Moonrise2473

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An increase in bad seeds on Bit Torrent?

So I've been grabbing a few shows I want to watch reruns of while playing Balatro that don't have good blu ray releases. My piracy is fairly limited these days so I don't bother with private trackers (do have a VPN though). In the past, I never really had an issue with grabbing a few one offs off the popular, maybe honeypot,...

Moonrise2473 ,

I remember fifteen years ago I wanted to pirate new super Mario bros for Wii but Nintendo hired a lot of bad peers on eMule, it was impossible to download it. It would download it super fast thanks to the hundreds of fake peers that would upload garbage data, but then when completed it would check it and fall back to 0.2% completed. Super frustrating.

In the end I just gave up because I hate and suck at platformers, why would I ever pirate something that I would never play, but at the time in the forums someone said that with IP address filters it was possible to complete the downloads, by blacklisting all the commercial ip address space and allowing only residential (or maybe they were just living in the right spot, at the time in select cities in my country there was an ISP that ran a fiber optic MAN - metropolitan area network, and it was awesome for piracy, as they didn't block the smb V1 protocol between customers so there were peers that shared gold mines)

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I feel that's not actually replaced by ai rather his previous works have been templated and a script is replacing names and stuff automatically. The solution is called "ai" because in this way the developer can price it higher

This said, for a client point of view, switching from "everything is custom" (=$$$) to "everything is from a cookie cutter" is not good. Long term viability of that marketing company is compromised, IMHO. Why a client should pay $$$ if all it gets is something that could come with $5 from Fiverr or even with a free Canva trial?

A graphic designer is still indispensable, especially if they were "so busy that could barely take a few days off"

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The year of desktop Linux?

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Also the decision of Microsoft of discontinuing windows on hardware produced before 2018 is an incentive to transition to Linux in developing countries (although I saw massive use of windows 7 even today...)

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As usual doing malicious compliance, like when they pretended that iOS and iPadOS were two completely separate operating systems and so iPadOS shouldn't need to support third party app stores as EU said "iOS"

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Probably because there aren't any, they can't specifically say "iOS".

I'm not aware of any other operating system (except the ones in game consoles or dedicated hw) that doesn't allow the user to install other software not approved by the manufacturer

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And then the American government helps to speed up the process by banning Intel to selling CPUs to Huawei and affiliates

The reason China is forcing themselves to use shitty, slow, and inefficient processors is because they're indirectly injecting billions in the industry in this way, because no consumer would ever buy a zhaoxin CPU, which is slower than a celeron while more expensive than a core i7.

So, government using shitty processors = after a decade those shitty processors should improve to parity.

Now, if also consumers are forced to use the shitty processors, then the industry has even more incentive to improve

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No, it's this, they mostly want x86 for government use https://www.tomshardware.com/news/loongson-launches-3a6000-cpu-matches-14600k-ipc

An article that lists the CPU: https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/china-bans-intel-and-amd-cpus-for-government-offices-and-servers-plans-to-switch-to-domestic-made-alternatives

That Huawei CPU is mostly marketing as doing 5nm chips with duv machines is possible but yields much less because it needs more steps. It's also the same design of 4 years ago

Moonrise2473 ,

Patriotism + unlimited funding = innovation

Does a VPN used on a smartphone with Wi-Fi disabled (mobile data only enabled) provide any sort of protection?

I've never completely understood this, but I think the answer would probably be "no," although I'm not sure. Usually when I leave the house I turn off wifi and just use mobile data (this is a habit from my pre-VPN days), although I guess I should probably just keep it on since using strange Wi-Fi with a VPN is ok (unless someone...

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Only if you live in a country like russia, china, iran, north korea or south arabia

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Cool, but why? Doesn't really makes sense to run a desktop os in a vm on a touch device that doesn't even support external screens via USB C

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Finally, it only took them 8 years to reach feature parity with Samsung

Youtube Rant from a paying customer

I used to use NewPipe back in the days of yore. Then I got Youtube Premium since it bundled in Youtube Music as well which I used. But the former's app on mobile is a shit show. Even after paying, you are asked to tip random creators, purchase merchandise[ which are shown as actual ads below videos] and join channels to access...

