These companies will use the lowest possible bitrate with the newest possible codecs to balance quality and bandwidth. They will also default to a medium quality when it comes to picking audio quality.
I’d say they are doing their best already just to save bandwidth costs.
Just look at YouTube and how they set the video quality (resolution) as low as they can get away with.
European average carbon footprint for video streaming as producing 55g of CO₂e per hour. This CO₂e or carbon dioxide equivalent is a comparable measure of the potential effect of different greenhouse gases on the climate: 55g of CO₂e is 50 times more than audio streaming and the equivalent of microwaving four bags of popcorn
What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity "creates" carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?
1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.
To minimise the environmental footprint of your own music streaming, use Wi-Fi rather than 4G or 5G. If you listen to a song repeatedly, purchase a download to play. Use localised storage rather than cloud-based systems for all of your music and video files. Reduce auto-play, aimless background streaming or using streaming as a sleep aid by changing the default settings on your device including reducing streaming resolution. And turn your camera off for video calls, as carbon emissions are 25 times more than for audio only.
Lol no I won't.
What a stupid, bizarre and illogical article. It clearly shows that the key is in moving to renewables yet it still argues for the users also doing this sort of tiny useless gestures. I suspect it's AI-written at least in part.
You do realize that it's harder to move to renewables if the energy required keeps increasing? Higher bandwidth usage requires expansion of internet infrastructure to account for peak usage which increases the amount of energy used, not only for the manufactured hardware (which will likely turn to e-waste at some point) but also to keep the infrastructure running. I highly recommend reading research about the sustainability of the internet.
No, since the article doesn't mention anything of that sort. I really, really doubt that in the world of crypto mining and AI training the average people streaming some music and music videos will make a substantial difference. Your degrowth-oriented approach sounds like it would just solidify the already highly monopolised market, as any new players or innovation can be met with the "wastes too much bandwidth" hammer, as is this new service by Spotify right here.
I highly recommend reading research about the sustainability of the internet.
Decarbonising electricity would substantially mitigate the climate impacts linked to Internet consumption, while the use of mineral and metal resources would remain of concern. A synergistic combination of rapid decarbonisation and additional measures aimed at reducing the use of fresh raw materials in electronic devices (e.g., lifetime extension) is paramount to prevent the growing Internet demand from exacerbating the pressure on the finite Earth’s carrying capacity.
Sounds good to me! With no mention of having to limit our internet usage.
And if reducing bandwidth waste really were that important, it would have go both ways anyway, with the providers optimising their content (probably forced to do so by regulations in some way).
Sounds good to me! With no mention of having to limit our internet usage.
You don't have the power to decarbonize all electricity or to create and enforce laws to reduce the rate of e-waste. Until this changes, you have the power to limit your bandwidth usage, which is something that would result in less e-waste and less energy usage (and inherently less carbon emissions since all electricity isn't decarbonized). You're essentially saying "the paper says you can fix the problem in the future so I don't give a fuck about the problem now", which is not very bright.
And if reducing bandwidth waste really were that important, it would have go both ways anyway, with the providers optimising their content (probably forced to do so by regulations in some way).
My god. This might be the most naive thing I've ever read. This would be like saying "if carbon emissions were really that bad, oil and coal would be illegal". Guess what? The climate will be (and has already been) irreversibly damaged if we don't drastically reduce the amount of carbon fuel being used and no regulations have successfully come close to getting the necessary drastic reduction. Turns out everything that's bad doesn't magically get solved by regulations, especially when rich companies which rely on e.g. carbon fuel and bandwidth have major influence over politics due to their massive amount of resources.
You don’t have the power to decarbonize all electricity
From the article:
Location also affects how carbon emissions are managed. Germany has the largest carbon footprint for video streaming at 76g CO₂e per hour of streaming, reflecting its continued reliance on coal and fossil fuels. In the UK, this figure is 48g CO₂e per hour, because its energy mix includes renewables and natural gas, increasingly with nuclear as central to the UK’s low-carbon future. France, with a reliance on nuclear is the lowest, at 10g CO₂e per hour.
This is a massive difference, and clearly doable, nothing that would be limited to the distant future.
So I get this right? I'm naive for expecting govt regulations to put companies' behaviour under control, whereas you're realistic by expecting hundreds of millions of people deciding to systematically minimise their Youtube/Tiktok/Spotify/Netflix/Zoom usage? Hmm, alright.
And yet in an another comment you also expect that Spotify shouldn't introduce video streaming, without any external regulation but out of pure goodness of their hearts?
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Hi, I'm building a homelab watercooled unix server. I don't want to buy expensive overpriced pre-mixes from ekwb or aquatuning. What cooling solution do datacenters use for water cooling?
is liquid ~~cooking~~ cooling really necessary? critical data centers I have worked in use swamp coolers. cheaper, more efficient, more reliable, uses same water as your house...
Are you sure they use swamp coolers? Also known as evaporative coolers, they add moisture into dry air, making the air they are cooling very humid and only slightly cooler.
Practically all even semi-modern DCs are built for servers themselves to be air cooled. The air itself is cooled via a heat exchanger with a separate and isolated chiller and cooling tower. The isolated chiller is essentially the swamp cooler, but it's isolated from the servers.
There are cases where servers are directly liquid cooled, but it's mostly just the recent Nvidia GPUs and niche things like high-frequency-trading and crypto ASICs.
All this said... For the longest time I water cooled my home lab's compute server because I thought it was necessary to reduce noise. But, with proper airflow and a good tower cooler, you can get basically just as quiet. All without the maintenance and risk of water, pumps, tubing, etc.
Industrial cooling towers are usually evaporative in my experience, smaller ones are large fans moving air over a stack of slats that the return water is sprayed or piped over and the collects in well for recirculation, larger ones afaik (like what you'd see at power plants) operate the same idea. Top ups and water chemistry is all automated.
Those systems have operation wide cooling loops that individual pieces of equipment tap into, some stuff uses it directly (see that with things like industrial furnaces) but smaller stuff or stuff that's sensitive you'll see heat exchangers and even then the server & PLC rooms were all air cooled, the air cons for them were all tied into the cooling water loops though.
From a maintenance POV though, way easier to air cool, totally seen motor drive racks with failed cooling fans that have had really powerful external blowers rigged up to keep them going to the next maintenance window. Yeah, industrial POV but similar idea.
If you are willing to deal with potential galvanic corrosion, condensation, leaks, replacing fluid every now and then and so on I suppose you could use red or yellow radiator coolant from your local car service shop. It has all the properties you'll want from a coolant liquid, but as others have already mentioned, it's not really worth the hassle. Atleast if you're not running something really power hungry, like GPU farm. And even with liquid you have the very same problems than air, you need the heat to go somewhere. So either have very long pipes (and pumps to match them) so you can have the radiator on a different room/outside or big fans to move the hot air away from radiator.
I hate that tech YouTubers have made people think they need liquid cooling and RGB to do anything PC related. You don't need to liquid cool your homelab. Period.
You don't, but it's considerably quieter to use a liquid cooler on current high-end CPUs because of the amount of heat they dissipate. My current CPU has a considerably higher TDP than my last desktop's. I finally broke down and put an AIO cooler on the new one, and all the fans on the radiator can run at a much lower speed than my last CPU because the radiator is a lot larger than one hanging directly off the CPU, can dump heat to the air a lot more readily.
The GPU on that system, which doesn't use liquid cooling, has to have multiple slots and a supporting rail to support the weight because it has a huge heatsink hanging on a PCI slot that was never intended to support that kind of load, and the fans are far more spun up when it heats up.
The amount of power involved these days is getting pretty high. My early PCs could manage with entirely passive cooling, just a heatsink. Today, the above CPU dumps 250W and the above GPU 400W. I have a small space heater in the same room that, on low, runs at 400W.
Frankly, if I had a convenient mounting point in the case for the radiator, with the benefit of hindsight, I'd seriously have considered sticking an AIO liquid-cooled GPU in there --- there are a few manufacturers that do those. The GPU is a lot louder than the CPU when both are spun up.
I will kind of agree on the RGB LEDs, though. It's getting obnoxiously difficult to find desktop hardware that doesn't have those. My last build, I was having difficulty finding DIMMs that didn't have RGB LEDs; not normally a component that I think of anyone wanting to make visible.
I'm kind of wondering whether we'll get to the point where one just has a standard attachment point for liquid and just hooks the hardware's attachment into a larger system that circulates fluid. Datacenters would become quiet places.
What cooling solution do datacenters use for water cooling?
They typically don't. The servers are air cooled and the room is conditioned with a Liebert or similar HVAC system. Liquid cooling servers is not practical or warranted for most situations.
Expanding on that, direct water cooling becomes more common the higher power density the racks are.
So as you get into 35kW+ racks it becomes the only way to get that much heat out, lots of GPU compute racks are water cooled by default now, the El Capitan super computer is entirely cooled through direct liquid interfaces, for example.
In ours, the coolant is referred to as "PG25" (distilled water with 25% propylene glycol, plus corrosion inhibitors and other additives). It's widely available, and pre-mixed so it just gets poured straight in.
Your problem is going to be quantity. it might be cheaper per unit, but buying less than a 200 litre drum (if not a 1000 litre IBC) will prove to be a challenge.
Microsoft says it will no longer use China-based engineers to support the Pentagon. But ProPublica found that the tech giant has relied on its global workforce for years to support other federal clients, including the Justice Department.
That is why after the vision of this meme appeared in my head I was forced to banish it from my imagination by making it real in as halfassed fashion as possible.
Grembo materno dell’hip hop che ha dato i natali a suo padre, New York è oggi nonna saggia e affaticata di una delle voci più promettenti del neo soul: Yaya Bey.
Grembo materno dell’hip hop che ha dato i natali a suo padre, New York è oggi nonna saggia e affaticata di una delle voci più promettenti del neo soul: Yaya Bey.
I have quite an old LCD monitor and wanted to buy a new one for quite some time. But I was planning to travel and wouldn't be able to bring the monitor with me. Then a friend of mine shared an article with an intriguing title: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses.
I had never heard of AR glasses before. Turns out they're basically a "dumb" monitor with a USB‑C connection, but the image is projected into your eyes, so it looks like it's floating. No additional software is required, and I can take it anywhere with me. So I decided to order one. The same friend later asked me for a review, but I decided to post it here and just share the link - maybe someone else will also find it useful.
Impressions
I went for the Xreal One. They are quite pricy, but I wanted to try something cutting-edge. There's also a Pro version, but according to this review on Reddit and review on YouTube, it has several drawbacks - mainly reduced sharpness, which is important for coding.
The glasses aren't as comfortable as regular sunglasses — they're a little bit heavier, but I got used to them. They also generate quite a bit of heat on the top part of the frame. It can cause slight discomfort when it touches face, but I've gotten used to wearing them properly to avoid that.
They have three levels of electrochromatic dimming (the lenses physically get darker). On the lowest setting (disabled), it's not fully transparent — more like a sunglasses with a slight dimming. At the maximum level, it's extremely dark; even in a well‑lit room I can't see what's on the edges. With dimming disabled, it looks the coolest — like an actual floating screen with a bit of transparency. But the darkening is useful for a more immersive experience since it removes that transparency. They also have "Auto transparency" option that automatically disables dimming when you turn your head away from the screen. Also, the brighter the room is, the more noticeable the reflection on the bottom of the glasses due to the lens's prism design. It's not an issue with the Pro version, but I didn't find it distracting at all, even in a well-lit room.
The screen is great. From video reviews, I was a bit worried that the colors would look like from a projector, but it's just impossible to capture this properly on camera. In reality, the colors are nice. They also allow you to configure the color temperature, and I found the coldest setting the most comfortable. The picture isn't very sharp — there's a bit of motion blur when I move my head around, and thin red or pink text on a black background looks slightly off. I think it's a limitation of the technology, plus the screen is only 1080p. But it's not as bad as it sounds — I can still use it comfortably for coding.
By default, the screen is 16:9 with 120Hz, but you can switch to 32:9 or 21:9 with 60Hz. I use 16:9 for gaming and 32:9 for productivity — 32:9 is so large, it's like two monitors glued together. I usually keep my browser on one side and something else on the other. I also love playing retro games, and I can say that 4:3 content looks great. Since the screen is OLED, the black pixels don't emit any light, so the letterboxes fully transparent.
However, it's not the same as having an actual ultra‑wide monitor. The screen doesn't fill the entire surface of the glasses — that's what the FOV is about. On my model, it's 50 degrees, which is quite large. But in ultra‑wide mode, I still have to rotate my head to see the other half of the screen. So there's no peripheral vision like there would be on an actual ultra‑wide monitor. Also, other people can't see what you're seeing, even if they're close — which can be both a good and a bad thing.
You can also configure how far the screen appears — anywhere from 1m to 10m — and its size in inches. There are five size levels, and the values depend on the selected distance and whether ultra‑wide mode is enabled. I usually use 1m for productivity and 4m for gaming and multimedia. My preferred size is the "middle" (third) level, which is designed to fit the entire screen without me needing to rotate my head (except when ultra‑wide mode is enabled). For 1m these sizes are 35″ for 16:9 and 64″ for 32:9; at 4m they're 140″ and 255″ respectively. The large screen feels very immersive — it's like being in a cinema.
The glasses also have three view modes: - Anchor. I can rotate my head freely and The screen stays fixed in space. However, if I walk around, the screen moves with me (which is what 3 DoF means). This is the mode I use most of the time. - Follow. The screen rotates along with your head. I don't use this mode much. - Side view. Similar to Follow, but the screen is positioned in the corner. I use it when I'm doing chores and want to watch something. They also have a stabilizer enabled by default, which smooths the screen movement when you move your head.
To use the glasses, you need a USB‑C video output. My motherboard supports it, but to enable it I had to connect my video card to the motherboard via DisplayPort. I never heard about a connection like this before, but it's from my motherboard manual. It does make sense, though — the GPU provides the video output, and the motherboard wouldn't know about it otherwise. Software‑wise, it works out of the box with my KDE Plasma setup on Arch Linux. The only issue I'm noticing is some small visual glitches for the first few seconds after connecting. On PC I use it together with my regular monitor. The mentioned "Auto transparency" pairs nicely with it. However, it's not perfect, since I'm still looking at the second screen through what's basically a pair of light sunglasses. So I usually don't put anything important on it.
