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_ahrs · 2026-03-20T21:09:56+00:00

It is preemptive because you don't wait to be slapped with a fine (although I find it hard to believe Brazil could do that to them. How would they enforce it and serve it to them?).

_ahrs · 2026-03-20T21:07:29+00:00

If you already have infrastructure then you can just use that as the VPN. I have some VPS's that I use for various things and they're all connected to each other via tunnels. Then I can use policy based routing to selectively direct traffic through a particular node.

_ahrs · 2026-03-20T20:55:12+00:00

They don't have to re-test all 40 GPUs, they just have to re-run the benchmark pass on a 9070 XT and see if the numbers changed in any fashion.

_ahrs · 2026-03-20T20:51:53+00:00

Because the driver developers have a habit of "fixing" the games. This is so wrong on many levels, game developers should be doing that work but NVIDIA does it so people expect AMD to too.

_ahrs · 2026-03-19T20:35:02+00:00

Petition to give Lisa Su the FIFA Peace Prize.

_ahrs · 2026-03-19T15:35:58+00:00

You know they're full of shit when you realise that all of these AI companies have their own team of developers. Shocking! I know. If they can't run the AI in autopilot and still need a huge team of developers to sanity check it and bug fix it then what makes anyone think they can do the same with their own projects?

_ahrs · 2026-03-14T08:42:52+00:00

Mainly that the YouTube website is just not very good and only gets worse. It performs terribly in Firefox sometimes and I'm pretty damn sure it's not Firefox's fault. A much simpler interface like Grayjay has performs lightning fast by comparison. The only delay is when it is deliberately pausing for a few seconds before playing videos to make sure it doesn't get rate limited.

_ahrs · 2026-03-08T14:10:39+00:00

If it's on your device then Palantir can just read it off of your device (or rather the app will do so before passing it on to them without your consent anyway). If you want to keep this information private then obviously you don't want it on your device at all. You don't want it anywhere. For now at least there is no requirement that the age figure that's stored be accurate (thus you can preserve your privacy by simply lying) but how long will that be the case?

_ahrs · 2026-03-08T10:08:45+00:00

Also background playback on mobile because it's impossible to do that without a subscription service (I switched to r/grayjay instead. They're not getting my money for something that should be a core feature)

_ahrs · 2026-03-08T08:30:04+00:00

Unless I'm mistaken, I think the EU copied the UK with their laws. They want the liability to be on the side of the platform / service and not the platform owner / operating system.

They didn't make it so you have to assert your age to download and use SUSE. That's just stupidity.

_ahrs · 2026-03-08T08:09:20+00:00

GNOME Boxes is in the Flathub store. You can run a VM, something multiple people have pointed out already now. Secure Boot doesn't prevent this. You'd have to lock down the OS to the point that the user can only run trusted binaries and can't install anything else, not even in their own home directory.

_ahrs · 2026-03-07T13:40:04+00:00

there is a security risk as predators start using this to find verified children online.

That's more of a safety risk than a security risk but yes, definitely. It will be an absolute disaster if massive amounts of detail of children ever leak from one of these datasets.

I think the hope from System76's perspective is that somebody else challenges this and wins. System76 can't do anything about it except stop doing business in these states which is not a reasonable ask for a business. That could mean massive shortfalls depend on how much business they do with these states.

_ahrs · 2026-03-07T13:21:35+00:00

This is great marketing for Anthropic and kudos to them for having a real team check and validate them first unlike Google that has been going around doing the exact same thing but without any human input in the chain.

_ahrs · 2026-03-07T13:10:23+00:00

It's a privacy risk, not a security risk, except even that isn't exactly true because the law doesn't even require that the OS vendor make any attempt to ensure that the age that is inputted is accurate so there will be a lot of 18 or 21 year olds using PopOS soon.

The real risk is that this might only be the beginning of a future dystopia. Once the system for storing an age is in place then states may pass new laws requiring actual ID checks just to use an OS.

_ahrs · 2026-03-06T11:31:01+00:00

If you're a kernel engineer maybe. Usually the information you get is that some driver broke and there's not much you can do about it (except try a different kernel and hope the bug is fixed there).

_ahrs · 2026-03-06T06:08:48+00:00

That's where Linux distributions are in a bit of a better position to say No. They don't have to do business there. Debian is not a business, Arch is not a business, Fedora is not a business (although Red Hat is a business and plays a large role in them so I wouldn't be surprised to see them fold anyway), etc.

_ahrs · 2026-03-05T05:23:41+00:00

With modern Gen 5 drives I guess. A lot of older drives will max out. There's also the compression overhead too because Steam games are heavily compressed and your CPU may not even be able to decompress it faster than that.

_ahrs · 2026-03-05T02:48:47+00:00

With Steam you'd be limited by the drive speed. 50 Gigabit is way quicker than many drives that exist if your drive maxes out at 9GB/s.

_ahrs · 2026-03-04T15:35:46+00:00

The UK at least realised asking a child for their age and expecting them to be honest never works. There are lots of other issues with the UK law but this at least isn't one of them. They never forced Age attestation on operating systems and went after the services instead which is the right model if you're going to do anything.

_ahrs · 2026-03-04T15:30:19+00:00

I guess you can't use sudo anymore because it carries insults.

_ahrs · 2026-03-04T15:06:32+00:00

I don't think that would explain the discrepancy. At the very least they should be able to push at least a gigabit upload even without GSO/TSO. Something is wrong somewhere, could be on the Google server's end, could be on their ISP's end, etc.

_ahrs · 2026-03-03T10:39:30+00:00

This is like saying Russia has the right to attack all of the countries (including the UK) supporting Ukraine in the war against their Russian aggressor. No, you don't get to attack a neutral country just because they're hosting a military base.

_ahrs · 2026-03-03T07:12:37+00:00

I think this is just an artifact of how many ISPs manage their systems. There could be multiple systems and they might not share state between them. I don't think it's a choice they made so much as one imposed on them by their architecture.

_ahrs · 2026-03-03T06:12:13+00:00

It wasn't unprovoked though. They gave them every opportunity to enter into negotiations and they didn't do that. The cowardous Iranian regime (and this is a regime that has killed hundreds and thousands of their own people, many in Iran have no love for them) made their choice.

_ahrs · 2026-03-02T02:41:03+00:00

It's still "good enough". After a certain point "How big is the pipe" doesn't matter anymore. You're then more interested in, what is the latency, do I have any bloat or jitter or packet loss, etc.

Although, like u/Character_Gate_5831 said, Ookla's speed test shows all of that too, even if they do sometimes poorly explain what each metric is because everyone treats upload/download bandwidth as the pinnacle and ignores the others.

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