[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 134 points 3 weeks ago

They ruined it without AI before AI was commonplace. They ruined it with higher profit margins. 🥹

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 116 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

This is the right way to optimize performance. Write everything in a decent higher level language, to achieve good maintainability. Then profile for hotspots, separate them in well defined modules and optimize the shit out of them, even if it takes assembly inlining. The ugly stays its own box and you don't spend time optimizing stuff that doesn't need optimization.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 114 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Sounds like a reasonable decision. The Hamas-run label was used to denote that the death toll coming out of the Gaza Health Ministry was not very trustworthy. The numbers have since been declared trustworthy by pretty much any credible agency around the world but the most invested hasbaristas. Therefore today the label has become misleading when it comes to this information. It adds uncertainty to trustworthy information which only serves the goals of the hasbaristas who seek to convince that the death toll is significantly lower.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 123 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

While that may be just some paperwork and a small expense, the next requirement is more insidious: “a phone number and email address for Google Play users to contact you”. I’m fine showing an email address, but I absolutely do not want my phone number to be available to anyone on the internet. (Even for phone calls. But remember that a phone number is used for much more than phone calls these days.) And that’s just me, a privileged hetero white cis dude who is unlikely to be the target of harassment or doxxing.

Yup. For small developers (FOSS or not) that don't make money which can insulate them from this kind of stuff, it's a no-no.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 149 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

Requires kernel-level access. Also AMD is "releasing mitigations," so is it "unfixable?"

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 114 points 5 months ago

For newer GPUs from the Turing, Ampere, Ada Lovelace, or Hopper architectures, NVIDIA recommends switching to the open-source GPU kernel modules.

So 20-series onwards.

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China and Russia announced Friday that they are conducting joint naval exercises in the waters and airspace near Zhanjiang city in the south of China.

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Ottawa quietly enacted its new Digital Services Tax last week, the same day Ontario Finance Minister Peter Bethlenfalvy wrote to his federal counterpart asking Ottawa to pause its implementation. Bethlenfalvy joins Power & Politics to discuss his concerns about the levy on foreign tech giants operating in Canada.

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She lost to Labour.

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Student-led demonstrators who organized a pro-Palestinian encampment at the University of Toronto cleared the site after more than 60 days of protest, ahead of a court-ordered deadline to leave Wednesday.

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Rental prices rose 0.9 per cent in May from the previous month. That brought the yearly pace of rent increases up to 8.9 per cent, with rent being the second-largest annual contributor to inflation.

Mortgage interest costs slowed very slightly to 0.8 per cent in May from April, and brought the annual pace of increases to 23.3 per cent.

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Came upon this beautiful piece of corporate propaganda.

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Meanwhile the LPC oppose the bill while the CPC would work to amend it.

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Turnout was around 25%, which isn't surprising in a by-election.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 124 points 9 months ago

This came across a few days ago and the consensus was that it's likely showing that people who look for a diet might be at higher risk of cardiovascular death.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 116 points 10 months ago

Perhaps it's becoming clear that search needs to become a common cooperatively managed infrastructure similar to Wikipedia. That this is in the best interest of everyone but advertisers and spammers.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 127 points 11 months ago

"fund for the women who have been sexually assaulted by Donald Trump".

It should be a civil lawsuit fund. Pay the legal bills for other women to launch civil lawsuits against him. Bury the fucker.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 116 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

I think the Framework laptop is absolutely good for the industry. Many of your points attempt to diminish or omit the pros and emphasize the cons of things.

E.g. ports. You don't notice that the Framework ports also work with everything else that a dongle does. You also don't notice that having modular ports provides extraordinary durability. Ports are often a thing that gets destroyed on laptops. Repairing often means a main board replacement. With a Framework, it's $20 port card and 10 seconds of work.

You compare their parts situation to Apple's by omitting the important fact that Framework's parts, especially the wear and tear ones like coolers, keyboards and batteries are dirt cheap and easily available for purchase. I don't know about you but I've replaced many ThinkPad batteries over the years and finding genuine ones is often a pain and they're invariably very expensive. 2-3x more expensive than what a Framework battery is.

Personally, I've already seen the benefits of the Framework model. I have a Framework 13 which I nastily dropped and bent as a result. One bottom cover order and replacement later it's as good as new.

I think the Framework model is absolutely positive for the industry, so long as it keeps working. If they go out of business in a year, or get sold to some profit maximizing group that disrupts the model, then yeah, at that point it may become a negative. In my opinion this is the risk for this company and this product model.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 142 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Yup, it's much easier for content creators and aggregators to broadcast their stuff over the Fediverse. No API fees and restrictions. Just become a node in the network. Then as they make useful content available on the Fediverse, the Fediverse will grow its userbase, returning something to the content creators.

[-] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 112 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Signal will soon be your one stop solution for all your chat apps

Fixed that for you.

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