hamsterkill

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[–] hamsterkill 1 points 1 day ago

Who watches the watcher's watcher?

[–] hamsterkill 13 points 4 days ago

A significant chunk of privacy enthusiasts are libertarians like Brave's CEO. I think there's some level of "same team" trust going on there.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 6 days ago

True, but the thing is that the people in power will still complain about increased fraud if and when it happens and point to the government as irresponsible custodians of personal data.

[–] hamsterkill 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

The more likely result from removing 230 (depending on how it was removed) is actually that all moderation stops. Moderation is what makes the companies liable without 230, so they just wouldn't do it (and wouldn't allow users to do it either). Any open community site would quickly become a cesspool. Small private closed communities would become the norm.

[–] hamsterkill 1 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

juggling more money than their pre-AI boom market cap by a wide margin

I'm not sure what you mean by this. Nvidia carries a vanishingly small amount of debt for its size. It has way more liquidity than debt.

[–] hamsterkill 9 points 2 weeks ago (5 children)

It won't collapse. It'll lose a huge chunk of its stock price, but it both has other business to fall back on and its chips will still likely be used in whatever the next tech trend is - probably neural network AI or something.

[–] hamsterkill 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Not a marvel when the SoC is also owned by them. Them, Apple, and (outside the US) Samsung are the only ones who could really pull it off without help.

[–] hamsterkill 7 points 3 weeks ago

Loops is the FOSS fediverse equivalent.

[–] hamsterkill 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Doctorow is Canadian-British.

[–] hamsterkill 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

This is written by Cory Doctorow -- formerly of the EFF and coiner of the word "enshittification". You can disagree with him, but this is the same kind of advocacy he has written for decades.

[–] hamsterkill 5 points 1 month ago

BSD, perhaps. Or maybe Redox eventually.

 

Rant incoming:

This was spurred by having just read https://www.androidpolice.com/google-tv-streamer-questions-answered/ , particularly this bit:

When I asked directly, a Google representative told me they couldn't confirm which chipset powers the Google TV Streamer — essentially, Google declined to answer.

I've been noticing an increasing trend by device makers to not disclose the SoC their devices run on. I've been seeing it with e-readers, network routers, media streamers, etc.

It's incredibly frustrating to have devices actively exclude important information from their spec sheet and even dodge direct questions from tech news reporters. Reporters shouldn't have to theorize about what chip is in a released device. It's nuts.

If you're wondering why this infomation is important, it can be for several reasons. SoC vendor can have significant impact on the real world performance and security of a device. It also carries major implications for how open a device is as SoC vendors can have dramatically different open source support and firmware practices.

I've had to resort to inspecting the circuit board photos of FCC filings way too much lately to identify the processors being used in devices. And that's not a great workaroud in the first place as those photos are generally kept confidential by the FCC until months after the device releases (case in point the Google Streamer).

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