The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread
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I do not miss those.
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I’m a big fan of open source software. Partly because I’m a tightarse but also because when shit inevitably goes wrong with software you have options beyond reporting it through the vendor’s support channels which is often about as effective as farting into a gale.
Two things open source does particularly poorly sometimes though is UI design and audio systems. Some of the biggest apps in open source have the weirdest, most illogical user interfaces and you have to be a rocket scientist to understand the interaction between Pulse Audio, JACK, ALSA, Pipewire etc and the myriad ways they interact. Shitty UI and incomprehensible audio systems come together perfectly in a program called Ardour, a DAW, which I’ve spent three days first trying to get working and then trying to get it to do what I want it to. I’m kind of there now but fuck me.
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Ardour works fine on Mac ;-)
The open source ‘desktop’ world was its own worst enemy. Android/ChromeOS has proven you can create a UI atop open source that is usable by 10s of millions of idiots but in order to do that it took a governing body with financial incentives to create and maintain the over all look and feel.
The Gnome and KDE people spent too much time fighting to be the ‘best’ linux desktop and lost way to much time/ground on Windows and MacOS. Nobody cares that today both Gnome and KDE offer very usable UIs as 99.9% of people who ‘need’ Unix as a desktop just run Macs and everyone else still uses windows.
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Someone isn’t vaccinated.
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Employee arrested for locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in extortion plot
A former core infrastructure engineer at an industrial company headquartered in Somerset County, New Jersey, was arrested after locking Windows admins out of 254 servers in a failed extortion plot targeting his employer.
Using the name “TheFr0zenCrew!” might have tipped the authorities off that it was an inside job. It sounds kinda ghey and a hella-dated for 2024.
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I don’t know which is worst, the home invader styling or the way it stops to look at its hands while it wonders if it could strangle a human with them.
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The alternative is a wife if you want your shit cleaned. At least if you tell the robot to STFU, it probably will.
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‘Being on camera is no longer sensible’: persecuted Venezuelan journalists turn to AI
Journalists are using artificial intelligence avatars to combat Maduro’s media crackdown since disputed election
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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone’s Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
One of Facebook's alleged marketing partners explained how it listens to users' smartphone microphones and advertises to them accordingly.
After 404 reached out to Google about its partnership, the tech giant removed the media group from the site for its “Partners Program,” which prompted Meta, the owner of Facebook, to admit that it is reviewing CMG to see if it violates any of its terms of service.
Seems like there was something to it if that was Google’s response.
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https://gamerant.com/steam-more-users-chinese-than-english-never-happened-before/
Despite Steam being banned in China and users having to access it illegally via VPN, Simplified Chinese is now the number one user language instead of English on the platform.
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China numba one!
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According to data taken from Steam, 35.03% of all gamers are using Simplified Chinese, while 31.17% are using English. These languages are followed by Russian with 8.49%, Spanish (Spain) with 3.86%, and Portuguese (Brazil) with 3.43%.
How the hell are there more Russian users than Spanish?
I guess American HispanicXals might opt for English but otherwise I would have thought there were way more Spanish speakers.
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Most Spanish speakers live in the third world thanks to colonial assholes.
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Like the greater DC area!
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Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body
WTF!!!
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Well that’s that. Squirrels, mushrooms, bees. We’re no longer dominant
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…mushroom controlled killer drones!!!
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@Hog said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
I don’t know which is worst, the home invader styling or the way it stops to look at its hands while it wonders if it could strangle a human with them.
shoulda grabbed her by teh poosay.
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@Gators1 said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
China numba one!
for now…
in a hundred years, there may not be enough of them left to for anyone to claim han ethnicity any longer. (if so, it would by no means be the first time in history, either.)
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@TheMouse said in The OFFICIAL tech stuff thread:
Mushroom learns to crawl after being given robot body
WTF!!!
back in college days, i postulated that such could be done, only not with mushrooms, but with animals like insects, spiders, and birds.
my idea was to come up with mechanical/animal brain interface to control movement, using the particular attributes of certain animals to enable superior coordination for transportation. for instance, the coordination for 6,8, or more legs, or superior spatial awareness and balance to enable enhanced flight capabilities. control the animal, and thus control movement.
all aboard!
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