corruption

noun

• dishonest or fraudulent conduct by those in power, typically involving bribery.

A capitalist cannot be corrupt.

Alex, I’ll take stupid things said on the internet for 800.

As the sun rotates, the area that throws out these solar flares slowly faces toward the earth (solar maximum) then slowly rotates to face away from the earth (solar minimum). The solar cycle is roughly eleven years long.

This doesn’t have anything to do with the sun’s rotation. It actually rotates once every 28 days. The solar maximum and solar minimum are just phases in activity caused by internal activity.

Then don’t buy those devices. If you have any excuse as to why you “can’t do that”, then there’s zero point in complaining. I’m not saying your complaints are invalid, and companies should be held accountable and criticised. But as long as people buy privacy violating products, companies will continue to violate privacy.

I read your comment. You basically repeated back what I said.

As for “not actually anything extra reliability”, that’s not true. This is literally the definition of all your eggs in one basket. If all these services were instead spread out amongst smaller providers, there wouldn’t have even been any news about it because it would have affected just a few services. But instead half the internet went down.

Even one of the applications I manage was down because of a single RTE npm dependency used on the forms. This is when we discovered that the npm module wasn’t bundling the whole thing but in fact dynamically pulling the js from a CDN hosted on AWS, because our prod instances kept erroring out for everyone (No, I did not write this application and I’m already replacing the dependency).

The argument isn’t about spending thousands for a lateral shift in reliability, the argument is to decouple everything from a single failure point.

NM, I had it in my head that absolute zero is -253.15, but it’s -273.15

Did you read my entire comment? I know it’s more than one sentence, but your entire comment would be irrelevant if you read the whole thing.

That would break physics (assuming you’re using Celsius)

Can you name a more reliable alternative?

Stop using hyperscalers. Then when an outage does occur, it doesn’t take down half the internet, and instead only affects a much smaller subset of services.

Where did I show any hatred for China? Are you confusing criticism of the “Dear Leader” with hatred towards the country and its people? Maybe that implication was deliberate on your part.

Xi doesn’t hold a monopoly on corruption

to avoid the state from falling into corrupt hands

That’s decades too late

My simple rule is that if it uses a neural network model of some kind, then it can be accurately called AI.

Ya, I knew there were analogue “upscalers”, but I’m not familiar enough with them to confidently call them an upscaler vs a signal converter.

Well, the algorithms that make up many neural networks have existed for over 60 years. It’s only recently that hardware has been able to make it happen.

AI gives it bit of marketing sprinkle to something that has been a solved problem for years.

Not true and I did say “any upscaler that’s worth anything”. Upscaling tech has existed at least since digital video was a thing. Pixel interpolation is the simplest and computationally easiest method. But it tends to give a slight hazy appearance.

It’s actually far from a solved problem. There’s a constant trade-off beyond processing power and quality. And quality can still be improved by a lot.

They don’t require AI neural networks.

Sharpening and denoising don’t. But upscalers worth anything do require neural nets.

Anything that uses a neural network is the definition of AI.

Not a fan of Snaps, though.

I’m the same and decided to give Tuxedo Linux a try. So far I really like it.

If you’re a noob, what made you go with Debian in the first place?

I want to be clear, there’s nothing wrong with that, just not the usual path for a new Linux user.

80% full. It drastically helps extend battery life

In all fairness, in the early days of Google Assistant it really was useful. It actually worked. Somehow in the last 5 years it plummeted. As in it stunningly and noticeably kept getting worse year after year.