MudMan

Oh… Ooooooh.

That is the most obscure attempt at a pun I’ve ever seen. Holy crap. If your wordplay requires people to be aware of naming conventions of obscure local weather phenomena maybe your joke doesn’t really play.

That may be the weirdest bit of phrasing I’ve seen in a headline in a long while. I thought the link was missing a word, but… nope.

Sure, I guess? But I also feel like the further you go down that list the more stable things are already, especially if you’re willing to go shopping for distros that offer specific Nvidia-focused variants.

I’m also not super clear on what “high end” means in Linux circles, because a bunch of the Nvidia-proprietary features in question have been in place for over half a decade now and are tied to generations, not how expensive the cards are.

At some point you need to develop the ability to catch up to the proprietary side of things, which means progressing faster than they iterate. I’m not keyed in to day-to-day updates to the point where I can tell if that’s the case, but from the stuff that reaches me organically that doesn’t seem to be what’s happening so far.

I guess? Ultimately Nvidia has like 90% plus market share in dedicated GPUs. This needs a very good solution to be acceptable for most potential users.

I guess for some applications if you get access to hardware acceleration in some form at least it’s not a hard blocker, but unless your machine is very strictly dedicated to just a subset of applications who is paying a ton of money for a Nvidia GPU only to use it partially?

Ah, never mind. I’m just frustrated because I’m part of that 90% and even on the proprietary driver things have been flaky enough to get in my way. I’d still argue that the bar should be set at full usability, not remedial minimum functionality, though.

Does it?

I mean, the goal here should be transparent setup, full feature support across all applications and very quick updates to official driver parity. My bar for “promising” may be in a different place.

See, I’ve seen this do the rounds, and it always loses me before Saddam, because let’s be honest, if you’re into knees you’re clearly more respectable than being super into ass. Weirder, for sure, but more respectable, in an old timey, strangely prudish way.

You can always do that manually when creating the post. I do think AI could enforce having a quick summary at a glance… if it was reliably accurate. But again, why do that and prevent traffic from going to the people who did all the work when you can just… you know, go read what the people who made all the work made.

Ultimately there’s a fundamental problem in an attention-driven economy directed at squishy-brained humans with biased, broken cognitive systems that can be easily exploited.

I’ll make a complementary argument below in a sec, but “enforcing driving traffic” seems like a feature, not a bug.

For how testy people get about crawling for copyrigted stuff for things like AI, everybody seems super chill about search engines and aggregators ripping off content at industrial scales with zero repercussions.

Not what he’s talking about. He’s still lying and whining, but not saying what you (or the headline) imply he’s saying.

He’s saying that the pre-existing tariffs on out of quota dairy products are “cheating US farmers”. Which is not true. The body of the article explains this correctly and in good detail, but the headline sucks and nobody ever reads past the headline because we all have brain rot as a species.

I wonder if a good Fedi alternative to Reddit would do something like force the link to be previewed in full or opened before getting to respond to the aggregation. Or maybe all social media was a mistake and none of it should exist, I don’t know.

And let me be clear, I’m not attacking you here, this is a sytemic issue. Every human is subject to these patterns. Blame our collective wetware.

If I’m reading this right this still required a manual clickthrough (seemingly forced through a fake video player) and running an executable, right? The description is simultaneously very detailed and fuzzy on the social engineering portion.

Analysis of the redirector chain determined the attack likely originated from illegal streaming websites where users can watch pirated videos. The streaming websites embedded malvertising redirectors within movie frames to generate pay-per-view or pay-per-click revenue from malvertising platforms. These redirectors subsequently routed traffic through one or two additional malicious redirectors, ultimately leading to another website, such as a malware or tech support scam website, which then redirected to GitHub.

Not to say you don’t want an adblocker for security reasons, but still, the implication in the reporting is “have an ad pop up, get infected”, when it was more “click on the “watch PopularseriesS02e04” prompt, fail multiple times due to it being an obvious scam, get prompted to download some files, install said files, get infected”.

I keep having to repeat this, but the conversation does keep going on a loop: LLMs aren’t entirely useless and they’re not search engines. You shouldn’t ask it any questions you don’t already know the answer to (or have the tools to verify, at least).

I’m not Chinese, so I can’t answer that.

I can tell you that’s absolutely not how or why I got my own degree. For which I paid barely anything, so hard to picture it as an investment. And it didn’t seem to be much of an “investment” for my classmates, many of whom paid nothing or were paid to do it.

We did think it was cool, though. Got to meet very smart people, both as professors and as classmates, some of whom I keep in touch to this day. Got to learn stuff I hadn’t even considered and access technical means I couldn’t have afforded otherwise. Zero regrets, even if my degree is only very tangentially related to my current job.

So… does that answer the question?

Was coming to say this.

It’s a very… anglo conservative view to see education as a financial investment to get a job (and a working class person with an education as a waste of resources).

There’s an argument to be made about the labor market in China and how its working class is remunerated in an economy designed for cheap exports, but this framing is probably not it.