As for phones, neither mine nor my wife's supports video output. But from reviews, I think it wouldn't be very convenient to use with a phone anyway. First, the phone's screen has to stay on, otherwise the glasses won't display anything. Second, you can't interact with the phone through the glasses, so you have to look at the phone itself.
But I found a great option to use the glasses with. I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 — a pocketable retro console that runs Android and supports video output. Unlike a regular phone, it automatically turns off its built‑in display when a second screen is connected. It also has physical controls, so I don't need to use a touchscreen. The Android UI isn't perfect for a gamepad, but it works. Streaming to it also works great because, even though the screen is disabled, the touch input still works — so it basically becomes a touchpad. Since the device is a clamshell, I sometimes use an 8BitDo Micro as an input device to avoid opening it, which is especially convenient for quickly pausing videos. This gamepad can also act as a keyboard via a special switch on it, so it works nicely when I stream from my PC too.
I also have a Steam Deck, but there's not much to add — it just works without any issue.
The glasses also have built-in speakers. I like their design: you don't put anything inside your ears — the speakers are integrated into the frame near where your ears are, so they kind of "whisper" to you. Others can hear them only at high volume. This affects the sound quality, so music doesn't sound as good as on quality headphones, but I think it's a worthy compromise. And it's still possible to wear regular headphones with the glasses.
They also have a shortcut button on the frame. I assigned screen off on regular press and ultra-wide mode on hold.
The firmware is proprietary, but it doesn't use the internet. And what I liked is that updates are installed through a web browser. However, it has to be a Chromium‑based browser on Windows or Mac. Luckily, I have a dual‑boot, so I rebooted to update the firmware. The update added support for 16:9, so it looks like it's not just for bug fixes.
The glasses can be equipped with prescription lenses, but I wear contact lenses and those work as well.
They also have a camera add‑on called Xreal Eye. It's a small camera that unlocks 6 DoF tracking and can also take photos and record videos. The media is stored directly on the glasses, which have 2GB of space, and can later be transferred to a phone or PC over a cable. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm considering it since I'm interested in having 6 DoF.
Conclusion
I love these glasses, it's easily my favorite portable option. It's a huge screen I can take anywhere with me. I don't mind that it's only 1080p, none of my portable devices can fully handle 4k anyway.
Since they are better then my current monitor, I use them with my PC too. But I don't think it's a proper replacement. If you don't need portability, regular screen will be better and cheaper.
I have quite an old LCD monitor and wanted to buy a new one for quite some time. But I was planning to travel and wouldn't be able to bring the monitor with me. Then a friend of mine shared an article with an intriguing title: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses.
I had never heard of AR glasses before. Turns out they're basically a "dumb" monitor with a USB‑C connection, but the image is projected into your eyes, so it looks like it's floating. No additional software is required, and I can take it anywhere with me. So I decided to order one. The same friend later asked me for a review, but I decided to post it here and just share the link - maybe someone else will also find it useful.
Impressions
I went for the Xreal One. They are quite pricy, but I wanted to try something cutting-edge. There's also a Pro version, but according to this review on Reddit and review on YouTube, it has several drawbacks - mainly reduced sharpness, which is important for coding.
The glasses aren't as comfortable as regular sunglasses — they're a little bit heavier, but I got used to them. They also generate quite a bit of heat on the top part of the frame. It can cause slight discomfort when it touches face, but I've gotten used to wearing them properly to avoid that. I can wear them for quite a long time, but I wouldn't use them for 100% of my screen time.
They have three levels of electrochromatic dimming (the lenses physically get darker). On the lowest setting (disabled), it's not fully transparent — more like a sunglasses with a slight dimming. At the maximum level, it's extremely dark; even in a well‑lit room I can't see what's on the edges. With dimming disabled, it looks the coolest — like an actual floating screen with a bit of transparency. But the darkening is useful for a more immersive experience since it removes that transparency. They also have "Auto transparency" option that automatically disables dimming when you turn your head away from the screen. Also, the brighter the room is, the more noticeable the reflection on the bottom of the glasses due to the lens's prism design. It's not an issue with the Pro version, but I didn't find it distracting at all, even in a well-lit room.
The screen is great. From video reviews, I was a bit worried that the colors would look like from a projector, but it's just impossible to capture this properly on camera. In reality, the colors are nice. They also allow you to configure the color temperature, and I found the coldest setting the most comfortable. The picture isn't very sharp — there's a bit of motion blur when I move my head around, and thin red or pink text on a black background looks slightly off. I think it's a limitation of the technology, plus the screen is only 1080p. But it's not as bad as it sounds — I can still use it comfortably for coding.
By default, the screen is 16:9 with 120Hz, but you can switch to 32:9 or 21:9 with 60Hz. I use 16:9 for gaming and 32:9 for productivity — 32:9 is so large, it's like two monitors glued together. I usually keep my browser on one side and something else on the other. I also love playing retro games, and I can say that 4:3 content looks great. Since the screen is OLED, the black pixels don't emit any light, so the letterboxes fully transparent.
However, it's not the same as having an actual ultra‑wide monitor. The screen doesn't fill the entire surface of the glasses — that's what the FOV is about. On my model, it's 50 degrees, which is quite large. But in ultra‑wide mode, I still have to rotate my head to see the other half of the screen. So there's no peripheral vision like there would be on an actual ultra‑wide monitor. Also, other people can't see what you're seeing, even if they're close — which can be both a good and a bad thing.
You can also configure how far the screen appears — anywhere from 1m to 10m — and its size in inches. There are five size levels, and the values depend on the selected distance and whether ultra‑wide mode is enabled. I usually use 1m for productivity and 4m for gaming and multimedia. My preferred size is the "middle" (third) level, which is designed to fit the entire screen without me needing to rotate my head (except when ultra‑wide mode is enabled). For 1m these sizes are 35″ for 16:9 and 64″ for 32:9; at 4m they're 140″ and 255″ respectively. The large screen feels very immersive — it's like being in a cinema.
The glasses also have three view modes: - Anchor. I can rotate my head freely and The screen stays fixed in space. However, if I walk around, the screen moves with me (which is what 3 DoF means). This is the mode I use most of the time. - Follow. The screen rotates along with your head. I don't use this mode much. - Side view. Similar to Follow, but the screen is positioned in the corner. I use it when I'm doing chores and want to watch something. They also have a stabilizer enabled by default, which smooths the screen movement when you move your head.
To use the glasses, you need a USB‑C video output. My motherboard supports it, but to enable it I had to connect my video card to the motherboard via DisplayPort. I never heard about a connection like this before, but it's from my motherboard manual. It does make sense, though — the GPU provides the video output, and the motherboard wouldn't know about it otherwise. Software‑wise, it works out of the box with my KDE Plasma setup on Arch Linux. The only issue I'm noticing is some small visual glitches for the first few seconds after connecting. On PC I use it together with my regular monitor. The mentioned "Auto transparency" pairs nicely with it. However, it's not perfect, since I'm still looking at the second screen through what's basically a pair of light sunglasses. So I usually don't put anything important on it.
As for phones, neither mine nor my wife's supports video output. But from reviews, I think it wouldn't be very convenient to use with a phone anyway. First, the phone's screen has to stay on, otherwise the glasses won't display anything. Second, you can't interact with the phone through the glasses, so you have to look at the phone itself.
But I found a great option to use the glasses with. I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 — a pocketable retro console that runs Android and supports video output. Unlike a regular phone, it automatically turns off its built‑in display when a second screen is connected. It also has physical controls, so I don't need to use a touchscreen. The Android UI isn't perfect for a gamepad, but it works. Streaming to it also works great because, even though the screen is disabled, the touch input still works — so it basically becomes a touchpad. Since the device is a clamshell, I sometimes use an 8BitDo Micro as an input device to avoid opening it, which is especially convenient for quickly pausing videos. This gamepad can also act as a keyboard via a special switch on it, so it works nicely when I stream from my PC too.
I also have a Steam Deck, but there's not much to add — it just works without any issue.
The glasses also have built-in speakers. I like their design: you don't put anything inside your ears — the speakers are integrated into the frame near where your ears are, so they kind of "whisper" to you. Others can hear them only at high volume. This affects the sound quality, so music doesn't sound as good as on quality headphones, but I think it's a worthy compromise. And it's still possible to wear regular headphones with the glasses.
They also have a shortcut button on the frame. I assigned screen off on regular press and ultra-wide mode on hold.
The firmware is proprietary, but it doesn't use the internet. And what I liked is that updates are installed through a web browser. However, it has to be a Chromium‑based browser on Windows or Mac. Luckily, I have a dual‑boot, so I rebooted to update the firmware. The update added support for 16:9, so it looks like it's not just for bug fixes.
The glasses can be equipped with prescription lenses, but I wear contact lenses and those work as well.
They also have a camera add‑on called Xreal Eye. It's a small camera that unlocks 6 DoF tracking and can also take photos and record videos. The media is stored directly on the glasses, which have 2GB of space, and can later be transferred to a phone or PC over a cable. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm considering it since I'm interested in having 6 DoF.
Conclusion
I love these glasses, it's easily my favorite portable option. It's a huge screen I can take anywhere with me and put where I want. I don't mind that it's only 1080p, none of my portable devices can fully handle 4k anyway.
Since they are better then my current monitor, I use them with my PC too. But I don't think it's a proper replacement. If you don't need portability, regular screen will be better and cheaper.
I have quite an old LCD monitor and wanted to buy a new one for quite some time. But I was planning to travel and wouldn't be able to bring the monitor with me. Then a friend of mine shared an article with an intriguing title: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses.
I had never heard of AR glasses before. Turns out they're basically a "dumb" monitor with a USB‑C connection, but the image is projected into your eyes, so it looks like it's floating. No additional software is required, and I can take it anywhere with me. So I decided to order one. The same friend later asked me for a review, but I decided to post it here and just share the link - maybe someone else will also find it useful.
Impressions
I went for the Xreal One. They are quite pricy, but I wanted to try something cutting-edge. There's also a Pro version, but according to this review on Reddit and review on YouTube, it has several drawbacks - mainly reduced sharpness, which is important for coding.
The glasses aren't as comfortable as regular sunglasses — they're a little bit heavier, but I got used to them. They also generate quite a bit of heat on the top part of the frame. It can cause slight discomfort when it touches face, but I've gotten used to wearing them properly to avoid that.
They have three levels of electrochromatic dimming (the lenses physically get darker). On the lowest setting (disabled), it's not fully transparent — more like a sunglasses with a slight dimming. At the maximum level, it's extremely dark; even in a well‑lit room I can't see what's on the edges. With dimming disabled, it looks the coolest — like an actual floating screen with a bit of transparency. But the darkening is useful for a more immersive experience since it removes that transparency. They also have "Auto transparency" option that automatically disables dimming when you turn your head away from the screen. Also, the brighter the room is, the more noticeable the reflection on the bottom of the glasses due to the lens's prism design. It's not an issue with the Pro version, but I didn't find it distracting at all, even in a well-lit room.
The screen is great. From video reviews, I was a bit worried that the colors would look like from a projector, but it's just impossible to capture this properly on camera. In reality, the colors are nice. They also allow you to configure the color temperature, and I found the coldest setting the most comfortable. The picture isn't very sharp — there's a bit of motion blur when I move my head around, and thin red or pink text on a black background looks slightly off. I think it's a limitation of the technology, plus the screen is only 1080p. But it's not as bad as it sounds — I can still use it comfortably for coding.
By default, the screen is 16:9 with 120Hz, but you can switch to 32:9 or 21:9 with 60Hz. I use 16:9 for gaming and 32:9 for productivity — 32:9 is so large, it's like two monitors glued together. I usually keep my browser on one side and something else on the other. I also love playing retro games, and I can say that 4:3 content looks great. Since the screen is OLED, the black pixels don't emit any light, so the letterboxes fully transparent.
However, it's not the same as having an actual ultra‑wide monitor. The screen doesn't fill the entire surface of the glasses — that's what the FOV is about. On my model, it's 50 degrees, which is quite large. But in ultra‑wide mode, I still have to rotate my head to see the other half of the screen. So there's no peripheral vision like there would be on an actual ultra‑wide monitor. Also, other people can't see what you're seeing, even if they're close — which can be both a good and a bad thing.
You can also configure how far the screen appears — anywhere from 1m to 10m — and its size in inches. There are five size levels, and the values depend on the selected distance and whether ultra‑wide mode is enabled. I usually use 1m for productivity and 4m for gaming and multimedia. My preferred size is the "middle" (third) level, which is designed to fit the entire screen without me needing to rotate my head (except when ultra‑wide mode is enabled). For 1m these sizes are 35″ for 16:9 and 64″ for 32:9; at 4m they're 140″ and 255″ respectively. The large screen feels very immersive — it's like being in a cinema.
The glasses also have three view modes: - Anchor. I can rotate my head freely and The screen stays fixed in space. However, if I walk around, the screen moves with me (which is what 3 DoF means). This is the mode I use most of the time. - Follow. The screen rotates along with your head. I don't use this mode much. - Side view. Similar to Follow, but the screen is positioned in the corner. I use it when I'm doing chores and want to watch something. They also have a stabilizer enabled by default, which smooths the screen movement when you move your head.
To use the glasses, you need a USB‑C video output. My motherboard supports it, but to enable it I had to connect my video card to the motherboard via DisplayPort. I never heard about a connection like this before, but it's from my motherboard manual. It does make sense, though — the GPU provides the video output, and the motherboard wouldn't know about it otherwise. Software‑wise, it works out of the box with my KDE Plasma setup on Arch Linux. The only issue I'm noticing is some small visual glitches for the first few seconds after connecting. On PC I use it together with my regular monitor. The mentioned "Auto transparency" pairs nicely with it. However, it's not perfect, since I'm still looking at the second screen through what's basically a pair of light sunglasses. So I usually don't put anything important on it.
As for phones, neither mine nor my wife's supports video output. But from reviews, I think it wouldn't be very convenient to use with a phone anyway. First, the phone's screen has to stay on, otherwise the glasses won't display anything. Second, you can't interact with the phone through the glasses, so you have to look at the phone itself.
