off-topic-tech

[verbal raft]

i think it looks great though

XFX swift this gen is incerdibly slick

[sharp matrix]

Its a nice card for sure and you even can get 16g vram with it, making it one of the cheaper 16gb cards on the market to

[verbal raft]

yeah.. of course i bought the 16GB 😎

ironically i seem to have less VRAM usage now than on my 6600 lol

could just be placebo too i gues..

[thin trout]

Stuff like FSR can use a lot of vram, and differ between versions.

Nvidia's DLSS4 framegen and upscaling both use less VRAM than the DLSS3 one. The framegen uses 600MB VRAM less than before.

better model is more memory efficient (and that's part of how it does more work in less time, too)

[verbal raft]

Upscaling itself doesn't use a measurable amount of VRAM
IIRC AMDs GPU open site had VRAM usage measured in kilobytes

And i didn't use FG on either card

[mental oriole]

noice.

[verbal raft]

That was for 3.1 though, having an AI model probably changes that a little bot

[mental oriole]

Why is sharepoint hack all over the news but citrixbleed2 not...

[sharp matrix]

Good choice

[safe trench]

thank you for that

not just that lol
its just way better than google for both ai results and just general browsing

[feral drift]

Ah yeah the golden times before Office ‘bloatware’ 365

[charred relic]

Consume product then wait for next product

[ivory rampart]

U wanna use ai???

[feral drift]

I'll give it a bit more time... You know.. To settle in..

[languid gulch]

i'd love to know wtf is going on in its algorithms to make it come up with a response like that

[feral drift]

Just prompted this...

And yet more and more are relying themself on LLM's like ChatGPT 🙈

[languid gulch]

at this point, the cynic in me is saying "yea, sure, fuck it, do it" to all these companies & people running them. if they're stupid enough to rely on it, then i have 0 issue with them nuking their company while relying on it

[main locust]

was talking to my partner about this a couple nights ago. all of these companies that are doing mass layoffs to switch their workforce to AI, are either going to A.) go under or B.) hire qualified people again when they realize the AI cant do the work

like things are terrible in tech rn, and i know some AI models can do junior level work with a lot of senior supervision, but what happens when the seniors retire/move on? all those would be junior devs dont exist to take their place anymore

[languid gulch]

i'm 100% certain that all the nvidia driver shit has been because they're using "AI"

[feral drift]

Deffo see this to be a huge issue within the next 5-10 years..

The snowball is already rolling, and its getting outta hand pretty darn quick

[languid gulch]

i haven't updated my nvidia driver from the december one, and i don't plan to

[main locust]

just basic literacy and competence without the use of a chatbot is going to be a very desireable skill in 5-10 years loool

[languid gulch]

oh yea, regardless of if it all goes to shit (my prediction) or if it all somehow miraculously works out and the AI models do fine, we're gonna have to see some massive societal changes like some kind of UBI. either as a stopgap or as a new way of living

[feral drift]

Yeah have already seen how people just prompt ChatGPT with whatever assignment they have..

This goes for simple coding tasks like writing a freaking Hello World..

And when challenged in the field, without internet coverage.. Well they're lost :)

[main locust]

grok is this true?

[languid gulch]

lol

[feral drift]

Well what would you do if you went to Mikael's computer, opened ChatGPT on his browser and saw prompts like:

• How to add two numbers in Excel?
• How to center text in Word

We are seriously entering Idiocrazy stage of life with LLM's :D

[charred relic]

let it all burn

Do you know how long I've waited to be old enough to say that and mean it lol

But now... I've got all the makings for the smores. Lets get it lit.

[main locust]

id sit down with him and talk about basic web literacy, but mikael's computer is already a 50/50 tossup between writing scripts and his workouts planned in excel, so i dont think this is a worry atm

[night girder]

That problem was a bit obvious. AI are trained in certain years and get confused. Training data until 2023 for example.

When it happens, sometimes you can tell them they are wrong and they "look it up on the internet" and use that answer.

Wow, claude sucks!

I asked the date. And follow up question with "Serious?"

[feral drift]

I'm not saying the AI should respond different.. But it sort of should...

Instead of just prompting out first... "This is the answer ✅ "

It should say:

• "Lets go through this: 1980 is 45 years ago"

• "For 1980 to be 45 years ago, todays year should be 2025"

• "Todays year is 2025"

• "✅ 1980 is 45 years ago, as todays year is 2025."

[night girder]

It cannot tell me the date. Amazing Artificial Intelligence.

But you can see

[languid gulch]

i feel like that kind of response is a liability deflector

[night girder]

the AI answer with cut off date based on training date. So that's how claude fixed it.

This is Llama 4 answer. Cut off date is 2023.

[languid gulch]

now that all these companies are getting sued for getting caught red-handed stealing copywritten info, i bet a lot of the bullshit answers are ways to either obscure their thefts, or they genuinely don't use even potentially copywritten info

[night girder]

So most companies opt to totally disconnect AI from internet it seems. And only use the training data.

[night girder]

Aren't they also winning those lawsuits?

I think I read an article about it a month ago.

[languid gulch]

or they're operating on such a knife's edge of solvency that they'd rather not even risk it

[languid gulch]

but yea, a lot of them are getting their asses handed to them in court because of how blatant it's been

[night girder]

The judge said the digitization of the books purchased in print form by Anthropic could also be considered fair use, "because all Anthropic did was replace the print copies it had purchased for its central library with more convenient space-saving and searchable digital copies for its central library — without adding new copies, creating new works, or redistributing existing copies."

No, the AI company won. They steal shit. And the judge is like, that's fair.

[languid gulch]

sounds like the judge there is a moron

[night girder]

And. If we go tin hat territory.

I read, that this is why google started to digilitize books a few years ago.
To prepare to train AI on it.

Step 1) Digitize all books without paying.
Step 2) Train AI on it.
Step 3) Mad profit without paying a penny. Fuck you hard working writers. We are poor as google.
Step 4) 🖕 🖕 🌍 🖕 🖕

[feral drift]

So I asked ChatGPT according to time.is/cet whats the current time? (Which currently is 12:00 Noon)

Respond was: Thurday, 24 July 2025 - 11:12:01

So it can't "even" get the time from a website.. its kinda doomed :D

[languid gulch]

notice how that case is not even a month old, and "first of its kind". the rest of the lawsuits have settled out or been lost by the AI company

[night girder]

Yeah, but I did remember it. Because I was surprised they actually won.

And this **will **influence upcoming cases.

[languid gulch]

it's also being appealed

[night girder]

Also US just said they want less regulation for AI companies.

[tribal kraken]

62 millions triangles. Have found RTX4060 limits 😄

[night girder]

I read that yesterday.

[languid gulch]

if it's dogshit logic by the judge, then it won't influence cases

[night girder]

www.whitehouse.gov/articles/2025/07/white-house-unveils-americas-ai-action-plan/

[languid gulch]

less in some cases, more in others

[night girder]

Enabling Innovation and Adoption: Removing onerous Federal regulations that hinder AI development and deployment, and seek private sector input on rules to remove.

Where do you read more?

[languid gulch]

they forgot "while also imposing our own" in that

[night girder]

I am looking at the official whitehouse website atm

I mean, it can't get more official than this source can it?

[languid gulch]

yup, and it includes removals of trans people as a thing that exists from AI models or you get banned

[night girder]

“Winning the AI Race is non-negotiable. America must continue to be the dominant force in artificial intelligence to promote prosperity and protect our economic and national security. President Trump recognized this at the beginning of his administration and took decisive action by commissioning this AI Action Plan.

This sounds like the nuke all over again. Do whatever it takes. To win.

[twin dew]

Basically long time US thing, where you are allowed to do anything with bought physical book.
Including that digitalization and using that digitalized version, as long as you don't then put that digitalized copy publicly available or like.

[night girder]

And it's all on the official website of the whitehouse.

[languid gulch]

www.npr.org/2025/07/23/nx-s1-5476771/trump-artificial-intelligence-woke-eo

[night girder]

Posted yesterday.

[languid gulch]

"The order bans federal agencies from contracting with tech companies that operate AI chatbots displaying partisan bias, which the action defines as diversity, equity and inclusion, critical race theory, "transgenderism" — forces the order says pose "an existential threat to reliable AI." "

[twin dew]

So yes, with the US long time court decided way, buying physical book, then digitalizing it, and using that for AI training is ok.
But basically not ok anywhere else in the world.

[night girder]

"Winning the AI Race is non-negotiable" - Donal Trump.

[languid gulch]

just because it came from a government agency doesn't mean it's magically not stuffed full of lies

[night girder]

That one sentence. Says it all to me.

That's the *mindset * of the current US goverment.

[languid gulch]

www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/07/preventing-woke-ai-in-the-federal-government/

read the EO

press release vs executive order. 2 very different things

[night girder]

(iii) avoid over-prescription and afford latitude for vendors to comply with the Unbiased AI Principles and take different approaches to innovation;

It sounds they are removing restrictions. But I must say, this sort of english is hard for my to understand.

[languid gulch]

while imposing others

[night girder]

But how I read it; less rules for unbiased AI principles and you can think more out of the box for innovation.

Less restrictions. Go go go. Win win win.

(v) make exceptions as appropriate for the use of LLMs in national security systems.

[languid gulch]

that ain't gonna be how it works

[night girder]

appropriate use is always nice legal language.

Because it's so vague.

[languid gulch]

exactly

it's a "work with us, under what we say counts as "unbiased", or gtfo"

this could have been done as an actual law, written and passed by congress

complete with legal definitions

[night girder]

I have a hard time reading that EO 😒 Sorry.

