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Cake day: June 20th, 2023

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  • Nobody is doing anything malicious. This didn’t start happening until reddit went public and decided to block their API.

    What’s probably happening is they’re worried too many requests are coming from one ip address and you might be scraping their precious data to train your LLM.

    If there was any justice their stock would be sliding further into the toilet because the first time anyone saw that notice they just quit going to the site entirely.






  • It seems to me they did the current balancing for the 3090 because they had to. Cost wasn’t a driving factor when the goal was to push the most power to the card, but they don’t control any aspect of the PSU and can’t be sure how it will deliver power.

    Once they rolled out the 12V HPwr standard they got those sense pins and someone looked at the design and said hey, we can save $$/card by not doing our own power management. It might also, if we’re being nice to nvidia, have been removed because power switching is probably an electrically noisy operation, and a source of heat, so they wanted it to be away from the video card.

    But they left two resistors in there for a tiny bit of redundancy.

    Then someone said hey, this resistor is doing nothing and we need the board space for… Any number of reasons, or they wanted to save a few pennies, and it got axed.



  • The esp32 supports efuses that can be used to require a signed binary to boot. So they could lock their hardware to only work with their binary. Source code wouldn’t matter.

    Of course if the source is open you can buy and put together your own hardware and then put their code on it.

    I’m not advocating what they’re doing. Rent seeking is rent seeking even if they need to recoup development costs. I’d rather pay for open hardware and software with no monthly fee.



  • I realized a while back that social media is trying to radicalize everyone and it might not even be entirely the oligarchs that control its fault.

    The algorithm was written with one thing in mind: maximizing engagement time. The longer you stay on the page, the more ads you watch, the more money they make.

    This is pervasive and even if educated adults tune it out, there is always children, who get Mr. Beast and thousands of others trying to trick them into like, subscribe and follow.

    This is something governments should be looking at how to control. Propaganda created for the sole purpose of making money is still propaganda. I think at this point that sites feeding content that use an algorithm to personalize feeds for each user are all compromised.




  • Just think about the fact that this man dodged the draft and everyone knows it.

    He has never served a day in his life. It used to be pretty much a requirement that a realistic presidential candidate was ex-military.

    This shit is bonkers. None of this guys children are at any risk if he goes to war with Denmark, Mexico, and Canada.

    Not that he really wants Greenland, or Canada. Its a distraction once again to steer the talking points away from whatever Russia and China are doing, or whatever climate catastrophe they’re working on.

    Finally, this is only news to people reading left leaning sites. Fox news would gloss over this shit or give it 30 seconds of praise. By the time we get properly agitated about something, his fans have forgotten it ever happened.

    People keep saying “How is this not the last straw for people”… He was reelected by people who don’t know about these things or don’t care.