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They’re super straightforward though?

You set up indexers to be searched for content.

You set up downloaders that can download from the indexers.

You set up the downloads and the media folder (e.g. the series folder for Sonarr).

Then you simply add whatever content you want downloaded.

Finally you can set the renaming in a very neat templating language.

Maybe if I lick the boot hard enough, it won’t be on my own neck? Just maybe, just this one time?

This is categorically untrue with the latest generations of chipsets, CPUs and GPUs. Just look at AMD instead of Intel: AM4/5 cross-compatibility, DDR4/DDR5 combined support and so on.

If anything, today is the day when you can upgrade beyond your current gen hardware component by component.

Used to live in Denmark a good decade ago, “nice” to see that nothing really changed.

Back then there was a quasi-proverb going around - you could sit in the middle of the most public part, butt naked, your girl riding your dick, a bottle of vodka in one hand and a joint in the other, and if police saw you, the worst thing you’d get is a high five. But dare you download a single episode of Game Of Thrones…

It’s even more dumbass to show her as an alt, punk-goth girl when pretty much every representative of those subcultures is staunchly against alt-right BS. Especially the immigration paranoia.

Do tell, which part of that sounds awful?

Many.

If you get deliveries and they’re mishandled, you have a recording of it.

If someone comes to your door when you’re not home, you can talk to them.

You can also set up local AI alerts (AI here is mostly used for facial recognition) e.g. to alert you if your MIL comes around uninvited, or if your kids sneak out at 2am, and so on.

Once you begin appreciating a home CCTV camera setup (fully local mind you), you’ll see the benefit of having your doorbell video-ed up as well.

Or just use one of the hundreds of other brands that provide smart doorbells.

What you lose is audience. People often aren’t willing to replatform for a single creator.

The issue with that is as you explained: it’s up to the instance admins (who often don’t care and/or are too busy to deal with it), and visibility due to it happening on instance support community is low.

Bake it into the service, and I guarantee you, average uptake of new moderators for stale communities will improve.

Instead of closing stale communities, I’d like to see a more federated versions of what Reddit does:

• a community goes stale
  • this can be further supported by modmail sent to mods requesting immediate active moderation within X days, if that doesn’t happen, then consider it stale
• all accounts that signed up to the community are notified about it being stale and requesting moderators to apply
• any account that has interacted with the community in X time (say, the last year or 6 months) can then apply to be a moderator
• a, say, 30 or 60 day period follows allowing moderator applications and community member votes (not just signed up members but accounts that interacted with the community in Y time, this can be larger than the previous moderator application timeframe requirement). Only those whose first interaction with the community was before the stale announcement are allowed to vote.
• at the end of the period, the new moderator team is picked by automation based on the votes and total number of applicants.
• if necessary, the instance owner(s) can also step in to provide assistance in assigning moderators

Because consumer sales is slow and expensive.

What do you think costs more? Building RAM sticks for individual users who’ll pay $200-300 per 8/16 DRAM modules, or building sticks for enterprise customers who in one single order will spend millions of USD? Also latter requires no fancy packaging, marketing, or variations in the product.

I suspect it’s not because the article writers couldn’t find the picture but because of the legalities of just taking an image from another source.

This is also why e.g. Wikipedia is full of old, or crappy celebrity pictures - Wikipedia requires an open license for the photos they host, but most celebrity photos aren’t licensed as such.

The thing is, this is happening precisely because manufacturers are giving a flying fuck. They’re seeing that the AI bubble is about to burst, and that this increased demand won’t last for long. So why spend tons of money on expanding production capacity when said capacity wouldn’t even be used?

Not to mention that the current pricing bump is entirely on the OEMs, not the ODMs (ODM here being the DRAM manufacturers, OEMs being the RAM module manufacturers). OEMs have already bought and paid for the DRAM they’re selling right now, as it takes generally 2-3 months from manufacturing for the product to hit the shelves, and DRAM modules are usually bought at least 6 months, but usually 12-18 months ahead. Meaning these fuckers bought the DRAM cheap, saw the possibility of there being scarcity in the future, took a guess on how much they will need to inflate prices to reduce demand… And immediately jumped to those prices because if morons will pay £1000 for 64GB of RAM instead of £200, even though the production cost is still at £50… Well that’s just “good business” to maximise profits, innit?

That’s actually somewhat of a Safari bug.

Safari has this tendency of opening videos in full screen, if the video is natively embedded (not using a third party video player component), is set to auto play, and isn’t flagged specifically for not opening automatically in full screen (this is a Safari specific flag that no other browser requires as no other browser has this stupid default behaviour).

Fortunately bad quality DRAM can be found out much quicker than bad quality capacitors.

Not really. DRAM at its core is not even useful without a controller that actually provides managed access to it. Any backdoor would need to be either in the controller or a layer above for it to be functional. And controllers aren’t the issue, DRAM chips are.

You fight government overreach by civil disobedience, not by corporatist overreach in the same manner.

If you give a free pass to corporations disobeying laws just because you personally dislike those laws, soon you’ll find all regulations are pointless because no corporation follows them…

Also, there’s no such thing as “governmental overreach” in a well working system that is FOR the people and BY the people. You elect the representatives, you have a say in what laws get passed. I do agree that we could do with a refresher because the current forms of representative democracy are breaking thanks to (primarily right wing) political false marketing with no repercussions, and nowadays we do have a way to have people give direct input on laws and regulations before they get passed, but that doesn’t negate the fact that the government isn’t supposed to be some shady ruler class but rather a form of communal governance.

Threats do work when delivered properly. See how the EU forced Apple into moving to USB-C or opening up sideloading/alternate app markets.

You just need to have weight to throw around behind your threats. The EU has weight. The UK alone? Hah.

4chan is a relatively sequestered part of the internet, and doing this required a level of skill.

There’s a reason people freaked out when deepfakes - first photos then videos - started appearing as it lowered the level of entry for creeps. No longer did you need to learn to use a tool through hundreds of hours of not well documented features to achieve nudes, but even the dumbest dipshit with minimal tech skills and money could download the right models, and either rent or buy the right hardware and get lifelike deepfakes, photos or videos, within minutes or hours…

That quickly passed fortunately, but then came the combined agentic models that could use input images, LLMs, and other generative AI to replace the previously lengthy processes with a much quicker approach through cloud hardware.

Aka grok. Which, let’s be honest, is an even more idiot-proof solution as all it requires is a Twitter account and marginal prompt engineering skills (which is quite well documented already), so even the worst trolls can easily get going (and here by worst I mean the wannabe trolls who aren’t even good enough to be basic trolls).

Yet again the level of entrance was lowered significantly.