But I found a great option to use the glasses with. I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 — a pocketable retro console that runs Android and supports video output. Unlike a regular phone, it automatically turns off its built‑in display when a second screen is connected. It also has physical controls, so I don't need to use a touchscreen. The Android UI isn't perfect for a gamepad, but it works. Streaming to it also works great because, even though the screen is disabled, the touch input still works — so it basically becomes a touchpad. Since the device is a clamshell, I sometimes use an 8BitDo Micro as an input device to avoid opening it, which is especially convenient for quickly pausing videos. This gamepad can also act as a keyboard via a special switch on it, so it works nicely when I stream from my PC too.
I also have a Steam Deck, but there's not much to add — it just works without any issue.
The glasses also have built-in speakers. I like their design: you don't put anything inside your ears — the speakers are integrated into the frame near where your ears are, so they kind of "whisper" to you. Others can hear them only at high volume. This affects the sound quality, so music doesn't sound as good as on quality headphones, but I think it's a worthy compromise. And it's still possible to wear regular headphones with the glasses.
They also have a shortcut button on the frame. I assigned screen off on regular press and ultra-wide mode on hold.
The firmware is proprietary, but it doesn't use the internet. And what I liked is that updates are installed through a web browser. However, it has to be a Chromium‑based browser on Windows or Mac. Luckily, I have a dual‑boot, so I rebooted to update the firmware. The update added support for 16:9, so it looks like it's not just for bug fixes.
The glasses can be equipped with prescription lenses, but I wear contact lenses and those work as well.
They also have a camera add‑on called Xreal Eye. It's a small camera that unlocks 6 DoF tracking and can also take photos and record videos. The media is stored directly on the glasses, which have 2GB of space, and can later be transferred to a phone or PC over a cable. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm considering it since I'm interested in having 6 DoF.
Conclusion
I love these glasses, it's easily my favorite portable option. It's a huge screen I can take anywhere with me. I don't mind that it's only 1080p, none of my portable devices can fully handle 4k anyway.
Since they are better then my current monitor, I use them with my PC too. But I don't think it's a proper replacement. If you don't need portability, regular screen will be better and cheaper.
I have quite an old LCD monitor and wanted to buy a new one for quite some time. But I was planning to travel and wouldn't be able to bring the monitor with me. Then a friend of mine shared an article with an intriguing title: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses.
I had never heard of AR glasses before. Turns out they're basically a "dumb" monitor with a USB‑C connection, but the image is projected into your eyes, so it looks like it's floating. No additional software is required, and I can take it anywhere with me. So I decided to order one. The same friend later asked me for a review, but I decided to post it here and just share the link - maybe someone else will also find it useful.
Impressions
I went for the Xreal One. They are quite pricy, but I wanted to try something cutting-edge. There's also a Pro version, but according to this review on Reddit and review on YouTube, it has several drawbacks - mainly reduced sharpness, which is important for coding.
The glasses aren't as comfortable as regular sunglasses — they're a little bit heavier, but I got used to them. They also generate quite a bit of heat on the top part of the frame. It can cause slight discomfort when it touches face, but I've gotten used to wearing them properly to avoid that. I can wear them for quite a long time, but I wouldn't use them for 100% of my screen time.
They have three levels of electrochromatic dimming (the lenses physically get darker). On the lowest setting (disabled), it's not fully transparent — more like a sunglasses with a slight dimming. At the maximum level, it's extremely dark; even in a well‑lit room I can't see what's on the edges. With dimming disabled, it looks the coolest — like an actual floating screen with a bit of transparency. But the darkening is useful for a more immersive experience since it removes that transparency. They also have "Auto transparency" option that automatically disables dimming when you turn your head away from the screen. Also, the brighter the room is, the more noticeable the reflection on the bottom of the glasses due to the lens's prism design. It's not an issue with the Pro version, but I didn't find it distracting at all, even in a well-lit room.
The screen is great. From video reviews, I was a bit worried that the colors would look like from a projector, but it's just impossible to capture this properly on camera. In reality, the colors are nice. They also allow you to configure the color temperature, and I found the coldest setting the most comfortable. The picture isn't very sharp — there's a bit of motion blur when I move my head around, and thin red or pink text on a black background looks slightly off. I think it's a limitation of the technology, plus the screen is only 1080p. But it's not as bad as it sounds — I can still use it comfortably for coding.
By default, the screen is 16:9 with 120Hz, but you can switch to 32:9 or 21:9 with 60Hz. I use 16:9 for gaming and 32:9 for productivity — 32:9 is so large, it's like two monitors glued together. I usually keep my browser on one side and something else on the other. I also love playing retro games, and I can say that 4:3 content looks great. Since the screen is OLED, the black pixels don't emit any light, so the letterboxes fully transparent.
However, it's not the same as having an actual ultra‑wide monitor. The screen doesn't fill the entire surface of the glasses — that's what the FOV is about. On my model, it's 50 degrees, which is quite large. But in ultra‑wide mode, I still have to rotate my head to see the other half of the screen. So there's no peripheral vision like there would be on an actual ultra‑wide monitor. Also, other people can't see what you're seeing, even if they're close — which can be both a good and a bad thing.
You can also configure how far the screen appears — anywhere from 1m to 10m — and its size in inches. There are five size levels, and the values depend on the selected distance and whether ultra‑wide mode is enabled. I usually use 1m for productivity and 4m for gaming and multimedia. My preferred size is the "middle" (third) level, which is designed to fit the entire screen without me needing to rotate my head (except when ultra‑wide mode is enabled). For 1m these sizes are 35″ for 16:9 and 64″ for 32:9; at 4m they're 140″ and 255″ respectively. The large screen feels very immersive — it's like being in a cinema.
The glasses also have three view modes: - Anchor. I can rotate my head freely and The screen stays fixed in space. However, if I walk around, the screen moves with me (which is what 3 DoF means). This is the mode I use most of the time. - Follow. The screen rotates along with your head. I don't use this mode much. - Side view. Similar to Follow, but the screen is positioned in the corner. I use it when I'm doing chores and want to watch something. They also have a stabilizer enabled by default, which smooths the screen movement when you move your head.
To use the glasses, you need a USB‑C video output. My motherboard supports it, but to enable it I had to connect my video card to the motherboard via DisplayPort. I never heard about a connection like this before, but it's from my motherboard manual. It does make sense, though — the GPU provides the video output, and the motherboard wouldn't know about it otherwise. Software‑wise, it works out of the box with my KDE Plasma setup on Arch Linux. The only issue I'm noticing is some small visual glitches for the first few seconds after connecting. On PC I use it together with my regular monitor. The mentioned "Auto transparency" pairs nicely with it. However, it's not perfect, since I'm still looking at the second screen through what's basically a pair of light sunglasses. So I usually don't put anything important on it.
As for phones, neither mine nor my wife's supports video output. But from reviews, I think it wouldn't be very convenient to use with a phone anyway. First, the phone's screen has to stay on, otherwise the glasses won't display anything. Second, you can't interact with the phone through the glasses, so you have to look at the phone itself.
But I found a great option to use the glasses with. I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 — a pocketable retro console that runs Android and supports video output. Unlike a regular phone, it automatically turns off its built‑in display when a second screen is connected. It also has physical controls, so I don't need to use a touchscreen. The Android UI isn't perfect for a gamepad, but it works. Streaming to it also works great because, even though the screen is disabled, the touch input still works — so it basically becomes a touchpad. Since the device is a clamshell, I sometimes use an 8BitDo Micro as an input device to avoid opening it, which is especially convenient for quickly pausing videos. This gamepad can also act as a keyboard via a special switch on it, so it works nicely when I stream from my PC too.
I also have a Steam Deck, but there's not much to add — it just works without any issue.
The glasses also have built-in speakers. I like their design: you don't put anything inside your ears — the speakers are integrated into the frame near where your ears are, so they kind of "whisper" to you. Others can hear them only at high volume. This affects the sound quality, so music doesn't sound as good as on quality headphones, but I think it's a worthy compromise. And it's still possible to wear regular headphones with the glasses.
They also have a shortcut button on the frame. I assigned screen off on regular press and ultra-wide mode on hold.
The firmware is proprietary, but it doesn't use the internet. And what I liked is that updates are installed through a web browser. However, it has to be a Chromium‑based browser on Windows or Mac. Luckily, I have a dual‑boot, so I rebooted to update the firmware. The update added support for 16:9, so it looks like it's not just for bug fixes.
The glasses can be equipped with prescription lenses, but I wear contact lenses and those work as well.
They also have a camera add‑on called Xreal Eye. It's a small camera that unlocks 6 DoF tracking and can also take photos and record videos. The media is stored directly on the glasses, which have 2GB of space, and can later be transferred to a phone or PC over a cable. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm considering it since I'm interested in having 6 DoF.
Conclusion
I love these glasses, it's easily my favorite portable option. It's a huge screen I can take anywhere with me and put where I want. I don't mind that it's only 1080p, none of my portable devices can fully handle 4k anyway.
Since they are better then my current monitor, I use them with my PC too. But I don't think it's a proper replacement. If you don't need portability, regular screen will be better and cheaper.
I have quite an old LCD monitor and wanted to buy a new one for quite some time. But I was planning to travel and wouldn't be able to bring the monitor with me. Then a friend of mine shared an article with an intriguing title: I ditched my laptop for a pocketable mini PC and a pair of AR glasses.
I had never heard of AR glasses before. Turns out they're basically a "dumb" monitor with a USB‑C connection, but the image is projected into your eyes, so it looks like it's floating. No additional software is required, and I can take it anywhere with me. So I decided to order one. The same friend later asked me for a review, but I decided to post it here and just share the link - maybe someone else will also find it useful.
Impressions
I went for the Xreal One. They are quite pricy, but I wanted to try something cutting-edge. There's also a Pro version, but according to this review on Reddit and review on YouTube, it has several drawbacks - mainly reduced sharpness, which is important for coding.
The glasses aren't as comfortable as regular sunglasses — they're a little bit heavier, but I got used to them. They also generate quite a bit of heat on the top part of the frame. It can cause slight discomfort when it touches face, but I've gotten used to wearing them properly to avoid that. I can wear them for quite a long time, but I wouldn't use them for 100% of my screen time.
They have three levels of electrochromatic dimming (the lenses physically get darker). On the lowest setting (disabled), it's not fully transparent — more like a sunglasses with a slight dimming. At the maximum level, it's extremely dark; even in a well‑lit room I can't see what's on the edges. With dimming disabled, it looks the coolest — like an actual floating screen with a bit of transparency. But the darkening is useful for a more immersive experience since it removes that transparency. They also have "Auto transparency" option that automatically disables dimming when you turn your head away from the screen. Also, the brighter the room is, the more noticeable the reflection on the bottom of the glasses due to the lens's prism design. It's not an issue with the Pro version, but I didn't find it distracting at all, even in a well-lit room.
The screen is great. From video reviews, I was a bit worried that the colors would look like from a projector, but it's just impossible to capture this properly on camera. In reality, the colors are nice. They also allow you to configure the color temperature, and I found the coldest setting the most comfortable. The picture isn't very sharp — there's a bit of motion blur when I move my head around, and thin red or pink text on a black background looks slightly off. I think it's a limitation of the technology, plus the screen is only 1080p. But it's not as bad as it sounds — I can still use it comfortably for coding.
By default, the screen is 16:9 with 120Hz, but you can switch to 32:9 or 21:9 with 60Hz. I use 16:9 for gaming and 32:9 for productivity — 32:9 is so large, it's like two monitors glued together. I usually keep my browser on one side and something else on the other. I also love playing retro games, and I can say that 4:3 content looks great. Since the screen is OLED, the black pixels don't emit any light, so the letterboxes fully transparent.
However, it's not the same as having an actual ultra‑wide monitor. The screen doesn't fill the entire surface of the glasses — that's what the FOV is about. On my model, it's 50 degrees, which is quite large. But in ultra‑wide mode, I still have to rotate my head to see the other half of the screen. So there's no peripheral vision like there would be on an actual ultra‑wide monitor. Also, other people can't see what you're seeing, even if they're close — which can be both a good and a bad thing.
You can also configure how far the screen appears — anywhere from 1m to 10m — and its size in inches. There are five size levels, and the values depend on the selected distance and whether ultra‑wide mode is enabled. I usually use 1m for productivity and 4m for gaming and multimedia. My preferred size is the "middle" (third) level, which is designed to fit the entire screen without me needing to rotate my head (except when ultra‑wide mode is enabled). For 1m these sizes are 35″ for 16:9 and 64″ for 32:9; at 4m they're 140″ and 255″ respectively. The large screen feels very immersive — it's like being in a cinema.
The glasses also have three view modes: - Anchor. I can rotate my head freely and The screen stays fixed in space. However, if I walk around, the screen moves with me (which is what 3 DoF means). This is the mode I use most of the time. - Follow. The screen rotates along with your head. I don't use this mode much. - Side view. Similar to Follow, but the screen is positioned in the corner. I use it when I'm doing chores and want to watch something. They also have a stabilizer enabled by default, which smooths the screen movement when you move your head.
To use the glasses, you need a USB‑C video output. My motherboard supports it, but to enable it I had to connect my video card to the motherboard via DisplayPort. I never heard about a connection like this before, but it's from my motherboard manual. It does make sense, though — the GPU provides the video output, and the motherboard wouldn't know about it otherwise. Software‑wise, it works out of the box with my KDE Plasma setup on Arch Linux. The only issue I'm noticing is some small visual glitches for the first few seconds after connecting. On PC I use it together with my regular monitor. The mentioned "Auto transparency" pairs nicely with it. However, it's not perfect, since I'm still looking at the second screen through what's basically a pair of light sunglasses. So I usually don't put anything important on it.
As for phones, neither mine nor my wife's supports video output. But from reviews, I think it wouldn't be very convenient to use with a phone anyway. First, the phone's screen has to stay on, otherwise the glasses won't display anything. Second, you can't interact with the phone through the glasses, so you have to look at the phone itself.