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Also the problem of the algorithm that thinks it knows what you like to see instead of showing your subscriptions

"Six months ago you did a single search of a walkthrough for a Mario 64 level, so here is a feed filled with only Mario 64 speedruns"

I'm always wary of clicking a YouTube link scared it would poison the feed.

Newpipe solved this

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If you want to just use it exclusively as a Nas, then why not truenas?

I have a unRAID server but the nas part is nowhere as good as truenas (slower, worse ad integration)

Main issue with virtualization is the bootable USB with the serial number that's used as DRM

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On my 4k 32" usually I run 4 programs at the same time, one at each corner. It's like having 4 1080p screens (I keep scaling at 100%)

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The naming scheme doesn't help also

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Wait? My Lenovo laptop did exactly this. It first encrypted the SSD without telling me, then it updated the bios via windows update (or via Lenovo assistant, but still it was unattended)

Luckily I was using a Microsoft account (usually I don't because fuck that) so the keys were automatically backupped

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It would be more fun if you could just drag and drop files on it instead of requiring some software discontinued decades ago

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You can do that with root and ACCA instead of being complex like that

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If the person that lost them unlocked the bootloader, didn't use a lock screen password and enabled USB adb debugging on any connection hacking it to work without the confirmation on screen then it would work. Extremely unlikely that would be the case

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Because I assume that iOS devices become e-waste a few years after discontinuation, unless you write custom software on some outdated xcode+MacOS combo

Moonrise2473 ,

i came across a guide on rentry that said how to permanently activate office 365 downloading from official microsoft servers

don't have the link

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i'm always amused by the reaction of my friends when i tell them that office costs $10 per month. They are all always "whaaaaat?? This POS is this expensive??"

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imho between the two options, the more ethical is to pirate rather than supporting a shady key reseller. Anyway microsoft gets the exact same amount of money either if you purchase a stolen key from msdn or you install a pirated copy activated via mas

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why not directly type diskpart clean in an admin command line, at least the computer wouldn't be infected with chinese malware

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In the USA interns work for free? In my country interns work for free. (They're not supposed to actually work, but learn how work is done in that company)

During my free internship I was placed in the summer in a warehouse moving boxes without AC. The next day I called the teacher and said that I'm sick and unfortunately I couldn't get to do the slave anymore

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Nice to know that's not free labor.

Here instead it's even forbidden by law to pay interns because theoretically should teach them (be a cost to the company) and they shouldn't actually work, just watch and do basic stuff. But what actually happens is they get free slaves, for example they sent a poor student to do the job of a skilled metalworker and die in a work accident https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/chi-era-lorenzo-parelli-il-18enne-morto-nel-suo-ultimo-giorno-di-stage-gratuito-a-udine/

When it was my turn to be the intern, the company lied about what they were doing, they said that they would do something related to my study field instead they were a moving company with a ratio of 2 interns per 1 minimum wage workers (we don't have a minimum wage in my country, I mean paid the minimum agreed by the unions). I just walked out and didn't show up to the "internship" anymore but I should have reported that. I was too naive

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I was done with them years ago, it's impossibile to ask something without getting the question closed

If I really need I try to use codidact https://codidact.com

But now I'm used to solve the problem by myself

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But nowadays everything requires J's

Even in 2008 using noscript required a massive whitelist 😆

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But in typical Google fashion, the replacement is inferior and doesn't have the same features

However, there is no replacement for the Goals API that lets Google Fit users set “how many steps and heart points they want to aim for each day.”

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RIP again my Pebble

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At this point I'm guessing there's some internal rule that every once in a while forces them to replace products with inferior, incomplete alternatives written from scratch, and only reach feature parity 3-4 years after the shutdown, when everyone gave up and found an alternative.

The rules apparently states that in order to maximize confusion it must be a similar but different name, that users don't have a guided migration and that the app must be separately downloaded. It's extremely forbidden to just update the existing app

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yes but until possible i like to have the working weather on my watchface and gadgetbridge is very opinionated against that as it could be used for user tracking, so any kind of internet access is blocked

Moonrise2473 ,

if i understood right the weather app/watchface needs to be updated for being compatible with this - the official pebble app patched by rebble should work but i think my favorite watchface doesn't support it

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For the E5-2697 v4 that are in this server I see much higher prices even on Chinese e-waste resellers, about $45

But I don't think that there's enough demand on the market for 8000 of them

Maybe if you pair with those unstable "x79” Chinese desktop motherboards with server sockets and then sell them as package like "ATX motherboard with 18 cores CPU and 256 gb ECC RAM" maybe can find more customers

For the ram they're going to make much more, 5000 sticks of 64gb ECC DDR4 are still expensive

Edit: no, I accidentally saw the prices of unregistered ECC RAM. Registered ECC RAM is very cheap and super abundant as only servers use that. Corps aren't stupid and buy used memory for their expensive servers, so when a server is decommissioned, registered ECC RAM is dumped on ebay for pennies

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Yes and no. You can sell easily 2-3 units at the current price, but 8000 pieces...

