I was blissfully unaware, probably because I’m not cheating scum.

Couldn’t have happened to a better community of people.

Fuck cheaters.

IMO, cheating is just taking away all the fun of the game. The cheater didn’t have to get gud to be able to win, and the victim is denied any recourse or any fun in playing the game. Bluntly, I have absolutely no sympathy at all for these kinds of people. If you suck at the game and need to use cheats to win, maybe don’t fucking play it competitively?

There’s a reason I’ve kept my counterstrike antics to private games among friends and local matches against bots. I have no interest in larder boards. I just want to have fun. Dying over and over before you can even do any damage, isn’t fun.

If you’re a cheater, get wrecked.

Bravo valve. Bravo.

Oh yes. It’s definitely possible. It’s not as easy as lumping everything into 365, but it’s definitely possible.

We need better options. Hopefully oauth will start to break down some of these barriers.

This is a class war of sorts, between middle management and the workers.

Got it.

Here’s the thing… I work in IT and… As much as many people don’t want to hear it, Microsoft puts everything in one basket, and makes it easy to access and handle that basket.

You could go with gsuite/Google workspaces, and they have a lot of competing tools, like drive, meet, chat, Gmail, and their own office style suite.

Beyond that, you’re going to start breaking up services between providers. Dropbox, email, zoom, etc… Each with their own logins per member of the team, increasing complexity exponentially… Unless you can federate all your logins with someone, but the major players in business-ready, federated logins is… Microsoft, Google, and companies like Ookla, of all people.

Which isn’t to say anything about the compatibility issues with federation, and the complexity of setting it up when it works.

I struggled through trying to get federation working between a lot of different solutions and I’ll just say, the whole thing is a nightmare, unless it’s designed to go together from the start. You only get that if you go all in on one provider… Like Microsoft 365.

People can say what they want, but Microsoft has taken their decades of experience making active directory, scaled it up to azure active directory (now entra ID), and built a full scale cloud service suite with everything fully integrated, and bluntly, simple to deploy by comparison. In the past, there were quite a few services, apps, programs, etc that directly interfaced with AD. Now that same functionality is a part of the foundations of entra.

It very much used to be.

Some of the newer stuff they’ve been putting out has been surprisingly good. Full explanations of how things interact, descriptions of what each option does, what options are available, how to configure things, useful examples…

Then you get to one option called something like “-outputformat” or something and the docs literally just say “this option configures the output format”, and you fall flat on your face and perish.

I assume everything I read on the Internet is someone’s opinion. Unless it’s about an Internet thing, by the company that made that thing.

Like finding usage articles for Windows/office/whatever, on Microsoft’s website…

Everyone in the comments talking about speeding and I’m here like… Yeah, that be my day most days.

We’ve normalized the pain and suffering of modern working life so much that people see this shit and go “oh yeah, speeding is X, y and z” and completely skip over the part where life is a crushing, depressing, and neverending loop of torture.

Yay?

This. This is the reality and the root cause of a lot of the issues regarding homelessness, starvation and preventable illness in the world.

Aggressive capitalists value money more than anyone’s, and everyone’s life.

They will let you die to bump their profits a fraction of a percent.

The fact that they’re not mentioned, does not constitute proof that they were not included in the statistics.

I get you. I mostly didn’t either, I’m also an “elder” millennial. I grew up in a relatively small city. The city water from the garden hose was fine, for the most part. I don’t remember any specific instance where I drank it though.

That’s an issue specific to this statement from OP. I was trying to speak more generally, but setting that aside, I think the garden hose thing was a boomer/post boomer thing more than Gen X/millennial. … Back then, from what I understand, it wasn’t uncommon to send the kids outside to play and lock them out there… Probably so the parents can go fuck or at least get a moment of peace and quiet from their fuck trophies.

I don’t really know, since I wasn’t alive then, and I don’t know that I care enough to look into it any more than I already have.

Sadly, I’ve had enough experience with phone systems that I do.

Sounds to me like this was a phone number, specifically: 3 6316

But at a time when phone systems were not all interconnected. So you had to be in the “Belmont” area phone system in order to call it.

I don’t. No. Future generations can, will, and bluntly, should, have it easier. Often it’s not, because the challenges change, they don’t go away, which is the great tragedy of it all.

Yeah. Have all the hate you want for it. When you realize that shit you had to go through as a kid, nobody else will ever have to experience… You’ll be the same.

Fact is, younger generations have different challenges than older generations.

When I was growing up, there were no cellphones and caller ID wasn’t really a thing either. That’s how old I am. We had to look up numbers in a book and call people’s houses blindly, then ask if the person we were looking to speak with was even there. Now, anyone can chat, text, directly call (no party lines), or otherwise connect with almost anyone and everyone at any time for any reason. I’m not saying that’s entirely a benefit, because it’s not, there’s definite downsides to that as well, but the challenge was different.