But I found a great option to use the glasses with. I have a Retroid Pocket Flip 2 — a pocketable retro console that runs Android and supports video output. Unlike a regular phone, it automatically turns off its built‑in display when a second screen is connected. It also has physical controls, so I don't need to use a touchscreen. The Android UI isn't perfect for a gamepad, but it works. Streaming to it also works great because, even though the screen is disabled, the touch input still works — so it basically becomes a touchpad. Since the device is a clamshell, I sometimes use an 8BitDo Micro as an input device to avoid opening it, which is especially convenient for quickly pausing videos. This gamepad can also act as a keyboard via a special switch on it, so it works nicely when I stream from my PC too.
I also have a Steam Deck, but there's not much to add — it just works without any issue.
The glasses also have built-in speakers. I like their design: you don't put anything inside your ears — the speakers are integrated into the frame near where your ears are, so they kind of "whisper" to you. Others can hear them only at high volume. This affects the sound quality, so music doesn't sound as good as on quality headphones, but I think it's a worthy compromise. And it's still possible to wear regular headphones with the glasses.
They also have a shortcut button on the frame. I assigned screen off on regular press and ultra-wide mode on hold.
The firmware is proprietary, but it doesn't use the internet. And what I liked is that updates are installed through a web browser. However, it has to be a Chromium‑based browser on Windows or Mac. Luckily, I have a dual‑boot, so I rebooted to update the firmware. The update added support for 16:9, so it looks like it's not just for bug fixes.
The glasses can be equipped with prescription lenses, but I wear contact lenses and those work as well.
They also have a camera add‑on called Xreal Eye. It's a small camera that unlocks 6 DoF tracking and can also take photos and record videos. The media is stored directly on the glasses, which have 2GB of space, and can later be transferred to a phone or PC over a cable. I haven't bought it yet, but I'm considering it since I'm interested in having 6 DoF.
Conclusion
I love these glasses, it's easily my favorite portable option. It's a huge screen I can take anywhere with me and put where I want. I don't mind that it's only 1080p, none of my portable devices can fully handle 4k anyway.
Since they are better then my current monitor, I use them with my PC too. But I don't think it's a proper replacement. If you don't need portability, regular screen will be better and cheaper.
Nice review, thanks for posting. 1080p sounds low for something that close to your eyes. Between the weight, heat, and the forced attention ( when traveling especially, I like aimlessly looking up from screen to see what's around me, especially if working outside), I think I'd happily sacrifice the big screen for my little lightweight Lenovo nano. Would love to try these though.
how do you change its settings, like the aspect ratio, the dimming or the distance?
They have an OSD like in a regular monitor. You press the mode switch button twice to bring it and navigate using the +- brigness buttons. For dimming you hold the brightness rocker to start adjusting the dimming. For everything else there is an OSD menu like in a regular monitor. You bring it by double pressing the switch button and navigate with the brightness buttons.
how does it know where is forward in anchor mode? if you are sitting in a vehicle that is turning, can you keep it using as if nothing has happened?
It's only 3 DoF without the eye add-on, so when you move, the monitor moves with you.
how do you do chores with it? I mean, what do you connect it to, and where do you place it so that it’s not in the way?
I just connect it to my Retroid Pocket Flip and put it into my pocket. Then I just enable side mode in the glasses, so it displays the image in the corner. And use my 8BitDo to navigate in the device.
what do you do to not get tangled in the cable, and to not get stuck on something?
The default cable is just very short 😀 It's a distance from the glasses to my pocket with about extra 15-20 cm.
The investigation follows two January complaints that alleged the X algorithm had been used for foreign interference in French politics. The social media company last week denied the allegations, calling them 'politically motivated.'
That Musk illustration originated here on Lemmy! I wish I could find the original post, but it was an art student who submitted it for something, and posted here for feedback.
While this is "nice", I guess, I also can't fathom how naive this generally seems.
X is a proprietary black box and X or L.Ron Musk can change the algorithm literally at will, what they show which persons and when and when not. There is NO time ever where users have have any control over it, and to perform a statistical analysis on an online service blackbox is also kind of pointless because the blackbox can change randomly, at any point in time, possibly right after the analysis has concluded, or right before. I mean it's not like the blackbox is in your hands so that you can actually study inputs/outputs and get consistent results. Every time you visit any X URL, there's potentially a fresh blackbox version deployed to you (you don't know and you can't know). That makes it rather pointless IMHO. And it's just as pointless to believe what X claims about these issues. Of course they'll always claim that they don't manipulate. And you can never prove or disprove it, because of a complete lack of control over it from the user's end. So they can do what they want, as long as they do it sneakily enough that no one notices.
For example if this study comes to the conclusion that there was no manipulation during the time of the study, that's meaningless because it could have happened before and it could happen afterwards. If it comes to the conclusion that there was manipulation at a certain time, then X can always claim that they've already "fixed" the issue and then it's again a new black box and no one knows when the next manipulation is being activated.
The ONLY solution to this is to ONLY use open source platforms where not a single company or host is able to do what they want with the complete service. Or in other words, the only solution is to avoid X and other proprietary social media platforms like the plague that they are. Because communication should not be controlled by any big company.
People will fall over each other to explain exactly why these devices are no match for nvidia’s top cards like H100/B100, but that’s besides the point. For a lot of people out there top tier nvidia products are basically unobtainium anyway.
If they manage to actually get this into peoples hands, this is a VERY big deal.
I edited with a bit more context. They are mostly just product identifiers.
Unobtainium just nerd speak for “things that are nominally available but impossible to actually get your hands on”. It’s rooted in sci fi tropes that are in themselves very interesting but besides the point right now.
Let me rephrase my question: Please fall over yourself to explain to me why these devices are no match for Nvidia’s top cards like the H100/B100. I wish to understand.
He's arguing that comparing raw performance is moot in his comment, since having affordable/available supply that can undercut NVIDIA in the same role would be quite a blow to their market dominance (especially outside the US).
When making high performance chips, the main figure of merit is how small you can make individual switching elements. Smaller means faster switching but also less energy needed per switch, which in turns means less heat generation etc.
The smallest transistors can only be made by a specific company in Taiwan, and companies like nvidia and apple compete for every single wafer (unassembled chips) that comes out of that factory. This company sits at the end of a global supply chain: basically these chips can only be made if a bunch of countries all work together. One of the main policy goals of the western allies in the last decade or so has been to shut China out of this industry to prevent them from developing this capability.
If you don’t have access to the smallest transistors, you are going to have to make some pretty dire trade offs. Slower chips. Fewer cores per chip. That kind of stuff. That’s the problem Huawei is facing: no matter how good of a chip they design, it will always be at a disadvantage unless they can access the technology to make smaller transistors.
The catch here is that that factory is operating at capacity and big firms are snapping up most supply as soon as/before it hits the market. And that’s before we take into account various sanctions. So for many users, a slower chip that you can get will always beat the fast one that you can’t get.
Just to add to this, the biggest moat Nvidia has is not transistor density, but their software ecosystem.
Every since like the GTX 200 series in 2008, Nvidia stuff has been the standard for academic research, and it basically only works on their GPUs. Anything for research is done on Nvidia GPUs, which is tweaked for enterprise deployment on GPUs... if you want it on something else, you basically have to start from scratch. And dump a tremendous amount of brainpower put into optimization.
AMD's in an interesting position here because they've been making Nvidia GPU competitors for literally decades. Their architectures are actually quite similar, hence it's easier to 'emulate' Nvidia on AMD than pretty much anything else.
...That being said, the Chinese have made tremendous progress busting out of the Nvidia software ecosystem, hence these chips are actually being used for real work.
Sucks you can’t get Chinese kit in USA though. At least I’ve never seen it available; not sure if it’s outright banned or US suppliers just don’t carry it
If they manage to actually get this into peoples hands
To be clear, I think they're talking about mega-pricey server products, where the minimum size is usually 8 of them in a box. This isn't a home lab kind of thing.
It's actually a really neat model: the experts are split into 8 'groups' and routed so that the same number are active in each group at any given time. In other words, it's specifically architected for 8X Huawei NPU servers, so that there's no excessive cross-communication or idle time between them.
So yeah, even if it's not a B200, proof's in the puddin, and huge models are being trained and run on these things.
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Vertical Aerospace has notched a world's first for its VX-4 eVTOL hybrid-electric air taxi prototype, completing the first flight between two airports through public airspace for an aircraft of its type during the Royal International Air Tattoo.
Hades 2 devs Supergiant have put out another early access patch for the game, having said the previous one would likely be the last before full release.
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A California-based company with ties to billionaire investor and Trump ally Peter Thiel announced plans Friday to build America’s first U.S.-owned, privately developed facility to enrich uranium in far western Kentucky.
Iran's disinformation operations have drawn attention, but their presence on the Balkans remains out of focus while not without the potential for harm.
We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan has landed, offering a striking example of how even potentially useful policy ideas can be corrupted by political theater and special interests.
We’ve spent years documenting the challenges of crafting sensible AI policy, from Biden’s misguided plan, to various state-level attempts at regulation. Now Trump’s AI Action Plan…
In response to a question about how AI works with today's legal system, Altman said one of the problems of not yet having a legal or policy framework for AI is that there's no legal confidentiality for users' conversations.
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Ormai ci sono tantissime marche e sono veramente squisiti, oltre che la maggior parte sono #biologici come #formaggi #vegan e anche artigianali.
La mia marca preferita fin'ora è #Pangea che produce il #Gondino che se me lo ritrovo davanti lo mangio a mor
Ormai ci sono tantissime marche e sono veramente squisiti, oltre che la maggior parte sono #biologici come #formaggi #vegan e anche artigianali.
La mia marca preferita fin'ora è #Pangea che produce il #Gondino che se me lo ritrovo davanti lo mangio a morsi ahah :joy:
P.S. Lo uso anche per la #Carbonara veg :call_me_hand:
In caso ti saprò dire a breve su questo naturasi.it/prodotti/tofu-alla… o questo naturasi.it/prodotti/filettini… della Taifun perché volevo acquistarli proprio questa settimana per provarli al posto della Philadelphia perché hanno dei valori nutrizionali decisamente più adatti ai miei ultimi esami del sangue quindi volevo provarli e assaggiarli!
skariko mai provati ma il tofu no per il formaggio vegan ahah hai proprio da provarne alcuni per rimanerne stupito! Tu a cosa eri allergico/intollerante?
MAD7 ha detto in Quali formaggi vegan conoscete? 🧀: > skariko mai provati ma il tofu no per il formaggio vegan ahah hai proprio da provarne alcuni per rimanerne stupito! Tu a cosa eri allergico/intollerante?
facciamo prima a dire a cosa non sono allergico 🤣 con cosa sono fatti generalmente i formaggi vegan? Perché da qualche parte li ho visti con le mandorle ma purtroppo non posso mangiarle. In generale invece seitan (glutine), tofu (soia) etc non ho problemi.
skariko mai provati ma il tofu no per il formaggio vegan ahah hai proprio da provarne alcuni per rimanerne stupito! Tu a cosa eri allergico/intollerante?
MAD7 se ho capito bene tu sei delle parti di Roma, ma ci sono catene nazionali (o almeno che arrivino qui nel lontano nord) che vendono questi tipi di formaggi? Perché io trovo qualcosina solo da Naturasì (e non ha nemmeno tantissimo) ma non conosco altri negozi dove poterli cercare...
Che tu sappia, di cosa è fatto un formaggio vegan? Se non c'è il latte vaccino, forse useranno un latte vegetale...
Posso chiederti il perché della scelta di non mangiare formaggio tradizionale? Oppure 'anche' tradizionale, cioè di essere onnivoro...
Ciao...
Ps: capisco, ripensandoci, che tu ti riferisca alla questione dello sfruttamento animale. Io stavo pensando più al prodotto in sé che non a questo fatto.
Jonat ha detto in Quali formaggi vegan conoscete? 🧀: > Che tu sappia, di cosa è fatto un formaggio vegan? > Se non c'è il latte vaccino, forse useranno un latte vegetale...
Ciao :relaxed:
Hai fatto tutte ottime domande e ti rispondo con piacere dato che son anche interessanti :blush: I formaggi vengono fatti con la lavorazione di materie prime come frutta secca fino a crearne un latte vegetale che poi viene trasformato in formaggio. Non conosco tutto il processo ma per esempio la prima formaggeria vegan di Roma, con il suo negozio fisico, condivide spesso sui social video di come fanno i loro formaggi artigianali e pure biologici (che adoro! :grimacing: ) loro si chiamano Fermaggio .
Che tu sappia, di cosa è fatto un formaggio vegan? Se non c'è il latte vaccino, forse useranno un latte vegetale...
Posso chiederti il perché della scelta di non mangiare formaggio tradizionale? Oppure 'anche' tradizionale, cioè di essere onnivoro...
Ciao...
Ps: capisco, ripensandoci, che tu ti riferisca alla questione dello sfruttamento animale. Io stavo pensando più al prodotto in sé che non a questo fatto.
Jonat ha detto in Quali formaggi vegan conoscete? 🧀: > Posso chiederti il perché della scelta di non mangiare formaggio tradizionale? > Oppure 'anche' tradizionale, cioè di essere onnivoro...
Anche questa è una bella domanda.
Per tanti motivi e cioè:
1) Etica, lo sfruttamento animale come di ogni essere vivente è contro il mio approccio di vita antispecista;
2) Il formaggio tradizionale in realtà fa molto male e uno studio recente di un'università (se lo ritrovo te lo invio) ha identificato il motivo del consumo delle ossa con annesse malattie e cioè una proteina che si trova nel latte animale che va a causare osteoporosi e tanto altro... Ma essendoci dietro un business di miliardi non la divulgano come notizia fondamentale per prevenire le malattie alle persone;
3) Impatto ambientale, la produzione di latte crea allevamenti intensivi che hanno un gravissimo impatto sull'ambiente;
4) Le condizioni di salute di quei animali è drastica e il loro latte contiene pus e tantissimi antibiotici per tenerli in vita quindi di conseguenza preferisco evitare di alimentare il mio corpo con ciò dato che è l'unico corpo che ho;
5) Il latte è fatto solo per le mamme per i loro cuccioli e me ne nutrirei e mangerei formaggio da latte animale se l'animale fosse cresciuto e vissuto in totale libertà senza alcun abuso e il latte gli fosse stato prelevato per una salvaguardia di salute dell'animale come per esempio la mastite, e che ciò ovviamente eviti di privare del latte ad altri cuccioli. Allora in quel caso si perché sarebbe un bene che andrebbe sprecato.