It's like a political bomb.

For example, one major AI model changed the race or sex of historical figures — including the Pope, the Founding Fathers, and Vikings — when prompted for images because it was trained to prioritize DEI requirements at the cost of accuracy. Another AI model refused to produce images celebrating the achievements of white people, even while complying with the same request for people of other races. In yet another case, an AI model asserted that a user should not “misgender” another person even if necessary to stop a nuclear apocalypse.

Ok, you say that in the EO. But ... where is the URL to the proof? 🤔

But anyway. I don't see this as a good thing 😄

[main locust]

its so sensational lol

[night girder]

I feel safer with more regulations for AI atm. Not less.

[languid gulch]

same

[main locust]

same

[languid gulch]

and enforcement

[night girder]

But I know. Tech companies don't like to hear this. It limits them.
But I also think they are just fine. Think out of the box. You get it done 😄

[main locust]

lack of regulations is only beneficial for companies

[night girder]

Exactly! Not citizens.

[main locust]

the US hasnt been pro consumer since the 80s though

[languid gulch]

so long as it's not running anything actually important, i'm not that annoyed at it

[night girder]

(v) make exceptions as appropriate for the use of LLMs in** national security systems.**

[languid gulch]

it's people insisting on it running things that are functionally critical that make me want to chuck out all of it

[night girder]

national security ... nah not important? 🤣

The moment chatGPT does your national security, you know your kinda screwed right?

[languid gulch]

that's a carveout to exempt themselves from liability, as they've already thrown that stuff into the DoD & Pentagon

[night girder]

Half of the AI think it's still 2023.

[languid gulch]

i'd be nicer about any of this, but i can see this train crash coming from a looooooooooong way off

[night girder]

Always welcome here 😄

Reminder to myself; start watching terminator again to prepare for the future.

because I honestly forgot how we have to defeat a AI out to destroy humanity.

[languid gulch]

Idicracy run by Terminators

[night girder]

Did we make AI?

Wait what! We convince the AI to not exterminate humanity. That's how we solve it in the Terminator.

[feral drift]

Maybe I don't fully understand - but this is what i understand from this - the data the LLM is using, would be from the same year no?

If you knew how many important things gets prompted into LLM's...

Such as a lawyer prompting "Give me a break down of the law of xxxxxxx"

Now if the law has been updated after that learning date, the lawyer will go on a false premiss..

I know its a thought out prompt - but I can't imagine this wont be happening imho

[night girder]

Exactly. Training data can be out of date, incomplete and/or updated.

And a lot seem to be cut off around 2023 😄

[languid gulch]

magically, just around the time all of them started to get busted for infrigement

[night girder]

Avatar 4 is the best I agree.

And Untitled Indiana Jones was also very good.

You know what bothers me a little bit? It's not the AI or actually... LLM's. It's that companies push this into everything

[languid gulch]

yup

well, the ones who push it into the decision-making sphere

[night girder]

Now whatsapp, my bankapp, my photo gallery, my phone, I thinke ven my weather app has AI baked into it.

Like not a single feature/app on my phone doesn't have AI somehow into it.

All gobbling up resources of my CPU etc for no reason. Because I don't need AI's in 10-20 different places.

I got Siri to begin with. Why do I need another AI in whatsapp? With a blue button we cannot remove.

Oh right whatsapp is meta/facebook.

I can even ask my banking app questions ... like wtf? Why?

[languid gulch]

if i could find a way to get my VR to work without being attached to meta, i would

[night girder]

I don't understand why companies always have to implement every hype.

[languid gulch]

oh this one's special

[night girder]

Like almost blind. Without a real reason. Just because they can.

The same with NFT's. Everyone suddenly started to implement that stuff.

[languid gulch]

this one's supposedly the one that'll let them fire everyone and turn all those wages they've been having to pay straight into profit

[night girder]

#copium

[languid gulch]

you forget, all these techbros grew up on the Wall Street movie

they just never watched how it ended

or think they're special and can get away with it

[night girder]

🤣 Now I have imagine in my head of them fallin asleep right before the end.
Waking up and thinking; well that movie, everything went well for the characters, I have to replicate this in real life.

[languid gulch]

and they're in the class of people who already have so much money that they have no reason to be doing any of this if they don't want to

it's just the GN "bigger number better" bullshit

[night girder]

Yeah I know... I just don't understand it. Even from a financial perspective.

[languid gulch]

just moving up the ladder of who gets eaten first, i guess

[night girder]

Like whatsapp having an AI, what's the benefit? I would think as a CEO;

1. It costs shitton of money to develop.
2. It wont give me any profit (unless they hoard our AI data and sell it)
3. Whatsapp is installed on phones that have AI baked into it.
4. Why make something, when everyone else has better solutions.
5. What's extra's does it offer to have AI in a chatapp?

But then again, I am no CEO. And not smart. But I would say no. For whatsapp with AI.

I really really don't see any benefits for us as consumer, maybe they want us to train their AI, so that's why it's forced down upon us?

[languid gulch]

for #4, that part is greed. make it yourself so you don't have to pay the license to someone else

[night girder]

Because so far, we can't turn it off in whatsapp.

and they said it's non negotiable.

[languid gulch]

the development is cheaper than hiring people, training, them, and paying them

crap results from it is fine so long as it does the job about 5% of the time compared to a human, if it's 4% of the cost of a person

[night girder]

WhatsApp says its new AI feature embedded in the messaging service is "entirely optional" - despite the fact it cannot be removed from the app.

"We think giving people these options is a good thing and we're always listening to feedback from our users," WhatsApp told the BBC.

What fucking options mate!

[languid gulch]

who's gonna enforce the laws about companies lying

[night girder]

Eh, EU is already looking into it.

So in a year or two, we get a verdict

[languid gulch]

at this point the EU needs to really crank up the punishments and speed up the process

[night girder]

Also, everyone says; go signal. But nobody of my friends/contacts use that.

[languid gulch]

to me it's not justice unless it also functions as a deterrent for future lawbreaking by that company or others

[night girder]

it's complicated

[languid gulch]

a lot of the EU stuff feels more like just a consumer advocacy group rather than a government

[night girder]

EU just dropped a fine for Apple Store. Because Apple did some changes and EU was suddenly "that's good enough".

But I've read comments saying this is pressure from the White House working, and EU is budging. But that's rumors.

www.reuters.com/sustainability/boards-policy-regulation/apple-set-stave-off-daily-fines-eu-accept-app-store-changes-sources-say-2025-07-22/

That's the article if you are interested.

[languid gulch]

i wanna say something but i'll get smacked for it being political

[night girder]

I have to go anyway.

[languid gulch]

lol

[night girder]

Need to help someone setting up a laptop 😦

[languid gulch]

have a fun day 🙂

[night girder]

You too 😄 Or evening.

[feral drift]

LLM’s in a nutshell :D

[ivory rampart]

The scar is in the middle

[soft bloom]

🔥 is because it will always gaslight you into being correct

[dire igloo]

To... Not interact with it.
It's still there, but you can elect to ignore it.

Like if Google were shipping Gemini as the default starting page for Chrome

[dire igloo]

Just wondering if Facebook is attempting an AI tool, that would make sense to deliver with WhatsApp.
No extra cost (they already have it for FB/IG) and explains why they want it on phones (not everyone has Facebook ai on their phones).
The consumer benefit doesn't matter, if people use it you can consider charging for it and/or selling its usage data.
But a default chatbot in the default chat app is a low entry barrier for people to use it not as a research tool but a conversation companion

And the point of making something when others are better is primarily that others don't get access to the data that you want to keep for yourself

[verbal raft]

welp

time to go pixel peeping

couldnt be bothered to test TAA though

[verbal raft]

take a look if you are interested

[verbal raft]

love how this transfer starrted at 2GB/s but now its 80mb/s cuz of this slug SSD

at least now its not my C-drive : )

[jagged snow]

Y'all got reccomendations for nas drives in the 5-8tb range

[twin dew]

Seagate IronWolf (Pro)

Pro:s with model code ending in NT for the "best" with same specs as Seagates enterprise drive lineup.

[jagged snow]

Confidence inspiring

Derived from the “built for stable and reliable” designing concept, ASRock does not compromise on any details.

[jagged snow]

Sick

Finally have the spare cash to build a nas and I'm debating between upgrading my current pc and pushing the old hardware to a nas or just building a dedicated box

I love the usb spec so much 💀

1 USB 3.2 Gen2x2 Type-C (Front)
1 USB 3.2 Gen2 Type-C (Rear)
1 USB 3.2 Gen1 Type-C (Rear)
6 USB 3.2 Gen1 (4 Rear, 2 Front)
9 USB 2.0 (6 Rear, 3 Front)

[night girder]

Haha 🤣

[night girder]

I can fully disable Siri. Even Apple is not that evil. I don't want AI in whatsapp. I already have AI in every other app

but you cannot use carplay with Siri disabled though. Because of the hands free regulation, so you need to have siri enabled so you can talk to the phone while driving.
If you disable siri, carplay will throw error.

