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mr_tombuben commented on Kagi Reaches 50k Users   kagi.com/stats?stat=membe... · Posted by u/tigroferoce
dkh · 3 months ago
Are you just worried about his/their divided attention or are there specific projects that concern you?
mr_tombuben · 3 months ago
Some people might have issue with their push into LLM AIs with their Assistant. I personally don’t care for it and am happy that by not using it I’m not subsidising other peoples use of the paid APIs they use. But I’ve seen some people take issue with the development time being taken up by it at all.
mr_tombuben commented on Building an AI game studio: what we've learned so far   braindump.me/blog-posts/b... · Posted by u/FredrikNoren
FredrikNoren · a year ago
We haven't looked into exactly how this will be handled yet, but I believe this would fall under the same laws and restrictions as any other online platform (YouTube, TikTok etc.), it's just that the production tools are different.
mr_tombuben · a year ago
Please look into it. You are already breaking Disney's copyright just with this post, and if you ever hope this product Disney's lawyers would have a very easy case here.
mr_tombuben commented on Apple must open iPadOS to sideloading within 6 months, EU says   arstechnica.com/apple/202... · Posted by u/rezonant
Moldoteck · a year ago
Doesn't this mean that game consoles should be gatekeepers too like from sony/nintendo/microsoft?
mr_tombuben · a year ago
They most likely are, but Microsoft actually does allow sideloading on Xbox in some capacity.
mr_tombuben commented on Google Blog on DMA   blog.google/around-the-gl... · Posted by u/sanj
xnx · a year ago
The open standard is the url bar that can take you to any site if your choosing.
mr_tombuben · a year ago
This article is about the click-through data from Google though, and an URL bar is not a search engine. To the point that all modern browsers just redirect you to a search engine when you write random stuff in the url bar.
mr_tombuben commented on Facing reality about the EU is a core requirement for good management   baldurbjarnason.com/2024/... · Posted by u/M2Ys4U
Lutger · a year ago
For some definition of left.

The interesting thing about the article is that all this EU regulatory control over corporations is in fact deeply capitalistic and the very reason for its existence, and in the corporations interest. Which is not what most EU citizens would consider being on the left of the political spectrum.

The idea is: we need regulation to shape the market where businesses can compete freely to the advantage of both businesses and consumers. If we don't regulate, monopolistic corporation would threaten the single EU market.

Or even more simplified: we need rules to have a free market. The US version (or one of the versions) of capitalism is more of a free-for-all, where the most important thing is to reduce regulation, not increase it. It seems to trust the judicial system more than the government.

mr_tombuben · a year ago
The European definition of "freedom of speech" interestingly also differs compared to the American one in a very similar way.
mr_tombuben commented on Better PC cooling with Python and Grafana   calbryant.uk/blog/better-... · Posted by u/naggie
Aurornis · a year ago
PID control isn’t an easy solution in PC cooling.

CPU temperatures can swing from 40C to 90C and back in a matter of seconds as loads come and go. Modern fan control algorithms have delays and smoothing for this reason.

If you had a steady state load so stable that you could tune around it, setting a fan curve is rather easy and PID is overkill. For normal use where you’re going between idle with the occasional spike and back, trying to PID target a specific temperature doesn’t really give you anything useful and could introduce unnecessary delays in cooling if tuned incorrectly.

mr_tombuben · a year ago
Wouldn't the better solution be to rely on the heatsink temperature instead of on the chip/core temperature then? I mean in the end, the air from the fan is cooling the heat sink, not the chip directly.
mr_tombuben commented on Apple confirms it's breaking iPhone web apps in the EU on purpose   techcrunch.com/2024/02/15... · Posted by u/M2Ys4U
shusaku · 2 years ago
This is exactly why this legislation is stupid: if you don’t like the way Apple does things just buy an android.
mr_tombuben · 2 years ago
This entire mindset is wrong and is exactly what the DMA is trying to address. Apple, Google and other big tech companies aren't just small random companies whose product you can switch between every time they do something you dislike. Due to a lack of interoperability there's huge switching cost associated. They're digital gatekeepers with platform effects massively working in their favor.
mr_tombuben commented on iPhone 15 teardown reveals software lockdown   ifixit.com/News/82867/iph... · Posted by u/SerCe
ricw · 2 years ago
Same applies to cameras, microphones, touchscreen, screen, buttons, or really any other sensor or chip etc that is powered and can therefore have a sneaky transmitter inserted. I don’t want someone (nsa cough) being able to sneak in their own module to follow my every whereabouts.

Yes please. Check every item for authenticity. That’s why I’m an Apple customer. I’d buy android if it weren’t the case.

mr_tombuben · 2 years ago
NSA will order Apple to pair that part if they decide to swap it and you wouldn't be able to do anything about it.

If instead of VIN-locking they just notified you a differenr part was swapped out, you could go get some part from a trustworthy third party and replace that potentially back-doored part yourself.

mr_tombuben commented on Unity's Just Not into You, Indie Developer   gamedeveloper.com/blogs/u... · Posted by u/nazgulsenpai
hesdeadjim · 2 years ago
Depends on who the backers are I guess. Perhaps not the classic kind — like say, convince MS, Apple, and Sony to pony up $10mm each. It’s a good play for them to not be caught in this Unity fiasco and $10mm is a rounding error.
mr_tombuben · 2 years ago
Traditional VC companies wouldn't work because they'll always enshittify. Even on consumer space, you can see enshittification from MS, Sony and Apple. I really don't see a reason why the companies you listed would need that 2% royalty at all honestly. They already get the 30% from the sales themselves, and could very well financially support the existence of an OSS game engine with no extra royalties. Sony and MS already develop the Unity and Unreal integration for their platforms without charging extra royalties.

The devs using the OSS engine also wouldn't be stopped from spending resources on making the engine better for their uses (and in turn, making it also better for everyone), similarly how it works with Linux.

mr_tombuben commented on What is RISC-V, and why we're unlocking its potential   qualcomm.com/news/onq/202... · Posted by u/rwmj
MuffinFlavored · 2 years ago
aren’t all instruction sets slightly different ways of achieving the same thing at a low level?

8, 16, 32, 64 bit mov + add + sub + load + store. and/or/not/xor, blah blah blah

obviously it gets way more complex.

just curious “unlocking its potential”

i thought the primary benefit of risc-v is how easy it is to implement since it never gets into the more complex messiness that’s modern x86_64 and all of its extensions

mr_tombuben · 2 years ago
I mean on a core level all computers are all equivalent, since they're all just Turing-complete Von Neumann machines. Anything and everything that can be done on one computer can be transformed to achieve the same on a different architecture. The potential here doesn't just mean different instructions though, it means getting out of ARMs vendor lock-in and for the CPU manufacturers not being forced to pay the licencing fees for the instruction set.

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