6) Trovo il latte vegetale, biologico e senza zuccheri aggiunti, come anche il formaggio vegan buonissimo! Anzi io adoravo i formaggi e ritrovarli vegan, sani, etici, bio ecc. ecc. mi da gratificazione sia quando li mangio ma anche quando supporto aziende etiche.
Che tu sappia, di cosa è fatto un formaggio vegan? Se non c'è il latte vaccino, forse useranno un latte vegetale...
Posso chiederti il perché della scelta di non mangiare formaggio tradizionale? Oppure 'anche' tradizionale, cioè di essere onnivoro...
Ciao...
Ps: capisco, ripensandoci, che tu ti riferisca alla questione dello sfruttamento animale. Io stavo pensando più al prodotto in sé che non a questo fatto.
Io sono stato per diversi anni in Trentino e ricordo queste mucche che passavano la giornata sdraiate sull'erba del pascolo a guardare noi turisti che passavamo. Poi la sera se ne tornavano nella stalla e la mattina dopo erano di nuovo al pascolo a guardarci.
Ecco, il latte di animali così, perché no? Mi riferisco solo al punto 1, gli altri punti sono molto più complicati per me.
Citiverse, la città dei social liberi, è l'alternativa aperta e italiana ai gruppi di Facebook dove è possibile parlare con persone della tua città o della tua tua organizzazione.
Io bevo da anni 'latte di riso' ma lo alterno al latte vaccino intero, quello parzialmente scremato non mi piace. Io non sono vegano, mangio un pò di tutto, anche se condivido il principio per cui se un animale da allevamento fosse trattato con dignità, i prodotti che derivano da lui sarebbero migliori.
Ci sono tanti tipi di formaggi, alcuni di fanno il formaggio in casa, quindi la questione della sua genuinità cambia a seconda di dove provenga il prodotto, se da un supermercato o da qualcun'altro. Un pò come i pomodori di un orto personale, senza sostanze chimiche.
Inoltre è da considerare la quantità. Per quanto uno cerchi di proteggersi, lo scorrere del tempo avviene comunque, la vecchiaia, la malattia e la morte, quindi trovo più giusto, almeno per me, ritagliarmi un momento di piacere con un alimento che mi piace e che, senza abuso, non aiuta più di tanto i principi contrari alla salute.
Se uno potesse, dovrebbe fare i suoi acquisti direttamente da quelle persone che, avendo scelto di tornare a vivere in campagna, fanno molto da sé fuori da ogni logica di profitto, solo per il gusto di fare cose buone e in modo indipendente.
Ciao :blush: spesso c'è tanta mancanza di informazione e lo capisco perché il marketing di queste grandi aziende ha distorto la visione e mai ci potrebbero essere esseri viventi da allevamento trattati con dignità... Pensa solo al fatto che per fare il latte devono esser mamme e vengono ingravidate artificialmente, il latte sottratto, i cuccioli rubati e l'animale emotivamente e fisicamente è distrutto perché sono mammiferi come noi... Capisco ciò che dici ma allo stesso tempo mi piace anche poco raccontare la verità che c'è dietro, un po' come per l'etica digitale quando ti dicono che google, amazon, meta e compagnia bella non sono il male :lying_face:
Io bevo da anni 'latte di riso' ma lo alterno al latte vaccino intero, quello parzialmente scremato non mi piace. Io non sono vegano, mangio un pò di tutto, anche se condivido il principio per cui se un animale da allevamento fosse trattato con dignità, i prodotti che derivano da lui sarebbero migliori.
Ci sono tanti tipi di formaggi, alcuni di fanno il formaggio in casa, quindi la questione della sua genuinità cambia a seconda di dove provenga il prodotto, se da un supermercato o da qualcun'altro. Un pò come i pomodori di un orto personale, senza sostanze chimiche.
Inoltre è da considerare la quantità. Per quanto uno cerchi di proteggersi, lo scorrere del tempo avviene comunque, la vecchiaia, la malattia e la morte, quindi trovo più giusto, almeno per me, ritagliarmi un momento di piacere con un alimento che mi piace e che, senza abuso, non aiuta più di tanto i principi contrari alla salute.
Se uno potesse, dovrebbe fare i suoi acquisti direttamente da quelle persone che, avendo scelto di tornare a vivere in campagna, fanno molto da sé fuori da ogni logica di profitto, solo per il gusto di fare cose buone e in modo indipendente.
Jonat ha detto in Quali formaggi vegan conoscete? 🧀: > Ci sono tanti tipi di formaggi, alcuni di fanno il formaggio in casa, quindi la questione della sua genuinità cambia a seconda di dove provenga il prodotto, se da un supermercato o da qualcun'altro. Un pò come i pomodori di un orto personale, senza sostanze chimiche.
Sui formaggi solito discorso, sicuramente quelli artigianali è differente ma valli a trovare i pascoli all'aperto, son rarissimi... Comunque io rimango per le alternative in cui alcun essere vivente è stato sfruttato e/o abusato in nessun modo e già questo porta un'apertura importante, o almeno a me ha cambiato il modo di vedere la vita in generale migliorandomela :blush:
Io bevo da anni 'latte di riso' ma lo alterno al latte vaccino intero, quello parzialmente scremato non mi piace. Io non sono vegano, mangio un pò di tutto, anche se condivido il principio per cui se un animale da allevamento fosse trattato con dignità, i prodotti che derivano da lui sarebbero migliori.
Ci sono tanti tipi di formaggi, alcuni di fanno il formaggio in casa, quindi la questione della sua genuinità cambia a seconda di dove provenga il prodotto, se da un supermercato o da qualcun'altro. Un pò come i pomodori di un orto personale, senza sostanze chimiche.
Inoltre è da considerare la quantità. Per quanto uno cerchi di proteggersi, lo scorrere del tempo avviene comunque, la vecchiaia, la malattia e la morte, quindi trovo più giusto, almeno per me, ritagliarmi un momento di piacere con un alimento che mi piace e che, senza abuso, non aiuta più di tanto i principi contrari alla salute.
Se uno potesse, dovrebbe fare i suoi acquisti direttamente da quelle persone che, avendo scelto di tornare a vivere in campagna, fanno molto da sé fuori da ogni logica di profitto, solo per il gusto di fare cose buone e in modo indipendente.
Jonat ha detto in Quali formaggi vegan conoscete? 🧀: > Se uno potesse, dovrebbe fare i suoi acquisti direttamente da quelle persone che, avendo scelto di tornare a vivere in campagna, fanno molto da sé fuori da ogni logica di profitto, solo per il gusto di fare cose buone e in modo indipendente.
Sicuramente è il male minore, capisco ciò che dici, ciao ciao :call_me_hand:
Io bevo da anni 'latte di riso' ma lo alterno al latte vaccino intero, quello parzialmente scremato non mi piace. Io non sono vegano, mangio un pò di tutto, anche se condivido il principio per cui se un animale da allevamento fosse trattato con dignità, i prodotti che derivano da lui sarebbero migliori.
Ci sono tanti tipi di formaggi, alcuni di fanno il formaggio in casa, quindi la questione della sua genuinità cambia a seconda di dove provenga il prodotto, se da un supermercato o da qualcun'altro. Un pò come i pomodori di un orto personale, senza sostanze chimiche.
Inoltre è da considerare la quantità. Per quanto uno cerchi di proteggersi, lo scorrere del tempo avviene comunque, la vecchiaia, la malattia e la morte, quindi trovo più giusto, almeno per me, ritagliarmi un momento di piacere con un alimento che mi piace e che, senza abuso, non aiuta più di tanto i principi contrari alla salute.
Se uno potesse, dovrebbe fare i suoi acquisti direttamente da quelle persone che, avendo scelto di tornare a vivere in campagna, fanno molto da sé fuori da ogni logica di profitto, solo per il gusto di fare cose buone e in modo indipendente.
martinligabue@tsukihi.me già sentito ma non ricordo se l'ho provato e si alcuni se ne approfittano del vegan, bio ecc. ecc. invece per fortuna altri no e rimangono onesti con prezzi se paragonati al kilo sono alla pari dei formaggi artigianali :blush:
Progetti passati e futuri, un’estate che si preannuncia indimenticabile, Moira Sorrisi, si racconta all'Ufficio Stampa Mp di Salvo de Vita.
Puoi farci un piccolo bilancio dei tuoi ultimi programmi: soddisfatta dei risultati? C’è qualcosa che porterai con te da questa esperienza?
Quest'anno un bilancio di successo perché sono stata al timone della conduzione di un nuovo programma televisivo su Canale 10 che si occupa di cucina e si chiama Sorrisi in Cucina e mi ha dato tante soddisfazioni perché ho avuto l'opportunità di girare tantissimi ristoranti, conoscere tanti chef, ma soprattutto conoscere un'ottima cucina, un programma che veramente mi ha preso il cuore e mi ha dato veramente tante soddisfazioni.
Ho avuto la fortuna di essere stata al fianco di Giovanni Ciacci in un nuovo programma che si chiama Pic Mag Show Nazionale in onda su Canale Italia e poi da quindici anni sempre al fianco di Carlo Senes però come opinionista a Punto e Virgola, in onda su Canale 10, infine sempre come opinionista per Lazio TV con L'occasione Giusta sempre al fianco di Tiziano Soddimo. Quindi è stato un anno ricco di tante sorprese, di emozioni e ricco di lavoro in cui abbiamo avuto anche l'opportunità di girare tanto d'Italia di andare tra serate eventi.
Cosa porto con me? porto con me la soddisfazione di arrivare al timone della conduzione di programmi televisivi, dopo anni e anni che faccio televisione, accompagnata da un bagaglio ricco, comunque, di soddisfazioni.
Programmi, vacanze, nuove sfide: cosa bolle in pentola per la tua estate 2025?
Abbiamo chiuso il palinsesto televisivo e siamo alle porte ormai dell'estate già aperta quindi ci saranno serate in giro per il Sud Italia dalla Calabria alla Sicilia e in più sarò sul palco di una nuova manifestazione che sarà realizzata nelle piazze del Sud Italia che si chiamerà “80 voglia di 90” dove io sarò la speaker e faremo ballare tanta gente nelle piazze, ovviamente l'organizzatore di tutto ciò è Marino Anzani Ciliberti nonché il mio manager.
Dopo l’estate, quali progetti hai in cantiere per l’autunno e l’inverno? Nuove trasmissioni, collaborazioni o sorprese in arrivo?
Dopo l'estate sarò nuovamente al timone della conduzione di Pic Mag Show insieme a Giovanni Ciacci e a Naomi, credo per tutta la stagione invernale, poi come opinionista di Punto e Virgola di Carlo Senes, il conduttore del programma, ed infine, verso l'autunno, dovrebbe partire un nuovo programma televisivo che condurrò io su Canale 10 che si chiamerà Smile, quindi, sicuramente metto nel cassetto l'esperienza fatta in Sorrisi in Cucina, per iniziare con questo programma nuovo che si chiamerà appunto, Smile, dove regaleremo un sorriso a tutte quelle persone che si vogliono regalare un giorno in un centro estetico, a chi un giorno si vuole regalare un'acconciatura un colore in un negozio di parrucchieri, a chi si vuole regalare una manicure un pedicure, a chi si vuole regalare una cena romantica, sarà un programma tutto nuovo dove, come ho già detto, regaleremo sorrisi alle persone.
Questi sono i programmi già assegnati e poi chissà, speriamo che sarà un anno ricco di sorprese e che comunque ci darà tante soddisfazioni.
Nel tempo, anche attraverso i social, il tuo personaggio pubblico ha acquisito nuove sfumature. Come valuti questa evoluzione e che ruolo hanno avuto le piattaforme digitali nella tua crescita personale e professionale?
Le piattaforme digitali ormai danno più successo della televisione e i social, lo dico sempre, saranno la televisione del futuro, dico questo perché vedo che, comunque, quando cammini per strada la gente ti riconosce più come personaggio tiktoker, che come personaggio televisivo e quindi, ovviamente, ci dedichiamo a queste piattaforme dove la gente ci nota di più. Su TikTok ci mettiamo in gioco e ci divertiamo tantissimo, perché tiriamo fuori l'ironia e nello stesso tempo, ci mettiamo una maschera, nascondiamo noi stessi e ci rendiamo ridicoli perché oggigiorno piace molto il trash..... la gente si fa due risate... e siamo più seguiti, mentre, se trattiamo argomenti sensibili, cambia subito pagina.
Per quanto riguarda Instagram o Facebook sono due piattaforme dove pubblichiamo tutto quello che è il nostro lavoro giornaliero e la pubblicità dei nostri programmi, dei miei programmi televisivi eccetera eccetera e a volte anche la nostra vita privata.
Dietro al personaggio pubblico si nasconde una persona umile che ama molto gli animali puoi raccontarci di più?
Un personaggio abbastanza umile, direi, questo grazie ai miei genitori mi hanno insegnato educazione, rispetto ed umiltà, dobbiamo sempre ricordare che noi siamo una lampadina, ma il faro che ci illumina è il pubblico, è la gente e quindi non bisogna mai montarsi la testa perché il lavoro che facciamo è un lavoro come tutti gli altri lavori, non c'è nulla di diverso l'unica differenza è che sei davanti alla telecamera e ti rende pubblico, ma per il resto è un lavoro come tanti perchè nessuno è nessuno e ogni lavoro va svolto con umiltà e professionalità, ma soprattutto sempre con il massimo rispetto.
Per quanto riguarda gli animali, li amo ne ho cinque anche se adesso sono diventati quattro perché da poco la piccola Sofia, che aveva quattordici anni, è venuta a mancare, è stato un dolore immenso, perché, i cani, alla fine fanno parte della nostra vita perché, dopo quattordici anni, al tuo fianco diventano come figli, quindi nel momento in cui vengono a mancare è un grande dolore, però ho la fortuna di poter ancora coccolare gli altri quattro pelosetti, Chanel, Asia, Eva e Luna.
Se l’amore fosse un colore, una melodia, un quadro… come lo descriveresti?