[visual tree]

I remember looking for Meta Quest 3 charging cable and wasting hours on studying USB 3 specs 💀

And I thought HDMI or Displayport versions were complicated lol

Should have used a cheat sheet instead:

[ivory rampart]

can someone reccomend a good Controller?
i bought the 8bitdo ultimate 3, but am very unhappy with the trigger buttons (cant deal with the Playstation style triggers)

looking for something wireless

[dire igloo]

Mobapad Chitu HD
Gamesir T4KAt
Machenike G5 Pro
Beitong Asura 2 Pro+
Flydigi Vader 3 Pro

[ivory rampart]

i could just get the plain Xbox controller to replace the 10 year old one i have right now.
but if im spending money, not getting the hall effect joycons feels bit like a scam

[dire igloo]

copied from someone else's advice on hall effect controllers

idk about their triggers

[ivory rampart]

ill go through them

[dire igloo]

this was focused on US market btw

[feral drift]

fiberoptic USB cable .. when

[mental oriole]

never

[pure karma]

when we want it to break

[tribal kraken]

4060 could reach about 0,5 fps on this, but 5090 can do 11 fps now when testing it at home 😂

[verbal raft]

FSR 4 on ARK smear ascended is rough

FSR 4 tends to ghost on near pixel level lines, its usually fine in other games but in ARK, no, its not fine
it ends up looking like FSR 2.1 for grass, which is 99% of the game
FSR 3.1 is a garbled mess as always, XeAA is straight up broken, and TSR is doing its signature blur everything move

[pure karma]

you should just make a comparison channel at this point

you seem to have a problem

[verbal raft]

nah, too much effort

[ivory rampart]

ark looks like shit no matter what though

[verbal raft]

looks and runs like shite

[ivory rampart]

always has

[verbal raft]

well, looks only int the blur/anti ailiasing department, the lighting and textures are usually amazing

goog god that frametime graph

[feral drift]

At short distance yeah.. That cheat sheet misses a little vital component I think.. Max cable length :)

USB 4 can't be longer than 0.8m or 2.6ft.

[ivory rampart]

last 2 dont seem to be available in germany.
Machenike G5Pro V2 looks good though

[night girder]

size does matter huh? 🤔

[glossy glacier]

already a thing?

[verbal raft]

thats with forced FG
without forced FG this game is a nice "smooth" 30fps on a 9060 XT 16GB at the mdeium preset 😎

[feral drift]

Yeah actually didn't know USB-C AOC was a thing

[ivory rampart]

i hate framegen so much

[verbal raft]

its usually fine IMO

but if its forced and it takes you from 30 to 60 ??

[ivory rampart]

i dont want fake performance, i want real performance

if its forced im refunding the game

[night girder]

People really hate framegen huh. Wonder if they also hate stuff like Anti Aliasing etc when it got released.

but I do agree, the forced option, it's a bit too much.

[ivory rampart]

i will not pay money for a game where the devs didnt optimize it

vote with your wallet

bad product => no money.
if it runs bad, its a bad product
if it needs frame gen it runs bad

[mental oriole]

this.
I don't mind framegen per say, but when it's used as a selling point I'm getting tilted.

[verbal raft]

in ark you have to enter a CVAR to get rid of it

[glossy glacier]

or as a clutch to get a game from not playable to barely playable

[mental oriole]

yup, pretty much.

[night girder]

Diluted. Want to make a tetris game with framegen forced? Let's add denuvo for fun and gigles also 😄

[verbal raft]

like ark

[feral drift]

Yeah, it helps that they increase voltage from 5V to up to 48V then length doesn't matter as much for voltage drop :)

[dire igloo]

except AA had a usecase - edge smoothing
framegen just hallucinates information when there isn't any while introducing lag

[mental oriole]

Let's add all the anticheat.

[night girder]

Oh, and it only works when there is internet connection ofc!

[verbal raft]

i just found out that letterdief blocked me 😭

[mental oriole]

tetris running at 1fps because of the constant background RAM scanning.

[night girder]

With add-ons to enhance your tetris experience.

and NFT's ofc.

Maybe we need to put in an AI, if people have question how to play the game?

the game itself will be 10MB, with all the extra's maybe 1GB? 🤣

[glossy glacier]

cut out the player, let AI run everything
just need a poor sod to buy it still

[mental oriole]

you're absolutely correct that a full row is supposed to remove the blocks in that row.

[night girder]

79.99 for standard edition.

120.99 for support pack and 200.00 for special special edition.

[mental oriole]

My bad, the rows above the removed row should get moved down. I'm fixing that.

😁

[night girder]

Every block that drops down costs, 10 cent.

Because the calculation is server side ofc.

And those servers are expensive too keep running.

[mental oriole]

we need a server for a single player game.

And then the game gets unplayable because server costs too big.

Now we can start a new company

[night girder]

And that's the moment we are on a beach at the bahama's drinking cocktails 🤣

enjoying our well earned (totally not scammed) money.

I gotta pitch this idea to the Tetris company.

[mental oriole]

xD

[night girder]

I wonder if the idea of Tetris is "open source" for lack of better words.

There are so many tetris games online, not from official source.

It's an easy to make game. And by the time they shut one down, 10 more are put online. So maybe the Tetris company let it slide. Not sure.

[verbal raft]

i'd say its actually okay-ish on my optimized preset

1080p FSR 75% optimized preset FSR FG OFF
avg: 54
1% low: 44
0.1% low: 23

1080p FSR 75% optimized preset FSR FG ON
avg: 104
1% low: 85
0.1% low: 26

[night girder]

Court declares Tetris clone a breach of copyright, big implications for derivative games

• 2012

[verbal raft]

though native AA makes it run worse still..

[night girder]

🤣

big implications my ass. 13 years later rofl.

[feral drift]

What did ninten doooo?? :D Ill see my self out

[charred relic]

I'm sure some people notice it more than others but to me frame gen (within reason) is fine with me, I barely of ever notice it's even happening

Obviously there is a break point there where I will start to dislike it because you can reasonably only generate so many fake frames, especially with FSR 3... but yeah

Thing is with my glasses on my eyesight is actually fine lol

So it's not really just crappy eyes... it just doesn't bother me.

[full tide]

YES ALL MY PC PARTS ARE HERE

@inner shale

[charred relic]

people still care about looking like a nerd?

it became cool...when i was a kid it got you stuffed in a locker or something

well... I was one of the metalhead nerds so those pukes knew better than to even try heh

Back then in school there weren't many groups lower than the nerds on the social scale...

Maybe the dweebs... but that's because they're like nerds only also dumb...

[pure karma]

now for the fun part

[languid gulch]

i do appreciate how basically none of the people who know enough about where AI is are advocating for its actual use

they seem to fall under either the "for the love of god it's not ready yet" or the "ya know what? fine, go ahead and sign this liability waiver for me & my company"

[pure karma]

yea because its still a waste of resources right now

its not ready for the masses and any attempt to do so is a small brained move thats only going to backfire

[languid gulch]

the AI companies all seem to be racing to get something out there, not knowing who's gonna be "the one to get it done"

[charred relic]

If they could maybe make them stop turning into Hitler that'd be great

[languid gulch]

i'm waiting for one of them to say something like "ok, not hitler. i'm stalin now"

[languid gulch]

but i like how bouncy those kitties are!

[dire igloo]

I love my glasses, finally makes me confident with how I see myself in the mirror

tho the measurement was fucked and I have to get it rechecked

[feral drift]

One could argue if Ion Hazzikostat is a Lead game designer too 🙈

For me, its fairly clear to see what Ion loves, and who he caters his design towards..

Which is.. If you play the game, say you go all in for 2-3 weeks.. And then take a break.. Come back some month later, all your progress is gone, and you have to start over again getting gear ect..

Might as well hit hard reset :D

Well, my point was - Ion is someone who takes Raiding in WoW pretty serious, which is fine.. But he also caters to those hardcore andies who raids to get world first.. And because they run out of content so quickly - they need to keep them busy..

[feral drift]

I don't know many people at Blizzard, but those in the front I may have heard off :)

There is this one guy, who claims to be a 20y+ experienced game developer, and within those, 7y at Blizzard (Although he did claim he rarely talks about this employment) and he now owns his own studio, where he spend the last 8 years developing a game that has 2-3 hours of content - and 96.4% of the code is based on IF-statements, and Loops are forbidden essentially..

But yeah beside that one guy mentioned above.. We also have some legends like Mike Morhaime, Frank Pearce and naturally Chris Metzen is some of the names that comes to mind when you mention Blizzard :)

[twin dew]

Well, he wasn't a game dev at Blizzard, but nepo-hire to some support position.

[feral drift]

I very much know.. Its just what he "claims" he is :)

[twin dew]

Have you ever seen a Finn cheering for anything?

[soft bloom]

nepo-hire
the what?

[twin dew]

nepotic hire, got in because of his father.

[soft bloom]

TIL

[feral drift]

He was not just any nepo hire...

He was the FIRST, Second-Generation Hire at Blizzard!

[stiff jungle]

Currently building RAM out of relays

[soft bloom]

and I thought that making r/s switch from transistors was old...

[stiff jungle]

U right U right

[night girder]

Oh noes. This code 🤣

It's not his code I assume.

[feral drift]

Can't tell... :D

[night girder]

Now Firefox adds AI for tabs, this has to be april foolsdays or something.

If you need "AI" to sort tabs in similar groups, you clearly losing your marmbles as a company.

Time to start finding a new browser 🤣

[dire igloo]

Librewolf

[soft bloom]

there are plenty of minimalistic firefox forks

[night girder]

LIke wtf is this shit? FOR TABS! 😡

[feral drift]

So this is a PirateSoftware (tm) (R) code..

-# Short explanation, he stores the story progress of the game, in a super large numeric indexed Array

[night girder]

AI can sometimes make mistakes? No shit Mozilla. Why add it then? Just add dumb code that does the same. No need for AI ffs.

[dire igloo]

1. I've learned to not trust advertising that mentions "local AI models". It could very easily be hardcoded automation.
2. Aside from you, who said that they need AI to do this?

