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SpaghettiCthulu commented on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC   androidauthority.com/alum... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
Yizahi · 22 days ago
Note how you said "disable" :) . That's because it is impossible to remove bloatware from Android, praise be Google. I also have Chrome disabled on my phone for many years, but it is there still.

And regarding Windows, first I want to tell that I'm not a fan of recent MS trends too. Second - I personally never had a single ad on my Win10 and current Win11, so I wouldn't know how to remove those :) . And third - to remove bloatware just uninstall it from the Programs and Features, like OneDrive or Office. LLM can be disabled in Settings. Some bloatware will remain due to deep integration, but that's the same issue as with Google or Apple. For instance I may not want to see Stocks app on iOS, but that's not my choice to make apparently :) .

SpaghettiCthulu · 22 days ago
What benefit would there be to uninstalling those bundled apps entirely vs disabling them? It's a nice goal to aspire to, sure, but does it really matter?
SpaghettiCthulu commented on Google's new 'Aluminium OS' project brings Android to PC   androidauthority.com/alum... · Posted by u/jmsflknr
Yizahi · 23 days ago
Pixels literally have unremovable Google ad right on the home screen. The search bar. Just because it has additional functionality, doesn't mean it's not an ad.
SpaghettiCthulu · 22 days ago
You can trivially install another launcher without that search bar and disable nearly all bundled apps on Pixels. Show me how easy it is to remove all the ads and bloatware from Windows.
SpaghettiCthulu commented on Ironwood, our latest TPU   blog.google/products/goog... · Posted by u/zdw
karmakaze · 22 days ago
It's not that it only works on Nvidia cards, it's only allowed to work on Nvidia cards. A non-clean room implementation of CUDA for other hardware has been done but is a violation of EULA (of the thing that was reverse engineered), copyright on the driver binary interface, and often patents. Nvidia aggressively sends cease-and-desist letters and threatens lawsuits (successfully killed ZLUDA, threatened others). It's an artificial (in a technical sense moat).
SpaghettiCthulu · 22 days ago
> successfully killed ZLUDA

Did they? Sounds like AMD did that[^1] and that the project is continuing based on the pre-AMD codebase[^2].

[^1]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ZLUDA-CUDA-Taken-Down

[^2]: https://www.phoronix.com/news/ZLUDA-Third-Life

SpaghettiCthulu commented on Bureau of Meteorology's new boss asked to examine $96M bill for website redesign   abc.net.au/news/2025-11-2... · Posted by u/OuterVale
OuterVale · 24 days ago
The new site post re-development: https://www.bom.gov.au

The old site provided with HTTPS: https://reg.bom.gov.au

SpaghettiCthulu · 24 days ago
> "A complete rebuild was necessary to ensure the website meets modern security, usability and accessibility requirements for the millions of Australians who reply on it every day," a spokesperson said.

I guess those "usability and accessibility requirements" don't include being usable without JavaScript.

SpaghettiCthulu commented on France threatens GrapheneOS with arrests / server seizure for refusing backdoors   mamot.fr/@LaQuadrature/11... · Posted by u/nabakin
londons_explore · 24 days ago
Wouldn't be hard to hide a backdoor in a multi million line codebase ...
SpaghettiCthulu · 24 days ago
Unless you think the same backdoor is hiding in AOSP, you can just check the diff and some extra lines for context.
SpaghettiCthulu commented on UPS plane crashes near Louisville airport   avherald.com/h?article=52... · Posted by u/jnsaff2
hshdhdhehd · a month ago
LLM reading the news could do this too!
SpaghettiCthulu · a month ago
You really want an LLM hallucinating that everything is ok and turning your air back on? Or hallucinating that everything was always ok and not turning your air off in the first place?

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