Allora l'amore, quello vero, quello bello, lo vedo un colore fucsia, un colore abbastanza acceso, ma ad oggi lo vedo di colore nero perché comunque, oggi come oggi ,trovare l'amore è veramente difficile, non è più l'amore dei nostri nonni o dei nostri genitori, perchè oggi la donna è indipendente..... l'uomo a volte si perde... e siamo sempre con questi cellulari in mano i quali creano sempre dei fili non connessi a livello sentimentale.... e quindi, oggi come oggi, l'amore lo vedo in questi colori. Sono attualmente e puntualizzo felicemente single, ma felicemente perché sto bene come sto, perché amo talmente me stessa che, al momento, al mio fianco non vorrei nessuno... però nello stesso tempo sono una persona, che se capita, ben venga, l'importante è che mi faccia sorridere più di quanto sorrido adesso. Se dovessi associarlo ad un quadro,invece, lo vedrei come un quadro di Picasso... bello per chi ci crede. Infine come melodia direi un brano di Serena Brancale perché mi piace tantissimo mette tanta allegria perché l'amore quando arriva, quando c'è, ed è vero, deve essere quella melodia che comunque ti diverte.
Articolo: Dott.ssa Mietto Elisa
Dirigente del servizio: Dott. Salvo De Vita
Supervisore e Resp. Pubblicazione: Ufficio Stampa e Produzioni MP
After two decades of sharing more online, it looks like we've decided to share less. New polling shows that nearly a third of all social media users post less than they did a year ago. That trend is especially true for adults in Gen Z.
BBC Special Correspondent Katty Kay and writer Kyle Chayka discuss the ways that social media is changing – and what that means for how we live our lives online.
It's been worse and worse over time for whatever reasons, but the AI summary at the top now can be way off. I had a result the other day where a quick glance (all that I give it as I scroll down to any results) I laughed because I could tell it was totally wrong, and couldn't even figure out where it got that result from. It wasn't in the results I found.
My favourite (inconsequential, but incredibly stupid) automatic AI question/answer from Google :
I was looking for German playwright Brecht's first name. The answer was Bertolt. It's a pretty simple question, so that at least was correct.
However, among the initial "frequently asked questions", one was "What is the name of the Armored Titan?"
Somehow Google decided it would randomly answer a question about manga/anime Attack on Titan in there. The only link between that question and my query is the answer, Bertolt (so of course, it wasn't in my query). Because there's a guy called Bertolt too in that story.
By the way, Attack on Titan's Bertolt is not the armoured titan.
Until recently, one man, who ran from the sinking ship of Yahoo search into Google's marketing/ads group. He bullied the former head of search out when they refused to make search worse in order to boost the ad click through rates. He then became head of search himself until fairly recently.
In depth writeup here, and there's a link to the same story as a podcast at the top.
Wanna listen to this story instead? Check out this week's Better Offline podcast, "The Man That Destroyed Google Search," available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and anywhere else you get your podcasts.
Didn't take as long as I expected, but I expected it (which is why I didn't bother to read, even if it's not all the way there, it's coming).
Seriously, advertising (or propaganda to use the older name favoured by Goebbels) really needs to be seen as a much more serious enemy than most do. Propaganda for capitalists is super effective at sucking up peoples mental bandwidth, they've been selecting for it going on a century now and they're depressingly good at it, if you don't actively counter it, straight to the subconscious, along with all the background crap in it. /rant, but seriously...
I am seeing more and more people trusting that "zero-click search" result without looking for any kind of source or discussion around their information. Honestly, it's scary.
Or if you are set on using AI Overviews to research products, then be intentional about asking for negatives and always fact-check the output as it is likely to include hallucinations.
If it is necessary to fact check something every single time you use it, what benefit does it give?
None. It's made with the clear intention of substituting itself to actual search results.
If you don't fact-check it, it's dangerous and/or a thinly disguised ad. If you do fact-check it, it brings absolutely nothing that you couldn't find on your own.
It might be able to give you tables or otherwise collated sets of information about multiple products etc.
I don't know if Google does, but LLMs can. Also do unit conversions. You probably still want to check the critical ones. It's a bit like using an encyclopedia or a catalog except more convenient and even less reliable.
Google had a feature for converting units way before the AI boom and there are multiple websites that do conversions and calculations with real logic instead of LLM approximation.
It is more like asking a random person who will answer whether they know the right answer or not. An encyclopedia or catalog at least have some time of a time frame context of when they were published.
Putting the data into tables and other formats isn't helpful if the data is wrong!
It hasn't stopped anyone from using ChatGPT, which has become their biggest competitor since the inception of web search.
So yes, it's dumb, but they kind of have to do it at this point. And they need everyone to know it's available from the site they're already using, so they push it on everyone.
The part about Reddit communities being built now that contain only Ai questions, Ai answers, and links to products is what I figured Spez wanted when he ipo’d. And with Ai writing convincing text, it’s so easy!
Was trying to find info about a certain domain the other day - damn near impossible just cause all the results I could find was the same type of AI slop.
Don’t bother asking Google if a product is worth it; it will likely recommend buying whatever you show interest in—even if the product doesn’t exist.
This seems like a general problem with these LLMs. Sometimes when I'm programming I ask the AI what it thinks about how I propose to approach some design issue or problem. It pretty much always encourages me to do what I proposed to do, and tells me it's a good approach. So I'm using it less and less because it seems the LLMs are encouraged to agree with the user and sound positive all the time. I'm fairly sure my ideas aren't always good. In the end I'll be discovering the pitfalls for myself with or without time wasted asking the LLM.
The same thing seems to happen when people try to use an LLM as a therapist. The LLM is overly encouraging and agreeable, and it sends people down deep rabbit holes of delusion.
I have only tried a few of these. ChatGPT, Le Chat and then maybe a couple of days with Copilot and hours with Gemini.
Unfortunately, Le Chat is a bit on the weaker side though I would prefer its success to others.
Copilot sucked at everything including microsoft specific stuff like excel formulas and actually editing a sheet when it asked I upload it and then made insane changes that made no sense and presented it as accurate.
Gemini, I dont like google and just avoided it straight away.
ChatGPT is my go to, free only as I generally only use it as a sounding board or for broad simple research such as listing family events in my area, you know put together lists.
What you say is my gripe with it too, I have told gpt to be concise, direct and critical and it improved but it needs reminding every few days not to run off into "great idea, heres why would you like more of ehy its great ad how to do it?"
This isn't much of a change. Before AI it was SEO slop. Search for product reviews and you get a bunch of pages "reviewing" products by copying the amazon description and images.
This ia crazy. It means Google and Reddit are shifting content from other web sites to Reddit, under corporate control. It seems like Google has firmly entered the unsustainable profit maximization step where they're now increasing the share of profit they take from their content sources by redirecting less and less traffic to them, while showing that content to Google users.
La guerra infuria sotto i flutti, lontano dagli occhi umani che potrebbero tentare di giudicarla. Quietamente operosa, la colonia tende all’espansione in base a linee guida chiaramente definite dall’esperienza.
Dal 2 al 9 agosto torna a Vauda di Rocca Canavese la Sagra della Pesca Ripiena, evento molto atteso organizzato dall’associazione La Baraca, con il patrocinio della Città metropolitana di Torino. Immersa tra boschi e vigneti, Vauda è al centro dell’altipiano delle Vaude, tra le Valli di Lanzo e il Canavese, e richiama ogni anno migliaia di visitatori per la festa patronale.
Al centro della sagra c’è la pesca ripiena, cucinata secondo l’antica ricetta della nonna e cotta nel forno a legna. Lo stand gastronomico propone esclusivamente piatti tipici piemontesi: acciughe al verde, tomini, peperoni di Carmagnola, salame di turgia, agnolotti, fagioli con le cotiche nelle tofeje di Castellamonte, carni alla brace, salsiccia artigianale e Toma di Lanzo, accompagnati da vini locali come Barbera, Bonarda e Arneis. Un’occasione per riscoprire i sapori autentici della tradizione contadina.
Domenica 3 agosto, alle 16, si terrà la 10ª edizione del raduno di auto storiche, con esposizione, giro turistico e cena alla sagra.
Ma Vauda è anche sinonimo di musica e ballo. Ogni sera è prevista animazione con artisti di punta del liscio e non solo:
Sabato 2: Musicanti di Ceres + Federica Cocco
Domenica 3: orchestra Matteo Bensi
Lunedì 4: cabaret “Non si vede un Kansas” con Marco & Mauro
Martedì 5: orchestra I Rodigini
Mercoledì 6: Omar Codazzi
Giovedì 7: Francesca Mazzuccato
Venerdì 8: live show “Voglio tornare negli anni ’90”
Sabato 9: Cristina D’Avena chiude la festa
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Da sabato 2 a sabato 9 agosto 2025 a Vauda di Rocca Canavese torna la Sagra della Pesca Ripiena, organizzata dall’associazione La Baraca e patrocinata dalla Città metropolitana di Torino. Vauda di Rocca è al centro dell’altipiano delle Vaude, al...
Torna per la sua terza edizione Camosci Sound, il festival musicale ospitato nel contesto naturalistico del Lago dei Camosci, nel grande prato che affaccia sul lago, ai piedi della parete rocciosa del Monte Pirchiriano e della Sacra di San Michele. Due giornate, sabato 2 e domenica 3 agosto, dedicate alla canzone d’autore e alle sue evoluzioni più libere, sperimentali e contemporanee.
In programma due superband dell’alternative italiano e una selezione di autrici e autori delle nuove generazioni, dalla scrittura profonda e laterale. Protagonisti della serata di sabato 2 agosto saranno Quintorigo & John De Leo. La band si riunisce, a venticinque anni dall’uscita di Rospo, con la formazione originaria per riproporre la sua inimitabile formula alchemica, incentrata su arrangiamenti spigolosi guidati dalla voce-strumento di John De Leo. In apertura, dalle 18, il live set di Sasso, progetto solista del torinese Anthony Sasso, tra psichedelia, suoni analogici e un’attitudine punk. Alle 20, Carlotta Sillano, pianista e cantautrice, autrice di un folk da camera elettronico, poetico e oscuro, presenterà con una formazione in quartetto l’album Nella natura vuota dei simboli appassiti.
Domenica 3 agosto il pomeriggio si apre con le suggestioni del folk spirituale di Adele H, cantante e pianista bergamasca. A seguire, il live di Gaia Banfi, classe 1998, musicista e produttrice, autrice di un cantautorato elettronico e contemporaneo, che presenterà dal vivo il suo ultimo album La Maccaia. A chiudere la due giorni sarà infine il live di Mariposa, collettivo cult bolognese che da oltre vent’anni fonde avanguardia, sperimentazione, non-sense e psichedelia in una forma musicale libera e teatrale, laboratorio e fucina di talenti della scena musicale italiana.
I concerti di Quintorigo & John De Leo e di Mariposa saranno preceduti da due interviste dal vivo a cura di Enrico Deregibus, giornalista musicale e operatore culturale.
Camosci Sound è un progetto dell’Associazione Culturale S.T.A.R., con il patrocinio del Consiglio Regionale Piemonte, della Città metropolitana di Torino e del Comune di Sant’Ambrogio di Torino. Direzione artistica di Carlotta Sillano, con la consulenza di Enrico Deregibus. Il festival si svolge nel contesto naturalistico del Lago dei Camosci, a Sant’Ambrogio di Torino, spazio culturale in bassa valle raggiungibile in treno, auto o bicicletta, e attrezzato con area ristoro e possibilità di pernottamento in tenda. I biglietti in abbonamento e per le singole giornate, sono disponibili sul sito www.camoscisound.it
Torna per la sua terza edizione Camosci Sound, il festival musicale ospitato nel contesto naturalistico del Lago dei Camosci, nel grande prato che affaccia sul lago, ai piedi della parete rocciosa del Monte Pirchiriano e della Sacra di San Michele...
Vi sono significative implicazioni nell’appartenere a un popolo che ha sempre tradizionalmente venerato un simbolo, piuttosto che il concetto astratto di divinità o entità superiori.
Ieri mattina tardi (e ovviamente ne scrivo solo il giorno dopo, ops) mi sono fatta coraggio e, nonostante il forno acceso fuori in tutta la città, sono andata al casalinghi cinese a comprare questo affare plasticoso che ogni volta che mi metto a tagliare la carta mi ricordo sempre sarebbe il caso di utilizzare, ma […]
qui comprai la stellanica base per fare il gransupertagliamento…
Ieri mattina tardi (e ovviamente ne scrivo solo il giorno dopo, ops) mi sono fatta coraggio e, nonostante il forno acceso fuori in tutta la città, sono andata al casalinghi cinese a comprare questo affare plasticoso che ogni volta che mi metto a tagliare la carta mi ricordo sempre sarebbe il caso di utilizzare, ma che appunto prima non avevo… la “base di taglio”, o in spagnolo “base de corte”, che penso stia più per “base di curtiell“, ma al diavolo le inprecisazioni ora. (Stranamente, anche questo coso è della marca #Stelan, che senza volerlo mi sta capitando sempre tra le mani quando compro tutta questa roba da cancelleria/ufficio, vai a capire com’è possibile…) 👽 Boh, è crazy, incredibile, con questo suo materiale particolare, ottimo per evitare di distruggere tappetino e scrivania quando mi metto all’opera. Si, c’è scritto PVC, ma la texture (semiruvida) e soprattutto le vibe che trasmette sono molto diverse da, che cavolo ne so, un tubo in PVC. Però attenzione, perché a primo impatto sembra che in qualche modo strano riesca a non graffiarsi mai in maniera sensibile al tatto, ma se ci si va troppo forte (ovviamente, direi ora, non so cosa mi aspettavo) lo fa… per esempio, più o meno al centro della foto, subito sopra l’area coperta dalla bustina di plastica, quel graffio che si vede al tatto sembra molto peggio di com’è alla vista (invece altri più a destra si sentono meno o niente). 😳
Sicuramente comunque, funziona meglio dell’usare il cartone di Amazon come base di taglio, perché ok, un po’ il suo pure quello lo fa, ma ovviamente si taglia molto velocemente a sua volta, lasciando in giro le briciole e le strisce marroni e diventando pieno di fessure che rendono via via più impreciso il lavoro… e, se non si fa attenzione a sostituirlo in tempo, magari una volta la lama ci passa pure attraverso e va a tagliare quello che c’è sotto… ops. Non è magico ma, per 1 euro e 50 (anche se bisognerebbe vedere quanto dura a lungo andare…), ci sta, è bono… quindi ecco, ora posso distruggere la carta con meno ansia. 🙏
(Che poi, in negozio, per qualche motivo, una versione circa 2.5 volte più grande del prodotto costava 5 euro e 30, che è più di 3 volte tanto questo qui… ma forse è stata una cosa buona, perché così, puramente per tirchiaggine, ho preso questo grande circa quanto un foglio A4, che a suo modo è più comodo, perché ci entra sulla mia scrivania senza che io debba spostare completamente la tastiera.)