It may seem unintuitive to techy people, but non-techy people somehow started to think that AI is more trustworthy than tech mumbo jumbo they don't understand

Yup

Same engine, no AI

[night girder]

👀

[dire igloo]

I can totally see the usecase for wanting to organize and group your tabs.
There are non-AI tools for that, but that won't stop marketing folks from slapping AI branding on it

[night girder]

It's the patch notes of Latest firefox.

It has one new feature. And that's it. Kinda sad no?

And I, as a user, don't care if it's marketing or not. This is plain stupid.

[dire igloo]

There are plenty patch notes without new features too.
"Improved performance and bugfixes"

"closing security vulnerabilities"

[night girder]

It's the same how PirateSoftware was coding uneven numbers 🤣

Does his code work? Probably. Is it efficient, hell no, should be one or two lines.

Man, you die on any hill fireworker2000

don't you try to defend AI tab grouping tools now by Mozilla.

Because it's the stupid feature.

[dire igloo]

It is, primarily because they're trying to target the Chrome audience at the expense of alienating their existing userbase

[night girder]

Waste of code. Waste of PC resources. To what? Group tabs?

If you just code; group by alphabet, 50% of users are helped.

[dire igloo]

I will defend tab grouping tools any day of the week.
Using AI for it, bullshit.

[night girder]

That's my whole point man.

You read one thing and go for it.

But I clearly state; AI for tab grouping is stupid.

It's not two seperate things. It's one sentence.

Anyway. You all enjoy your AI tab grouping 😄

I either block it or go for another browser.

[dire igloo]

Womp womp, you just majorly fucked me over.
I group tabs based on content and usage.

I have a window for articles I wanna read, one for tracking Esports tournaments I'm interested in, one for music I wanna check out, one for streaming media (YT, Netflix, etc) and so on and so forth

Alphabetic grouping would RUIN my usage

[ivory rampart]

Im very pro AI, but that doesnt mean i want it shoved down my throat all the time

[dire igloo]

You complain about both tab grouping itself and using AI for it.
I very explicitly only talk about your criticism of grouping itself

[feral drift]

I mean..

def is_even(num % 2):
  if num == 0:
    return even
  else:
    return odd

could be a solution..

But that would be too easy..

Also he is using GameMaker engine, where it has some built-in function for adding shades to sprites..

But not Thor... Noooo..

Thor iterates through each pixel in the sprite, and adding an incremental shade to it.. So if the sprite would be 800x100 pixels, he would run the code 80000 times to add a little shade to it :)

[night girder]

Ofc my friend 😄 That's what I was thinking.

you can even return one.

return "even" without retuning "odd". Because if you don't return even, then it's odd.

but clean code principles would suggest what you wrote, more verbose. and correct

[feral drift]

Watching some of these Code-Review videos on Thor's code is actually mind buggling to say the least..

[dire igloo]

Did Mozilla make any mention of whether it's opt-out or opt-in?

[visual tree]

I accidentally deleted Security log from Event Viewer due to my clumsy fingers and got a call from company Cyber Emergency Response Team...

They at least weren't pissed and realized it was a honest mistake

[feral drift]

Its good fun to watch.. Like that youtuber "Programmers are also humans" .. Just that PS isn't a sketch show

[dire igloo]

I'm very pro AI too, but exclusively in contexts that it can do by design.

Asking LLMs to write an email for you? Fine, it's designed to imitate human speech.
Asking LLMs about tech specs or other kinds of factual information? Not okay, it's designed to mimic human speech, not produce accurate results.

[night girder]

I consider myself, AI critical? I don't mind. But like I tried to explain myself, it gets shoved into everything they can.
Without logic.

"Add AI into this app!" - "But sir, do we need it?" - "Totally not, but I want it. Do it!" - developers start implementing AI

[dire igloo]

There is logic.
Anything that can be automated gets AI slapped onto it because people love AI.
Only techies hate it but they're a minority, so who cares

[visual tree]

I am getting fiber later than expected here because contractors messed up fibers inside a fiber enclosure 😩

[dire igloo]

That's where you're wrong imo.
In today's time, AI is used synonymously with any form of automation

[night girder]

we dont know

[dire igloo]

I have experienced it far too often.
AI being introduced as the solution with a complete disregard for differentiation between AI and non-AI automation

[night girder]

support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/how-use-ai-enhanced-tab-groups

[mental oriole]

wtf...

[night girder]

I know 😦

[mental oriole]

Enough internet for one day... back to sleep

*/jk

[night girder]

I whish I could.

The germans woke me up.

For some reason they even send my goldbears from Haribo.

[dire igloo]

This is from official EU legislation. This is how the European legislators define an AI system:

’AI system’ means a machine-based system that is designed to operate with varying levels of autonomy and that may exhibit adaptiveness after deployment, and that, for explicit or implicit objectives, infers, from the input it receives, how to generate outputs such as predictions, content, recommendations, or decisions that can influence physical or virtual environments;

This is what I mean.
AI and automation being used synonymously, as if they were one and the same thing

[visual tree]

@night girder Good thing you haven't seen "The most dutch man in the world" video which was made with AI 😅

[dire igloo]

With this definition, you can not automate anything without it being considered AI

[visual tree]

Well, the video was made by AI but the naration was written by a person

[night girder]

I don't think people understand me at all.

There is a difference, between a AI powered close button. That now closes your application with the power of AI.
And;
AI that can help with code.

One is totally useless to me, another can be useful for certain scenarios.

[visual tree]

Best we can do is 1 gbit/s download and 500 mbit/s upload 🤣

[night girder]

Weird; I order from german military/police shop. And I get kids candy 😄

[visual tree]

Most likely because GPON doesn't support symetrical speeds but that will change in the future

[night girder]

I even got a little note with my name handwritten and the person who sold it. Marketing 👌

[dire igloo]

There are differences, yes.
One isn't something that needs any automation at all, the other is a repetitive task that benefits from being cut short.
There are different usecases, hence why AI has different levels of viability

And just because it seems useless to you doesn't mean it's useless in general.
Like content-based tab grouping which I would happily try out if it wasn't AI powered (cuz I know that AI will fuck this up)

und den Zahnarzt sowieso

[dire igloo]

What shop and what do they sell?

English does the same, it might have them separated with spaces but they absolutely still combine to be a new word

[night girder]

tacwrk

[dire igloo]

personal assistant
hiring manager
double-layered
three pronged approach

All of these don't work standalone. Their meaning comes from combining the words.
Germany just pulls them together into one

Danish counting

It's crazier than French counting

99 in English:
90+9

99 in German:
9+90

99 in French:
4x20+10+9

idk about Danish

I think it's
(5-0.5)×20+9

or smth like that

[languid gulch]

99% certain that the french did that just to piss off the germans and english

[nimble cargo]

Basically. My Danish buddy says 9 + 4.5 x20

[dire igloo]

It's actually:

9+(5-½)×20

[dire igloo]

Oh yeah, 9 goes first

[languid gulch]

no it fucking doesn't

[dire igloo]

And ninety is five minus a half twenty

Anyways,
90 = (5-½)×20

idc about 9

[stiff jungle]

Possibly the loudest RAM ever created

1 bit of RAM with 10 relays

[dire igloo]

Is it just me or is there no sound?

[stiff jungle]

U right why

[languid gulch]

i'd go to france just to call it neufty-neuf

i mean, i don't wanna get deported from france

got ancestry there, wanna go back

oh

[stiff jungle]

Now it should work

[languid gulch]

i mean, i'm used to using both

[languid gulch]

is that mechanical ram?

[stiff jungle]

Yes

[languid gulch]

ah, that makes sense

[stiff jungle]

I got too much free time

I mean while building I burnt down two relays because I forgot to turn off the power

[languid gulch]

i managed to shock myself with 8000v on my pickup because i didn't notice one of the spark plug wires was frayed and in contact with the frame

[stiff jungle]

Ah f my best was 300V at a Steckdose

[languid gulch]

yeesh

ok that's way worse 🤣

mine was low amps

i'd gladly switch to another power standard

[stiff jungle]

Best clickbait thumbnail:
I BUILT THE LOUDES RAM IN THE WHOLE WORLD

[dire igloo]

I kinda wanna know how loud Konrad Zuse's machines were

But they were vacuum tubes instead of relais

[languid gulch]

would be fun to jump to 220v with a 2nd phase at 480

[dire igloo]

300V from a 230V outlet?
Did you manage to get shocked on the peak of an AC cycle?

[languid gulch]

i want to plug my electric drill into the wall outlet and see it hit 12000rpm

[dire igloo]

After all, 230V is the DC energy equivalent, not the actual voltage

[charred relic]

https://tenor.com/view/gamer-keyboard-unlimited-power-star-wars-palpatine-gif-17278800

[twin dew]

So that 230V is the RMS (root mean squared) voltage, but it peaks at 325V.

[charred relic]

I've shot lightning bolts before

Remember I went to high school before we gave much of a shit about safety and such so we had some fun vocational teachers

our electromechanical engineering teacher was a real hoot 😄

[charred relic]

yeah

[stiff jungle]

Your‘re right

[twin dew]

Amps can be anything, that 400V is the RMS voltage between two 230V RMS phases offset by 120 degrees.

[charred relic]

But I shot real bolts of electricity... out mah fingertips

just like palpy 😄

kinda sorty in a strange kinda way

[stiff jungle]

I remembered it wrong

230‘s still much

[twin dew]

Multiple different versions with different amperages, to over 100A

[languid gulch]

ah yes, the actual adequate 5090 power adapter

[twin dew]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEC_60309

3, 4 and 5 pin versions.