You’ll never experience having to do what I did, just to speak to and plan to meet up with your friends. That part will be easier.

What you don’t know now, that you will realize later is that these memes are a way for the older generations to cope with the fact that we are indeed, getting older. It’s a form of nostalgia, to remind us of the activities of our youth and the things we had no other option than to do, that younger people may never have to do.

IMO, it’s not intended to be tribalism, it’s intended to invoke a sense of community and nostalgia in those that experienced it. I’m sorry that you feel like you’re being attacked or left out or segregated by tribalism because of our incessant need to have some measure of solace in our rapidly deteriorating bodies by having a moment of nostalgia in the form of a funny, ha ha, meme.

I wouldn’t be surprised in the slightest if they are included in the list. I dunno, I’m not the statistician who crunched the numbers here. I didn’t collect the data, and that source material is not available for me to examine.

What I can say is that the article defines “discrete” GPUs instead of just “GPUs” to eliminate all the iGPUs. Because Intel dominates that space with AMD, but it’s hard to make an iGPU when you don’t make CPUs, and the two largest CPU manufacturers make their own iGPUs.

The overall landscape of the GPU market is very different than what this data implies.

The original post is about Nvidia’s domination of discrete GPUs, not consumer GPUs.

So I’m not limiting myself to people running an LLM on their personal desktop.

That’s what I was trying to get across.

And it’s right on point for the original material.

… Yeah, for yourself.

I’m referring to anyone running an LLM for commercial purposes.

Y’know, 80% of Nvidia’s business?

Who the fuck buys a consumer GPU for AI?

If you’re not doing it in a home lab, you’ll need more juice than anything a RTX 3000/4000/5000/whatever000 series could have.

Microsoft.

Microsoft is buying them for AI.

From what I understand, chatGPT is running on azure servers.

This is the risk of “trusted computing” architectures. Who is governing the “trusted” part of that.

These cryptographic signatures are not as much of a death knell for Android as some would have you believe. The trick is to get a common code signing cert into your device, that is then used to sign any third party APK you want to run. You can avoid the Google tax this way. I assume that’s how most sideloading sites and apps are going to handle this.

The question is, how do you add that certificate? Is it easy and straight forward (with plenty of scary warnings), as a user? Or is it going to be a developer options deal? Or will I need root to add the cert?

I’m not sure what that answer is right now.

I just want to finish this post with a few words about trusted computing models. Plainly: Apple has been doing this for years … That’s why you download basically everything from an app store with Apple. Whether on your Mac OS device, your iPhone, iPad or whatever iDevice… Whether the devs need to sign it, or the app gets signed when it lands on the store, there’s a signature to ensure that the app hasn’t been tampered with and that Apple has given the app it’s security blessings, that it is safe to run. Microsoft and Google have both been climbing towards the same forever. Apple embedded their root of trust in their own proprietary TPM which has been included with every Mac, and iDevice for a long ass time. Google also has a TPM, the Titan security module, I believe that was introduced around pixel 3? Or 4?.. Microsoft made huge waves requiring it for Windows 11, and we all know what that discussion looks like. Apple requires a TPM (which they supply, so nobody noticed), Google has been adding a TPM and TPM functionality to their phones for years, and now Windows is the same. None of this is a bad thing. Trusted computing can eliminate much of the need for antivirus software, among other things. I digress. We’ve been going this way for a long time. Google is just more or less, doing what Apple has already done, and what Microsoft will very likely do very soon, making it a requirement. Battlefield 6 I think, was one of the first to require trusted computing on Windows and it will, for damned sure, not be the last that does. The only real hurdle here is managing what is trusted. So far, each vendor has kept the keys to their own kingdoms, but this is contrary to computing concepts. Like the Internet, it should be able to be done without needing trust from a specific provider. That’s how SSL works, that’s how the Internet works, that’s how trusted computing should work. The only thing that should be secret is the private signing keys. What Google, Apple, and Microsoft should be doing, is issuing intermediary keys that can sign code signing certs. So trusted institutions that create apps, like… Idk, valve as an example, can create a signature key for steam and sign Steam with it, so the trust goes from MS root to intermediary key for valve, to steam code signing key, and suddenly you have an app that’s trusted. Valve can then use their key to sign software on their store that may not have a coffee signing key of it’s own. This is just one example based on Windows. And above all of this, the user should be able to import a trusted code signing cert, or an intermediary cert signing cert, to their service as trusted.

Anyways, thanks for coming to my Ted talk.

Fair enough.

I just have a hard time translating what what shown in the video to what’s actually happening. Might be a bit too much to take in at once.

Then again, I haven’t cared much about the tides ever, and I only know that the tides are a function of the moon because of Bill Nye, I think.

My HS “education” was pretty bad, honestly.