than a decade and it looks perfect to me.

When people talk about making it look even better, I literally can’t imagine what they’re talking about. I mean, when people had black n white TV, they could imagine color. When I had a CRT and 3D games, it was easy to imagine better quality, but going from 1080p to 4k already does nothing. HDR just seems like marketing bullshit that people wouldn’t be able to discern, unless flicking between normal and HDR or having them side by side.

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Your comments completely lack empathy, wow. If you were in Snowden!s shoes, I bet you’d have folded to Russia at their first threat. “Visa or plane to Washington” and that would’ve been the and of it.

But because you are the big tough guy on the internet, Snowden is weak willed. You, the Alpha Moonchild would’ve resisted Russia in their prison and died like Navalni, with your head held high after they tortured your girlfriend in front of you. A true martyr baths in the glory and knowledge that their cause is just and true.

Your death would’ve driven all Americans and Europeans onto the streets! It would’ve been the flint to light the fire of a generation ♨️ like a true Scotsman, a patriot, a fearless defender of truth, morals, and internet tough guys!🫡

We all respect your hypothetical sacrifice and moral superiority. Long may it live in our memories.

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onlinepersona ,

Do I need to know much about you? You’re judging Snowden as if you’d had fared better in his situation. You portray the situation as if his life were not on the line and he were on vacation in Russia.

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onlinepersona ,

How can these be compared to existing chips? Photonic, yes, but how fast can they switch and make calculations? What does a photonic transistor even look like / work?

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onlinepersona , (edited )

Thanks for the article. I think the operating word here is “can”. They can be much faster than existing transistors. The article seems to indicate it isn’t there yet, so by extension this recent development might not be.

But there is hope!

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onlinepersona ,

“What are TOPS” introduced me to what the hell they are. 160 is not bad. NVIDIA’s mobile GPUs reach 1000 TOPS, while AMD, Intel, Snapdragon and M3s top out at 40 TOPS.

Not sure how this photonic chiplets will fit into the equation, maybe a separate chip for laptops without discrete GPUs?

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onlinepersona ,

I don’t have time for this but would be great to see the tournament streamed live! (So that I can watch the replay 😅)

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onlinepersona ,

On principal I agree, but have you thought about how artists are to make a living? It is already hard now, so how should they make money in the future?

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onlinepersona ,

Microsoft is dominant in way more than AI. Are there any other antitrust cases running against them? This can’t be the only one…

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onlinepersona ,

sort after

The word you’re looking for is “sought”.

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onlinepersona ,

People who still use old versions of Adobe are still doing them a favour: you’re still in their cage. Your mind still only knows how to use their software. Learn something else and free yourself.

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onlinepersona ,

And proton mail still isn’t on f-droid 😴 Their focus is all over the place.

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onlinepersona ,

Might as well, it’d be as useful 🙄

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onlinepersona ,

Linux is going to have the first and probably on compliant vulkan implementation for Malus Silicon 😂

“Want to game on a Mac? Install Linux” Might just become reality this year.

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onlinepersona ,

As usual, American corps are afraid of actual competition. They need to tread a fine line when advocating for restrictions, because too many or too little mean competition, so they’re trying to find the right balance for minimum competition. Capitalism is only great when it works in their favor.

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onlinepersona ,

I see you didn’t read the article.

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onlinepersona ,

It looked like a first person diablo, but just turned out to be medieval tarkov. And to boot, it doesn’t support linux 🤷

Edit: wait… “now free to play”? Wasn’t it always free to play?

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onlinepersona ,

I remember reading somewhere that the problem with “innovation” nowadays is that companies create products looking for a problem. This seems like what NVIDIA, and a bunch of other companies in this AI craze, are doing.

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Microsoft violates children’s privacy – but blames your local school (noyb.eu)

In the wake of the pandemic, schools in the European Union have increasingly begun to implement digital services for online learning. While these modernisation efforts are a welcome development, a small number of big tech companies immediately tried to dominate the space – often with the intention of getting children used to...

onlinepersona ,

Schools need to stop buying Microshit stuff. They help create a new generation of M$ drones.

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onlinepersona ,

Linux (TuxedoComputers, slimbook, starlabsystems, …), Nextcloud/Owncloud, LibreOffice, GCompris, etc.

inb4 “impossible”: wrong, Kerala is a great example of how that works
inb4 “not western”: a German secondary school is another example.

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onlinepersona ,

Probably a minimal environment that streams the desktop to you. Must be the smallest windows install on a local PC ever.

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onlinepersona ,

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First check out what alternatives there are to the stuff she’s running on Windows. Then install them and check if she’s willing to test them for a comparison. Ultimately, she’s the customer and she has to be convinced to use the new stuff.

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