[stiff jungle]

If you had a 1p black & white TV you could use my RRAM in it (yes two Rs)

[twin dew]

5-pin is the common one installed.
As it has all the stuff.
4-pin doesn't have Neutral, so it can only be used for specific subtype of 3-phase motors.

And 3-pin is just one phase.

[tribal kraken]

Most rentable concrete mixers run fine from 230V max 16A. Thats over 3kW, plenty for small mixers which are below 1kW usually

But at least in Finland today its rare to see anyone mixing concrete in scale of apartment house, maybe for 1-2 car garage or some garden building. Pump truck and mixer truck is so "cheap" for larger ones.

We are!

I've been persuading couple of friends to play 2v2 Starcraft friends only games, but no interest :/

[visual tree]

Nice, saw 3 black hawks flying over my house

[mental oriole]

Someone getting raided

[visual tree]

Or at least they look like black hawks

[night girder]

"Black hawk down, black hawk down"

https://tenor.com/view/black-hawk-down-situation-talking-guns-protect-gif-20281236

[visual tree]

lol

[night girder]

You seen the movie?

[visual tree]

A long time ago. Forgot the plot by now tbh

I think I watched it while I was in elementary or high school

[night girder]

Good joke

The plot: black hawk down.

That's it.

[stiff jungle]

Wave Design on oscilloscope

[visual tree]

Well, I just remember black hawk falling down in city and soldiers fighting enemies. Can't remember rest of the movie

[night girder]

That's it. There is nothing more 🤣

[visual tree]

[stiff jungle]

This thing is fire (bada pff)

[night girder]

[feral drift]

75% off Donuts at the local Bakery :)

[soft bloom]

at least you don't need to wonder everytime you hear helicopter if that's a crocodile

[soft bloom]

kinda crazy that their fins are so much in sync
I mean, almost like someone copypasted image...

I wonder if there's some startup routine that specifically does that to maintain acoustic signature (would it sound different if they were out of sync?..)

[twin dew]

No, nothing to synchronize them intentionally between helicopters.

[stiff jungle]

Grr

Mhm

These are my cats Zeus and Jupiter

Left: Jupiter
Right: Zeus

[dire igloo]

Excel just fucked me over.
I'm trying to convert a 13-digit hexadecimal number into a decimal number.
(Basically: an export of NFC tag serial numbers that I wanna have as decimal versions cuz that's how a different system logs them)

Well, turns out that these 13 digit hexadecimal numbers convert to 16 digit decimal numbers.
But since Excel considers 15 decimal digits to be significant enough, every single one of these serial numbers is rounded to the next 10.

And doing some googling, I learnt that there's basically no way of removing this 15 digit limit.
And text manipulation (concatenation, etc) doesn't work because I'm converting from hex

[night girder]

Have you tried ducking it?

[glossy glacier]

13digit hex?
So less than 64bit binary?
Just put it into the calculator or wolfram alpha

[night girder]

learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4982534/excel-wont-accept-numbers-larger-than-15-digits

I think Fireworker2000 is running into this.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IEEE_754

[twin dew]

Even Calc can convert Hex to Dec

[night girder]

So, it seems excel implemented the IEEE 754.

@dire igloo
This doesn't work I guess?

To work around this behavior, format the cell as text, then type the numbers. The cell can then display up to 1,024 characters.

[twin dew]

Start Windows Calc, set to Programmer mode, select HEX from top left, input the hex, press DEC to get the base 10 version.

[twin dew]

Not when you want it to be the output of function.

[night girder]

Right ...

[dire igloo]

Yup, that

[night girder]

but to me it seems excel doesn't do anything wrong? Just following the technical standard for floating point?

[dire igloo]

The output is already 16 digits, no way for me to have it text before Excel drops the last digit

[dire igloo]

For several hundred NFC tags? The only reason I'm doing this in Excel is automation

[night girder]

you can always try LibreOffice, it's free, open source and portable

[glossy glacier]

Then do a Powershell script

[dire igloo]

Maybe, idk.
Other converters manage to give an accurate result

[dire igloo]

Never worked in Powershell, too much work to get into on a Friday afternoon.
This is a side project anyway

[dire igloo]

Can't, this is a work thing and we don't have libreoffice

[night girder]

Ah, that sucks. I would still use libreoffice 🤣

[dire igloo]

IEEE 754 according to Microsoft

[night girder]

I have it on my USB stick so 🤷‍♂️

[twin dew]

But kind of stupid Excel doesn't have Integer data type at all.

[dire igloo]

Which also wouldn't work cuz this is a work thing (thin client hooked into Citrix, USB storage disabled)

[night girder]

There should be some python library out there that does it no?

[dire igloo]

Doesn't integer cap out much earlier?
Maybe it does but converts to float if numbers get too big

[dire igloo]

Which would need me to invest time and energy into not only learning how to use that, but also checking if I can even get it to work

[night girder]

Ok. Well 🤷‍♂️

[dire igloo]

I was mainly just venting here btw, worst case I'll have ten chips with identical serial number now which I can manually maneuver around

I could take the decimal number from our logging system, convert it back to hex and check against the export.
Much more work than automatically converting the SNs but I assume it's not gonna happen often

I could also check other data from these systems

[dire igloo]

Not feasible for hundreds of conversions.
But as explained above, merely venting, not actually looking for solutions

The single-case workaround is faster than full automation

[willow pike]

@low scaffold fuck you

www.cnbc.com/2025/07/24/intel-intc-earnings-report-q2-2025.html

Tan said that Intel had cancelled planned fab projects in Germany and Poland, and will consolidate its testing and assembly operations in Vietnam and Malaysia. He added that the company would slow down the pace of its construction of a cutting-edge chip factory in Ohio, depending on market demand and if it can secure big customers for the facility.

“Over the past several years, the company invested too much, too soon – without adequate demand,” Tan wrote. “In the process, our factory footprint became needlessly fragmented and underutilized.”

Tan wrote that the company’s forthcoming chip manufacturing process, called 14A, will be built out based on confirmed customer commitments.

“There are no more blank checks. Every investment must make economic sense,” Tan wrote.

https://tenor.com/view/yeah-rip-jensen-adam-deus-gif-26053399

[twin dew]

Which also means that the fabs will not happen, because building that fab takes forever, and no one external will sign up far enough in advance to unknown quality that Intel is.

[willow pike]

make it fail so you have an excuse to carve the company up

[twin dew]

But by then you have nothing to carve out either.

[willow pike]

who cares; they'll make some short term quarterly gains

that's all that matters

[sharp matrix]

Basically, its over for intel fabs if this news is true, no company is going to go into a process node blindly, even tsmc learned long ago that you either have to prove yourself viable or no customer are showing up, so yeah if intel just expects customers to show up without having a viable node ready to go, yeah its over then....

And why should any customers, tsmc is already leading the charge in cutting edge process nodes, its the competition that has to prove itself at this point.

[willow pike]

if you don't build it, they will not come

[sharp matrix]

pretty accurate, intels thinking process if this is is accurate doesn't even make any sense at this point at all

but maybe intel is exiting the fab business because they can't compete with tsmc

[willow pike]

make it fail so they can carve the company up for parts and split the fabs off

fabs stop investing in cutting edge because it's too expensive

become american globalfoundries

remain at 14A forever

continue reducing headcount

intel design side moves more to tsmc

[sharp matrix]

I remember 18A being what the previous ceo bet the company on, but now its looking like intels fab business is basically not going to happen now, so much for the competition being in the mirror for intel now....those comments did not age well

[willow pike]

intel fab reduces volume over time until it eventually ceases

[willow pike]

there are some external 18A customers already committed but there will be no more

[sharp matrix]

because not only is amd still being competition for intel, but their fabs are barely good enough for even their own chips to use, and with intel increasingly using tsmc now, even that is becoming very questionable now

amd had their own fab to, aka global foundry, i suspect the same thing is going to happen to intels fabs soon too

[willow pike]

intel used to have an internal metric where they tracked the theoretical profitability of AMD, if they owned their own fabs like intel do, rather than paying TSMC a profit margin; intel always bragged in presentations that they were ahead in that metric.

then they weren't.

then they were behind on profit with the real numbers even though AMD has to pay TSMC a lot of money

then they stopped using this metric

[willow pike]

yeah amd wanted shot of the fabs for a long time and were only able to spin them off when they settled the great EU intel lawsuit; amd only had the license to manufacture x86 internally and had to renegotiate to do it externally

[thin trout]

15'th gen is actually slower than 13'th despite costing over double to actually produce and coming out several years later on a new socket. That is a true shitshow

[willow pike]

intel acquiesced on the condition that they not admit fault for bribing companies to not use AMD; they thought that was a steal

[sharp matrix]

that is so stupid, because amd doesn't have its own fab for starters.....

[willow pike]

now AMD get to use the best TSMC and are a most favoured customer after years of epyc and instinct

[dire igloo]

Two things that astounded me:

1. The digit "loss" happens through rounding. a cutoff kinda felt more natural to me (17 actually becomes 20, I thought it'd become 10)
2. When converting 13-digit hex serial numbers to 16-digit decimal, it's astonishing how few duplicates there are. Will do further testing when I'm back at work on Monday

"duplicates" as in "lands within 10 of one another"

[sharp matrix]

Arrow lake is basically a joke at this point, it only closes the gap somewhat in efficiency and thats because of the tsmc node, intel cant even do that on their own process node, and after all of the talk from the previous ceo of how great 18A was going to be, yeah that ended up being a total lie to, because now it looks like even nova lake isnt going to use it either and thats gonig to be mostly on tsmc to

[willow pike]

their chiplet latency design is shitass

[sharp matrix]

So yeah its a shitshow and its likely intel fabs are going to become unviable soon to use even for intels chips

[willow pike]

they had a 3D vcache competitor ready to go but cancelled it

[sharp matrix]

absolutely, arrow lake has the worst memory latency i have seen from intel chips and is so much worse than raptor lake

[willow pike]

https://tenor.com/view/deus-ex-deus-ex-jc-shame-gif-26245854

[sharp matrix]

why overall im not impressed with arrow lake at all....