Using widely available technology, well-known ethical hackers Chris Kubecka and Paula Popovici quickly accessed numerous pornography sites without ever verifying their ages.
Conservatives and that Australian feminazi group are basically terrorists, their actions do nothing but harm the lifestyle of absolutely everyone, achieve nothing if not toxic control over vulnerable people, and divert valuable and finite resources from real issues.
All conservatives are not just basically terrorists, they are terrorists. conservatism is a plague that must go away or else we will always be held back.
I'm gonna start by saying that I absolutely hate the people responsible for systems like this.
With that said, can we please not bring back Gamergate terminology? Call the Australian lady a TERF or an asshole or whatever, but seeing the word "feminazi" makes me feel like I'm on reddit back in 2016.
Today I read a thread of people using the photo mode of death stranding to prove they are Norman Reedus. While this certainly won't be the end to the story, it's kind of funny this iteration of a clearly unfinished age verification system got out there. Makes me wonder how good they are going to protect their "customers" data.
Britain's government spends an insane amount of money to combat what they claim is benefit fraud, taking actions that hurt real claimants far more than fraudulent ones, in the form of reducing or removing the payments. We're very used to this kind of waste.
By 10am on Friday, data suggested an extra 66,000 internet users in the UK had begun using the dark web.
"People should be aware that children and adults who use [certain software] to bypass age checks will not benefit from the wider protections offered by our online safety rules."
Adult film producers Strike 3 Holdings and Counterlife Media have filed a significant copyright infringement lawsuit against tech giant Meta. A complaint filed at a California federal court alleges that their films were downloaded via BitTorrent for AI training purposes. With at least 2,396 movies at stake, potential damages could exceed 350 million dollars.
In a July 18, 2025 decision, Uganda’s Personal Data Protection Office (PDPO) found Google LLC in breach of the country’s data protection law and ordered the global tech giant to register with the local data protection office within 30 days.
The decision would place the popular search engine under the ambit of Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act, whose provisions it would have to comply with. In particular, the PDPO has ordered Google to provide – within 30 days – documentary evidence of how it is complying with requirements for transferring the personal data of Ugandan citizens outside of the country’s borders. Google also has to explain the legal basis for making those cross-border data transfers and the accountability measures in place to ensure that such transfers respect Uganda’s laws.
The orders followed a November 2024 complaint by four Ugandans, who argued that as a data collector, controller, and processor, Google had failed to register with the PDPO as required by local laws. They also contended that Google unlawfully transferred their personal data outside Uganda without meeting the legal conditions enshrined in the law, and claimed these actions infringed their data protection and privacy rights and caused them distress.
The PDPO ruled that Google was indeed collecting and processing personal data of the complainants without being registered with the local data regulator, which contravened section 29 of the Data Protection and Privacy Act. Google was also found liable for transferring the complainants’ data across Uganda’s borders without taking the necessary safeguards, in breach of section 19 of the Act.
This section provides that, where a data processor or data controller based in Uganda processes or stores personal data outside Uganda, they must ensure that the country in which the data is processed or stored has adequate measures for protecting the data. Those measures should at least be equivalent to the protection provided for under the Ugandan law. The consent of the data subject should also be obtained for their data to be stored outside Uganda.
In its defence, Google argued that since it was not based in Uganda and had no physical presence in the country, it was not obliged to register with the PDPO, and the rules on cross-border transfers of personal data did not apply to it. However, the regulator rejected this argument, determining that Google is a local data controller since it collects data from users in Uganda and decides how that data is processed.
The regulator further determined that the local data protection law has extra-territorial application, as it states in section 1 that it applies to a person, institution or public body outside Uganda who collects, processes, holds or uses personal data relating to Ugandan citizens. Accordingly, the regulator stated, the law places obligations “not only to entities physically present in Uganda but to any entity handling personal data of Ugandan citizens, including those established abroad, provided they collect or process such data.”
The implication of this decision is that all entities that collect Ugandans’ data, including tech giants such as Meta, TikTok, and X, must register with the Ugandan data regulator. This decision echoes global calls to hold Big Tech more accountable, and for African countries to have strong laws as per African Union (AU) Convention on Cyber Security and Personal Data Protection (Malabo Convention), and the AU Data Policy Framework.
However, enforcement of these orders remains a challenge. For instance, Uganda’s PDPO does not make binding decisions and only makes declaratory orders. Additionally, the regulator does not have powers to make orders of compensation to aggrieved parties, and indeed did not do so under the current decision. It can only recommend that the complainants engage a court of competent jurisdiction, in accordance with section 33(1) of the Act.
Conversely, the Office of the Data Protection Commissioner of Kenya established by section 5 of Data Protection Act, 2019 and the Personal Data Protection Commission of Tanzania established by section 6 of the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2022 are bestowed with powers to issue administrative fines under sections 9(1)(f) and section 47 respectively.
The dilemma surrounding the Uganda PDPO presents major concerns about its capacity to remedy wrongs of global data collectors, controllers and processors. Among its declarations in the July 2025 decision was that it would not issue an order for data localisation “at this stage” but “Google LLC is reminded that all cross-border transfers of personal data must comply fully with Ugandan law”. This leaves unanswered questions over data sovereignty and respect for individuals’ data rights given the handicaps faced by data regulators in countries such as Uganda and the practicalities presented by the global digital economy.
In these circumstances, Uganda’s Data Protection and Privacy Act should be amended to expand the powers of PDPO to impose administrative fines so as to add weight and enforceability to its decisions.
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Good, this bullshit has never made a compelling argument
In its defence, Google argued that since it was not based in Uganda and had no physical presence in the country, it was not obliged to register with the PDPO, and the rules on cross-border transfers of personal data did not apply to it. However, the regulator rejected this argument, determining that Google is a local data controller since it collects data from users in Uganda and decides how that data is processed.
There was a site I found in highschool around 1998 - the paradigm of pessimism.
Full of dark humor and anti-jokes, in glorious web 1.0 - that site had a huge impact on my humor. I've never been able to find it again. Just a random site someone hosted somewhere on the Internet - no scams, no paywalls, just a bunch of weird humor.
Nowadays, if there's something you like online, remember to plug it into archive.org so it gets added to the wayback machine. You'll still need to remember the URL to access it, but at least it will be archived somewhere
I tried gemini protocol for a bit to see if it did a decent job addressing this, but it doesn't. We do legit need a 'smallweb' non-commercial sort of thing, but I suspect retreating to a BBS model is probably what is required.
A big reason why I've come to like Lemmy communities so much is really because they give me some old internet feeling. It's not super crowded, it's an app that isn't design for brain rot, it allows interesting online discussion etc.
I think projects like this can continue to exist, even in a bleak corporate owned internet.
Fuck off with your device based verification system. That's just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.
Instead of scanning a face or ID and uploading it to a service, we're expected to run unverified closed source code on the device we carry everywhere in our pockets?!
Experience, most proposal for "age and identity verification" being badly implemented mostly closed-source solutions that only works on devices they deem trusty, meaning (seemingly) non-rooted phones with specific OSes.
Fuck off with your device based verification system. That's just the same service, but as a more invasive app installed on your phone.
not necessarily. you give a phone to your children. you partly lock it down by setting it up as a child account, with its age. you make sure to install a web browser that supports limiting access to age appropriate content according to the age set in the system, maybe taking a parent allowed whitelist. the website is legally obliged to set an appropriate age limit value in a standard HTTP header.
that way, the website does not know your age. the decision is on the web browser. the web browser checks the configuration in the system, that only the parent can change. it does not send it anywhere, only does a yes/no decision. if the site is not ok, it'll show a thing like when the connection is not secure or it was put on the safebrowsing list, except that you can't skip it, only option is to request parent permission. and finally the age is set in the operating system, without verifying its truthiness, but once again requesting lock screen authentication. oh and app installs need parent approval for kid accounts, like it should almost always be.
this way it's as private as it can get. the only way a website can find out information about you from this, is to log if your browser loaded the html but not any other resources, because that means you were caught in the age filter. but that's it.
there's multiple pieces in this that is not yet implemented, but they should be possible with not too much work. this is all possible with open source code, if you make sure the kid can't install anything without parent approval. stores like fdroid could have some badge or something if a browser supports this kind of limitation.
All's well until other countries try to implement this and you will very quickly see how nearly none of them agree with each other on which age limit goes where. In my opinion, the best way to ensure that children don't go to certain places on the internet is to either not give them access to the internet at all or to only let them use whitelisted websites that you review yourself before adding.
how nearly none of them agree with each other on which age limit goes where.
that's the task of the website to figure out, the device does not have to be aware of the laws. but I think is still much easier to manage than id verification.
I habe an other idea. don't make the websites send agelimit http headers, because as you said that can easily vary by country. instead send http headers that tell what kind of content is available there. only the categories that could be questionable. that way the device (actually the browser) would decide if with the kid account's age that kind of content is accessible. that way the browsers need to know the age limits, and maybe it's easier to handle it this way.
In my opinion, the best way to ensure that children don't go to certain places on the internet is to either not give them access to the internet at all or to only let them use whitelisted websites that you review yourself before adding.
ok, and I agree, but only very few parents will do that unfortunately. especially considering that their kids could be discriminated against by their ~~limited~~ clasates who don't have their access so broadly limited.
and then, you still need such a whitelisting capability, which I think does not really exist today in firefox and such browsers. addons cant solve this because they can be removed.
That still could vary greatly by country and culture, as one man's pornography could very well be another man's art. You would either need a great deal of near-duplicate categories or just label something as explicit the moment a single country pipes up about a woman not concealing her hair or something else that doesn't bother you one bit.
ok, and I agree, but only very few parents will do that unfortunately. especially considering that their kids could be discriminated against by their limited clasates who don’t have their access so broadly limited.
I suppose that we could at least be able to convince the parents that letting their children go unsupervised on the internet is like letting them go unsupervised in the big city. Totally fine if they're old enough to know what they're doing and don't stray too far from where they're meant to be going, but unacceptable if they're not so wise yet and aren't at least somewhat regularly checked up on. Children will always want the forbidden fruit, but their parents should restrain them until they understand why it was forbidden to them in the first place, and how to safely interact with it.
and then, you still need such a whitelisting capability, which I think does not really exist today in firefox and such browsers. addons cant solve this because they can be removed.
I'm not too well versed in this kind of software either, but I just looked up some parental controls services and they seem to offer device-level blocking of unwanted websites/apps/downloads/etc. Web browsers don't need to do the blocking, as the parental controls probably refuse the connections to the web domains.
I didn't even mention all of this being completely bypassed if you used another website as a kind of proxy: go to proxywebsite.com -> it has a search bar -> use it to go to explicitwebsite.com -> proxywebsite.com returns the html, css, js etc of explicitwebsite.com without you ever visiting it -> profit.
Doesn't need to be by age tbh- you could have content tags and filter by content instead of age (I.e. No graphic violence). That would ignore country discrepancies and then give more flexibility
But why does the distinction between "real-world adult material" and "creative, non-realistic", "artistic, animated works" that "do no harm" matter? Last time I checked, realistic adult material can be just as artistic, and the harm done by negligently letting children watch it seems comparable.
Are they in favour of age verification for "uncreative, realistic" pornography, or is the real distinction just between real-life and online?
I interpreted it as "can't possibly be doing harm to the people in the video" - eg as much of mainstream porn can do - since there are none if everything is animated fiction
Admittedly, I'm pretty sure UK did this with the underage consumers in mind, not the industry actors, for whom both sorts of porn would have a similiar impact. (I'd assume)
Personally though, the constant repeating to me sounded comedic and they were making fun of how seriously we're taking nude drawings with this, which sounds silly even if it's justified.
It's the same schtick you hear from pedophiles in defense of their child sex dolls and it's unsurprising to see it coming from rule34 in particular considering they serve up a lot of that content in cartoon form.
Yeah, the “it’s just cartoons so it’s not harmful” argument falls flat pretty quickly. There are much better arguments to be made for why the law is dumb.
I think it's more about the legal distinction between drawn and 'real' porn.
TBH "negligently letting children watch it" seems like a sensless statement to me. The onus should be on parents to filter their kids' internet environments, not literally every accessible site on the open internet (which are never going to comply with a patchwork of age verification regs).
My networking knowledge may be out of date, but can't you get around region locked sites with VPNs or Tor?
I was in Turkey in July 2019. Wikipedia was blocked. I had to use Tor to access it. On installation I think I had to tick a special box that said something like "use flux capacitor bridge for blablabla countries like China and Turkey"
Though In that case, Wikipedia didn't give a fuck if you were accessing it from Tor. The government did.
I know some sites block tor/VPN access for various reasons
Depends on what you mean by "kids". Elementary schoolers, no, but some teens are willing to do a surprising amount of work to accomplish something if it's important enough to them. And then they pass their method along to their friends, or offer to set up anyone in the school for the price of a couple of bags of snack food.
I'm not sure whether the readership for this article is primarily British ("crisps") because it's about the UK, or primarily North American ("chips") because of what I perceive as the general population demographics of Lemmy, so I compromised. 🤷
lol I’m just joking that teens in high school would probably trade weed for things rather than snacks. I’m not proud of it, but I got paid in weed junior year of high school for customizing MySpace accounts, which is why I laughed at “snacks” because if they are later age high school students they probably aren’t trading in sour cream and onion.
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You vastly underestimate the interest young people can have into things, especially into forbidden things, especially when the workaround is trivial and works with a few clics, no tech skills required.
Will this become a new venue for scam? Most likely. But kids motivation vs. a very easy "fix" is not what's gonna stop them. Adult surveillance would be way better.
This is the second time in my life that Labour have gained power after a long Conservative tenure, only to dive straight into enacting policies that were more right-wing than their predecessors.
