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boxedemp commented on The RAM shortage comes for us all   jeffgeerling.com/blog/202... · Posted by u/speckx
notatoad · 12 days ago
anybody care to speculate on how long this is likely to last? is this a blip that will resolve itself in six months, or is this demand sustainable and we are talking years to build up new manufacturing facilities to meet demand?
boxedemp · 12 days ago
Pure speculation, nobody can say say for sure, but my guess is 2-3 years.
boxedemp commented on Japanese game devs face font dilemma as license increases from $380 to $20k   gamesindustry.biz/japanes... · Posted by u/zdw
halapro · 13 days ago
Have you seen the output of LLMs lately? It's not perfect, but I bet that with enough refinements they can create "art" just as well.
boxedemp · 13 days ago
The latest Nano Banana is pretty good, but it's not perfect yet. And many font use cases demand perfect.

Maybe the next major update will be able to do it.

boxedemp commented on IBM CEO says there is 'no way' spending on AI data centers will pay off   businessinsider.com/ibm-c... · Posted by u/nabla9
boxedemp · 14 days ago
Nobody really knows the future. What were originally consumer graphics expansion cards turned out useful in delivering more compute than traditional CPUs.

Now that compute is being used for transformers and machine learning, but we really don't know what it'll be used for in 10 years.

It might all be for naught, or maybe transformers will become more useful, or maybe something else.

'no way' is very absolute. Unlikely, perhaps.

boxedemp commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
lipbetfox · 24 days ago
I still haven't found a method that can fingerprint simple Firefox containers. I use automatic temporary containers as a rule, and rules for specific sites where I want to keep persistent sessions.

I don't understand how temporary containers are still not a built-in Firefox feature, it seems like such a no-brainer solution for privacy.

boxedemp · 24 days ago
Open question,

If you're on a VPN and using Firefox containers, is the only way to identify me to look at my mouse movement and correlate it?

boxedemp commented on The privacy nightmare of browser fingerprinting   kevinboone.me/fingerprint... · Posted by u/ingve
ekjhgkejhgk · 24 days ago
The core of the problem is that we've made this behavior of "run javascript that pulls more javascript and then run that too" the default. Stallman was right, as always.
boxedemp · 24 days ago
The older I get the more I see that RMS was right about so many things.

When I was young I used to think of him as that eccentric pedantic mit guy but now I see him as a true warrior for freedom.

boxedemp commented on Nvidia pushes hotfix after Windows 11 October update tanks gaming performance   theregister.com/2025/11/2... · Posted by u/Bender
boxedemp · a month ago
I'm actually impressed with windows 11. I've been using win since 3.11. 95, 98, 98se, 2000, XP (the dream), 7, and 10.

And finally after a lifetime of windows, 11 finally got me to switch my desktop OS to Ubuntu!

So 11 achieved something for me that no other Win release could: get me to abandon Microsoft OSs. Though, I admit to having a W10 VM instance with GPU passthrough.

boxedemp commented on Amazon Greenlights a New Stargate Series   gateworld.net/news/2025/1... · Posted by u/BiraIgnacio
boxedemp · a month ago
Cool! I didn't anticipate that. I look forward to seeing it. After SGU was cancelled I wasn't sure if anybody was going to give SG another serious go.
boxedemp commented on France is taking state actions against GrapheneOS?   grapheneos.social/@Graphe... · Posted by u/gabrielgio
max_ · a month ago
This hostility towards privacy all over the world signals that there is a co-ordinated change happening in the world.

Unfortunately we still don't know what it is or what its goals are.

boxedemp · a month ago
Specifically, we don't know the goals. Generally, we know it's about control and fear of losing power.

It's a stolen quote but rings true:

Those with power fear one thing above all else; losing said power.

boxedemp commented on PHP 8.5   stitcher.io/blog/new-in-p... · Posted by u/brentroose
boxedemp · a month ago
PHP has really come a long way since I used it in the 90s on my first little website.
boxedemp commented on Google boss says AI investment boom has 'elements of irrationality'   bbc.com/news/articles/cwy... · Posted by u/jillesvangurp
checker659 · a month ago
Are the companies making a profit on every prompt I give it (factoring in the cost of upgrading GPUs every year or two)?
boxedemp · a month ago
They've got us addicted. They're going to squeeze us eventually. I know my company don't stop using agent driven development. It's increased our velocity too much.

u/boxedemp

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