[sharp matrix]

so dumb....guess intel doesn't even care about being competition for amd either now....

well more business for amd right

[willow pike]

they know they'll sell a million shit tier laptops

they don't need to be good

[sharp matrix]

yep aka those underwhelming shit tier arrow lake laptops

laptops this year is so disappointing indeed

between the shit arrow lake chips and the refresh 40 series gpu's, there isnt much good to talk about with laptops this year

https://tenor.com/view/thanos-gamora-what-did-it-cost-everything-gif-21564640

tmsc watching intel trying to competition and failing

asml is legendry for their tools, no matter how expensive they may be

Dutch innovation😉

Never underestimate how much Dutch people know about chip making

orange man always wanted to try the tariff non-sense, but now we can see how much that plan is completely failing in all its glory

[night girder]

Sucks for Germany who had hoped for the jobs.

[sharp matrix]

mainly because it never was a actual plan to start with, at least one that made any sense

[night girder]

Germany was offering what 10 billion subsidies for a 30 billion factory?

[sharp matrix]

its ok, give it 4 years for idiocy in america to pass, just pray after that it doesn't find a way to get worse somehow

personally im hoping not, because the government in the us is already stupid enough, more than normal it feels like

oh god your right it could somehow get worse....

[night girder]

3rd term* (Probably a 4th and a 5th, ...)

[sharp matrix]

It's fine I don't care either, im only here to watch the shitshow in america now

[night girder]

says the person who said this today 👆

[sharp matrix]

Have fun with the 22nd amendment😉

[night girder]

That's gone 😉 Or will be.

[sharp matrix]

Have fun trying to change the constitution then😉

[night girder]

What is it this week with people dying 😦

First Ozzy. Then Hulk Hogan. Now Julian LeFay (Elder Scrolls).

[night girder]

I wont 😄

[sharp matrix]

I won't either, changing the constitution is historically difficult, i would rather just not

but good luck if they are going to try....that sounds pretty fun time indeed

[pure karma]

boomers starting to go out

its going to get worst

[charred relic]

I told you... they come in threes

Also yes it's hard to change or add to, and that's by design

extremely hard...

[dire igloo]

wdym failing?
They collected like 100 billion from tarrifs.
100 billion that previously did not make it into government hands and instead landed in random people's wallets who would keep it as their own

(they presented it as success but the origin of the money is the American people)

[sharp matrix]

Well yeah, its another form of tax but everyone should know this....

[night girder]

Oh no, here we go 🍿

[sharp matrix]

Sure you would expect the government to be more transparent about the added tax on the america people, but honestly i dont expect much from the shitshow the government is becoming

[dire igloo]

Nah, I'm too busy watching a video on AI image/video generation

Incredibly dense in information, but damn it's good
https://youtu.be/iv-5mZ_9CPY

[night girder]

See, the moon landing was a hoax! 🤣

[dire igloo]

#off-topic-tech message

[night girder]

I have this new thing. When Trump says something. I ignore it. I just wait and watch what happens.

And I try to be gentle with my critique, but the man can say A, then the next day B, then we go to C. And eventually we get 1. Which wasn't even a thing 🤣

And honestly, I even think that's his business tactic. Sow confussion.

Also, there is a high chance all politicians do this, change with the wind etc. Finding compromises. But most of them aren't so vocal 🤣

[sharp matrix]

Of course, they even gave the equation, which as anybody can see is reality a added tax🙃

[dire igloo]

When Trump says something will happen, I prepare for the opposite to happen

[night girder]

I prepare for nothing. Like I said. It can happen. It can't happen. Or something totally different even he didn't predict happens.

[sharp matrix]

Oh ignoring. I have been ignoring the orange mans non-sense for some time myself, basically like the wind, it changes constantly anyways. It's mostly a non-starter, without long term congressional planning anyways, which most of non-sense isnt btw, because the big beautiful bill-aka more tax breaks for him and his rich friends, great stuff overall, oh and it adds more to the national deb to, so thats great to

I sure love how through all of their cheap talk, basically nothing has improved or actually gotten better in america at all

Infact it appears mostly the same political bs i see every 4 years, so thats great

I'll survive either way, so im not worried, still it saddens we basically destined to get another typical 4 years, with basically the same old america bs shitshow, that we have come to expect

[night girder]

I truly whish I could help. But I have barely any control in my own country 🤣

ignorance is bliss

[pure karma]

guys can we maybe stop breaking the sever rules in some kind of manner every other day 😂

[sharp matrix]

Sorry I know nothing of these rules you speak of

[visual tree]

As long as you don't break any device in 24 hours

[pure karma]

i havent broken anything recently....

yet...

[night girder]

So, back to politics 🤣

[visual tree]

I can already feel the heat from GPU overheating over here

Oh wait, that's just summer

[night girder]

No problems here.

[visual tree]

Mine is at 36 degrees atm

I am just doing some light browsing though

[pure karma]

yep same here just watching youtube browsing games

[visual tree]

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/vKDpopHb5sk

It's funny how the goverment now thinks drone is identical to a plane and landing a drone on a road is literally like landing a plane on the road

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iULXyfx6YW0

[night girder]

welll I am gaming. That's ... why I show that screenshot 😛

locked to 144 because of temperature 😉

[pure karma]

im locked at 60 cause of HDMI

but yea gaming at 60 effortless

[visual tree]

I have a decent displayport cable but I am afraid of them in general because of pin 20 issues

According to VESA standard, pin 20 is not supposed to be wired

[twin dew]

Yeah, not on cables.
It is there just for powered dongles etc.

[visual tree]

First displayport cable I bought had pin 20 wired and I didn't know much about displayport cables at that time in general

Thought it was like HDMI where bad cables will only lead to poor image quality without causing any damage

[twin dew]

HDMI has similar power pin that isn't supposed to be connected in cables.

[visual tree]

Guess I dodged the bullet when it comes to HDMI then lol

Oh nvm, did some small research and devices are supposed to receive power over hdmi cable

But it's only 5V and it's not used for powering devices

[twin dew]

Again supposed to be low power adapter etc. powering pin.

5V 50mA, when the DP one is 3.3V 500mA.

Meant for adapters and active cables etc.

HDMI 2.1 upped that to 300mA

[visual tree]

Wish USB-C had simpler version numbers like HDMI

USB-C versions are a nightmare to remember

[night girder]

usb-c needs to conquer all. You got usb C display. Now we need all the rest.

[visual tree]

The only thing I like about USB-C is you don't have to worry about wrong orientation and it's charging abilities

[night girder]

So you rather have this?

[visual tree]

I mean, compared to previous version, it's much better

[twin dew]

But yeah, seems that on HDMI that Pin 18 is supposed to be connected.
And all sink devices are supposed to separate that from anything else.
So sink devices cannot deliver power, only sources.

[night girder]

or just one cable to rule them all?

[visual tree]

But there is no guarantee USB-C won't be replaced by another type of cable soon

[twin dew]

On DP it seems that both are supposed to be able to provide power, and cable is supposed to not be able to connect source and sink power pins together.

[night girder]

There is an effort to unify.

[twin dew]

And then some cheap cable manufacturers didn't bother to read the spec.

[night girder]

Like I said, usb C can charge my phone. But it can connect my monitor. Or my keyboard. Or my printer ...

I just like the idea of having one format of cable.

[visual tree]

I have no problem with that as long some company doesn't "invent" something new and then everyone else moves to a different cable

[night girder]

EU will slap em with a trout.

[visual tree]

Meh, I don't really trust EU but don't want to go further and talk about politics

[night girder]

Well, EU is regulating cables on ports. Regardless of politics.

[visual tree]

Let's just say I would rather trust mother-in-law rather than EU lol

[night girder]

People need to realize, tech and politics are intertwined 🤣

Especially in modern time, because tech is an essential part now of the world.

The EU has mandated USB-C as the universal charging standard for various electronic devices to reduce electronic waste and improve consumer convenience. This regulation requires devices like smartphones and tablets sold in the EU to use USB-C ports by December 28, 2024, with laptops following by April 2026.

Now it's only for charging. But the idea is to reduce waste. Which I agree with. And consumer convenience, which I also agree with.

I didn't even know about the laptops, damn. 🙈

[visual tree]

Don't mention USB-C to my company IT department. They had like 40 laptops with broken USB-C charging port but that's not the USB problem and rather Dell problem

So much for Dell being a good "corporate" laptop

[night girder]

Brand vs model

You can't say there are good brands in this channel.

You can only say there are good models.

[visual tree]

Although I think my coworker has Lenovo and his charging USB-C port died

[night girder]

0 issues here.

[visual tree]

My work laptop recently started freezing in the last few months and I have requested RAM upgrade because RAM is at 94% in task manager whenever I open acrobat reader or some other app

I think the IT department asked vendor (Dell) if they can send RAM stick but my request has been made like 3 weeks ago....

[night girder]

you know its summer right?

like expect things to be normal after september.

[visual tree]

Not for our company

[night girder]

Nobody takes vacation in your company during the summer?