It's less of a left - right thing (that's mainly economics). It paternalism Vs liberty thing. Labour have always had a very strong "we must protect the populace" theme to their policies. Conservatives have it too, but they want to do it in a different way.
Sadly it's a really difficult thing to stand against. Who wants to be labelled the person enabling paedophiles, when all you want is the right to private communication.
The full spectrum is really more like “authoritarian vs libertarian”. Political policy should really be split into two different spectrums. On one spectrum, you have financial policy. On the other, you have social policy. The two normally get lumped together because politicians campaign on both simultaneously. But in reality, they’re two separate policies. So the political spectrum should look less like a single left/right line, and more like an X/Y graph with individual points for each person’s ideology. Something more like this:
On this graph, as you go farther left, the government has more ownership and provides more, (and individuals own less because the government provides more for their needs). As you go farther up the chart, social policy gets more authoritarian. So for example, something on the far right bottom corner would be the Cyberpunk 2077/The Outer Worlds end-stage capitalist where megacorps inevitably own everything and have their own private laws.
Once you separate the two policies into a graph (instead of just a left/right line) it becomes clear why “small government” doesn’t necessarily correspond to “fewer laws” when dealing with politicians.
Around our local voting season there's actually a online test to check which parties are more aligned with the person values and it puts things into a graph like this. It's very useful
I assume "Republican" on this diagram is not used in the contemporary American sense. Otherwise it would be somewhere up in that little grey cloud.
In any case, official US politics takes place entirely within the top right quadrant, and UK politics seems to have retreated there too. Canada is in danger of getting up there as well. And we don't have any mechanism to vote our way out of that box, so change will have to come from action outside of electoral politics.
Part of that is allowing labels to be so powerful. Someone doesn’t have to watch kiddie porn or molest children to be branded a pedophile, but when you have that label for someone, it’s implied that’s what they did. We saw this same shit during the Bush years with the “terrorism” label. We’re actually seeing it again with Luigi Mangione and people protesting at Tesla dealerships. People don’t care about reality if there’s simple branding that wipes critical thinking away.
To correct one thing, the left-right political spectrum is based on authority. It goes back to the French Revolution, in which the nobility - favoring top-down power hierarchies - literally occupied the right side of the assembly hall while the revolutionaries - favoring true equality and egality - sat on the left.
This cannot be separated into distinct domains since power is wealth and wealth is power. The political compass fallacy is, and always was, nothing more than rightist propaganda to muddy language and ideology in an effort to hold on to their wealth and power.
Don't get me wrong, but why are matters of governmental surveillance and control inherently "right-wing" rather than a totalitarian policy not otherwise directly connected to wing politics? Extremists on both sides have a history of creating totalitarian, Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards).
Big Brother states (which the UK is certainly headed towards)
When the Snowden Revelations came out, the UK had even more civil society surveillance than the US.
As a consequence of those revelations, in the US some of the surveillance was walked back, whilst in the UK the Government just passed a law that retroactively made the whole thing legal, issued a bunch of D-Notices (the UK system of Press Censorship) to shut up the Press, got the Editor of the newspaper that brought it out in the UK (The Guardian) kicked out, and the Press there never talked about it again.
Also, let's not forget the UK has the biggest number of surveillance cameras per-capita in the World.
Oh, and they have a special and separate Surveillance Tribunal (the Investigatory Powers Tribunal) were the lawyers for the side other than the State are not allowed to be present in certain sessions, see certain evidence or even get informed of the final judgement unless their side wins.
They easily have the most extreme regime of Civil Society Surveillance in Europe, and in the World are probably second only to the likes of North Korea and China.
Britain is well beyond merely "headed towards" Big Brother and has been for at least a decade.
In the case of Labour, the party's politics these days are over to the right on any measure. Under Starmer they seem to have abandoned their left-wing roots.
if i had a nickel for everytime a labour government came into power after a prolonged tory government and immediately started governing further right id have two nickels which isn't a lot but it's weird it happened twice in a row
There's a UK Parliament petition to repeal the Online Safety act. There's no guarantee it'll do anything but might be worth a try for anyone in the UK.
Don't forget to write to your MP - being polite but angry helps. Explain the issues, shortcomings and why you feel this should be repealed and a better user-friendly and privacy respecting alternative needs to be found BEFORE implementing stupid asinine knee-jerk legislation like this.
My poor MP is getting it in the jugular because they boasted about working in data security and I'm exploiting the hell out of that statement so they can't easily weasel their way out of it.
I'm just waiting for the response to be something along the lines of... "According to existing law (see Online Safety Act), websites are required to do age verification... blah blah blah, no changes will be made, thank you for your inquiry"
That moment when you decide to use i2p because its more sustainable for every user to be a node just for your server's location to get leaked in a vulnerability. This is why most deep web migration to i2p ended
I don't really have a link, but you might be able to find something talking about game server protocols. Outside of LAN, usually you're either connecting to a central server, or a peer relay. With a relay server it's just a proxy between you and the other players to hide your IP from others. There's plenty of cases in games that didn't do this where malicious actors could find the IPs of the people they're playing with and DDoS them to give themselves an advantage. Knowing someone's IP will also probably tell you extra info about them like what city they're in, and open them up for further hacking.
Gemini is a group of technologies similar to the ones that lie behind your familiar web browser. Using Gemini, you can explore an online collection of written documents which can link to other written documents. The main difference is that Gemini approaches this task with a strong philosophy of "keep it simple" and "less is enough". This allows Gemini to simply sidestep, rather than try and probably fail to solve, many of the problems plaguing the modern web, which just seem to get worse and worse no matter how many browser add-ons or well meaning regulations get thrown at them.
How it applies to geolocation and server hosting in light of the OSA I really have no clue. But it's an interesting underground hacker/tinker type alternative.
This says it started in 2019, Google Gemini was 2023. It seems like these big companies pick a name first and then figure out who they'll have to sue after.
This is sadly the way to handle it, users of these places need to learn how to vpn instead of giving their private information for age verification online.
VPNs aren’t going to be a practical solution going forward. You are creating dependancies that governments can target, spying on traffic and enforcing censorship for these relays is something any country can and likely will implement at some point. The clearnet is dying because the evangelicals are killing it.
Ah Lemmy, downvoting an honest question. Never change.
rule34.xxx is a website where users can post naughty drawings, renders, etc. of mostly anime or computer game characters. Think of your favourite character of your favourite anime, game, comic, etc. Chances are there’ll be images of them on there.
I agree with the message but making the argument that it's safe for kids to watch because it's cartoons is wrong. Kids can be fucked up by 2D furry porn, I've seen it happen. Still agree that age verification is a security nightmare, just think it's a weird argument.
Thhink they are referring to it saying "requiring age verification for fictional cartoon content is an overreach that fails to recognize the distinction between real world and adult material"
Paragraph 3 "Requiring age verification for fictional cartoon content is an overreach thay fails to recognize the distinction between real-world adult material and artistic, animated works." etc
I'm on the fence, because do kids need to be seeing glimmer choke down on a futa She-Ra? No. But does the UK Guv need to de-anonymize the internet to stop it? Fuck. No.
Or have your site taken down by your own country because of its international obligations. You still have to abide by your own country's interpretation (and political alignment to) of foreign laws.
I doubt that the USA would recognise and take down websites for not following Ofcoms requirements. And Ofcom would 100% be too cowardly to even threaten that. They'd just geoblock.
Perhaps? But you can get extradited from the US to the UK, and there's all sorts of dumb agreements for international evidence and standing precedent. I don't expect the current administration to forge new ground here, but navigating the waters of international law is byzantine at the best of times.
I really, really doubt that a website owner based in USA would be extradited to the UK for not complying with UK local law with how they run their website. That's absurd.
I feel like if most websites chose not to comply, there's fuck all the government could do tbh. What are they gonna do? Fine big tech with a slap on the wrist again? Try to shut down every indie hentai site hosted in the Congo or something? Please... it's all absurd.
If I had the money for lawyers, I would definitely add an "I confirm I am not in UK" button to access to sites to "help people mistakenly identified as being in the UK due to e.g. a VPN or a proxy".
hand wringing over objectionable video games is why queer artists are now having their platforms removed. if you dont want to see certain kinds of fictional porn, then either avoid the website it is hosted on, or make an account and edit your blacklist. also, if youre worried about your children having access to gay yiff, then restrict their access
Have to agree with you. If every site just blocked the country with a stupid law like this, then the regular (regarded) folk that are gonna send over their ID the first chance they get will maybe log off their wank station and idk join the cause.
Saying that, at least ppl will be forced to use a vpn instead of sending their id through the internet if they dont comply and just block.
I don't understand how this is a controversial opinion, but maybe parents should actually parent their children instead of expecting the Internet or the government to decide what their kids should see for them? Maybe talk to your kid about safe and ethical sex, the dangers of porn addiction, and not to take anything away from pornographic content instead? Maybe we shouldn't be giving children smartphones and tablets with unfettered internet access in the first place instead of spending time with them? Wild concepts I know.
I've been saying this a couple places recently, but why not pass legislation requiring every site to provide a content rating. Then parents can choose if they want to restrict content by ratings or not. Yeah, you could have malicious actors, but it makes it easier and simpler for everyone to work than having ID laws.
This, right here. It's like Nixon's "war on drugs" that went on, and on, and on... The goal was not drugs, per-se, but to use drugs as a pretense to police people of color.
That requires effort, which most parents are unwilling to do, and newspapers will still want it banned and governments would still want to ban it so they can ban other things too.
An copyright law is pretty similar in every country, or at least has a version of it. Japan's copyright law is so strict you can't even mention brands in media and has no version of fair use. It's why in Anime, when illuding to trademarks, it'll be something like "Sany" or "Destiny". This however, does not mean that I, in Scotland, am forbidden from making a video where I mention the words "Sony", "Disney", "Greggs", and "Tesco". Every country has different copyright laws and on the internet they seem to take a middle ground.
Porn on the other hand is very different with very different laws and very different ideas. For example, Porn is illegal in South Korea. No "JAV" where genitals are blocked out, porn is straight up a crime. Where I live however, it is legal, albeit on the internet you have to go through an adult verification thing, which is easily bypassed. Each country does not have a universal standard law on pornography or what counts as such. There's proposed laws in the US for example which could see the mention of queer people as counting as "pornography". Not the depiction, just something like "Leonardo Da Vinci was gay". That's why people in the UK are worried because the law doesn't just cover pornography and covers "sensitive content", which, you know, could be defined at some point to include anything.
idk why you responded to my comment with all that. Your first paragraph is, "yes, I agree, and here's another law that's also very similar in many countries"; which, ok, sure. But your second paragraph is completely unrelated to what I said.
Damn, U.K. is really getting destabilized fast. Law changes, immigration, censoring and now monitoring? Is this what happens when you leave EU and "lose" in the modern war?
Profitez des vidéos et de la musique que vous aimez, mettez en ligne des contenus originaux, et partagez-les avec vos amis, vos proches et le monde entier.
nivenkos
in reply to Pro • • •And carting CDs and vinyl around used a lot more energy still.
We should focus on increasing renewable energy production, not degrowth.
paraphrand
in reply to Pro • • •These companies will use the lowest possible bitrate with the newest possible codecs to balance quality and bandwidth. They will also default to a medium quality when it comes to picking audio quality.
I’d say they are doing their best already just to save bandwidth costs.
Just look at YouTube and how they set the video quality (resolution) as low as they can get away with.
Kairos
in reply to Pro • • •What the fuck is this article? This is not helpful in any way. Yeah du-doy the thing that uses electricity "creates" carbon. How bout we remove fossil fuels from the grid then?
1.1g per hour is ridiculously efficient. An average meal in the Western world is ~3Kg.
ɯᴉuoʇuɐ
in reply to Pro • • •Lol no I won't.
What a stupid, bizarre and illogical article. It clearly shows that the key is in moving to renewables yet it still argues for the users also doing this sort of tiny useless gestures. I suspect it's AI-written at least in part.
mang0
in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • • •ɯᴉuoʇuɐ
in reply to mang0 • • •No, since the article doesn't mention anything of that sort. I really, really doubt that in the world of crypto mining and AI training the average people streaming some music and music videos will make a substantial difference. Your degrowth-oriented approach sounds like it would just solidify the already highly monopolised market, as any new players or innovation can be met with the "wastes too much bandwidth" hammer, as is this new service by Spotify right here.
This is the first article that I get on Google. Now, as they say, "I ain't reading all that" (I probably wouldn't understand most of it), but I did take a look at the abstract:
Sounds good to me! With no mention of having to limit our internet usage.
And if reducing bandwidth waste really were that important, it would have go both ways anyway, with the providers optimising their content (probably forced to do so by regulations in some way).
The environmental sustainability of digital content consumption - Nature Communications
Naturemang0
in reply to ɯᴉuoʇuɐ • • •You don't have the power to decarbonize all electricity or to create and enforce laws to reduce the rate of e-waste. Until this changes, you have the power to limit your bandwidth usage, which is something that would result in less e-waste and less energy usage (and inherently less carbon emissions since all electricity isn't decarbonized). You're essentially saying "the paper says you can fix the problem in the future so I don't give a fuck about the problem now", which is not very bright.
My god. This might be the most naive thing I've ever read. This would be like saying "if carbon emissions were really that bad, oil and coal would be illegal". Guess what? The climate will be (and has already been) irreversibly damaged if we don't drastically reduce the amount of carbon fuel being used and no regulations have successfully come close to getting the necessary drastic reduction. Turns out everything that's bad doesn't magically get solved by regulations, especially when rich companies which rely on e.g. carbon fuel and bandwidth have major influence over politics due to their massive amount of resources.
ɯᴉuoʇuɐ
in reply to mang0 • • •From the article:
This is a massive difference, and clearly doable, nothing that would be limited to the distant future.
So I get this right? I'm naive for expecting govt regulations to put companies' behaviour under control, whereas you're realistic by expecting hundreds of millions of people deciding to systematically minimise their Youtube/Tiktok/Spotify/Netflix/Zoom usage? Hmm, alright.
And yet in an another comment you also expect that Spotify shouldn't introduce video streaming, without any external regulation but out of pure goodness of their hearts?