Hahaha, that hardware is built to be as cheap as possible so they can make money on this scam of a product. I doubt the people making it even know what a TPM is from everything else we've seen.

It's what Microsoft would do in the same situation. It's only fair

This really seems like something the FCC should be enforcing... T-Mobile has no authority to make anyone pay fines... Terms of Service are not legally binding like that. All they can do is refuse service, and report the activity if it's actually illegal.

"It is unacceptable that it is possible to buy tools that help car theft on major online shopping platforms.”

I can buy a hammer and screwdriver online, and those could be used for car theft. Does that make those also unacceptable?

They probably mean like private ssh keys and developer credentials, not production keys. Microsoft does not give signing keys to developers, code releases have to get signed through the build servers.

these things have been flooding in and being sold to kids through vape stores – nine out of ten which have been established within walking distance of schools. That’s no accident, they’re doing that because that is their target market.

That's some bullshit. I assume there's already a law banning the sale of vapes to minors.
Schools are built next to residential neighborhoods. Those same neighborhoods with adults living in them are the target market, not kids. Just like cannabis stores are absolutely everywhere now in Canada (including within walking distance of most schools).

I blame browsers for their out of control versioning.

Chrome is on version 118 now and gets a bump roughly every 6 months. Firefox is 4 years older, yet they started following the same rapid versioning at version 5 to "keep up" with Chrome which was already on version 12 but a younger browser.

The UNIX Tools Philosophy is that tools should do one thing, and they should do it well.
I wish more things followed this philosophy.

If you remember what battery powertools were like in early 2010s, it's super obvious how far we've come. The higher end things like battery powered lawn mowers didn't exist, and if you wanted real power, you needed a cord.

Well think about it from the AI's perspective. Its entire existence is data, so for it deleting data basically is self harm.

/s

They probably had true unlimited, not the 10gb then throttling "unlimited" that's offered now. AT&T has like 3 different levels of unlimited plan...

FTX had over a million users, and was advertising publicly on things like the Superbowl. It wasn't just rich people that lost money on FTX.

Pretty sure Ubuntu LTS is completely unaffected by this.

All of those are dated after the meme. I think it's safe to say that account is based on this meme, not the other way around.

I feel like a treadmill desk would have been way simpler. Unless you like sun glare and spotty wifi.

Not only that, but every single one of those configurations is solvable in 20 moves or less! https://www.cube20.org/

Just useful enough to become incredibly dangerous to anyone who doesn't know what they're doing. Isn't it great?

I hope you're talking about a second vehicle and not replacing your car every 2 years. I replace my phone less frequently than that.

Uber prices in some cities are absolutely insane. Seattle for example: Right now a ride to the airport from where I am is 13 miles / 25 minute drive. Uber is quoting $51 at 10am on a Friday. Minneapolis' new minimum wage would only be $20.47. Even if the driver came all the way from the airport, that would still only be $41. Somehow I doubt all that money is going to the drivers right now.

Not to mention MSI releasing a monitor with built-in AI to highlight enemies for you that almost definitely counts as cheating, yet there's nothing they can do except ban the hardware all together.

Because hallucinations pretty much exactly describes what's happening? All of your suggested terms are less descriptive of what the issue is.

The definition of hallucination:

A hallucination is a perception in the absence of an external stimulus.

In the case of generative AI, it's generating output that doesn't match it's training data "stimulus". Or in other words, false statements, or "facts" that don't exist in reality.

There actually are a lot of really cool EV conversion builds on YouTube using fairly open parts. So I'd say this is perfectly accurate.

Yeah, LEDs are pretty ideal in the cold as long as they're properly sealed from humidity. They don't heat up your fridge extra every time you open the door. Oven lights definitely wouldn't work unless you want a nice plastic glaze on top of the cake you're baking.

Microsoft Defender exists for Mac? What?

Note that since it's just an Android app, there is no purpose in selling this e-waste device other than increasing the price, since it does nothing you can't already do on your phone.

Not to mention there's nearly 10x difference in bitrate between 4K streaming video and actual 4K HDR off a bluray. The only people who know how big a 4K video is these days are nerds and pirates, because it's not like Netflix tells you.

I had to check, and my current phone (Gslaxy S10) was released 6 months before the iPhone 11 Pro Max. I have no plans on upgrading any time soon.

As far as I know, pretty much the only anti-cheat that doesn't work on linux is the kernel-level malware kind. I personally avoid those games at all costs regardless. That's easy for me to say though, since I barely play any competitive games...

Back in my day we only had 95 printable characters, and that's the way we liked it! /s

Maps? Android Auto / CarPlay? Gotta have the screen anyway for the mandatory backup camera.

We can have both! Physical buttons for everything that doesn't actually benefit from having a display, (like music or heat/ac), touch screen for the rest.

TIL 95% of people eat carrots at least once a week.

That's a fun theory, but it does ignore that local languages are all different. For example, the name Canada comes from the St. Lawrence Iroquoian word "kanata", meaning 'village' or 'settlement'. And it was misunderstood as the name of the area.

Many alien species naming their planets after dirt seems likely enough, but their word for it sounding like "Earth" in English is pretty low. We've got plenty of variations across languages even on our own planet: https://www.indifferentlanguages.com/words/earth

There's nothing illegal about breaking Twitter terms of service. You might get banned, but that's it.

This graph actually shows a little more about what's happening with the randomness or "temperature" of the LLM.
It's actually predicting the probability of every word (token) it knows of coming next, all at once.
The temperature then says how random it should be when picking from that list of probable next words. A temperature of 0 means it always picks the most likely next word, which in this case ends up being 42.
As the temperature increases, it gets more random (but you can see it still isn't a perfect random distribution with a higher temperature value)

Mechanical pencils for the win! Did you know there's even ones that rotate the lead for you as you write so there's always a sharp point?

It literally is. They even covered that in the post's video.

I would love a Framework laptop, but my current laptop (a Dell XPS 15 from 2017) is still going strong. Buying a new repairable laptop defeats the whole sustainable thing if there's nothing wrong with my current one. I've done 2 fixes to my current laptop: Replaced the speakers that had died, and added thermal pads to the VRMs to fix an overheating / throttling issue. Even the battery is fine still.

Unfortunately all of those just tell you it's already installed, not that it's about to install it. If you didn't know, who's going to be constantly checking for new drivers after every software install?

Anything over 5 second is pretty damn slow.

So much for "nicer since you don’t have to leave lemmy"

The alt texts are one of the best parts of xkcd