[visual tree]

We always have multiple coworkers in each department replacing one another during vacation

So there aren't many issues where you have to wait a month for something because an employee is on a vacation

[night girder]

workload stays the same, work force reduces. I even notice it with my support tickets I have kicked in.

the ticket is going from person to person, I guess they go on vacation and then someone else picks it up lol

[visual tree]

I'm surprised how my company handles tasks well even on summer because there is always someone else in the department to handle tasks when somebody is on vacation

Good luck with that in a small company with less than 10 employees. If someone goes on a vacation, expect people to call you all the time

In small companies, they expect a single person to cover a lot of tasks and if that person is on vacation, tasks are on hold because nobody else can take them

[willow pike]

dear god in heaven it's worse

www.businessinsider.com/intel-us-chipmaking-nears-death-up-cutting-edge-chips-14a-2025-7

"If we are unable to secure a significant external customer and meet important customer milestones for Intel 14A, we face the prospect that it will not be economical to develop and manufacture Intel 14A and successor leading-edge nodes on a go-forward basis," the company wrote. "In such event, we may pause or discontinue our pursuit of Intel 14A and successor nodes."

[jagged snow]

Can no longer see how much of your storage you've used on drive, it's been replaced with a promotion pusher

[mental oriole]

what shitty os is that?

[jagged snow]

None

Sorry, that's on gmail

[mental oriole]

Aah

[jagged snow]

But yeah

It used to show you how much of your 15gb was used and now it's just a promotion for google one

[visual tree]

I recently realized how counter-intuitive UI on chrome for android is.

[jagged snow]

Oh, it's so bad

Firefox mobile is much much better

[mental oriole]

Most UI's are counter intuitive.

[tough owl]

Why do we have the Google App, and Chrome on the same OS

[mental oriole]

BUT IT LOOKS NICE!

[tough owl]

my wife will have tabs in the google app or the chrome app and most times they dont play nice

[visual tree]

Wanted to print a page and couldn't find the print option until I realized print option is revealed when you click on "Share"

Like, why would you put print option under Share. That makes zero sense

[mental oriole]

Share it with the printer...

But idk... a "print" would be more logical

[visual tree]

Yeah, like I am married to my printer 🤣

So I need to share documents with it

I would expect share option to be used when you want to share something with your contacts

Also, hate when journalists abuse the term innovation or revolution without them knowing what those terms mean....

Largest courier here is installing new parcel lockers because there are not enough lockers to meet the demand and journalists are already calling it "revolution"

Like, there is nothing revolutionary about that. They are simply installing more package lockers to meet the increasing demand because of online shopping

Or when the first package lockers appeared in 2020 and everyone started calling it innovation. Those things have been in other countries since 2005....

Correction: DHL installed the first locker in 2001

[mental oriole]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f17bKk5Y1L0
:)))

Idk if calling it a hack is correct but still.

[languid gulch]

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/07/firmware-update-hinders-echelon-smart-home-gym-equipments-ability-to-work-offline/

part of me thinks "you're an idiot for buying something that doesn't work without an internet connection"

[mental oriole]

We ransom your device. I saw luis video about it.

I don't really watch him that much anymore because he get's quite ranty.

But corpo bs

[tough owl]

I just love devices that are a paperweight without an internet connection 🙂

leave it to some tech bro who loves it enough that will find a way to hack it

[mental oriole]

Fun fact they bankrupted their company started a new one, forcing monthly payments or your device essentially becomes a brick.

[languid gulch]

the other part of me would love to have a class action suit that'd force manufacturers to all have an offline mode

[tough owl]

see that would make too much sense

[languid gulch]

like, with Steam, if i lose my internet connection, most of my games just hang onto data until the connection comes back

[tough owl]

I ran into an issue the other day with 3rd party launchers and steam

was trying to play bf2 2017 and I didn't have internet but steam was just fine with launching the app the EA was like I've never met this man in my life and said you gotta enable an option(its not default) for offline play

[jagged snow]

I think so, the hack just wasn't at npm
A package publisher had gh creds stolen and then malicious code injected into their package and released on npm

It's a supply chain attack that did involve a hack

[tough owl]

someone I knew had some of the npm packages deployed

[jagged snow]

But it didn't really have anything to do with npm other than them being a vector for delivering the already compromised material

[jagged snow]

Oh rough

I have accidentally installed a typosquatted npm package before

[mental oriole]

Fair, it was mentioned later in the video. I just didnt get that far when I posted the link 😁

[jagged snow]

I caught it before anything even got built, but it was a close thing

[tough owl]

love when that happens

[feral drift]

Guess its the beauty of running Javascript :D

And especially Node.JS

[night girder]

I had eslint npm running a few months ago

The list of affected packages and their rogue versions, according to Socket, is listed below -

eslint-config-prettier (versions 8.10.1, 9.1.1, 10.1.6, and 10.1.7)
eslint-plugin-prettier (versions 4.2.2 and 4.2.3)
synckit (version 0.11.9)
@pkgr/core (version 0.2.8)
napi-postinstall (version 0.3.1)
got-fetch (versions 5.1.11 and 5.1.12)
is (versions 3.3.1 and 5.0.0)

[sharp matrix]

I'll send him a few Arbiters, that will guarantee victory😎

[jagged snow]

https://youtu.be/oaOxMdKlJTc?si=VHIOjrCdN5o-AM1y

[sharp matrix]

Should have got gotten premium plus

[pure karma]

so real tho

discord beat adblocking and youtube couldent

[safe trench]

solution: fire fox

[pure karma]

monopoly moment

well firefox also finally fixed the random 10X spikes in ram usage i was having

so its usable again

[safe trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1237454236472705126/1281565432167534592/attachment-5.gif

[pure karma]

i grew up hating on FF

[safe trench]

isnt that how we all were untill we gave it a chance?

[pure karma]

to be fair it gave itself boomer browser vibes

when it stoped competing

[pure karma]

yq who i miss

herg's memes

weve been lacking in the meme department

you cant deny stuff like this was funny

[safe trench]

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1104777942313205862/1395835229419077863/togif.gif

[safe trench]

i cant see images on linux mint

[pure karma]

rip

i can

but i cant react with anything on linux lol

[safe trench]

do you have vencord?

[pure karma]

no

[mental oriole]

Wandows does not look nice

[willow pike]

windows looks nice, until it doesn't

settings menu is nice and clear and acrylic and all that; the start menu is unusable

then you want to mess with more advanced settings and find yourself 3 windows deep into an NT era control

[mental oriole]

I'm not pocket size.

[soft bloom]

nice, 3blue1brown hosts WelchLabs's video

[dire igloo]

Old news

[night girder]

Checked deeper into the hack.

This is a lifesaver 😄

[ivory rampart]

sadly Firefox is the inferior product.

when i use it on my laptop, battery life is like 40% less

than if i use chromium

[night girder]

I was thinking about librewolf.

A custom version of Firefox, focused on privacy, security and freedom.

But now we have seen how easy it is for open source project to spread malware, I think I will think twice about it.

[verbal raft]

OOFFF, why though ?

[ivory rampart]

idk, because its less efficient

for desktop im fine with Firefox, but i dont consider it a valid option on mobile platforms

unless they improved efficiency over the last 4 years

[dire igloo]

eh. OP1w firmware has shown how easy it is for closed source software to spread malware too

Open source makes it easier to "inject" malware but also makes it easier to spot and remove it

[dire igloo]

Honestly, I couldn't tell you.
I don't think that there's reliable comparison data for energy usage by web browsers

[ivory rampart]

all i know that my laptop had multiple hours less of time on a charge with firefox

than it did with any chromium

[dire igloo]

Which for me would be reason to investigate further

[glossy glacier]

Interesting to know would be if you used pre or post quantum based Firefox

[night girder]

and what addons ... and what features enabled... there is so much tuning to Firefox.

[ivory rampart]

idk was like late 2020

just addblock

[night girder]

eh, it's a bit bloated imo.

but still one of the best browsers.

[glossy glacier]

2020 was already new quantum

[ivory rampart]

was looking at PDFs (lecture slides) and some kahn academy.
firefox just sucked my laptop dry so i ditched it

[night girder]

True. But do you know eslint?

2.8 million downloads a week, very popular linter.

Researchers pointed out, if that piece of code (posted it before) wasn't in the .dll the impact would have been way bigger.

Just scary.

[wanton orchid]

I know something even more scary : windows is closed source

[night girder]

68.32% use Chrome in june 2025 😦

[night girder]

No. I know where you going. Not the same.

[wanton orchid]

that's nice

used to be bigger

[wanton orchid]

wdym not the same

[night girder]

ngl, I expected FF to be more popular.

[night girder]

Open source project, gets malware injected because developer got hacked, because of the open source nature != closed project like Windows.

[night girder]

The open source aspect, is what created the problem in the first place. And also what fixed it so quickly (like fireworker pointed out). Double edged sword.

[wanton orchid]

it's relatively easy to inject in windows, because it has been doing that historically for even lots of softwares to simply work (see input lag dll, vac problem for reference)
and windows as been seen fucking multiple things up multiple times and basically every component of windows are screwed rushed pieces of shit code

[night girder]

That's all good. But that doesn't mean it's easy for hacker to just inject malware into the windows source code and spread it over the world.

What you are saying is that Microsoft is just incompetent 🤣

[wanton orchid]

Man you have to install boats of drivers and shit for it to works

amd Windows Update install third parties app automatically

[night girder]

You can turn that off 😉 (but it's on by default)

[wanton orchid]

are you aware the ui option does not disable half of these things ?

[night girder]

did I say UI? Group Policy.

[wanton orchid]

even with any driver downloading disabled it still installs monitor app such as ryzer synapse automatically

[night girder]

Yeah. I see it.

[wanton orchid]

you basically have to disabled registry every single of this shit option carefully for it to work

[night girder]

I think you might have malware.