Technology is improving fast, the E5-2697 v4 has a similar benchmark to a Ryzen 5600, which uses half the power, and making a computer with desktop components is cheaper (except for used registered ECC RAM which is being dumped for cheap)

And that Ryzen is the old generation, the newer are even faster

Moonrise2473 ,

I'm guessing that due to the nature of this server (scientific calculations by scientists and students who sent jobs remotely, if I understood right) everything was done on RAM and then stored on SAN (separate servers) afterwards

Otherwise taking out all the storage from each single blade AND putting it back nicely in the racks would have been a massive job, if they did that I would expect to have it half dismantled on the pictured

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He really wants that 56 billion bonus huh?

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not only the board won't fire him, but probably would even vote towards approving that bonus he's craving

Moonrise2473 ,

Any H1B visa hostage can pick up someone else's work on xitter for slave hours, but for cars you need experience, talent and know how. If you fire a whole team to save $x, then you gotta pay $5x to rebuild that team when you eventually need it. (Tesla probably needs a team to develop new models, eventually. Same for the policy team, useful to launch the auto taxi when it exits from beta in 2045

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With this move Tesla effectively gave up on the $7.5 billion package from the us government to build new infrastructure. Since it was paid with private money, it doesn't require to be nationalized. It's also accessible to anyone, with prices that are reasonable

Also, I don't know how efficient is the government in the usa, but in my country the chargers built by the semi-nationalized electric company are almost always broken because they don't really care about profits, they have the unlimited government budget, so what's the issue if a charger breaks and gets fixed after 2 years, making zero revenue during that time?

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Looks like the team knew what was going on, three weeks ago the main European competitor hired this Tesla supercharger manager as CEO https://newmobility.news/2024/04/18/ionity-snaps-up-tesla-supercharger-europe-boss-as-new-ceo/

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0.69? Here they take 0.89 which is a nice 1000% markup over the electricity price. And the shame is that everyone copied the insane pricing, still blaming "sorry the war in Ukraine forces us to double the prices" even if they now came back to what they were in the beginning of 2021

Moonrise2473 ,

The smart fortwo has been discontinued a few months ago, replaced by the 2 ton smart #1

The fiat panda cross was just a fancy trim of the fiat panda, same size and weight just bigger bumpers and higher wheels

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Adventure games don't sell too much, and four episodes are a lot if you make them separate purchases. Episode 2 would be purchased only by a fraction of episode 1 users, then episode 3 from a fraction of episode 2 and so on. And the longer the time between episodes, the smaller the chance it would generate new sales because existing users lost interest.

It's instead much more remunerative to think a fun gameplay mechanic, then create a fake ad around it, buy some assets and create an idle game that plays by itself with the possibility to pay to get it faster. Use the fake ad with the fun gameplay to promote the completely different game and users are dumb won't complain. Don't worry if the assets you purchased for your asset flip are unrelated, it's also allowed to be a completely different genre, for example evony (medieval and swords theme) is using zombies, tanks and machineguns in ads

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That kart game was genius programming, give you a few initial levels where it let you think that you're driving the kart, that you're winning because of your skills, then start the real routine of "autopilot simulator programmed to lose until you activate the paid power ups"

Edit: and I can't believe that more than ten years passed from the release of that "game", I remember I was playing it on my BlackBerry Z10, i can see why many itt are saying "always has been shitty" - just a year before they weren't shitty. Gameloft released games like "9mm" and "batman the dark knight" that for just one dollar were console like experiences. And beach buggy racing, and riptide.

Moonrise2473 ,

Wait, the games in the cartridge need to be installed in the main memory as well? Effectively just a drm gimmick?

They can't read the resources they need from the cart like in the past?

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