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Microsoft now offers a free tool for Windows 10 and 11 users to refresh their PCs
Anyone who’s used a Windows PC for a while knows that keeping it running smoothly can be a bit of a challenge. Over time, your computer ... Continue Reading →
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I barely use Facebook and don’t think I follow anyone of note but it seems Facebook verification is useless:
Sohan Dsouza (@sohandsouza.info)
Facebook Page (cid=100095328189213) with verification mark and over 3M followers impersonating Barron Trump since being renamed and scrubbed almost 2 months ago, farmed from Vietnam since almost 2 years ago.
Was just thinking that with the ability to generate fake pictures, audio and video getting better and cheaper all the time, Twitter’s verification system (pre-Musk) would have been invaluable in the current era and going forward.
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Bolt Graphics Makes Bold Claims; Introduces Zeus With Up To 10 Times The Rendering Performance Of RTX 5090 GPU
Bolt Graphics has reportedly produced another high performance graphics processor called Zeus, claiming up to 10x the performance of RTX 5090
Huge if true, and competition would be great, but I won’t believe it until I see it, and looks like the stock market won’t either.
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The single-chip design will feature 77 Gigarays while the dual and quad offerings will boast 154 and 307 Gigarays
Wow!
Brb. Gotta look up what a Gigaray is.
An article from Tom’s Hardware says this:
. There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques. This means it has little of no chance to become one of the best graphics cards.
I don’t know enough about it myself to understand it all.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
The single-chip design will feature 77 Gigarays while the dual and quad offerings will boast 154 and 307 Gigarays
Wow!
Brb. Gotta look up what a Gigaray is.
An article from Tom’s Hardware says this:
. There is one major catch: Zeus can only beat the RTX 5090 GPU in path tracing and FP64 compute workloads because it does not support traditional rendering techniques. This means it has little of no chance to become one of the best graphics cards.
I don’t know enough about it myself to understand it all.
Well, that’s actually good news since path tracing is superior to ray tracing and I prefer that when making product renderings. I’m not sure if any games support path tracing at the moment, but I’m sure it will become more common in the future.
Photon tracing and PMC are even better, though, but takes a lot of time and computing power.
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Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!
I didn’t say anything about FPSs. That’s why I posted it on a tech thread, not gaming forum.
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You told us to build our rigs with this card and it sucks!!! Typical Russian disinfo!
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You wouldn’t regret it if you had paid with Lithucoins, as we all do.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FPS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!
There may be a misspelling above?
Pakoon is working for TNN now. “Look guys, moar FFS’s!!!” Nope, it’s a lie!
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Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!
Oh lordie the SRL guys- they make the mythbusters look tame.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Fuck alarms…I want one of these for my security system!
I’d like to have a few small ones with a bug tracking system for camping trips.
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Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Don’t know how much more of an issue the change is over just having an Alexa powered device in your home at all but Amazon’s history around this stuff isn’t good.
Further, Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever. Adults also didn’t feel properly informed of Amazon’s inclination toward keeping Alexa recordings unless prompted not to until 2019—five years after the first Echo came out.
If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.
Other reasons why people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed “thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces” taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Everything you say to your Echo will be sent to Amazon starting on March 28
Don’t know how much more of an issue the change is over just having an Alexa powered device in your home at all but Amazon’s history around this stuff isn’t good.
Further, Amazon has previously mismanaged Alexa voice recordings. In 2023, Amazon agreed to pay $25 million in civil penalties over the revelation that it stored recordings of children’s interactions with Alexa forever. Adults also didn’t feel properly informed of Amazon’s inclination toward keeping Alexa recordings unless prompted not to until 2019—five years after the first Echo came out.
If that’s not enough to deter you from sharing voice recordings with Amazon, note that the company allowed employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings. In 2019, Bloomberg reported that Amazon employees listened to as many as 1,000 audio samples during their nine-hour shifts. Amazon says it allows employees to listen to Alexa voice recordings to train its speech recognition and natural language understanding systems.
Other reasons why people may be hesitant to trust Amazon with personal voice samples include the previous usage of Alexa voice recordings in criminal trials and Amazon paying a settlement in 2023 in relation to allegations that it allowed “thousands of employees and contractors to watch video recordings of customers’ private spaces” taken from Ring cameras, per the Federal Trade Commission.
Of course they are. My assumption is that they have both government contracts to listen and cull for LE and national security items, and also corporate studies of customers and possibly job vetting process.
Now from the moment we got phones in our houses, they could always turn the mics on. With cell phones they can track where we go. It’s inherent in the tech.
That being said, no one in my family has the demon beasts in their house. Much less the madness of cameras in the house.
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I assume Google is the same. They’ll be fascinated by us asking what the weather is 4 times every morning and twice at night.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I assume Google is the same. They’ll be fascinated by us asking what the weather is 4 times every morning and twice at night.
I think the issue is that your mics are always on waiting for “Hey Google” or whatever the voice command is. How much of that stuff they send to their servers is probably the question. I’m guessing it varies by situation and, depending on the country, by government request.
They got pulled up once for allowing some third party advertising company to access stuff but I don’t know the details
Edit: first story I could find about it below but, being NY Post it is probably sensationalized.
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I am secure in the knowledge that I am boring AF.
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@Gustaf said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I am secure in the knowledge that I am boring AF.
Yep. No doubt about that.
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@Kilemall said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
That being said, no one in my family has the demon beasts in their house. Much less the madness of cameras in the house.
And people laugh at me for wanting to live without a phone, internet, or computer, and instead relying only on the US Post.
If someone wants to talk to me they can send me a letter and wait for an appointment for me to meet them down at the gate.
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