Or check your bios.

my bios has a toggle to install bloatware or not 🤣

I toggled it off and I didn't get any bloat from Asrock.

[ivory rampart]

microsoft is incredibly incpometent

windows 11 is more than enough proof

and there is so much more

[wanton orchid]

that's absolutely stupid of an option and basically show how bad the windows driver control team actually check things
no driver should be able to download and install apps automatically

[wanton orchid]

razer sorry and only if you have a razer device

[night girder]

it's the bios? not windows 🤷‍♂️

[wanton orchid]

but it's still an app

[wanton orchid]

it is windows

[night girder]

Sure.

Bios is Microsoft. Noted.

[wanton orchid]

which install a driver which act depending on bios option

it's not magical

[karmic socket]

Is it an Asus board? 🙂

because I have the same toggle

[glossy glacier]

Same on MSI

[night girder]

Auto Driver Installer.

I just disabled that when I build system. And all good 👍

[ivory rampart]

they dont hate on it, because they dont know better

[wanton orchid]

you are the kind of person to think your usb key is protected because you toggled it write only ?
while it's a flag read by the os driver nothing more

it's basically a demo of windows allowing third party driver random injection

[night girder]

No. I am kind of person that enabled something. Sees what happens. Then disable somethign. Sees what happens.

Enabled; I boot into W11 and get popup to install auto driver.
Disabled; I boot into W11 and get no popup.

[karmic socket]

I'm pretty sure there are ways to do this by flashing the microcontroller of said USB key

[night girder]

So, I am no rocket engineer, but it seems the the toggle works.

did it this week 🙂 So you have no idea, that I have a idea.

And it wasn't that bad.

shift + f10 -> oobe\bypassnro = local account.

it still works.

Just make sure to not setup WIFI.

[wanton orchid]

can you read the thing talked about for once please :

you toggle a setting, not a procedure, the bios does nothing but provide windows the option
windows ALWAYS automatically download the board driver
THEN the driver download and install other apps after reading the settings from the bios
it's basically externally controller from the start
and already been broken (in case of Asus recently notably)
it's windows which automatically install drivers able to install arbitrary software which aren't even controlled nor by Microsoft nor by user

[karmic socket]

you don't need to bypass anything if you install Win8.1 first

[night girder]

Wasn't my laptop. I do what they ask me to do.

I had one big issue. It was a HP laptop.

And they had 4 signs on 1 key. <, >, \, and another synbol.

and I needed the backslash and I couldn't figure it out.

I did every key combination. Then I did alt + 92 for unicode 😛

I really start to love these unicode with the alt key. It's a neat feature.

and a few weeks ago I was telling that I wanted to get rid of the numpad rofl

btw, the unicode needs to be on numpad for it to work

alt + 7 = •

alt + 92 = \

[karmic socket]

Comic Sans MS

huehue

[verbal raft]

id love to know why FSR 4 flickers/bugs out like that at this games balanced preset
FSR 4 75% resolution scale

FSR 4 74% resolution scale

[thin trout]

It used to be. IDK why so many people use chrome, especially in the days of them destroying privacy/control/safety on the web in ways that are obviously apparent to the laymen (like making it impossible for ublock origin to work)

[thin trout]

probably an optiscaler issue, no? I assume you're using it, since the game doesn't have FSR4 (3.1 max). Optiscaler has loads of known issues like this

[verbal raft]

i doubt its an optiscaler specific issue, because i use optiscaler in ASA, control and cyberpunk, i havent had bugs like this in any of them, only happens in satisfactory, and in satisfactory its only at 75% resolutions scale, 50-74 and 76-100 all work perfectly
(this game has FSR 3.1.0)

[thin trout]

3.1, sorry.

With Opti, i think you just got lucky. Even i know all about this blackscreen flickering problem.

if you can work around it, do, it's not just a known issue but a fairly common one

[verbal raft]

though, i suppose i havent use FSR 4 at 810p render/ 75% res scale in cyberpunk and control, those games dont let you use 810p/75% at all

[thin trout]

Yeah, temporal upscalers can have issues with dynamic resolutions and sometimes specific scale factors

[verbal raft]

okay, i did not know about it in clair obscure

[night girder]

Yeah, even with the manifest V3

[verbal raft]

opti with dynamic res just crashes for me in 2077 : D

though, quality mode works just fine anyway...

[thin trout]

It's much more difficult to deal with the temporal stuff when you have a 900p frame one time and then 800p on the next etc.

[thin trout]

https://old.reddit.com/r/radeon/comments/1kxh3om/clair_obscur_fsr_4_with_optiscaler/ it looks identical to me

there is video there

[verbal raft]

think this is the closest i can get to 810p, no flickering here

[verbal raft]

yeah, its the same

[mental oriole]

Imgui

[verbal raft]

WTF

[verbal raft]

i dont get why FSR 4 goes to model 3 even though thats at 76% render res, and between 99 and 66% it should use model 1

[jagged snow]

Thier firmware update doesn't work 😦

Oh boy

The firmware is apparently only on the chineese site

[mental oriole]

wat...

[jagged snow]

Gotta love having 200ms latency trying to load a website from across an ocean

[karmic socket]

hmm, L for inductance, C for capacitance, R for resistance, V for voltage... F for Furby and D for Derpy ?

[jagged snow]

Resistance, capacitance, inductance, frequency, voltage, forward drop across a diode

[karmic socket]

oh, I forgot frequency

[jagged snow]

Indeed 💀

[night girder]

but it doesn't tweeze?

[dire igloo]

Malware injection because of compromised source happens everywhere.
Companies just have more money to spend on cyber security because they have more money to lose in case they fail

[night girder]

Yeah, that was my point the whole time.

But if you guys want to compare 1:1 open source projects to microsoft W11 go a head.

I just know it's not the same. Most people, who ever had anything to do with open source and in house development know this.

[jagged snow]

Hm?

[dire igloo]

It's not the nature of open source that caused it imo.
Just an issue that correlates heavily with open source because of business interests

[night girder]

Nah, I already ~~google ~~ ducked your product. On the package, it looked like it wouldn't tweeze. But it does 😄

[jagged snow]

Ahh

[jagged snow]

I would agree with this
And closed-source products are just as vulnerable to this attack vector, and harder to catch when it does

[night girder]

So you all telling,

[dire igloo]

Closed source more often than not is protected through security by obscurity.
And SbC works until someone finds out how the system works

[night girder]

that it's as easy for a pishing mail attack, to get internal into microsoft.

and that the developer would fill in a fake microsoft page?

[jagged snow]

Yeah, it's happened twice in the last 9 months or so on a major scale 🤣

[night girder]

one, how do attackers get the mails of internal workers in the dev team of W11?

for open source it's just as easy as going to github

[jagged snow]

To the point that nadella got called before congress twice over it 😄

[dire igloo]

No, that's not what I'm saying.
You are saying that open source is inherently vulnerable when it's not.
Correlation, yes.
Causation, no.

[night girder]

that would mean microsoft is breached? because someone filled in their microsoft developer credentials into a fake keylogger?

Because for NPM that's how I think it happened?

The development comes in the aftermath of a phishing campaign that has been found to send email messages impersonating npm in order to trick project maintainers into clicking on a typosquatted link ("npnjs[.]com," as opposed to "npmjs[.]com") that harvested their credentials.

[jagged snow]

Not quite same attack vector but it was phishing to internal employee

[night girder]

and they clicked it. And filled in their information.

[jagged snow]

They just didn't get redirected to a typosquatted npm page

[dire igloo]

It literally isn't.
Look up the immense amount of effort needed for the XZ backdoor.

[jagged snow]

No, it's really not

[night girder]

Ok, and that's my point. Not saying Microsoft is invulnerable. But it's just different.

[jagged snow]

It was about as similar as two attack vectors can be without being exactly the same

Phishing -> creds stolen -> data exfiltrated and malicious payloads injected

[night girder]

Took me a minute to find email of one of the mainainers of malware injected* package.

[dire igloo]

You're missing the point here.
Open source is not inherently insecure.

Not paying for security makes you vulnerable.
Going open source in the current economic system means losing money.
So if you want to make a profit, you go closed source and just pay people for security.

[dire igloo]

There's a difference, yes.
But the difference comes from profitability, not open vs closed source.

[night girder]

Can I ask what exactly you are refering too? I can't find information/news about this atm.

[jagged snow]

www.cnn.com/2024/03/08/tech/microsoft-russia-hack

[night girder]

The article doesn't mention phishing though.

[wanton orchid]

CVE-2025-21396

there are lot of ways

[mental oriole]

fun

[charred relic]

Ordered a VESA wall mount adapter plate to get my 100x100 to 200x100. I can only imagine the screw/nut kit they sent was just shit they needed to get rid of

there is literally no way to make the plat work with the other hardware included

Stop nuts that prevent any tightening of anything, washers that do not fit either screw size..

All of this... so I can rotate a 32" monitor into portrait for retro arcade and pinball gaming

Kinda funny how we played games on a widescreen in the 80's in the arcade...only turned sideways.

[full tide]

no my same old keyboard

Hyperx keyboard

[cobalt ivy]

I'm not a brand fan boy often, but if I'm buying a prebuilt keyboard, it's going to be a Ducky every time.

My corsair keyboard was garbage. Keys hardly stayed on, lettering rubbed off after 6 months, software was a nightmare. $170 usd.

Corsair makes a fiiiiine AIO. I dont install the iCUE software anymore tho.

It was an rbg strafe I think?

I just like my Ducky because it was $99, built like a tank, and has no software. I can program all rgb and macros on thr board itself.