[-] [email protected] 32 points 5 days ago

I'm curious what issue you see with that? It seems like the project is only accepting unrestricted donations, but is there something suspicious about shopify that makes it's involvement concerning (I don't know much about them)?

[-] [email protected] 21 points 1 month ago

Huh, thanks for the heads up. Section 4 makes it look like they can close-source whenever they want.

I'm just glad FUTO is still letting Immich use the AGPL instead of this, though.

[-] [email protected] 46 points 1 month ago

We should already be at that point. We have already seen LLMs' potential to inadvertently backdoor your code and to inadvertently help you violate copyright law (I guess we do need to wait to see what the courts rule, but I'll be rooting for the open-source authors).

If you use LLMs in your professional work, you're crazy. I would never be comfortably opening myself up to the legal and security liabilities of AI tools.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 2 months ago

That's significantly worse privacy-wise, since Google gets a copy of everything.

A recovery email in this case was used to uncover the identity of the account-holder. Unless you're using proton mail anonymously (if you're replacing your personal gmail, then probably not) then you don't need to consider the recover email as a weakness.

[-] [email protected] 35 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Wow, what a dishearteningly predictable attack.

I have studied computer architecture and hardware security at the graduate level—though I am far from an expert. That said, any student in the classroom could have laid out the theoretical weaknesses in a "data memory-dependent prefetcher".

My gut says (based on my own experience having a conversation like this) the engineers knew there was a "information leak" but management did not take it seriously. It's hard to convince someone without a cryptographic background why you need to {redesign/add a workaround/use a lower performance design} because of "leaks". If you can't demonstrate an attack they will assume the issue isn't exploitable.

[-] [email protected] 20 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

CSGO cases pulled $1 billion revenue in 2023. The steam store brought in $8.5 billion in that same year. That's a 30% cut of all sales traffic on steam vs. in-game loot crates on a single title.

Loot boxes pull insane numbers. And yes they exploit children and problem gamblers. Love to see so many Valve fans downvote you :/

[-] [email protected] 17 points 4 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Her manner of speaking reminds me of the sermons you get at 'modern'/nondenominational churches here in the south. Just the way phrases are timed, the intonation, the need to make every minute factual statement sound emotionally profound...

I have to wonder if she is consciously trying to speak in that way. I don't know why they would think that was a good approach for a political speech lmao. It's just so bizarre I can't actually process it.

[-] [email protected] 18 points 6 months ago

I'll just add that "designed to be burned up" is the correct approach to these types of satellite constellations. SpaceX has that aspect correct, at least.

Agree with everything else. Musk is a batshit egomaniac, and letting him dictate use of large infrastructure is careless. Government subsidies should entail a certain public influence over the operation of the system.

[-] [email protected] 23 points 8 months ago

... on AMD's most powerful GPU.

I mean... At the current state of the game, 0% of gamers will be playing at 4K/High settings.

[-] [email protected] 56 points 8 months ago

I'm glad to see for once the fines are proportional to revenue, and not a fixed amount. 6% hurts.

[-] [email protected] 31 points 10 months ago

Two Vonnegut novels—God Bless you Mr. Rosewater and Player Piano—fundamentally shifted the way I view the world.

The novels primarily discuss the economy, automation, and human wellfare. When I was young I defaulted to a laissez-faire economic mindset, and basically assumed automation and technology would always make our quality of lives improve. I was very much in the Ayn Rand club on economic and moral issues. These books were ultimately what made me reflect and consider the other "spiritual" (in the sense Vonnegut uses the term) aspects of human wellfare. Vonnegut was my introduction to humanist thought, and I owe the vast majority of my personal moral development to the influence of these two books.

[-] [email protected] 19 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago)

At least there is a big (ish?) player in the Chromium-sphere pushing back against this.

The more browsers that don't initially support this, the slower adoption by web sites will be. If enough of the browser market share remains incompatibe, and if we're lucky, maybe this technology won't stick.

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