Big Tech to grow required deceiving its workers into thinking they all worked together towards a new future.
Thankfully, that veil has come down, showing it is business as usual.
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user2722 commented on Resizing windows on macOS Tahoe – the saga continues noheger.at/blog/2026/02/1... · Posted by u/erickhill
The gnome window title bars are obnoxiously thick and useless by default tho. I've found that Unity or even just Windows like styling in Gnome is a lot more respectful to your screen real estate.
It definitely needs improvement but for touchscreens it is good.
user2722 commented on MiniMax M2.5 released: 80.2% in SWE-bench Verified minimax.io/news/minimax-m... · Posted by u/denysvitali
Really looked forward to this release as MiniMax M2.1 is currently my most used model thanks to it being fast, cheap and excellent at tool calling. Whilst I still use Antigravity + Claude for development, I reach for MiniMax first in my AI workflows, GLM for code tasks and Kimi K2.5 when deep English analysis is needed.
Not self-hosting yet, but I prefer using Chinese OSS models for AI workflows because of the potential to self-host in future if needed. Also using it to power my openclaw assistant since IMO it has the best balance of speed, quality and cost:
> It costs just $1 to run the model continuously for an hour at 100 tokens/sec. At 50 tokens/sec, the cost drops to $0.30.
!!!!!!
Incredibly cheap!!!!!
I'll have to look for it in OpenRouter.
I remember the DOS (?) GTA demo that came on a PC Gaming magazine demo disk. I think it had a ten minute time limit?
Tons of fun on a friends dark green Acer Aspire.
And you could reach 1 million $ on those 10 mins, just had to put a bomb car south to the start point, get the orange guys to follow you, get inside the car, trigger the bomb and wait for detonation inside the car.
Additionally, you could go under the fences if you parked a heavy vehicle next to them and crawled below it.
Don't forget walking below the city entering the spot where the water was solid on northwest pier.
And finally, if you left the train in the precise spot, you could exit the train on top of the (eletrified) tracks and would not die.
You’re advocating for a flawed test.
Why is it, when ever someone points out that Microsoft shits the bed on something someone will come out with ludicrous ideas about changing the default environment.
The default environment is what you get, all this handwringing about whats potentially possible misses the point entirely; for decades we have, as a community, scoffed at linux for requiring you to understand deeply how your OS works in order for it to function. Now we’re in the situation where the out-of-the-box experience for gaming requires less esoteric knowledge on Linux than Windows, yet people defend Windows still.
Do you seriously think the exec running emails even knows what Hyper-V is? Do you think any IT department is going to disable memory integrity?
Would any Dev disable WSL? Do the vast majority of gamers want to do this? Should they have to?
You’re now arguing that overhead is ok because its mitigated by newer hardware, I don’t believe that to be true as I run W11 on A Threadripper 3970x and an i9-14900k and the fuckers feel leagues slower than my M1 Macbook, its a joke! Like 10x the power/thermal envelope- and sure, some of that is down to the M1 being great, but there’s no benchmark putting it above those CPUs.
Stop pretending that this is ok, and stop trying to spread uncertainty about a valid test.
I’d prefer newer hardware too, but this is the compromise if we want older OS’s to be included.
Valid point.
However also note the exec you mentioned wouldn't have Windows 11 on his laptop -- he would be stuck on the out of date, faster, Windows 10.
May not have been a fair test. Windows is running the kernel in a kinda VM which older computers have not been optimized for -- newer generations of CPU can smooth out the overhead.
For a fair test against Windows 10 and below, you'll have at least to do this: "Temporarily turn off your Memory Integrity and VMP" -- https://support.microsoft.com/en-US
Also, it's important to have all bits and pieces of Hyper-V/Windows Virtual Platform off (which the Menory Integrity relies on), thus cutting off WSL functionality.
We don't need flawed tests to tell us Windows 11 sucks -- yesterday my explorer bar didn't respond to clicks nor Windows key. In the past killing explorer.exe and restarting it, or logging off and back on, worked. Yesterday I had to reboot the machine to fix it.
user2722 commented on Iran vows regime will "not back down" as web blackout continues cbsnews.com/news/iran-pro... · Posted by u/geox
"Say what you want about the Iranian government"
I will. For example, it is a nasty group of medieval characters, extremely corrupt even by contemporary standards, and willing to kill and maim their opponents at every opportunity. Hanging people from cranes, bloody hell.
"most obvious CIA-sponsored color revolution"
Yeah, because millions of people are just stupid remote-controlled robotic zombies who will, upon a command of the CIA, go into the streets against Basij thugs who are willing to shoot at them.
Do people outside the West have any personal agency themselves in your view, or are they all just mindless puppets of the Big White Man in the White House?
This is not to deny that the US has some interest in getting the ayatollahs overthrown. But I find the opinion that everyone in the world just obediently dances by someone's flute quite dehumanizing.
In a world we prefer algorithmic newsfeeds to editorialized news?
It is quite possible.
Not saying it is what's happening.
But pretending our brain isn't subject to manipulation isn't the way to our own betterment.
user2722 commented on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source lwn.net/Articles/1053107/... · Posted by u/pabs3
> The EU very regularly asks for input on new policy initiatives, it's one of the better aspects of the legislative/policy-making process.
And then it basically ignores all the input and moves forward with policies like chat control that are widely unpopular anyway. So much for consulting the people and asking for feedback.
Yes. Probably someone in power is getting kickbacks to ignore the public and specialists. Once that hurdle is settled, whatever the way it happens, saner people can re-use previous requests for opinion to guide them on better paths.
Waste some - but not too much - of your energy poking our EU orgs to the right way.
user2722 commented on European Commission issues call for evidence on open source lwn.net/Articles/1053107/... · Posted by u/pabs3
I think I'll use this opportunity to piggyback my opinion about [1] on my response to this call for evidence.
[1] https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-andro...
Personally, I shall some day find the patience to code and test a poor man's zero-trust -- app/site knocking + firewall whitelist.